“It’s very funny.
To see how everyone.
Thinks that FPVs.
Rule the way.”
FPV drones feed live video.
To their operators.
So there’s ample evidence.
Of their strikes.
But that evidence belies.
The reality on the ground in Kursk.
If not elsewhere in.
‘Orcs’ wider war on Ukraine.
That reality is that.
Anti-tank missile teams.
Not drone operators.
Are responsible.
For many of the hits.
On the ‘orcs’ vehicles.
That have been attacking.
In Kursk since 7 November.
“It’s very funny.
To see how everyone.
Thinks that FPVs.
Rule the way.”
Wrote an ‘elf’ marine corps.
Drone operator in Kursk.
Whose team helps defend.
The western edge of the salient.
In two days of ‘orcs’ assaults.
Ending on Thursday.
The ‘orcs’ 237th.
Guards Airborne Assault Regiment.
Lost 17 armored vehicles.
In the ‘elf’ drone operator’s sector.
Lost 17 armored vehicles.
Most of them were.
Immobilized by mines or.
Anti-tank guided missiles.
Such as the American-made Javelin.
Or the ‘elves’ Stugna-P.
“Only after that.
FPV drones.
Started working.”
He noted.
“It’s very funny.
To see how everyone.
Thinks that FPVs.
Rule the way.”
The tiny drones hauling.
Just a few pounds of explosives.
Over a distance of.
A few miles.
Are better for finishing off.
Stranded vehicles than.
They are at doing.
The actual stranding.
“In general, I see that.
Approximately 10 to 15 percent.
Of armored vehicles.
Were destroyed by FPVs.”
“—I mean, during the move.”
He noted.
The ‘orcs’ have lost.
Around 100 vehicles.
In a four-square-mile patch.
Of Kursk.
Around the hamlet.
Of Zelenyi Shylakh.
—and just in the past few weeks.
As they’ve escalated.
Their attacks on.
The ‘elves’ salient.
“It’s very funny.
To see how everyone.
Thinks that FPVs.
Rule the way.”
For all their increasing sophistication.
And the growing skill.
Of their operators.
‘Elves’ FPV drones.
—which the country builds.
At a rate of more than.
A million a year—
‘Elves’ FPV drones still lack.
The destructive power of.
The destructive power of.
A 1990s-vintage.
Javelin ATGM.
“It’s very funny.
To see how everyone.
Thinks that FPVs.
Rule the way.”
In terms of.
Sheer explosive firepower.
A 35-pound Javelin is equivalent.
To a dozen FPV drones.
And in the hands of.
An ATGM team from one of.
‘Elves’ notoriously bloodthirsty.
Air assault brigades.
A Javelin might be.
Even more lethal.
A Javelin might be.
Even more lethal.
That missiles still.
Outshoot drones in Kursk.
Despite the greater visibility.
Of the latter over the former.
Is yet another remind that.
In mechanized warfare.
As in many things.
Looks can be deceiving.
“It’s very funny.
To see how everyone.
Thinks that FPVs.
Rule the way.”
*Because I read “Ukraine’s Missiles Still Outshoot Ukraine’s Drones. ‘It’s Very Funny,’ One Drone Operator Admits.” by David Axe on 13 Dec 2024 on the Forbes, and also “Why are Ukrainians calling Russians ‘orcs’?” by James FitzGerald on 30 Apr 2022 on the BBC news.
So, I wrote this poem, including a story of Kriegsforscher.
Please read the original story on the Forbes:
