[edslunch]

Originally Posted by Firebot

Some reports coming out of at least 2 strikes (Saratov and Ryazan) within Russia which may have destroyed at least 2 Tu-95 strategic bombers.

The reason why this is big news is this may have been done by a new UAV currently being developed by Ukraine and being tested this week, that has a range of 1000 km and payload of 75kg.

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato...s-testing.html

This also happened prior to an expected mass missile launch that Russia has been preparing for more then a week, from those very bases.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1599690434502017025

https://twitter.com/user/status/1599671428197928961

https://twitter.com/user/status/1599723786516897792

At the moment Russia is in the process of retaliating fiercely, and Ukraine is under a mass missile attack. Reports of multiple areas being hit.

It's also a big deal because these bombers are part of Russia's nuclear deterrent. If they start to get degraded that's an 'existential threat'.