Russia and Ukraine

[Deesse23]

My understanding is that the drones were secreted into Russia prior to launch.  If true, that would greatly limit the potential for operations of this type.

They were hidden in freight containers for trucks, with fake/double roofs. The trucks were driven to the target areas. Videos exist, taken by civilians, showing how the drones took off from those trucks. Civilians seem to even have thrown stones at the trucks once they realized what was going on. The drones seemed to have had some autopilots and autotargeting on board, having had trained their target recognition from an aircraft museum in Poltava, where Tu95, Tu160 and Tu22M are on display. They were trained to aim at "weak spots" of those targets, e.g. the wing roots of the Tu95.

The actual ability to repeat this strike is less important than the threat of the sheer possibility to do so. Can you imagine the effort having to protect your strategic bomber fleet, by ...lets say building hangars with concrete roofs, probably reinforced concrete, asap? Hangars without pilllars, because....planes tend to need lots of open space to move around.