What the Palyanytsia drone-missile brings that other Ukrainian OWA drones lack is _SPEED_.
They are moving at better than 300 knots indicated, compared to about 100 knots for a propeller OWA drone.
AFU Jet OWA Drone impact🧵
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In 30 minutes, a propeller OWA drone reaches 92 km versus 277.8 km for a Palyanytsia drone-missile.
This makes a huge difference for the VKS scrambling jets to avoid Ukrainian drone attacks.
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While Russian VKS jets have moved back out of the 300 km ATACMS range.
VKS Attack helicopter forward area refueling points cannot.
This also complicates VKS attempts to shuttle bomb through forward air fields.
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That is, refuel at forward air fields at either the leg of the glide bomb strike.
The VKS simply doesn't have enough "Midas" refueling tankers to give a lot of SU-34's the legs to provide the same level of glide bomb sorties the VKS are doing now.
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