• The_Decryptor
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    The ones that fall out of the sky rarely hit anything. Ukraine is vast.

    By definition they hit something, it’s just not considered important when said something is a patch of grass or a medium sized rock.

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      The chances of a drone “losing itself” and “just hitting” something like that are zero. Even if it magically happened somehow, it’s still Russia’s fault for waging war on a neighbor, and they would deserve 100% of the response.

      • illi@lemm.ee
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        I mean… not 0 but pretty damn close to it (semantics, I know)

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          I just did the numbers for shits and giggles.

          Ukraine is 635,000 square kilometres = 603 billion square metres. The “New Safe” that was hit is roughly 43000 square metres.

          To randomly hit it (not realistic I know, but it gives an interesting results) as I understand it would be just shy of 1 in 15 million.

          • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
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            But to be fair,Tyou shouldn’t count all of Ukraine’s territory, but the Russian controlled ground and the front line plus maybe 50km or so deep into Ukraine’s territory.

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              I did consider that, but many (most maybe?) of the Shaheds would be launched from well behind the front lines so would be traveling over occupied Ukraine was my thinking. I have no idea on the actual stats there.

            • Maalus@lemmy.world
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              To be fair you should count Poland territory too, since apparently drones have been flying and crashing in there too.

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        Wait so you mean I’m still on the hook if I launch a bunch of ordinance harmlessly at my neighbor’s porch, but I accidentally hit their child’s bedroom? Well shit.