AFU Colonel On Drones Attack: That’s The End, Happy Life Of Russians Is Over

They have absolutely nowhere to hide from UAVs.

Yesterday Russia was massively attacked by drones. The drones flew to the Moscow region and the Leningrad region. Why didn't the Russian air defense forces work?

The Charter97.org website asked this question to Colonel of the Reserve of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, pilot-instructor Roman Svitan.

— Drones flew around the perimeter of the combat radius somewhere around 600-700 kilometers, or even the whole thousand. The fact is that Russia does not have an air defense system and a priori cannot have it. Any air defense system is woven from anti-aircraft missile systems with a certain range, heights of destruction, reaction speed. A multi-layered defense system is built from the complexes.

Some systems catch high-speed and low-flying targets, some low-speed and high-flying, some high-altitude, ballistic. Tens of thousands of complexes are needed to completely close Russian territory. No one has ever done this either under the USSR or in Russia. I will say more, this is impossible to do, even if all of Russia starts producing anti-aircraft missile systems and missiles. It is impossible to embrace the immensity. Russia in this sense is a defective country. It is simply impossible to close such a large territory from drones.

Air defense systems close point complexes: critical or military infrastructure facilities. Obviously, there are not enough air defense systems for everyone. I emphasize that since Russia does not have an overall air defense system, it is a pinpoint one. It is very easy to plot a route for a drone aircraft by going around these points.

As soon as the Ukrainians had means of destruction that could reach military targets and hit them, these means began to be used. Serial production of these drones has already been launched. The Russians have absolutely nowhere to hide from them. There is no such mechanism — the territory is too large.

— Tell us more about these drones.

— There are a lot of them. At least seven were presented only by the Ukrainian Minister of Defense. I will say that if seven were presented, it means that their number must be multiplied by two. It turns out that there are a dozen of them.

Judging by the photographs of the wreckage of the downed drones that the Russians showed, it was a UJ-22. A standard aircraft scheme, wingspan — more than three meters, it is almost invisible, assembled from plastic. The engine is two-stroke, with it the drone can carry somewhere at least 20 kilograms of explosives. These are either mines or shells.

Where it can go depends on how much fuel is poured into it. In principle, it can go more than 1,000 km in one direction. Combat radius with return is 500-700 km. The drone can reach, unload and return back. Its speed is just such that not a single satellite can catch up with it, somewhere around 100 km / h.

I described one of those that the Russians showed. There are another dozen and a half of the same kind of drones with long and short ranges. There are drones also for 100-200 km with direct control and without communication with the satellite. They will work in the nearby “theater” in the same Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk, Rostov. That’s the end, the happy life of the Russians is over.

— Can such unknown UAVs appear over Russian facilities on the territory of Belarus?

— Sure they can. The only problem is that in Belarus all Russian military facilities are covered by air defense systems. Moreover, powerfully covered, the “Triumphs” were pulled up there. If we know that there is an S-300 Triumph in Machulishchy, then there is no point in sending a drone there. They will knock it down.

This means that partisans need to be sent there, who will blow up the airplane either from a hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher, or a Javelin, or a Switchblade.

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