# Danger of Drones on US. Hijack from Ukraine Invasion thread

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> [@Russia invades Ukraine {2022-02-24} (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-invades-ukraine-2022-02-24-part-2/973972/7074):
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> 800 miles inside Russia! The range of drones keeps improving.

Be careful what you wish for.

800 miles inland from the USA’s seashore covers WAG 80% of the population and 90% of the productive infrastructure. What’s left is the mostly uninhabited intermountain West and the upper Midwest. And Chicago.

And we have neither sea nor air defenses against such attacks.

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