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'Russian bombers are burning en masse' — Ukraine's SBU drones hit 'more than 40' aircraft in mass attack, source claims

kyivindependent.com 'Russian bombers are burning en masse' — Ukraine's SBU drones hit 'more than 40' aircraft in mass attack, source says

"Currently, more than 40 aircraft are known to have been hit, including the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3," a source told the Kyiv Independent.

An operation by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) has hit "more than 40" Russian bombers at air bases "in the rear of the Russian Federation," a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent on June 1.

"Enemy strategic bombers are burning en masse in Russia — this is the result of a special operation by the SBU," the source said.

Video provided by the source shows what appears to be a row of heavy bomber aircraft on fire at an undisclosed location.

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Camera drone just casually videoing after the bombings? Whoever was sleeping during drone jamming duty is not getting desert rations.
- I read elsewhere that these were autonomous drones. It likely wouldn’t be terribly difficult to program a drone to fly to a specific location, look for something shaped like an aircraft, then fly into it.
  You could also program one or two drones to fly to a specific location, record video for 5-10 minutes, then fly to a different landing zone where one person is waiting to recover the video.
  
  The article said they’re FPV so I’m not sure how autonomous they were. Got another link?
  
  Fpv implies someone watching the feed to control the drone in real time
- It probably would make sense to jam drones around these bases, but I think that Russians simply didn't believe there would be any enemy drones 6000 km away from Ukraine.
  
  Apparently these drones didn't use drone RFs they were using cell towers to fly.
  
  russia is so fucking big, it's really weird that someone would think: "i want more!!! and i'm willing to destroy everything and everyone for it" 🤷🏼‍♂️
  
  Not just big, it has plenty of towns and villages abandoned, which weren't abandoned for centuries before. There are growing populations of brown bears and various fish and what not in Tver oblast, or so I've heard.
  What Russia definitely doesn't need is more territory, but, obviously, territory is not all Ukraine has, it also has people, and I think Russia's leadership was after more slaves.
  
  fertile land, warm water ports, aerospace expertise..
  
  Their entire history, beginning from Duchy of Moscow, is being told as "that neighbouring tribe was threatening us, so we had to take some action", and that just happens over and over again until they reached Pacific ocean.
  They had 3 wars with Chukcha people alone - and these people live in a region that would be best described as "frozen ass beyond polar cap". You'd think that people from swamps around Moscow would have no business occupying some frozen ass, but they didn't think so.
  
  Problem is that they were not always wrong. Napoleon and Hitler are the most recent examples, but in history there are dozens more. Their western front was just too accessible in pre-modern times, impossible to defend 100%.
- I got from another article that they used the Russian communication network that is used for phones.
- Haven't they been using fiber optic drones to avoid jamming?
  
  They have, but this does not look like a fiber optic scenario.
  Guesses: either:
  autonomous navigation by terrain and compass (assuming that satnav systems are denied), or
  one swarm member using a ridiculously good (satellite?) radio to supply other swarm members with guidance from Ukraine, or
  guidance via Russian mobile phone networks.
  
  Yeah, but you need to be pretty close to do that as you’re physically tethered to it. And I would like to think it’d be risky to deploy and use in this case - but could be wrong.
  
  Not this far from the front lines. This was in the Russian rear.

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