I read this several days ago and could not work out how this could be possible when the Ukraine only had 20 to 50 Bayraktar TB2 drones which were bought from Turkey before Putin’s war started, Bayraktar TB2 drones have a good performance in key parameters range altitude as well as sensors and communication system but are vulnerable to anti-air defence systems, to be effective they need to be employed in a savvy way, in coordination with other electronic warfare systems that ‘blind’ enemy radars and adopt appropriate tactics,
That Ukraine could strike some Russian ground forces with TB2 suggests either that Russian forces are advancing without air defence due to the hurried start of the war which is very well possible, in light of the logistical and organisational problems Russia has encountered so far. Or that Ukrainian forces acquired advanced electronic warfare systems from elsewhere.
Jack Watling of the London-based Royal United Services Institute said the drones carried out successful attacks in the early stages of the invasion before Russia was able to set up its air defences, The drones have also been praised by the UK's defence secretary, Ben Wallace, who told Parliament that the TB2s have proven "incredibly important in order to slow down or block the Russian advance".
If reports of hundreds of attacks are true then the USA is probably covertly behind the huge increase in the available numbers in use along with their electronic warfare support systems such as radars and satellites, these drones fly at extremely low altitude and are hard to spot on radars and other early warning systems.
This might explain why Russian forces have retreated from the city’s and built up areas as shoulder launched missiles have stopped them dead in their tracks there with huge troop casualties, the number of drone attacks suggest that there are now hundreds of drones available to the Ukrainians which means, NO AIR COVER....NO WAY FORWARD.
There will be no peace deal to be had with the Soviet Union, a bitter seething resentment and hatred of what they have done will not allow this, Putin will have achieved the exact opposite of what he set out to do, he will have forced the Ukraine into the western sphere of influence and defence structure if not in name but in practise that is where they will be.
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