Air Defense Downs 91 Out of 98 Russian Drones Overnight
The skies over Ukraine were busy last night with everything from jet-powered kamikazes to literal cardboard-and-plywood decoys.
Our air defense had to deal with a whole zoo of Russian aviation engineering. They launched 98 drones, and 91 of them got swatted out of the sky by a mix of aviation, mobile groups, and electronic warfare.
But the really absurd part is what they are flying now. Alongside the usual Iranian-designed Shahed drones, they threw in cheap Gerbera decoys, Italmas models, and something hilarious called Parodiya (which literally translates to "parody").
The "parody" drone is basically a cheap decoy with a tin foil ball inside to trick radars into thinking it's a massive missile. They are literally launching weaponized garbage to waste our expensive interceptor missiles. It's a bizarre mix of high-tech jet drones and flying plywood, but our mobile teams still cleared out almost the entire swarm.
Buying military-grade high-tech decoys only to have them lose to a Ukrainian guy with a thermal scope and a heavy machine gun on a pickup truck is peak 2024 warfare.
Source: Air Force Telegram
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