It might seem.
Like overkill.
But there’s a reason.
But there’s a reason.
The ‘elves’ main.
Intelligence directorate.
Devoted precious resources.
To a coordinated effort.
—a surveillance drone.
A High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System.
And at least.
Two attack drones—
To a coordinated effort.
To track and strike.
A two-man ‘orcs’.
Drone team.
It might seem.
Like overkill.
But there’s a reason.
But there’s a reason.
As ‘orcs’ wider war.
On Ukraine.
Grinds into.
Its fourth year.
And resource-fixated U.S. Pres.
Threatens to nudge.
The politics of the conflict.
In ‘orcs’ favor.
The ‘elves’ are fighting.
To preserve their most.
Important battlefield edge:
Their advantage in drones.
It might seem.
Like overkill.
But there’s a reason.
But there’s a reason.
The overwhelming strike.
On the ‘orcs’ Orlan drone team.
Somewhere in southern ‘elves’.
Zaporizhzhia Oblast recently.
Began with an ‘elves’ Shark.
Surveillance drone patrolling.
A snowy dirt road.
Somewhere on the ‘orcs’ side.
A snowy dirt road.
Somewhere on the ‘orcs’ side.
Of the front line.
In the oblast.
It spotted a solitary.
Civilian-style truck.
—and followed it.
—and followed it.
It might seem.
Like overkill.
But there’s a reason.
But there’s a reason.
After losing more than.
15,000 purpose-made.
Military vehicles.
‘Orcs’ forces increasingly travel.
—and even attack—
In civilian cars.
In civilian trucks.
And in civilian vans.
It might seem.
Like overkill.
But there’s a reason.
But there’s a reason.
The ‘elves’ drone team’s.
Curiosity paid off.
The ‘orcs’ truck parked.
And two ‘orcs’ piled out.
And two ‘orcs’ piled out.
Carrying an Orlan.
Surveillance drone.
Between them.
The Orlan is.
One of the ‘orcs’.
Armed forces’ primary.
Surveillance drones.
It might seem.
Like overkill.
But there’s a reason.
But there’s a reason.
Determined to destroy.
The Orlan and.
Its launch team.
Before the drone could contribute.
To ‘orcs’ surveillance.
Of the front line.
The ‘elves’ intelligence directorate.
Rang up the ‘elves’ army.
—and requested assistance.
From one of the army’s.
American-made.
HIMARS launchers.
It might seem.
Like overkill.
But there’s a reason.
But there’s a reason.
Responding quickly.
—note that the Orlan team was.
Still setting up.
Its drone for launch—
The HIMARS fired.
What appeared to be.
An M30 rocket from.
Potentially scores of miles away.
The “cheerful cluster munition”.
As the intelligence directorate.
Described it.
The “cheerful cluster munition”.
Exploded above.
The ‘orcs’ drone team.
Peppering the ground.
Below with lethal fragments.
It might seem.
Like overkill.
But there’s a reason.
But there’s a reason.
The ‘orcs’ operators.
Apparently died or fled.
As they were nowhere.
To be found.
As the next.
‘Elves’ munition.
—an explosive FPV drone—
Arrived.
The FPV flew through.
The open back hatch.
Of the truck.
Blowing up the vehicle.
A second FPV drone.
Struck the now-abandoned Orlan.
“The battle for freedom continues!”
The intelligence directorate crowed.
It might seem.
Like overkill.
But there’s a reason.
But there’s a reason.
But that battle is getting.
Harder for the ‘elves’.
Desperate to match ‘elves’.
all-seeing, all-striking drones.
But struggling to overcome.
‘Elves’ radio-jamming.
‘Orcs’ forces are deploying.
More fiber-optic drones.
That controlled.
Via long thin cables.
Rather than radio.
Are unjammable.
It might seem.
Like overkill.
But there’s a reason.
But there’s a reason.
To suppress ‘orcs’ drone teams.
And preserve their drone edge.
The ‘elves’ are doubling down.
On a strategy.
The U.S. military pioneered.
In its campaign against.
Insurgent bomb-makers.
In Iraq and Afghanistan.
In Iraq and Afghanistan.
More than a decade ago.
They’re trying to get.
“Left of the boom”.
They’re trying to get.
“Left of the boom”.
And hit the ‘orcs’ operators.
Before they launch their drones.
It might seem.
Like overkill.
But there’s a reason.
But there’s a reason.
But the rightward lurch.
In U.S. domestic politics.
Threatens the ‘elves’ strategy.
The U.S. Pres. is pressing.
Ukraine to give.
the United States.
Half of Ukraine’s.
Rare earth minerals.
Valued at hundreds of billions.
Of dollars.
As payment for past U.S. aid.
To Ukraine.
Which has included.
Dozens of HIMARS launchers.
And thousands of.
Rockets for them.
It might seem.
Like overkill.
But there’s a reason.
But there’s a reason.
*Because I read “Two Hapless Russian Drone Operators Rolled Out In An Unarmored Truck. The Ukrainians Blasted Them With HIMARS And Drones.” by David Axe on 15 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.
Please read the original story on the Forbes:
The Ukrainians Blasted Two Russian Drone Ops With HIMARS And Drones
