A couple of teardowns of Russian Orlan-10 UAVs captured by Ukrainian forces have appeared on the Internet lately. This drone is a short-ish range platform for reconnaissance and artillery target acquisition that acquired a fearsome reputation after the 2014 battle of Zelenopillya in the Donbas, where a substantial Ukrainian force was destroyed by Russian artillery…
Read More Drone TeardownFollowing up on this post, there’s been a surprisingly good parliamentary debate on the practice of using bogus lawsuits to intimidate journalists and MPs, which touches more than I expected on the impact of kleptocracy in British politics. I have some objections to this – where was Liam Byrne on this when he was a…
Read More A little moreSo there’s a rolling crisis with Russia going on. A few weeks back I responded to this thread from the good doctor Leo Strauss with this tweet. What I think is necessary to understand here is the model of Putin-era Russia Tony Wood asserts in this podcast from 2018: Novara Media · #NovaraFM: Russia Without…
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