The War in the Ukraine

tankphobia

tankphobia

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plawolf said:
Clear propaganda misrepresenting reality.

It wasn’t a recon or suicide drone, just someone with more balls than brains deciding to T-bag the AWACS once they unexpectedly managed to get into the airfield with the drone.

Still a massive fuck up by the Russians and Belarusians, but it’s stupid and pointless for Ukraine to be making up BS claims. And no, it’s not going to be a simple matter for Ukraine to replicate this breach. Getting men and materials (explosives) deep into another country and close to a sensitive military site is entirely different to a bored local deciding to do something stupid all by themselves with a ‘toy’ you can easily buy from shops or over the internet.
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Doesn't really require much to strap a makeshift explosive on a fpv drone, as we've seen many times even in this very thread already. With this kind of access even starting a lipo fire in the engine/air-intake could ground the aircraft. The bigger question is if the Russians knew about it before the west started plastering it all over the news.
 
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Atomicfrog

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MortyandRick said:
That's from a DJI FPV drone. I recognize that type of image. It's pretty small and very fast, but can't carry much weight due to its size.
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I know but still... they had no protection for a rare and important air asset in a war situation. After that it's sure that they will try it again with another drone. On an aircrft, you don't need a lot of explosive and frag to make it inoperable for quite a long time. The A-50 leaving is propably the sign that they don't want that to happen.
 
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SlothmanAllen

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Atomicfrog said:
They are lucky that they didn't lost it... They have landed a recon drone on the dish bloody hell !

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1631300246507487239
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Man, that's wild! Even a grenade on the radome could have done serious damage. Same goes for engines or cockpit area. Just look at how tanks are able to be damaged with such devices. I imagine that radome is very sensitive, so any type of explosive would leave it inoperable.
 
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tankphobia said:
Doesn't really require much to strap a makeshift explosive on a fpv drone, as we've seen many times even in this very thread already. With this kind of access even starting a lipo fire in the engine/air-intake could ground the aircraft. The bigger question is if the Russians knew about it before the west started plastering it all over the news.
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They did move the AWAC out of Belarus, so yes.
 
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Stealthflanker

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So why the DJI drone used to "poke" the A-50 not take chance to carry explosive ? or just lodge itself to inlet or APU exhaust in the first place ?
 
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Tam

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tankphobia said:
Doesn't really require much to strap a makeshift explosive on a fpv drone, as we've seen many times even in this very thread already. With this kind of access even starting a lipo fire in the engine/air-intake could ground the aircraft. The bigger question is if the Russians knew about it before the west started plastering it all over the news.
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Actually a lot of these makeshift things fail to explode for various reasons. It's the nature of being makeshift. What you see in videos are the drones terminating their flight but there's no real indication that the ordnance exploded.
 
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