Earlier this week, Ukrainian kamikaze drones attacked military installations in the Saratov and Kursk regions. Yuriy Kasyanov, who founded the A.Drones project, explained how the Armed Forces achieved this.

According to the expert, rumors about the high efficiency of Russian electronic warfare and air defense systems are greatly exaggerated. The Ukrainian drone has traveled more than 600 km to attack the strategic bombers stationed at the airport in Engels. This fact has a fairly simple explanation. In automatic mode, a low-flying drone cannot be detected by air defense radars or deflected by EW vehicles. Especially if it flies in the dark.

“Needle” or Stinger MANPADS can “see” the drone at night. These systems use missiles with infrared homing heads to hit targets. The problem is, they can only target aircraft with very hot engines.

The Russians claim that their airport was attacked by Soviet Strizh jet aircraft. The Ukrainian side did not officially confirm this information. A day before the attack, Ukrboronprom announced the completion of flight tests of its newest unmanned aerial vehicle capable of firing 75 kg of explosives at a distance of up to 1,000 km. Source