The cost of the damaged or destroyed planes is estimated to be between US$2 and US$7 billion.
They were taken out by 117 drones that cost around $4,000 each, but not launched from Ukrainian territory. It was a cunning plan, that was 18 months in the planning.
The drones were smuggled into Russia in trucks and then placed into mobile wooden kit houses. The trucks went around 4,.000 kms into Russia and then the roofs of the kit houses were remotely retracted, and the drones took off and targeted planes at five different airports.
Slava Ukraini!
UPDATE: Further details are that the truck drivers were not Ukranians but just Russians who had been hired, with no idea what was hidden in the roof of the truck. Can you imagine their surprise when you’re driving along, and suddenly a few dozen drones blast off from your truck!
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders
The drones were smuggled into Russia in trucks and then placed into mobile wooden kit houses. The trucks went around 4,.000 kms into Russia and then the roofs of the kit houses were remotely retracted, and the drones took off and targeted planes at five different airports.
Slava Ukraini!
UPDATE: Further details are that the truck drivers were not Ukranians but just Russians who had been hired, with no idea what was hidden in the roof of the truck. Can you imagine their surprise when you’re driving along, and suddenly a few dozen drones blast off from your truck!
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders
2 comments:
"Can you imagine their surprise when you’re driving along, and suddenly a few dozen drones blast off from your truck!"
Yes, it would be a classic WTF moment.
I wonder what the Trump detractors would be saying now if the European members of NATO had responded to his coercive tactics aimed at getting them to increase their collective spending in aid of Europe’s defence when he first made the suggestion over 6 years ago.
Who knows where this war would be now, if it had even started .
Just think what Ukraine would have been able to do in retaliation to the Putin invasion if those freeloaders had been paying their way .
“ Give us the tools and we will finish the job” - who said that?
The blood of the war dead is just as much on the hands of those who failed in the one thing that could have prevented it all from happening, just as much as it is on Putin’s crooked claws.
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