A new drone bomber.
May have joined.
‘Elves’ escalating assault.
On ‘orcs’ oil industry.
On Wednesday night.
Or early Thursday morning.
Drones operated by the ‘elves’ 14th.
Separate Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Regiment.
Struck a pumping station.
On the Druzhba pipeline along.
The ‘Mordor’’s-Belarusian border.
In Bryansk Oblast.
The resulting blaze.
Illuminated the night sky.
Burning hot enough to register on.
NASA’s fire-detecting satellites.
The Druzhba pipeline is.
One of the largest.
In the world.
—a critical node.
—a critical node.
In the infrastructure.
For ‘orcs’ most.
Lucrative industry.
“Judging by the fire.
The strike was precise.”
An analyst noted.
“The strike was precise.”
The resulting blaze.
Illuminated the night sky.
Burning hot enough to register on.
NASA’s fire-detecting satellites.
The ‘elves’ have been attacking.
‘Orcs’ oil for two years.
But almost all of the strikes.
Have involved.
Explosives-laden drones that.
For efficiency’s sake.
Simply fly themselves.
Into their targets.
By contrast.
Last night’s drones.
“Bombarded the Bryansk Republic.
With bombs,” was noted.
The resulting blaze.
Illuminated the night sky.
Burning hot enough to register on.
NASA’s fire-detecting satellites.
Ukraine already operates.
Former civilian sport planes.
Modified for remote control.
That can clutch.
220-pound bombs.
To their bellies.
It seems that.
Until now.
The drones simply crashed.
Into their targets.
Instead of releasing.
Their bombs.
That makes sense.
That makes sense.
For the deeper strikes.
For the deeper strikes.
The resulting blaze.
Illuminated the night sky.
Burning hot enough to register on.
NASA’s fire-detecting satellites.
An Aeroprakt A-22 sport plane.
Laden with explosives.
Might struggle to fly.
Farther than 400 miles.
On a round trip.
But Ukraine.
Has been striking.
‘Orcs’ oil infrastructure.
800 miles.
Or farther beyond.
The front line of ‘orcs’.
Wider war on Ukraine.
Sending the A-22s.
On one-way missions means.
They can range 800 miles.
Instead of just 400.
No need to drop a bomb.
When there’s no expectation.
The attacking drone.
Will return to base.
The resulting blaze.
Illuminated the night sky.
Burning hot enough to register on.
NASA’s fire-detecting satellites.
Last night’s Druzhba raid.
Targeted a pumping station.
Just 25 miles.
From Ukraine.
Meaning the endurance.
Of the drone bombers.
Wasn’t a major.
Planning consideration.
They could release.
Their bombs and.
Preserve the option of.
Returning to base.
That doesn’t mean.
That doesn’t mean.
They did return to base.
They did return to base.
The resulting blaze.
Illuminated the night sky.
Burning hot enough to register on.
NASA’s fire-detecting satellites.
Remote landing is.
One of the more.
Challenging aspects of.
Wartime drone operations.
Rather than try and fail.
To steer the unmanned bombers.
To a safe nighttime landing.
Their operators may have chosen.
Their operators may have chosen.
To drop the bombs.
And then guide the drones.
Around on a second pass.
To crash into.
The same target.
They just bombed.
A robotic double-tap.
The resulting blaze.
Illuminated the night sky.
Burning hot enough to register on.
NASA’s fire-detecting satellites.
Either way.
If ‘elves’ larger drones.
Are capable of dropping.
Underbelly bombs.
They may also be capable.
Of there-and-back missions.
—assuming, of course.
Their operators can figure out.
—assuming, of course.
Their operators can figure out.
How to land them.
They’d be.
They’d be.
Reusable weapons.
Rather than single-use.
Each capable of blowing up.
More than one refinery.
Or pumping station.
Before meeting its end.
Before meeting its end.
*Because I read “A New Kind Of Ukrainian Drone May Have Blown Up A Major Russian Oil Pipeline” by David Axe on 30 Jan 2025 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 report of WarTranslated, and a report of Nikolaev Vanek.
Please read the original story on the Forbes:
A New Ukrainian Drone May Have Blown Up A Major Russian Oil Pipeline
