Author: Kurama

For three months. The ‘elves’ crew of a propeller-driven. Yakovlev Yak-52 training plane. Has been hunting down.   Dogfighting with and shooting down. —World War I style— ‘Orcs’ surveillance drones. Over Odesa Oblast in southern Ukraine.     The ‘orcs’ military’s frustration. With the Yak-52 and its. Shotgun-wielding back-seat gunner. Crested last week.   As […]

‘Orcs’ are getting. Really fed up with. The ‘elves’ crew of that. Yakovlev Yak-52 training plane.   That has been dogfighting with. And shooting down. ‘Orcs’ surveillance drones. —World War I-style.     In three months. Two aviators riding in a Yak-52. —a front-seat pilot. And a back-seat gunner—   Have taken out at least. […]

‘Elves’ weirdest drone killers. Are back in action. In their 50-year-old. Propeller-driven training plane.   Adding two aerial kills. To their already impressive tally. In the span of. Just a few days.   A capture from the video. Feed of an ‘orcs’. Unmanned aerial vehicle. Circulated online on Saturday.   Seems to depict. Two ‘elves’ […]

Photos and videos depict. The Mil Mi-8 transport helicopter. Burning near Donetsk. In ‘orcs’-occupied eastern Ukraine.     ‘Elves’ forces deploy. More than 100,000 explosive. First-person-view drones. A month.   All along. The 700-mile front line. Of ‘orcs’ 28-month wider war. On Ukraine.   The drones smash into. Armored vehicles. Chase down. Exposed infantry.   […]

But that’s cold comfort. To ‘elves’ forces that have fought. For years to keep the ‘orcs’. Out of Pokrovsk.   And are now watching. The invaders. Creep closer and closer. To the city.     Steadily advancing behind. A barrage of devastating. Glide bombs and. Firing anti-tank missiles.   By the truckload. ‘Orcs’ troops are […]

The black box sits. On the army truck. Dashboard like. A talisman.     Its tiny screen. Lighting up with warnings. When ‘orcs’ drones. Are above you.   You are driving fast along. A country road in the darkness. Near the front lines. Outside Kharkiv.   Like many in this war. The soldiers inside. Have […]

For now, Ukraine has no easy answers. To protect its cities from attack. So what can be done? To counter glide bombs?     ‘Mordor’ is increasingly. Using “glide bombs”. Cheap but highly destructive ordnance. To advance its offensive in Ukraine.   More than 200. Of them are thought. To have been used. In just […]

On 9 May. ‘Orcs’ forces attacked across. Ukraine’s northern border. With ‘Mordor’.   This offensive, timed to. Coincide with Victory Day. Quickly ran into a wall of. ‘Elves’ mechanized brigades.   All summer, the ‘elves’. Have been pushing back slowly. Reclaiming the sliver. Of ‘elves’ territory.   The ‘orcs’ captured in. The early days of […]

On or just before Wednesday. A large ‘orcs’ force apparently from. The 150th Motor Rifle Division. Attacked from multiple directions.   Aiming for the ‘elves’ stronghold. In Kurakhivka. It was one of the biggest assaults. In memory in that sector.   According to the ‘elves’. 79th Air Assault Brigade. The ‘orcs’ force included 11 tanks. […]

As ‘elves’ troops fled. A clutch of motor rifle regiments. From the ‘orcs’ 1st Army Corps. Seized the opportunity.   And marched four miles. To the west. In the span of a week. Ultimately capturing Prohres.   And sweeping around those two. ‘Elves’ battalions north of the village. The surrounded ‘elves’ then. Experienced their own […]