Ukrainian drones will strike again key Russian drone facility 1,200 km behind lines
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As reported flying deep behind Russian lines, Ukrainian long-range drones delivered a devastating blow to the only Russian Shahed production facility. Long-range drones loaded with 250 kilogram bombs tore through the final assembly line, throwing all Russian strike plans into disarray, Euromaidan Press reports.
The Ukrainian strike happened at Yelabuga, located over 1,200 kilometers away from the frontline. The Ukrainians used six drones for the strike on the main Shahed assembly facility, of which five Ukrainian drones managed to reach and directly strike their target despite Russian air defenses being present. The strike led to severe damage to the final assembly line of the drone production facility, creating a bottleneck and disrupting the entire production process within the factory.
For the strike, Ukrainians used small A-22 light training planes repurposed as drones to strike critical Russian military and economic infrastructure far beyond the frontline. These drones have a maximum flight range of over 1,500 kilometers, with integrated GPS inertial guidance to conduct precision strikes. Each of these drones has an integrated payload of 250 kilograms, able to collapse the facility’s roof, already damaging production machinery, which was then followed by the next drone striking the factory floor itself, finishing the job, Euromaidan Press says.
The destruction of the assembly line at the Alabuga facility throws a massive wrench into Russian plans, as the Russians are exerting considerable effort to scale up production and increase the number of Shahed drone strikes. Since the launch of this factory, which produced 300 Shahed drones daily before the Ukrainians hit it, Russia has steadily increased the number of Shahed strikes each month. Following the completion of the Alabuga drone production complex, the Russians continued to increase their production output, launching a massively increased number of Shahed drone strikes in the past 6 months, Euromaidan Press says. This number could have risen to 9,000 by the end of April, prompting the Ukrainians to urgently develop a plan to strike the Russian Shahed production facility. The strike on the Alabuga plant was additionally prompted by the recent Russian development of an analogue to Ukraine’s Palianytsia jet-propelled drone. The upgraded Shahed, called the Geranium-3, features a turbojet engine for increased speed, raising from 200 kilometers per hour to 600.
This enhancement makes it much harder for Ukrainian mobile air defense units to intercept them, primarily relying on truck-mounted machine guns and autocannons to take down the Shaheds, Euromaidan Press reports.
Destroying Russian production capabilities before these drones could be produced and implemented on a larger scale was a strategic play to prevent the Russians from exploiting weak spots in Ukrainian air defense, while the laser air defense is still in the early stages.
This also shows that Ukrainians know the locations of these critical Russian factories, and can continue to target them if they struggle to intercept the new Shaheds. While Ukrainians have many potential targets to hit, they must choose wisely due to the amount of time needed to plan and set conditions for such complex aerial operations, making it impossible to strike every location simultaneously.
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