Shahed drone factory in Russia’s Tatarstan over 1,200 kilometers away



by TotalSpaceNut

12 comments
  1. Sources:

    Drones strike Yelabuga, Tatarstan: hitting the Elaz-Nefteproduct refinery and the Shahed drone factory. Yelabuga sits 1,200 km from Ukraine’s border.

    https://twitter.com/maria_avdv/status/1775051040435454324

    Ukraine is now supposedly capable of using light airplanes as kamikaze drones coming that far into the Russian territory. This is most probably an [Aeroprakt A-22 Foxbat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroprakt_A-22_Foxbat), a Ukrainian-produced light aircraft, equipped with an additional fuel tank and a remote control system.

    https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1775050929013702865

    More footage and location

    https://twitter.com/markito0171/status/1775046840104198245

  2. don’t worry guys… The SMO is going excellent, we will win any day now /s.

    Welcome to the war you cretins, how does it feel being ok the receiving side?

  3. Well that will have a negative impact on the light aircraft use in Russia. Everyone of them spoted will now be assumed to be a Ukrainian drone strike.

    The electronics are the same for control with the sensor package so I expect only the servos would need to be significantly modified from other purpose built shorter range drones.

    Now Russia will have to move thier manufacturing further back if they do not expect it to be targeted.

  4. The ukrainians really goes all out with drones… first, Tupolev 123s and now: light aircraft.

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