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Old 7th Dec 2022, 07:02
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Beamr
 
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I am a bit puzzled by these recent drone attacks, considering that the Russkies aren't lying about what they found on site

The TU-141 has a cross section next to a F16 (well, not quite, but not that far out either, it is a big mot..., the Soviet missile that crashed to lake Inari in 1984 was much smaller yet lit the radar and the Finnish Air Force made to it)
the Soviet SAM crews trained against these slow, subsonic reconnaissance drones, so they should have no issues in detecting those with their old Soviet era kits
Engel 2 is supposed be one of the best defended AFB's in Russia
The thing flew 600km's across the most dense Russian troop formations.

How on earth did that happen? I've seen the phrase "What air defence doing?" to exhaustion but now I really am wondering that myself.

Furthermore, since the russkies did let that through their network, how on earth would they be able to do anything about the likes of F22/B2/F35 entering their territory in case of escalation by Vlad the Mad?
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