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News & Current Events Apr 4, 2026 at 8:22 PM

Ukraine’s big boom FP-2 drones just blew up four Russian Orions inside their Crimean hangar

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Ukraine's big boom FP-2 drones just blew up four Russian Orions inside their Crimean hangar
Euromaidan Press
Ukraine's big boom FP-2 drones just blew up four Russian Orions inside their Crimean hangar
As recently as last year, Ukraine concentrated most of its drone strikes directly over the front line. That's changing.
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macross1984 Apr 4, 2026 +291
Excellent. Unlike cheaper and less capable version of Russian drone, Orion is more expensive, complex and relatively few in number. Russia currently is supposed to have around 48 such drones and losing four in one swoop is painful loss for therm.
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matteroffact_sp Apr 5, 2026 +11
Can you remember Bayraktars? That song was banging
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MesMeMe Apr 4, 2026 +128
Smoking! :)
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MillionEyesOfSumuru Apr 5, 2026 +50
The FP-2, with a 200 km range and 105 kg warhead, seems like it's making a difference, but it's probably going to get quite a bit better. They've been testing versions with the same range but 158 kg warheads. No way of knowing which were used in this attack, but that's getting into the range where large and fairly well hardened buildings should be nervous. For the non-metric folks in the group, that's a 350 lb bomb flying 124 miles.
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One-Arachnid-2119 Apr 5, 2026 +20
Sorry, we'll need that in elephants and US football fields.
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drleondarkholer Apr 5, 2026 +9
It's about 0.05 adult elephants in weight (or two newborn elephants) and about 2200 USA football fields. The weight measuring unit is rather inappropriate though, so I would rather measure it to be 1.5DJTs (Donald J Trumps). 
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Future_Ad7811 Apr 5, 2026 +4
I think that is based on an unrealistically low weight for a DJT. I don't care what any 'medical documents' that are released say.
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-Agonarch Apr 5, 2026 +3
Whaaat? You're suggesting that the guy might not be 6'3" (yet much shorter than the 6'3" Prince of Wales and the 6'2" Vance and Musk) or more than 224lbs? (and therefore... *gasp*.. a bit of a fatty and not at all superfit?!) Why, certainly a guy who's been accused of fraud as many times as him (and found guilty of cases of serious illegal fraud dozens of times) wouldn't just *lie* about this stuff?
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FantasticFunKarma Apr 5, 2026
V1 anyone?
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SecondaryWombat Apr 5, 2026 +6
Except with the ability to aim instead of *gestures in general direction of other country*
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FantasticFunKarma Apr 5, 2026 +2
True!
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spatenfloot Apr 4, 2026 +89
awesome news
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beccadot Apr 5, 2026 +58
Still backing you, Ukraine!! Slava Ukraini!!
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Bunch_of_Shit Apr 5, 2026 +32
russia losing tens of thousands of vehicles is unsurprising because its russia; the US loses 1 fighter jet and it’s a political disaster.
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GraphiteBlue Apr 5, 2026 +18
As the saying goes "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic".
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mavigogun Apr 5, 2026 +13
The US has lost a lot more than just one jet- aside from all the other aircraft, half a billion dollar advanced observations equipment, and people, we've lost our democracy.
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himswim28 Apr 5, 2026 +7
> we've lost our democracy Don't give up, it is in jeopardy, but we can still save it!
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mavigogun Apr 5, 2026 +1
Something new? Maybe- but the order that got us here is a dead end.
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Skykeep Apr 5, 2026 -8
Also USA is up against Iran, while Russia is up against more modern technology and armaments within Ukraine. A loss to one is not like a loss to the other.
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MaxedMinute Apr 5, 2026 +17
What are you even talking about? Iran has modern Chinese and Russian air defense systems. I'm not at all in favor of either war, but you're litterally just making shit up.
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Possible_End_5272 Apr 5, 2026 +5
The dude thinks because they are middle eastern, they are not high tech. Iran has been playing a far smarter game than Russia. This guy is just a dumbass.
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cattibri Apr 5, 2026 +2
iran might be the only near peer adversary in missile tech the us could have gone up against
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SecondaryWombat Apr 5, 2026 +3
This is racism disguised as a military discussion. Russia has been getting technological support from Iran for its invasion of Ukraine for a while now.
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Lintson Apr 4, 2026 +64
My F1 brain can't unread Free Practice 2 drones
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vonGlick Apr 4, 2026 +24
It is a free practice, real GP will be in Moscow. Hopefully soon.
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Rosieu Apr 4, 2026 +12
Poor Lambiase, what did the poor bloke do to deserve to be banned to Moscow by Red Bull
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Nameis-RobertPaulson Apr 4, 2026 +3
Papa Verstappen is getting him sent to the gulag.
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TheFlyingBoxcar Apr 4, 2026 +19
Believe it or not, penalty for Ocon
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Lintson Apr 4, 2026 +2
He's not a pay driver though Who was the last French pay driver anyway?
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t12lucker Apr 5, 2026 +2
Charles Pic maybe?
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positiveexperience Apr 5, 2026 +2
Russia GP. Practice & quali. in Crimea. Race in Moscow.
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epi_glowworm Apr 4, 2026 +1
Even there contact and destruction has happened. Senna blew up Prost is the incident I can think of
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Marc-Muller Apr 5, 2026 +5
Big Bada Boom!
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LeedsFan2442 Apr 4, 2026 +12
How are these FPV drones not jammed? How do they get so far into Russia without being not noticed?
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No_Zookeepergame_27 Apr 4, 2026 +47
Did you not read the headline? It’s in Crimea.
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LeedsFan2442 Apr 4, 2026 +7
Oh right but still they have attacked deep into Russia before
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CassowaryVsMan Apr 5, 2026 +16
Operation Spiderweb used local Russian cellular networks for command and control. Difficult to jam without degrading cellular service across a wide area.
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Lazy-Plankton5270 Apr 5, 2026 +9
That was the most Hollywood operation ever If they put that in COD Ukraine people would say it's unrealistic
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Detector150 Apr 5, 2026 +3
I’m sorry I’m stupid, how does it being Crimea prevent the jamming?
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rdc12 Apr 5, 2026 +5
He is saying that Crimea isn't in Russia, which is unrelated to jamming.
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britaliope Apr 5, 2026 +2
It's more the fact that crimea isn't very deep in the territory controlled by russia
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Marco_lini Apr 4, 2026 +15
Either they have several relay drones where the signal isn’t jammed. The drones are actually being piloted and navigated by video and they have AI guidance that can target autonomously without a signal for the last mile where jamming is the stringest.
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LeedsFan2442 Apr 4, 2026 +5
It looked like it was manually piloted to me on the video
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FrostyImplement9565 Apr 4, 2026 +8
My *assumption* based off of pure opinion would be that they're too local to be jammed effectively without jamming themselves.
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StudyVisible275 Apr 5, 2026 +5
Ukraine has been systematically degrading Russia’s air defense and electronic warfare capabilities.
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erikwarm Apr 5, 2026 +2
So many different options for both control and remote guidance are possible. There are systems that use sensitive cameras to look at star constellations for example
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pjgf Apr 5, 2026 -5
I assume these are the fibre optic drones that can’t be jammed, but I’m not really familiar with the different models.
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LeedsFan2442 Apr 5, 2026 +8
I don't think they can use fibre optic drones that far away
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SecureInstruction538 Apr 5, 2026 +3
The drones could be fiber optic from the launch site but the launch site is remoted into from elsewhere. Like a relay site.
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SecondaryWombat Apr 5, 2026 +1
These drones do not carry a spool of 200km fiber optic.
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SecureInstruction538 Apr 5, 2026
No but they might carry 5km of fiber optic cable from the launch site to the target. From the launch site to the operator it could be a longer distance away as that might be outside interference range and allow for wireless transmission.
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SecondaryWombat Apr 5, 2026 +2
I am pointing out that the drones have a flight range of 200km. The launch site to operator doesn't change the flight distance of the drone, they have a 200km flight range, they are not going to carry that much fiber optic line.
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mavigogun Apr 5, 2026 +2
Excellent news! More, please!
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Donnahue-George Apr 5, 2026 +1
Let’s f*cking go
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U5K0 Apr 5, 2026 +1
That's an insane video. Love how every strike drone provides after-action footage of the previous hit.
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JasonEll Apr 6, 2026 +1
I wasn't aware that some Russian drones were called Orion so I was really confused about how Russia was operating the P-3.
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Legends_never_die9 Apr 5, 2026 -1
So these drones are like Shaheds but bit starlink ?
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Major_Aardvark_644 Apr 5, 2026 -7
I don't like wars dragging lasting so many days who ever have chance close war with one Atom bomb
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