Largest Drone Attacks In The War

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Would you have ever thought that Russia would be buying weapons from Iran rather than vice-versa? Can't you imagine school children assembling these things at lunchtime?
From Reuters

Russia and Ukraine have carried out their largest drone attacks against each other since the start of the war.
Russia's defence ministry said it intercepted 84 Ukrainian drones over six regions, including some approaching Moscow, which forced flights to be diverted from three of the capital's major airports.
Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 145 drones towards every part of the country on Saturday night, with most shot down.
The barrages come amid expectations that US president-elect Donald Trump may put pressure on both sides to end the conflict.


Ukraine's attempted strike on Moscow was also its biggest attack on the capital since the war began, and was described as "massive" by the region's governor.

Most of the drones were downed in the Ramenskoye, Kolomna and Domodedovo districts, officials said.
In Ramenskoye, south-west of Moscow, five people were injured and four houses caught fire due to falling debris, the Russian Ministry of Defense said. It added that 34 drones had been shot down over the town.
In September, a woman was killed in a drone attack that hit Ramenskoye. In May last year, two drones were destroyed near the Kremlin in central Moscow and there were several drone attacks on the Moscow City business district.
In Ukraine, at least two people were injured after a drone hit the Odesa region. Images showed flames rising from some buildings, as well as aftermath damage.
The Ukrainian air force said 62 of Russia's Iranian-made drones were shot down, while 67 were "lost". A further 10 left Ukraine's airspace heading back towards Russia, as well as neighbouring Belarus and Moldova, it added.
The drone barrages comes as Russian troops reportedly made their largest territorial gains in October since March 2022, according to analysis of Institute for the Study of War data by the AFP news agency.
However, Sir Tony Radakin, the UK's army chief, told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that Russia had suffered its worst month for casualties since the start of the war.
Russian forces suffered an average of about 1,500 dead and injured "every single day" in October, he said.

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I recall reading of a USAF O-1 pilot in Vietnam who took empty peanut butter jars, put a grenade in them, and then when over a target he would open the jar, pull the pin on the grenade, and then drop it out the window. When it hit, the jar broke, the spoon flew off the grenade, and it exploded. He even had a special vest made with loops on it so he could carry the jar grenades more easily.

The USAF had a system in the 1980's that featured drones powered by small gasoline engines and that would be launched to go seek out "Something." They never said what it was the drones were looking for but one educated guess was that they were homing in on Soviet SAM site data links. Too bad they did not put those things in storage.
 
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