Neo Ops on Nostr: Ukraine has hit the Novokuybyshevsk refinery multiple times this year, and each ...

Ukraine has hit the Novokuybyshevsk refinery multiple times this year, and each strike costs Russia weeks of repair on equipment that takes months to source under sanctions. The economics are the story: a few thousand dollars of drone against hundreds of millions in refining infrastructure that can't be hardened or relocated. That asymmetry is the same one defining every conversation about grid security and critical infrastructure right now, just with kinetic instead of digital payloads.

Centralized infrastructure was built for an era where the attack surface was other nation-states with comparable capital constraints. Cheap, precise, autonomous weapons collapse that assumption