Ukrainian Drone Warfare
The cluster discusses Ukraine's innovative and effective use of drones, repurposed civilian tech like electric bikes, and air defense systems to strike Russian targets deep behind lines and counter Russian air power in the ongoing war.
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Weren't the Ukrainians also using drones?
Perhaps Ukrainian drones reaching new heights.
Still a thing.https://www.eurasiantimes.com/electric-bikes-in-ukraine-are-...
Try giving Ukraine more drones, maybe that will fix your problem.
I think it’s also what Ukraine (broadly speaking) believeshttps://web.archive.org/web/20220225201409/https://www.5.ua/...
to be fair, Ukrainians have shot down planes and helicopters in Russian airspace with Patriot batteries. The limiting conditions on doing more of that are ammunition (for cover), air defense interceptor and launcher shortages. Saying that the West is to blame for not producing cutting-edge interceptors (that are extremely in demand) as if they were knick-knacks is not entirely fair. I write this as someone who has donated a substantial percentage of my savings to support Ukrainian efforts.
The ukrainians are repurposing small civil drones and old soviet shells to attack russian targets on and behind the lines.
The Ukrainians have continued to impress me in how politically savvy they are. They managed to extort a top of the line Air Defense platform from one superpower by blowing up a fuel truck from another superpower 300 miles across it's border using a drone.America REALLY doesn't want Ukraine to be striking targets inside Russia. Although it will be really interesting if the missiles that Russia has converted from Nuclear MRBMs can be intercepted by patriot. If so, I think we will see
Very much it is. For example we never heard what happened to this [0] Iskander dud which landed in Ukrainehttps://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-found-dart-like-myst...
I mean, why would Ukraine launch a drone westwards, anyway?More likely the Russians are using old hardware, because the new stuff was all propaganda and doesn’t actually work - and has supply chain dependencies in the west, and can’t be replaced.