Doveofwar

The five-second epistemology of the tanker. Six dead in Iraq in a KC-135. Five KC-135s hit in Saudi Arabia. The KC-135 having the worst week in KC-135 history. The seventy-year-old airframe that has no parachutes and no ejection seats dying in the air in Iraq and dying on the ground in Saudi Arabia. The flying gas station that isn’t flying. The parked gas station that isn’t parked safely. The gas station in the air that crashed. The gas station on the ground that got missiled. The gas station that can’t win in either location. Five tankers. Not oil tankers. Air tankers. The same plane that six crew just died in over western Iraq. Five more hit on the ground in Saudi Arabia. The flying gas stations struck at the gas station. The plane that refuels the war hit while parked at the ally’s base in the ally’s country by the country the war is against. The refueling that can’t refuel because the refueler is hit. Prince Sultan Air Base. Saudi Arabia. The ally’s base. The ally that intercepts twenty-eight drones an hour and still gets its air base hit. The ally whose elaborate and expensive courtship bought remarkably little. The base that hosts the tankers that fuel the war and the missile that hit the tankers at the base that hosts the war. The hosting and the hitting at the same address. The war that needs fuel can’t keep the fuelers fueled or alive or intact. The KC-135 in the dirt in Iraq. The KC-135s on the tarmac in Saudi Arabia. The fuel that fuels the war being defueled by the war. The word tanker doing triple duty again. The oil tanker in the Strait. The fuel tanker in the air. The air tanker on the tarmac. All three tankers having the same week. The oil tanker hit by projectiles. The air tanker crashed in Iraq. The air tankers missiled in Saudi Arabia. Three tankers. Three locations. Same word. Same war. Same problem. Fuel. Day fifteen. The gas station that can’t win anywhere.

Iranian forces appear to have damaged or destroyed multiple USAF KC-135 tankers parked in the open at Prince Sultan Airbase in Saudi Arabia.

Iranian forces appear to have damaged or destroyed multiple USAF KC-135 tankers parked in the open at Prince Sultan Airbase in Saudi Arabia.

This claim that Ukraine are firing drones through Poland and the Baltics to avoid Russian airspace is nothing more than delusional cope. It took me 10 minutes to find Russian Telegram channels reporting launches from Chernihiv followed by alerts in Bryansk, Smolensk, Pskov and Leningrad Oblasts. The claim that they just "appear" in Leningrad is provably false. Image attached shows the rough path the drones would take to go through these Oblasts.

Ukrainian UAVs once again attacked the Ust-Luga and Prymorsk Ports in Leningrad Oblast, resulting in large fires breaking out at both locations. These are the two largest Russian Baltic Sea ports. It appears that these drones once again utilised Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, and possibly Estonian airspace to reach the ports, with drones just "magically" appearing in the region near the Latvian border, even though no alerts were issued in regions which the drones would usually have to fly through. This is the third day in a row that Russia's Baltic Sea Ports have come under attack, and the third day in a row that Ukrainian drones likely used NATO airspace to avoid Russian air defence.

1. New research article "Blinding the Bear and Pulling Its Fangs: Ukraine's Long-Range Campaign Against the Russian Air Defence" Our latest research maps how Ukrainian forces are targeting A2/AD assets to open corridors for deeper long-range strikes.

This was very likely to be an off course Ukrainian drone. The power plant is just 50km from the Russian port of Ust-Luga that was targeted last night.

🇺🇦🔥 A-22 type heavy kamikaze drone, somewhere in the Leningrad region.