Military analyst in conversation with Sergei Poletaev, co-founder of the information and analytical project “Vatfor” “Lentoy.ru” He explained why drones fly to regions of Russia far from Ukraine.
According to the expert, the characteristics of drones allow them to fly deep into the territory of the Russian Federation.
“These are light aircraft with very economical piston engines and can fly quite long distances on autopilot. A thousand kilometers or more,” Poletaev said.
Noting that air defense systems managed to hit most of the incoming drones, the analyst also compared air defense to the body’s immunity and pointed out that it is “never completely impenetrable.”
According to Poletaev, it is impossible to cover the territory of an entire country with an air defense warhead, especially one as large as Russia’s.
“Yes, some objects are covered, but the whole power of NATO intelligence works for Ukraine in almost real time, plus the whole power of commercial satellites for remote sensing of the world, now also working as reconnaissance satellites,” the analyst said. .
He said that the Watfor project had been working on commercial satellites Maxar and similar ones for a while. We are talking about dozens of devices that daily take pictures of areas of the front line, the Russian rear and certain areas within the country around important objects.
“Accordingly, when we cover an issue with air defense vehicles, they look at these pictures and see: yes, that issue is not here. And they hit it there. To cover a particular object, we need to divert air defense forces from another location. But these are not endless,” Poletaev noted.
Unmanned aerial vehicle on the morning of October 29 was attacked An empty building on the territory of the Russian Special Forces University named after Vladimir Putin, overseen by the son of the regional head Adam Kadyrov. This incident is the first recorded drone attack on the territory of the Chechen Republic.
According to the SHOT Telegram channel, the PD-2 drone, which has a flight range of approximately 1,300 km and a speed of 140 km/h, can be used to attack the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Chechnya. He probably set out from Odessa and followed the Black Sea, reaching the Chechen Republic in nine hours.
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Source: Gazeta
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