That’s quite close to the bridge. Looks like the air defenses might be thinning there

What prevents the quadcoper from just flying out from under the net? Looks like they’ve got 6 feet to play with

It’s an interceptor (possibly derived from the S-300) being used as a ballistic missile while they figure out how to integrate it with air defense systems. For air defense it’s potentially a lot cheaper than the alternatives and produced mostly domestically.

FP-9 is the ranged ballistic missile firepoint is working on. That I think is less about cost and more about not having to ask permission from a foreign government before shooting something.

I’m curious what Lithuania and Poland think about having armed drones going through their airspace. On the one hand they get a free reduction in Russian military equipment on the other hand it comes at the cost of explosives flying through their airspace and potential Russian return fire over the border. Though I suppose it’s possible the Ukrainian got a drone carrier into the Baltic Sea.

Based on the observation that air defense over central Moscow was increased leading up to the parade I somewhat doubt Ukraine would have been able to put a long range strike drone over the parade. Also with less coverage over other parts of Russia due to the diversions it would probably be better to send them elsewhere anyway. The alternative: risking Ukrainian intelligence assets to sneak in close range FPV drones feels like a waste. Ukraine probably could have got something in it just feels like it wouldn’t be worth it.

The parade permit made Putin look helpless without actually needing to risk anything better used on strategic targets.

“The whole world is cleaning up Tuapse

Yep the Ukrainians have generously cleaned up all those nasty storage tanks blocking the views.

“I confirm… with each passing day, traces of enemy raids in the city are dwindling.”

Until next time lol. There doesn’t seem to be any air defense aimed at stopping a next time.

During which the air defense situation will remain somehow still unaddressed in any tangible way.

I very much doubt they going for intercepting Oreshniks. They are going for launching their own communications and spy satellites. Hence DIU involvement. Getting a good constellation of starlink like satellites would be extremely helpful for deep strikes into Russia without Elon getting in the way. Ukraine also seems to have had issues with access to foreign space based intelligence for both reconnaissance and programming contour navigation on cruise missiles.

If Ukraine keeps Russian gas off the market it might just keep the idiots at home who vote for Trump who presumably is the one of the biggest whiners complaining. On the flip side pro Russian European far right parties may gain voters from high gas prices.

It seems likely. This looks to be shot from a public park a few blocks from the ship building facility based on google maps. Unfortunately the signs don’t quite line up in the nine year old streetview imagery but the rooflines and fences do.

Amusingly the google maps listing for the ship builder uses an image of an old lada left stranded in an intersection after a crash. The other images are of a Gazprom vessel and a yacht.

I wonder if this was what hit the icebreaker.

Might be easier to shoot them down during the daylight hours

Honestly might just be the state of Russian roads

ML meanwhile insists that Ukraine shot first and that participation in sanctions makes terror bombing Ukrainian civilians somehow justified

edit: lol they banned me

That diagram looks like they need more coverage of Russia

There will be a shortage of interceptors and other munitions for Ukraine and Taiwan as well. No way this ends well

Russia produces them in Russia at this point

I still love that the official narrative is the Moscova sank due to incompetence not due to getting hit by two missiles.

Where’s the rest of the infographic?

So very expensive long range ballistic missile is still in cheap cruise missile range. Great way of reinforcing the point that Oreshnik, much like the v2 program, is a giant waste of money when used in a conventional land war.