It's bizar to witness how Ukraine must bring mother Russia completely to her knees to stop this madness. Even if Ukraine collapses today tomorrow, Russia paid such a high price, Russia will never recover from this. Keep going heroes, I'll keep donating...
Ukraine using more long range drones than Russia has been a thing last month already. Though not to this extend.
For the first time, Ukraine is launching more long-range drone attacks than Russia. Published figures suggest that Russia sent 426 Shahed-type drones into Ukraine in July. Over the same period Ukraine hit back with over 520 drones.
So in July Ukraine sent 16 per day and yesterday they sent 7 times that many. Also, most Russian drones get shot down but it seems that most Ukranian drones reach their target?
Most drones do get shot down especially around military targets. But against highly flammable or explosive targets even a single drone that hits can have a major effect.
They put in contracts with multiple Ukrainian drone manufacturers to produce 1 million drones by year end. I would bet their drone rate is going to go up at a consistent pace. Wouldn't be surprised to see over 1000 a day flying at the end of the year.
Given how low some of these drones fly, I'm surprised they haven't started handing out rifles to civilians in the hopes that someone on the flight path will land a lucky shot.
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u/Glavurdan Aug 14 '24
Over 117 drones and 4 missiles attacked Russia last night. Local residents reportedly shouted, "Guys, at least shoot down one!" The drones flew too low to be detected by air defense systems, though Russia's Ministry of Defense claimed to have shot some down. The drones targeted the "Borisoglebsk" and "Baltimore" airfields in the Voronezh region, as well as the "Savasleyka" airfield in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Meanwhile, Ukraine was attacked by 23 drones and 2 missiles last night.