Ukraine Has at Least an Entire Squadron of Reusable Horynych Bomber Drones for Striking Hardened russian Targets | Defense Express (en.defence-ua.com)

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This is also a counter to fighter-bombers and glidebombs once you knock out radars and air defense, though that may be a more one way use.

This is an echo of aircraft like the O-1 Bird Dog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_O-1_Bird_Dog

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[-] The_v@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

SEAD for these relatively large fragile slow moving planes is pretty difficult. The U.S lost over 400 in similar role to ground fire in Vietnam. Mostly downed by direct fire 0.50cal machine guns or small arms from what I can find.

That being said:

These are a very cheap answer to long range highly mobile heavy artillery or front-line dug in positions with very low risk to Ukraines operators.

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