There were quite a few crashes of MQ-9 drones, including ones over hostile territories. If tech in these drones was of high importance to Russia, it most likely has it already. Russians could simply use wrecks of reapers that crashed over Syria years ago to do that. This wreckage's main use will probably be for propaganda purposes. Retrieving that drone from over 4000 feet deep and salvaging it after a salt water bath and collision damage will take some effort and expense.
It might sting them especially bad because the Mediterranean and Western Europe are the Russian elites' favorite playgrounds. Now some of these people might be afraid that they could lose access to their expensive vacation homes abroad, and that their yacht trips to Monaco might soon be a thing of the past. Holing down somewhere in South America if this war ends badly for Russia could be risky too.
Not only that. Even countries like China and India might think twice before letting Putin in or advocating for him just so they do not risk their relations with the west. China needs the West as its export market and a place for CCP elites to park their wealth. India needs the West to counteract China before Chinese allies completely encircle India.
Whatever happened to these people bitching about white genocide? Something tells me they don't really give a shit about actual genocide and just use the term because they want to feel like victims...
I figure the worst case scenario is that Russia is able to analyze the drone and determine various qualities of its spying capabilities and change their communications protocols accordingly. They may be able to determine 'ok, this communication method is pretty secure' or 'ok, this communication method may be more vulnerable than we thought'. A relatively minor setback, but enough to be annoying to the intelligence community for a few months. The US will have to assume everything is compromised and reevaluate confidence in all intercepts.
lol no, the Slovak ones haven't had AAM missiles in years the only weapon system that works is the cannon, the polish ones can't be in much better state. The Russian maintainers left in March of 2022, and the Israeli's have cut off support for the avionics.MiGs to Ukraine arc.
Four now, more to go. Poland sends MiG-29 fighters
Polish president Andrzej Duda informed that Poland will send four MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine in "coming days", and others are being prepared.defence24.com
It would be interesting to see if these things were stuffed with modern Western instruments and sensors.
Do you think he's someone that can have switched on capable people with loaded weapons around him. They might decide to Indira Gandhi him.
Even if it had a SIGINT package, they're not going to get anything that useful out of it. They could maybe figure out the kinds of transmissions that could be intercepted with the hardware, but they won't learn anything about cryptanalytic attacks, stolen keys, targets, keyword searches, anything with counterintelligence value.
it's odd that he would sit in the driver's seat instead of back, where its safer
Speaking of....
That particular video caused all sorts of salt to flow; vatniks said it was their drone, while hohols insisted it was Ukrainian & released the entire unedited video to prove it. But the vatniks slapped a watermark on it first, so.....
I remember a Ukrainian on /pol/ commenting at the start of the war that Ukrainians live Rent Free in the head of every Russian because they simply cannot keep their national mythology and the existence of the Ukrainians in the same head space. This past year has convinced me that Hohol was right.
Another division of Hohols were slaughtered today, and Zelensky keeps finding more to send even after every last hohol was killed last month. Fortunately there has been another breakthrough and the city should fall in 2 weeks.
next week, Trust me
They've unironically claimed they destroyed Leopard tanks with Polish Mercenaries in Bakhmut too.Ah, good! After a few months of similar posts, i was getting worried that it wasnt true.
Russia is very cleverly using Bakhmut to grind down Ukrainian troops, doing offensive actions without meaningful force multipliers into a fortified urban area against defenders that probably have higher morale is a sure way to win!
And after 100k Ukrainians are dead in Bakhmut, 2000 T-90s that has been stored in the Ural mountains will be rolled in and make quick work of the fascist nazist bandera regime
