Ukraine just launched the largest drone attack of the war against Moscow, bringing the war home to the residents of the Russian capital city. And this is just the beginning. This wasn’t a lucky strike, it was the result of months of slowly degrading Russian air defense across the country to where Putin can no longer protect everything, everywhere.

The turning point has been passed, with great velocity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV92cp7vLzs

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[–] testaccount372920@piefed.zip 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm curious about the success rates of Ukrainian drones. Ukraine usually reports how many Russian drones/missiles/etc were launched and how many they took down. Lately that adds up to 5-10% of Russian drones not being taken down (which is insanely low, but still way to high considering the volume of drones launched). However, Russia only reports how many they shot down, but not the total, so it's unclear how many Ukrainian drones make it through. The number of targets hit is obviously increasing, but I'm not sure if that's due to Ukraine launching more drones or due to a higher hit rate (or both).

[–] gegil@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

Its propably because russia just sucks at air defense.

Firstly, ukraine destroyed and continues destroying russian air defense systems, and russia already running out of them, and forced to use it only for highest priority objects.

Secondly, russia did not learn from ukraine, and does not have any counter drone systems and units.

Thirdly, russia is gigantic country, territorially. Its just impossible to protect such a huge airspace, especially from tiny low flying drones.

[–] credo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Access denied to the main link, thanks for thw YT link.

It looks like Ukraine was going for harbor equipment there at the end of the video- crane control system and such. This will wreak havoc on logistics capabilities within Russia. Very Nice.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Oops I think the Invidious link needs some time to begin working for a new video, I don't know why.

edit it is working for me now

[–] credo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Edit: the message seems to reference a challenge I’m not seeing. I turned off content blockers but didn’t see a change.

Original response:

Not sure, this is what I get. I’m pretty sure I’m not a bot:

Error: access denied: denied by administrative rule 653249cebe8a37b97cf64b61ecf8f969/81a4d3ff51d16981b7d8

Why am I seeing this?

You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up go-away to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies and bots aggressively scraping websites.

Since the Invidious API is disabled for everyone, bots have now started to scrape the /watch page which is the one that serves video information to you, the user, bots are disallowed to touch the /watch endpoint at all, but they don't follow the rules in order to keep the Invidious working for real people simply trying to watch a video, that is why this challenge is displayed to you to verify if you are using a browser or scrapping the site.

Please note that some challenges requires the use of modern JavaScript features and some plugins may disable these. Disable such plugins for this domain (for example, JShelter) if you encounter any issues.

[–] Teknikal@anarchist.nexus 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not just you; it does the same to me. I've never been there before, and not even on a VPN right now . I guess they have just mass-banned IP ranges or something.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Pretty sure they had to take drastic measures, nadeko would barely work most of the time until they implemented this.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

How controllable are these long range drones? Like if Russia starts hitting them with AA can one a few km behind reroute to the AA?

Edit: assuming any of them see where it was launched from.

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most can be controlled in real time - I suspect that single operators move drone swarms in the area in tandem with recon drone operators, and when in the target zone, the team either takes direct control of singular units for precision strikes, or image recognition guides drones that are hit by electronic countermeasures and can't be manually controlled.

But the payload for different targets will vary, so I suspect that strikes on AA are not adhoc decisions.

[–] gegil@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 days ago

Its also possible to just send drones to follow different route for a target. For example making a u-turn or a hook, and attacking a single target from multiple directions

[–] Cybersec@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

Freaking great news, Slava Ukraini!