[Eleutheria5]

Necessity is the mother of invention. Maybe it's a good thing to not give them so much kit and cash.

[Red Badger]

The Kremlin would have been a better target....................

[Magnum44]

Low and slow is one way to get it done...

1987

[hanamizu]

Several months ago a YouTuber, Mark Felton, mentioned the potential use by Russia of Antonov AN-2s as drones. I’m sure Ukraine has some around as well. They can carry a lot more explosive than a Cessna-style plane.

I believe they were used as drones in one of the wars between two former Soviet ‘republics’.

[McGruff]

“Ukraine seems to have...”

Now that’s quality reporting.

[DownInFlames]

Is anyone paying attention to Russia’s crappy air defense?

[DouglasKC]

They’re getting billions in military “aid” and all they can afford is a cessna and some explosives? Where’s the rest of the billions?

[BwanaNdege]

I get so tired of these “kamikaze drone” stories. It is a guided weapon. There is no human pilot giving his life for the Emperor in memory of the Divine Wind that saved Japan from the Korean fleet.

Every “smart” bomb or guided missile is not kamikaze” !

The technology of turning the A-22 Light Sport plane into a cruise missile is not that difficult. What was hard was putting enough fuel into it for the distance, then getting all that weight plus the “warhead” explosives off the ground.

https://www.aeroprakt.de/index.php/en/models/a-22

“Like all A22’s the UK demo plane retains adequate control response in all three axes at speeds slower than 35 mph yet it can cruise at over 100mph on 15 ltrs/hr with a range of 500 miles.” https://www.pilotmix.com/foxbat-a22

[pangaea6]

Anyone worry these drone tactics are gonna be taught to folks who would use them in the USA?

[butlerweave]

Drone the drones

[CodeJockey]

Does this mean we won’t have to give them our F-16s?

[Libloather]

Who says it was controlled remotely?