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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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[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

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 😁

[-] Sc00ter@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] deafboy@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

It's funny that there is an entire branch of law describing what is acceptable and what is unacceptable while mass murdering people.

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

New Geneva conventions list of war crimes:

Wars

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 months ago

If the enemy is stupid enough you don't even need a false flag, just some confusion

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