Topix Underground

"...It is not going well. As General Zaluzhnyi predicted a few months ago before his ouster as Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief, the war in Ukraine is increasingly boiling down to who controls the electromagnetic space or innovates the fastest and best.  Both sides are doing their best to get some kind of an edge. The Russian brute force bludgeoning of Avdiivka(wittingly or unwittingly aided and abetted by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives) notwithstanding, Ukraine’s attrition of Russia’s armored formations is beginning to tell.  As soon as what’s left of Russia’s once huge supply of armored vehicles gets on the road for an assault, it seems the ever-present Ukrainian weaponized eyes in the sky(armed FPV drones) descend on them, halt or slow them down long enough for artillery to zero in and deliver the coup de grâce.

And with the recent delivery of US and other European aid, the pace of attrition is picking up forcing the Russians to tack up another innovation … in this case going back to an old WWII Soviet era tactic of trying rapid insertion of small size assault troops via fast moving imported Chinese golf carts and domestically produced(sometimes artisan) motor bikes.  The Ukrainian eyes in the sky are not letting them through.  If spotted, there is no way a motor cycle or a golf cart can out run an FPV.  And it’s not a pretty picture..."