Multiple Su-34 and Su-24 Destroyed and Damaged at Marinovka Air Base by New Tungsten-Warhead Drone

[@chilbiyito]

Thousands of dollars of drones destroying millions of dollars military equipment

[@Chrishna]

I guess you can call it "return of investment" 😏

[@miguellopez3392]

these weren't by cheap FPV drones.

[@Tr_Fast]

@@miguellopez3392cheap fpvs are hundreds he said thousands

[@miguellopez3392]

@@Tr_Fast again, these weren't FPV drones, these where propeller driven GPS guided drones closer to cruise missiles than FPV drones.

[@GreySphinkter]

@@miguellopez3392 Compared to the cost of the AC destroyed the drones are extremely cheap, can be built much faster and in greater quantity.

[@dixonpinfold2582]

Ukrainian drones have balls of tungsten.

[@tordsteiro9838]

Drones from ebay meets hangars from Temu 🤷😆

[@zms6005]

😂

[@telebubba5527]

I think the hangars are from Wish...

[@PedroFerreira-ze5yp]

hahahaha

[@redbaron6322]

smoke and mirrors....... ummm.... and CGI

[@gulogulo7636]

@@redbaron6322 Weak comrade, you are invited to the tea party on the 7th floor to discus how you can improve.

[@W1se0ldg33zer]

The loyal Commander of the Marinovka airbase tells Putin he significantly lowered his aircraft maintenance budget.

[@VladoK_404]

And their planes have intercepted most of tungsten balls.

[@andrewmcalister3462]

"The Dark Mark on the Su-24. Either it joined the Death Eaters, or it got damaged." 😂😂😂 Outstanding Sucho!

[@Bristolcentaurus]

or the pilot had an accident in his trousers

[@escutus]

Jet brown streaks. It got scared.

[@OffendingTheOffendable]

Soviet shart

[@The_ZeroLine]

The reduction in both sorties flown by the enemy as well as the number of strikes on cities, civilians and fortifications has shown the recent campaign has been hugely successful.

[@iansaxton4283]

Thanks for the calm presentation of facts. I get a bit tired of the click-bait, over the top presentations by some commentators. I think that you and Denis Davydov give the most trustworthy updates.

[@zaphod22]

Reporting From Ukraine is another great channel.

[@Khronogi]

​@@zaphod22those thumbnails are ultra clickbait. It's always "it's over"

[@cubefreak123]

Ukraine Matters is really good as well. Operator Strasky is pretty good but can be a bit sad when he talks about the latest atrocities.

[@michaelr3647]

Prof Gerdes is another calm, rational presenter I can recommend.

[@redbaron6322]

OH? So because he is not manically presenting the propaganda like Denys does; then he must be telling the truth? Ukraine has been caught in so many outright propaganda lies..... ! Live and learn.

[@andreataffurelli3113]

NATO: "You can't use any missile for attack purposes" Ucraine. "Time to go full MacGyver on our drones again!" Seriously, what's the limit of Ucraine ingenuity with those? Will we end up seeing carrier drones that drops smaller ones near the target like a fully fledged sci-fy movie?

[@georgedavidson957]

think ww2 ..... 1939 - biplanes were still a thing. 1945 - jets! a couple more years and the drone swarms will be terrifying

[@JeffBilkins]

There already are reports of mothership drones for signal boosting within Ukraine, so I'd bet someone is working on a carrier.

[@patpierce4854]

I think we can be certain that Amazon has nixed its plans to use drones for Uber Prime deliveries…..🤣

[@fantomas4935]

Carrier has arrived.

[@macmcleod1188]

They already have a baba yaga carrier drone.

[@damianm-nordhorn116]

Boom-shaka-laka! You've been served. Slava Ukraini!

[@shakengandulf]

🇦🇺🇺🇦

[@slavojalois1639]

Slava Ukraini! 🇨🇿 🇺🇦 🇦🇺

[@raymondpisani9637]

What a load of shit , how ce it hadn't been reported on main stream media 😅😅😅😅

[@damianm-nordhorn116]

@@raymondpisani9637 "how ce it hadn't been.." You're making no sense. Call an ambulance! ..you might have a stroke.

[@Geb5626]

@@slavojalois1639 hülye vagy gyerek

[@rickhicks2445]

That's what you get when you build your hangers out of Wheat-a-bix!

[@GARDENER42]

'Failure' & 'russian air defence' have become synonymous.

[@condotiero860]

what the undiluted fuck?! They put a gmlrs in a drone, for range.and precision This is 'stark built this in a cave with a box of scraps' levels of engineering, what the actual fuck!

[@MM22966]

Really terrible wars see some very strange weapons.

[@bobkoroua]

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🔱💙💛

[@sammym.belfastchild]

💛Heroyam Slava💙✌🇺🇦

[@luddite6239]

Back on 31 August 2023 Operativno ZSU released a video showing the demonstration of a drone equipped with an airburst munition similar to the HIMARS tungsten round. The blast and debris field looked very similar to this, and it was revealed that these new drones had been used in the 27 August attack on an airfield in Kursk. So perhaps this latest attack has used a similar warhead on a longer range drone.

[@matchrocket1702]

Natural voice narration is a welcome relief from the AI nonsense.

[@drrichardwiesenhuber]

My grandfathers garden shed seems to have a better protection than those "shelters". Looks like someone got the money for aircraft shelters and built himself a beautiful Dacha at the Black Sea instead.

[@cameronspence4977]

These hangers are just for weather and protection from the elements. The hardened armor shelters are A lot better and obviously look different but apparently Russia doesn't care to build those.

[@MyFiddlePlayer]

Besides protection from the weather, these sheds also provide concealment. A satellite or long-range drone photo will not be able to tell you whether the shed is occupied or not. For this purpose, they are in many ways better than deploying a high-quality decoy.

[@jajabez8379]

I bet your grandad would also be much more alert to incoming threats, and much more effectual in any counter-measures he took. Rule #42 wrt interacting with Brits... never, ever interfere with a man's shed.

[@ronblack7870]

@@cameronspence4977 all able construction workers are at the front. so it's not just a matter of throwing money at it

[@mikep490]

@@MyFiddlePlayer Agreed. The quonset huts hide visibility from overhead satellites, not so much from side-looking satellites. No doubt these were built because the row is less than the cost of a single hardened hangar. 25 years ago hardened hangars were costing the US $4M each plus months to build. I doubt these cost over $100K each, not including bribes. So, aircraft protection on the cheap and quick with pocket money for a new yacht or two.

[@Anderten1989]

Rostov on Drone never gets old 😅

[@pookatim]

I seem to remember that earlier in the war, there was a list of some of the munitions that Ukraine received and among other things were Claymore Mines. I never heard another word about them being used anywhere but they are light enough to be carried by drones and they use thousands of steel pellets.

[@disposabull]

I had thought about that too. A strap on kit for a claymore, with batteries underneath would give you a nice top attack drone that fires steel pellets and burning lithium batteries straight down. It would be "unpleasant".

[@dzcav3]

The ball in the video was much larger than those in a Claymore.

[@jajabez8379]

Presumably you're thinking about small, 'consumer-type' ones used at short ranges < 20km or so?

[@dathat555]

@@jajabez8379 - Consumer Claymores? Where do you shop? 🙂

[@-DM]

They're not sophisticated devices, just c4 and shrapnel.

[@Seasonstobecheerful]

Saw these images on xitter earlier. Nice summary 👌

[@timmommens901]

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🙏🙏🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@roli4040]

This is for you YT censor: our air defense was watertight, our hangars are not anymore. We intercepted everything all drones disintegrated in the air. Sadly thousands of small round debris thingies rained all over the place and caused minor damage

[@friedrichjunzt]

no damage! technical malfunctions!

[@sequoiasemperviren3163]

I see what you did there. Perhaps I should take your lead so my comments won’t be removed by the fascists.

[@georgedavidson957]

tungsten thingies best thingies

[@HunterShows]

Don't be silly. RussTube wouldn't remove a factual comment like that.

[@sequoiasemperviren3163]

@@HunterShows sarcasm duly noted....

[@ElRabito]

Nur eine kompostierte RuSSische Nazisau, ist eine gute Nazisau!

[@iamTheSnark]

Hast recht!

[@davidfell9083]

Das ist gut

[@friedrichjunzt]

Stell dir ein Leben vor, wo das Beste, was du jemals erreicht kannst, ist, ukranischen Boden zu düngen...

[@Nrg23d]

​@@davidfell9083👌

[@ptonpc]

👌

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

yt removed comments again sigh..... just to mention, russia using cheap hangars... in the Netherlands these things are spread out and massive concrete structures

[@crimeinfoja7184]

Russia is cheap they always look the cheap way out

[@christopherrobinson7541]

The thin metal hangers just keep the rain and the sun off the aircraft and afford no protection.

[@Broadsword999]

When those HAS were built in NATO countries they were expecting a visit from Soviet Frontal Aviation en-masse and on a daily basis, if the Soviets were getting visits this deep inside Russia it would likely be by USAF SAC bombers launching SRAM and Cruise missiles or a ICBM of some variety. In the old Warsaw Pact countries there were a lot of Hardened Air Shelters. There aren't many HAS in the continental US either.

[@roli4040]

Same for me. But whenever i mention YT in a comment it comes through haha

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

@@roli4040 lol yes! 🤣

[@anthonywatson7735]

Tungsten warhead drones, now?! What are Ukraine going to come up with next, FGS?!?

[@Nrg23d]

++❤😂

[@rositasultana3958]

I am not familiar with the FGS, can you elaborate on this?

[@Paul-wo3qh]

@@rositasultana3958 For Gods Sake/ For Gosh Sakes would be my guess....

[@anthonywatson7735]

@@Paul-wo3qh yep!

[@anthonywatson7735]

@@rositasultana3958 as @Paul-wo3qh said

[@anatolemombrun9250]

Rostov-on-Drone 😂

[@VladoK_404]

Roston On Fire

[@davidfell9083]

Danke Sucho. Slava Ukraini

[@xavierhucklenbruch1798]

terrible looking shelters,,, not even a sandbag in sight

[@jajabez8379]

And the tyres kept sliding off?

[@neiltitmus9744]

​@@jajabez8379only use ps4 tyres

[@bertoluccib6175]

My guess is that if Ukraine built these warheads themselves then it's unlikely to be containing (surely expensive and hard to source) tungsten balls but standard ball bearings. These are made of hardened steel and will rip holes into aircraft-style aluminium without problems (may not penetrate armoured vehicles but they don't have to)...

[@2xKTfc]

Either that or Ukraine is taking warhead out of Himars missiles (they're doing that with cluster artillery rounds, for example) and strapping them onto drones. But I tend to think that these are homebrew ball bearing warheads. Prefragmented tungsten liners don't make nice round balls.

[@Stationary-Traveller]

Great report, Jack. I did not know the orcs were using colanders to protect their planes 😂

[@jajabez8379]

I wonder if KZbin will let this 4th version of "imagine what will happen if the sort of facility that makes motion lotion meets these" pass?

[@r11tc]

Inflatable paint booths

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

@@jajabez8379 this version stands but no one gets the joke. Damn censorship

[@StillAliveAndKicking_]

Yes, Russia is straining to protect their airplanes.

[@jajabez8379]

@@sjonnieplayfull5859As other KZbin channels can probably explain... 'motion lotion' = petrol/diesel (produced by fractional-distillation of crude petroleum, which is carried out on an industrial scale by a limited number of processing-plants within what is currently called the RF). Does that help? 😉

[@thelittlestmig3394]

That "repair hangar" after 3:00 mark looks a lot like one of those bladder tanks. It has similar pillow shape and it seems to be relatively flat to the ground which would fit. You roll it out like carpet and pump liquid stuff in it.

[@-DM]

You're likely correct because that object doesn't appear to have the shadow you'd expect from a tall structure in the current Google Earth image. In the Airbus image though you can see a similar structure just south that is definitely a temp hanger.

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

@@thelittlestmig3394 wait, arn't bladders used for temporary storage and emergencies? Like, it's the best tank when you have no other tanks left? This was an old airfield, they should not have need for extra fuel, unless they have been hit in the weak spot before...

[@shopshop144]

@@sjonnieplayfull5859 Clean drinking water might be in short supply. Wait, what am I thinking of, its Russia; cheap vodka might be in short supply, stock up when you can.

[@betterdonotanswer]

6:45 Ukraine is using these shrapnel drones for over a year already, so most Muscovite aircraft considered intact on satellite images have been actually turned into the same durchschläge.

[@MarkRider]

We know from past reports that these accidents are usually caused by carelessly discarded cigarettes or electrical faults.

[@Lawrence-lj5jz]

And thousands of little perforations are caused by what? Swarms of angry porcupines? Rabid grannies on steroids with knitting needles? 😅

[@willythemailboy2]

@@Lawrence-lj5jz Acid rain on a metal roof, of course.

[@vixari]

It looks like a plain ball bearing. No need to over-mystify this. Steel ball bearings are more than adequate for the purpose, in most cases. While its availability is virtually endless.

[@tomaswall6935]

Just having a morning poo in Ireland looking at your video 👌

[@rowanhaigh8782]

😂

[@rogeri2468]

Far too much information. 😂

[@crimeinfoja7184]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@asterixdogmatix1073]

Remember to disinfect your phone after!

[@user-McGiver]

@@asterixdogmatix1073

[@oonami]

I love that Luke Skywalker is still fighting the Empire

[@Peter_S_]

I saw one Ukrainian drone being loaded with candy where the candy was a large cylinder covered in rows of triangular pieces of metal which were so regular that they appeared to be recycled from another type of candy. Not the round pellets shown in this video, but shown in the video for personnel and list fortifications.

[@yamaneko-ex8fy]

Slava Ukraini!!!

[@riparianlife97701]

Just making planes take off over and over to avoid drones causes wear and tear and burns fuel. It also increases risk of friendly fire attacks.

[@bigshnitzeljesse]

Steel rain does not splash off aluminum planes

[@philipmetcalfe4736]

Suchomimus.....Really good to hear you ..."drone on about"...drones taking out planes, ammo dumps and re-fuling ...supplies warehouse

[@Swish-x7b]

Einstein said it’s still possible to travel back in time!…. Just visit Russia 🇷🇺

[@longtabsigo]

00:40; bottom left hand corner. I actually COL’d when I read “Proof that the RuAF does have Hangers, who knew” *Chuckled(or Chortles) Out Loud

[@bradenhagen7977]

Well thats embarrassing.

[@PedroFerreira-ze5yp]

as usual

[@JohnDoe-jd7oc]

Good Morning. Tks. Cda.

[@FatFrankie42]

🇺🇦🌻Слава Україні!!🌻🇺🇦 🌻🇺🇦Героям слава!!🇺🇦🌻 ✊️💞🇺🇲 ~ North Carolina, USA

[@Itsjustme-Justme]

They were working on increasing the capacity of the air base. The hangars are brand new, not more than a few months old. No corrosion, no dirt. There are several brand new revetments in the northern part of the air base. What a waste of money. The dark mark on the towed Su-24 probably is a tarp covering the cockpit section. Russians rarely use tarps, so probably there is damage underneath. A GMLRS-style tungsten ball warhead installed in drones is a game changer. It multiplies the damage to unarmored and lightly armored targets and it guarantees some level of damage even when the target didn't get a direct hit.

[@jillheckenburg]

Who posted the photo's from the ground of the damage ? It's as though there is no security at the base.

[@AussieVet]

That won't buff out............

[@handlaidtracksand3dprinted922]

When 18 year old conscripts are your most experienced veteran troops...

[@unaccessibIe]

those 18 year old conscripts managed to capture 2 of the most fortified cities in ukraine, bakhmut and avdiivka😂

[@Khronogi]

​@@unaccessibIethat was wagner and all of russias prisoners used for assault waves.

[@jajabez8379]

@@unaccessibIe Check your script... the Czar of all the Bunkers is on record promising that no-one doing their year of 'compulsory military service' would ever be put into the zone(s) of his 'Special Military Operation'... such a pity that Ukraine has unilaterally expanded them.

[@300ShadesofGreen]

We have been shouting about tungsten balls in drones and Ukraine has delivered. It makes me wonder about some of the apparent "intercepted" drone footage I have seen recently and wonder if they weren't intercepted, but actually detonating above the target, just like Mr Himars.

[@EdwinEEdeki]

Cool

[@DarkestAlice]

Thank you, Suchomimus, for your excellent analysis. Very much appreciated. Thanks also for the mention of the robot fundraiser. 🇺🇦 Перемоги та миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦

[@danielmiller3781]

Jagga Jagga

[@Peter_S_]

Вдалих бадабумів! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

burning outside as well, so air defence taken put as well?

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

I recall you speaking about these drones or their prototypes well over a year ago. It was roughly the same time that Ukraine was being given the cardboard drones by Australia.

[@jf7243]

Oh Sucho breaks the news of AFU new tungsten drone weapon. Brilliant!

[@sqeeye3102]

Why are we assuming that these are tungsten instead of the much more obvious steel ball bearings?

[@punicwars2]

no idea... makes more sense that its steel bearings. cheep as fuck easy to get and over kill for aluminum frame of a plane, so i think u are correct.

[@xaviermontagutelli]

I had the same idea. Such common thing these balls bearings, to make things more spicy

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

@@sqeeye3102 because we are assuming those steel hangars were at least strong enough to protect against regular shrapnell

[@MattHudsonAtx]

Tungsten is harder

[@PraetorUA]

@@MattHudsonAtx Tungsten balls used in Himars are also much smaller, partly due to the cost, partly because it's not necessary. I think these are steel bearings.

[@GHOSTSTALKER90]

Why do they still park them so close together lol

[@virtual2152]

"We are fortunate the enemy is so effing stupid"

[@helgeschneider9069]

maybe they have not more space...the base was full of airlanes

[@DavidOfWhitehills]

They want it to be over. They WANT to lose.

[@TheNefastor]

They drank their own kool-aid. They sincerely believe their own prop, and therefore in their eyes Ukraine is weak and incapable of such strikes.

[@Lawrence-lj5jz]

Good question and one that brings others. We know that the base was servicing two types of aircraft when originally servicing just one. So, were the extra planes brought back to this airport because it was considered safer? Do the Russians only fortify bases they consider vulnerable - ones closer to the border?

[@paulyoung4422]

Marinovka Air Show, cancelled till further notice.

[@RZ-ey9jk]

If only the strikes could be that fast that Russia wouldn't always be able to evacuate the site...

[@joelturley4847]

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

Kaboom?

[@VladoK_404]

Went na chuj..

[@Avo7bProject]

Jagga Jagga!

[@shawnr771]

Thank you for the update. The ball bearings look to be about the same size as the ones from a Claymore landmine. Tungsten alhough very hard is also very expensive. Regular ball bearings made of lower cost steel will also work.

[@c.a.saunders2819]

Greetings Suchomimus, well I'm a tad late to the party but nonetheless finally arrived to your tremendous report here. Very impressive on many fronts. Firstly a surely target rich environment at this base seemingly loaded with aircrafts. Secondly, the discovery of the steel rain drone ordinance from those wily Ukrainian Drone Fabricators. Impressive, resourceful, and determined. I'd have to chalk this one as an absolute successful visit by the Ukrainian Armed Forces here. In reviewing these images I can't help it think that more visits are in the offing. Interesting news and report, busy day for the both of us, so I'm playing catch up. Thanks again for your work, and continued support of Ukrainian freedom, justice, and sovereignty. 🇺🇲🇺🇦 Glory to God, Victory for Ukraine, Rise Free Nations!

[@josephd.5524]

While I'm not a guy building the drones, I don't think these would be tungsten warheads- hardened steel ball bearings are much easier to come by, will still do a lot of damage to aircraft, and they weigh 1/3 as much as tungsten. With drones, weight matters so tripling the payload mass for the same area of effect isn't really efficient. though again; I'm not the guy building the drones, and i certainly ain't good buddies with the guys supplying the HIMARS warheads who might just happen to have spare pallets of pellets lying about.

[@josephblomeister3040]

👍👍👍 🇺🇦

[@CarLos-yi7ne]

Well, first there where no hangars at all. These are cheap and easy to build and give protection against the weather AND it obscures the aircraft: you can't see IF there is an aircraft in it from above. And even gives some protection against "normal" drone attacks. Of course it doesn't give protection against these kind of attacks obviously.

[@toonverberg1313]

Thaks for keeping an eye on what's playing in the east, Sucho!

[@brucequam7416]

2 years of war, and no apparent effort to build hardened aircraft shelters.

[@VladoK_404]

The effort is, money is, results none. Welcome to Russia.

[@hardtackbeans9790]

That money went to build an underground bunker for putin's escape jet should he happen to need to fly to Cuba suddenly. The russian population can rest assured their taxes are well spent.

[@richardschipper5989]

no complaints from me

[@jajabez8379]

The greater mystery for me is why, even whilst they were still part of the USSR they never thought that even tin-shack constructions that would just keep the rain/snow off and hide their stuff from satellites were worth investing in. Especially wrt their massive inherited stocks of Soviet tanks, artillery etc... which Western intelligence services have been watching rusting away in the open for decades. 🙄

[@carlrhoads8561]

Ty

[@janwitts2688]

Half a squadron destroyed.. parts stocks.. disruption.. a palpable hit..

[@alanmcmillan6969]

Thank you! .

[@DJSockmonkeyMusic]

Good stuff. Well done Ukraine! Slava Ukraini, Heroyiam Slava 🇺🇦🇦🇺

[@MrSonofsonof]

I remember seeing a videos of a Ukrainian tungsten warhead UAV under development ages ago, although I can't find it now. I'm looking forward videos of the Ukrainian clone of the Lancet that they are manufacturing in the Czech Republic.

[@htlmlphpcr6028]

Thank You

[@markhenderson5075]

Who is the most feared soldier in the world? A Ukrainian armed with a roll of duct tape and bailing wire!!!

[@spormoof423]

Major W

[@JohnDorian-j7x]

That's not a "pellet", lol, that's a whole ass steel ball bearing.

[@thePronto]

Su-34 Pilot: "Sergeant, on my pre-flight inspection of this aircraft, I note 134 small white metal patches on the airframe. However, there is no mention of any repairs on the paperwork." Sergeant: "Tovarishch Captain, the Colonel says that this aircraft is fully serviceable, and that I am to call him with the name of any pilot that refuses to accept it." Su-34 pilot: ...!

[@randlerobbertson8792]

Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

[@WayneTheSeine]

Note that the picture of the shredded hanger also has a large pool of fuel or oil that has apparently flowed from a damaged aircraft. Putin, "Get the designer of the hangers here now.....bring him to the 10th floor."

[@kimmogensen4888]

Denmark has given enormous amounts of weapons especially compared to our population, but we have also given, I don’t know if they are all sent or used, but close to a billion dollars in building up a powerful Ukrainian arms industrial complex both to win the war and to deter Russia in the future from attacking a powerful Ukrainian military, and that’s seems to be a very good idea, those are bad as weapons 💪 and if something’s are not good as fast as hoped and promised, it’s not because of lack of will or money, it’s because of problems with supply and demand in weapons, and you need permission from the the country you bye it from to send the weapons, and some weapons have not a lot of specialists left who knows how to make them ready, especially the Leopard 1 had a lot of problems but few who new to fixed them, it takes time training new people and you are not likely to get 70-80 year old German men on pension to come back, but they got help from Danish specialists and most have been sent now, the F-16, first the USA yes, then training pilots and ground support, it takes in Denmark 8 years to become a f-16 pilots, the F-16 are the second highest level of technology for the F-16 and they should be superior to any aircraft Russia has with a veteran danish pilot and best weapons on the wings, how long it will take Ukraine to master it I don’t know but in the Libyan war, the Danish F-16 was the most effective aircraft of all types in the war from every country, the pilots was the best we had, so because we used so much resources on training them they where probably among the best so it’s hard to say if the F-16 or the pilots was the biggest factor, many countries are not good at giving pilots enough hours a year of training and some are not even giving much of a pilot training to begin with, Russia was very bad at this don’t know if the war has worsening or lessened the problem in the Russian Air Force

[@joansparky4439]

dude.. punctuation, please.

[@photovincent]

Keep parking in rows, guys

[@d.l.d.l.8140]

🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦. ✌🏼

[@JeffOwen-h2b]

The burn marks where the aircraft are parked on the apron will be from the auxiliary power unit starter motors, they are small jet engines that develop air used for starting the main aircraft engine, their exhaust points downwards, they only run for about 45 seconds until the main engine is turning fast enough to get it running

[@chriswalford9228]

Those Ukranians have some balls

[@techeteri]

Muah! WHAT???

[@duncancremin1708]

What I find incredible about all of this is, over 2.5 years on, they still have not recalibrated their air defence systems to work with small, slow moving targets. They seem quite capable, against jets and helicopters, but that’s actually a disadvantage, in this war. S300/S400 systems are apparently much more likely to choose an SU34, with obvious russian markings than a Ukrainian drone, given the option. Why can they not fix that, I wonder? At this rate they’ll have nothing left to defend, before they develop effective defence systems. I know they’re slow and inefficient, but are they really this bad? Or is there chicanery afoot?

[@DrakeN-ow1im]

In systems hollowed out, or never actually filled, by routine corruption and false propaganda, there is little chance that they will function as claimed. It also appears that their military command stuctures have been built on nepotism and cronyism in lieu of merit and competence. Ukraine is still sorting out problems of a similar kind left over from the Soviet era as well as having a few rats in their own senior ranks and political/bureaucratic establishments. Similar situations exist everywhere and the debilitating effects of them is very hard to quantify.

[@T.efpunkt]

The sanctions seem to work.

[@Lawrence-lj5jz]

There was a time when the largest mathematics department in the world was Moscow University. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Putin, the Russian education system has collapsed. ( Kelptocratic regimes find it inconvenient to have a population that is capable of keeping track of things, orthinking for themselves.) Also, the problem may be more subtle than you think. Drones are going to be flying in slowly at tree top level, and you don't want your expensive AA missiles being fired automatically at migrating geese.

[@DrakeN-ow1im]

@@Lawrence-lj5jz What about migrating pelicans at Flight Level 290 ?

[@Lawrence-lj5jz]

@@DrakeN-ow1im Not an expert on European Ornithology. Same concept.

[@MrMasterSpam]

Note in the overhead view, the back walls were blown down and also can be seen completely through in the from ground shots

[@CaptainBrawnson]

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[@olgajoachimosmundsen4647]

"Everything going according to plan"

[@mkaustralia7136]

Great analysis

[@garyjones9023]

The new "Tungsten Debris" appears to be highly effective, despite all the drones being "intercepted". :D

[@kralikkral5560]

So let us all now imagine the Ukraine would have gotten 250-300 Tomahawk cruise missiles. The Russian Airforce would not exist anymore meanwhile and Russia would have to end the war, as without Airforce war does not make sense.

[@chrisb7198]

Slava Ukraine!!!

[@hctim96]

Pachinko balls!!!

[@sichere]

Storm Shadow or Scalp with drones

[@N17C1]

Other channels are reporting that the separate building that was destroyed was the maintenance facility

[@GerManBearPig]

The red marked box around 5:23 is most likely a aircraft decoy painted on the ground

[@janickpauwels3792]

Uhm yes, that's exactly what he already says in the video.

[@ColinLennard]

Thanks for going to all this effort to explain the process. Is there any chance that you could use arrows to point out what & where you are discussing.