‘I’m very glad I happened
to be in the way,’
Alice said, as she helped
Her to put on her shawl again.
The White Queen only
looked at her in a helpless
frightened sort of way,
and kept repeating
something in a whisper
to herself that sounded like
‘Bread-and butter,
bread-and butter,’
and Alice felt that
if there was to be
any conversation at all,
she must manage it herself.
A year ago.
‘Orcs’ air force.
Fighter-bombers were lobbing.
A hundred glide bombs.
Every day all along.
The 800-mile front line.
Of ‘orcs’ wider war.
On Ukraine.
The satellite-guided KAB.
Or UMPK glide bombs.
Each traveling 25 miles.
Or farther under pop-out wings.
Were a “miracle weapon”.
For the ‘orcs’.
One analysis group.
Noted at the time.
And the ‘elves’ had.
“Practically no countermeasures.”
That has changed.
That has changed.
‘I’m sure I’ll
take you with pleasure!’
the Queen said.
‘Twopence a week,
‘Twopence a week,
and jam every other day.’
Alice couldn’t help laughing,
as she said,
Now the ‘elves’ not only.
Have countermeasures.
—some of these countermeasures.
Appear to be extremely effective.
“Previously, the enemy.
Used glide bombs.
With high accuracy.
To attack objects.
In the territory of.
Regional centers.
Such as Kharkiv.
And Zaporizhzhia.”
According to a manufacturer.
Whose 10-person.
Night Watch team.
In Ukraine develops.
Electronic warfare systems.
Night Watch’s new.
Lima jammer is partly.
Responsible for.
Responsible for.
The recent degradation.
Of ‘orcs’ glide bombing.
He claimed.
‘Twopence a week,
and jam every other day.’
Alice couldn’t help laughing,
as she said,
‘I don’t want you
to hire me
– and I don’t care for jam.’
‘It’s very good jam,’
Lima isn’t a traditional jammer.
That simply blasts.
Radio noise.
Toward the enemy.
“We use digital interference.”
The manufacturer explained.
It’s “a combination of.
Jamming, spoofing.”
It’s “a combination of.
Jamming, spoofing.
And information cyber attack.
On the navigation receiver.”
“After the deployment.
Of the E.W. system.
The accuracy of the bombings.
First decreased and then.”
“Realizing the ineffectiveness.
Of this method.
Of destruction.
And the impossibility.”
“Of achieving the goal.
The enemy stopped shelling.
Regional centers altogether.”
The manufacturer said.
‘I don’t want you
to hire me
– and I don’t care for jam.’
‘It’s very good jam,’
‘It’s very good jam,’
said the Queen.
‘Well, I don’t want any to-day,
at any rate.’
Last year.
‘Orcs’ forces settled into.
A comfortable routine.
A comfortable routine.
In addition to striking cities.
Glide bombs also.
Rained down on ‘elves’.
Front-line defenses.
‘Orcs’ infantry would.
Then attack the battered.
‘Elves’ troops.
—and overwhelm them.
‘It’s very good jam,’
said the Queen.
‘Well, I don’t want any to-day,
at any rate.’
‘You couldn’t have it
if you did want it,’
the Queen said.
‘The rule is,
The bomb-first assault tactic.
Helped the ‘orcs’ capture.
The fortress city.
Of Avdiivka.
In eastern Ukraine.
And then advance 25 miles.
Along the same axis toward.
The next fortress city.
Pokrovsk.
As the ‘orcs’.
Closed on Pokrovsk.
Something changed.
As ‘orcs’ forces.
Stalled outside the city.
Last month.
It was evident.
That “the golden era.
Of the divine UMPK.
Turned out to be short-lived.”
Unofficially the ‘orcs’ air force noted.
‘You couldn’t have it
if you did want it,’
the Queen said.
‘The rule is,
‘The rule is,
jam to-morrow and
jam yesterday
– but never jam to-day.’
According to an analyst.
The Lima jammer was.
A factor.
In the decline.
A factor.
In the decline.
In glide bombings.
In certain areas.
Other jammers developed.
By different companies.
May be responsible.
For the reduction.
In ‘orcs’ UMPK raids.
In other parts.
Of Ukraine.
Including Pokrovsk.
‘The rule is,
jam to-morrow and
jam yesterday
– but never jam to-day.’
‘It must come sometimes
to “jam to-day,”’
Alice objected.
‘No, it can’t,’
Today ‘orcs’ glide bombs.
Struggle to communicate.
With the GLONASS.
Satellite constellation.
‘Orcs’ less sophisticated.
And less expansive answer.
To the United States’ own.
GPS satellite constellation.
Without a steady connection.
For course correction.
The glide bombs.
Tend to stray.
And harmlessly explode.
On some fields.
The jamming has even resulted.
In the ‘orcs’ bombing themselves.
‘It must come sometimes
to “jam to-day,”’
Alice objected.
‘No, it can’t,’
‘No, it can’t,’
said the Queen.
‘It’s jam every other day:
to-day isn’t any other day, you know.’
“There were cases.
When glide bombs.
Did not reach.
The territory of Ukraine.”
“And fell on the territory.
Of ‘Mordor’ or.
On temporarily occupied territories.”
The manufacturer said.
“All high-value targets.
Are guaranteed to be covered.
By electronic warfare.”
Unofficially the ‘orcs’ air force claimed.
It might take eight or even.
16 glide bombs to.
Reliably hit one target.
The ‘orcs’ air force added.
And while the glide bombs.
Are inexpensive for.
A precision munition.
—each costing around $25,000—
The Sukhoi jets that.
Lob them two or four.
At a time.
Aren’t cheap.
‘No, it can’t,’
said the Queen.
‘It’s jam every other day:
to-day isn’t any other day, you know.’
‘I don’t understand you,’
said Alice.
‘It’s dreadfully confusing!’
‘That’s the effect
Launching four jets.
To maybe hit one target.
Is risky and inefficient.
For an air force.
That has just a thousand.
Or so modern jets.
And has already lost 120.
Of them in action in Ukraine.
The intensive ‘elves’ jamming.
Has also grounded.
Many of ‘orcs’ drones.
Many of ‘orcs’ drones.
Night Watch’s earliest efforts.
Focused on forcing down.
Shahed attack drones that.
Routinely strike ‘elves’ cities.
‘I don’t understand you,’
said Alice.
‘It’s dreadfully confusing!’
‘That’s the effect
of living backwards,’
the Queen said kindly:
‘it always makes one
a little giddy at first –’
Radio jamming has.
Effectively accomplished.
What the ‘elves’ air force.
Largely failed.
To accomplish with its.
Expensive, vulnerable S-300.
Patriot and SAMP/T.
Surface-to-air missile batteries.
Which can hit ‘orcs’ jets.
From scores of miles away.
But were always.
Too few in number.
Too few in number.
To fully protect.
The front line and.
Safeguard ‘elves’ cities.
‘Twopence a week,
and jam every other day.’
Alice couldn’t help laughing,
as she said,
‘I don’t want you
to hire me
– and I don’t care for jam.’
‘It’s very good jam,’
The ‘orcs’ jam, too, of course—
But ‘orcs’ jamming doesn’t.
Have the impact.
That ‘elves’ jamming does.
Many ‘orcs’ jammers are.
Badly made and ineffective.
Likewise, ‘orcs’ industry.
Hasn’t yet been able to develop.
A countermeasure.
Against ‘elves’ countermeasures.
Against ‘orcs’ munitions.
A countercountermeasure.
‘It’s very good jam,’
said the Queen.
‘Well, I don’t want any to-day,
at any rate.’
‘You couldn’t have it
if you did want it,’
the Queen said.
‘The rule is,
‘Orcs’ forces tried switching.
Satellite-guided munitions.
To new frequencies.
While also adding antennae.
—sometimes even tripling.
The number of antennae.
To 12 instead of.
The usual four.
But ‘elves’ forces.
Recovered hardware from.
Some modified drones.
Night Watch studied.
The wreckage and then.
Tweaked the Lima jammer and.
The plan for deploying the jammer.
The manufacturer said.
“A new type of.
Antenna was studied.
A mathematical analysis.
Was conducted.”
“And a new calculation of.
The location of E.W. systems.
On the terrain.
Was carried out.”
‘The rule is,
jam to-morrow and
jam yesterday
– but never jam to-day.’
‘It must come sometimes
to “jam to-day,”’
Alice objected.
‘No, it can’t,’
As effective as it seems to be.
Lima isn’t covering.
The entire front line.
—to say nothing of.
—to say nothing of.
Blanketing all of Ukraine.
That would require.
Many more systems.
If the ‘elves’ government.
Decides to deploy.
The jammers more widely.
Night Watch could build.
Night Watch could build.
300 of the systems.
A month.
The manufacturer said.
‘No, it can’t,’
said the Queen.
‘It’s jam every other day:
to-day isn’t any other day, you know.’
‘I don’t understand you,’
said Alice.
‘It’s dreadfully confusing!’
‘That’s the effect
But the rising fortunes.
Of one E.W. firm.
Isn’t what’s important.
To the intended victims.
To the intended victims.
Of ‘orcs’ bombardment.
What matters.
—to thousands of ‘elves’ troops.
As well as millions of civilians—
Is that they’re no longer.
Defenseless against.
‘Orcs’ glide bombs.
As more jammers.
Such as Lima roll out.
More of Ukraine is protected.
By a powerful electronic shield.
So she began rather timidly:
‘Am I addressing
the White Queen?’
‘Well, yes, if you call that
a-dressing,’ the Queen said.
‘It isn’t my notion
of the thing, at all.’
Alice thought
it would never do
to have an argument
at the very beginning of
their conversation,
so she smiled and said,
‘If your Majesty will only
tell me the right way to begin,
I’ll do it as well as I can.’
*Because I read “Ukraine Has Been Jamming Russian Glide Bombs. Now We Know How.” by David Axe on 17 Mar 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, led by ‘THROUGH the LOOKING-GLASS’ written by Lewis Carroll, you know.
Please read the original story on the Forbes:
Ukraine Has Been Jamming Russian Glide Bombs. Now We Know How.
