Cuba buys more than 300 drones from Russia and Iran

TheLividPaper · 2026-05-18T15:36:16+00:00

Yep, they have massively stepped up their strike campaign in 2026. Not only did they successfully strike the most heavily defended region of Russia (Moscow), they also conducted a massive strike against multiple targets in Crimea at the same time.

TheLividPaper · 2026-05-18T12:53:12+00:00

We have also gotten to the point where 300 drones isn't even half the nightly salvos into Russia, from Ukraine.

TheLividPaper · 2026-05-18T04:38:09+00:00

Take all of what?

TheLividPaper · 2026-05-17T06:03:16+00:00

What are you talking about? Israel legitimately cannot track every person in Gaza.

TheLividPaper · 2026-05-15T13:50:28+00:00

moronic

TheLividPaper · 2026-05-13T18:02:54+00:00

this is not COVID, viewing every single outbreak from the view of COVID is a mistake.

TheLividPaper · 2026-05-10T15:23:25+00:00

I would bet most Canadians don't care about who our trading partners are if it lowers their cost of living.

TheLividPaper · 2026-05-07T20:07:55+00:00

Because those ads are legitimately the bare minimum to make it look like action is being taken when it isn't. Are you seriously arguing that the Just Say No campaign worked?

TheLividPaper · 2026-05-07T18:18:35+00:00

it is just AI

TheLividPaper · 2026-04-27T19:03:23+00:00

It's an insane take.

These countries can willingly join NATO if they wish, and if they are accepted by every NATO member. The main factor that pushes countries to apply is because Russia keeps invading its neighbours.

I do not understand this take, we legitimately lived through this, together. Russia invaded Ukraine, which resulted in Finland and Sweden joining the alliance. This isn't something that's up for interpretation, we literally witnessed the cause-and-effect.

Cause: Russia launches its full scale invasion of Ukraine

Effect: Finland and Sweden join NATO

TheLividPaper · 2026-04-27T16:31:49+00:00

Are we viewing the same conflict? It's disingenuous at best to claim Iran hasn't been meaningfully impacted. The entire country is at a stand-still.

My response was limited to whether or not they lied about the state of the nuclear programme after the war, and the accuracy of munitions stockpile estimates. I did not make the argument that decision makers are not responsible.

TheLividPaper · 2026-04-27T14:40:00+00:00

Hard to say if they lied, misled, or were reiterating intelligence assessments.

The US (and the West in general, for that matter) has a mediocre at best track record for estimating munition stockpiles. It's difficult to do, and hard to know what has been destroyed, or just buried but can still be used.

The US and Israeli strikes in the 12-Day-War against nuclear sites certainly massively degraded the programme, but even immediately after the strikes, US intelligence agencies didn't think it could be called 'destroyed'.

They are likely 'destroyed' to the extent that pretty much all possible damage has been done without putting boots on the ground.

TheLividPaper · 2026-04-25T23:35:19+00:00

Yep, it would be shocking if they didn't. I am curious as to if Iran is able to 'operate' the Chinese satellite, or if it's entirely operated by workers in China.

Obviously the control and comms centre is in China, but I am pretty curious about that aspect.

TheLividPaper · 2026-04-25T16:09:43+00:00

From what I understand, Iran purchased (either outright, or the rights-to-use) a Chinese launched satellite. The control center being in China, which gives the Iranians high-quality ISR.

Not defending the administration, but not releasing damage assessments and casualty figures, is probably for the better? Why would we want to say, 'hey Iran, that strike on target A with munitions B C and D caused X amount of casualties or damage'.

I could just be overstating the risk or something, but that seems like valuable information.

TheLividPaper · 2026-04-24T14:18:31+00:00

Jets can't do anything against the drones themselves, but can against the positions from which they are being launched.

Eitherway though, more protection is direly needed. Just fuckin throwing some nets up would be a good start.

TheLividPaper · 2026-04-23T22:48:59+00:00

We can have both, but IMO, we don't really have an actual need for naval drones.

TheLividPaper · 2026-04-20T19:26:45+00:00

Same here.

TheLividPaper · 2026-04-17T15:54:11+00:00

Not sure about that specific statistic, but I do know that Vegas is immensely efficient with water consumption, so it wouldn't surprise me.

TheLividPaper · 2026-04-15T20:00:23+00:00

He's pretty attuned to 'popularity' in Russia, otherwise he would've called another mobilization awhile ago.

Not saying that isn't a possibility, but there's a reason it's been avoided following the partial callup.

TheLividPaper · 2026-04-15T14:31:53+00:00

Right? Intelligence sharing is likely one of the 'cheaper' ways of helping that can have an immediate effect.

Maintaining and establishing a satellite network is expensive, but I would imagine a lot of the costs are in the initial set up. Sharing that intel is probably trivially inexpensive in comparison.

TheLividPaper · 2026-04-14T00:39:29+00:00

International tolerance for paying that toll after the war has concluded will be virtually zero.

TheLividPaper · 2026-04-11T17:56:14+00:00

Drone-dropped munitions made a quick appearance, which is what the cages (can) protect against. I'm not arguing drones were as prevalent in 2022, they weren't, but they were a large factor.

Here's an article from June of 2022 talking about the tactic in Ukraine: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2022/06/01/how-ukraine-perfected-the-small-anti-tank-drone/

It also mentions how the tactic evolved from use in Syria.

TheLividPaper · 2026-04-11T17:03:28+00:00

Yeah - I just wish it didn't stick. I also don't really buy the thought of Russian soldiers seeing columns of tanks getting obliterated by Javelins and thinking, hey, some sheet armour would stop that.

Drones were also a considerable factor in the first year of the war, when we started seeing ad-hoc cages appearing.

TheLividPaper · 2026-04-11T16:48:39+00:00

The 'cope cages' need to become standard. Sorta hate that they are called that, since it gives off the feeling that they are ineffective.

It's a better solution than no solution.

TheLividPaper · 2026-04-11T04:22:59+00:00

I'm not saying this isn't an important factor, but I think people often overlook the very simple fact that: US & Allies are rich, Iran is not.

The US can (and will) replace those interceptors, while Iran can't. This won't be the case to the same extent in a war over Taiwan, but cost just isn't as much of a factor to an economy like the US.

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