Ukraine Packed A Cessna-Style Plane With Explosives, Added Remote Controls And Kamikaze’d It Into A Russian Drone Factory 600 Miles Away
Ukraine Packed A Cessna-Style Plane With Explosives, Added Remote Controls And Kamikaze’d It Into A Russian Drone Factory 600 Miles Away
Okay, yeah, respect where it's due, the field expedient cruise missile does work.
How much does a tomahawk missile cost? I think cessnas run like 200k or 400k
Tomahawks tend to fly a bit faster and have a more focused payload.
Doing a Flying Timothy McVeigh certainly creates a large explosion. I have to question whether this strike had a meaningful impact on drone production, any more than McVeigh's strike had a meaningful impact on the FBI's ability to operate in the US Southwest. A ballistic missile would have had the same penetration and done far more damage.
I'm sure this won't prompt another massive wave of missile strikes all over Ukraine in retaliation
This feels like reading about a boxing match, in which every hit by Thomas Hearns is covered breathlessly, while a blizzard of blows by Sugar Ray Leonard go utterly unremarked upon.
Can I just go on record as to say that your username is 10/10 in my book?
Literally the plot of multiple PKD books. Usually with humanity staying below ground; safe from a non-existant war.
PKD? Ah... Phillip K Dick.
There's also the "sci-fi war porn" series, BOLO started by Keith Laumer.
Also in multiple Orson Scott Card books if I remember correctly, something about wars being fought by drones in space by the time of the initial alien invasion in the prequel books that were written (I know he sucks yadda yadda I loved his books as a kid)
tbf it's been a trope in sci-fi since the 80s and possibly earlier.
China wins. Their production capacity is unmatched.
Plan A: The Americans sell us and subsidize a fleet of F-16s, fully equipped with state of the art target-lock AMRAAMS.
Plan B: Charlie’s dad works a lot and probably won’t notice his weekender is missing for quite a while. Load her up, boys!
Is a Cessna full of dynamite a technical?
It depends on which alignment chart you're following. Some of the more unhinged technical enthusiasts consider any weaponized vehicle a technical, which I guess would make 9/11 a technical inside job. For the purists
, a technical is limited solely to light pickup trucks fitted with a heavy gun in the flatbed. If you want to get technical about technicals, I think limiting it solely to ground vehicles is technically the correct technical definition. Technical.Technical.
I think it's more of an aerial vbied
Let me pose a more compelling question
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Shit, we should tell them there's Russians working at Raytheon.
cool terrorists take notes, it's kind of amazing that worked & wasn't intercepted
In fairness cessnas have a...reputation for effectively penetrating Russian airspace.
Bit idea: modern day equivalent of Japan's Kamikaze unity staffed entirely by dentists and lawyers.
Dentists are kinda ok, even if everyone hate them, we should just forbade any private practice for them. And dentist gulags, they come out after getting 100 patients vouching for them.
no these are v rockets
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Putin harden your heart and increase your attacks
Or don't. Cessnas are reasonably easy to target and shoot down, from a missile defense perspective. If this is all the Ukrainians have left, just buy some Iron Dome tech from Israel and maybe take a unilateral step towards ending this nightmare.
I thought Israel was now actively favoring and aiding Ukraine
But this kind of thing does push Russia towards the end goal of dismantling Ukraine as a sovereign state rather than simply taking the Donbas Republics and drawing the line there. As long as a sovereign Ukraine exists, it will be a hotbed for this kind of pseudo terrorist attack.
Honestly kind of impressed slash glad that they picked a military target and didn't just 9/11 a random office building.
in 1987, a West German teenager flew a Cessna 172 all the way to Moscow and landed in in Red Square
huh, TIL.
The less support the US gives Ukraine, the more respect I give.
even if it's because of the increased support for isntrael?
None of that's Ukraine's fault.
Funny, but I see Ukraine is at the "what about wolfpacks!? We can collapse their economy and logistics chains!" Stage of denial about military prospects.
The fact of the matter is that it is relatively easy to alter production for resiliency and push your construction sector to rapidly rebuild factories. The one exception to this is ships, and even that doesn't work, as we saw with the Nazi blockade of the UK in 1940.
Honestly more embarrassing that the Mathias Rust fiasco.
This is precisely why the U.S. didn't want them to have long range missiles
So they're going to force an escalation with a small fleet of 9/11'ers instead
civilian planes are now military targets
great job!
Cessna planes were already being extensively used as military reconnaissance planes so this hasn't really changed anything in that regard.