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[Vintner 27]

11 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Need to get this guy on BlueSky because fuck Twitter and Twitter embeds are absolute shit these days

On a road in the Zaporizhzhia region— the region where Russia continues to hold a nuclear power plant hostage — a Russian FPV drone attacked an @iaeaorg convoy tasked with ensuring nuclear safety worldwide. The strike targeted one of the convoy’s vehicles. Fortunately, there were no casualties or injuries.
This attack clearly demonstrated how Russia treats anything related to international law, global institutions, and safety. The Russians could not have been unaware of their target; they knew exactly what they were doing and acted deliberately.

This attack demands a clear and decisive response, both from the IAEA and from other international partners. Silence or inaction will only embolden further violations.

I just sold our Land Cruiser. Maybe that was a mistake given how well this one held up? 

[Parliament 14,592]

1 hour ago, Vintner said:

I just sold our Land Cruiser. Maybe that was a mistake given how well this one held up? 

Holds up better than a Russian T90.  Japanese technology.  Glad they're on our side.

[Nivek 17,396]

Why would they not strike the launchers?  Biden is out soon and their aid will be cut-off.  

[KYHorn 17,600]

Ruble back on track to failure

1 month:

 

1 Day:

[Parliament 14,592]

Too the moon!

[tx 3 putt 78,614]

lulz ‘suicide’ is never the answer

 

 

[NorthLoop 14,449]

That's a weird video - I can see the shadow but don't see him actually falling. 

[MissingInAction 25,548]

20 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

That's a weird video - I can see the shadow but don't see him actually falling. 

He hits the roof on the left.

[Parliament 14,592]

Is that what killed him?

[Saint Austin 776]

Looked like an already-dead body being shoved out of the window.

[InkaUtexas 26,855]

And they just happened to have cameras ready.

[Chopper 17,430]

On 12/8/2024 at 4:32 PM, Bevo said:

 

What did Tom Cruise take over besides Monica Barbaro and Jennifer Connelly?

Adding: Oprah's sofa.

[Pescado_Rojo 19,574]

3 hours ago, Parliament said:

Is that what killed him?

I think the 9mm hole in the back of his head is what killed him

[General Specific 3,507]

That sudden deceleration after the fall didn’t help!

[Eskimohorn 5,677]

lulz ‘suicide’ is never the answer
 
 

He didnt slip on his tea, did he?

[KYHorn 17,600]

Russian Telegram channels publish news that a senior official responsible for developing missiles and drones used to attack Ukraine was allegedly shot dead in Moscow.

Mikhail Shatsky was a deputy director of Russia's Mars design bureau and was involved in modernizing guided missiles from Kh-59 to Kh-69 and developing new drones.

Russian journalist Aleksandr Nevzorov claims Ukraine's military intelligence conducted the operation and an assassinator fled the crime scene.

Edited December 12 by KYHorn

[Bevo 13,860]

Putin’s regime may be closer to a Soviet collapse than we think

Russia’s resurrected military industrial complex is cannibalising the rest of its economy

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard10 December 2024 3:45pm GMT

 

Vladimir Putin’s loss of a key regional ally in Bashar al-Assad has weakened Moscow at a crucial moment Credit: VALERY SHARIFULIN/AFP

Ukraine is slowly losing the three-year conflict on the battlefield. Russia is slowly losing the economic conflict at a roughly equal pace. The Kremlin’s oil export revenues are too low to sustain a high-intensity war and nobody will lend Vladimir Putin a kopeck.

Russia’s overheated, military-Keynesian war economy looks much like the dysfunctional German war economy of late 1917, which had run out of skilled manpower and was holed below the waterline after three years of Allied blockade – as the logistical failures of the Ludendorff offensive would later reveal.

Putin’s strategic victory in Ukraine was far from inevitable a fortnight ago and it is less inevitable now after the Assad regime collapsed like a house of cards, shattering Putin’s credibility in the Middle East and the Sahel. He could do nothing to save his sole state ally in the Arab world.

“The limits of Russian military power have been revealed,” said Tim Ash, a regional expert at Bluebay Asset Management and a Chatham House fellow.

Turkey is now master of the region. Turkish forces had to step in to rescue stranded Russian generals. Even if Putin succeeds in holding on to his naval base at Tartus – a big if – this concession will be on Ottoman terms and sufferance. “Putin now goes into Ukraine peace talks from a position of weakness,” said Mr Ash.

When Trump won the US elections in 2016, corks of Golubitskoe Villa Romanov popped at the Kremlin. There were no illusions this time. Anton Barbashin from Riddle Russia says Donald Trump imposed 40 rounds of sanctions on Russia, belying his bonhomie with Putin before the cameras. He has since warned that Putin will not get all of the four annexed (but unconquered) oblasts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia.

The Kremlin had banked on a contested election outcome in the US, followed by months of disarray that would discredit US democracy across the world. The polite interregnum has been a cruel disappointment.

Barbashin says Russia’s leaders expect Trump to issue ultimatums to both Kyiv and Moscow: if Volodymyr Zelensky balks at peace terms, the US will sever all military aid; if Putin drags his feet, the US will up the military ante and carpet-bomb the Russian economy.

That economy held up well for two years but this third year has become harder. The central bank has raised interest rates to 21pc to choke off an inflation spiral. “The economy cannot exist like this for long. It’s a colossal challenge for business and banks,” said German Gref, Sberbank’s chief executive.

[Chad Fuck 18,130]

40 minutes ago, Bevo said:

 

Putin’s regime may be closer to a Soviet collapse than we think

Russia’s resurrected military industrial complex is cannibalising the rest of its economy

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard10 December 2024 3:45pm GMT

 

Vladimir Putin’s loss of a key regional ally in Bashar al-Assad has weakened Moscow at a crucial moment Credit: VALERY SHARIFULIN/AFP

Ukraine is slowly losing the three-year conflict on the battlefield. Russia is slowly losing the economic conflict at a roughly equal pace. The Kremlin’s oil export revenues are too low to sustain a high-intensity war and nobody will lend Vladimir Putin a kopeck.

Russia’s overheated, military-Keynesian war economy looks much like the dysfunctional German war economy of late 1917, which had run out of skilled manpower and was holed below the waterline after three years of Allied blockade – as the logistical failures of the Ludendorff offensive would later reveal.

Putin’s strategic victory in Ukraine was far from inevitable a fortnight ago and it is less inevitable now after the Assad regime collapsed like a house of cards, shattering Putin’s credibility in the Middle East and the Sahel. He could do nothing to save his sole state ally in the Arab world.

“The limits of Russian military power have been revealed,” said Tim Ash, a regional expert at Bluebay Asset Management and a Chatham House fellow.

Turkey is now master of the region. Turkish forces had to step in to rescue stranded Russian generals. Even if Putin succeeds in holding on to his naval base at Tartus – a big if – this concession will be on Ottoman terms and sufferance. “Putin now goes into Ukraine peace talks from a position of weakness,” said Mr Ash.

When Trump won the US elections in 2016, corks of Golubitskoe Villa Romanov popped at the Kremlin. There were no illusions this time. Anton Barbashin from Riddle Russia says Donald Trump imposed 40 rounds of sanctions on Russia, belying his bonhomie with Putin before the cameras. He has since warned that Putin will not get all of the four annexed (but unconquered) oblasts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia.

The Kremlin had banked on a contested election outcome in the US, followed by months of disarray that would discredit US democracy across the world. The polite interregnum has been a cruel disappointment.

Barbashin says Russia’s leaders expect Trump to issue ultimatums to both Kyiv and Moscow: if Volodymyr Zelensky balks at peace terms, the US will sever all military aid; if Putin drags his feet, the US will up the military ante and carpet-bomb the Russian economy.

That economy held up well for two years but this third year has become harder. The central bank has raised interest rates to 21pc to choke off an inflation spiral. “The economy cannot exist like this for long. It’s a colossal challenge for business and banks,” said German Gref, Sberbank’s chief executive.

Can someone point me to where tfg said anything like this?  First, I don't believe he said it - would love to be proven wrong. Second, I don't believe for a blink of an eye that he would follow through.  I saw Helsinki.  Putin has the goods on him somehow and someway that tfg won't push back.  

[Trey3216 15,452]

3 hours ago, KYHorn said:

Russian Telegram channels publish news that a senior official responsible for developing missiles and drones used to attack Ukraine was allegedly shot dead in Moscow.

Mikhail Shatsky was a deputy director of Russia's Mars design bureau and was involved in modernizing guided missiles from Kh-59 to Kh-69 and developing new drones.

Russian journalist Aleksandr Nevzorov claims Ukraine's military intelligence conducted the operation and an assassinator fled the crime scene.

Once a Shitsky, now a Shatsky.  

[Gatorubet 30,690]

3 hours ago, KYHorn said:

Russian journalist Aleksandr Nevzorov claims Ukraine's military intelligence conducted the operation and an assassinator fled the crime scene.

I assume that is an assassin sent by Burger King

[Trey3216 15,452]

5 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

Can someone point me to where tfg said anything like this?  First, I don't believe he said it - would love to be proven wrong. Second, I don't believe for a blink of an eye that he would follow through.  I saw Helsinki.  Putin has the goods on him somehow and someway that tfg won't push back.  

I'm telling you.  I know how badly y'all hate the guy, but if there's one game he knows how to play, it's that the only way to shut a bully down is to be a bigger fucking bully.  We are a bigger bully than Putin, and we will act that way.  

3 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

I assume that is an assassin sent by Burger King

Sir, this is a Wendy's.  

[Gatorubet 30,690]

5 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

I'm telling you.  I know how badly y'all hate the guy, but if there's one game he knows how to play, it's that the only way to shut a bully down is to be a bigger fucking bully.  We are a bigger bully than Putin, and we will act that way.  

Sir, this is a Wendy's.  

which shows how much I fast food

[Chad Fuck 18,130]

33 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

I'm telling you.  I know how badly y'all hate the guy, but if there's one game he knows how to play, it's that the only way to shut a bully down is to be a bigger fucking bully.  We are a bigger bully than Putin, and we will act that way.  

Sir, this is a Wendy's.  

You are correct I hate tfg.  

I think you are incorrect that he knows how to be a bigger bully.  Further, I think you operate from a false premise:  Putin is a bigger bully.  Trump is scared shitless of him.  We all saw it in his eyes.  

In other words, as stated previously, I'll believe tfg's stance towards Putin has changed when I see evidence.

I asked for evidence up thread.  So far there has been none.  Only words, and those have been few and not convincing.  

[InkaUtexas 26,855]

42 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

I'm telling you.  I know how badly y'all hate the guy, but if there's one game he knows how to play, it's that the only way to shut a bully down is to be a bigger fucking bully.  We are a bigger bully than Putin, and we will act that way.  

Sir, this is a Wendy's.  

[TexasEd 8,266]

4 hours ago, KYHorn said:

Russian Telegram channels publish news that a senior official responsible for developing missiles and drones used to attack Ukraine was allegedly shot dead in Moscow.

Mikhail Shatsky was a deputy director of Russia's Mars design bureau and was involved in modernizing guided missiles from Kh-59 to Kh-69 and developing new drones.

Russian journalist Aleksandr Nevzorov claims Ukraine's military intelligence conducted the operation and an assassinator fled the crime scene.

I clicked through so I could read the whole thing so posting that others don't have to click.  I think the middle stat is called Inventory turnover ratio.

Edited December 12 by TexasEd

[Trey3216 15,452]

30 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

You are correct I hate tfg.  

I think you are incorrect that he knows how to be a bigger bully.  Further, I think you operate from a false premise:  Putin is a bigger bully.  Trump is scared shitless of him.  We all saw it in his eyes.  

In other words, as stated previously, I'll believe tfg's stance towards Putin has changed when I see evidence.

I asked for evidence up thread.  So far there has been none.  Only words, and those have been few and not convincing.  

You asked for evidence upthread....and I'm afraid I have none...yet.  Basing my thoughts on the Game Theoretical options here.  We're gonna have to see it play out.  

[Captainant 28,479]

28 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

You asked for evidence upthread....and I'm afraid I have none...yet.  Basing my thoughts on the Game Theoretical options here.  We're gonna have to see it play out.  

We do have past behavior with these same actors, nations, and incentives that we can draw inferences from. And let me tell you, it's not a very friendly picture for a free and whole and democratic Ukraine. And I'm certainly not the only person who feels that way

Edited December 12 by Captainant

[Schulz2.0 29,276]

 

 

[Armybrat 41,366]

23 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

lulz ‘suicide’ is never the answer

 

 

A permanent solution to a persistant problem.

[Chad Fuck 18,130]

4 hours ago, Trey3216 said:

You asked for evidence upthread....and I'm afraid I have none...yet.  Basing my thoughts on the Game Theoretical options here.  We're gonna have to see it play out.  

fify: hopium and cognitive dissonance. 

I literally had to laugh out loud at the idea tfg could even say "Game Theoretical" much less participate in it.  You got me there.  

 

3 hours ago, Captainant said:

We do have past behavior with these same actors, nations, and incentives that we can draw inferences from. And let me tell you, it's not a very friendly picture for a free and whole and democratic Ukraine. And I'm certainly not the only person who feels that way

This right here. 

3 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:

 

 

Seems like this should go in the other thread, the one about Syria.

Still, I hope these negotiations go poorly for him.

 

[InkaUtexas 26,855]

42 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

fify: hopium and cognitive dissonance. 

I literally had to laugh out loud at the idea tfg could even say "Game Theoretical" much less participate in it.  You got me there.  

 

This right here. 

Seems like this should go in the other thread, the one about Syria.

Still, I hope these negotiations go poorly for him.

 

Can go in both threads but don't mean shit. What do they have at these ports? I am pretty sure the Italian navy could take them out if needed. Air base? Um, they will just transit via Dubai any wagner fucks. Commercial there, move over to the "cargo" terminal that is already full of Russian aircraft, and fly into the Sahel.

These are prestige bases so they can claim at home "look, we are a global power."

The only real base they had in the Pacific not in USSR territory was Cam Rahn Bay. Yeah, guess who built it?

Troops and systems? Meh, 10K? They lose that in a bad few weeks.

[MillerEP 30,870]

4 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Can go in both threads but don't mean shit. What do they have at these ports? I am pretty sure the Italian navy could take them out if needed. Air base? Um, they will just transit via Dubai any wagner fucks. Commercial there, move over to the "cargo" terminal that is already full of Russian aircraft, and fly into the Sahel.

These are prestige bases so they can claim at home "look, we are a global power."

The only real base they had in the Pacific not in USSR territory was Cam Rahn Bay. Yeah, guess who built it?

Troops and systems? Meh, 10K? They lose that in a bad few weeks.

Yeah prestige bases, I also hope it goes pooly.

This gives them a base in the Middle East to stir stuff up and also gives their Navy a base in the Mediterranean that they can use since technically Turkiye is blocking their Black Sea fleet.

Edited December 12 by MillerEP

[InkaUtexas 26,855]

8 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

Yeah prestige bases, I also hope it goes pooly.

This gives them a base in the Middle East to stir stuff up and also gives their Navy a base in the Mediterranean that they can use since technically Turkiye is blocking their Black Sea fleet.

And do what? Shit, their embassy's are the historical stir shit up places.

And the navy? The med? Do what?

I hope they withdraw, hell I hope their sailors get lured by sirens and hit rocks. But this is the last of my concerns for Syria and its future. Or the region for that matter.

[Schulz2.0 29,276]

[InkaUtexas 26,855]

Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State

As part of the surge in security assistance that President Biden announced on September 26, the United States is providing another significant package of urgently needed weapons and equipment to our Ukrainian partners as they defend against Russia’s ongoing attacks.

This additional assistance, provided under previous drawdowns from Department of Defense stocks, is valued at $500 million.  It includes:  Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (c-UAS) munitions; ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS); 155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition; High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs); Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS); Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAPs); High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs); light tactical vehicles; Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) protective equipment; Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems; Tube-launched, Optically guided, Wire-tracked (TOW) missiles; small arms ammunition; grenades and training equipment; demolition equipment and munitions; as well as spare parts, ancillary equipment, services, training, and transportation.

The United States and more than 50 nations stand united to ensure Ukraine has the capabilities it needs to defend itself against Russian aggression.

[Macanudo 13,295]

9 hours ago, TexasEd said:

I clicked through so I could read the whole thing so posting that others don't have to click.  I think the middle stat is called Inventory turnover ratio.

The bottom of that graphic pisses me off.   The United States didn't have shit fuck to do with El Alamein other than some supplies.   The Brits and Commonweath troops fought and won those battles.   

[Pig Bellmont 8,884]

lol at the idea of the guy who brought the Taliban to Camp David for negotiations on exiting Afghanistan or received love letters from Kim Jong Un knowing how to be a bully in international relations. It’s like people forgot what happened between 2016-2020

[Parliament 14,592]

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/12/12/top-russian-cruise-missile-engineer-gunned-down-near-moscow-reports-a87316

Here’s a plot twist.  Russian shitbag killed.  Not by a fall, but by a bullet.  And not by Putin, but by Ukrainian spies.

 

 

[MillerEP 30,870]

https://www.threads.net/@kyivindependent_official/post/DDftgoDxk5U?xmt=AQGz4cRy36cRIUvubjhcxvoMMiPfiFZDkjqdjpNk2OIGcA

⚡️Russian guided bomb attacks fall sharply after ATACMS, Storm Shadow strikes, analysts say.
Russian attacks against Ukraine with guided aerial bombs have reportedly fallen by over 50% since Western partners allowed Kyiv to target Russia with long-range missiles.

[pops 7,135]

10 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

https://www.threads.net/@kyivindependent_official/post/DDftgoDxk5U?xmt=AQGz4cRy36cRIUvubjhcxvoMMiPfiFZDkjqdjpNk2OIGcA

⚡️Russian guided bomb attacks fall sharply after ATACMS, Storm Shadow strikes, analysts say.
Russian attacks against Ukraine with guided aerial bombs have reportedly fallen by over 50% since Western partners allowed Kyiv to target Russia with long-range missiles.

Would have been cool if we authorized that a long time ago...

[0xdeadbeef 1,699]

11 hours ago, TexasEd said:

I clicked through so I could read the whole thing so posting that others don't have to click.  I think the middle stat is called Inventory turnover ratio.

I'm finding it hard to believe we lost 1100 pieces of armor during the Gulf War. Some quick Google searches does not turn up a number anywhere close to that.  That makes me wonder what else is made up on that chart. 

[Parliament 14,592]

1 hour ago, MillerEP said:

https://www.threads.net/@kyivindependent_official/post/DDftgoDxk5U?xmt=AQGz4cRy36cRIUvubjhcxvoMMiPfiFZDkjqdjpNk2OIGcA

⚡️Russian guided bomb attacks fall sharply after ATACMS, Storm Shadow strikes, analysts say.
Russian attacks against Ukraine with guided aerial bombs have reportedly fallen by over 50% since Western partners allowed Kyiv to target Russia with long-range missiles.

Well no fucking shit.

[berlinerbaer 692]

2 hours ago, Pig Bellmont said:

lol at the idea of the guy who brought the Taliban to Camp David for negotiations on exiting Afghanistan or received love letters from Kim Jong Un knowing how to be a bully in international relations. It’s like people forgot what happened between 2016-2020

Yes they did

[elfenix 34,687]

55 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

I'm finding it hard to believe we lost 1100 pieces of armor during the Gulf War. Some quick Google searches does not turn up a number anywhere close to that.  That makes me wonder what else is made up on that chart. 

didn't look on wikipedia?

 

Kuwait:
420 killed
12,000 captured
≈200 tanks destroyed/captured
850+ other armored vehicles destroyed/captured

[Chad Fuck 18,130]

I'm finding it hard to believe we lost 1100 pieces of armor during the Gulf War. Some quick Google searches does not turn up a number anywhere close to that.  That makes me wonder what else is made up on that chart. 

This stood out to me as well.

didn't look on wikipedia?
 
Kuwait:
420 killed
12,000 captured
≈200 tanks destroyed/captured
850+ other armored vehicles destroyed/captured

Wow. There you go.

[956 Worldwide 35,586]

Last night I went to a screening of Porcelain War, followed by a conversation with two of its subjects and Frodo the Yorkie.  I’m still processing a lot of it, but I think what sticks with me the most is how well it captures the Ukraine that I know and love as Ukrainians see it and how the central couple are so exactly Ukrainian, right down to their casual switching between Russian and Ukrainian.  
 

I won’t dwell on the narrative but it follows an artist couple—ceramicists— and their dog in Kharkiv. Slava makes little animal figures for his wife to paint and doesn’t like guns but also trains riflemen for the armed forces and belongs to a drone and mortar unit that defends Kharkiv and later deploys to Bakhmut. Lots of switching between their life at home in Kharkiv under fire and excursions to nature when the can interspersed with GoPro and drone footage from Slava’s unit. 
 

It was a rough watch and had me sad and stewing after, and so I’ll make a list of people I hate.  I used to have a kind of desultory dislike for people but Ukraine has made me, for the first time, truly loathe whole groups of them. 
 

- Russians who think this war is cool and makes their country better, obviously. 
 

- Americans and Westerners have the chance to see this beautiful and courageous and imperfect nation and want to demand they be perfect to deserve to defend themselves against Orcs. 
 

- The outhouse scum who have tried and largely succeeded in framing Ukrainians as our enemies who are stealing from us. 
 

- Most of all, the bone-dry, powdered ass big brains policy experts who have recently announced that Ukraine needs to feed their 18 year olds to Russians, and we will send body armor. But we’re not going to let them escalate, no!  It’s fucking grotesque to call this a manpower problem when we won’t let them take the fight to the enemy and deny, delay, dissemble on every request for more strategic capabilities. Fuck them for asking Ukraine not just to sacrifice its today but also its tomorrow to ease our fears that Putin might get bit mad. 
 

Anyway, please go watch the movie if you can. It will be in Houston on 10 January.

https://porcelainwar.url.film
 

[B00M 6,729]

I can’t seem to find it in Austin. Am I regarded?

[atomheartbevo 90,611]

 

Task and Purpose went from being a Youtuber to being a war correspondent in fucking Kursk.

 

Edited December 14 by atomheartbevo

[MillerEP 30,870]

https://www.threads.net/@noelreports/post/DDjJV3tNaKM?xmt=AQGzL2YtnKA8DPA1AtLOIKv54EVqC4Uj8BXmlIt5JMJYfg

Overnight, Ukrainian drones attacked an oil refinery in Oryol, Russia. Tanks are burning. Russian sources claim 37 drones were 'intercepted'.
 

https://www.threads.net/@meanwhile_in_ua/post/DDeXoF-vz2w?xmt=AQGzL2YtnKA8DPA1AtLOIKv54EVqC4Uj8BXmlIt5JMJYfg

On the night of December 11, Ukrainian troops attacked an oil depot in the Bryansk region of russia. The oil depot, which was used to supply the russian army, was hit by Ukrainian drones from military intelligence units.
 

[InkaUtexas 26,855]

54 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

https://www.threads.net/@noelreports/post/DDjJV3tNaKM?xmt=AQGzL2YtnKA8DPA1AtLOIKv54EVqC4Uj8BXmlIt5JMJYfg

Overnight, Ukrainian drones attacked an oil refinery in Oryol, Russia. Tanks are burning. Russian sources claim 37 drones were 'intercepted'.
 

https://www.threads.net/@meanwhile_in_ua/post/DDeXoF-vz2w?xmt=AQGzL2YtnKA8DPA1AtLOIKv54EVqC4Uj8BXmlIt5JMJYfg

On the night of December 11, Ukrainian troops attacked an oil depot in the Bryansk region of russia. The oil depot, which was used to supply the russian army, was hit by Ukrainian drones from military intelligence units.
 

Clever of those russians to let the oil tanks intercept the drones. Talk about successful static defense.