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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)

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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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[-] andrewth09@lemmy.world 152 points 3 months ago

Superior Ukrainian gen 5 stealth technology: The Cessna 206.

[-] blackluster117@possumpat.io 78 points 3 months ago

I'm just imagining a Cessna wearing a giant pair of Groucho Marx glasses.

[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 153 points 3 months ago

[-] blackluster117@possumpat.io 41 points 3 months ago

You're amazing and I love you.

[-] safesyrup@lemmy.hogru.ch 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Thats a decent ass edit

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

It's a nose, actually. And eyebrows.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

https://xkcd.com/37/

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Now this is Marxism I can get behind.

:: wiggles cigar ::

Whether or not he'd let me stand back there is another story.

[-] EchoCranium@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 months ago

Next generation stealth plane: going back to basics.

[-] HoustonHenry@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

They're putting sails back on boats, why not?

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 9 points 3 months ago

Damn, thought this was Non Credible Defense.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Ukraine is basically the embodiment of NCD. I saw a guy carrying a traditionally vehicle mounted AA gun with a buttstock welded onto it.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Solid move. After you dislocate your shoulder a few times, you get used to it.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Evidently it was just a vehicle mounted machine gun, so no dislocation, but still noncredible as fuck.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I understand that the situation is not great and the stakes are very, very real.

At the same time it's kind of amazing how this whole affair has this "improvised tube-sock & axle-grease sticky bomb" perseverance to it.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

It really is incredible. They've actually done some crazy advanced stuff too, like using some sort of image algorithm to control kamikaze quadcopters to provide terminal guidance through short range signal jamming. I wouldn't have even thought they would have those kind of capabilities.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

And that's how it's done, people!

[-] kinther@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

This is great. Thank you for making my night

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