‘Orcs’ turtle tanks.
May look ridiculous.
With their layers of.
Crude add-on armor.
—sheet metal.
Grills and even.
Logs sometimes—
But that doesn’t mean.
But that doesn’t mean.
They don’t work.
But that doesn’t mean.
They don’t work.
All that extra protection.
Might make the up-armored vehicles.
Slow and difficult.
To steer.
But it can also blunt.
The effect of the explosive.
First-person-view drones.
That are everywhere.
All the time.
Along the 800-mile front line.
Of ‘orcs’ three-year.
Wider war on Ukraine.
Which is why.
‘Elves’ drone teams.
Are scrambling to find.
New ways.
Through the layers of.
Do-it-yourself armor.
Through the layers of.
Do-it-yourself armor.
The latest countermeasure.
Is surely the most terrifying.
For the crews of.
The various turtle vehicles.
—not just tanks.
But also infantry fighting vehicles.
Armored personnel carriers.
And even engineering vehicles.
Some ‘elves’ drone operators.
Are slamming.
Thermite-spewing “dragon drones”.
Onto ‘orcs’ turtle tanks.
In order to burn.
Through the extra armor.
With molten incendiary burning.
As hot as 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Soldiers targeted by thermite.
Have 10 seconds.
To flee the area before.
Suffering fatal burns.
The State Border Guard Service.
Of ‘elves’ Phoenix drone group.
Deployed just east of.
Kostyantynivka in eastern Ukraine.
Graphically demonstrated.
The thermite tactic while repulsing.
A large ‘orcs’ mechanized assault.
On or just before Sunday.
The Phoenix team.
Knocked out two tanks.
Two APCs, two IFVs.
And an engineering vehicle.
“The border guards.
Are putting up.
A worthy resistance.”
The State Border Guard Service boasted.
Most of the strikes.
In the Phoenix group’s.
Sunday video montage involved.
Traditional explosive FPV drones.
But in at least one case.
But in at least one case.
The group slammed.
A thermite drone.
—normally deployed.
For fiery raids.
On ‘orcs’ encampments.
In kindle-heavy treelines—
Onto the roof of.
A turtle vehicle.
Onto the roof of.
A turtle vehicle.
The drone spat.
Its molten metal.
Quickly burning through.
The vehicle’s top armor.
It wasn’t the first time.
A dragon drone.
Had torched.
A turtle vehicle.
That happened back in October.
Under different circumstances.
Rather than colliding.
With the target.
The drone in the fall strike.
Hovered overhead.
Spewing its thermite downward.
Until the tank was a cinder.
The ‘elves’ defense ministry.
Congratulated the Phoenix group.
For its fiery destruction of.
That ‘orcs’ assault group.
“Great job, warriors.”
The ministry stated.
“Great job, warriors.”
The ministry stated.
But blowing up.
And burning one.
‘Orcs’ assault group.
Might not stop.
The rest of the ‘orcs’.
From advancing.
The rest of the ‘orcs’.
From advancing.
‘Orcs’ troops outnumber.
‘Elves’ troops.
In most of the most.
Critical sectors.
Kostyantynivka is.
No exception.
Destroy one assault group.
And two more take its place.
It doesn’t help that.
With the recent ‘orcs’.
Occupation of the ruins.
Of Toretsk.
The Phoenix drone group and.
The adjacent 28th Mechanized Brigade.
Are now defending.
A five-mile-deep salient.
East of Kostyantynivka.
That’s surrounded.
On three sides.
By ‘orcs’ forces.
The 28th Mechanized Brigade.
And the Phoenix group.
Along with its dragon drones.
May soon have to withdraw.
To the west.
To avoid encirclement.
To the west.
To avoid encirclement.
*Because I read “Ukraine’s New Tactic For Destroying Russian Turtle Tanks: Slam Into Them With Thermite-Spewing Drones” by David Axe on 12 Feb 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 conclusion of the U.S. Army, and a report of the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies.
Please read the original story on the Forbes:
