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No wonder bay-area companies love to set up offices in East Europe. Their engineers are really really good, as this event demonstrated.

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I would assume this event was a one-time hack, it does not scale. Actually most of the “miracle weapons” from the very beginning of the conflict have faded away.

Bairktars? Gone. Sea drones? Haven't heard of them in a while. What else?

Russians in comparison are great at scaling. Rockets flying daily, vespa-drones - daily, FAB bombs got wings and flying daily. That's the consistency what wins wars, not the greatest talent.

> Sea drones? Haven't heard of them in a while.

They shot down an Su-30 with a naval drone around a month ago: https://www.newsweek.com/drone-naval-sukhoi-jet-2067633

You havent heard this absolutely crazy thing about their sea drones that happened not even a month ago? https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-it-shot-do...

This incident only shows the mistake of SU-30 crew which detected the sea drones from the long distance and for some reason got into the shooting range. Usually those drones are destroyed with something like X-38MT missiles, from the 50-70km range. Otherwise you would have seen a lot more interceptors taken down

> Sea drones? Haven't heard of them in a while.

You haven't heard as much about sea drones because Russia was forced to stop naval operations close to Ukraine by them, after losing 1/3 of the Black Sea Fleet.

Though they still occasionally manage to make headlines doing other things, https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/ukrainian-naval-drones-shoo...

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