The humorous channel Despingovery Channel announced its "most warlike chapter" to date: an exploration of an abandoned military facility in Cuba featuring Cold War missiles, radars, bunkers, and obsolete weaponry, representing an unprecedented shift for a channel that has thus far focused on documenting potholes and urban ruins.
His creator and host, Eddy Ceballos, published a preview of the episode on Instagram under the motto "Nothing escapes the absurdity," showing himself alongside what appears to be a Soviet-made anti-aircraft missile system mounted on an armored vehicle with worn paint and graffiti, and next to a type of radar or wartime equipment in a state of abandonment, surrounded by overgrown vegetation.
In the footage, Ceballos touches a missile and exclaims, "I'm touching an air-to-ground missile from around the '60s, from the Cold War. Look at this, lovers of absurdity."
The presenter also explores tunnels and bunkers with thick concrete doors, never revealing the exact location of the facility at any moment.
"A monumental thing that I never thought I would be able to touch in my life. I am still in disbelief. Look at the magnitude of this weapon," Ceballos says in front of the camera, before referring once again to Cuba as "Despingolandia and Apagonia."
The channel, which went viral in April 2025 for turning the potholes of Havana into "natural wonders worthy of scientific study," parodies the style of the Discovery Channel with pseudoscientific narration and Cuban humor.
Among its most memorable previous episodes is the visit to the ruins of the Instituto Superior de Arte, where Ceballos described the place as "the catacombs of the ISA, a city of despingology that captivates."
The timing of the new episode could not be more eloquent: just days after its release, the Cuban National Assembly declared that there is a "real and dangerous threat of direct military aggression" from the U.S., while the regime of Miguel Díaz-Canel intensified its exercises of the "war of all the people" and the MINFAR published propaganda videos of its "elite troops" that generated widespread ridicule on social media.
The contrast is striking: while the regime boasts about its "combat readiness," the Revolutionary Armed Forces operate with a Soviet arsenal from the 70s and 80s—T-55 and T-62 tanks, MiG-21 and MiG-23 fighter jets, S-75 and S-125 anti-aircraft systems—without foreign arms purchases since 1991, with a budget of just 118 million dollars and around 50,000 active personnel.
In front of that rusty junk, the U.S.
"I can't stop being amazed by the things I find completely forgotten," concludes Ceballos in the preview, inadvertently summarizing the true condition of the arsenal with which the Cuban regime intends to confront the world's greatest military power.
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