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Russian Drone Swarm Attacked Ukrainian Forces In Luhansk (Photos)

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Russian Drone Swarm Attacked Ukrainian Forces In Luhansk (Photos)

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On April 9, a swarm of Russian KUB-BLA loitering munitions attacked several positions of Ukrainian forces in Luhansk.

Ukrainian sources shared photos showing the remains of the loitering munitions, which are commonly referred to as kamikaze drones. The sources didn’t provide any details about the results of the attack.

The KUB-BLA was designed by the ZALA Aero Group, a subsidiary of the Kalashnikov Concern. The loitering munition has an endurance of 30 minutes and a speed of up to 130 kilometers per hour. The munition is armed with a three-kilogram warhead.

The first documented use of the KUB-BLA in Ukraine was on March 12, when it hit a target in the Podil neighborhood in the capital, Kiev.

Russian Drone Swarm Attacked Ukrainian Forces In Luhansk (Photos)

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The KUB-BLA is not the only loitering munition in service with the Russian military. The ZALA Aero Group developed a more sophisticated loitering munition with the ability to detect, track and engage moving targets, the Lancet. This system is yet to be spotted in Ukraine.

With loitering munitions, the Russian military can detect and engage targets located behind the line of sight with high precision.

Russian loitering munitions will pose a serious challenge to Ukrainian forces. The detection and interception of these munitions, which have a small radar cross-section and a minimal infrared signature, will be extremely hard.

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Great Victory!

Nice, any casuality? Or the Ukros are asking NATO for these types of arms? In which case Russia must step up its game.

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Z Reborn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAMGZllk5Ac

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G2 man

It is time for a serious update on Russian performance after a month of largely successful operations against Ukrainian war criminals and Nazi perverts who abuse women and children as the abuse of an elderly ethnic Russian Babushka proudly waving the Soviet flag boldly confronting a Ukrainian coward who snatches the flag from a 87 year old woman and then pushes her. This proud dignified Russia lady has become the symbol of this righteous operation #Babushka

On the military front as I updated a week ago, the Russians have regrouped very successfully and have ramped up their weapons production and are systematically devastating the Nazi terrorists in Mariupol and Azovstal, which as suffered very limited damage, thanks to Russian precision strikes and joint Spetsnaz and Chechen urban warfare mastery. Large numbers of UAF are surrendering and are cornered like rats. The port is basically intact in in complete Russian hands. The UAF and Nazi scum tried to escape dressed as women in ships, but the Russian Navy has complete control of Azov and Black sea, so the murdering cowards trapped.

Russian use of very determined infantry buoyed by massive popular support and global revulsion at UAF and Naz war crimes, is proving very effective, despite the NATO criminals pouring billions of dollars worth of weapons into Ukraine, which is now a lost cause. Russia is doing very well and its military should be commended for the new effective tactics and true grit. Russia will prevail as I predicted initially. Its economy is strong, the sanctions are useless and the Red Army is on a winner.

John

Regrouping = withdrawal Russian people in Ukraine are being killed by Russian soldiers Russian soldiers do not want to kill Russian people anymore

jens holm

Yellow pee NUTS from 1/2Gman

Florian Geyer

Very well said. The structured Russian campaign is designed to do minimal damage to civilian infrastructure.

The US and UK have always used a strategy of ” Kill everything, even animals”, that do not wish to be enslaved by Western banksters. The result being that the abject hatred of the Western abusers is passed down future generations.

Russia desires peace and harmony that will succeed once the de fact NATO backed ISIS 2.0 are eradicated. The NATO backed ASOV and Right Sector Gangs have a record of extreme cruelty that can be traced for centiries. The Khazar bandits are no better.

vikziv

To win a war, win the hearths first. And This is exactly what Russians are doing.

vikziv

April the 9th, numbers of Ukropistan armed forces; -2037 tanks and IFV’s (12862 to go) -886 artillery of all kind (2221 to go) -229 MLRS (261 to go) -225 Aviation (25 to go) The question remains how many of those “to go” are in operational state considering missile attacks everyday on fuel, ammo and spare parts depots.

Ryan K Sergent

It’s good to read a mature well articulated sit rep on here. so many are just posting ad hominem which just makes them look like Pusillanimous fan boys. Thank you G2

RealityOfWar

The West already supplies loitering munitions to Ukraine. The western strategy is just to cause the maximum Russian losses they can, in the hope that Russia will then disengage. The west has done well with the high mobility strategy and to focus fighting in cities, where the going is always hard and draining. Of course that strategy can never directly take back territory.

Rasputin

It can buy time to build up the Ukrainian military, and drain the Russian. Also with time Sanctions will bite harder,the reality of the whats going on will get back to Russians who may not want to lose sons brothers and fathers for a pointless war to satisfy Putin’s Ego.

Sunny

All I see is copium from the shills on a daily basis. Muh sanctions, muh Ukraine is winning. Sanctions can’t and won’t ever work because Russia is an exporter of materials whereas Europe is an importer. The Ruble is already worth more than it was prior to the conflict. I mean the sanctions are just a complete joke. Even the zoomers who want useless products like iPads are barely affected. Russia can just get those from China where they are produced.

>It can buy time to build up the Ukrainian military, and drain the Russian. True, it does buy time. More time for both Russians and Ukrainians to get killed, mostly Ukrainians. The reality of the situation is that all the imported western weapons barely even get used because 90% of all engagements are long range artillery engagements. Small arms doesn’t decide the outcome of wars. But if Ukrops want to be cheap cannon fodder for the west, I suppose that is their right. Of course anyone with any self respect would laugh at the idea of dying for Zelensky and his handlers but it seems Ukrainians think extremely little of themselves.

RealityOfWar

This indeed will be the interesting point. What that extra time would mean. Russia has options here and so does Ukraine. Russia could actually just add the minimum here to keep grinding away at Ukraine. It could do a slow burn on taking territory and just keep hitting Ukraine – broadly across the country, taking out the military infrastructure and – narrowly in pursuing the goals for LPR and DPR. On the other hand Russia could flood troops in and rapidly take more territory and maximise damage to eastern based Ukrainian forces. Ukraine could try to use the time to get in more equipment, but unless that equipment, gives them the real ability to take and hold territory – read heavy armour, assuming they could procure it, and safely get it to theatre (doubtful). Then their efforts are likely only to produce a protracted ineffective high loss response from themselves. It will be interesting – the choices that Russia makes.

jens holm

I dont think the Russians are able to flood in more troops. They dont have the logistics.

But they erase everything there to ruble. It seemes to be their kind of pride.

I hope something else will happen. More here are for more active suooprt for the ukras.

We see Finland and Sweden might be Nato members.

We will see the influence or non influence of the sanctions.

RealityOfWar

As the British did firebombing German cities and the US did Nuking Japanese cities, both to get rid of pretty despicable people. Then of course Russia also has this option – that is the reality of war – only losing is a real crime!. With a seasoned Syrian experienced commander taking over, I am sure some techniques used there will come in to play, even up to running an insurgency over the rest of Ukraine to continue the civil war. In terms of logistics, Russia has been obviously keeping close to the borders to lessen logistical issues and it may be that a slow burn approach favours the continuance of this approach too. It certainly an interesting situation developing, with many decisions and options to take. It’s one of the most fascinating conflicts in modern times. Russia will face most of the NATO arsenal by proxy in terms of battlefield exposure, and wars are great for understanding real weapons and real weapon systems and learning to counter them!. In terms of flooding 150,000 is a very plausible number to be rocking up in the east, whilst still staying within the special operation allowance, and as there is no intention to hold wider territory, that would be a very capable number.

jens holm

Putin has used his gold. There is only zink under his pillow.

And what You name as small arms actually take tanks and all kind of vehicles. So thats an important adding. You are right abiyut the artillery. Its impirtnat and often is doing well.

So far I dont see Your Zelinsky version at all. They all are united in this apart from the 11 small Russian polical parties.

They dont die for Zelinsky. They and we are not raised into being a nepotistic cult. Zelinsky also can be replaced by norma and sober elections. They dont exist in Russia and suporters.

2015 was 17,8% Rusians there runned by Moskva should not run more then 80% Ukras.

CaCaCa

Ukraine Military is in a shambles, only propaganda keeps it together.

Florian Geyer

Just like the shambles of the UK NHS :)

jens holm

Thats right. The Russians are doing a good job. Putin also unite the world more then Biden does.

Miami Vice

Dream on, Daffy. Your goose is cooked. Only decision left for you is, rare, medium or well done.

Bird

Keep dreaming hoholtrash. What sanctions? Rubel is stronger then before the war.

jens holm

Putin had to replace the gold under his pillow with zink.

¥>$

“Build up the Ukrainian army…” ¥_¥ The fuck did I just read?!

jens holm

Thats right. It decided to give them defence weapons only. Some might be used as offensive ones too.

rex

The NATO fools have been sending kamikaze drones for a couple of weeks. How many reach the desired destination is not known. And it isn’t even clear if they can work inside an EM polluted zone under the shoots of Russian ECM systems.

Did you remember the videos shot by citizens showing russian armored vehicles advancing? No such videos are being spread on the internet. This means that the russian are using ECM systems. Such systems obviously interfere with drones command and control signals. And they can spoof GPS too, as Iran has been doing for some years.

Joseph Day

Nice

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wakka wakka

Labia, labia, vagina and clitoris, labia, labia: [{i}] Les fleurs.

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good4u

Man, you should see a doctor

CaCaCa

What a great knowledge!

RealityOfWar

He is just giving a run down on the useful ‘military’ capability Ukraine has – after all the Ukrainian women are generally good looking and making their way in large numbers to the west to displace Western women, who don’t have such ‘battlefield’ capability.

jens holm

Most of the 10.000 we has here befor this actually was men. Some extra % in women is fine.

We do try to keep human trade of any kind down. Here You seemes not to be aware of that half of the traded actaully are men.

Timmy Temperance

I only see pictures of lithium ion batteries which are used in many devices.

Sunny

A single type of drone won’t really have a massive impact on the battlefield anyways. It’s the accumulation of damage from missile strikes, krasnopol strikes here and there, couple of drone strikes, airstrike, mlrs etc that cause the depletion of the ukrop army. They’ve entered the phase where they beg literally every single NATO member for more supplies, whilst at the same time claim they’re winning. It’s a paradox but hey, nothing that comes out of Kiev makes sense so at least they’re consistent in that regard.

Timmy Temperance

Thanks for the explanation and I agree. It is a beggars banquet. RIP Lanegan.

jens holm

Thats rubbish of the worst kind too. You are in the old days.

Those are used to everything. They fx are very good targetfinders for soldiers and artllery.

AZOV DROWNS NAZIS

Nice,deceptive,compact,silent,accurate and lethal,unlike f35 shitfight submarine.

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Grammar

Put a space after your punctuation.

Luci

We’re you the teacher in school for during the holidays, when no one is around?

jens holm

Grand Ma?

joebiden

The scale and scope of the Russian attack is remarkable. They captured territory in three weeks that is larger than the land mass of the United Kingdom. They then proceeded to carry out targeted attacks on key cities and military installations. We have not seen a single instance of a Ukrainian regiment or brigade size unit attacking and defeating a comparable Russian unit. Instead, the Russians have split the Ukrainian Army into fragments and cut their lines of communication. The Russians are consolidating their control of Mariupol and have secured all approaches on the Black Sea. Ukraine is now cut off in the South and the North.

Russia’s arrival in Kiev within three days of the invasion also caught my attention. I recalled that the Nazi’s in Operation Barbarossa took seven weeks to reach Kiev and the required 7 more weeks to subdue the city. The Nazis had the advantage of not pulling punches to avoid civilian casualties and were eager to destroy critical infrastructure. Yet many so-called American military experts claimed that Russia was bogged down. When a 24 mile (or 40 mile, depends on the news source) was positioned north of Kiev for more than a week, it was clear that Ukraine’s ability to launch significant military operations had been eliminated. If their artillery was intact, then that column was easy pickings for massive destruction. That did not happen. Alternatively, if the Ukrainian’s had a viable fixed wing or rotary wing capability they should have destroyed that column from the air. That did not happen. Or, if they had a viable cruise missile capability they should have rained down hell on the supposedly stalled Russian column. That did not happen. The Ukrainians did not even mount a significant infantry ambush of the column with their newly supplied U.S. Javelins.

Zelensky is a comedian and an actor. Not a very good one at that in my view. The West is cynically using the fact he is Jewish as a diversion from the size-able contingent of Neo-Nazis (and I mean genuine Nazis who still celebrate the Ukrainian Waffen SS unit’s accomplishments while fighting with the Nazis in WW II). The facts are clear—he is banning opposition political parties and shutting down opposition media. I guess that is the new definition of “democracy.”

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Afterthought

Win the battle, lose the war.

Even now, Plan B requires 400,000 troops to win a tough fight. Why win a tough fight? Bring millions and win an easy fight. Save lives on all sides by winning quick. The reserves back in their bed in a month.

Remember Putin SCOFFED at calling up reserves in Week 1. Russians SCOFFED at the America way of power. Instead of watching Netflix and playing Elden Ring, Kiev and Lvov should have been in the dark. Perhaps then they would have thought neutrality a fair trade.

-Z-

Good morning sunshine, here have a cup of coffee…

This is a game, to change the shift in power to the east, while highlighting and exposing the US regime and their absolute disrespect and use of all NATO nations for their own survival, to prove to certain countries/nations, what the US regime is really like and how deep their conquered proxy countries within the EU are. Every NATO country has an installed slave leaders and accomplices, with double citizenship and more. Look it up, some evidence is even found in the Western news. Even as recent as today haha. Go check it.

Seeing is believing, no amount of data/information is as good as watching this unfold live , before your own eyes and those of your people; for nations that aren’t under installed governments. The few that remain.

Watch US buy all the oil it makes the EU NATO sanction off, watch the EU-nato cripple itself on behest of the survival of the US and it’s crumbling economy, the masters must survive: that is the agenda.

Watch Ukraine cripple itself while the blind western civilians cheer it on, its like watching a crowd cheer a man on while he grates his own flesh off to cook it and eat it, until there is nothing left of him.

THis is a game, to change the global power over to the eastern nations, those with resources and more, slowly and slowly…Putin…mother fucking genius master mind…is changing the game with Russian allies a like.

So…none of this could of been achieved without Ukraine unable to post its bullshit, which in turn fuelled the western MSM and their wicked actions. The western Masters and its MSM thinks it’s hitting home runs….haha…it’s scoring own goals too busy admiring their propaganda machine….too busy not analysing how it back fired like fuck. Without any of this, the eastern countries wouldn’t have gotten a wake up call…. without power and internet etc (I.e.playing Elden ring and watching Netflix) this wouldn’t have hit as hard as it did to wake the world up. There wouldn’t be a narrative for Russia to do what it does best…win!

TL;DR

Achieving Neutrality of Ukraine was never the aim, the game was…and well fucking played.

NATO member countries are a lie, they aren’t countries, they aren’t nations, they have no leaders that govern a sovereign nation…they are an illusion, they are slaves to the US. Expendable assets to be called in and used when ever the true ruler comes calling.

There is so much more to cover…

What is lost so far is irrelevant and incomprehensible in the bigger view of the future and what this has done to permanently shift the power. Countless of life’s will be saved due to this.

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Clyde

Ouch!

ADHD

What did he say, could someone summarise?

Snagger

USA is evil. Europeans are stupid and OWNED.

Luci

A….is for apple…b..is for bat, like the EU woman leader….c is for cun t …like the EU Borrell

jens holm

Our female leaders are as good as any.

You just look down below belt. Desperat no gay too.

jens holm

Every NATO country has an installed slave leaders and accomplices, with double citizenship and more.

Brother Ma

Great analogy about the man eating himself. Well done.

Snagger

Well said!

jens holm

I stopped there:

“Every NATO country has an installed slave leaders and accomplices, with double citizenship and more.”

Luci

Jewensky, the zio terrorist Jew clown is practicing the US style govt called DeMockRacy….But hands down bro….this is probably the best simple analysis I’ve read for the last month…very factual. I’m getting the notion that you have a military background. But bravo

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jens holm

Your world seemes to be more limited and narrominded then our most restricted jails and menthal institutions.

RealityOfWar

While the rapid penetration of the special operation was impressive (it was never an occupying invasion as the troop ratios planned proved) – to be outside the gates of Kiev so quickly. The point of that exercise remains illusive. It could have been to pressure Kiev in negotiations – and it did, but then pulling out made little sense, it could have been a message – but an expensive one. Militarily it would have had an effect in diluting a response in the east, as Ukraine had to hold forces around Kiev – but again a pullout would make little sense. Of course Ukrainian forces have been decimated around Kiev and overall Ukrainian military capability degraded, but again, this penetration and subsequent pullout seems an overkill and waste with regard to overall Russian goals of the special operation – To denazify Ukraine, to reduce Ukraine military strength (no threat to Russia), to prevent NATO membership including foreign weapons and forces on Ukrainian territory, LPR and DPR safety and independence.

rex

No, the first phase was executed in order to destroy the ukr command and control system and break up the army.

They can show and write what they want on twitter, but the truth on the ground is that their army is currently composed of small pieces, separated from each other, incapable of effectively communicate, with no way to replenish ammo, fuels and get reinforcements.

And at this point comes the true objective of the “special operation”. The ukronazi inside the army have shifted to the guerrilla warfare. And this type of war is nasty and needs to be thought street by street, house by house. Nonetheless it is like having a brazilian drug gang sieged in their favela, while the police outside starves them and kills them one by one.

RealityOfWar

Again I would argue that even if that was the objective – to break up command and control. The effort was inefficient – Battalion groups sitting at the side of the road would have little effect on that goal. That goal would be better achieved by decimating control facilities and communication infrastructure coupled with normal decimation of the armed services themselves – all achievable with precision strikes, aviation and targeted special operations. I don’t accept that thousands of exposed parked tanks and other armed vehicles have a massive effect on command and control capabilities. Indeed NATO has honed this part of the Ukrainian operation. Yes, the reality is as you say, the Ukrainian armed services are disjointed, but I argue that is because of precision strikes and aviation rather than much to do with rocking up to the gates of Kiev! I honestly, have no idea what doing this, then pulling out was designed to achieve, or what it achieved in terms of strategic aims and goals.

jens holm

Thats a copy past. The land taken is not even close to the seize of that Kingdom. It could be Youego is.

Nashika

TWITTERS ARE FAKE NEWS FOR THE PUBLIC!

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B A

This guy’s a pretty good retweeter; follows some good channels nitter.net/stalfyrone/with_replies

Chad

The Russians are just testing out the drones on the ukronazis. They’re intended for the coming real war with the Americunts.

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Afterthought

At that stage it will be a global ideological war: Asha vs Druj. Nations won’t matter.

rex

To me this entire war is just a training and testing run for the real war. It is painfully obvious, starting with the fact that they sent the worst equipment and personnel for the first phase. They were kamikaze troops, whose only objective was to penetrate deeply inside Banderastan. Cynical but effective strategy.

James

I love these things! They have to be one of the best pieces of hardware simply by harrassing the enemy. Nobody can really hide from them and it will distract the enemy while Russian forces move in closer.

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Sceince!

In sci-fi drone swarms involve thousands of small drones which disable avionics or electrical systems and render the enemy blind.

rex

And they can go around traps, mines and any other typical anti-personnel shit. What is needed is to make them smaller and smaller.

Z Reborn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAMGZllk5Ac

Z

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Nashika

#USATactic (of mass murders)!

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Nashika

Vladimir Putin is a Zionist of Chabad Lubavitch like Donald Trump, Joseph Biden, Barack Obama, George Bush and Bill Clinton.

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James

As much as it is hard to establish the true roots and intentions of our political leaders I think it can best be determined by looking at their human rights record and how the treat the common people no matter how much money they have.

Why would Russia use a traditional vaccine for the Corona virus instead of the genocidal method of experimental gene-altering chemicals?

Thomas Turk

O-baa-Ma is a Mullim born in Mombasa, Kenya, ex British East Africa. No fake nooz allowed here.

Yuri

ukropistan does not exist—nazi north ameriaka will not exist in 5 years….stupified immoral submissive robots

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So the EU says they’re going to send heavy weapons to Ukraine. When will China send it’s drones to Russia?

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rex

They are saying they are sending. This is the point. They know that 90% of this shit will be fried by Kalibr ( if they are unlucky by some penetrating Khinzal ).

How the fuck they think to deploy such heavy weapons without the Russians seeing the large convoys transporting them?

eric

After this war, Russia’s military machine will be a lot more modernized

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Evil Derick Lewis

So will your sister after I bust her hymen.

rex

Do you mean when Biden will be your penymen? Trans have a mix of both right?

Evil Derick Lewis

Should have stuck to playing cricket.

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Fat lesbian

Yep, Imran Khan is done and Pakistan needs urgent reform so that Islamist terrorists do not run the country.

Fuck Russia

Holly sh.it another hig ranking millitary official k.illed.. Russian Colonel Alexander Bespalov, the commander of the 59th Guards Tank Regiment (part of the 144th Guards Motorized Rifle Division), has been k. illed in battle by the Ukrainian Army. https://t.co/jLMFi93hGY

Yes yes baby 5 more and the Russian army totally colapse

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Evil Derick Lewis

Fuk yeah. Game over, term terminated.

James

Nobody believes you, so why bother?

Clyde

Was he killed by the Ghost of Kiev, in the name of the men who fought to the last on Snake Island?

rex

Another respawned russian general? Because they have the tendency to show up in posterous videos. Maybe the Russians have functioning clonation systems for human beings.

Corrupt Shithole of Ukropisstan

A kamikaze done a day keeps Azovisis away 🤗

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Corrupt Shithole of Ukropisstan

CIAtrolls and ukrobots are crying and raging 🤗

Corrupt Shithole of Ukropisstan

Russia is gaining ukrobots are draining 🤗

Corrupt Shithole of Ukropisstan

Slava Rossiye 🇷🇺

John

These drones may be little un, but the kill many Ukrainian.

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Yuri

ukie like amerikant okie—lose cry, lie—seek attention from lgbt social worker

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About 75% of British people are Jewish

This is interesting. They clicking language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPAb8qXM0Ws

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Pamfil Military Academy

All russian industry must ramp up production of those azovite nazi brainless killer ! What can do a 3kg warhead ? Actually very much if used modern shaped high explosives; military academy will do that for you with LIST: 1. if HASH used, and top hit, knock out all knowing tanks on planet. 2. if shrapnel proximity fuse used, in open spaces, out all banderiputas vermin on a 100 meter radius. 3. if HEAT used, out all ukrop CIA whores APC’s and military vehicles hit, out. 4. if C4 used, all earthen SS Zefags dug-in direct hit position, out’, here included normal house and apartment nest fire positions. 5. if normal inexpensive HE warhead, all artillery weapons destroyed on a 10 meters radius 6. idem 5 requirement, a 1.5 foot depth hole in any railway tracks, derail any train and making inoperable for at least 2 days all concrete rail bridges 7. and many more

Oh, I forgot: if NO warhead used at all, and maximum speed used, a hit directly on the Zefag nazi head will spare all Ukraine from ongoing CIAOps misery.

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