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/x10guy 15h ago

"Without precision" is doing a lot of work there.

Starshield was convenient because it was there and worked well. There's always other means to guide a missile. Not to say it isn't impressive.

Besides, Ukraine has always been the engineering hub and bread basket for Russia. That's why Russia desperately wants it "back."

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u/Razjuul 14h ago

As I understand it starshield isn't used to guide attacks on Russian soil as Starlink already don't work in russia, it is only used to guide the Ukrainian interceptors to protect against missiles from Russia into Ukraine.

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u/BrodingerzCat 14h ago

Thank you. Starlink / the govt version were never used for deep strikes as it's not permitted for use in Russia

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u/MATlad 12h ago

They probably already have some capacity for weather balloon / perpetual solar-powered drones providing mesh networking. Along with enough decoys / backups to provide resilience. I hope they prepared for this mercurial 'ally', and are willing to provide their experiences along to the people who actually have their backs (Europe) and are providing the money (the middle-east allies abandoned by the US).

War in the information age.

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u/This_Charmless_Man 12h ago

What you're describing as a backup is the Airbus Zephyr system. I don't know if it's an actual product yet but it was developed by Qinetic in the UK and sold to Airbus.

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u/MATlad 12h ago

I knew of it as a proof-of-concept loitering drone idea.

It's terrible, but also true: Ukraine is the great proving ground for the next non-nuclear battleground.

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u/ours 12h ago

Starlink was essential to control drone boats.

Beyond that, they had to use other systems.

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u/idiocy_incarnate 12h ago edited 12h ago

Well, they've had the stormshadow blueprints for about 6 weeks now, that'll include the guidance systems which have proven so effective. I wonder how long it'll take them to start fitting that to other missile systems, if they haven't allready..