Month: August 2024

It’s an echo of. World War II. When gunners in the noses. Of heavy bombers.   Defended their planes. From enemy fighters. It’s an echo of. World War II.     A video depicting. One gun-armed. Mi-8 appeared. Online this week.   In the video. A gunner wedged. Between the helicopter’s pilot. And co-pilot.   […]

For months, ‘elves’ officials. Have been begging. Their foreign allies for permission. To use the best donated weaponry.   —in particular. Powerful ballistic missiles— To hit ‘orcs’ warplanes. That have been parking out.   In the open. At airfields inside ‘Mordor’. Within quick flying time. Of ‘elves’ cities.   For months, those allies. Have demurred. […]

Rostov-on-Don. Is so unlucky that. She got blown up. Not once.   An ‘orcs’ Kilo-class. Diesel-electric submarine. Belonging to the ‘orcs’ navy’s. Black Sea Fleet.   Rostov-on-Don. Is so unlucky that. She got blown up. But reportedly twice.   Both times. It seems. By ‘elves’. Cruise missiles.     On Friday. The 10-year-old. Rostov-on-Don. Was […]

Those ‘elves’ aviators. Dogfighting with ‘orcs’ drones. In their 1970s-vintage propeller plane. World War I style.   Seem to have inspired. A movement. Now more ‘elves’ are preparing. To take to the sky.   In slow-flying prop planes. —and hunt down the ‘orcs’ drones. Buzzing over. Vulnerable bases and cities.     A video that […]

For three months. The ‘elves’ crew of a propeller-driven. Yakovlev Yak-52 training plane. Has been hunting down.   Dogfighting with and shooting down. —World War I style— ‘Orcs’ surveillance drones. Over Odesa Oblast in southern Ukraine.     The ‘orcs’ military’s frustration. With the Yak-52 and its. Shotgun-wielding back-seat gunner. Crested last week.   As […]

‘Orcs’ are getting. Really fed up with. The ‘elves’ crew of that. Yakovlev Yak-52 training plane.   That has been dogfighting with. And shooting down. ‘Orcs’ surveillance drones. —World War I-style.     In three months. Two aviators riding in a Yak-52. —a front-seat pilot. And a back-seat gunner—   Have taken out at least. […]

‘Elves’ weirdest drone killers. Are back in action. In their 50-year-old. Propeller-driven training plane.   Adding two aerial kills. To their already impressive tally. In the span of. Just a few days.   A capture from the video. Feed of an ‘orcs’. Unmanned aerial vehicle. Circulated online on Saturday.   Seems to depict. Two ‘elves’ […]

Photos and videos depict. The Mil Mi-8 transport helicopter. Burning near Donetsk. In ‘orcs’-occupied eastern Ukraine.     ‘Elves’ forces deploy. More than 100,000 explosive. First-person-view drones. A month.   All along. The 700-mile front line. Of ‘orcs’ 28-month wider war. On Ukraine.   The drones smash into. Armored vehicles. Chase down. Exposed infantry.   […]

But that’s cold comfort. To ‘elves’ forces that have fought. For years to keep the ‘orcs’. Out of Pokrovsk.   And are now watching. The invaders. Creep closer and closer. To the city.     Steadily advancing behind. A barrage of devastating. Glide bombs and. Firing anti-tank missiles.   By the truckload. ‘Orcs’ troops are […]

The black box sits. On the army truck. Dashboard like. A talisman.     Its tiny screen. Lighting up with warnings. When ‘orcs’ drones. Are above you.   You are driving fast along. A country road in the darkness. Near the front lines. Outside Kharkiv.   Like many in this war. The soldiers inside. Have […]