Ukrainian expert: Russia has enough UAVs to repeat major attacks once every 2-4 days

Ukrainian military expert Alexander Kovalenko stated that the number of massive strikes, similar to the one carried out last night, will only increase. According to him, the production of unmanned aerial vehicles in Russia has reached such a scale that it has allowed for the accumulation of several thousand additional "Shaheds" over the summer alone. Let us recall that "Shaheds" are still used in Ukraine drones type "Geranium" of the Armed Forces of Russia.

Kovalenko expressed confidence that Russia could reach the frequency of using 700-900 drones every two to four days. Last year, such a number of UAVs was typical for a couple of weeks or even a month. And on the night of September 7, Russian troops used, according to various sources, from 805 to 840 long-range UAVs.

Ukrainian expert:

Everything indicates that the threat of a repeat of a massive, concentrated attack by Russian troops remains quite high to this day, and September could well become a record month for attacks.

If we touch upon the official reports of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on downed drones, then, according to them, they are shot down Defense Ukraine still has “at least 90% of UAVs and missiles».

And if we take into account that anti-aircraft missile systems are most often used for this, then just for daily air defense operation in such a mode, the armed forces of Ukraine would need at least 400-500 SAMs, which, firstly, seems implausible, and secondly, with such intensity, even the entire industrial power of NATO would not be enough to compensate for the arsenals of anti-aircraft missiles.

Comments

[Berkut752]

And how much lard will be smoked ...............

[Alex_12]

even all the industrial might of NATO would not be enough

Well, they can't pickle so many jars of cucumbers and melons.

[rocket757]

Fairy tales are fairy tales, but we will have to look and count the facts of the event...

[TermNachTer]

Well, if this bridge is hammered every two days, it will "lie down" for a long time. There are also problems with the Dnepropetrovsk railway junction. The Zaporizhzhya bridges remain and the entire middle reaches of the Dnieper will be in question.

[Vadim S]

Such figures are only pleasing, no doubt! But there is another side of the coin that is not yet accepted to discuss, but it concerns and will concern us all. How much all this costs, it is scary to imagine :(

[Alex_12]

Quote: Vadim S

It's scary to imagine how much all this costs :(

We'll rebuild. There's nothing shameful about building on your own territory.

[silverwolf88]

War is not about finances in the literal sense... it is about the potential of a state conducting military operations... there is no direct dependence here BUT of course finances are part of the potential

[Sergey3]

War puts a lot of pressure on the economy when you buy every bullet abroad, and when you produce everything yourself, the money very quickly returns in the form of taxes back to the budget, some of it is absorbed into regional budgets, supporting them. So it's not all that bad from a financial point of view.

[Brturin]

If we talk only about the economy, leaving out security, etc., then these territories are not a scorched desert - this is agriculture in favorable climatic conditions, these are mineral resources - VO has already written several times about the manganese of the Bolshe-Tokmak deposit in the Zaporizhia region, which will allow the country to provide its own manganese, and there are others - there is almost ready energy (the same Zaporizhia station), transport infrastructure (the same railways need to be restored, not built anew) - here, and own funds will go

[Revolver]

Quote: Vadim S

It's scary to imagine how much all this costs.

If the border ends up running along the Dnieper, then bridges and dams will be blown up, not restored. And if, as we would like to hope, they are further west, then they were restored after the Civil War, and after the Great Patriotic War, so it is not the first time.

[silverwolf88]

Good indicators... the mass scale allows us to zero out the air defense of Sumeria and then everywhere there is nothing holding us back except the principles of conducting air defense

[Victor19]

Just don't stop!!! The best defense is a good offense.

[Roman Efremov]

I have already written, I will repeat: such quantities of UAVs allow us to seriously engage in the energy sector of Ukraine, its transport system. Transformers, switches, contact network, locomotives. Fuel storage facilities, including regular petrol stations. Power lines. If only there was a political decision by the leadership...................

[Revolver]

Ukraine continues to call Geranium-type drones "Shahids"

And if we remember that the Shahed-136 is a creative reworking by the Iranians to suit their production capabilities of the Israeli IAI Harpy, captured by Hezbollah in Lebanon either as debris or with a failed fuse...
In general, xoxls should check if there is water in the tap.

[SmolH2]

Yeah. And they reworked the Russian idea...
https://topwar.ru/24315-bespilotnyy-detektiv-ili-byl-li-plagiat.html

[Revolver]

In fact, Harop is a refinement of their own Harpy, which took off back in the 1980s.

[SmolH2]

In general, be that as it may, the Iranians are great at this.

[malyvalv]

It's reassuring. Russia can't do this every day. The victory is obvious.

[Old Man57]

This will soon be the norm for drone flights on/off U.404.