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Related: About this forumUnstoppable B-1 Bombers Fleet Strikes Russia Hard! - RFU News
Today there are a lot of interesting updates from the Russian Federation.
Here, Ukraine has officially unleashed its newly developed bomber drones, marking a major escalation in its ability to strike deep into Russian territory. With advanced precision, extended range, and overwhelming cost-efficiency, these drones are already devastating Russian military infrastructuresetting the stage for a transformative shift in the battlefield dynamic.
Over the weeks, the Ukrainians conducted a series of successful strikes against military and economic targets in Russia, which resulted in damage to over half a hundred military industrial factories, strategic airbases, microelectronics producers, chemical plants, fiber optic facilities, and key logistical routes, including the Kerch bridge.
Recently, Ukrainians presented the new Batyar-S strike drone, which resembles the Russian Shahed and Geranium strike drones, but only on the outside. Designed from scratch, the new Ukrainian drone has an effective flight range of over 800 kilometers while carrying an 18-kilogram explosive warhead. Additionally, the drone is lighter than Shahed, weighing only 60 kilograms, which allows the Ukrainians to deploy it using trucks as launch platforms, making it easy to quickly and efficiently deploy it for any strikes. On top of that, it features superior optical systems that analyze landscapes and terrain in real-time, combining them with satellite footage to adjust its flight trajectory towards the target, and stay as low as possible to evade radar detection and air defenses. However, one of its biggest advantages is that the Batyar-S drone costs approximately 4 times less than the Ukrainian strike drones currently in use, meaning that Ukrainians will be able to produce four times as many drones and strike 4 times the targets.
As the Ukrainians focus their development on drone technology for various purposes, they have also developed a new bomber drone, the B-1. B-1 drones are ultralight bomber drones designed to destroy concentrations of manpower, trucks, armored vehicles, and military strongholds on the frontline and in the rear. Bomber drones are designed to carry repurposed drone-droppable hand grenades, artillery shells, or other explosives on Russian positions as they fly over their target. The light weight of the drone and its low-noise engine allow it to fly towards Russian lines almost unnoticed, while the drone itself can stay in the air for several hours. Early frontline reports suggest the drone is extremely resilient against Russian electronic warfare, making it a deadly precision weapon that can hit targets far beyond the range of pre-existing Ukrainian bomber drones like the Vampire hexacopter, already nicknamed the Baba Yaga by both Russian and Ukrainian soldiers for its deadliness.
The newly developed drone technologies will massively enhance Ukrainian strike capabilities against Russian targets on the frontline and in the deep rear. Ukrainian strikes have already damaged and destroyed production facilities, essential for rebuilding Russias strategic bomber fleet after they lost a third of them during Operation Spiderweb. Ukrainians have also crippled direct Russian production of weapons and ammunition manufacturing, with strikes on long range drone and fiber optic facilities, ammunition factories, and chemical and technical facilities producing rockets and missiles. Now, with the new drones, Ukrainians will be able to strike four times more targets, and much more effectively, promising death and destruction for the Russian frontline and the rear.
Overall, the Ukrainians effectively maximized the results of their precision strikes against targets in Russia, while developing new drones based on the experience gained from these strikes. These new variants will be able to hit Russia like never before and seriously undermine the Russian summer offensive; as the Russians go all-in for this summer, so are the Ukrainians, promising a decisive military campaign over the next few months, which might well decide the outcome of the war in Ukraine.
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Unstoppable B-1 Bombers Fleet Strikes Russia Hard! - RFU News (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Jun 17
OP
Well, that had me scared. It seems that there is more than type of aircraft known as a B-1. NT
mahatmakanejeeves
Jun 17
#1
That's the wimpy stuff! I have their more-modern B-12. Mine carry a bomb load of 200 tablets.
Wonder Why
Jun 17
#3
mahatmakanejeeves
(65,206 posts)1. Well, that had me scared. It seems that there is more than type of aircraft known as a B-1. NT
usonian
(18,567 posts)2. Please correct the title to B-1 Drones. You had my hopes too high.
This is all I can afford, sorry to say.
(not an endorsement)
Wonder Why
(5,909 posts)3. That's the wimpy stuff! I have their more-modern B-12. Mine carry a bomb load of 200 tablets.
usonian
(18,567 posts)4. You asked for it ...

Dreaded THC bomb.
And your reply? ....

TexasTowelie
(121,542 posts)5. The ultimate.

That reminds me, it's sneaking up to 4:20 in my time zone.


usonian
(18,567 posts)7. The way to peace?

Response to usonian (Reply #4)
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Wonder Why
(5,909 posts)8. Thanks to my secret undercover source at the NY Post, I'll show my whole line of advanced Dump-Bombers
Take that. your measly bottle will be wiped out by my fleet.
niyad
(124,629 posts)9. Slava Ukraini. Thank you for the update.