Late on Sunday night, President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on social media that all of the operatives of the nation’s security services, SBU, who had participated in a a raid earlier in the day that knocked out about $7 billion in Russian military aircraft within the invading country’s airfields, were safe in Ukraine and accounted for.
The operation was dubbed “Spiderweb.”
“An absolutely brilliant result,” the president wrote.
“A result achieved solely by Ukraine. One year, six months, and nine days from the start of planning to effective execution. Our most long-range operation. Our people involved in preparing the operation were withdrawn from Russian territory in time,” Zelensky wrote on Facebook.
Imagine this a long term autonomous aerial platform (high altitude blimp) you can nest drones on or bring them in for rearming. Each platform would be equipped with 360 degree optics with additional dedicated sensor instruments.
You see a problem you release a drone or a swarm; new drones are flown up fully armed or the blimp can come in for servicing at a military base 100kms away from the hot zone.
This is tech being developed and fully within our ability to build now
Now put this over a city and your in nightmare territory
That blimp would be particularly vulnerable though.
It would need a pretty robust defense to protect it from missiles/other aircraft
Depends how high it goes. There’s probably a sweet spot for observation and drone deployment somewhere that offers some defense against ground based attacks.
I doubt it would be deployed against an active battlefield probably better suited to monitoring and pacification.