I saw this exact video the day of the attack, why is this article phrased as if it was released just now?
Giving The Guardian the benefit of the doubt: because they took time to verify its authenticity before reporting on it.
More likely reason: urgency and BREAKING NEWS gets more clicks.
That’s so badass. As an FPV hobbyist this is like a fantasy. I’m curious though, why do they all say failsafe, yet they’re seemingly still in control of most of them. I see there’s no GPS lock. Maybe it calls failsafe when no GPS but doesn’t trigger the drone to shut down.
Anyone know what the tires are about?
An attempt at optical camouflage.
Seriously? Paint probably would have been easier.
You didn’t read the link.
Right? That’s still pretty clearly the outline of a plane.
cope tires, aka anti drone high-technology, there are other overhead pics of planes fully covered, which might help but from most of these shots they clearly were running low on tires and just looks really odd.
Thanks for the info.
The video from the article: https://youtu.be/aukyzgAGHM4
So how are them tires working for ya? 😏
That was really satisfying to watch
I suppose all the planes where fully tanked up and ready to fly in order to be so flammable. I wonder if the damages would be so bad if a plan would be empty of fuel ?
Also, why do they put tires on top ?
Were they even operatable flight-ready aircraft?..
There is a video, with close up, of a loaded 101 cruise missile under the wing, those motherfuckers were loaded up and ready to go in the Zeus lightning operation, putin wanted it to be the biggest air attack in the war just before the “peace negotiations”. That didn’t pan out as expected lol.
The exceptions are the two AWACS who seems to be kept for cannibalism (to keep the two-three flying ones with pieces they can no longer produce).
If they weren’t then they wouldn’t be full of fuel. Also, russia has been using these to launch cruise missiles at Ukraine.
Edit: upon further viewing of the footage, some of the bombers even have missiles mounted to hard points on their wings when the drones hit them.
Yes, they got deployed a lot over the last years
