I found this article provocative but rather...debatable. It's arguing that a *possible* future trend for faster jet-powered drones should outweigh current reality that Iran & Russia use mostly propeller drones and they are efficiently killed by propeller interceptors.1/8

https://twitter.com/HoansSolo/status/2051661592039674107

In making this case, I felt article misrepresents or ignores what's currently observable: Russia is still mostly using propeller-based drones (about 80%!), and Ukraine is managing to down an increasingly high percentage with propeller interceptors.2/8 insideunmannedsystems.com/2025-proved-th…

This is pretty shocking. Context: France lost around 40 KIA in Mali over 8 years (2014-2022). It was a big deal when U.S. lost 4 in Niger in 2017. Wagner just lost *80* KIA in a single engagement, including owner of influential Grey Zone blog.

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1817445185556504620

Wagner, welcomed in by Mali's military coup government in 2022, hasn't covered itself in glory. Besides being caught planting human remains in a recently abandoned French base to try to frame for war crimes, they apparently perpetrated them themselves. theguardian.com/world/2023/may…