Mike Monnik
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Russia nearly completes large new jet-drone launch base near Ukraine in six weeks
Satellite imagery analyzed by Reuters shows that a site that was an empty field in southwestern Russia's Rostov Oblast on 31 August has, by 14 October, become a roughly 0.9-square-kilometre complex — about 126 football fields — with at least eight launch platforms intended for jet strike drones of the 'Geran-4' and 'Geran-5' types. The facility, located about 3.5 km from the Millerovo airbase, would supplement Russia's existing network of at least 11 fixed drone launch sites used against Ukraine and could, according to analysts, enable more than 100 launches within 24 hours once operational.