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In the last few hours there has been a massive drone attack on Russia’s strategic bomber fleet. Apparently drone swarms were smuggled into Russia in cargo trucks and released a short distance from the airfields. Some of the bases attacks are more than 4,500 kilometers away from the Ukrainian border. The Ukrainian MOD claims that 34 percent of Russias’s strategic air force has been destroyed. This is an unconfirmed number, but there are multiple videos of groups of 4-7 TU-95 bombers burning on their airfields.
What a great advertisement for better border control. At this point, you basically have to be doing some kind of search on every single container coming in, right? But then, how do you find trustworthy un-bribe-able people at scale to inspect them all? As the story goes, if you don't think terrorists could get a nuclear bomb into the country, figure they could always hide it in a shipment of drugs.
Or alternatively just store your combat aircraft in reinforced hangars, as they all should be in the first place.
... Huh?
How does that solve the problem of drones hurled at Dodgers games or Morgan Wallen concerts? Or power substations or the George Washington bridge at rush hour? Or, hell, just in the general direction of downtown Dallas?
It doesn't solve any of that, of course.
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