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Elite Ukrainian drone unit brings the war to Moscow’s doorstep (apnews.com)

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Waves of Ukrainian drones targeted the massive logistics center outside Moscow overnight. The next morning, it was still ablaze, dark smoke rising into the sky from what was one of Russia’s largest retail warehouses.

Hundreds of miles away, Ukrainian drone crews had barely paused after the night’s work before starting to prepare for another attack.

A small group of soldiers quickly assembled in a sunflower field in southern Ukraine, gathering around 20 small planelike drones laden with explosives, before launching them toward Russia.

The launch by the Ukrainian 413th “Raid” Unmanned Systems Regiment on Sunday morning was observed by a team of Associated Press journalists — a rare glimpse into a rapidly expanding part of Ukraine’s war effort.

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[-] spacegoat@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Attach a cobalt dirty bomb to one and launch it at Moscow

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 points 24 minutes ago

You don't target civilians. I don't understand why it's so hard for people to understand?

[-] Nautalax@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

That’s like the worst of both worlds because it both barely does any damage to Russia’s war effort but people would think it was devastating to civilians

[-] becausechemistry@piefed.social 29 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, sure, let’s escalate this thing. And spread radiation across half of Europe in the process! And kill a million civilians in a slow, agonizing way!

Only one man really needs to die for this thing to end.

[-] Nautalax@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Dirty bombs are a meme weapon that would barely cause damage except psychologically. If it spreads everywhere it’s too diluted to do much and if it remains concentrated then the scope is too small to affect many people. Their sole advantage is that people are terrified of them because they are ignorant about how bad they are as weapons. So no a dirty bomb is not spreading across Europe and killing hundreds of thousands of people, a hypothetical dirty bomb is literally nothing compared to the thousands of nuclear tests, Chernobyl release, Kyshtym disaster etc. that did not have death tolls anywhere remotely near a million. Even the actual atomic bomb strikes on populated cities of Japan combined did not kill a million.

This is not to say it would be good for Ukraine to use dirty bombs, absolutely not. Negligible damage to Russia except for causing a massive scare to their people that would be condemned globally makes that a terribly counterproductive option to undertake vs. keeping on bombing refineries and so on.

[-] BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip 3 points 46 minutes ago

All I know about dirty bombs comes from that one Tom Clancy novel, and your assessment seems accurate

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Well a group of people need to go but yes

[-] sepi@piefed.social 2 points 5 hours ago

"Yeah, sure, let's escalate this thing" says man without minding that for Ukraine it is as escalated as it can escalate at the moment.

This is all to say that I'm with you: let's escalate this thing and get us a real war going, it's awfully boring as it is around these parts. Let's all meet at Burger Town.

[-] becausechemistry@piefed.social 7 points 5 hours ago

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