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Russias Pearl Harbour From Ukraine Has Left Putins Attack Plans in Tatters
Russias Pearl Harbour Has Left Putins Attack Plans in Tatters
America Was NOT Informed Beforehand And Was Stunned at The EXTRAORDINARY Tactical Execution And Complex Planning
Moscows strategy of raining bombs on Ukrainian cities hampered after Kyivs audacious drone strikes
Telegraph UK 3 JUN 2025
From Hannibal at Cannae and Alexander the Great at Gaugamela to the SAS commandos of the desert campaign in the Second World War, tactical breakthroughs have shattered enemy complacency and changed battle strategy for ever.
Sundays extraordinary Ukrainian attacks against Russias strategic bomber force arguably one of the most important raids in the history of modern warfare will have a similar effect.
The rules of war have just been rewritten, and the consequences will be felt globally.
The most immediate impact will be felt in Russia, where the illusion of invincibility that hung over its long range aviation fleet has been so spectacularly sundered. Officials in Kyiv reckon they have destroyed or damaged up to a third of Russias most prized air assets, planes that have wrought devastation in Ukraine for so long.
The two principal consequences of Operation Spiders Web, as Ukraine has christened it, can be broken down into the psychological and the strategic. Both will shape the way Vladimir Putin is able to wage war.
Perhaps most significantly, the raid will complicate Moscows strategy of raining bombs on Ukrainian cities. Russia has been reliant on its Tupolev bombers, which can fly thousands of miles and carry nuclear or conventional warheads, to conduct large scale cruise missile attacks.
Moscow will find this harder to do if it has lost a significant number of its strategic bombers, according to Fabian Hoffman, a missile technology expert at the Centre for European Policy Analysis
To generate this type of force power, you need these big bombers that can carry multiple cruise missiles, he said. If you take out the bombers, then you really limit Russias ability to launch these types of attacks
During the largest sorties, multiple bombers take to the air to fire dozens of cruise missiles from different locations in an effort to overwhelm Ukrainian defences. For such missions to succeed, Russia has to operate a strict rotational system for every bomber in use, a second is undergoing short term repairs, while a third is in long term maintenance, according to military analysts.
Russia has relatively few strategic bombers, with most independent experts estimating no more than 90 in operation.
Ukrainian officials said on Monday that their army of quadcopter drones had destroyed 13 Russian aircraft 12 of them strategic bombers a figure echoed by Russian military bloggers. Another two dozen may have been damaged, though to what extent remains unknown.
Russian commentators close to the military called the strikes a black day for Russian long range aviation likening it to Russias Pearl Harbor moment
Ukraine Launches Massive Drone Attack on Russian Aircraft, Dubbed Russias Pearl Harbour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbbO9N8odAUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0hXvubqDaY
TRUMP was NOT happy he couldnt claim credit for it
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