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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Ukraine went to China to buy an attack drone. China refused to sell. So a Ukrainian team flew to the factory, took a pilot-training offer, and quietly photographed everything—the production line, the shelves, the cabinets. Two years later, they build their own version for $48,000. That’s $2,000 less than the Chinese original. On 16 July, one of those drones flew 800 km into Russia and tore the tail off a Tu-95 bomber at Engels-2. The Soviets stopped building that plane decades ago. Russia can’t replace it.

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