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A skyscraper under construction in Moscow was hit by a UAV. (files.catbox.moe)
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Video: https://files.catbox.moe/qrdpcj.mp4

Damage: https://files.catbox.moe/wlpglr.mp4

Drone: https://files.catbox.moe/qryrdk.mp4

Air defense: https://files.catbox.moe/d6l0ky.mp4

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

A few days ago, the UK MoD had an interesting intelligence update regarding those drone attacks and the resulting problems for Russia. It does of course not confirm or deny who is behind any explosion deep within Russian territory.

So this analysis points out that Russia has to relocate resources in the air defence sector, that wasn’t really necessary before the UAV attacks. Resources for this means they cannot be used for something or somewhere else. These small UAV attacks can totally have a big impact regarding lacking frontline supplies of equipment. Air defence is not cheap, possibly requires electronics on sanction lists and cheap UAV puts Russia in the same situation as Ukraine, that the defence system/ammunition has to be cheap as well. The Russians can’t use missiles costing millions of dollars for that task - or they can, but run out of funding even faster.