Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] At the congress, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is going to call on Putin to rename Volgograd to Stalingrad. Putin has previously spoken out on this issue, pointing out that it is up to the city's residents to decide. Now the city is renamed Stalingrad several times a year for holidays and this year the city airport was named Stalingrad.
They also finally decided to review the results of the 20th Congress and recognize Khrushchev's report on Stalin as erroneous and politically biased.
In fact, Khrushchev's report was more than a mistake - it caused enormous damage to both the USSR and the entire socialist camp. In 2026, it will be 70 years since the 20th Congress. It's time to call a spade a spade.
Yesterday evening, after discussions, the CPRF officially recognized Khrushchev's report "On Stalin's Personality Cult" as a serious mistake.
Zyuganov in his speech called Khrushchev's report a crime against the peoples of the USSR.
Yes, all this is very late, of course, but better late than never. Khrushchev with his "de-Stalinization" campaign caused enormous damage to the USSR, the Soviet bloc and the international communist movement. One of the greatest ideological sabotage of the 20th century. It took our Communist Party 69 years to officially recognize this. Well, I repeat - "mistake" is putting it mildly. We are still dealing with many of the consequences of that policy.
Oboy — it’s an interesting world when Stalin is thought right after all.
Also at the congress, Zyuganov was re-elected as the head of the CPRF. Considering that during the war real political life was practically at a standstill, in the current reality this is not so critical. Talk about updating the party leadership has been going on for a long time. Zyuganov himself is already over 80, although when he was recently at the 2nd anti-fascist forum in Moscow, he gave quite a vigorous speech there. I will also note that one of the friends, who is also a reader of the magazine, was approved as a candidate for membership in the Central Committee.
Another noteworthy event was the presence at the congress of Kiriyenko, who oversees domestic policy and spoke at the podium with a portrait of Lenin. In addition to the protocol message from Putin, Kiriyenko in his speech noted the patriotic position of the CPRF in supporting the SVO and many years of work on delivering humanitarian aid to Donbass. Dozens of party members died at the front. The main message is the need for a stable rear to achieve victory in the war against Nazism.
He did not elaborate on the recent excrements of the Black Hundreds
…the nationalist supporters of the Romanovs in the early days of the Russian Revolution who unsuccessfully fought the Communists…
that are splitting this very unity.
Generally speaking, in the coming years, the participation/assistance of the army in the SVO will play a pressing role in matters of domestic policy and elections. The "SVO Participant" card is already in high demand among people who plan their political careers in advance (including by means of forgery). Accordingly, active assistance from the SVO for the CPRF may become a guarantee of improved results in the next elections.
[Civilge] Giorgi Ramishvili, a prominent Georgian businessman and founder of the Silk Road Group, was arrested on July 6, with police claiming he was carrying a firearm in his hand luggage at the departures terminal of Tbilisi International Airport.
Law enforcement officers “seized a firearm, a magazine, and cartridges while examining [Ramishvili’s] hand luggage through a scanner,” the Georgian Interior Ministry reported late on July 6, hours after initial reports of his arrest.
According to the Ministry, the firearm was registered in Ramishvili’s name, but he did not hold a license to carry it. The investigation has been launched under Parts 3 and 4 of Article 236 of the Criminal Code, which concern the illegal carrying and transportation of firearms and ammunition and carry a penalty of up to nine years in prison.
Silk Road Group brings together several major companies, including Silknet, a leading local communications provider. Silknet has also introduced international media products to Georgia, including a Georgian broadcast of Euronews and the publication of a local version of the National Geographic magazine.
SHADOW OF INTERNAL PURGES
The report of Ramishvili’s arrest comes amid what is seen as mounting pressure on current and former figures in political and business circles close to the ruling Georgian Dream party and its founder, Bidzina Ivanishvili.
Former Deputy Economy Minister Romeo Mikautadze was arrested in June on corruption-related charges, facing up to 12 years in prison. Earlier, Ivanishvili’s former associate Giorgi Bachiashvili, convicted in absentia for allegedly misappropriating cryptocurrency, was arrested after what Bachiashvili argued was his abduction from a foreign land with the direct involvement of State Security Service Head Anri Okhanashvili. In May, the court sentenced businessman Giorgi Chikvaidze and his associate to eight and nine years in prison, respectively, on charges of embezzling funds
Several high-ranking officials, including ministers known to have enjoyed Ivanishvili’s trust, left their posts over the past few months.
Coincidentally, the Georgian Dream-dominated parliament is pushing through a legislative package that would bar individuals convicted of financial crimes from leaving the country, even after they have served their sentence. The legislation, which has passed two readings and is expected to be adopted during the fall session, introduces radical measures to recover embezzled or stolen funds, including from the convict’s relatives. It also prohibits those relatives from providing financial assistance to the offender on pain of criminal prosecution. This legislation is believed to serve Ivanishvili’s drive to punish those, including former business associates, whom he suspects of misusing his funds and breaching trust.
Two days before Ramishvili’s arrest, GD Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze held a meeting with businesspeople. According to the official press release, the meeting touched on “positive trends in the country’s economy and the high economic growth pace.”
Salome Zurabishvili, Georgia’s fifth president, linked Ramishvili’s arrest with broader Georgian Dream repression. “After activists, journalists, political leaders, the arrests are now turning to big business! Today’s most recent case is that of George Ramishvili, owner of a major internet provider, founder of Euronews Georgia and an old-time business partner of D.Trump,” Zurabishvili wrote on X.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 21:37 Krasnolimanskoe direction
Units of the "West" group continue an offensive along the heights between the Nitrius and Zherebets rivers in the direction of Shandrigolovo, enveloping the village of Zelenaya Dolina on the flanks.
The enemy is trying to hold the village and the logistics route to it from Shandrigolovo, and is trying to counterattack.
The group's units are advancing in Karpovka along the left bank of the Nitrius River and have reached the southern part of the village.
The situation on the heights near the Redkodub farms is stabilizing, enemy activity has decreased.
In the Glushchenkovo area, fierce counter battles continue.
Our units continue to attack Novy Mir. We managed to dislodge the enemy from two strongholds north of Novomikhaylovka - east of Novy Mir. There is operational information about our assault groups entering the village itself.
West of Grekovka, our units have taken up a landing and are attacking in the direction of Druzhelyubovka.
In the Torskoye area, the enemy notes that our pressure has increased significantly and declares a crisis situation in this area. Our units have managed to partially restore the situation in the fish farm area.
21:03 Russian Air Defense reflected the attack on six UAVs flying towards the capital was reported by the city's mayor.
Emergency services are working at the site of the fallen debris.
20:05 UAV operators are being carried around enemy in all directions
– Scouts of the Vostok group of forces destroyed repeaters and also killed enemy personnel in the area of the settlement of Poddubnoye in the South Donetsk direction.
– Operators of Ivanovo paratroopers' interceptor drones destroyed more than 50 reconnaissance aircraft-type drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the skies over Chasovy Yar.
– Drone operators of the Dnepr group of forces eliminated an enemy 155mm howitzer M-777 on the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region.
– The Molniya-2 crew of the special forces unit of the Center group of forces struck the location of enemy drone operators in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
18:55 Ukrainian drone inflicted targeted attack on a civilian vehicle. The driver and passenger died at the scene from injuries incompatible with life.
18:25 Severskoye direction
Units of the "South" group continue offensive to the east and northeast of Seversk and reached its northeastern outskirts in the area of the Poselkovy pond.
To the north in Serebryanka our assault units have occupied a school, the central part of the village and are fighting near Stepnaya Street, through which one of the roads (the lower one) to Seversk passes.
The enemy's main defensive line is located on the heights immediately behind the western outskirts of the village, which significantly complicates combat operations there for our units.
To the east, our units advanced along the landing, occupying another stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in it and to the north, and reached the enemy stronghold on a commanding height.
The enemy is launching counterattacks, trying to stop the advance of our units with artillery and UAV strikes.
17:31 Governor of the Kherson region Volodymyr Saldo reported that as a result of the shelling of a clinic in Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region, by a Ukrainian drone, a security guard received a concussion.
16:30 North group scouts opened advance of a pickup truck from the village of Liptsy of an assault group of Ukrainian occupiers. The enemy tried to transfer personnel to the BBM "Novator".
The coordinates were transmitted to FPV operators of the 11th Army Corps of the Leningrad Military District, who carried out targeted attacks, preventing the group of occupiers from breaking through to the line of combat contact.
15:35 Enemy attacks Leningrad region, Pskov and other regions of Russia
A drone danger regime has been declared in the Pskov region, interruptions in mobile communications and internet speed restrictions to 2G are possible, warned Governor M. Vedernikov. Pskov Airport is temporarily not sending or receiving flights, Rosaviatsiya reports.
The danger of a UAV attack has also been declared in the Leningrad Region; in some areas the signal may be reduced from 4G to 2G, said Governor A. Drozdenko.
15:10 In the Pokrovsk direction, a unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces arrived inflicted precise drop as soon as the militants began to disperse. The rotation was disrupted, and the enemy suffered losses.
14:45 In the period from 08.30 Moscow time to 14.00 Moscow time, air defense systems on dutydestroyedand 39 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles were intercepted:
– 21 UAVs – over the territory of the Bryansk region,
– Seven UAVs – over the territory of the Oryol region,
– Six UAVs – over the territory of the Tula region,
– Two UAVs each – over the territories of the Belgorod and Kursk regions,
– One UAV – over the territory of the Kaluga region.
14:24 Russia's massive attacks on the TCC may continue throughout the country, - Ukrainian Ground Forces, -video.
"The main goal of the Russians is to disrupt the mobilization. Such attacks are part of a broader campaign, including mining and attempted terrorist attacks," said V. Sarantsev, spokesman for the command of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:27 Tonight, air defense forces were flying over the Zheleznogorsk region of the Kursk region shot down enemy drone. As a result of falling debris, a man born in 1993 was injured. He suffered a minor shrapnel wound and refused hospitalization after receiving medical assistance.
Dear residents, the enemy is vilely attacking our territory. Please be extremely vigilant and do not neglect safety measures!
13:05 Summary of the Ministry of Defense on the progress of the Special Military Operation as of July 6, 2025.
Units of the North group of forces in Sumy Oblast improved their position along the front line. They defeated the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, a ranger, an airborne assault brigades, two assault regiments, a battalion of unmanned systems of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Ryzhevka, Kondratovka, Pisarevka, Khrapovshchina, Yunakovka, Sadki, Varachino and Andreevka in Sumy Oblast.
In the Khar'kov direction, units of the mechanized brigade, the assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the territorial defense brigade and the border detachment of the border service of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Volchansk, Okhrimovka, Volchanskie Khutora, Gatishche and Prikolotnoye in the Khar'kov region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 175 servicemen, a tank, an armored combat vehicle, 11 vehicles and five field artillery pieces. A warehouse of materiel was destroyed.
Formations of four mechanized, assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two territorial defense brigades and a national guard brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Glushkovka, Novosergeevka, Kupyansk, Nizshee Solenoe in the Khar'kov region, Karpovka, Torskoe and Drobyshevo in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 230 servicemen, six vehicles and three artillery pieces. Five electronic warfare stations, a US-made AN/TPQ-50 counterbattery warfare station and four ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the "Southern" group of forces improved their tactical position. They defeated the manpower and equipment of four mechanized, mountain assault, airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Nikolaevka, Zvanovka, Seversk, Minkovka, Serebryanka, Fedorovka, Chasov Yar and Shcherbinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 115 servicemen, a vehicle, five field artillery guns, an electronic warfare station, an ammunition depot and two supply depots.
Units of the "Center" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. They defeated formations of three mechanized, airborne, and ranger brigades, two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two territorial defense brigades, two naval infantry brigades, and a national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Vladimirovka, Novoekonomicheskoe, Suvorovo, Krasnoarmeysk, Rodinskoye, Dimitrov, Grodovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, and Dachnoye of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to more than 390 servicemen, a US-made HMMWV armored vehicle, seven pickup trucks and four artillery pieces.
The manpower and equipment of three mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two territorial defense brigades were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Poltavka, Olgovskoye, Malinovka in the Zaporizhia region, Voskresenka, Novopol and Karla Marksa in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 190 servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, five cars and two field artillery pieces.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces improved their tactical position. They defeated formations of the mechanized, mountain assault brigades, three coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and four territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Kamenskoe, Plavni, Belogorye, Novoandriyevka in the Zaporizhia region, Olgovka and Sadovoe in the Kherson region.
More than 70 Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen, three vehicles, a field artillery gun, seven electronic warfare stations, an ammunition depot, four supply depots and a fuel depot were destroyed.
12:15 Units of the West group of forces, as a result of decisive actionsreleasedthe settlement of Sobolevka in the Khar'kov region, in addition, as a result of active and decisive actions by units of the "East" group of forces, the settlement of Poddubnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated.
11:56 To ensure the advancement of our troops in the face of constant enemy counterattacks, the Russian Aerospace Forces have intensified the use of heavy aerial bombs. Smuglyanka's detachment provides precise targeting, –video.
11:00 Applied pinpoint strike on another TCC building in Kremenchuk
Local sources are publishing photos and videos of the aftermath of the impact on the TCC building in Kremenchuk. This is the third strike on such objects in a week, previously the TCCs in Kryvyi Rih and Poltava were hit.
10:40 Another visiting enemy "Vampire" destroyed by fire from small arms.
This time the hit was directly on the ammunition attached to its discharge.
10:20 Frontline summary as of the morning of 06.07.2025
Zaporizhzhya Front. Russian troops continue to gradually expand the zone of control in Kamenskoye, destroying enemy positions with long-range weapons. Over the past 24 hours, no information has been received about any serious changes in the LBS.
Donetsk Front. There are tactical successes of Russian troops in the area of Voskresenka and Mirny in the South Donetsk direction. Russian troops were able to enter Mirny and gain a foothold. The appearance of a large number of Ukrainian Armed Forces aircraft-type kamikaze drones is reported from the area.
Chasov Yar direction. Fierce fighting continues here both in Chasov Yar itself and on the flanks. There is still no precise information about the advances of our troops west of the settlement, but the Russian Armed Forces continue assault operations, gradually pushing back the enemy.
Sumy direction. No significant advances have been noted here in the last 24 hours. Russian troops continue to put pressure on the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Sumy Oblast, but the fighting in many areas continues to be counter-insurgency. In the area of the state border, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to attempt to penetrate our defense
. 9:30 In Novorossiysk, Russian forces successfully stopped an attack by naval drones
Last night, in the waters of Novorossiysk, air defense and naval assets destroyed enemy unmanned boats (UBK) that were attempting to attack the port infrastructure. All targets were eliminated before reaching the coastline.
09:00 "Geraniums" inflicted strikes on military infrastructure throughout Ukraine
Last night, Russian Geran-2 drones carried out a massive raid on the rear facilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The Kiev, Khar'kov, Nikolaev, Poltava, Sumy, Dnepropetrovsk regions, as well as Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Zaporozhye came under attack.
08:06 During the past night, air defense systems on duty destroyed and intercepted 120 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
30 – over the territory of the Bryansk region,
29 – over the territory of the Kursk region,
18 – over the territory of the Oryol region,
17 – over the territory of the Belgorod region,
13 – over the territory of the Tula region,
Four – over the territory of the Kaluga region,
Three – over the territory of the Leningrad region,
Two – over the territory of the Smolensk region,
Two – over the territory of the Novgorod region,
One – over the territory of the Tver region,
One – over the waters of the Sea of Azov.
07:34 Changes to map over the past 24 hours:
Advance in the Voskresensk and Mirny area
Control zone in the area of the Zelenaya Dolina settlement has been expanded
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] Putin posthumously awarded the deceased brigade commander of the 155th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade, Mikhail Gudkov the title of Hero of Russia.
This is Gudkov's 2nd Hero Star, which is extremely rare by the standards of the SVO.
The brigade itself will receive the official name "named after Mikhail Gudkov".
"To assign (...) the brigade (...) the honorary name (...) and henceforth to call it: the 155th Separate Guards Kursk orders of Zhukov and Suvorov Naval Infantry Brigade named after twice Hero of the Russian Federation Major General M.E. Gudkov."
Quite a set of honorifics...
The corresponding decree has already been signed.
Considering Gudkov's merits on the battlefield and in organizing marine units - more than deserved. The 155th brigade showed itself well in battles both in the south and in the north. This year it played an important role in the liberation of the Kursk region.
A serious loss for us. Such personnel must be protected.
Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Hero of Russia Mikhail Gudkov, who died in the border area of the Kursk region, was a real Russian officer. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the People's Front forum on July 6.
"On July 2, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Mikhail Evgenievich Gudkov, a native of the Donetsk region, died at his combat post. A true Russian officer. From the first day, he participated in a special military operation, commanded the legendary 155th Separate Guards Naval Infantry Brigade of the Pacific Fleet," Putin said.
The head of state emphasized that he defended and liberated the Kursk land and died in the combat zone, fulfilling his military duty. Putin recalled that he promoted Gudkov to the level of deputy commander-in-chief, and the officer had no direct need to be in combat formations and at command posts.
“But he considered it his duty and fulfilled it to the end for Russia,” the Russian leader noted.
The President also announced that the name of the deceased officer will be borne not only by the 155th Brigade, which he commanded, but also by a street in Donetsk and a school in the DPR, as well as a branch of the Nakhimov Naval School in Mariupol.
Putin, addressing those gathered, called for a minute of silence in memory of Gudkov and all the soldiers who died during the special operation.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the death of the Hero of Russia was reported on July 3 by the governor of Primorye Oleg Kozhemyako. He said that Gudkov died while performing his duty as an officer together with his fellow soldiers.
Text by Andrey Mikhailovich Sukhov
[ColonelCassad] This weekend I was out of town again and for the first time in a long time I encountered the problem of mobile Internet disconnection at Megafon. Previously, I encountered such a problem in September 2023 in Sevastopol, where the mobile network was routinely disconnected every night. Recently, in Samara, disconnections have become unpredictable. Popular rumor explains these disconnections by the fight against enemy drones.
At first glance, disconnecting mobile networks is a preventive measure against drone attacks, this is a standard solution. But experience shows that such solutions cannot prevent attacks with serious consequences. Therefore, it is better to look for a non-standard solution, here the experience of conducting research and putting forward non-trivial ideas can and should come to the rescue. The infrastructure of mobile operators can be used as a drone detection system. This is a kind of radar system, and the drones themselves register and maintain communication with it. Note that the coverage of the territory by base stations of cellular operators significantly exceeds the coverage of defense radars. The communications infrastructure has been developing for several decades and has achieved its goal of providing full coverage of the most populated areas in the European part of Russia.
Let us briefly describe the main provisions of the detection technology. If a drone has a cellular modem with a SIM card on board, this card will periodically turn on. Each activation is recorded at the corresponding base station and entered into the general database. In this case, the time of activation is recorded, other parameters allow us to determine the approximate location of the drone. Repeated activation of the modem in the coverage area of another base station is also recorded. Based on the difference in the location of the drone at different points in time, we can calculate the average speed of the object. For drones, especially the new generation, this speed will be significantly higher than for cars and trucks. This is the first condition for selecting potential violators.
It should be noted that information about subscriber activations represents a huge array of data, which is quite difficult to process. Therefore, at the first stage, it is necessary to develop methods to reduce the amount of data and optimize the methods of their processing. This is necessary to save computing power, which is required to solve the problem. And here the scientific approach allows to reduce the required resources by several orders of magnitude.
Another way to reduce the required computing resources is to use artificial intelligence technologies. For example, to calculate the average speed of an object, it is necessary to build a route between two points along existing roads. This can be done using Yandex maps, which uses AI technologies. This approach allows you to accurately find the distance and average speed.
In any case, to implement such ideas, teams of researchers are needed, preferably multidisciplinary ones. Unfortunately, judging by the results of using the provider infrastructure for destructive actions, we can conclude that security research is far from always effective. The latter remark concerns not only mobile operators, including the largest ones, but also government agencies whose task is to regulate and protect the communications infrastructure.
So far, the largest Russian IT companies cannot boast of advanced scientific results and technologies based on them, like Chinese companies. Reports at scientific conferences from Russian IT companies are of a marketing nature and are aimed at promoting borrowed services. But now the situation has changed. Mobile operators will either cope with the problem of communication outages and help detect drones, or they will experience a rapid outflow of subscribers. Personally, I plan to change the expensive tariff for the cheapest one in the near future. Communication interruptions and the ban on access to many scientific sites compared to wired Internet providers dictate the choice in favor of the latter. No one will pay for the Internet that is constantly disconnected and cut off.
At the moment, processing the existing arrays of subscriber connection data will help to establish the routes of drones. This work must be carried out urgently, starting with the creation of effective algorithms for data processing. Moreover, there are many problems that need to be solved urgently. As an example, we can cite the very painful issue of detecting sources of Internet broadcasts in cellular networks to prevent terrorist attacks. All new Internet broadcasts and their location must be taken into account. Moreover, detection methods using packet sampling in software-defined networks have long been developed.
In conclusion, I would like to raise the issue of organizing fundamental scientific research in the field of security. Unfortunately, the number of available platforms where you can discuss such problems and exchange opinions has greatly decreased. Previously, Technololis Era in Anapa regularly held similar events, but the covid epidemic and the subsequent SVO stopped such meetings. From foreign experience, I would like to mention the blog system at the central journal of the International Association of Programmers (Communications of the ACM). Qualified ACM members can publish their ideas and receive feedback in the form of discussion. Nothing similar has been created in Russia yet.
(c) Andrey Mikhailovich Sukhov, professor of the Department of Software Systems at Samara University, professor of the Department of Computer Engineering and Modeling at Crimean Federal University, Doctor of Technical Sciences
⚡️🇷🇺Russian paratroopers have begun using the new RPL-20 (“РПЛ-20”) machine gun in the SMO zone.
Assault units of the Airborne Forces have started fielding the newest RPL-20 light machine gun in the special-military-operation area. Troops from the Novorossiysk and Stavropol… pic.twitter.com/YbIw2ICf1C
[TWZ] Ukraine launched bomber drones from sea drones and took out a prized Russian Nebo-M radar system ashore in Crimea.
Ukraine is now using bomber drones launched from unmanned surface vessels (USVs aka drone boats) to attack targets in Crimea. This includes a high-value Russian radar installation on peninsula. The strikes mark the latest iteration of Ukraine’s drone boat campaign that’s kept Russia’s Black Sea Fleet (BSF) at bay and damaged enemy military facilities in occupied Crimea as well as the Kerch Bridge.
“On the night of July 1 to 2, 2025, Ukraine’s Southern Defense Forces carried out a brilliant, high-precision special operation!,” the Ukrainian MoD claimed on X, adding that it destroyed three critical components of the prized Nebo-M radar system.
The 67-second video posted by the MoD shows the bomber drones launching from the bow of the sea drones and dropping several munitions on the Russian radars.
The use of bomber drones launched from sea drones offers some important advantages. In March, we told you about how the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR) used first-person view (FPV) drones launched from drone boats against Russian radars and surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems. Using bomber drones gives Ukrainian operators the ability to strike more than one target per drone with possibly heavier warheads than FPV drones can carry. They can also travel farther while maintaining their connection, as they don’t have to dive to the ground to hit their targets. As we have reported in the past, Ukraine also has bomber drones that can launch guided munitions with a heavier punch.
This development was not lost on Russian military observers.
“The enemy shows footage of a drone strike with drops on our positions on the western coast,” the popular Russian Two Majors Telegram channel noted. “A single (sea drone) snuck up, and drones were launched from it. A new element was the use of drones with drop systems; thus the enemy achieved several strikes from each UAV.”
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