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Ukraine packed a Cessna-style plane with explosives, added remote controls and kamikaze’d it into a Russian drone factory 600 miles away

www.forbes.com Ukraine Packed A Cessna-Style Plane With Explosives, Added Remote Controls And Kamikaze’d It Into A Russian Drone Factory 600 Miles Away

Ukraine seems to have fitted Cessna-style planes with remote controls, packed them with TNT & flown one 600 miles to strike a drone factory in Yelabuga, east of Moscow.

Ukraine Packed A Cessna-Style Plane With Explosives, Added Remote Controls And Kamikaze’d It Into A Russian Drone Factory 600 Miles Away

In a sharp escalation of its drone campaign targeting strategic industries deep inside Russia, Ukraine seems to have fitted Cessna-style light planes with remote controls, packed them with explosives and flown at least one of them more than 600 miles to strike a Russian factory in Yelabuga, 550 miles east of Moscow.

Ironically, the Russian factory produces—you guessed it—drones.

Russians on the ground recorded the shocking scene as the light plane dove onto the sprawling Alabuga Special Economic Zone industrial campus, where workers assemble Iranian-designed Shahed drones that, just like Ukraine’s DIY Cessna-style drone, can range as far 600 miles with an explosive payload.

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Superior Ukrainian gen 5 stealth technology: The Cessna 206.
- I'm just imagining a Cessna wearing a giant pair of Groucho Marx glasses.

Let’s be honest…. Probably less expensive and just as effective as a tomohawk.
- A Tomahawk goes about 4 times faster, but it seems it doesn't matter if your enemy is incompetent.
  
  Your comment made me go do the math and a TCM is, in fact, between 3.5 and 4 times faster than the fuel efficiency speed of a Cessna 206.
  Kudos to you good Person.
  
  No, a Tomahawk is really only a little faster than a Cessna
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_PA-38_Tomahawk
  /s
  
  You mean an Indigenous Peoples Hatchet Missle?
- It shouldn't be, though. The Russian military should have shot it down long before it got to the target.
  
  Ukrainians probably counted on the precedent
  
  Perhaps? I worry about this tactic being used in the US against targets. For all anyone knows, they’re a plane that just lost communication.
  
  Maybe that one reason they took a cessna less suspect so less chance to get shot down ?
  
  As another commenter said
  A Tomahawk goes about 4 times faster, but it seems it doesn't matter if your enemy is incompetent.
- This is the equivalent of wrapping ping pong balls in tin foil, putting a lighter underneath for a few seconds, and suddenly effective smoke bombs.
  Edit: Yes, you can try this at home. But outside and obviously don't rip the fumes like a bong.
  
  You forgot the part where the smoke bombs were able to travel a vast distance undetected after you threw them at a low speed.

This is pretty embarrassing for Russian air defense. Though, I also wonder if they were hesitant to shoot down an unidentified aircraft after multiple cases of friendly fire bringing down VKS aircraft. I'm also amazed that there was seemingly no Electronic Warfare (EW) systems in the area to prevent remote control of drones. Sure, there are EW countermeasures, but this seems like a pretty significant failure that this drone could be flown in from that far away.
- Having a massive landmass has been a huge boon to Russia historically, but we’re seeing the inverse now with all these long range precision guided munitions. They have too much land to cover with adequate air defense, it seems
- maybe it wasn't remote controlled as much as pre-programmed?
  
  Seems probable yes. Although it would still require GPS to keep its heading which can be jammed
- I heard they can stop nukes. I don't believe it.
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/the-notorious-flight-of-mathias-rust-7101888/
  
  While embarrassing, the environment in which that happened was entirely different. You had Regan and Gorbachev actively working to improve relations. And no one was actively trying to blow up Soviet infrastructure. You'd think the Russian air defenses would be a bit more sensitive to small aircraft coming from Ukraine in this environment.

- There were so many moments like that in this war. The grandma giving Russian soldiers sunflower seeds to put in their pockets so they grow when they die. The guy berating Russian soldiers saying "Every other woman here is a witch! All your dicks are going to fall off!" Zelensky saying "I don't need a ride I need ammunition."
  Though I don't know what else I'd expect from people who told the Ottoman Empire to go fuck itself.

Absolutely badass. Slava Ukraini!
- please go meet bandera

In Soviet Russia plane is guided munition.

MythBusters: Ukrainian War.
- That's a crowdfunding opportunity if I've ever heard one.

Hmmm.... SU-27 replica on top of some "cheap" jet... Smoke from second engine.... Control it like it was a damaged SU-27 returned home....
Land it wherever Russia has their temporary airfields... Boom.
After a while we're going to see Russia shooting down their own jets 😁
- Yeah pretty sure that's a war crime under the Rome Statute. Emphasis mine.
  The law applicable in international armed conflict forbids “mak[ing] improper use of … the military insignia and uniform of the enemy …” (Art. 23(f) of the Hague Regulations of 1899 and 1907; Art. 39 of Additional Protocol I; Art. 8(2)(b)(vii) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court). Not all uses of enemy uniforms are prohibited therefore; only “improper” uses. For example, wearing enemy uniforms in order to flee the fighting or escape capture does not run afoul of the law (U.S. Department of Defense Law of War Manual § 5.23.1.4). On the other side of the spectrum, engaging in attacks while wearing the uniform of the enemy is flatly prohibited, as affirmed in the treaty law and numerous military manuals (see here, here and here, for example), and is a war crime under the Rome Statute.
  
  It's funny that there is an entire branch of law describing what is acceptable and what is unacceptable while mass murdering people.
  
  If the enemy is stupid enough you don't even need a false flag, just some confusion

I like this direct, in-your-face style they have going. Very refreshing and potentially fatal.

Now that everyone know this can be done, every country in the world needs to worry about terrorists replicating this. Maybe in the old days they need to go through security checkpoint at the airport to hijack large planes for 9/11, but now they only need a large plane and some time.

Where's the video though?
- Check out Denys Davydov's telegram channel for example.

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