It’s the deepest Ukrainian drone strike of the war, so far
A month after Ukraine began bombarding targets inside Russia with explosives-laden sports planes modified for remote flight, one of the do-it-yourself drones has struck an oil refinery in the city of Salavat, more than 800 miles from the front line of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine.
It is, by far, Ukraine’s longest-range raid—and an escalation of Ukraine’s deep-strike campaign targeting Russian refineries, factories and strategic military sites.
And it’s at least the fourth attempted deep strike involving Ukraine’s sport-plane drones. Videos shot by people on the ground in Salavat clearly depict the wide straight wings, fixed wheels and propeller that are typical of an inexpensive sport plane, the kind a middle-class pilot can build at home from a kit costing as little as $90,000.
I thought maybe the thumbnail was just some generic small plane, but nope. That’s the same model that keeps making successful attacks in Russia. The Aeroprakt A-22. That little prop plane. Top speed 127 mph/204 kph. That’s what Russia can’t find and shoot down.
Is this essentially a piper cub or something entirely different?
Similar, yeah. More modern construction and side-by-side seating instead of tandem. But otherwise, similar size and weight.
If Ukraine told me I could bring my own drone over there and blow up an oil refinery in Russia, I’d schedule a vacation.
Fr The 400 H War thunder have to pay out after all.
Large scale long range highly clandestine professional military operation -> Headline: Guy With Children’s Toy (and tons of military grade explosive) Just Defeated Russia!
:-/
Accurate.
Slavi Ukraini! I hope they can fly 100 of these through.
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Slava Ukraini, give them hell.
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Full of death is still full.
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Russia troll is not comrade. Troll is troll. Comrade fights trolls and bourgeoisie.
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🤡 Get droned 🤡
What are you a Seventh Day Adventist? Take your pacifism snd shove it! Blood for the tree of liberty! KILL KILL KILL!
This is kind of news I like to read. Go Ukraine!
Good. Fuck the blyats.
The raids have somewhat throttled Russian gasoline production, but probably not enough to have an immediate impact on the economy—and thus on the long-term war effort. “These are spot strikes,” energy expert Hennadii Rіabtsev told Ukrainian Pravda. “They are painful and affect logistics, but they do not significantly impact annual total refining volumes.”
What? I thought they have reduced their oil refining? Not to mention, they’ve started to restrict oil exports(refined oil i believe) since these attacks have taken place all while increasing their unrefined oil exports. It feels like this is actually causing an impact, though definitely not something that directs directly to the front line, but this is long term damage and will make it harder for Russia to generate money.
That moment when anti-imperialism and climate activism align.
On 24 November 1989, while doing his obligatory community service (Zivildienst) as an orderly in a West German hospital, Rust stabbed a female co-worker who had rejected him.
ffs
I thought the exact same thing! At the time, I’d heard rumors that the entirety of USSR’s air defense was smoke and mirrors. This isn’t helping to refute those decades old rumors, if there is anything to refute.
It is also possible that they chose not to shoot down the plane back then, because they didn’t want a third world war and it became clear not to be a war plane.
Times change a few years later, but I wouldn’t bank on that non-escalation theory here.
The difference there is that it didn’t cross the border of a country where Russia was in the middle of an active invasion.
Again??
One more down, how many left?
