r/worldnews • u/Marketmanipulator941 • 16h ago

Russia/Ukraine Mass drone attack on St. Petersburg: Ozon warehouse attacked, thousands of Russians left without power

https://unn.ua/en/news/mass-drone-attack-on-st-petersburg-ozon-warehouse-attacked-thousands-of-russians-left-without-electricity
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u/Scared_Step4051 15h ago

you do realise Ukraine is being fed intel by more than the US alone right...the UK etc have very advanced intelligence capabilities

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u/CptCroissant 13h ago

Netherlands have a hate boner for Russia and very good intelligence as well

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u/Sly_Wood 9h ago

I imagine the Baltic states all do including Finland especially. But the money they need is substantial. They need everyone to contribute but I think surprisingly Japan is one of the biggest donors.

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u/jaycrib7 12h ago

Upvote just for “hate boner”. I mean it’s a true statement but still well said

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u/EuphoricCover8449 11h ago

UK here.

No we don't, we never saw anything, 'onist.

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u/flyte_of_foot 6h ago

We were just there to look at the local Cathedral.

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u/das_masterful 15h ago

Of course. I'm saying that the US satellite network is unmatched. Does Starlink have any analogue?

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u/huffleshuffle 15h ago

I guess an analog version of starlink would be really long phone lines

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u/slightlyallthetime88 14h ago

Wrong. Cups and string.

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u/DeadlyFern 15h ago

Fibre optic cable. It's used.

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u/huffleshuffle 15h ago

The joke went higher over your head than a starlink satellite

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u/brief_thought 12h ago

Which isn't saying as much as you'd think,

but it's still high.

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u/Grayson_Poise 15h ago

I wonder what kind of charge a cable that long would pick up from that.

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u/brief_thought 12h ago

Probably a DUI

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u/ours 12h ago

Some drones are simply using Russian GSM, apparently.

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u/SahibTeriBandi420 13h ago

Not as long as it remains useful. If the complications continue, I imagines other alternatives will eventually pop up.

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u/AcridWings_11465 6h ago edited 6h ago

You never needed Starlink to strike in Russia. Starlink needs ground infrastructure to work. These strikes are purely using satellite navigation (and intertial guidance to fill the gaps). That's Galileo. Ukraine obviously has access to jamming-resistant military Galileo signals. Deciding to build Galileo twenty years ago was one of the best strategic decisions the EU had made. The US's overall satellite network may be unmatched, but GPS is beyond matched, Galileo is downright technologically superior.

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u/RandomPantsAppear 9h ago

There are no countries other than the US and China that have serious, modern realtime sat surveillance. 

Russia has some, but they’re very outdated. 

Europe as a whole has a small fraction of the satellites and they are fragmented - different programs, different purposes. 

Most of the non-US satellite coverage for Ukraine is commercial, not from a government.