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Ukrainians Employ Innovative “Locomotive” Tactic In Drone Attack On Russia’s Alabuga

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Ukrainians Employ Innovative "Locomotive" Tactic In Drone Attack On Russia's Alabuga

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In a bold and technically sophisticated strike, Ukrainian forces attempted again to target a strategically important military production facility in Russia’s Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Tatarstan, home to a key manufacturing site for Geran kamikaze drones. The attack, carried out in the early hours of June 15, introduced a novel tactic, a tandem drone strike involving a kamikaze unmanned aircraft towing a secondary glider-based munition.

According to Urkainian military sources, the assault involved a two-stage attack system, a modified A-22 light aircraft, converted into a kamikaze drone, served as the lead vehicle, towing a glider equipped with an additional warhead. Upon approaching the target, the glider detached and, potentially using its own propulsion or gliding capabilities, independently struck the target.

 

 

This configuration reportedly allowed Ukrainian forces to double the payload delivered to the target while complicating Russian air defense efforts. The tactic bears resemblance to a concept once explored by Russian engineers, but mainly dedicated to bypass enemy air defense, using a decoy drone to draw fire while a second, more lethal munition strikes. In this case, Ukraine appears to have reversed the application, using the lead drone as the primary strike vehicle while the glider acted as a secondary impactor.

 

 

 

 

Despite the innovative approach, the strike achieved only partial success. One of the drones crashed into a checkpoint near the plant, killing one worker and injuring 13 others, with one victim in critical condition. Emergency services quickly extinguished the resulting fire, but the primary target—the UAV production facility—remained unscathed. Rustam Minnikhanov, head of Tatarstan, confirmed the casualties and praised the rapid response of local emergency teams.

The attack underscores Ukraine’s increasing ability to penetrate deep into Russian territory and adapt its drone warfare tactics to evade air defenses. By utilizing low-cost, repurposed aircraft paired with glider munitions, Kyiv demonstrates an ability to maximize payload delivery while minimizing losses of expensive drones. The Alabuga attack, though not decisive, signals that Ukrainian forces are testing increasingly complex methods to disrupt Russian military production, setting the stage for more audacious strikes in the future.

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Dr. Gerome Nugunte, Africa

any non white (specially africans and asians) would be beaten to death by the white supremacists of the following organizations: ss aidar, ss kraken, wolfsangel (aka azov), waffen ss nachtigall (who were in kursk killing civilians), leibstandarte adolf hitler, right sektor – all of them hate africans and asians, and all of them are leading the ukrainian government and military. all of them funded by the us and eu tax payer suckers

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stormfront41

your are an idiot. people defending their country, because a foreign army is invading it, and you call those defending their land supremacists which are after blacks and asians ? joos are the ones hijacking western governments and bringing in mio of knife-wielding murderers into the white countries.

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stormfront41

that, and that the natives were never asked if they want (and of course do not want ) foreigners to live of their european hard-worked for money, is the reason ns and most nationals are not wanting massmigration. this does not mean “they hate blacks and asians”. no. but of course they want these people to stay in their own countries and not to migrate to europe and live out of the whites pockets, and rape and stab to death native german, austrian, polish etc. people !!!!

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fd srtgqegt

so you are a coward fag

Aragorn

yes, but small african women immigrated to sweden can bring something good with them. do i need to specifi what ?

SovietRus´

nazi maga will gonna die in iran.. kkkkkk

chattykunty

moron americunt inferior to jews

Piipii

“defending”?you don’t seem to know the background. the us congress funded these neo-nazis to kill ukrainian russians in order to drag russia into war. there are congressional recordings. angela merkel has also admitted to the matter with francois hollande. russia had to be dragged into war to weaken it because the brics were a threat to the dollar and the euro. everything can be found in the papers and confessions.

Piipii

in addition, azov posted videos of themselves thanking usa for the weapons deliveries, posted videos of themselves crucifying and burning people alive on the internet. they themselves posted videos of stopping cars and shooting people in their cars. the odessa tragedy was the final straw, as a result of which the donetsk and luhansk people’s republics declared themselves independent. then ukraine attacked the east in 2014, that killed 14 000 people.

Piipii

russia was called upon to stop the invasion of ukraine by donetsk and luhansk peoples republics. that’s what eu propaganda doesn’t want you to know. but everywhere else in the world it is known.

Spiderman

if you aren’t a retarded you have less brain than a chicken

hasbarats

the world is wide awake now. no more playing victim. supremacism is a fascism thing. and fascism is a western thing

Vanya

most of africa and asia are pretty fascist, colored people are asshole all on their own merits just like everyone else

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Vanya

why would anyone want to be invaded by hordes of asians and africans?

Oleg Maddox

history reapeats itself. anyone don’t remember the battle of fort ében-émael.

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rasputin

isn’t that a belgian fort that was taken by german paratroopers dropped by gliders? i remember the defenders had their cannons very well positioned, but these were blown up anyway with mines at close range.

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The Lateen Lover

yeah that’s the one. dfs 230 attack gliders towed by ju-52s, by the way where are russian airborne forces most active now that the iran front is open.

Clubofinfo

a good idea is to build lancets with multiple stages, so that a lancet can even go all the way into kiev

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Potemkin Village

so rooskies lost andriviika and ukrainians have had success also near pokrovsk.

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Clyde

ghost of kiev much?

Joe

dont mind the kiev a44 l1cking tr0ll, he just woke up and reading the onion news

chattykunty

idiot americunt swallow too much taliban jizz

Vasily Bebko

10 months have gone and russian army unable to take pokrovsk. is this the worst russian military during history of rooskieland?

Joe

your an idot, you know nothing, the real army of rus is preparing for major pre emotive strike and the once’s on front lines are mostly volunteer based who are becoming professionals. thats why its called special ops

PersianAnusPenetratedEasily

it’s going to be a “hot” summer in moscow…heheheh

SovietRus´

iran wipe out israel a** in tel aviv, haifa, etc… but liberal russians can´t use ballistics on kiev…

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Joe

anyone on radar watch should be fired and they need to arm local police with stingers to shot those things down .

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Fabricio Lustosa

the mainstream media in my country, brazil, is already reporting that the puppet government of zelensky is recruiting women for the front and this is a sign that, since the mainstream media here only relays canned news from the western media, the disaster that is happening to the puppet government is becoming increasingly difficult to hide. excellent. and by the way, we all know that ukrainian women have been on the front for years.

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piecelickcockknow0

after 20 yrs sodomy by taliban we cannot liberate los angeles

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Igor Nostra

russia have been sleepwalking. while everyone builds underground protected, russia has surface production.

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hasbarats

oinky oinks are busy dying and wh0ring themselves to western demonocracy. its incredible that a failed state like ukraine has no idea how to end the war when it is so simple. hmmm, i wonder if its nazi thing. they seem to always get jumpy at provoking conflict, but have zero skills to end wars

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Dunk

it is a “nazi ” thing read the treaty of versailles and herr hiltler,s reply to it , it got him into power -the peace conditions humiliated the majority of the german public -watch the germans throwing flowers as their troops entered the rhineland.

Ramschell

russians have to many banderit saboteurs on their territory. putin, take your gloves off.

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japie

putin cant finished off zelenski.but want to mediate.never allow putin he will settle usa as he did with kerry in syria and bring in erdogan in iran.medvedev yes.putin cn even send in reinforcement in irn as ally.

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japie

assad is also selfish he was supposed to allow iran and hisbollah in bases and hand over bases before fleeing.to be ally of putin means fatal nd to be his enemy you are strong.you can loose your country or die

japie

emergin putin almost made russia nato partner and through that expose most russian nuclear silos and launch site to wes. this is after wes collapse soviet union for open friendship of lies to get closer.

White Gandalf

well: flying with a sunday-afternoon-recreational plane inmidst a country, completely (and probably actively) ignored by any defense entity of that country, is not what i would consider as a “sophisticated attack”. that’s just blatant blunder by the military of the attacked country.

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White Gandalf

such blunder is only possible because the russians are so unimaginably arrogant that the ukrainians may come up with whatever ideas coming to their mind. the russians ramain adament in their “no real war started, not even something seriously” stance. [shaking head in disbelieve]

White Gandalf

if you would try such thing in israeli airspace, you wouldn’t be a minute in the air and shot down. if you would try that in german airspace, the moment air defense registered your presence, they would inquire if you have the proper “passport a38” in envelope “arial green 12pt”, and since not, would then shot you down. but in russia, you can probably shoot a rocket into space with nobody even giving a fuck.

freedomforpalestine

make kiev glassy and give iran nukes now!!!!!

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Sorin

in the first video the plane towing the glider is a polish pzl vilga, used in aero clubs to tow gliders. i recognize it by its shape and the sound of its engine, i’ve flown a lot with this type of plane. so it’s not part of the current sabotage action.

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NDR 7652

so you can just fly into russia in a prop plane and attack at will ???

could you imagine if nato actually was attacking russia

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RPG22inmygymbag

how can you not be enable to shoot that large, slow moving sht down?

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