Dangermouse

Are laws even a thing anymore?

Quick guide to Tomahawk cruise missile variants

TLAM - land attack

TSAM - anti-ship

GLCM - ground launched

TACTOM - improved “tactical” version

TACO - version talked about but never delivered to Ukraine

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"Any vacuum of facts and values will be filled with spectacle and war."

— Timothy Snyder, "On Freedom."

This is a post from Sternenko on the infiltration of ruzzian fibre-optic drones into Kramatorsk:

"Many were surprised yesterday by the news that a Russian fiber-optic FPV drone flew into Kramatorsk and attacked a car.

My inability to understand or speak French would probably help.

Russian war veteran speaking to grandchild in year 2050:
-Grandpa, what did Russian army use before donkeys?
-In the really old days we had Armoured Personal Carriers.

Ukraine already using Flamingo missiles against Russia, expected to produce 7 per day soon

When I am on road trip I usually do not post.
But this report was too good not to.
Good Flamingo news.

www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

Ukraine helped build the Russian empire. Now it's taking it apart.

Just an observation.

74% of Ukrainians believe in Ukraine's victory over Russia. At the same time, almost 25% of them expect a full restoration of the 1991 borders, — a survey by the Razumkov Center

Any idea of the cost per interceptor?

🇸🇪Sweden is developing a C-UAS against FPV drones: Volvo integrates the VIPRO system on military transport

Volvo Defense, together with Nordic Air Defence, has presented its solution for protecting military equipment from FPV drones.

The weapons of tomorrow The ‘drone revolution’ rewrote the battlefield in Ukraine. Will they upend the West’s way of war? — Meduza Russia’s recent drone incursions into Poland and Romania set off alarm bells in Europe. For Brussels, it looked like a political signal of Moscow’s willingness to escalate. But the episode also expose...

"After years of watching the bloodbath on the Russian–Ukrainian front, many military analysts have come to see drones as having unleashed an irreversible revolution in warfare, one that has rendered Western doctrines nearly obsolete."

meduza.io/en/feature/2...

On this day, the world will run out of champagne.

Thanks, allies...

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I am sad because he’s not dead yet

Yet something about how Russia operates is out of kilter - there’s a lack of coordination and the system feels broken. It’s an observational comment, difficult to quantify, but it’s the disorganised nature of everything- it’s just not Russian to do things the way they’re being done, even if what

Bookmarked (because I can now), I hope you’re right (or that it’s sooner).

Love your work btw

You would have to change your handle to Cassandra.

“I gave the license plate numbers to an AI and asked where the cars came from” kind of says it all.

Lest we forget…

Good info on where Ukrainians get their news.

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And they have beards (the men).

Same, feeling hopeful for first time since Kherson/Kharkiv.

The only good thing, for us, that came out of this Quantico political photo-op rally is this.
All of our top generals and admirals got to witness firsthand the manic incompetence of Hegseth and the rambling insanity and dementia of Trump.

Tiny cracks are starting to widen….

Connecting the dots of Russia’s Moldova Occupation A Narrative Evolution through the Lens of Journalists

A few people have been asking questions about Moldova.

As it's well over 30 years since Russia refused to let go of a part of the country, this (free) look back into history from @amaragraps.bsky.social, is both fascinating and enlightening.

amaragraps.substack.com/p/connecting...

This absolutely is one of your best, made me laugh out loud.

These newsom posts are just gold