The Commissars put the female pilots in the worst planes. But the ladies figured out a battle plan. Their tiny biplanes could glide for miles; so they’d wait for nightfall, load up with bombs, and fly as high as possible. Then they’d silently glide over the German lines.
In Robert Evan’s original run of It Could Happen Here, he said that when he was imbedded in Syria and Iraq that he saw some of the toughest and scariest people he’s ever met go white as a sheet at the sound of a commercial drone overhead
How they think they are going to die:
Fancy laser beam
How they are actually going to die:
Tagged by a toy drone carrying a hand grenade, while they are taking a shit behind a tree.
It must be horrific, waiting for the whine of the drone and never being safe from the observation drones overhead.
At least in the more recent wars one might feel safer behind the front line.
hmm… a great way to fuck with russians - something like an annoyotron - https://www.geekextreme.com/annoyatron-holy-grail-of-pranks/
but it plays quadcopter noises randomly.
Look up the Soviet ‘Night Witches’ of WW2.
The Commissars put the female pilots in the worst planes. But the ladies figured out a battle plan. Their tiny biplanes could glide for miles; so they’d wait for nightfall, load up with bombs, and fly as high as possible. Then they’d silently glide over the German lines.
That’s terrifying. Sounds like it’d make a good film though
Garth Ennis did a pretty good graphic novel about them.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-night-witches-garth-ennis/d739f5017e40a18c
aaaand placed a hold at the library thanks
Enjoy.
In Robert Evan’s original run of It Could Happen Here, he said that when he was imbedded in Syria and Iraq that he saw some of the toughest and scariest people he’s ever met go white as a sheet at the sound of a commercial drone overhead
That’s an interesting looking podcast, Ty.
Have something positive queued up, it gets kinda dark while still being illuminating