Ukrainian Drone Swarm Attack Marks Grim “Inflection Point In History Of Warfare”
June 3rd, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
Western Intelligence agencies have long raised concerns over the potential for adversaries to hide and deploy missile systems inside standard shipping containers, making virtually any cargo ship, truck, or rail car an undetectable covert mobile launch platform.
This past weekend, those fears were officially realized when Ukrainian forces launched a fleet of suicide drones deep inside Russia using shipping containers transported by tractor-trailers — effectively bypassing early warning missile defense systems.
The mobility, deniability, and camouflage of these containers made it a nightmare for Russia, with several long-range bombers at various air bases destroyed by $100 drones with warheads.
“Ukraine just mounted an attack that marks a turning point in the history of warfare Hundreds of drones were pre-deployed and then struck 40+ aircraft 1000+ km inside of Russia >$1B in damage by <$1m of drones Critical infra is no longer safe,” Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire wrote on X.
Related: What Ukraine’s Unprecedented Drone Attack Means For Russia’s Bomber Force
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Poland: Nationalist Karol Nawrocki Narrowly Wins Presidential Election
June 2nd, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
In Poland’s extraordinarily tight and closely-watched presidential run-off election, a staunch nationalist conservative on Sunday defeated a pro-EU liberal in an outcome that promises economic and geopolitical implications. With 100% of the precincts reporting, conservative historian Karol Nawrocki had 50.9% of the votes, compared to 49.1% for leftist Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, who prematurely declared victory on Sunday evening after the first exit polls showed him at 50.3%.
More: Polish Nationalist Nawrocki Wins Presidency in Setback for Pro-EU Government
Russian Strategic Bombers Destroyed In Unprecedented Wide-Scale Drone Attack
June 2nd, 2025Via: The War Zone:
Ukraine carried out a massive drone strike at airbases across Russia on Sunday, claiming to have destroyed dozens of aircraft. There are also indications that Russia’s Northern Fleet headquarters, home of Russian nuclear submarines, was attacked as well. Overall, the attack was clearly aimed at Russia’s most prized strategic aerial assets, which cannot be replaced quickly in any manner and doing so at all would be extremely expensive.
“The Security Service of Ukraine is conducting a large-scale special operation to destroy bomber aircraft in the rear of the Russian Federation,” the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff stated on Telegram. “SBU drones have hit more than 40 aircraft, including A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3, causing damage of over $2 billion.”
The operation, codenamed “Web,” targeted four key Russian airbases: Belaya, Diaghilevo, Olenya and Ivanovo, the Kyiv Post reported.
There was no immediate response from Russian officials.
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June 2nd, 2025Via: Paul Watson:
Cold Steel Big Bore .625 Blowgun – 5FT
June 1st, 2025One of my sons is heavily into bushcraft and hunting with a variety of weapons (not just firearms). Besides rifles, he uses bows, crossbows, slingshots, spears… and now, a blowgun.
He has killed four possums over two nights so far with his new Cold Steel Big Bore .625 Blowgun (Amazon affiliate link).
In case you have any doubts about how serious of a weapon a blowgun can be:
What You Should Know About FUTO Keyboard
June 1st, 2025I think I’ve posted about this a couple of times already, but…
Your keyboard shouldn’t connect to the internet.
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May 31st, 2025Via: mitxela.com:
Sloppy Security Resulted in Details of Russia’s Strategic Nuclear Weapon Modernization Program Being Publicly Accessible
May 30th, 2025Via: Danwatch:
Now Danwatch, in collaboration with German Der Spiegel, can for the first time reveal previously unknown details about the enormous upgrade of the military infrastructure at Russia’s most protected facilities.
Together we have analyzed more than two million documents relating to Russian military procurement that Danwatch systematically retrieved from a public database over a period of many months. The Russian authorities have gradually restricted access to the database, but we managed to circumvent these restrictions by using a veriety of digital techniques, including a network of servers located in Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus.
The documents reveal how numerous new facilities have been built across all of Russia: Entire bases have been almost leveled and rebuilt from the ground up; hundreds of new barracks, watchtowers, control centers and storage buildings have been erected; and several kilometers of underground tunnels have been excavated.
The level of detail in the material is now causing several experts to raise alarms about a Russian security breach that could potentially make the large new nuclear weapons bases vulnerable to attack.
Among the millions of documents, Danwatch has found hundreds of original blueprints of the Strategic Missile Forces’ bases near the small town of Yasny, that have since 2019 been equipped with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle – one of Russia’s new nuclear delivery systems that plays a central role in President Putin’s ambitions to put Russian in front in an arms race against the West.
In collaboration with Der Spiegel, we can now tell how the documents reveal highly sensitive details about some of the world’s most sensitive facilities.
Newly Identified Cosmic Object Sends Out Blast of Radio Waves and X-Rays Every 44 Minutes
May 30th, 2025Via: Study Finds:
Something deep in the Milky Way is pulsing like clockwork, and no one knows what it is. Every 44 minutes, a mysterious space object nearly 15,000 light-years away sends out a blast of radio waves and high-energy X-rays, defying everything astronomers thought they knew about how stars behave. It’s not a pulsar, not a black hole, and not quite like anything we’ve ever seen before. Now, scientists say this bizarre cosmic beacon might be rewriting the rulebook on extreme stellar physics.
For the first time, astronomers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have found what’s known as a long-period radio transient that also emits X-rays — something that had never been observed before and wasn’t predicted by existing models. This discovery of ASKAP J1832?0911, published in Nature, introduces a new class of celestial object and calls into question long-standing assumptions in astrophysics.
More: Astronomers find startling pulsing object in Milky Way: ‘Unlike anything we have seen’
