David
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Wolkenjägerblicker
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Whilst in Dublin last week, Zelenskyy met with the families of Irishmen killed fighting for Ukraine, who were posthumously awarded for their service
https://www.europesays.com/2622757/
From his X page (not sure if I can link) For me and for the First Lady Olena…
[1/5] According to an unofficial source (who has provided reliable information in the past), work on upgrading RF Navy Pacific Fleet Oscar II-class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine Irkutsk has stopped, and the submarine will now be scrapped.
09.12.2025 10:54 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Baikal 1, located close to the Semipalatinsk test site, Kazakhstan. Captured by a KH-7 GAMBIT spy satellite on May 28, 1967.
More info: www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/2032...
So on some level, maybe it makes sense to just let people believe whatever they want.
Show a clear image of a drone, then the same people will demand attribution. If the drone says "Made in Russia", some will still yell that it's a false flag.
Ah, the joys of hybrid warfare.
That *might* be a rationale for authorities to not release anything - the fear of creating a flap where every light in the sky becomes a Russian drone/UFO/whatever.
And even in cases where Russian drones crash/land (say in Poland) there are people who will claim that it was someone elses fault.
Agreed and the vacuum is being filled with people saying nothing is happening, that it is an imaginary flap.
That, given the vacuum of information, might even be true.
Personally, I find it hard to believe there's no good evidence and every single case is one of mistaken identity.
08.12.2025 23:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The more interactions I have with folks, the more I believe it to be utterly self defeating for european authorities not to release some solid, verifiable evidence about the drone incidents.
You wont convince everyone, but it'd be better than the current vacuum of information.
A classic 🎶
08.12.2025 22:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I *think* I recall reading years ago that the French logic for having fixed refueling probes on their fight aircraft, was that they were far less prone to failure than retractable types.
08.12.2025 22:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It adds character 🙃
08.12.2025 22:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Worth a listen
www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...
HM Coastguard Beechcraft checking out the ship
07.12.2025 11:00 — 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Prediction: if exquisite HD footage of drones circling LE William Butler Yeats gets released (a big if), pro-Russian accounts will immediately pivot from saying there were no drones, to blaming the Brits.
07.12.2025 23:42 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Until some significant additional information comes out, I am still on the fence regarding the drones over the Irish Sea story.
Maybe they were drones operated by a malicious actor.
Or maybe they were just misidentifications of civilian airliners.
Hope we get more detail and facts soon.
Updated timelapse of selected aircraft activity over the Irish Sea, showing VEZHEN's position, with some additional aircraft, as suggested by @altw.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs-d...
⚡️“His unit was a military special forces unit under the Kaliningrad Customs and Border Police, consisting of two combat units specializing in diving, among other things. He headed the unit until 2009, after which, according to records, he has no official work history.”
06.12.2025 14:17 — 👍 33 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 0You are right to point out the other aircraft, I should add Ryanair's 9H-QCC, 9H-VVC & EI-DCJ to the timelapse; while they didn't stick around for more than one circuit each of them were in the area in the timeframe. Job for tomorrow morning! Thank you.
06.12.2025 23:22 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0If LÉ William Butler Yeats was keeping an eye on the vessel mentioned in this article, then the nearest aircraft to it on ADS-B was likely EI-FAT, an Aer Lingus ATR-72 turboprop, which orbited at around 8,000 feet.
06.12.2025 20:46 — 👍 19 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 2
Hope the same folks are as forthcoming with praise for the restraint of the crew, if it turns out to be a case of misidentification.
Personally, I'd be wary of shooting .50 cal, or 20mm cannon into a sky where civilian aircraft are circulating below 10,000 feet.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Haha, same!
It's a big & intriguing question - I don't know the answer, but I guess the elephant in the room is, once it reached the area - with no sonar, if something *was* submerged, the Irish Naval vessel wouldn't have been able to detect it.
With information currently publicly available, it is certainly fair to suggest the possibility that the "drones" were a misidentification of air traffic, but it is also possible that they were indeed drones.
As with online "discussion" of any event, alas it seems people must vehemently choose one 😫
"On a screen monitoring ship traffic inside the Yeats an anomaly became visible for a short time. It was judged it was a surface boat or ship."
Suffice to say, it wasn't there when ship arrived. This makes me think a surface search radar contact, rather than AIS, but then GPS spoofing is mooted.
Interesting further reporting on the drone incident from @nialljournal.bsky.social
www.thejournal.ie/drones-analy...
Garda national security team investigating rogue drones during Zelenskiy visit
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
