That would not surprise me. With modern technology an IFF equivalent in a mine should be child’s play.

The article’s description read like one describing early WWII de-mining, before multi signature triggers were introduced.

trigger. Some explosions could. Mines requiring two triggers (say magnetic and pressure) did not lend themselves to easy triggering. Post war, the US actually fitted out ships to trigger the mines deliberately, yet survive.
A deep dive is on WWII Bombers YT channel.

Magnetic mines were rendered ineffective by the de-gassing cables run around ships which negated the magnetic effect. However to do mine sweeping one just towed cables with electric charges.
Clearing acoustic mines was done by emulating the noise of a ship.
The pressure mines were harder to /2

not sure those fingernails would last long at the front

Why would they put the tankers in Saudi? It is far too close to the action.
To hit 5 suggests that they were dispersed but there was specific targeting information (Putin?) or someone did a repeat of General Short’s defence strategy at Pearl Harbour in 1941.

A further complication was the mine which had a timer delay - up to several weeks - so a “cleared” area became live after that period.
In shallow water such as Japanese harbours the dual trigger mine which lay on the bottom was the best. At wars end there was no reliable way to trigger them.

Interesting the article treated mines as having a single triggering signature. Further it did not mention the triggering mechanism of the change in water pressure caused by a vessel passing over the mine.
In WWII both the Japs and US had mines which required both pressure and one other to explode.2

More pressure on Putin via oil. Price is up but available barrels down.
Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

Daily cheap drones over Moscow airports to disrupt air traffic?

Apart from Bryansk Kursk and Belgorod oblasts being relatively easy to hit, what does Ukraine seem to attack them rather than the oblasts closer to Moscow (St Petersburg is a lot further)?

Cannot complain about the target here but power in the others would widen the complaints./2

I doubt Russia will attack a NATO country openly. A covert operation possibly but that has been going on for years.

Given the violence that is put up on line daily this would not be a surprise, given what he has done. People who just recommend a lip gloss get it too.

The clarity of the image is extraordinary On an FPV drone, presumably at about 20 kilometres of fibre optic cable

Capturing it might be the easy part. I would back Iran to have rigged it for destruction in that case.
Even if they have not, a nightly rain of shahed drones will eventually destroy it. The U.S anti drone capability has been suspect on its radars and even Ukraine with years of experience under 100%

TA has explained that unless it is an underground reinforced bunker, the Taurus is not designed for this job.

Don’t let ICE see you.

Great news. Keep going and going and going.

I think Trump said that all you needed was guts to do it, but I notice he did not volunteer to be on board.
What happened to his offer of insurance?

Your first sentence is true. The problem is that these men and women are required to obey lawful orders.
When presented with an order which a lawyer has certified as legal, folks (who have a nice safe job and are risking nothing) are asking them to risk everything and choose to give up theirs.

It also needs to be cheap gas to make that fertiliser worth it to the farm. About 20 years ago plants required large volume discount on wholesale gas price to make a profit on the fertiliser sold at a competitive price. Wholesale contract gas is through the roof now(pre war) compared to rates then.

Not just transport of it but manufacturing it requires natural gas in most plants.

The President has interim War powers. The orders will have a signoff by legal that the orders are legal orders under the constitution and other laws.
Good luck finding officers who think they are so legally gifted that they can gainsay that advice and are willing to risk their career on it.

don’t send it via Hungary! just sayin

You should see the YT presentations by Sarah Paine who says that is exactly how continental powers act and then absorb the destabilised region as part of the country. Rinse and repeat. Russia many times. USA too.

Flight risk 🤣

You could argue that the Iranian forces need water more than ammunition. So then it is a military target and the thirsty populace is collateral damage.
Yeh .. no

No they are off to kidnap the King of Spain because the Spanish government would not permit Spanish bases to be used for the war in Iran. MAGA thought this was the way to fix that problem 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Stop dissing the man. It clearly worked! Russia stoped doing it … wait … you say they did not stop? You are an idiot for asking such questions when we have a war going on here. Next question.

Has now arrested Ukrainian bankers ferrying money from Austria

“Failing to plan, is planning to fail” is the old commercial motto
Add the military maxim:
“No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy forces.” Helmuth von Moltke 1871
Add the truism that even Hegseth acknowledges “the enemy gets a vote”
Surprise?