Ukraine just launched the largest drone attack of the war against Moscow, bringing the war home to the residents of the Russian capital city. And this is just the beginning. This wasn’t a lucky strike, it was the result of months of slowly degrading Russian air defense across the country to where Putin can no longer protect everything, everywhere.
The turning point has been passed, with great velocity.
How controllable are these long range drones? Like if Russia starts hitting them with AA can one a few km behind reroute to the AA?
Edit: assuming any of them see where it was launched from.
Most can be controlled in real time - I suspect that single operators move drone swarms in the area in tandem with recon drone operators, and when in the target zone, the team either takes direct control of singular units for precision strikes, or image recognition guides drones that are hit by electronic countermeasures and can’t be manually controlled.
But the payload for different targets will vary, so I suspect that strikes on AA are not adhoc decisions.
Its also possible to just send drones to follow different route for a target. For example making a u-turn or a hook, and attacking a single target from multiple directions