Being an account of a Geran-4 jet-powered attack drone delivered to the College in error, taken apart on the workshop bench, weighed against its published specification, and returned to its component countries in the form of a bill.
A Russian drone described as domestically produced contains more American parts than Chinese ones, two British ones, and one connector that fitted only because Gerald had it. The part that matters is the engine, the engine is Chinese, and the difference it makes is the difference between a rifle and a missile. The College has counted the parts and asked for the crate to be collected. Nobody has come.
The Geran family, its specifications, Ukraine’s component lists, the interception rates, the prices, Alabuga and the production figures are real and referenced, and where sources disagree the paper gives all of them. The crate, the teardown, the wind-tunnel run, the Bursar’s card and the interceptor trials are fiction and say so. Nothing was flown. The jokes are about the College, the supply chain and the paperwork, not about the people under the drones.
