I don't think distance matters at a certain point, the "tactical" aspect to fixed wing air bases and vulnerable fossil fuel infrastructure is now always in play with regards to attack from small unit incursions.

[–] Dpek@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yep

Most of russia is already in range

Im just wondering when ALL of russia will be in range

[–] pluggerslugs@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

Most of russia is already in range

European Russia is in range (and the majority of the population and industry), but assuming the Omsk attack is about the current outer edge of Ukraine's strike range, most of Russia is still out of range. The country is like 9000km east to west, just unreasonably huge.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If you want to expend a junker freighter, you can probably load it with containers of drones and sail it within range. Ukraine already dealt with hitting some long-range targets by having a container driven out to one filled with drones that they then launched. I'd guess that Vladivostok is probably easier to reach than things in central Asia, if you're talking UAV range.

searches for Soviet ICBM silo locations

https://alcpress.org/military/icbm/history.html

That cluster north of Mongolia is what I'd guess that the Kremlin likely considers safest.

Thing is, though, there isn't that much important stuff in eastern Russia. Most of the stuff that matters in Russia is in western Russia, closer to Ukraine.

For China and the US, most of what matters is in their east. For Russia, it's the west.