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Clever and economical, and 100% high value military targets. I wish the guys who pulled this off, all the luck they can have. :)
It is possible that Russia's selection of AWACS planes (about 10 left) decreased even more.
The "sheds" were more like wooden boxes. They had a fake roof, the upper layer of which a mechanism could remove. Between the roof beams - "nests" for drones. This cargo was given for transport to ordinary truck companies. There's even a video where cops have detained a trucker while drones are taking off from his truck and heading towards Belaya airfield, ordinarily unreachable to Ukrainian drones since it's 4000 km away. I'm afraid the trucker will be facing some hard times. I hope they understand he was deceived, though, and eventually let him go.
Yeah, about that trucker, he's fucked. It's not his fault but he's definitely collateral damage here as Russia typically doesn't take kindly on messengers with bad news, let alone an innocent trucker who accidentally towed in the apocalypse.
Best news of the week. I am in my happy place now, thank you.
It's not only what they did, but how they did it.
First of all the loss of this aircraft is substantial. They don't have many more of these aircraft and likely not all are operational at every time, especially now when it's hard to get parts. And these planes are full of western parts.
And another thing, is not like Russia can throw everything at Ukraine, it's got other borders to watch.
The second part is how they did it. They snuck into Russia with weapons and carried an embarrassing blow against a country that is basically fighting this war to keep its status as a super power. And this country that they don't even consider as a country did this to them from the inside. Thats just weak and it's there for everyone to see. This is shouting for everyone to hear: Russia is no super power, it's no power at all.
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Im hearing bridges and submarines also. They did this perfectly. By not talking to a known Russian asset in the whitehouse.
Judging by Russian TG, they are not exaggerating one bit.
Also rumors of a sub base getting hit, even though one can say today subs Russia has are all tracked.
I wonder about missile silos - if any of them were still operational, maybe they've been all sabotaged long ago (or rotted by themselves), and we didn't know simply because it's not as visible as burning strategic bombers in the midst of a day.
So apparently Russian regime just got more willing to negotiate.
Which may be kinda good news, because fewer troubles means more attention to each particular one, so the degree of bullshit elsewhere might fall too.
First, I am not a Russia fan or apologist.
…But the Soviets made some good shit, often with the philosophy of “big and simple,” but often well engineered, too. Soyuz has been so reliable it’s unreal, hence it sent astronauts from around the world to space for decades because nothing else was dependable enough.
They did tons of real, oldschool nuclear testing, not simulations like newer powers. They knew what they were doing.
Hence, asserting most of Russia’s warheads are duds is quite an assumption. It’s quite possible. But there’s enough of a track record for the threat to be very real.
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Whether or not Russia's nukes are functional is immaterial. They know that they don't know which ones work. They also know they no longer have MAD on their end. All they can do is saber rattle with them, because if they ever try to use them, they know that there is a very good chance that the nukes will fail to detonate, for a variety of reasons, and the immediate retaliation from every other nuclear power, except China, would be the end of Russia.
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Missile silos are sadly, ridiculously hardened. You may have to hit a single door with 10+ drones to get through.
Aircraft are perfect targets, since an aircraft must be light and cannot be hidden underground too easily.
Also, missile silos aren't being used to attack Ukraine. Knocking one out would have no effect on the safety of people in Ukraine. Aircraft however, are used daily / weekly. Tangible benefit is immediate - less air raids, less missiles fired, less glide bombs dropped.
It would also be sweet if a shortage of radar planes occurred - Russia not knowing what's happening in its airspace would allow Ukrainian long-range drones to reach where they must.
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Camera drone just casually videoing after the bombings? Whoever was sleeping during drone jamming duty is not getting dessert rations.
I read elsewhere that these were autonomous drones. It likely wouldn’t be terribly difficult to program a drone to fly to a specific location, look for something shaped like an aircraft, then fly into it.
You could also program one or two drones to fly to a specific location, record video for 5-10 minutes, then fly to a different landing zone where one person is waiting to recover the video.
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I got from another article that they used the Russian communication network that is used for phones.
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Bro I love Ukrainians so much and the respect for you HEROES is astonishing, SKY HIGH LOVE YOU GUYS KEEP IT UP !!!
The SBU claims that 34 per cent (‼️‼️) of Russia's fleet of bombers, with a combined value of more than €6 billion, has been eliminated with this operation 'Spiderweb'. The figures cannot be independently confirmed because Russia and Ukraine are both silent on military losses for strategic reasons.
May the spiders crawl all over putin and eat him alive.
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Some of the best news I’ve heard in quite some time!
Fuck 'em up!
Kick his ass Seabass!
This is going to have the secondary effect of exploding rats but times a thousand.
During WWII the brits planted dead rats filled with explosives around german facilities, as it was common practice to simply throw dead rats into the boiler fireboxes, where these rats in questions would explode and hopefully deal damage to important equipment. Almost no real damage was done but simply finding the rats was enough to make the Germans so paranoid that the extra caution and paranoia did more damage than the rats ever would have if they had gone undiscovered (and thrown into boilers as planned)
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Fuck the blyats.
If this is true, if Ukraine really has dealt as much damage to the Russian bomber fleet as they claim they have, then this is tremendous.
They filmed everything, you can see for yourself
Too bad this attack probably cannot done another time. And another and another.
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