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Originally Posted by Heffe
Could be a lot of reasons, but the one I had read that seemed most convincing was that these bases were hit by Ukraine's new domestic rocket drone, which was only recently unveiled. This one:
https://defence-blog.com/ukraine-dis...ytsya-missile/
If true, it could be that Ukraine simply didn't have domestic weapons capable, until recently, of hitting the facilities. Or alternatively they didn't feel that they had a solid corridor through Russia's AA net to make it work until now. |
The UJ-25 Skyline would also have the range and is jet-powered, but even that was first shown to the public only a year ago and it allegedly has a much smaller warhead than Palianytsia (~10 kg versus ~50 kg). Regardless of type, it would take a while to build up the inventory for the 100+ drone salvo allegedly used for the first depot strike. Strizh would also have the range, but not the numbers, to strike the depot 300 miles from the Ukrainian border.