Commentary by Russian military correspondent Rybar
[ColonelCassad] We have already written about possible UAF attacks using drones on objects on the territory of the Russian Federation. Most of these UAVs were produced and modernized on the territory of Ukraine under the direct patronage of Western engineers.
WHERE EXACTLY IS THE ASSEMBLY AND RETROFITTING OF UAVS CARRIED OUT?
Back in the spring, after several successful hits by Russian missiles on factories and enterprises of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex, it was decided to distribute the assembly of drones between industrial facilities in different regions of Ukraine.
Now more than a dozen workshops have been deployed in Ukraine, where they assemble, modernize and redesign drones and guided missile weapons. For these purposes, relatively small, sometimes abandoned (or disguised as them), buildings are used.
This made it possible to secure assembly lines from repeated strikes by the RF Armed Forces on military-industrial complex facilities. Even if one of the buildings is damaged, production is redistributed to other enterprises until the work of the destroyed facility is restored.
HOW IS EVERYTHING ORGANIZED?
▪️In Kyiv, specialists from the Paton Institute are upgrading long-range missiles for various weapons, including artillery, MLRS and aviation, to high-precision weapons equipped with satellite or inertial navigation modules.
The assembly of components for such ammunition was organized at an abandoned workshop in Novaya Greblya, 70 km from Kyiv. The necessary equipment was brought there, and air defense systems were placed in the forest belt nearby.
▪️In the industrial workshops at the Samborsky metal equipment plant in the Lviv region and at the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau in Dnepropetrovsk, loitering ammunition is being modernized. The production technology was adjusted by studying the surviving Geran-2 ammunition, as well as by supplying the components necessary for the UAV from abroad.
▪️A similar production has been deployed on the territory of the Kommunar factories, the research and production enterprise Hartron-Arkos and the Kharkov machine-building plant FED. At least one anti-aircraft missile system is located near these facilities, reinforced by duty territorial defense detachments with MANPADS on the roofs of neighboring houses.
WHAT'S NEXT?
According to our information, the drones necessary for strikes in the depths of Russian territory are already ready. Now the Ukrainian formations are only waiting for a go-ahead from their Western curators.
Other UAVs, such as the Chinese "Mugin-5", airships and balloons are transported to directions for reconnaissance or "probing" ( https://t.me/rybar/42518 ) of the Russian air defense.
These drones do not need an airstrip, so they can be launched from virtually any area where command posts or signal repeaters are located.
At the moment, sites for launching and controlling UAVs capable of striking Russian territory are located in Mirnograd in the DPR, Spassky in Sumy, Volnyansk in Zaporozhye regions, as well as Dnepropetrovsk, Nikolaev and Odessa.
Drone control points in these cities are equipped at civilian infrastructure facilities or in fields and wastelands. The service and final adjustment of drones is also carried out there before their massive launch for given targets.
@rybar with @milchronicles