Yes, I remember that. Wasn’t Princess Di involved?
It always struck me as strange, in that a traditional buried land mine – horrible as it may be – is a strictly defensive weapon.
Of course, it all depends on definitions. The child-attractive Butterfly explosive devices with which the Zelensky regime at one time littered the Donbas were definitely an aggressive weapon, although often called mines.
Yes indeed, or as she later became, Princess Died.
Weapons are weapons. They have varied uses depending on circumstances. ?Is an artillery piece offensive or defensive. ?Is a rifle offensive or defensive.
Mines are intended to deny an opponent access via an axis. That can aid your attack OR defense.
Well, traditional land mines were buried on one’s own territory. They were intended to discourage attackers from entering one’s own territory. What we call “defense”.
Of course, human inventiveness is powerful, and now an army can remotely scatter mines on the other side’s territory – which is definitely an aggressive use of mines. Still, comparing a mine to a howitzer, there is no question which is a more defensive and which a more aggressive weapon. Which brings us back to the strange Leftie decision to focus their ire on largely-defensive mines.
The Russians claim to have successfully tested a massive 65 km fiber optic FPV coil.
— Roy🇨🇦 (@GrandpaRoy2) December 19, 2025
What longer distances will be seen in 2026? https://t.co/JXEt9hCBSW pic.twitter.com/dIzkmcVHwx
Ukraine on the front line - completely covered in fiber optic cable - like a spider web.
— TimOnPoint (@TimOnPoint) December 19, 2025
Tell me you understand drone warfare - you really don’t.
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A Ukrainian company is currently developing “Ambush drones” which wait for targets perched in trees, under the cover of leafs.
— Doves Of Freedom (@DovesOfFreedom) December 22, 2025
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Sounds like an arsenal ship:
Sounds similar in purpose to the fiber-optic controlled drones which Russia has been using for some time to great effect – fly into the enemy area, settle down quietly at the side of a road, and wait silently until something worth destroying appears.
The real breakthrough in drone warfare will come when someone develops a practical large-scale defensive response to drones – just like the shield was developed in response to the sword. History tells us that responsive technology will be developed eventually.
In the meantime, however, we’ll see military version of these tree-perched robots:
Alongside with it, a return of cavalry:
First good news I’ve heard from that region in a while!
“The ship was reportedly sunk by a “supercavitation torpedo,” a weapon system possessed only by Russia, China, and some NATO members.”
This sinking was a year ago, and the Spaniards are only now getting around to “discovering” this? My spidey sense is tingling!
Looking at a globe of the world, only a Harvard graduate would chose to send something from Russia to North Korea via the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, round South America, and across the Pacific After all, Russia has a land border with North Korea, or secure short-distance shipping from Vladivostok to North Korea. And Russia is blessed by not having too many Harvard graduates.
The real issue is whether the ship was deliberately sunk by enemy (English?) action? Imperial Germany sank the Lusitania and dragged the US into WWI – just saying!
Chinese rapid conversion of container ships to warships:
Fully autonomous operations (yes, this is from a partisan pro-Ukrainian source, but let’s just examine the technology developments)
“… Ukraine building a future force that preserves lives through technology while Russia falls back on attrition and obsolete methods.”
And yet – Zelensky’s forces fall back while Russia’s forces advance. Exchanges of dead soldiers have reportedly run up to 60-to-1 against the Ukraine. Probability of exaggerated success in this report is high.
As to the technology, what is the drone trained to shoot at? Men? Women? Children? Horses? Marmots? Tumbleweed? Seems there would be a serious Type 1/Type 2 error potential. Either the gun quickly runs out of ammunition shooting at shadows, or the gun fails to shoot the advancing enemy.
Related issue – what we have heard repeatedly is that opposing artillery & drones quickly focus on any active firing position. Both sides in the proxy war have apparently adopted “shoot & scoot” tactics. It stretches credibility well past the breaking point to state that an automatic gun-firing drone has not been targeted in 45 days.
And yet, Ukraine is retreating. Hmmm…