It must have been incredibly complex to pull off. The scale, coordination and discovery risks were crazy but they pulled it off.
Only thing similar was Israel’s pager attack on hezbollah
Only thing similar was Israel’s pager attack on hezbollah
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Easy: likely reduces intensity of air launched cruise missile attacks going forward
On the other hand, the planes that were completely destroyed were fueled up and in some cases armed, and it's anyone's guess how many of the others are actually airworthy.
It demonstrates a threat to part of Russia‘s nuclear deterrent. Ru will likely feel compelled to increase defenses at bases, at huge expense, and remain paranoid of similar attacks in future targeting not conventional bombers but nuclear armed squadrons
Our waiting around for sanctions will only make them ready to mitigate them. Our actions make the west look like an unreliable ally to align with. Signalling 'if a tyrant wants whats yours, we wont help you win'.
Or maybe I’m the only person making these inferences?
The 'great Putin' humiliated himself when Russia invaded Ukraine, but 'had to' resort to slaughtering civilians.
History will remember.
Once when we did port defence exercises they had the baddies steal a tanker truck of 'poisonous gas' to release at our dockyard.
The planned attack time was 1500.
on a Friday
We were "No threat, everybody has gone home early"
https://bsky.app/profile/lklundin.bsky.social/post/3lr677crrtc26
Perun covered it all last Sunday.
https://youtu.be/MPXs2wDv4Kc?si=ZwsipjeA7c91CMcp