Ukraine has started a light -motor Cessna aircraft and attacked the Shahaneda plant in the Russian Federation - Forbes

The Russians shot the scenes of the drone on the special economic zone of "Alabuga" in Tatarstan, where workers collect drones of Shahd Iranian design. Drones, which, like Ukrainian homemade CESSNA drones, can carry explosives per 1000 km. Classic Cessna 172 aircraft can carry a load weighing 500 km more than 1100 km. Ukrainian engineers have developed at least 16 different types of shock drones of the far radius. Probably with satellite management and GPS.

This year, Ukraine's defense forces have sent many drones on hundreds of km deep into the territory of the Russian Federation for blows to oil refineries, and now on drones production factories. According to journalists, blows to oil refineries in the Russian Federation have recently led to a reduction in gasoline production by more than 10%. Strokes in factories such as Alabuga can also affect the production of long -range drones. But only if Ukraine continues its shock series.

Because Ukraine, apparently, turns light planes into drones, one should not be surprised. Back in 2019, the AFRL Research Laboratory (AFRL) worked with Dzyne Technologies from Virginia on CESSNA 206 modification. Cessna with a remote management "opens the benefits of unmanned operations without difficulty and initial costs associated with the development of new unmanned tools", - said ALOK DAS, AFRL scientist.

Drone based on a light -motor aircraft is cheap, simple, reliable and, moreover, inconspicuous. And not because of high technologies, but simply because it does not look threatening. In 1987, a teenager from Germany flew to Cessna 172 to Moscow and landed on Red Square. Several Soviet fighters were headed for him, but the ground radar operator recorded the plane as a "friendly" and ignored it.

The Russian command lacks aircraft for protection for both advanced forces, Russian cities and factories, journalists say. "It is impossible to protect everything," said retired American General Mark Gertling. According to the authors of the publication, the Ukrainian industry of drones is highly decentralized, so it is difficult to suppress the air. The Russian industry of drones is complete the opposite. Everything is centralized here. One state-owned company produces almost all Russian FPVs.