Using it to target CIVILIAN infrastructure like that school and probably other things.

Ive had it in my car for 7 years and zero flaking and feels great. Thats definitely specific to the quality you have.

He probably had sex outside of what he thinks was okay and was so mortified that he couldn’t stop himself from doing it over and over and over and over again he decided he needed to teach people the right way so he could save his soul.

That or he just thought he could make some cash pandering to people.

The way they talk about these in the article, I don’t think they view them as budget, and view them very strongly as a strength. When you incorporate the digital aspects (which is also very cool) 1 bad hit from a drone and it’s potentially out of service for an extended period of time.

Yes the targeting instructions are still digital and allow for very fast coordination, but that laptop is also easily replaced if destroyed.

They talk about these things taking multiple drone hits and being back in service a couple days later.

I am actually not sure about the towed howitzer

It literally says it in the article. There are no electronics required to operate it.

“There are no fuel or oil tanks here, and no electronics. The gun is entirely mechanical. It is simply metal that can be repaired even at the firing position,” emphasised Chief of Staff “John”.

The gun is equipped with mechanical aiming mechanisms.

That was a really cool article, lots of interesting details. Its cool that these things are completely mechanical, no computers/ electronics or anything like that which help make them easy to repair as they take hits.

I’ve always liked the fact that Ukraine was the one who developed a lot of the tech Russia had, and they are now showing again that they are still good at it while no longer making it for Russia.

Id rather they not understand and try to use them so they keep up with the friendly fire which would increase.

They sure as hell aren’t building new ones that fast.

~$17-$20 million to replace that plane, if it was even possible given sanctions.

And then if caught, they just buy another dish once they’re somewhere else and SpaceX no longer knows which ship is which again.

Thats going to be a lot harder than a whitelist in ukraine unless the tankers are stupid enough to also dock at a Russian port with it turned on, which maybe they are, but then they just buy a new one and be smarter about it.

Greenland should order some just incase as well

I get the same oh wow those are big with the Shaheds. We usually see small pics of them in the air from the air/ground far away or low quality cameras, but they are actually very large when you see it close by

If Russia was stupid enough to attack Lithuania (or other baltic state) like people think might happen, if they have not prepared properly (as of today, they are not), they could overwhelm the air defences and take out more strategic value than the $500 million cost.

Edit: The only thing preventing that right now is the ongoing war in Ukraine, but if that ended, they could stockpile.

Edit: According to official Ukrainian data[1], the total number of Shahed-type UAVs launched by Russia in 2025 amounted to 54,538, including approximately 32,200 Shahed-type strike UAVs. https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/a-comprehensive-analytical-review-of-russian-shahed-type-uavs-deployment-against-ukraine-in-2025

Edit: Also I gotta go, won’t be around for awhile to continue this if it’s even worth continuing.

Hitting a well defended, mobile Ukrainian military force?

What on earth makes you keep thinking I’m talking about Ukraine? That’s twice now you’ve done this.

I’m talking about how unprepared others are for this, and you’re acting like we’re prepared for this, while we have an active war going on where we are not prepared for drone warfare and they are asking Ukraine for help because of it.

Not all military targets are well defended bases either, but even Iran has hit US and partner military bases with drones.

Evidence of what? That a Shahed is capable of hitting a military target instead of a apartment complex?

Of course it can, you’d have to be an idiot to think that’s not possible, but the military complex is better defended so it’s more likely to get shot down, using EXPENSIVE missiles because people aren’t taking action on what is happening in Ukraine and building drones to fight these things.

You think you can’t over saturate the air defences? Of course that’s possible, you just need enough drones to do it.

They’re already struggling in the middle east to deal with what Iran is sending because they are unprepared, and they are asking Ukraine for help.

They’ve used almost 1000 patriot missiles in the Iran war already, that’s almost 4 BILLION dollars lost, and you think they could effectively defend against 10x this 1 attack that Russia sent, and that spending 500 million to destroy more than 4 billion (it would be way more) is a waste?

Edit: And like WTF. UKRAINE is using drones to hit military targets and seriously hurting Russia, like dude, it’s possible. If Russia wasn’t fighting Ukraine they could stock pile 10k drones so easily.

I disagree. If Russia wasn’t a dumbfuck and targeted military assets of another neighbouring nation they could without a doubt saturate their air defences and take out very strategic targets which would make the following ground invasion easier.

The point is OTHER NATIONS are not prepared for it.

Russia saturating OTHER NATIONS air defences this way would be catastrophic if done properly.

Only Ukraine is in a position to defend against it properly and come out the winner in $ terms.

Meanwhile Russia sends more than that against Ukraine in the year, they sent almost 1/10th of that in ONE day and you’re thinking it’s a waste?

The point is to saturate air defences and take out military targets. Russia is being stupid with their drones and often going after Civilian targets, but clearly sending 948 didn’t do much damage because Ukraine had enough air defence.

If you saturate it, more drones get through and more damage happens.

So instead of this attacks $47 million and only 2.1 million doing damage, you could get a much higher bang for your buck from the initial assault. That initial assault would also weaken the enemy so the remaining attack would be more efficient.

Edit: I mean, look at the US and partners… they spent billion(s?) in a couple days being unprepared for drones.