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But… why the fuck would Ukraine put kerosene on drones instead of actual explosives? So they could make it look scenographic but not do any actual damage? Lmao
Also, this is an attack on an oil storage facility. Why bring a few extra kilos for the photographs when your target is thousands of tons of combustibles?
That would work too if you have it crash into it, ignite , then melt a hole in the shell. It could work well if you used a ice shahedstyle engine and you could cache the liquid in country by local ground support and refuel, letting you have a bigger drone and longer range and free payload. I mean, getting that scenario isn’t easy but it could work in the right circumstances.
Cost. I can sort of see some logic to it. If you know a significant amount of drones will go down then why not make some easy picks and make them dramatic as possible. Save the good stuff for the wave of drones which count.
The scenographics does hold a big part of it. Normal people seeing something which looks significant might start to see the fight is closer to home than they realise. Kind of like counter propaganda. And it’s a lot cheaper too!