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But seriously there doesn't even seem to be an *attempt* at defence in any of these videos. Completely silent, no rebuttal.

Absolutely awesome.

DryCloud9903

That's possibly the most uneven exchange of value in military history.

  
If they actually killed 40 aircraft split between A50s and strategic bombers, it's around $5-8bn in value. And they were killed by $3-5000 FPV drones.

  
Stunning success by Ukrainian intelligence.

HighDeltaVee

cypherpunk00001

Honestly I almost felt sorry for that last drone with nothing left to for it to hit.

FoggyPeaks

Seems like the airbase gave up once all their strategic bombers started blowing up.

Brendon----

Beautiful.


These planes were the mechanism of so much death &amp; destruction against the civilians in Ukraine... now justly destroyed (and very difficult to replace).

crg2000

What a great video to wake up to. Masterpiece.

stonk_fish

It isn't the fact of hitting them, or hitting them so deep in Russia. It's where they hit them. Hitting them right at the wing root has completely destroyed those aircraft, and they will never fly again.

topgun966

SwimmingPirate9070

Ukraine lost 40 attack drones.  They were struck by Russian strategic bombers.  :-)

RL24

The guys who pulled this off deserve our utmost respect. Heroes of Ukraine.

Due_Professional_894

BlackIceMatters

&gt;no data for 5 seconds

I love the cut from the above to a new drone feed showing planes on fire

tjc103

 🇺🇦 long live the hero’s of Ukraine 🇺🇦 

may she be a beacon of hope and freedom from tyranny for ages to come

SnooSquirrels9440

PeaceJoy4EVER

My justice boner will need emergency medical intervention soon.

Tacitblue1973

The Russians can't blame this on 'falling debris', a 'smoking accident' or even 'careless handling of ordnance'. There's no denying this whatsoever.

WotTheFook

Omg this is just amazing. Like those bombers (4 from what I can tell in this video?) are F@cking DONE. And this is just one of the bases hit, apparently. 
I mean on so many levels this was such a brilliantly conceived and executed and wildly successful operation; the destruction of billions of $ of air assets, which just happen to be irreplaceable, which also happen to be the launch platform for some of the worst terror weapons used against Ukraine's population, the operational and propaganda catastrophe for Russia (as others have pointed out they now will need to check every container coming across their borders)...
Give 'em hell, SBU 🖤🇺🇦

somethingclever1098

OdBx

$7 Billion dollars worth of bombers reduced to scrap by $800K worth of drones ops. 

*edit updated figures.

ntgco

The one ruZZian getting thrown from the third plane was awesome

LawfulnessKooky8490

Legendary carnage. And the cinematography is on point.

No_Good2794

morale


noun


mo·rale mə-ˈral 


: the mental and emotional condition (as of enthusiasm, confidence, or loyalty) of an individual or group with regard to the function or tasks at hand.


🇺🇦💪🇺🇦

Walking72

Holy shit all those losses are irreplaceable, Russia shutdown most of their strategic bomber manufacturing lines decades ago. They can barely build new tu22s in the first place.

KehreAzerith

The old school Americans are still pulling for you here in America. Nicely done.  Hip, hip Hooray for the good guys!!!!!

Adventurous-Way2824

Now they will have to start putting them even farther away, which will mean more fuel more mechanical failure, it's a beautiful death spiral for the enemy.

This is an amazing achievement, but damn.  If I was an American Airforce general today I’d be asking for hardened bunkers for *everything*.  The days of leaving anything parked on the tarmac are over.   If an enemy can destroy a multimillion dollar aircraft with drones launched by a truck *inside my territory*, then truly no airbase is safe.  

This is astonishing, but game changing too.

scottsmith_brownsbur

Perfection ... watched this imagining the Ride of the Valkyries playing as BGM.

falk42

AussieaussieKman

The tires on the wings kill me.. 😂😂😂 like come on Russia. I know Stalin wanted you all to be stupid. But dam 😂

Need_answers11

Zeberde

What are those propeller planes being hit?

SpaceEngineering

phplovesong

This is stuff of a Tom Clancy novel. The ingenuity of the Ukrainians is beyond description... 🇺🇦🌻💪🇺🇦

ImperatorDanorum

You’d think someone, anyone with a AK at least tries to shoot at the drones. Nope. My house is better protected than this.. 

This just goes to show if the UKA wants to, they can absolutely do massive damage to the Russian civilians, they just choose not to (for now) .

YesManSky

shrimpsRbugs

Also the drone is in Vibe mode, that’s the vibe we all love to see!

shkicaz

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Are those tires on top of the one bombers wings? I wonder why?

JustYerAverage

Vlad, i have good news and bad news......

the good news: we destroyed almost 100 ukranian drones.....

the bad news: we have some minor scratches on our airplaines....

koensch57

Endoterrik

DataGeek101

Love that first video where the drone just takes its time....

The Russians were absolutely unaware.

bigkoi

Russians claiming the attacks were "repelled". Successfully repelled by their planes exploding and catching fire. 100% intercept rate!!

Basic_Bid_6488

Barokespinoza23

arc8001

*”Deeper and deeper…”*
— K Budonov, Jan. 2023

Female interviewer at the time: 🤤


“I am here; that is message enough.” — 

Zelenskyy’s reply in Istanbul to Putin’s no-show.

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Feels like its the biggest strike every few days, is this kind of dron warfare even sustainable for a long time?

Confident-Pop-9256

It boggles the mind that Trump actually seemed to think Putin was "a nice guy" because he was being friendly when they talked.

However, it seems that this is actually what happened. They cracked a few jokes and Donnie thought "Yep, all straightened out. Another big win for me. What's on Fox now? Gimme a phone, I wanna call 'em and tell them how nice Vlad was..."

shuzz_de

Why in the fuck did Kegseth delay the weapons to Ukraine.

VladtheInhaler999

This is how war will look like, swarm of autonomous drones mass killing people. West allowed for that by not helping Ukraine in time, for 3 years Russians have been collecting data for AI training and improving drone warfare. 

You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.' - To Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill

lutel

If trump were president this would’ve never happened

dbrettshaw

Trump´s 5th grader's choice of words is always impressive .

PanneKopp

We live in a world, where a butthurt dictator can order swarms of drones to kill people. Humanity is truly failing.

Falkenmond79

mxguy762

Interpol_Qotsa

Hairy_Photograph1384

The headline suggests a causal relationship that may not exist. But if all the suffering and death those drones caused was due to one old man taking offense at something another old man said…

War is such a tragic failure of humanity.

Atchafalaya7

Straight-Message7937

Smok3dSalmon

pdirk

Remember TACO: we are not standing by Ukraine in a dependable way...

FuzzzyRam

I know it will make no difference, but I hope this stops those right-wing drifters like Lex Friedman, Joe Rogan, and their ilk from continuing the propaganda lines that Putin wants peace.





I'm so tired of listening to these soulless idiots.

Forcistus

Imagine the military effect Russia could have had if everything used to directly target civilians had been used against military targets. 

I doubt it would have won them the war but they would be in a better strategic position than they are now.

ScaredPractice4967

TACO is talking shit and the people of Ukraine pay the price.

epic-mentalbreakdown

Maybe if Hegseth would pause weapon shipments without letting anyone know Ukraine could defend itself better?

Chipbeef

Does Putin even know what he’s fighting for at this point. 

Moron-Whisperer

Can he please stop fucking calling or mentioning putin?

funelite

I mean, this is what happens when you have two ego-protecting narcissists, right?

This will just get Trump to feel he's been insulted, and take action, which makes Putin feel he's been threatened, and take action, etc.

CombatRedRover

Putin walking all over Taco with impunity

euclid0472

Hegseth pulls U.S. weapons shipment right before record Russian drone strike. Surely mere coincidence.

BiologyJ

They’re trying to exhaust Ukrainian air defense. And if they can keep up these numbers of drones they will eventually succeed. You need *something* to shoot them down.

Altruistic-Goat4895

It’s time to pick a side TACO and stick with it like America should.

Adventurous_Light_85

Trump said he threatened Putin that he would bomb Moscow,so expect another record drone strike tomorrow

Case1987

And for the record Ukraine did an excellent job deterring this attack:

* 7 of 7 cruise missiles were shot down
* 711 of 728 UAVs/drones were shot down or downed by electronic jamming
* 6 Kinzhal ballistic missiles were used by Russia.  I have not yet found definitive reports on whether any were shot down or not.  From reports it does sound like at least some of them had clean strikes.

4 Ukraine locations took strikes from the drones and missiles that got through.  As well several locations experienced damage due to debris from downed drones:  as many understand some drones hit by defensive fire don't "magically" explode in the air but rather fall to the ground and still explode, just not on the intended target.

This is a great effort by Ukraine defensive teams and those teams and Ukraine should be proud of their success in blocking approx. 96% of the attack.

lifeisahighway2023

And they say women can't run the world because we're too emo???? 

SnooCapers7373

The EU need to step up. Only like 7 out of 300 Russian banks have been banned from swift, last time I heard. 

Separate-Pace-9833

chigaiantraicay

This whole war is starting to feel like a tempertantrum between Trump and Putin with Ukraine caught in the middle

ShyguyFlyguy

For some reason this reminds me of the scene where Pam tells to stop dating her mother and Michael says he's just gonna date her harder

undefined_______

It would've been the same amount if he did not "call him out". It will increase even further.

nonzero_

Putin has probably set some insane goal like producing a million drones per month

Street-Marionberry82


Is the Guinness World Record committee paying attention? Seems like this gets one-upped on a regular basis now.

sanguinare12

Dumb question but are these off-the-shelf drones like DJI or are they military commissioned?

MaximumFloofAudio

Even if Trump does somehow come to the permanent conclusion that Putin is a bad actor and a threat to global stability, the fact is he's surrounded himself with an administration that is heavily pro-Russian, some of whom are more than likely actual Russian assets.

Sea_Appointment8408

Putin is testing how far he can push Trump. I think he could even be hoping he'll do something stupid and "Trump-like" such as bomb Russia directly in a show of force. 

That would be all the excuse he'd need for NATO "aggression" and he'd make the case to his people/allies that they're on the right course with the invasion and it has to be completed to ensure safety.

eelam_garek

If someone serves you and you serve back, it's ON!

masterstoker

Yeah, maybe Trump should just keep his unusually orange fake tanned nose out of it, and things might actually move forward.
Also, ironic that trump thinks putin is two faced and unpredictable.

mr_cf

How many drones does Russia have for every few days to be the largest drone attack of the war?

TheTimeLord725

pepepeoeoepepepe

coconutfun

&gt; "He's very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless," Trump said of Putin

It only took him several years to realize that..

Crowbarmagic

Ah right right right Mr Trump “peaceful” president, Mr “end the war 24 hours after being ELECTED”.

Remarkable_Prior_224

1lolo94

Wait though, wasn’t Trump gonna end the war in 1 day? What happened???

CWoww

I thought Mr. taco orange face was gonna stop the war in the first day. He was elected.   If people can’t see, he’s nothing but a crooked crook there is no hope for you.

Party-Birthday7328

We have Dictatorship in the United States and Congressional Republicans are the main Gestapoes

Sea-Wish-4091

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