Lessons from the drone attack on Russia’s airbases - analysis

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Failed attack after a year of planning.
Only 2 bombers were heavily damaged and 2 slightly damaged.

41 totally destroyed. Confirmed. You Russian stooge.

 

[scruffy]

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Indeed, 3.5'' 12 gauge puts a lot of wear on your shoulder.

My wife almost blew her shoulder out with a 3.5" load.

Meanwhile Mossberg 500 is more economical and does the job just as well...

I still like my shorty. It's basically a glorified Mossberg Maverick 88, takes a 3" (or 2.75). Mine is an AOW under the law, I bought it in Vegas for 200 bucks and a $5 tax stamp.

Even shooting shotguns today is getting expensive.

No kidding. Wifey cost me a door and a door frame. lol

I mainly reload mine, I was a avid dove shooter in my day.

Mine is for monsters. Birds are so... small.

 

[jknowgood]

Good on Ukraine. Keep mass swarming the Russian airbases and the Ukraine/Russian border while the Russians keep killing Ukranians until the last Russian is dead.

Ukraine is fielding a 100,000 drones a month.

The 1,000,000 death for Russians will occur this month.

Healthmyths, how do you think this will turn out?

The sad part is Russia is going to come back, probably big time. More useless casualties in a war Biden helped start.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The sad part is Russia is going to come back, probably big time. More useless casualties in a war Biden helped start.

Nah, it won't. Putin started it. If he had not ordered invasion, it would not have happened.

If Trump had won in 2020, Putin would have invaded on January 22, 2021.

 

[jknowgood]

Nah, it won't. Putin started it. If he had not ordered invasion, it would not have happened.

If Trump had won in 2020, Putin would have invaded on January 22, 2021.

Then why didn't putin invade during Trump's 4 years? He waited till incestuous Biden to be in charge. Why is that?

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Then why didn't putin invade during Trump's 4 years? He waited till incestuous Biden to be in charge. Why is that?

Because he thought he could get what he wanted without the expense of treasure and lives through using Trump and negotiation.

 

[jknowgood]

Because he thought he could get what he wanted without the expense of treasure and lives through using Trump and negotiation.

He invaded while your hero Biden was president. You know that?

 

[BULLDOG]

Not sure how this is as bad as Russia bombing civilians.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Lessons from the drone attack on Russia’s airbases - ​

Analysis​

The Ukrainian attack on the Russian airfields has been seen as a game-changer in warfare.​

Lessons from the drone attack on Russia’s airbases - analysis

The Ukrainian attack on the Russian airfields has been seen as a game-changer in warfare.

www.jpost.com

2 Jun 2025 ~~ By Seth Frantzman

Ukraine carried out a complex drone attack on Russian airbases far from the front line. The attack has received a lot of attention around the world. It is seen as a game changer in the way drones can be used to attack key strategic military assets.
For instance, the drones apparently flew out of trucks that had been stationed near several Russian airbases. Dubbed Spider’s Web, the operation targeted the Belaya and Olenya airbases and may have targeted others. It is believed that several Russian Tu-22M and Tu-95 bombers were destroyed.
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Drones are playing a much larger role in war
Over the last decade, the use of drones by militaries has increased exponentially. From the 1980s to the early 2000s, only a handful of countries used them. They were usually very large, similar to small airplanes. Israel was a pioneer in using drones to conduct surveillance.
Later, the US Predator became a symbol of the way drones could be used on the battlefield. The technology behind these types of drones was complex, requiring advanced electro-optics and communications systems, enabling them to fly many hours far from bases.
Eventually, the type and number of drones being used worldwide shifted because of the growth in the commercial market of small quadcopter commercial drones. Many of these were made in China. Innovations enable the use of these drones for surveillance and also increasingly to carry small weapons.
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Small drones matter more
As the use of drones on the battlefield has grown exponentially, there have been rapid innovations in the use of small drones. These are usually called unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to describe the large numbers and types of drones that are now being used.
Ukraine has been a pioneer in the use of small drones, which are more helpful on the battlefield because they are cheap and attritable, meaning that they can be lost in large numbers at the front and easily be replaced. This means that Ukraine didn’t have to rely on Western countries to resupply its drone fleet. Kyiv began the war with several types of drones, including the Turkish-made Bayraktar. However, these larger ones proved vulnerable on the battlefield because can be shot down with air defenses.
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A message for the West
Some commentators believe that the Ukrainian success lifts the curtain on what comes next in terms of threats to the West. Kyiv has shown what is possible, and now, countries like China or even terrorist groups might try to replicate this in attacks on the US military or on other countries. The fact is that this threat was already known, and Western countries have been investing heavily in new counter-UAS technologies.
However, the challenge is that there are too many places to defend. Because the counter-drone tech, whether it be jammers, lasers, or even rifles and missiles, has a limited range, means every place that needs to be defended requires multiple layers of anti-drone defenses. Even if they have some defenses, there are types of drones that may avoid them. This is not an easy threat to overcome, and it is growing exponentially.



Commentary:
it’s important for the defenses to be as cheap or cheaper than the incoming drone/missile. In other words, for some types of enemy drones, it may be best to go back to a flak, or wide electronic style defense.
Not so much a "game changer" as the next step in the evolution of drone warfare. It has been inevitable for years that drones would become a dominant factor on the battlefield. However, if the new laser weaponry by the DoD is as effective as claimed, then the defense to drone swarms has also arrived. So it goes in military technology, shifting alternately from offensive to defensive innovation.
This cycle never ends, there are always innovations of attack or defense in war and factually the cycle is likely to accelerate with the use of A.I., because the U.S. continues to be at the forefront of technology, while our enemies will lag.
While we're at it, isn't it a good thing that Joey B's fraudulent administration kept a nice tight lid on the border, and certainly didn’t let in tens of thousands of military-aged men from all over the world, so there’s no way that anything like this could happen on US soil as exampled by the Sunday attack in Boulder Colorado...

Lesson:

You can kill the porcupine, but not before you get the quills.

 

[Sunni Man]

41 totally destroyed. Confirmed. You Russian stooge.

Those were lying Ukraine propaganda numbers for gullible nitwits like you.

 

[Scoutster]

Well, a 3.50" 12 ga would do as well as a 10 ga.

Like the Mossberg 835.

Nice gun I have one.

 

[Doc7505]

My wife almost blew her shoulder out with a 3.5" load.



I still like my shorty. It's basically a glorified Mossberg Maverick 88, takes a 3" (or 2.75). Mine is an AOW under the law, I bought it in Vegas for 200 bucks and a $5 tax stamp.



No kidding. Wifey cost me a door and a door frame. lol



Mine is for monsters. Birds are so... small.

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Did I mention I also also stocked up on #4 buckshot. Great for clear a room of vermin and low flying drone....

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

He invaded while your hero Biden was president. You know that?

Only because Trump was not President.

You know that?

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Lesson:

You can kill the porcupine, but not before you get the quills.

Where are the quills? You think Ukraine can't keep defeating Russia as long as Europe keeps it armed and American sanctions get tougher on Russia?

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Those were lying Ukraine propaganda numbers for gullible nitwits like you.

No, they weren't. You Russian stooges are unbelievable. Once Putin and Trump are gone, we are going to have deal with Russia's supporters here.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

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Did I mention I also also stocked up on #4 buckshot. Great for clear a room of vermin and low flying drone....

And MAGA stooges who support our Ameerican enemy.

 

[jknowgood]

Only because Trump was not President.

You know that?

He couldn't have invaded while Trump was president, because he was broke. Then Biden came along and gave him his pipeline, while stopping ours. That gave him the money to start his war.

 

[TimFitz]

Then why didn't putin invade during Trump's 4 years? He waited till incestuous Biden to be in charge. Why is that?

Because Putin was counting on Trump continuing to block aid to Ukraine (which he has his GOP lickspittles do after the election).

Putin thought Trump would undermine NATO and let the Russians march in.

Indeed, Trump routinely tried to divide the US from NATO, and regularly denigrated our allies while kissing up to the Russian dictator (that has not changed)

But Even Trump was not up to that level of betrayal, do he dithered (again, not unusual for Trump).

And Putin/s hope for a bloodless occupation tacitly supportded by the US went up in smoke.

And then Trump lost.

Initial planning for the Russian invasion began on Jan 7, 2020.

 

[jknowgood]

Because Putin was counting on Trump continuing to block aid to Ukraine (which he has his GOP lickspittles do after the election).

Putin thought Trump would undermine NATO and let the Russians march in.

Indeed, Trump routinely tried to divide the US from NATO, and regularly denigrated our allies while kissing up to the Russian dictator (that has not changed)

But Even Trump was not up to that level of betrayal, do he dithered (again, not unusual for Trump).

And Putin/s hope for a bloodless occupation tacitly supportded by the US went up in smoke.

And then Trump lost.

Initial planning for the Russian invasion began on Jan 7, 2020.

It happened on Biden's watch because putin knew Biden was a weak demented fool.

 

[citygator]

You guys are such morons. Ukraine isnt surrendering. They will fight to the end. That is the only way not to lose your freedom. I would not want to be in a bunker with you pussies.