
Those drone attacks on five Russian airfields last week were nothing if not daring. No final report from Moscow yet, but three figures’ worth of Ukrainian drones launched from the backs of trucks destroyed some number of strategic bombers in the Russian fleet.
Now we read all over the place — well, all over mainstream Western media — that Ukraine has “revolutionized warfare.” My favorite in this line appeared in a digital journal called The Conversation just after the June 1 attacks:
“Ukraine’s success once again demonstrates that its armed forces and intelligence services are the modern masters of battlefield innovation and operational security.”
Gasp. Splutter.
The Conversation is staffed by obscure scholars and hack-y journalists you’ve never heard of. O.K., not mainstream. But mainstream seems the aspiration, and The Conversation will get there soon enough if it continues publishing rubbish this idiotic.
It is time, certainly, to consider the implications of drone technology in the hands of powerful regimes — on and off battlefields. I mean 5,000 miles away or maybe just 50, or five, or down the block. This is the lesson of what was by any measure an extraordinary display of technological reach.
To clear our minds at the outset, the Ukrainians haven’t revolutionized anything, unless we count their success fielding a neo–Nazi military in plain sight in the third decade of the 21st century.
No, the attacks on five Russian air bases spread across five time zones were wholly beyond the capacities of the Ukraine Armed Forces and Kiev’s intelligence service, the S.B.U. And this is where we ought to begin thinking about who is doing the revolutionizing and what is being revolutionized.
There is a general consensus among analysts not bound by their ideological allegiances that Western intelligence directed the drone operation last week, so confining the debate to which service or services held the conductor’s baton. I am with Andrei Kelin, Russia’s ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, who had this to say in an interview with Sky News after the attacks:
“Such a kind of attack involves, of course, provision of very high technology, so-called geospace data, which can only be done by those who have it in possession. And this is London and Washington. I don’t believe that America [was involved] — that has been denied by President Trump, definitely, but it has not been denied by London. We perfectly know how much London is involved, how deeply British forces are involved in working together with Ukraine.”
The skies over Ukraine and western Russia have been thick with the diabolic buzz of drones since the operation MI–6 evidently ran last week. Early Monday there were reports that a fleet of Ukrainian drones hit some kind of electronic-warfare facility in the Chuvashia region of Russia. A few hours later Reuters reported that Russia had launched the largest drone attack since its intervention began three years ago.
The Psychology of Drones
The use of drones is nothing new in the Ukraine conflict, of course —or in lots of others, for that matter. And if we are going to think about military applications of drones we will have to think immediately about Israel, a topic I will get to shortly.
But let us ask first what it is about drone technologies that have caused them to take so prominent a place so swiftly in the arsenals of warring states. They are efficient killers, they can be precisely controlled by remote technologists — the second lieutenant in Texas following a target in the Middle East with a stick in his or her hand —and many of the drones commonly deployed are very cheap.
Yes, yes, and yes. But we will not understand drones and the implications of their military applications until we consider what we can call the psychology of drones. This very essential question concerns risk. To an extent one could not have imagined a few decades ago, drones are intended to take the risk out of warfare for those who deploy them.
Anne Dufourmantelle, the late and acutely intelligent psychoanalyst, took up this question in In Praise of Risk (Fordham Univ. Press, 2019). It is a book I often urge people to read. Here is a brief passage pertinent to our topic:
“Zero risk — in armed or diplomatic conflicts, or even in conflicts of interest between industrialized powers — tends, in contemporary wars, to be imposed as an ethical law. It is taken for granted that no one wants to ‘risk’ losing human lives; war, from now on, should paradoxically be able to do without death….”
The intensely humanist Dufourmantelle ranged well beyond military matters in this exceptional book: She was interested in how we love, not how we kill one another.
But how well she understood “the barbarism of our ‘clean’ contemporary wars”:
“… wars whose so-called ‘collateral’ damage will henceforth entail more dead among the civilian population than the ranks of the military.”
Let us think hard about this coldly stated observation. I distinguished earlier between the use of drones on and off battlefields, far away and close by. But at the horizon these distinctions no longer hold. If drones are in some way revolutionizing instruments, they announce that wherever we are, henceforth we are in a field of battle.
Civilians Casualties
War’s first casualties in our time are civilians, to put this point another way. Following Dufourmantelle’s point to its logical conclusion, this can be said to be by design.
Has anyone made this clearer than the Israelis as they inflict their campaign of terror on the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank?
As +972 Magazine and Local Call, two independent Israeli publications , made plain in extensive investigative pieces last autumn, the Israeli military now uses artificial intelligence in combination with drones to track and kill Palestinians anywhere and at any time, frequently without inhibition in the innermost recesses of their private lives.
Every inch of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, as my colleague Cara Marianna reports after extended visits to the latter, is surveilled.
Here is Jonathan Cook, the estimable British commentator, in “Destroying the world as we know it,” a piece that appeared in Middle East Eye shortly after +972 and Local Call published their investigations. The Israelis had just attacked and burned alive a 19–year-old named Shaaban al–Dalou, along with his mother and two others, in a tent on the grounds of al–Aqsa Hospital, where al–Dalou was recovering from wounds the Israelis had earlier inflicted:
“It is not Hamas that is being eliminated in Gaza. It is the fundamentals of humanitarian law: the principle of ‘distinction’ between combatants and non-combatants, and the principle of ‘proportionality’ in weighing military advantage against the endangerment of civilians….
Israel is not ‘remaking the Middle East.’ It is destroying the world as we have known it for generations….
What Israel has made clear, supported by Western capitals, is that there is no safe place, not even for those recovering in a hospital bed from Israel’s earlier atrocities. There are no ‘non-combatants,’ no civilians. There are no rules. Everyone is a target….”
Easy it would be to assume that drones and totalized surveillance are “something unpleasant that happens to other people,” as Arnold Toynbee summarized English attitudes in the empire’s later decades. Let us not be so myopic as the Edwardians the noted British historian wrote of.
Let us, to put the point another way, take Jonathan Cook seriously when he observes, “Everyone is a target.”
The American Civil Liberties Union reports that roughly 1,400 to 1,500 police departments across the U.S. have drones in their inventories and routinely make use of them for, among other things, surveillance operations.
Turning the point another way, does it disturb you, even briefly, that MI–6, the C.I.A., the F.B.I. and other appendages of the national security state operate at the most sophisticated end of these technologies?
Just for a sec, I mean.
A friend forwarded me a piece the other day from The Guardian, published last week under the headline, “University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters.”
It turns out Michigan’s most distinguished university has been paying a Detroit security company called City Shield, nicely into seven figures, to follow students on and off campus, eavesdrop, video-record their conversations, in many cases more or less stalking them.
These are no-neck goons, not high-end drones. O.K., the University of Michigan is lower on the technology ladder than MI–6. Is there some other difference we need to think about?
Among the worst parts of this story, university administrators have used this primitively-gathered surveillance in disciplinary proceedings against some students who favor the Palestinian cause, and — not to be missed — make no apology for this operation.
“Any security measures in place are solely focused on maintaining a safe and secure campus environment,” the university said in an official statement, “and are never directed at individuals or groups based on their beliefs or affiliations.”
You get the idea. The normalization of total surveillance.
The world as we have known it, safe places as we have known them, civilians as we have known them, the University of Michigan as we have known it, the silence of the sky as we have known it, drones as we are, sadly, fated to know them.
Drone warfare has pretty much ended the traditional ‘boots on the ground’ logistic. Russia, and to lesser extent the Ukraine, have demonstrated how cheap throw-aways can easily destroy expensive heavy artillery, armored mobile platforms (tanks, APC, etc.) and bunkers (if they have an exposed door or window).
I think it was yesterday one of America’s top military commanders admitted that the main US battle tank, the Abrams, is now pretty much an expensive piece of useless iron, given drone warfare techniques.
They key takeaway for military strategists is recognizing drone limitations. Time available in the air, along with the need for precision guidance appear to be the biggest limiting factors.
What it is, is proof of colossal stupidity on the part of Russia’s MoD. People who know almost nothing have been writing online for years that Russia should build hangars for the planes or at least some kind of screens. For God’s sake there was a similar attack at the Engels base almost 2 years ago, as well as an attack on the early-warning radar, also around a year ago. And, place don’t tell me that Saint Putin could simply not protect these planes, because of the START agreement … what kind of idiotic leader would still be worried about that, when he is at war with the US??
A good, well-written article, and it doesn’t exactly talk about drones, but rather something else. Dark new times. And what a wonderful testing ground Gaza has become.
Your right, drones aren’t there yet as a true game changers but they have shown their capabilities and with the advances in AI a true autonomous capability could be just over the horizon, this would render the size of a nation redundant as the need for eyes in space less nessessary.
Also Trump has gone around the world and poked each of the five eyes that were its cornerstone in defence, Australia being the most recent, so the quicker the Empire disintegrates the faster Trump insults the U.S friends, the world has turned 180 degrees in such a short space of time.
Thankyou Donald.
For every weapon there is or will be a counter-weapon that reduces its effectiveness or simply usability, applicability and return on investment. Look what’s is going on Ukraine.
Last year Ukrainian/western drones played important defensive role while today according to AFU commanders their role has diminished greatly via ubiquitous Russian countermeasures like titanium nets and cages, deep visual and electronic camouflage, Starlink satellite signal jamming EW, anti-drone drones, specialized drone hunting sniper and AD units, but most of all AI assisted deep surveillance saturation and signal intelligence that target tactical drone launching and preparation areas. Also anti drone laser guns are being tested by both sides.
Today much of AFU soldiers’ combat losses are drone operators killed by other drones or precision artillery. It’s most dangerous job that no longer draws enthusiasm of fighting from safer rear and glory of internet stardom simply because both sides stop using heavy hardware in large numbers resulting in at least 50% of drones never find tactically worthy target (EW, technical failure, shot down, limited battery capacity) or damage they inflict is negligible or easily recoverable.
Also Russians are targeting all AFU drone schools over entire Ukraine killing instructors. However in the end it is all about overwhelming enemy with cheap and massive industrial production Ukraine can’t setup safely and hence relies on home manufacturing that was recently blocked by Chinese embargo of Mavic drones and parts export prohibition to NATO. Interestingly that many Ukrainian commanders question wisdom of overinvesting in drones while other needs for weaponry are neglected.
Drones by next year will find their exclusive but limited narrow tactical domain on the battlefield like any other weapons system.
Yes. The (lack of) ‘privacy’ angle is always present, but that’s not really a drone-specific aspect of the overall technology. Anyone that has a cell phone can pretty much be tracked. Anyone on-line can pretty much be monitored. When you go to buy your vegetables, the store likely has a couple of cameras following you. Your workplace may be able to tell which doors you walk in and out of, and at what time. Many have ‘home security’ that is monitored by a third party. Your car may have a tracking ‘feature’. In the scheme of citizen surveillance, probably a drone flying around is the least of your worries. Unless it falls on top of you.
I see it as a certain redemocratization of interpersonal difference management –
call it god´s answer to gated communities 😋 All that is pure 2A.
Yes, that’s it, surveillance and death beneath the drones’ hum, like the ancient bells announcing someone’s death. Today, the death of a nation that should affect everyone fades into silence. But let’s not forget, one shouldn’t ask for whom the bell tolls, for it tolls for you too.
you are an idiot or a troll, that doesn’t understand the obligations of the start treaties. by terms of the agreement the strategic bombers must be displayed on the tarmac, just as u.s. b-2 bombers were at diego garcia. unlike the u.s., russia follows treaty law, not for the u.s. but the rest of the world (just like the chinese) but that will end and not be renewed. this is nothing but an over hyped propaganda campaign and all that zato and their ukranazi proxies have left in the tank. this will have zero impact on the outcome of the s.m.o., as russia is advancing on all fronts, in the end this will speed their demise.
russia is not at war with the u.s., just yet, although you trolls may get your wish. don’t be surprised if the u.s. and u.k. don’t start experiencing terrorist acts in their own backyard, if and when the shit hits the fan. russia has destroyed zato’s weapon systems and their reputation, that’s all the u.s. has left. now only their vasssls will buy their overpriced, outdated, junk systems. look around you, it’s the u.s. that’s falling apart, not russia. look at what’s happening to ukraine right now, as a result of their terrorist actions, they will lose even more territory in the end.
russia doesn’t need your advice on anything, they are doing a fine job of destroying the ukranazis, their zato handlers and the e.u. and u.s. economies that fund it, this is the real war. our economy is a dead man walking and the idiots big beautiful bill, will speed the demise of this zombie economy. russia doesn’t need the u.s., the u.s. needs russia, trump understands this but is too much of a duplicitous idiot and puppet, to be able to take the life line extended to us. this is the last chance for this idiot pretender to the throne but it seems, he’d rather play with matches and go down in history as the american nero, most likely that’s what he was selected for in the first place.
ask not for whom the buzz drones, it drones for thee.
Very interesting. GHF is classic CIA jerry-rigging as described by Frank Snepp for the Phoenix Program. No vetting, training or direction, so you let a lot of retards and psychos loose on the subject population.
https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-american-security-contractor
Evidently CIA/Mossad needs to obscure attribution of its genocide while it finishes them off (as when torture job shop CACI did a bit of the dirty work to draw flak and focus legal exposure.) The hirelings get prosecuted for what CIA mostly does. That’s what these GHF proles are for, make CIA genocide look like low-level fuckups. These grunts are there to bait the traps with food aid, like exterminators for mice or roaches or any other kind of vermin.
CIA’s Mossad satellite pilots the extermination program IOC. If the civilized world gets fed up, contract help or, in a pinch, Mossad pukes get framed. If they get away with it, CIA brings it home for dissidents.
If Tulsi hopes to stay out of the glass booth in Nuremberg II, she needs to keep tabs on the DO COTRs and cutouts at the genocide desk. This world war CIA started won’t be over till the security architecture gets set up. To do that the world is gonna have to hang a lot of Langley psychos.
The British run around like derring-do schoolboys to please their Jewish masters.
Meanwhile mass immigration rolls on, ethnic British people are excluded from opportunity in their own country (righting historic injustice) and black faces are obligatory across the media (DEI).
It’s strictly forbidden to show a happy white family (no racial guilt).
Sad really to see what’s happened to Great Britain since the 1960’s
Israel want their land back. Perhaps the Germans and the British should do the same. What of the Americans. Who’s land is it? The native Indians?
By modern standards the Jews should have given up and just accepted integration into European/American lands. But they “fight, fight, fight”.
Israel have always sought to weaken the powerful. Currently that’s the European and American peoples. In the next century it could be China and India.
It is an eternal game of “topple the leader”.
It will be a game changer when cargo ships in the ports of Los Angeles, New Orleans, Wilmington, Baltimore, New York, Boston, Portland, and trains innocently criss-crossing the country all packed with conex boxes suddenly deploy a coordinated, massive strike against critical infrastructure, military bases, drone control centers like Edwards Air Force Base, politicians, factories and bridges; with less than a minute’s warning time. Flying artillery shells (or far, far worse) moving 90 miles an hour, 9 in off the ground.
Bet they are sitting in bonded warehouses and undisclosed locations already.
All of your aircraft carriers, your multi-billion dollar flying bricks, early warning systems; nearly the entire budget of the MIC…. Obsolete as battleship row.
Jews have corrupted every institution in the West. Academia, media, finance, government, international organizations. Jews have no use for principles. It’s all tribal, all about “Is it good for the Jews?” White cucks suck up to these people.
This has been obvious for over a year yet the US army does nothing:
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There are many traitors in Russia launching drones even from the boot of cars. This is difficult to control.
Russians have to beware that Ukrainians could launch drone attacks on Vladivostok from merchant ships and other vessels in international waters.
https://www.google.com/imgres?q=drones%20ocean%20rescue&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jttrescue.com%2Fuploadfile%2Fnews%2Fcde4501db812ba91c4ad19f53edfa40f.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jttrescue.com%2Fsolutions_nc1&docid=GE62MmD0MPX_fM&tbnid=Zx2s7x82pV9wmM&vet=12ahUKEwiIs_f02e2NAxUQH0QIHcqSK20QM3oECHoQAA..i&w=427&h=350&hcb=2&ved=2ahUKEwiIs_f02e2NAxUQH0QIHcqSK20QM3oECHoQAA
No thanks.
-SafeNow (ancient former ocean lifeguard)
This article is very poorly written because it starts with a basic premise that is simply presented, as if though it were factual, but without any evidence to support it:
Next, again without any explanation, it tries to pin the blame upon unspecified “Western intelligence” for having orchestrated the operation:
Both of these sequential suppositions contradict plausible information about the essence of Operation Spider’s Web. Preparing for this operation entailed successfully infiltrating Russia in various locations, which Ukrainians would obviously be better at than British or US operatives. Both the pre-positioning of the containers with the quadcopter drones and their subsequent remote guidance to attack the parked aircraft, using open source software, depended on the existing infrastructure of respective mobile phone networks at and near the military air force bases. This is what made the operation so ingenious; special satellite information beyond ubiquitous and standard GPS information, contained in modern smart phones, was therefore not necessary to attain success.
It is apparently too embarrassing for pro-Russian bloggers to admit that Ukraine was able to carry out the operation without “Western” assistance. Since the premises of the article have been contradicted, whatever follows must obviously be unreliable.
Kamikaze drones in the skies over London or Washington, their fibre optic filaments tethered to non-state hostile actors, will concentrate Deep State minds wonderfully.
Freedom and liberty as conceptualized in the anglo sphere are naïve beliefs. In reality what ever little freedoms and liberties you can enjoy are derived from your privacy and nothing else.
Hilarious how Comrade Putin has somehow become the “Great White Hope” (lol) for the White Supremacists who dream of a White ethnostate. Especially considering how little your one-balled, meth-addicted Austrian house painter hero thought of the üntermenschen Slavs! And especially since Russia has a higher percentage of its population that are Muhammadan than does the UK.
Just admit it folx – the Js (ummm, I mean Chosenites lol) didn’t stop you from breeding more wypipo babies. You did it to yourselves. Which makes it even more delicious! L’ chaim! 😂🤣😂
Ya my pager is beeping. 🔥
Both Russia and China have something new on their plates… wait and see is the exact wrong
posture to take on the Iranian attack last night.
Putin’s dovish approach to Ukraine added an additional year and 500,000 additional deaths.
Wait and see on this one will bring nuclear war sooner than later.
Putin needs to lend Iran a couple (Orshnics) and use Iran as his proxy , the way the West used
Ukraine.
I just read that the entire Iranian brass was wiped out in one location!!! did they
not learn from the last time that happened? you NEVER put all the commanders in one spot!
No planes were supposed to be capable of getting anywhere near Tehran, WTF happened?
where were those 10,000 missiles? and impenetrable radar? or were these (satellite strikes)?
I was hoping for one more year to prepare before this happened, but the falling USDX and
rising precious metals market has moved up the time table for dollar death. The world runs
on bribery, and JU-ish bribery fuel is slurping on “E”.
Jun 4, 2025 New Ukraine drone video shows direct hits on Russian bombers, A-50 spy planes targeted
Ukraine has released dramatic new drone footage from its June 1 strike on four major Russian airbases. The video shows drones targeting Russian strategic bombers and even landing on two rare A-50 spy planes. Ukraine claims 41 aircraft were hit using 117 drones. Satellite images confirm multiple bombers destroyed or damaged. The footage, released by Ukraine’s SBU, highlights the escalating reach of Kyiv’s drone warfare deep into Russian territory.
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Jun 4, 2025 Full: Putin’s 1st Direct Attack on Ukraine After ‘Op Spiderweb’, Explodes on Kyiv’s Request for Meet
Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched his first direct missile strike on Ukraine following Kyiv’s bold “Spiderweb” drone operation, which destroyed over 40 Russian military aircraft. In a televised address, Putin condemned recent railway explosions in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk regions as “terrorist acts,” blaming Ukraine’s political leadership for orchestrating attacks on civilians.
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I fly a DJI Mavic Pro 2, and it’s fantastic still, even being two generations behind the current state of the DJI art Mavic 4 … the Mavic 4 Pro wasn’t released in the USA due to Trump’s faggot mouth rimming the unwashed anuses of the MIC.
Trump’s goal isn’t to “protect” anything or anyone other than the MIC profit margins, jews, and central control/the Oligarchs, and if you believe him strangling DJI is about helping you or yours, you must be a MAGAtard.
The Mavic 4 is literally insane in its capacities: flight time 51 minutes, video/flight range 30 km, 3 cameras with up to 100MP resolution and all for perhaps $2,000. This could not be manufactured and sold in the US for less than $15,000
Anywho, the Mini Pro 5 and the Avata 3 should be out by September, will be more reasonably priced, and might be the last drones DJI releases in the Great USA, the Capital of True Capitalism, and are two I’d recommend to buy just because you still can, to have the capacity for surveillance, and for the enjoyment of photography and video.
It’s also possibly a good investment as if DJI washes it’s hands of the jew besotted US, their value will increase. If you’ve the disposable, pick some up if just to put a thumb in their eye while you can; due to already signed Trump diktats December might be the last month for DJI imports.
The point of the military is sales, to enrich the stock owner class, and to impoverish the retarded Goyim so they must work work work and have no free time to think (not that they would :).
Go read the Report From Iron Mountain for instance.
If labor actually got the fruits of productivity gains, even a fraction of them over the last 70 years, you’d have to work 16 hours a week to maintain a comfortable middle class life. This is fact.
This is also why da gummint gave the banks trillions in ’08, bailing them out INSTEAD of giving the mortgage holders the money to THEN give to the banks as they paid off their loans. Same effect, but people would have been freed of that debt bondage. Didn’t happen, did it?
Same with the endless billions shoveled to the illegals, and the faked NGO groups – debt Ponzi must expand, yet don’t want the fucking retarded goyim getting anything … so wat do? Well, the shekels go to the illegals, “green companies” that go tits up after cashing their check, Israel, Ukraine, more F-35s etc. etc. and on and on.
If you think the point of the trillion dollar military is defending anything other than the US Oligarchs and Israel (but I repeat myself) you’re hopeless at this point.
The above is non sequitur of itself, but also the false premise in a larger systematized delusion – a false premise pursued by a logical process of reasoning to an insane conclusion.
The false premise is that the natural state of humanity is being at each other’s throats trying to kill each other (and / or that it can be continued indefinitely).
I wrote the following in about 2015, but it seems to have stood the test of time, and now seems to apply to the current escalation in the form of drones and drone swarms on civilian populations:
It is apparently too embarrassing for pro-Russian bloggers to admit that Ukraine was able to carry out the operation without “Western” assistance. Since the premises of the article have been contradicted, whatever follows must obviously be unreliable.
Yes they want to tell themselves that the British must have planned it. It can’t be that those simpleton Ukrainians actually came up with this plan on their own even though they have developed their own naval drones. Ukraine is actually ahead of both the US and UK in that area. They were the first country to take out a plane by naval drone.
Of course Russia has not come up with an attack that is half as creative.
The Russians continue their tradition of sending in waves of men like the Mongols that once enslaved them.
Ukraine will come up with more ingenious attacks and our Putinistas will tell themselves that British Jews or Anglos must be responsible. They will tell themselves that Putin knows what he is doing and that the 2.5 week special operation should be wrapping up soon. Just another year and a few more attacks with 1 week conscripts and Putin’s Mad Max T-55s should do it. For the glory! May a thousand war donkeys march on Kiev!
On the topic of Drones, why hasn’t any one thought of extending a drone’s range by using un-insulated overhead powerlines to re-charge them??
The 110th time is soon approaching, laugh and be merry till then.
Well, to the extent the üntermenchen Slavs are “white” (lol), it’s basically just wypipo dying in Russia’s special military operation” in Ukriane. So lets hope the Russia-Ukraine war lingers on at least another decade! Inshallah! 😂🤣😂
Meanwhile, the Chosenites in Israel have a significantly above replacement level of fertility. Even without Comrade Putin’s war in Ukraine, both Russia and Ukraine were dying out. Face it, Slavic wimmen prefer Ahmed, Tyrone, and Shlomo to Boris or Vlad! (Seriously, who can blame them?)
I read somewhere that the Russian Duma is going to change “Military Operations” to “Terrorist Operation” so as to legally allow attacks on the Ukrainian Leadership.
I may be wrong, but I still think that Iran’s relationship with Israel is complex and intertwined. Too many private business connections of high officials of both countries, too much corruption (as in every Muslim country, the same trademark as in communism), too many Iranians who are fed up with religious fanaticism and too many Israeli spies in all levels of decision making. The latest decrees of the aged apostles, such as public mutilation of thieves and the practical ban on keeping dogs as pets, show a pathological backwardness, supposedly to counteract Western decadence. In the meantime, so many exiled Iranians now believe that no price is too high to pay to get rid of the mullahs. As in 1979, there will be another confrontation between the pious and backward rural population and the intellectuals who are still infiltrated by leftist lunatics (= useful idiots, mostly). With the cautionary example of Syria in mind, where the people were demoralised by too many years of cruel sanctions, there could be a change of government under way. The protests against the Shah in the 1970s were so incredibly stupid because the leftist students in the West had no clue of what would follow the secular government they wanted to bring down. De facto, it brought about the reawakening of fundamentalist Islam, which had long since become politically irrelevant. At best, those who want to return to the pre-Islamic culture of ancient Persia, as the Pahlevis had in mind, will prevail. Let‘s hope for a leader like the late Mohammad Mosaddegh.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mohammad-Mosaddegh
Kike troll.Did you bite the Hitler,s. ball off? YOU JEW BOYS NEED THAT ARYAN NURISHMENT!
World war three is being set in motion as we watch right now.
Everybody that chose to read this shit post will understand fully you don’t have a clue of the central argument of this essay.
Don’t bother us anymore.
Iran is crippled and Trump is impotent and fucked by Bibi and black mailed by the Mossad and Israel is controlling the show…does anyone have anything to say?
The real fun will be when all drones of every nation have autonomous AI.
And somehow, I doubt race, ideology, human IQ, needs, wants, outrages and so forth will even be slightly considered.
EXTERMINATE-ALL-HUMAN-LIFE-FORMS!
Will it be too late to get Ahnald’s autograph?
The revelations from Ukraine’s Operation Spider’s Web transcend any kind of petty delusions projected by sinister “Putinistas” because, by extension, all airports in the world are unsafe from these types of attacks. A small drone loaded with two kilograms of high-tech plastic explosives, perhaps surrounded by sharp shrapnel, can do much damage when flown and carefully positioned in key locations to account for signal latency, such as next to a turbofan engine inlet of an aircraft or between a cockpit and radome, before exploding. Modern smart-phones already incorporate chipsets that utilize the more precise satellite signals from Europe’s Galileo global positioning system (GPS). Synthesizing GPS signals from different systems makes targeting of stationary installations, for instance control towers, even more precise.
Though the control systems of commercially available drones can be prevented from flying within designated high security regions, any sophisticated team of hackers with a specialized background in electrical engineering, control systems, and programmable chips can develop their own custom drones that can fly autonomously. The best way to protect airports from attacks by drones that are flown under the guidance of commands through mobile phone networks is to disable mobile phone signals in such areas. Eventually, installing signal cancellation devices would be an option, so that mobile communications would at least be possible inside flight terminal buildings, but not anywhere outside them. As military installations will take countermeasures, these potential security threats will become more acute at civilian airports.
Any kid playing Call of Duty about 20 years ago could’ve told you a swarm of cheap drones would wreak havoc on the battlefield; how this is considered “revolutionary” in 2025 is anybody’s guess. Wait until jihadists realize you don’t need to drive a box truck into a group of people or wear an explosive vest, but rather spend a couple grand on Amazon for the same impact dropped from drones and much less chance of being caught… will that be considered revolutionary as well?
I think people are waking up to the fact that the M.I.C. isn’t really about protecting anything other than profits. What we’re seeing in Ukraine is two countries actually trying to win ground with the most effective and efficient methods. I’m also honestly shocked there hasn’t been bigger gains made on personal body armor for troops, standard issue on the battlefield. You can’t tell me a safety helmet and some chest plates are the best we’ve got! The guys in the North Hollywood shootout held out for 44 minutes against a barrage of bullets in ‘97. In the nearly 20 years since, and trillions of dollars later, the armed forces couldn’t replicate or improve upon their design? Next you’re going to tell me the military doesn’t really care about the troops!…
-Rooster
I’m also honestly shocked there hasn’t been bigger gains made on personal body armor for troops, standard issue on the battlefield. You can’t tell me a safety helmet and some chest plates are the best we’ve got! The guys in the North Hollywood shootout held out for 44 minutes against a barrage of bullets in ‘97
Well for the Russian side it is all about costs.
They don’t think it is worth even training a conscript for a month. They average 1 week. So forget about spending money on body armor. The Russians expect these men to die.
From what I have read the Russians have to scrounge for body armor from dead Ukrainians.
The Russians don’t even have enough winter kit. Stalin actually had more wool coats for his army in 1944. That is crazy. There is a video where a Russian talks about how you have to find Canadian boots on dead Ukrainians. Everyone seems to agree that the Canadian boots are the best.
The guys in the North Hollywood shootout held out for 44 minutes against a barrage of bullets in ‘97. In the nearly 20 years since, and trillions of dollars later, the armed forces couldn’t replicate or improve upon their design?
The US military provides advanced ceramic plating to frontline troops. Much more advanced than the kevlar used by the Hollywood shooters.
Russia is still building tanks as we speak though…. They also still acquire anti tank missiles from North Korea… Drones can’t do it all.
And don’t know if you saw a new strategy (video) Russians are using against fiber optic drones that trail them in forests… They use a centuries old weapon… They let if fly by – then they find the fiber optic cord and cut it with scissors!!! Drone drops and blows up. Check the video.
The planes fired from over Iraqi airspace…. And no – the whole brass was not wiped out.
Are fibre optics effective in forests? I’d think they’d get tangled up in forests. Probably better in open fields.
Why is the roll wheel for the fibre optics on the drone rather than on the ground from where it’s launched? Having it on the drone adds more weight which could be used for more explosives instead.
I don’t know the answers to those questions… But I was just noting the point that drones can’t do everything. And militaries are still buying all the heavy weapons they had before. Ukraine was building way more drones than Russia. But Russia was still winning because Russia was using millions of shells it was getting from North Korea. Those shells do far more damage than drones. That’s not to mention cruise and ballistic missiles being more destructive than long range drones. There is a reason the drones are sent in first to attract fire from the air defenses – then the more destructive missiles go in after. Drones have a role – but they are not the end all be all.
The “spool” is “stationary”, like a spincasting reel
nothing “rotates”; having the spool at the starting point means having to drag
the fiber along, increasing risk of breakage and further slowing the thing down
(which I understand already is a problem) while with the spool on the drone
the drag is constant and the fiber neither moves nor is under strain.
Of course it goes at the expense of payload – but it does not pose special problems
in forests, quite the contrary because you do not lose contact.
Those old fashioned anti-aircraft guns used during WWIi could be useful against drones.
Couldn’t say…. It will be interesting to see how those things play out
“ too much corruption (as in every Muslim country, the same trademark as in communism)”
LOL you’re confused, you can’t see the wood for the trees
How would you classify Epstein’s plea deal in Florida in 2007? According to the lead investigator there were droves of young girls who had been abused/trafficked. He was stopped looking for more victims by his commanders even though he believed there were many more children involved. The investigation was stopped before it was completed.
If you wanna make a statement about “every Muslim country” and “communism”, fine we know we’re you stand – your partiality is pathetic.
If you wanna make a statement about “corruption” get it right or face scorn when you talk to adults
Have you not eyes to see or are you willfully blind?
Very good analysis.
WAAAY over Johnny’s pay grade.