Cave Drones

What Do You Do To Prepare?

Nick Cave | Red Hand Files | 24th June 2025

Several times a month, Nick Cave responds to fan questions with letters that are characteristically thoughtful and free from cliché. Here, he movingly explains that before every performance he spends 15 minutes in silent communion with a personal pantheon of saints that he has assembled from his dead loved ones. Each member of this "unearthly fraternity" has a different quality that he draws on (500 words)

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I Fought in Ukraine. FPV Drones Kind of Suck

Jakub Jajcay | War On The Rock | 26th June 2025

First person view drones, piloted remotely via virtual reality goggles, have been hailed as a revolutionary military technology akin to the musket. After months of flying them for Ukraine against Russia, this pilot argues they are not yet consistently useful. They are very unstable and easily disrupted by poor weather, bad light and radio jammers. A mortar is still often a cheaper and more accurate weapon (2,900 words)