Ukraine Launched Something That Shouldn’t Exist… Putin is Finished
Beyond Military
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On the night of May 16–17, 2026, Ukraine launched its largest drone strike on the Moscow region in over a year — more than 500 long-range drones across more than a dozen Russian regions. One of the named targets was the Angstrem semiconductor plant in Zelenograd, a US-sanctioned facility that produces military-grade guidance microchips for Russia's cruise and ballistic missile programs. This video reconstructs a single thread of that night: how one cheap FP-1 Firepoint strike drone reached a chip plant outside Moscow by riding inside a swarm built to break the densest air-defense network on Earth.
We break down the combined-arms drone tactics on both sides: the jet-powered RS-1 Bars decoy that baits the S-400 and Pantsir batteries into revealing themselves, the BARS-SM Gladiator that homes on those radar emissions to suppress them, the unmanned interceptor layer Russia uses over the capital — missile-armed Geran-2 drones and ramming interceptors — and the find-fix-finish hunt for the mobile command posts running that interceptor network. The video explains why Russia leans on unmanned interceptors over Moscow during a swarm rather than risk manned aircraft, how Starlink's geofence forces the deep-strike drone to fly autonomously, why Moscow's GPS-spoofing bubble can't stop a drone that navigates by terrain matching, and how those guidance chips end up inside the missiles falling on Ukrainian cities.
This is modern drone warfare at its most layered — a $55,000 plywood drone, a swarm built to absorb a wall of fire, and a chip factory five hundred kilometers behind the front line.
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#russia
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v...
20 Comments
And where are the burning grain silos in the thumbnail?
i have a friend who's a fighter pilot and i asked him if he was scared of air defense ships at sea, he said "it would be far scarier being on that ship than maneuvering around at the edge of it's radar range."
i guess at the end of the day a factory can't really move itself, doesn't matter what defenses it has
Ukraine Launched Something That Shouldn’t Exist… Putin is Finished
Beyond Military
822,952 views
On the night of May 16–17, 2026, Ukraine launched its largest drone strike on the Moscow region in over a year — more than 500 long-range drones across more than a dozen Russian regions. One of the named targets was the Angstrem semiconductor plant in Zelenograd, a US-sanctioned facility that produces military-grade guidance microchips for Russia's cruise and ballistic missile programs. This video reconstructs a single thread of that night: how one cheap FP-1 Firepoint strike drone reached a chip plant outside Moscow by riding inside a swarm built to break the densest air-defense network on Earth.
We break down the combined-arms drone tactics on both sides: the jet-powered RS-1 Bars decoy that baits the S-400 and Pantsir batteries into revealing themselves, the BARS-SM Gladiator that homes on those radar emissions to suppress them, the unmanned interceptor layer Russia uses over the capital — missile-armed Geran-2 drones and ramming interceptors — and the find-fix-finish hunt for the mobile command posts running that interceptor network. The video explains why Russia leans on unmanned interceptors over Moscow during a swarm rather than risk manned aircraft, how Starlink's geofence forces the deep-strike drone to fly autonomously, why Moscow's GPS-spoofing bubble can't stop a drone that navigates by terrain matching, and how those guidance chips end up inside the missiles falling on Ukrainian cities.
This is modern drone warfare at its most layered — a $55,000 plywood drone, a swarm built to absorb a wall of fire, and a chip factory five hundred kilometers behind the front line.
#ukraine
#russia
#beyondmilitary
Credits:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v...