Messed up my scheduling. So this went out late

russia: "Our air defense is second to none." Also russia: Can't stop slow-flying planes with the radar cross-section of a flying barn from crossing 1000+ km deep into their territory unopposed and undetected. FFS, you could literally down that plane with a spud-gun, it's a huge slow target. The absolute state of this """super power"""... then again, what do I expect from a nation celebrating its military prowess with a parade of only one tank and flyover that's less impressive than what the Super Bowl pulls off every year lol.

Stop the oil industry and Russia will grind completely to a halt. Gazprom had record losses. Looking forward to Russia having to import Diesel and gasoline.

Range is not suprising, precision of hitting small target as cracking tower at this range is

...and now comes the brave orcish troll counterattack in the comment section of this video.

As if Gazprom wasn't having enough problems. They have gone from $5 billion in the black to $6 billion in the red. Just not been their year.

The Ukraines have some very smart people working on this. What lessons for all militaries to study.

Ukraine should be praised by all eco activists: They stopped more oil in half a year than Greenpeace in an several decades.

Imagine telling a guy in WW1 "see that plane over there? In 100 yrs , that very same plane will be flown 1500 km into Russian forces and no pilot will die! "

The drone operator screaming BONZAI!!!

Putey, your defenses are freakin' laughable.

The culmative effect of Russia losing its production facilities will eventually lead to a dire fuel shortage - either at the fron or for civilians- both of which would be bad for Putler!

Brilliant! Thank you for your reporting, Suchomimus.

Shoigu is working on airborne meat waves to stop this.

Murmansk just because they can.

Just Marvellous !!! Slava Ukraini

The crude cracker, so if it was destroyed that refinery is off line for years

Amazing that they can get so far. Mattias Rust is topping up his pension with some UKR consulting.

Ukraine's version of the Catalytic Converter.

Sucho always has a great news for us to start the weekend on the right foot! Thanks!

Yet another trusted report - thanks

As Budanov once said... deeper and deeper.

russian air defense not existing.

Wowsers. That's pretty much at the Ural Mountains. That doesn't mean all of European Russia is definitely within strike range but it does mean that pretty much all of European Russia that matters is within striking range except for places like Murmansk and Archangel.

Has any one NOT got bingo yet on their Russian oil refinery cards?

It’s not pointed out often but hitting the refining capacity leaves Russia with an excess of crude that it can only sell at deep discounts. Sooner or later Russia will have to start abandoning oil wells as it hasn’t anywhere to put the oil. These wells will be hard to reopen in the future and can potentially knacker the oil field if the pressure drops and the crude finds a new equilibrium pressure that is too low to flow out of well on it’s own. The long term damage of these strikes is enormous.

Mr. Rust is very proud of Ukraine

Extra fuel in the cabin I would say.....

Sounding quite chipper in today’s video, Sucho. Glad to hear it. And Thank You for another timely and informative update. Cheers from Michigan, USA.

I read this comment on another website: In my native Bulgaria, there is an expression dating back in the soviet era that being "Russian" is moreover a diagnosis... rather than a nationality.

Thank you for your hard work Sucho.

Good to see that even a nation at war can help the planet transition away from fossil fuels

There is not much AA covarage behind the frontline. Russia's size as it's weakness.

Why doesn't Ford or Chevy or some of them donate vehicles to Ukraine. They could write it off for taxes and a dozen or so vehicles aren't going to break their bank.

For those worried this will raise oil prices, it has been pointed out, it will not. Ukraine is being careful not to knockout the crude oil facilities, so orc land can still export crude oil, which is then refined and sold on the market by India (mostly). Since Ukraine started keeping the russkies warm at night, the price for Brent crude oil has barely changed. Of course, if the russkies have to export more oil, they are likely to get less for each barrel while having to pay more to import refined products. So it's a win win.

All Pooter has to do is sit back & wait for all those sweet deals to come in for his 'Undefeatable' air defense systems after this. LOL!!

Microlights and ultralights are designed to carry a person in flight gear with a bag (say 100kg), and they have surprisingly good range even with a standard fuel tank, although they are slow. Not that much slower than a Shahed-style drone, though. So you can imagine that a few kilos of gear to convert it to autonomous or remotely-controlled, a much larger fuel tank (say another 20kg, around 24 litres of diesel or 27 litres of gasoline), and 50kg or more of high explosive... That thing is going to have a hell of a long range. Yes, it's slow and noisy, but the long endurance means you can send it around populated areas and known air defences, and it's construction (stretched fabric over aluminium or steel tubing) makes it pretty resilient to damage from small-arms fire.

Destroying a Catalytic Cracker is huge, there aren’t many of them world wide much less in Russia. They may only have 1 or 2 of these in Russia total…!They are used to refine heavy crude into Gasoline & diesel etc..!

Orc's be like we shot all drones down but falling debris hit exactly where Ukraine was targeting 😅

Great video mate. Our lass has a "wizards sleeve"

brilliant,clever

Wizard’s Sleeves 😂

I didn't hear any background noise in the last video, lol, but this one did. Thanks for the videos, sounds like you're having a good time.

Murmansk is next?

Thanks for the update 😀

Tks Cda.

Very Cool! Cheers From California 😎

Thank you good sir

It's baffling how these plane-sized drones get anywhere. One fighter jet could drop all of them easily. Russia really doesn't have ANY air defense inside its borders. Pretty low at front lines too, you would expect them to be shot down as soon as they leave Ukraine airspace.

Russia keeps taking L's.

Thank you, Suchomimus and Sanath, for all your support to Ukraine! 🇺🇦 Перемоги і миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦

Cracking Aim Grommit!

Russian air defense SUCKS.

How long till bingo?

3 times the range of Taurus.

They look super slow, easy targets for SAM systems, but still they hit, Russia's air defence is a f*cking joke...

FYI: Cat crackers convert heavier fractions ("Gas Oils") to gasoline and diesel. Current cat crackers are fluid catalytic crackers, and they include equipment that have very long lead times and use the same technology as jet engines and gas turbines used in natural gas driven power plants.

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Thank you for the update.

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Its kind of not surprising given that in 1987 Mathias Rust has flown a Cessna to the Red Square. Soviet AA defense was a half usable garbage back then and "modern" russia versions are literally no different...

Is Matthias Rust and advisor to the Ukrainian armed forves?

Really hard for Russian air defence though unless they are going to stop all local light aircraft movements within 1500km of the border.

amazing. tiny country without oil not falling to the maniac l's 2nd army of the world

I wonder if they could rig up something on these civilian aircraft to take drones further in destination and then release the drones and then the drones and the aircraft can do their work, just thought,

Just think; those drones have a cruise speed of 160kmh so even if they flew in a straight line, had to be in the air for nine hours! Where is air defence? 🙃🤣🤣🤣

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Deeper and deeper

ruSSia moment

It is quite shocking that the Russian AWACS does not pick up these large drones. Are none of the AWACS/A50 operational?

The range of Ukrainian drones continues to increase. Incidentally, a large fire broke out yesterday in the port city of Petropavlovsk in Kamchatka...

Slava Ukraine

Its crazy that these rather large and slow moving planes can travel 1500km over russia - then again, in the later 80's a German flew his Cessna (?) all the way to Moscow and landed on the Red Square. Maybe russia's control over their own airspace was always shite 😅

Just wondering what's the top speed of those planes is. It would be a long flight

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That's on the edge of Asia. It's crazy to see how poor Russia's general air defence is when a slow flying Cessna type drone can travel that deep into Russia.

Beautiful blues skies behind those rain clouds ❤

Slow speed probably helps those drones avoid radar detection because computers probably ignore slow objects

The Crimean bridge strike which worked used 10 tonnes of TNT. These planes carry hundreds of kg of explosives. They will not bother the bridge. A 200 kg shaped charge, however, could damage a ship or submarine. The bridge is a target for the Ukraine sea drone team. One thing that hasn't been discussed is how these long range drones are controlled. Is it just GPS and autopilot? Or is there an active link back to Ukraine? That active link would require either a working cellphone connection in Russia, or Starlink. It's always possible that a low-bandwidth link to Viasat might be used, but I doubt it could be used for real time control.

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Just some thoughts - A used Learjet 24, cheaper that the missile to shoot it down, can cruise at 790 km/ hr at an alt of 12 km with a 500 kg payload 1700+ km. A Russian mega kilowatt power plant would be nice trophy and appropriate payback Hitting a refinery FCC unit can be pretty bad, but the zeolite catalyst is cheap and the process operates at maybe 30 psig. A naphtha catalytic reforming unit operates at 200+ psig, The catalyst, while of less volume, is platinum/ paladium, rhodium and a charge costs probably $8+ million and is a longer lead item. Taking out the control room, which may have a concrete roof for blast and fire protection, could have long-lasting impact and would require workers and control systems in short supply. Russia could probably hire some Chinese construction firms to rebuild, so hitting many refineries at the same pinch point at the same time generates some synergy. And then there are always the substations and or hydroelectric generators and locks at theTsimlyansky Dam on the Don River. 210 MW hydroelectric. About 450 km from Ukraine. And for bigger fish, the hydroelectric works and locks at Astrakhan on the Volga River. 2.7 MMW hydroelectric. About 600 km fr Ukraine. I tend to believe incessant hitting of the pipeline pumping and compressor stations and Russia's 7,000 freight locomotives are minimally protected key pinch points. Re: The slow-flying drones that resemble a small civilian airplane. Few civilian planes like this have IFF units to identify as friend or foe, so they are likely picked up on radar, but the SAM operator may be reluctant to launch not knowing who it belongs to.

Now they know…

Shoigu: An average of almost 1000 troops killed each and every day. Bridges are collapsing, and dams are bursting. Tanks and amoured vehicles are burning. Ships are sinking, and aircraft are being blown right out of the sky. Putin: Finally, some good news!!! Everything is going according to plan. Shoigu: No, actually... I was talking about what's happening to Russia...

I've given thought to the process for the remote control in this type of situation but best not to discuss it . These are the early days for these drones and so they can still kinda hide in plain sight cos folk on the ground are thinking " oh look there's a Cessna flying, we don't see them often " . The russian leadership refrains from educating their public to any important details about the conflict which might otherwise lead the public to report their sightings.

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Wonder if they have moved air defence to the front to replace units lost to drones. Would be interesting to know where all the pieces are.

I don't get how they can't be intercepted? Its a slow moving large target? Its managed to fly the equivalent of 1 and a half UKs and not be spotted. They must fly planned routes that have little to no population / AAA. There must be little to no defence after the first hundred KM.

Ukraine has reached out and destroyed something deeper into Russia than any of its enemies in history, dang.

You’d have to fly this remotely at literally wave top height to have any chance of hitting the Crimean Bridge with something this big and slow.

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The Catalytics at oil refineries in Russia are almost impossible to source, let alone replace.

The jammers won't do anything against those long range drones. Those jammers will make the drone drift away from the course for some time, but once they are out of the area with jammers, they can correct their course without any problem (obviously depends on how the details look like but in general it shouldn't be s problem).

Fascinating really. Feels like it should be like back in world war 2, where posters were made public of enemy aircraft shapes and styles for the public to report and identify.

a record? a Ukrainian drone hit a target at a distance of 3000+ km, a month ago

1500 km, longest strike yet. I wonder if there are any oil refineries in Vladivostok.

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the real problem in this war is an affordable and secure FOF system that can be implemented on manned or unmanned aircraft to avoir friendly fire. Hopefully Ukraine has this on the design table, if not, accidents can happend to the F16 or these drones.