In this episode, we discuss what happens when a pick-up truck hits an anti-tank mine, Ukraine’s worst week, jet drones, robots, and more!

Articles:

Manufacturer of Turkish Bayraktar Drone Signs Agreement with Ukraine https://www.kyivpost.com/post/41039

Putin’s Rising Price for Peace in Ukraine

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/putins-rising-price-for-peace-in-ukraine-79ad1531

Videos:

Robot machine gun:

https://x.com/sambendett/status/1848722513603293539

In this episode, we discuss our Ukrainian dissertation and possible revolt, North and South Korea, a Romanian conspiracy theory, and more!

Articles:

They Came for the Music. They Left With Draft Officers for Ukraine’s Army:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/world/europe/ukraine-draft-concert-army.html

A Soldier Chose a Radical Way to Publicize Troop Fatigue: He Deserted:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/world/europe/ukraine-troop-fatigue.html

Romania buddies with Ukraine:

https://www.rferl.org/a/romania-ukraine-nato-black-sea-grain-war/33162333.html

Romanian and Hungarian right-wingers wanting to take Ukrainian territory:

https://kyivindependent.com/romanian-far-right-leader-lays-claim-on-ukrainian-regions-moldova/

In this episode, we discuss Hamas and FPV drones, SOCOM versus Big Army acquisitions, the Skydio X10D, AI versus elementary on-board computing in drones, the 1884 Maxim machine gun, and more.

Video:

“AI” final targeting on FPV drone:

https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1847938818273358323?s=46

The Skydio X10D

https://petapixel.com/2023/09/20/skydios-new-x10-drone-looks-amazing-but-you-cant-buy-it/

In this episode, we discuss Loyd Austin’s visit to Kyiv, the Dmitry Golenkov murder, SBU hitting an explosives factory 900 km away, Kursk, Moldova, burning Russians, and more!

Videos:

Russian tank crew abandons ship:

https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1847570105154093363

AI drone targeting

https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1847938818273358323?s=46

Baba Yaga destroying $100m Russia Buk ADA system:

https://x.com/ReinerAberJa/status/1848485571053949315

In this episode, we discuss Zelensky’s victory plan, NATO or nukes, surviving on the modern battlefield, reinventing the FPV drone, and more!

Don Bowser is a law enforcement and security expert with over twenty-five years of experience in governance issues, mainly in transition and conflict countries. He has three decades of experience in the post-Soviet space with the bulk of it in Ukraine including most of the last ten years. Since mid-2022, Don has been engaged as founder of the Support to Ukraine Recovery Initiative, an organization that delivers nonlethal military assistance to the military forces in Ukraine. He is currently working on several projects in Ukraine, including evaluating foreign assistance.

In this episode, we discuss Russia’s hybrid war in Europe, Ukraine’s corruption problem, foreign volunteers in Ukraine, and more!

In this episode, we discuss last night’s massive Shahed attack, Europe’s rising “Ukraine fatigue,” how not to disarm a TM-62 anti-tank mine, the fog of war, Baba Yagas, and more.

Show Notes

Article. Financial Times. Finland’s foreign minister warns of the dangers of rising fatigue among Western states regarding assistance to Ukraine:

https://www.ft.com/content/47055a08-7058-40bc-adfe-facd4371a723

Video of two Russians trying to disarm a TM-62 anti-tank mine:

https://x.com/girkingirkin/status/1846237138293063977?s=46

Video of RU BTR running up on two Ukrainian tanks: https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1846538857208066553

and another view of the lopsided tank armor “battle”:

https://x.com/nevedimka123/status/1846528821195104653

Video of Russian snipers training in the open eating a GMLRS cluster bomb:

https://x.com/giK1893/status/1846532443127390673

Fake video of Baba Yaga carrying a dragon’s tooth:

https://x.com/slavauk30722777/status/1846467566992347459?s=46

Fake video of Baba Yaga carrying F-16:

https://x.com/alexbondodua/status/1846464317480226899?s=46

In this episode, we discuss North Korean soldiers in Ukraine, Russia suspending production of its Su-57 stealth fighter, Ukraine’s new Stick M12 loitering drone, the AFU’s recruitment strategies, and more!