Ukraine Just Destroyed One of the Planes Russia Uses to Send Launch Codes to Its Nuclear Submarine

Ukraine Just Destroyed One of the Planes Russia Uses to Send Launch Codes to Its Nuclear Submarine

Ukraine’s drone war has entered a phase its commanders call a ‘logistics lockdown,’ and it’s taking out things Russia can’t replace. The latest strike hit an aircraft plant inside Russia and destroyed two rare planes that sat in maintenance for over a decade. But it’s what one of them does that makes the loss sting: it’s part of the system Moscow uses to reach its nuclear-armed submarines at sea. Russia spent years getting it ready — Ukraine nee…