Recent drone strikes in Kursk and Pskov, Russia, destroyed or damaged at least nine planes.
Small flat-packed cardboard drones reportedly destroyed at least five Russian fighter jets in the western city of Kursk last weekend — and may also have been used in a devastating attack on a military airfield in Pskov Tuesday that took four transport planes out of commission.
The strike nearly 100 miles into the Russian territory was said to have been carried out using innovative cardboard drones made by the Australian firm SYPAQ, which cost just $3,500 apiece and are virtually undetectable by Russian radar systems. The flat-packed drones may also have played a role in Tuesday’s fiery attack on an airfield in Pskov, located about 500 miles from the Ukrainian border.A satellite image from Thursday — two days after the drone strike — shows what was left of the IL-76 plane.
The Australian-made drones also may have been used in the more recent attack on the “Kresty” air base in Peskov — a picturesque medieval city that lies about 500 miles from the Ukrainian border in northwestern Russia near Estonia. Witnesses reported seeing some 20 drones in the skies over Pskov, according to the Telegram channel Mash, followed by loud explosions that were said to have sparked a raging inferno at the air base.
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