Recent content by BlueAnorak

Video footage of the FP-5 Flamingo strike at tge VNIIR Progress electronics plant Cheboksary and the latest oil refinary stroke in Kuibyshev.

Drones render Mauripol inoperable.

09/06 Stuff: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/9/800052442/community/russian-stuff-blowing-up/ Day 1567 Review: < Won't be posted till about 1pm - Will update then > Take aways: - Russia disguising Military trucks as Civilian to get supplies through to occupied areas in Ukrsine. - Fuel...

Err, where the hell are they getting the fuel from? It's rationed in Crimea now - so they must be paying someone a backhander to get it..

08/06 Stuff: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/8/800051838/community/russian-stuff-blowing-up/ Day 1566 Review: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/8/800052338/community/1/

Joni did to be fair - he's been predicting Ukrainaian Dronmageddon targeted at Russia for well over 7 months. I think he's saying the Ukrainian drone happy time will fade - probably right. But while drone evolution is so rapid, I just can't see Russian centralisation allowing them to catch up...

More on Spiderboy's post above... Ukrainian mid range heavy drones are starting to find big Russian Ammo dumps. You know, the type Russia loves to have nearer to the front lines but recolated them back beyond a safe distance over a year and a half ago to stop them kabooming From HIMARs...

Russia will start to catch up - but unlike Joni's pessimism - I somehow don't think Russia will allow enough decentralisation of command and control to catch up to the level required to keep pace with Ukraine any time soon. Russia will have huge difficultly adapting to Ukrainian development...

... and UK national debt is increasing at a rate greater than any country in the world except Botswana.

Still no DIP funding for the UK defence review published in October. You'd think there wasn't a major war going on in Europe that threatens us...

07/06 Stuff: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/7/800051286/community/russian-stuff-blowing-up/ Day 1565 Review: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/7/800051823/community/1565/ Takeaways: - Multiple Russisn refinaries and pumping stations hit. - Krondstat Island (Baltic ) Arsenal...

The latest Ukrainian anti-drone weapon. Big cheap short range missiles - the equivalent of big shotgun cartridges when they detonate (a targetted flack weapon if you like)... https://militarnyi.com/en/news/ukraine-manufacture-100000-fz275-rockets/

Impossible to defend against drones there I would think. interesting though that that's the only part of the Mykolayiv Oblast occupied by Russia.