Comment by hollerith

The longest-range battery-powered drones have a range of only 14 km or so (and probably cannot carry enough explosive that far to help much with an attack like yesterday's attack) thus the need for the Ukrainians to use trucks to transport the drones used in this attack to within a km or so of the target. It is easy for Ukrainians to pass for Russian (e.g., if stopped at a checkpoint inside Russia) because there were 3 million Ukrainians living inside Russia at the start of the invasion in 2022. The same cannot be said for many future conflicts. To give an example, the German regime got almost no useful information coming from spies in England during WWII because it proved easy for British society to detect and capture German spies. It probably would have proved equally difficult or almost as difficult and risky for the Germans to get a truck loaded with drones, explosives, drone operators and the electronics needed to control the drones to within a km of an English military target (if the citizenry knew about drones the way we in 2025 know about them).