• The_Decryptor
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    81 month ago

    The ones that fall out of the sky rarely hit anything. Ukraine is vast.

    By definition they hit something, it’s just not considered important when said something is a patch of grass or a medium sized rock.

    • @Maalus@lemmy.world
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      111 month ago

      The chances of a drone “losing itself” and “just hitting” something like that are zero. Even if it magically happened somehow, it’s still Russia’s fault for waging war on a neighbor, and they would deserve 100% of the response.

        • @khannie@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          I just did the numbers for shits and giggles.

          Ukraine is 635,000 square kilometres = 653 billion square metres. The “New Safe” that was hit is roughly 43000 square metres.

          To randomly hit it (not realistic I know, but it gives an interesting result) as I understand it would be just shy of 1 in 15 million.

          • @cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
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            11 month ago

            But to be fair,Tyou shouldn’t count all of Ukraine’s territory, but the Russian controlled ground and the front line plus maybe 50km or so deep into Ukraine’s territory.

            • @khannie@lemmy.world
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              1 month ago

              I did consider that, but many (most maybe?) of the Shaheds would be launched from well behind the front lines so would be traveling over occupied Ukraine was my thinking. I have no idea on the actual stats there.

            • @Maalus@lemmy.world
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              11 month ago

              To be fair you should count Poland territory too, since apparently drones have been flying and crashing in there too.

      • @Red_October@lemmy.world
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        21 month ago

        Wait so you mean I’m still on the hook if I launch a bunch of ordinance harmlessly at my neighbor’s porch, but I accidentally hit their child’s bedroom? Well shit.