Ukraine Packed Plane With TNT And Flew It Into A Russian Drone Factory

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1. Excerpts:

   > 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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   > A classic Cessna 172 can haul a half-ton load as far as 700 miles.
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   > It should surprise no one that Ukraine seemingly is transforming light planes into drones. Back in 2019, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory worked with Virginia-based DZYNE Technologies to modify a Cessna 206 into a drone.
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   > The remote-controlled Cessna “offers the benefits of unmanned operations without the complexity and up-front cost associated with the development of new unmanned vehicles,” said Alok Das, an AFRL scientist.
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   > Beside being cheap, simple and reliable, a light-plane-based drone also has the benefit of being stealthy. Not by virtue of high-tech shaping and coating, but instead by being innocuous.
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   > And where Ukraine’s drone industry is highly decentralized and thus difficult to suppress with air strikes, Russia’s own drone industry is the opposite. It’s centralized. Damningly, one state-sponsored company produces almost all of Russia’s explosive first-person-view drones.

2. Amazing ingenuity- Ukrainians are rewriting the war rule book!

3. Probably inspired by [Mathias Rust](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust).

4. After they get their f-16’s, I hope they can rig up a couple mig 29’s to do this but on a grander scale. Flying a mig loaded with bombs into a refinery ends that refinery!!! Its just wishful thinking though

5. Should have their operatives in Russia do this with a twin engine plane nose diving into the kremlin.

6. America send over more 172s

   im sure we can spare some

7. First of many. Plenty of good ‘military’ targets to be had, and air defence has all gone to sleep, or Ukraine.

8. And before everyone gets too happy; the drone attack on the oil raffinery nearby was a success, it is party time.

   Sorry, but the two new build industrial facilities for the Shahed drone, were missed by around 200 to 300 m, the two idustrial facilities/buildings of the car factory by around 50 to 100 m. The drone crashed next to 7 buildings with flats for the workers. The drone was just around 300 m short. So no party here.

9. Give them all the A10 Warthogs

10. Kind of ironic.

11. Russia’s production is centralized because there is no internal competition. One oligarch gets the monopoly on drone production and he does a few big plants, to make them as cheap as possible.

12. Old school drone takes down new school drone factory. The irony writes itself.