Tuesday, June 03, 2025

"L'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!"

Here's a gift link to a video-heavy article on Ukraine's decapitation strike against Russian strategic aviation assets.

The level of planning and preparation this took is just off the chain, to the point that the guys driving the trucks with the little prefab conex "houses" that concealed the racks of drones under their roofs were just patsies who had no idea what they were hauling.

You could walk into the "house" and look around and not notice anything because the drone racks were concealed in an 8" deep space between the interior ceiling and the external roof. So some guy hires you to tow his tiny house for him with instructions to just drop it off in a specific parking lot at a specific time and his buddy will come get it from there... what's so hinky about that?

To put this all in perspective, remember that Russia set out in February of 2022 to duplicate the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. If OIF had gone like that, we would have been recommissioning M48 Pattons to use as mobile artillery pieces in the bogged-down fighting around Basra in 2006, when a surprise attack blows up half our B52s on the ground at Barksdale, AFB.

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