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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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[–] [email protected] 78 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 153 points 5 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago

You're amazing and I love you.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's a nose, actually. And eyebrows.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 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 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Next generation stealth plane: going back to basics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Damn, thought this was Non Credible Defense.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

This is great. Thank you for making my night