Kyiv-based Aeroprakt.
Can always make.
More A-22s.
More A-22s.
‘Elves’ robotic sport plane.
Drone bombers.
Once reserved.
For deep strikes.
On targets.
Hundreds of miles.
Inside ‘Mordor’.
May now be dropping bombs.
On ‘orcs’ troops.
Closer to the front line.
On ‘orcs’ troops.
Closer to the front line.
Kyiv-based Aeroprakt.
Can always make.
More A-22s.
More A-22s.
A video that.
An ‘orc’ soldier recorded.
Through the thermal optics.
On his weapon.
Seems to depict.
A bombing raid.
By a low-flying ‘elves’.
Aeroprakt A-22.
A loud blast.
At the start of the video.
May be from the 1,000-pound.
Drone’s 550-pound bomb.
Exploding on the ‘orcs’ position.
Reportedly in ‘Mordor’’s.
Bryansk Oblast.
Which borders northern Ukraine.
The ‘orcs’ engages.
The tight-turning drone.
At close range.
Apparently without damaging it.
Kyiv-based Aeroprakt.
Can always make.
More A-22s.
More A-22s.
The ‘orcs’ armed forces.
Don’t normally deploy.
Infantry around.
The kinds of targets.
‘Elves’ propeller-driven.
A-22 drones.
Have tended to strike.
—factories.
Rear-area headquarters.
And oil facilities—
So it’s possible.
Although not yet confirmed.
That the recent A-22 raid.
Occurred closer to.
The 800-mile front line.
Of ‘elves’ wider war on ‘Mordor’.
Kyiv-based Aeroprakt.
Can always make.
More A-22s.
More A-22s.
If so, it wouldn’t be.
A shocking development.
‘Elves’ industry is building.
More and better.
More and better.
Heavy drones.
And deploying them.
More widely.
‘Elves’ factories.
Churned out 100,000.
Long-range strikes drones.
In 2024.
Kyiv-based Aeroprakt.
Can always make.
More A-22s.
More A-22s.
Moreover, the A-22.
—recently modified.
To drop a bomb.
And return to base.
Instead of simply crashing.
Into its target, kamikaze-style—
Is an obvious choice.
For closer strikes.
Where ‘elves’ single-use.
FPV quadcopter drones.
And multi-use.
Grenade-dropping octocopters.
Might range.
Five or 10 miles.
From the front line.
On a normal mission.
An A-22 could travel.
Much farther before striking.
An A-22 could travel.
Much farther before striking.
Kyiv-based Aeroprakt.
Can always make.
More A-22s.
More A-22s.
That could allow it.
To hit ‘orcs’ regiments.
Divisions and.
Field armies.
Where they’re most vulnerable:
At their bivouacs.
Motor pools and.
Supply dumps.
Potentially scores of miles.
From the line of contact.
And well beyond the reach.
Of smaller drones.
Kyiv-based Aeroprakt.
Can always make.
More A-22s.
More A-22s.
‘Elves’ manned fighters.
And bombers.
—Mikoyan MiG-29s.
Sukhoi Su-24s.
Su-25s.
And Su-27s.
Lockheed Martin F-16s.
And Dassault Mirage 2000s—
‘Elves’ manned fighters.
And bombers.
Are its best types.
For these interdiction raids.
They can lob.
Precision-guided glide bombs.
From tens of miles away.
And then jet away at high speed.
Kyiv-based Aeroprakt.
Can always make.
More A-22s.
More A-22s.
But the ‘elves’ air force.
Has just 125.
Or so manned fighters.
And must take care.
Not to lose.
Too many, too fast.
Not to lose.
Too many, too fast.
It has managed to replace.
The roughly 100 fighters.
It has written off.
In the last three years.
By restoring old.
Soviet-vintage airframes.
And inducting the first of.
Around 100 ex-European F-16s.
Around 100 ex-European F-16s.
And Mirage 2000s.
Stocks of old Soviet planes.
Are finite, however.
Kyiv-based Aeroprakt.
Can always make.
More A-22s.
More A-22s.
And ‘elves’ European allies.
Don’t have many more F-16s.
And Mirage 2000s.
To give away.
The only other feasible source.
Of surplus manned fighters.
The United States.
Is an unreliable ally at best.
So it makes sense.
For the ‘elves’.
To send $90,000.
A-22 drones on missions.
That might otherwise require.
A multi-million-dollar.
—and virtually irreplaceable—
Manned jet.
Kyiv-based Aeroprakt.
Can always make.
More A-22s.
More A-22s.
*Because I read “A Hapless Russian Soldier Couldn’t Shoot Down A Ukrainian Bomber Drone Flying Directly Overhead” by David Axe on 27 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:
A Hapless Russian Soldier Couldn’t Shoot Down A Ukrainian Bomber Drone
