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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.
Great job for Ukrainians pioneering a completely new war tactics - and actually putting it on the radar of people that are supposed to think about such things. I mean there was a talk about this for a long time, but we all know talking theory and having a practical example differs a lot. Now I hope the US starts addressing the scenario of "50 Chinese container ships loaded with drones" as a real thing not as Sci-Fi scenario like "what if Martians attack D.C.". And of course, the less weapons Russia has, the better the world is, though this particular thing is of more symbolic than strategic meaning - God still sides with large battalions on the battlefield.
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