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Those sneaky b******s in Ukraine… If you had asked the world what chance they had against the full might of the mighty Russian military a few years back, I suspect that no one would have given them more than a few months, much less three years. With a boatload of surrogate help, they are proving us really wrong.<\/p>\n
Their latest was a doozy (as Wretched would tell us, a contraction of “It’s a Deusey”, meaning a Deusenberg, a high end inter-war car brand.)<\/p>\n
The undertaking by Ukraine\u2019s Security Service, codenamed \u201cSpiderweb,\u201d involved more than 18 months of painstaking planning and great risk. It was personally overseen by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n
Zelenskyy said 117 drones were used in the operation in which four military airfields were attacked resulting in the severe damage or destruction of 34% of Russia\u2019s fleet of air missile carriers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Seems the Ukrainians smuggled in bunches of FPV drones. (First Person View, guys – do keep up. Yeah, I just learned it too.)\u00a0 They were consolidated in containers, driven to locations near the four major Russian airfields, and the operators cut loose to play.<\/p>\n
Social media footage shared by Russian media on the day of the attack showed drones rising from inside the containers. By the end, over 40 Russian warplanes were severely damaged or destroyed with costs estimated to be around $7 billion, according to Ukraine’s security service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
A third of the Russian air missile carriers? That is some serious damage. Also noteworthy:<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry in a statement confirmed the attacks, saying they damaged aircraft and sparked fires on air bases in the Irkutsk region, as well as the Murmansk region in the north. It said strikes were also repelled in the Amur region in Russia\u2019s Far East and in the western regions of Ivanovo and Ryazan, the ministry said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Go look at a map – Irkutsk is 2,500 miles from Ukraine. A handful of air forces in the world have that kind of range… but using trucks and drones, a relatively small country did that kind of damage that far away. Lesson to be learned there.<\/p>\n
\nStrategic aircraft, including the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22M, were destroyed in the attack, according to the SBU.<\/p>\n
Moscow has previously used Tu-95 (pictured above – ed.) and Tu-22M long-range bombers to launch missiles at Ukraine, while A-50s are used to coordinate targets and detect air defenses and guided missiles. Ukraine has long hoped to degrade Russia\u2019s ability to deploy bombers that launch deadly missile barrages against Ukrainian cities, against which Kyiv has limited means to respond.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Now we get to my favorite part of this… what, to Russia and Putin, must be that rancid cherry on the sh** sundae (earliest mention I see of that phrase was none other than Hondo\u00a0 ‘way back September 11, 2014\u00a0TAH \u00a0<\/a>. Credit where credit is due.) was this last little tidbit.<\/p>\n
The complex operation was directed from an office that was next door to an office of the Russian security service, the FSB, Zelenskyy said, without elaborating on where in Russia it was. AP<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Nice touch. Whether true or not, the FSB is going to be busy chasing its tail for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"