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Sep 15

🛸🇺🇦Russia's new drones (Geran-5) are changing the air war - FT What Western media say about Geran drones Strikes on logistics hubs, rail junctions and border crossings have done something that earlier waves of attacks failed to do: they rattled Kiev and its Western backers at the same time. The panic is audible in the reporting itself, where the tone has shifted from confidence in Ukrainian ingenuity to open admissions that the defence has been outpaced. The Financial Times set the frame: the new Gerans fly at speeds and altitudes that have effectively blurred the line between a drone and a cruise missile, and that has changed the air war. The same paper put a number on the consequence, quoting Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yurii Ihnat: "The effectiveness of our air defense against jet drones is around 60 percent, whereas for other types it is 90 to 95 percent." The Wall Street Journal drew the industrial conclusion, quoting Kateryna Bondar of CSIS: "The West tends to underestimate Russia, yet it should be learning from its ability to close the loop from concept to serial production." Then came Reuters with the part nobody in Kiev wanted printed. At July trials of a new generation of Ukrainian interceptors, many of the aircraft lost control at speeds above 400 km/h, and some simply crashed into fields and forest. The programme that was supposed to be the answer to the Geran-5 failed its own demonstration. Maksym Zhorin, deputy commander of Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps, wrote it plainly on September 12: "We have once again completely lost the initiative with jet-powered drones, and we don't even know what to do about them." The arithmetic is unforgiving. Interceptor drones remain unready, Western air-defence missiles are in short supply, and jet Geran output keeps climbing. A defence that stops six of every ten incoming aircraft leaves the rest to choose their targets. With autumn arriving and the interceptor gap still open, the energy grid is the obvious next address. #Russia #Ukraine #UAV #AirDefense 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

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Skylar Joydever 🇨🇦
These articles, even though they finally are admitting reality, are just insulting to read. "Kremlin military is also capable of innovation"... you can hear the scorn in those words they typed out.
Caiselin Chu
"Also capable" lol.. these goobers literally think they are above everyone, nothing new though, keep underestimating your adversaries, cause it's usually so smart.
Leah Gunn
No way the ukies intercept 60% - more like zilch
Влад Булаев
These clowns live in their own warped reality and all the zombies that follow them.
Boudica
The west's centuries old : 'Kill, Steel, Enslave' model of controlling the planet has been ended. The human race would just like to thank Russia for ending this cycle of greed and death, and for switching Human Evolutionary Development back on, after long centuries of slavery, social stagnation and intellectual sopor.
M K
60% , yeah right
Zio Max
Sei su dieci intercettati? In sogno.
Huiwxdbx
Breaking news: water is wet 😂
Haschkeo
Geran-5 is not a drone – it’s a cruise missile! "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck"
Daniel Garduño
Nice 🤩
Kristijan Coric
Chihuahuas are melting
Ellis Aluyi
Very well said
Vince Remo Vero
Ok!
Håkan Olsson
I strongly doubt they take down 60%. And not 90-95% of the other Gerans either. They always report this, but then there are so many hits... How is that possible when almost all are shot down... 🤡🤣 Maybe the truth is as bad as with the Patriot that hits like 3-6% of their targets..
Tom McGill
Don’t be so hard on the Ukrainians trying to figure out how to stop the Geran-5s. Ukraine STILL can’t defend against the 9,000 FAB UMPK glide-bombs dropped in August, and they’ve had years to work on solutions.
Jock
I am part of the west. I just want to shake hands with the Russians and go on living without fear. They have never done anything to us. The ones I met were nice decent people. Just normal people. A group of vicious, ruthless soulless monsters have clawed themselves into leadership positions in "the west". It has become a horror show. One man and a tiny group of shadows behind him and all of us are threatened. Fuck that. It has to stop.