There's a famous post-soviet book about a guy being sent one one-way secret mission to the moon to die heroically while operating a moon rover because USSR doesn't have the electronic technology to make it, but in actuality he is on an underground set still on Earth made to suffocate and die in some sort of occult ritual to prolong the idea of USSR. That's something of an inspiration
One of the guys I worked with said quite a few of the Afghans thought we trained mice to pilot the drones. I've also heard some thought our standard goggles had x-rat vision, so it might've been a successful psyop.
Fitting would be that the Shaheds are not cheap suicide drones but there is a Vatnik inside each one of them, steering it.
I hate the term 'suicide drones' because of this. 'Loitering munition' or 'shitty cruise missile' are better terms. They wouldn't even be a viable thing if Ukraine was provided with enough anti-air. There is no 'suicide' because there is no onboard pilot, that's what makes it a drone in the first place.
It's comically exaggerated but at the same time extremely serious and dramatic, and then this seriousness and drama just kind of disappears at a moment's notice. Reflects very well on how living in Russia, you find it increasingly challenging to focus on what's true and what's not, and what tomorrow's narrative arc du jour will be
Reminds me of a 1990 interview of a Russian farmer about Gorbachev's reforms. The farmer said he wasn't going to trust the idea of borrowing money to buy a plot of land, because his grandparents had their land confiscated from them and were punished for being "rich peasants". Also, there was no guarantee if the reforms, like so many other past policies, wouldn't get rolled back with minimal notice.
That's a smart guy. Back under the reformist Tsar, former Russian serfs had some land mortgaged to them at a fairly steep rate over 49 years. Guess what happened just a decade after these got mostly paid off and partially forgiven
1991-2001 Russia oligarchs be like: "Nice land you got there. How about you hand it over to my new business? Would be a shame if my 'business partners' appropriated it by force."
Oh I think there is a game inspired by this too. You the player are directed to control a nuclear missile. Each successful launch you blackout and return to launch another.
It turns out you are the missile, quite literally a cloned brain.
"Sir! The our drone has deviated from our Target! And is heading straight for an empty field, perhaps even towards militarily valuable objectives!"
"RED ALERT: We must regain the control to hit the Kindergarten!"
"Cant do Kommandsky! Its like it has a mind of its own! I cant even program in the secondary target, the cancer ward of a hospital!"
"Nobody in the russian army is allowed to have mind! Shoot it down! We must ensure that all our actions forward the goal of maximum evil possible! Lets strap some children to the S400 and take it down, that'll please moscow"
"Yes sir! I have two! I shall bring them at once. They are young, so not big loss. Can make more easy."
What sort of orc-Lovecraftian abomination is this?
There's a famous post-soviet book about a guy being sent one one-way secret mission to the moon to die heroically while operating a moon rover because USSR doesn't have the electronic technology to make it, but in actuality he is on an underground set still on Earth made to suffocate and die in some sort of occult ritual to prolong the idea of USSR. That's something of an inspiration
Heya Do you have the name for the book at all? Id be interested in reading it
Thanks
Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin
Fitting would be that the Shaheds are not cheap suicide drones but there is a Vatnik inside each one of them, steering it.
>"not cheap suicide drones"
>Describes cheap suicide drones (vatniks are free and do not have free will of their own).
„Yeah, suicide drone manufacturer here…we need 1000 Kilogramm of guidance systems…yes, 15 average sized vatniks or 10 overweight ones.“
i guess you can surgically remove the unimportant bits of the vatnik to lessen the weight...
(Slaps warhead of Shahed 136) This bad boy can hold so many quadruple amputees! (Warhead detonates)
Literally a missile type in the grimdark 40k.
Also in First Contact over on r/HFY.
But those are flash clones flying one way attack drones. Or parts of flash clones at least.
I live. I die. I live again!
One of the guys I worked with said quite a few of the Afghans thought we trained mice to pilot the drones. I've also heard some thought our standard goggles had x-rat vision, so it might've been a successful psyop.
I hate the term 'suicide drones' because of this. 'Loitering munition' or 'shitty cruise missile' are better terms. They wouldn't even be a viable thing if Ukraine was provided with enough anti-air. There is no 'suicide' because there is no onboard pilot, that's what makes it a drone in the first place.
Great thank you
Also read Chapayev and Void / Buddha’s Little Finger by the same writer it’s incredible
A different but similar story you might like is The Horror of the Heights by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Yeah, that sounds proper Lovecraft/Soviet/Russian. Fucking hell...
It's comically exaggerated but at the same time extremely serious and dramatic, and then this seriousness and drama just kind of disappears at a moment's notice. Reflects very well on how living in Russia, you find it increasingly challenging to focus on what's true and what's not, and what tomorrow's narrative arc du jour will be
Reminds me of a 1990 interview of a Russian farmer about Gorbachev's reforms. The farmer said he wasn't going to trust the idea of borrowing money to buy a plot of land, because his grandparents had their land confiscated from them and were punished for being "rich peasants". Also, there was no guarantee if the reforms, like so many other past policies, wouldn't get rolled back with minimal notice.
That's a smart guy. Back under the reformist Tsar, former Russian serfs had some land mortgaged to them at a fairly steep rate over 49 years. Guess what happened just a decade after these got mostly paid off and partially forgiven
1991-2001 Russia oligarchs be like: "Nice land you got there. How about you hand it over to my new business? Would be a shame if my 'business partners' appropriated it by force."
You didn't need to add the date range. Remove it and you are still correct.
Oh I think there is a game inspired by this too. You the player are directed to control a nuclear missile. Each successful launch you blackout and return to launch another.
It turns out you are the missile, quite literally a cloned brain.
Boris Yeltsin is the hero in this story unless you consider the 2018 fad of finding the USSR anthem funny a cultural victory.
Hey wait a minute... that's not very aerodynamic!
Lovecraftian horrors rarely are
The Outter Gods are beyond petty concepts like physics.
All I see is Sadam Hussein
"Sir! The our drone has deviated from our Target! And is heading straight for an empty field, perhaps even towards militarily valuable objectives!"
"RED ALERT: We must regain the control to hit the Kindergarten!"
"Cant do Kommandsky! Its like it has a mind of its own! I cant even program in the secondary target, the cancer ward of a hospital!"
"Nobody in the russian army is allowed to have mind! Shoot it down! We must ensure that all our actions forward the goal of maximum evil possible! Lets strap some children to the S400 and take it down, that'll please moscow"
"Yes sir! I have two! I shall bring them at once. They are young, so not big loss. Can make more easy."
“Cut us loose..”
Gremlins have gone downhill since the glory days of WWII now that military aircraft are drones barely bigger than they are.
Oh fuck, thanks for reminding me that was a thing, might do something with it later
Just wait until Ratbat sees this...
I'd be honored
There's... Somethingon the wing!
God dang Morty
If you make a spaa will it just be the eye of sauron?
No, I don't play War Thunder
Spaa, sam, whatever it's called
I get that you mean the air defense. Might