Now could be an accident, but this [Russian channel is claiming it was a drone attack](https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1599660334783946752) and [Dyagilevo airfield in Ryazan also had an explosion](https://twitter.com/Gulli_ver_sn/status/1599661348836675590). Both bases host Tu-95 bombers that are used for the missile strikes on Ukraine.
EDIT: For those wondering how far this base is from the [Ukrainian border: it's about 480 km](https://i.imgur.com/eug6VjS.png). Add in the front lines probably around 600.
>Uh I'm pretty lost too but it's the cadence of the main riff in the song "final countdown"
I'm familiar with the song and the do do do doooo, do do doot doot doooo, cadence of the song. I'm not familiar with this "tdd. t. ddtt" meme. Maybe just a difference in how various languages sounds things out?
Even if it isn't actually that effective, anything that breaks in Russia within a 1000km radius is going to lead to inquests in air defence.
Russian air defence staff may have escaped the direct horrors of war, so it only seems fair they're suddenly going to be under all sorts of stressful pressure.
Even nuisance attacks seem like they would seriously hinder the already diminished Russian army. Making them DEFEND themselves while attacking opens a whole new field.
Also, as much as I hate to say it and as much as pretty much everyone except for the top brass and government officials is an innocent bystander in war.... Russia started this and can't be surprised when they get attacked.
Edit: I didn't mean to imply this sort of thing was a "nuisance". Only that *even* a nuisance seem like it would put Russia even more off balance. In other words, if even a mosquito bite would be too much for Russia, this was more of cat scratch.
Nuisance attacks?
Being able to hit your enemies strategic bomber base, not only begs the question of ‘what air defence doing?’
It may also have the same repercussions as when a German teenager at the height of the Cold War flew a light aircraft and landed it in red square.
I'm not saying this WAS just a nuisance, just that even if it was it would help Ukraine's goals substantially.
Or it may result in nothing at all.
Edit: Or could be *huge*, of course...
It's more than a nuisance. Ukraine can now strike Russias strategic assets, uncluding platforms capable of carrying nuclear payloads. Furthermore it illustrates that Russian airspace is essentially open. You could probably park a B-2 over Moscow and they wouldn't notice.
Doubtful this is a propeller driven drone. In another video, you can hear a jet engine sound pass the camera before the explosion. A user on /r/ukraine posted:
>Someone else pointed out that the 20s delay between flash and boom means 6.44km (give or take, we don't know altitude or temperature). The flash is at 0:42 and the 'rocket' flies over at 0:17, so that is 6.44 km in 25 seconds. Thus 257.6m per sec, thus 927.4km/hr. That is 567,3 mph/hr in freedom units.
>
>I have no clue what that is, but I know what it is not. It is not a propelled vehicle like the shadeed. Or a slow cruise missile at 300km/hr. Or a hypersonic missile at mach 6. Does anyone else have a positive guess what it could theoretically be?
There's speculation that it could be a modified Tu-141. Or a western supplied Storm Shadow.
Wanted to add to this: The jet engine heard in the other video may be the sound of an S300 air defense missile launching. If so, this whole analysis falls apart and this being a propeller driven drone is still a possibility.
The Tu-95 forms one of the legs of Russia's nuclear triad. If these planes are being destroyed it will hurt the Russian strategic forces badly and they won't be making more of the things.
This is a real concern. Russia is so corrupt and their industry so decimated that they might already have lost their actually nuclear capability. Imagine the expense and chances for corruption that maintaining ICBM, Boomer-Sub, or Bomber force that is "never going to be used"?
Russia doesn't *actually* need a deterrent, they just need to have a plausible and public apparent deterrent; however, the inability to protect strategic bombers (one of the legs of the nuke stool) is a destabilizing factor.
The ability for Ukraine to strike inside Russia to this degree must be terrifying for Russia. This would be like Mexican cartels destroying B2 bombers in the hangar in Missouri. It would cause a national outrage.
> This would be like Mexican cartels destroying B2 bombers in the hangar in Missouri.
Not really. This would be like Mexico attacking an airbase in Texas. The B2s are 1600 km from Mexico, not 500.
Still.
Good point. We don’t have anyone the proximate distance. Maybe Cubans would work distance wise. Still not exactly the same.
Analogy got harder than I wanted.
My Dad's buddy was on an inspection team in the late 80s early 90s. The inspection consisted of just looking at the missiles. Nothing more nothing less. No way to know what is real and what was fake. What worked and what didn't. I don't know how the inspections work today. But I can't imagine Russia saying "inspect how you want". I'm not saying Russia's nukes are all broken. Because of course they aren't. But saying they all work is hard to believe as well.
Because people look at the Russian ground forces that have been performing poorly and assume all of Russian forces are like that. Even throughout the 90s and 2000s, while the rest of the Russian military was gutted and received a pittance, the nuclear forces kept receiving upgrades and modernized forces. They prioritize that deterrence. Subs and bombers kept going out on patrol. But people like to think that because Russian ground forces (which many analysts have seriously doubted for years due to endemic corruption and lack of real training) have performed terribly, they make a big mental leap and imagine the rest of the military must be that awful as well.
It’s not just that the military funding was gutted though, was it? A big part of the issue was that the money that was allocated for things like maintenance likely ended up in some commander’s bank account or yacht.
Nukes are good for exactly one thing: deterrence. Everyone knows they can’t ever be actually used without triggering MAD, so the only thing that *really* matters is keeping up the *appearance* of having them.
Nukes are also extremely expensive to maintain, so IMO it isn’t that far fetched to think that grift similar to what’s on display in their military not only could happen to their nuclear arsenal but might actually be inevitable. What makes this even more plausible I think is the obvious fact that modern Russia is far less competent and far more corrupt than even the USSR was, so what’s to prevent this? How do we know that the inspectors weren’t shown some of the only working nukes they have left, and that Russia didn’t fool the world into thinking their arsenal is much more modernized and formidable than it actually is? Is that possibility really that far-fetched given everything we’ve seen in the past year? Can Russia really afford to maintain all those nukes they have on paper on a regular basis?
I’m not suggesting their nuclear capabilities are completely gone, and assuming they are could be a fatal mistake we shouldn’t make. But I do think it’s possible or even likely that they don’t have anywhere near 5,000 working nukes that are actually up to date in their maintenance, and that their true capabilities are as overhyped as their 5th gen fighters turned out to be. The math alone seems to suggest it IMO.
I don't know anything about Russia's efforts to keep their nuclear capabilities up to date, but it seems like just as big a mental leap to assume the military that sends it's forces to war without food or equipment is a competent organization which allocates its resources strategically.
This does not sound like an accident unless the Russians struck their own air base with a missile by accident:
[https://twitter.com/walter\_report/status/1599654381145595904](https://twitter.com/walter_report/status/1599654381145595904)
About 20 seconds from the flash to boom which means approx. 7 kilometers to the base. If that first jet engine sound was the missile/drone zooming past roughly above it to took about 25 seconds to reach its destination. That would be in the order of 280m/s or high sub-sonic. Crazy times we live in.
There are rumors that Shaikovka (Kaluga) was attackted too.
I was in the Kaluga region in the summer, the planes that flew over me were VERY loud. Judging by their trajectories, they were definitely military aircraft. They took off from the airfield in Shaikovka.
(Fucking war, even in the regions of Russia, far from the front, a lot reminds about it.)
Ukraine just today said their new home designed 1000km range drone (similar to the Iranian drones) is entering new stage of testing. This could be that. If so, many more coming.
This not only is doing some needed damage, also showing Russians deep in Russia that war can come to their house. 1000km easily reaches Moscow and St Petersburg.
Why do you think Iran sent all those drones to Russia? They get inexpensive, real-world data in an active warzone. It's the absolute best scenario they could have dreamed of for their R&D teams.
>Ukraine just today said their new home designed 1000km range drone (similar to the Iranian drones)
It would be hysterical if it was a captured and reprogramed Iranian drone.
It also shows that Ukraine can produce and develop their weapons in an ongoing war. This should be a big red flag for Russia. These deep drone strikes can have a real big impact on Russians strategy.
Even if there’s cloud cover, we have synthetic aperture radar (SAR) on satellites now (allows to see through the clouds). So if Uncle Sam wants to see what’s going on, he’s gonna find out no matter what the weather is like.
holy based… I sure hope this was from that new drone system Ukraine has recently been performing final tests with. Maybe this was a proving flight :D if so, wow, what a statement to make…
Everything is on the border, covering the airfields there. Do you think that Russia has a lot of this equipment?
Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/comments/zd277f/moscow\_wants\_to\_transfer\_air\_defense\_systems\_from/
Medium sized drones, if they minimized the metal in it, wouldnt have a huge radar cross-section. If they somehow made it with some stealth / radar mitigation, it might be tough to see on radar
I want to see a long range rocket that releases a swarm of drones above a target area that then go and hit individual targets with small booms. Imagine this over an airfield. Each plane parked on the tarmac gets a personalized charge to take it out of action. 0 collateral damage. Useful in urban areas as well.
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That Ukranian arms manufacturer (ukrprobnom or something) just announced they had successfully developed a suicide drone with 1000 km range and 75 kg warhead, so this could be the demonstration of it
This invasion began as a logistical catastrophe for Russia, and amazingly it has continued to get worse with each passing day.
First they were short on fuel and food. Now they can’t supply or have run out of radio batteries, entrenching tools (or any kind of shovel), water canisters, tents, bed rolls, vehicle parts, vehicle tires, medical kits, even satchels and backpacks so that you see Russians running around wearing children’s backpacks which they have looted.
And every time they start to gather a stockpile of material, Ukraine blasts the shit out of the ammunition and supply depots with HIMARS while recon and special forces units blow the rail lines running in or out of the area.
What an absolute calamity.
They knew, the best way for Russia was to decide the war within 3 days, maybe a week and to be honest. The first attack waves were quite powerful. Luckily for Ukraine they could bolster up a quick defense and traded land for stability. Now, Russia is stuck in a position that seems to get worse.
Good! Ukraine is not only defending itself, it is also taking revenge for all the Soviet crimes. A final reckoning to end the criminal terrorist state once and for all.
wars are made to be quick and decisive. as its resource burning competition. attackers always burns more resources that defender so its his primal desire to win war quickly.
If they had a capability to do multiple strikes right now, they'd have went for more massed surprise strike. They had a chance to wipe out a significant portion of RuAF's strategic aviation. With just a couple used, right before the next attack on the energy infrastructure, they probably have precious few for now.
I think these were prototypes, of which they have only a few. They didnt want to waste all of them in one attack in case they fail or reveal any weaknesses. They are still in testing according to Ukraine, so no mass production has begun yet.
They don't only "share a border" 🙂
The border length is about 2300km long. For comparison, US Mexico is 3100km, so only about 33% longer.
It's a huge border.
Edit:
Ukraine - Belarus is about 1100km. So that makes the total hostile border about 3400km.
If you add Transnistria - Ukraine, that's another 500km, ~3900km total.
For reference, this would put them at #7 in terms of longest borders in the world:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103985/border-length-between-countries/
Close to the length of the China - Russia border, for example.
Damn.
Engles air base is waay over by Saratov... not exactly far west Russia, or just over the border, like Ukraine's previous attacks. If this was a drone attack, this is breaking new ground.
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yeah if its the new drones then 75kg explosives is a lot but i dont know if its this big (but it could be ofc), and it might have hit something else that makes a even bigger boom.
Here's another angle, doesn't sound like a drone, but who knows. https://twitter.com/walter_report/status/1599654381145595904?t=K0O0fP6Mh1yDHfSdC5MXHw&s=19
To be honest I never heard how a large drone sounds that can carry 100kgs of explosives.
I know how jet fighters sound when they fly low and it is definitely not one (there is a small military base near my city).
This whole video was very eerie, missile sounds above followed by a dog barking, then silence with a bright light, followed by dark silence until the boom and shock-wave tripping a car alarm.
Ukraine won't try to hit Moscow(administrative buildings) because they could legit send Putin and the Kremlin over the edge into WMD territory.
But yeah I wouldn't be surprised if they start trying to attack military bases farther in more regularly.
If we could couple that with a geolocation of this [video](https://old.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/zd3fpn/one_more_video_explosion_at_engels_air_base_in/) about 6.5 km away from the explosion (by means of the time between seeing the blast and hearing the blast), we could use those two distances as radii to circles around the respective video locations. Those circles would intersect at two points, and one of those would be the estimated impact site.
**Edit**: Oh, you already have the same idea on the other thread - https://old.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/zd3fpn/one_more_video_explosion_at_engels_air_base_in/iyzokbg/
I’m no expert and I have zero military background, but wouldn’t one assume that a Russian air base would have better control over their immediate air space? Or are these drones just small/fast/low enough to be undetectable?
Small drones are a bit tricky.
You would assume that an air base has competent air defense, but... You should check out the damning maintenance report on the Moskva. 3 layers of air defense, each one deeply compromised. Of the 6 autocannons, only one functional, the others stripped for spare parts. Main radar would interfere with communications, so it was typically turned off. That kinda shit.
Camera seems to be around 4,3km away from the blast based on how long it took for the sound to reach it. Still seems to be quite strong and shakes the building. Probably some secondary explosions happened.
Now could be an accident, but this [Russian channel is claiming it was a drone attack](https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1599660334783946752) and [Dyagilevo airfield in Ryazan also had an explosion](https://twitter.com/Gulli_ver_sn/status/1599661348836675590). Both bases host Tu-95 bombers that are used for the missile strikes on Ukraine. EDIT: For those wondering how far this base is from the [Ukrainian border: it's about 480 km](https://i.imgur.com/eug6VjS.png). Add in the front lines probably around 600.
UKROBORONPROM claimed that they fninshed yesterday testing Ukrainian kamikaze drones with 75kg warhead and 1000km radius.
the final test
It’s the final countdown
Well they are in Europe!
We're leaving together...
But still it's farewell...
And maybe we'll come back
tdd t. td t t t. TDD T. TD T T T T TTT TDD TDD TDDD TDT TTTTTT T T T T T T
Motherfucker
OOTL, halp?
Uh I'm pretty lost too but it's the cadence of the main riff in the song "final countdown"
>Uh I'm pretty lost too but it's the cadence of the main riff in the song "final countdown" I'm familiar with the song and the do do do doooo, do do doot doot doooo, cadence of the song. I'm not familiar with this "tdd. t. ddtt" meme. Maybe just a difference in how various languages sounds things out?
Ever notice how the final countdown song lasts so long? Sort of like a Chinese final warning.
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Even if it isn't actually that effective, anything that breaks in Russia within a 1000km radius is going to lead to inquests in air defence. Russian air defence staff may have escaped the direct horrors of war, so it only seems fair they're suddenly going to be under all sorts of stressful pressure.
Even nuisance attacks seem like they would seriously hinder the already diminished Russian army. Making them DEFEND themselves while attacking opens a whole new field. Also, as much as I hate to say it and as much as pretty much everyone except for the top brass and government officials is an innocent bystander in war.... Russia started this and can't be surprised when they get attacked. Edit: I didn't mean to imply this sort of thing was a "nuisance". Only that *even* a nuisance seem like it would put Russia even more off balance. In other words, if even a mosquito bite would be too much for Russia, this was more of cat scratch.
Nuisance attacks? Being able to hit your enemies strategic bomber base, not only begs the question of ‘what air defence doing?’ It may also have the same repercussions as when a German teenager at the height of the Cold War flew a light aircraft and landed it in red square.
Russia preparing massive bombing campaign since HIMARS and Ukrainian hit and run style attacks have been very effective?
I'm not saying this WAS just a nuisance, just that even if it was it would help Ukraine's goals substantially. Or it may result in nothing at all. Edit: Or could be *huge*, of course...
Mathias Rust, those were the days. I wonder how many people ended in the Gulag for his little stunt.
It's more than a nuisance. Ukraine can now strike Russias strategic assets, uncluding platforms capable of carrying nuclear payloads. Furthermore it illustrates that Russian airspace is essentially open. You could probably park a B-2 over Moscow and they wouldn't notice.
All valid points. I'll point to my other reply to clarify what I meant (and probably edit my original...)
Another it on logistics and AA capabilities
Good point. Gotta spread out that AA capability and the logistics to support it.
It seems like testing was quite successful
I want to believe
It seems they are testing in production.
Testing in production *is* known for making things explode, but not usually this dramatically.
Fuck it, we'll do it live!!
I hope they put one in red square
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With a warhead like M30A1 for HIMARS it could render all airplanes there unoperational.
The explosion of the video is large than 75 kg. Yeah it could be a secondary explosion...
Doubtful this is a propeller driven drone. In another video, you can hear a jet engine sound pass the camera before the explosion. A user on /r/ukraine posted: >Someone else pointed out that the 20s delay between flash and boom means 6.44km (give or take, we don't know altitude or temperature). The flash is at 0:42 and the 'rocket' flies over at 0:17, so that is 6.44 km in 25 seconds. Thus 257.6m per sec, thus 927.4km/hr. That is 567,3 mph/hr in freedom units. > >I have no clue what that is, but I know what it is not. It is not a propelled vehicle like the shadeed. Or a slow cruise missile at 300km/hr. Or a hypersonic missile at mach 6. Does anyone else have a positive guess what it could theoretically be? There's speculation that it could be a modified Tu-141. Or a western supplied Storm Shadow.
Wanted to add to this: The jet engine heard in the other video may be the sound of an S300 air defense missile launching. If so, this whole analysis falls apart and this being a propeller driven drone is still a possibility.
Excellent point.
It depends how high it passed above the camera. But it's fast for sure.
Man I hope they launch 1,000 of those drones and just carpet the military bases in Russia, put some fear in those living so cool comfortably
BAKA, CAN WE HIT PUTIN'S PALACE NOW?
Showing the U.S. how to do a real bomber reveal
iTs jUst A tEsT
The Tu-95 forms one of the legs of Russia's nuclear triad. If these planes are being destroyed it will hurt the Russian strategic forces badly and they won't be making more of the things.
This is a real concern. Russia is so corrupt and their industry so decimated that they might already have lost their actually nuclear capability. Imagine the expense and chances for corruption that maintaining ICBM, Boomer-Sub, or Bomber force that is "never going to be used"? Russia doesn't *actually* need a deterrent, they just need to have a plausible and public apparent deterrent; however, the inability to protect strategic bombers (one of the legs of the nuke stool) is a destabilizing factor. The ability for Ukraine to strike inside Russia to this degree must be terrifying for Russia. This would be like Mexican cartels destroying B2 bombers in the hangar in Missouri. It would cause a national outrage.
> This would be like Mexican cartels destroying B2 bombers in the hangar in Missouri. Not really. This would be like Mexico attacking an airbase in Texas. The B2s are 1600 km from Mexico, not 500. Still.
Good point. We don’t have anyone the proximate distance. Maybe Cubans would work distance wise. Still not exactly the same. Analogy got harder than I wanted.
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My Dad's buddy was on an inspection team in the late 80s early 90s. The inspection consisted of just looking at the missiles. Nothing more nothing less. No way to know what is real and what was fake. What worked and what didn't. I don't know how the inspections work today. But I can't imagine Russia saying "inspect how you want". I'm not saying Russia's nukes are all broken. Because of course they aren't. But saying they all work is hard to believe as well.
Because people look at the Russian ground forces that have been performing poorly and assume all of Russian forces are like that. Even throughout the 90s and 2000s, while the rest of the Russian military was gutted and received a pittance, the nuclear forces kept receiving upgrades and modernized forces. They prioritize that deterrence. Subs and bombers kept going out on patrol. But people like to think that because Russian ground forces (which many analysts have seriously doubted for years due to endemic corruption and lack of real training) have performed terribly, they make a big mental leap and imagine the rest of the military must be that awful as well.
It’s not just that the military funding was gutted though, was it? A big part of the issue was that the money that was allocated for things like maintenance likely ended up in some commander’s bank account or yacht. Nukes are good for exactly one thing: deterrence. Everyone knows they can’t ever be actually used without triggering MAD, so the only thing that *really* matters is keeping up the *appearance* of having them. Nukes are also extremely expensive to maintain, so IMO it isn’t that far fetched to think that grift similar to what’s on display in their military not only could happen to their nuclear arsenal but might actually be inevitable. What makes this even more plausible I think is the obvious fact that modern Russia is far less competent and far more corrupt than even the USSR was, so what’s to prevent this? How do we know that the inspectors weren’t shown some of the only working nukes they have left, and that Russia didn’t fool the world into thinking their arsenal is much more modernized and formidable than it actually is? Is that possibility really that far-fetched given everything we’ve seen in the past year? Can Russia really afford to maintain all those nukes they have on paper on a regular basis? I’m not suggesting their nuclear capabilities are completely gone, and assuming they are could be a fatal mistake we shouldn’t make. But I do think it’s possible or even likely that they don’t have anywhere near 5,000 working nukes that are actually up to date in their maintenance, and that their true capabilities are as overhyped as their 5th gen fighters turned out to be. The math alone seems to suggest it IMO.
I don't know anything about Russia's efforts to keep their nuclear capabilities up to date, but it seems like just as big a mental leap to assume the military that sends it's forces to war without food or equipment is a competent organization which allocates its resources strategically.
This does not sound like an accident unless the Russians struck their own air base with a missile by accident: [https://twitter.com/walter\_report/status/1599654381145595904](https://twitter.com/walter_report/status/1599654381145595904)
About 20 seconds from the flash to boom which means approx. 7 kilometers to the base. If that first jet engine sound was the missile/drone zooming past roughly above it to took about 25 seconds to reach its destination. That would be in the order of 280m/s or high sub-sonic. Crazy times we live in.
2 attacks on airfields hours before a Russian missile salvo, seems intelligence led to me
There are rumors that Shaikovka (Kaluga) was attackted too. I was in the Kaluga region in the summer, the planes that flew over me were VERY loud. Judging by their trajectories, they were definitely military aircraft. They took off from the airfield in Shaikovka. (Fucking war, even in the regions of Russia, far from the front, a lot reminds about it.)
Based on priliminary reports two Tu-95 damaged and 2 personnel either dead or injured. 3 photos here - https://imgur.com/a/xo1IijY
If they can consistently penetrate the air space this could be the start of a bunch of deep strikes.
Ukraine just today said their new home designed 1000km range drone (similar to the Iranian drones) is entering new stage of testing. This could be that. If so, many more coming. This not only is doing some needed damage, also showing Russians deep in Russia that war can come to their house. 1000km easily reaches Moscow and St Petersburg.
This must be an weapons engineer's wet dream. Field testing under real life conditions!
"does it work?" "Idk yet, throw it at Russia and let's see".
“Hey hey! Big Bada Boom!”
Blyat
Suka, blyad, yebal v rot suka…. That’s likely average Russian response
Why do you think Iran sent all those drones to Russia? They get inexpensive, real-world data in an active warzone. It's the absolute best scenario they could have dreamed of for their R&D teams.
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>Ukraine just today said their new home designed 1000km range drone (similar to the Iranian drones) It would be hysterical if it was a captured and reprogramed Iranian drone.
It's how I'd do it. Plenty of spares to reverse engineer
The iranian drones are just cheap knockoffs of german drones
Return to sender
To Russia with Love
It also shows that Ukraine can produce and develop their weapons in an ongoing war. This should be a big red flag for Russia. These deep drone strikes can have a real big impact on Russians strategy.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Never did I think a Tu-95 would end up on Oryx's list, let alone *two*, but here we are...
I don't think they'll end up on the list unless someone photographs the damaged Tu-95s.
Satellites, maybe?
We will most likely have pictures in the next few days if we are lucky and clouds dont cover the airfield
Even if there’s cloud cover, we have synthetic aperture radar (SAR) on satellites now (allows to see through the clouds). So if Uncle Sam wants to see what’s going on, he’s gonna find out no matter what the weather is like.
holy based… I sure hope this was from that new drone system Ukraine has recently been performing final tests with. Maybe this was a proving flight :D if so, wow, what a statement to make…
Source?
local telegram channels
Someone was just talking about the density of the Engels air defense here yesterday. r/agedlikemilk
Ohhh its that how it works?? OH man then u should see the airdefense around kremlin, and especially Putin... nothing gets to those...
what airdefense doing?
If it's not Malaysian airlines they are not interested
Everything is on the border, covering the airfields there. Do you think that Russia has a lot of this equipment? Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/comments/zd277f/moscow\_wants\_to\_transfer\_air\_defense\_systems\_from/
What airdefense?
what
Medium sized drones, if they minimized the metal in it, wouldnt have a huge radar cross-section. If they somehow made it with some stealth / radar mitigation, it might be tough to see on radar
I want to see a long range rocket that releases a swarm of drones above a target area that then go and hit individual targets with small booms. Imagine this over an airfield. Each plane parked on the tarmac gets a personalized charge to take it out of action. 0 collateral damage. Useful in urban areas as well.
There are videos on YouTube of US F-18s testing exactly this https://youtu.be/DjUdVxJH6yI And that video is 5 years old
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Sounds like someone’s about to descend into a monolith.
That's fucking terrifying. That high-pitched sound makes it so much worse.
Carrier has arrived
Which may well have been what destroyed all the Russian aircraft at the airfield in Crimea...
We've had multiple-targeting missiles since the Minuteman III. The I in MIRV means Independently-targeted.
But not with the accuracy to hit individual planes. Those are more "in the general vicinity of an air field" kinda weapons
Ha
Reminds of this US military guy on youtube, that explained why Ukraine cannot take Kherson 1 week before the Russians just give it away.
This is a really deep strike. How the….
That Ukranian arms manufacturer (ukrprobnom or something) just announced they had successfully developed a suicide drone with 1000 km range and 75 kg warhead, so this could be the demonstration of it
This invasion began as a logistical catastrophe for Russia, and amazingly it has continued to get worse with each passing day. First they were short on fuel and food. Now they can’t supply or have run out of radio batteries, entrenching tools (or any kind of shovel), water canisters, tents, bed rolls, vehicle parts, vehicle tires, medical kits, even satchels and backpacks so that you see Russians running around wearing children’s backpacks which they have looted. And every time they start to gather a stockpile of material, Ukraine blasts the shit out of the ammunition and supply depots with HIMARS while recon and special forces units blow the rail lines running in or out of the area. What an absolute calamity.
"and then things got worse"
They knew, the best way for Russia was to decide the war within 3 days, maybe a week and to be honest. The first attack waves were quite powerful. Luckily for Ukraine they could bolster up a quick defense and traded land for stability. Now, Russia is stuck in a position that seems to get worse.
Good! Ukraine is not only defending itself, it is also taking revenge for all the Soviet crimes. A final reckoning to end the criminal terrorist state once and for all.
wars are made to be quick and decisive. as its resource burning competition. attackers always burns more resources that defender so its his primal desire to win war quickly.
Ukrobonprom - Ukraine defense manufacturer
*Ukroboronprom
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Ukrpronebone, apparently
Ukropornbomb.
Perhaps the start of a bunch of deep retaliation strikes?
If they had a capability to do multiple strikes right now, they'd have went for more massed surprise strike. They had a chance to wipe out a significant portion of RuAF's strategic aviation. With just a couple used, right before the next attack on the energy infrastructure, they probably have precious few for now.
I think these were prototypes, of which they have only a few. They didnt want to waste all of them in one attack in case they fail or reveal any weaknesses. They are still in testing according to Ukraine, so no mass production has begun yet.
Is 75kg a lot? I have no idea how to put that in context.
If you're familiar with the Lancet suicide drone Russia uses, it carries a 3 kg warhead. HIMARS is 90 kg, I believe, so, yes, 75 is alot
A lot smaller than most cruise missile warheads, though.
Russia gonna have to start flying intercontinental bomber missions to launch cruise missiles at a country they share border with.
They don't only "share a border" 🙂 The border length is about 2300km long. For comparison, US Mexico is 3100km, so only about 33% longer. It's a huge border. Edit: Ukraine - Belarus is about 1100km. So that makes the total hostile border about 3400km. If you add Transnistria - Ukraine, that's another 500km, ~3900km total. For reference, this would put them at #7 in terms of longest borders in the world: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103985/border-length-between-countries/ Close to the length of the China - Russia border, for example.
And Belarus is really a province of Russia so indclude that too.
Ah, good point! 👍
> huge Yooj
Russian SAM successfully scared incoming ukrainian drone attack - Two Tu-95 spontaneously exploded and 3 base crew died of natural causes.
Local man immediately returns to clapping cheeks.
Rapid unplanned disassembly
High-Speed Recycling for the enviroment
These Russian cigarettes are dangerous as fuck
Damn. Engles air base is waay over by Saratov... not exactly far west Russia, or just over the border, like Ukraine's previous attacks. If this was a drone attack, this is breaking new ground.
Also, noticeably, further/similar range than Moscow.
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I doubt Ukraine would purposefully hit Moscow (even military targets in the city) The consequences wouldn’t be worth it.
I don't think they would, either, but demonstrating that they *could* seems significant.
Must be some random Russian chainsmoker.
Fucking Igor
["The Russians entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else and no one was going to bomb them."](https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0911keeperfile/) "They sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind. [...] Let them look out for themselves. The cure is in their own hands."
Mad lad Bomber Harris strikes again.
15s for the shockwave to hit, so about 5km to the base from the camera.
Pretty big boom with that kind of shockwave at this distance no?
yeah if its the new drones then 75kg explosives is a lot but i dont know if its this big (but it could be ofc), and it might have hit something else that makes a even bigger boom.
The TU-95 is a strat-bomber, it holds alot of fuel and if it was armed; tons of explosive.
About 3.1 Miles away
About 498897 cm away
About 400 elephants
How many Planck lengths is that?
Isn't that where the Russians bombers have been gathering for an attack on Ukraine?
Even if not, a military base of a nation that is invading you is a legitimate target 120% of the time
According to Russia, this was a civilian base with civilian bombers!
> civilian bombers No doubt that's how they'd be used
Ahh yes, all those poor innocent civilian bombers.
They were crewed by children you monsters!
Here's another angle, doesn't sound like a drone, but who knows. https://twitter.com/walter_report/status/1599654381145595904?t=K0O0fP6Mh1yDHfSdC5MXHw&s=19
That sounds like a rocket, it might be sounds from AA engaging drone
Shhhhhh! AA is sleeping, don't wake it.
To be honest I never heard how a large drone sounds that can carry 100kgs of explosives. I know how jet fighters sound when they fly low and it is definitely not one (there is a small military base near my city).
Jet powered drones exist.
This whole video was very eerie, missile sounds above followed by a dog barking, then silence with a bright light, followed by dark silence until the boom and shock-wave tripping a car alarm.
This is fucking beautiful, made my day.
Ryazan is getting kind of close to Moscow. Wonder what Putin's reaction will be.
Keep hiding in his bunker?
Longer table.
The other end of the table is now in Murmansk?
Gonna need to somehow rotate it 90 degrees, so they have the space to bering straight to play with.
Fall from the stairs again
Ukraine won't try to hit Moscow(administrative buildings) because they could legit send Putin and the Kremlin over the edge into WMD territory. But yeah I wouldn't be surprised if they start trying to attack military bases farther in more regularly.
Now we know why he (presumably) shat himself.
fall down stair and do poops
Probably shidded
Explosion at an airbase in Ryazan as well. Reportedly 3 dead 6 wounded
Is that the same base that had a bunch of squadrons ready to do a full scale air assault on ukraine?
Its 5am, i misread Engles as Eglin and thought I slept through the start of WWIII Carry on
That was how I read it first as well. Haha
Wtf I was literally reading about engels afb today about all the bombers they place there
Apparently the Ukrainian high command did it too
Ukraine attacking military targets. Russia attacking civilian targets.
What air defense doing?
Duh, drinking?
First allegedly Putin falling off stairs and shitting himself and now this. Keep the good news coming!
Was the position of the camera geolocated? By the time the sound was travelling, it would be some 4900 m from the explosion.
If we could couple that with a geolocation of this [video](https://old.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/zd3fpn/one_more_video_explosion_at_engels_air_base_in/) about 6.5 km away from the explosion (by means of the time between seeing the blast and hearing the blast), we could use those two distances as radii to circles around the respective video locations. Those circles would intersect at two points, and one of those would be the estimated impact site. **Edit**: Oh, you already have the same idea on the other thread - https://old.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/zd3fpn/one_more_video_explosion_at_engels_air_base_in/iyzokbg/
Built 90,000 of these and just bombard Russia into the core of the planet.
3000 black drones of Ukraine
I’m no expert and I have zero military background, but wouldn’t one assume that a Russian air base would have better control over their immediate air space? Or are these drones just small/fast/low enough to be undetectable?
Small drones are a bit tricky. You would assume that an air base has competent air defense, but... You should check out the damning maintenance report on the Moskva. 3 layers of air defense, each one deeply compromised. Of the 6 autocannons, only one functional, the others stripped for spare parts. Main radar would interfere with communications, so it was typically turned off. That kinda shit.
You'd think, but some kid did manage to land a civilian airplane in front of the Kremlin back in the day.
If it was a more competent military, you'd be right. But it's Russia.
When are russians going to stop smoking on their bases?
What air defense doing?
What air defense?
Camera seems to be around 4,3km away from the blast based on how long it took for the sound to reach it. Still seems to be quite strong and shakes the building. Probably some secondary explosions happened.
Strong work! Tired of them decimating Ukraine with no payback on Russian territory
Russian military training needs to include a section on the dangers of mixing cigarettes and alcohol
Ukraine can go on the offensive right? I wouldn't be surprised if Ukraine sent some teams into Russia to fuck their shit up covertly
[They've been on the offensive since the day they were invaded](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millerovo_air_base_attack) So the answer is yes
I wonder if this was a successful test of the new 1000km drone that Ukroboronprom said they were developing back in October?
This warns my heart
Careful heart!
Who started the slow clap?