No, sorry. This is way too big of an explosion of a mock up, and I don't think they'd park a mock up in the middle of the road either. It was long speculated that Ukraine uses the German Patriot system for those ambushes, since they're truck mounted, and this would definitely confirm it. So to me it seems pretty likely that it is indeed true. Ukraine moved it close to the front for ambushes and then got sloppy in keeping it save.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Sloppy? It is war, shit unfortunately happens.

Many explanations why, but the Ukranians knew the risks and this is what they ended up doing with the equipment. No use armchair generating this. We all share the disappointment of the loss, in crew and also the equipment.

And probably the Russians had Iskanders on standby just for this hunt, it not only cost them planes, but also serious time and material for the hunt and kill.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Letting Russia's spy drones so far inland to spot such a high value target, giving Russia so much time to actually launch something at the discovered position without moving, AND failing to intercept said something? Yes, that's sloppy when you have such a mobile system with so much various high quality anti-air systems that could protect it from both the spy drone AND the (presumably) missiles they launched at it.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

We just don't know..

Keep in mind, Specialised spy drones are hard to intercept. And comparing the normal potato quality footage to this footage, it's probably not just another drone.

The fact they used an Iskander, combined with the drone, this was most likely a dedicated kill team. The launchers could have been spotted by infiltrators, traitors.. dumb luck does seem unlikely due to the rapid response.

[–] Vivarevo@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

Im just going to point out the difference in explosive amounts. Russians used a iskander, those are really big missiles.