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profuscious · 2025-06-01T13:16:41.355Z

The is is an epic thread about an operation that just happened 1800 kms from Kyiv. They snuck hundreds of tiny fiber optic drones into Russia inside the roofs of pre-assembled tiny shed houses. When the time was right, the roofs opened and the drone swarms were launched. Epic sf operation.

Asymmetric Warfare hits Murmansk airfield

Heres The thread

Impressive strikes WAY inside Russia..

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Re: Asymmetric Warfare hits Murmansk airfield

Jun 1, 2025, 3:24 PM

I don't think people understand the extent to which Ukraine has established drone superiority on the battlefield. Russia is building drones, but their ability to do so is limited by sanctions and the components all have to come from China and their procurement process is riddled by inefficiency and corruption. Ukraine, on the other hand, has become a nation of garage-shop MacGyvers, printing a truly bewildering array of often open-source designs off 3D printers - contributed to by every drone hobbyist in the world with a beef against Russia, which has turned out to be a whole lot of drone hobbyists. Half the /drones subreddit is threads that seem to be about new and fancified ways to build Ukraine yet another lethal toy.

The Ukrainians aren't even exposing their troops to Russian attacks anymore. They had a massive manpower and recruitment problem - they're running out of young and even middle-aged men, frankly - so they said: okay, we'll replace the soldiers with drone operators sitting in a basement or buried storage-container bunker somewhere, and we'll fight this war by remote control, by golly. So the Russians are still using the same human-wave attacks they used during both World Wars, and they're charging trenches held by drones, pop-up remote-control turrets, and mines. The Russians are apparently convinced they're fighting SkyNet. To say their morale - which was never great to begin with - has plummeted significantly in the past year is supposedly a massive understatement. Nobody wants to die at the hands of an explosive drone that can literally chase you around corners like a rabid bat.

And in a way they actually are fighting SkyNet. Palantir and Anduril have gotten into the war bigly, with Palantir's all-seeing data-accretion AI software hooked into the Ukrainian kill chain, that is literally feeding the Ukrainians data in realtime from satellites, intelligence agencies, even private interests...and those in turn are hooked into Anduril's command-and-control drones, drones that are capable of taking direct control of a Ukrainian drone swarm and attacking automously. Their Altius 600M and 700M drones are now lingering over the Ukrainian battlefield, and pretty much re-creating that scene from Iron Man where he's demonstrating the "Jericho."

The math has gone horribly against the Russians now. It's doubtful they can sustain combat operations into 2026. In the meantime the Ukrainians are on track to build 4.5 million drones this year and intend to build ten-million plus in 2026.