Just for anyone who hasn’t been following this, the russian response to the BEKs (Ukrainian kamikaze drone boats, also called SeaBabies) has been to kit out their helicopters for naval warfare and hunt them down. Its been pretty effective too, until the last few weeks when AFU started jury-rigging some of the BEKs in each group with anti-air missile launchers. As happened here, now the helicopters are getting lured out to attack BEKs and instead end up getting blown out of the sky by surprise air defense! The russians are in Cope Overdrive in response, and it is -delecious-. I highly recommend the Topwar piece about this, it’s a masterpiece of bad propaganda.
“The loss could have been avoided…”
Yeah by not invading a sovereign country.
This is so incredible, slava Ukraine!
Anyone know what a BEK is in this context? I recall reading the helicopters were shot down by sea drones
Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV)
Gotcha, just a case of language differences I suppose. Thanks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning please go away
This is literally textbook sealioning. I’ve never seen such a clear example of it until now. Imagine having an account for 5 years just to suddenly show up one day to do shit like this…
It’s basically schematic
Its a single letter username on a seemingly empty mastodon instance. They may have just faked the dates with SQL. I don’t think there is any validation
Ok so the account exists on the internet archive in 2020 but with different content.
For context check the rest of the comment chain if you’re as blind as I am sometimes.
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Fighterbomber and Russian Aviation.
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Google it. I don’t provide links to Russian propagandists.
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Sure…
