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In a sharp escalation of its drone campaign targeting strategic industries deep inside Russia, Ukraine seems to have fitted Cessna-style light planes with remote controls, packed them with explosives and flown at least one of them more than 600 miles to strike a Russian factory in Yelabuga, 550 miles east of Moscow.

Ironically, the Russian factory produces—you guessed it—drones.

Russians on the ground recorded the shocking scene as the light plane dove onto the sprawling Alabuga Special Economic Zone industrial campus, where workers assemble Iranian-designed Shahed drones that, just like Ukraine’s DIY Cessna-style drone, can range as far 600 miles with an explosive payload.

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 130 points 7 months ago (47 children)

Let’s be honest…. Probably less expensive and just as effective as a tomohawk.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 42 points 7 months ago (34 children)

It shouldn't be, though. The Russian military should have shot it down long before it got to the target.

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago (24 children)

Perhaps? I worry about this tactic being used in the US against targets. For all anyone knows, they’re a plane that just lost communication.

[–] phillycodehound@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

But in that case fighter jets here are usually scrambled and if they don’t see anyone in the cockpit, they shoot the damn thing down

[–] BastingChemina 9 points 7 months ago

They had this eventuality covered !

an inflatable pilot from the movie Airplane!

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bad time for the pilot to be in the bathroom.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't think most Cessnas have bathrooms.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

If you're peeing out the window, you're still in plain view of the intercept fighters.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The openable part of the window on a Cessna is tiny and high up. There’s no way anyone could contort like that plus it’s likely to come back at you.

I can see opening the door, but you’d likely need a copilot: I don’t know if a simple autopilot could handle that configuration

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Probably best to put a camp toilet in the back seat and then just toss the bag out the window then.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Plus then they’d have the opportunity to pee bomb various parts of Russia! You’d get volunteers lining up, drinking tons of water before the flight

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

And thats when you put down your mask, give hand signals saying radios out, and then veer the plane into the fighter jet and shoot it up with the machine gun!

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