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OddObserver posted:https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1507735997253136391 Biden sold some Iron Dome tech?
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:It did sink in a port in shallow water so it's very possible that depending on the kind of damage the ship can be repaired and refloated. This is not a rapid process, though. Yeah, considering they can hardly get food to their frontline, are using bandages from the 70s and that 1 in 10 tanks in their reserve is functional with the rest missing parts, I wouldn't hold my breath on the recovery process of a sunken ship in range of enemy fire.
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https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1507728639185625091 CNN reporting on the blasts & smoke as well.
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Zhanism posted:The ship had a massive fire and multiple detonations in board. If by repair you mean rebuild everything but the hull under the water line then yes, we can rebuild!!! The top down view a little bit earlier on the page has the bow 10-15 degrees off the rest of the ship. (Unless it listed, but it doesn’t look like it.) That ship will never sail again.
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ummel posted:https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1507728639185625091 go play outside Skyler fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Mar 26, 2022 |
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Crow Buddy posted:The top down view a little bit earlier on the page has the bow 10-15 degrees off the rest of the ship. (Unless it listed, but it doesn’t look like it.) In some of the shots where the ship was on fire you could clearly see the fire burning right through the port side almost at water level. It’s dead.
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Mokotow posted:In some of the shots where the ship was on fire you could clearly see the fire burning right through the port side almost at water level. It’s dead. It's merely pining for the fjords!
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Missionary Positron posted:Could be a hit on an arms depot filled with Western weapon shipments Or a chemical fire of sorts. Russians have shown themselves to be fond of bombing fuel depots.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/jmvasquez1974/status/1507516892688359430 https://mobile.twitter.com/jmvasquez1974/status/1507676197039362049 Charismatic unit member crowdfunds his unit over tiktok/Twitter TYOOL2022. Wild timeline
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Sad to see Lviv starting to get hit more, was thinking it might be the only major Ukrainian city to escape all this mostly intact.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Or a chemical fire of sorts. Russians have shown themselves to be fond of bombing fuel depots. I wonder (and this is kind of Clancychat) if the Russians picked a target that would be visible to Biden in Poland in some way. Granted that implies way too much operational competency for Russia.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:I wonder (and this is kind of Clancychat) if the Russians picked a target that would be visible to Biden in Poland in some way. Granted that implies way too much operational competency for Russia. Not at all Clancychat, I think it’s normal to expect Russia do some flashy posturing today.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Or a chemical fire of sorts. Russians have shown themselves to be fond of bombing fuel depots. Mayor of Lviv https://twitter.com/andriysadovyi/status/1507759499880316930
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Mukaikubo posted:That would be because Team Yankee was explicitly written in the world of Hackett's Third World War as a companion piece to show the ground-level experience of what Hackett was describing. They're a very interesting combo. Oh interesting! I never knew that. $50K sounds like a lot but it really isn't. An ACOG has an MSRP around $1200.
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Risky Bisquick posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/jmvasquez1974/status/1507516892688359430 I wonder how they can get the gear and not have ITAR issues, cause seriously they should be ordering via a brownells or someone with a poo poo ton of export experience. cinci zoo sniper posted:Not at all Clancychat, I think it’s normal to expect Russia do some flashy posturing today. It does seem right up their alley and their small dick energy way of showing off.
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There is zero percent chance that ship can ever be made seaworthy again. Fire on a ship is super bad news, even worse on a military ship due to the amount of fuel and munitions on board along with the weight they are supposed to hold. The heat is the biggest issue. Heat will weaken the metal that makes up the hull and other structural components. Once that metal is weakened there is no way to repair it. A moderate chop could cause a catastrophic failure. That thing is scrap to be recycled now.
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Djarum posted:There is zero percent chance that ship can ever be made seaworthy again. Fire on a ship is super bad news, even worse on a military ship due to the amount of fuel and munitions on board along with the weight they are supposed to hold. The heat is the biggest issue. Heat will weaken the metal that makes up the hull and other structural components. Once that metal is weakened there is no way to repair it. A moderate chop could cause a catastrophic failure. That thing is scrap to be recycled now. But enough about the kuznetskov
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Disregard: as late as a russian fuel delivery.
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Edit- nevermind the tweet was deleted. It was big fuel tanks on fire in Lviv.
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Djarum posted:moderate chop could cause a catastrophic failure. That thing is scrap to be recycled now. That kind of thing doesn't seem to be an issue for Russia considering some of their tanks are made out of painted egg cartons. In a weird kind of way is this bad news for the war industry? The 'big bad' is kind of lame and its pretty hard to make a case of ever increasing the defense budget when the next biggest country in line just lost a third of their armor division to mud and farmers.
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Buckwheat Sings posted:In a weird kind of way is this bad news for the war industry? The 'big bad' is kind of lame and its pretty hard to make a case of ever increasing the defense budget when the next biggest country in line just lost a third of their armor division to mud and farmers. There's always China. At the very least they need to replace all the NATO stockpiles, and very likely a continuous production stream for a multi month war in Ukraine.
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Buckwheat Sings posted:That kind of thing doesn't seem to be an issue for Russia considering some of their tanks are made out of painted egg cartons. Not really, it’s going to be a couple of different arms races simultaneous. Remilitarise Europe, figure out anti-drone tech, upgrade Ukrainian army to proper Western equipment, fix poo poo that was shown to be vulnerable to Russian tech (despite observed problems), etcetera - this all has been very beneficial to the MIC politically.
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Buckwheat Sings posted:That kind of thing doesn't seem to be an issue for Russia considering some of their tanks are made out of painted egg cartons. Well China has sorta taken over as the main concern for everyone for the last decade or so. Russia hasn’t been a real player since the early 00s. The end of the USSR and then their economic problems through the 90s and early 00s put them so far behind that they struggled to produce the things they had designed and prototyped in the late 80s and early 90s. Most of their “new” equipment has been either very old designs slightly updated or pure science fiction in terms of capabilities all while not being able to field them in any real numbers. China on the other hand has spent the last 30 years rapidly trying to modernize and expand their military. They have invested heavily in counters to a lot of US/NATO systems, although there is always the question of how well they work. Also they have a lot of knowledge gained by espionage although not much of it can be put into practical use because the limits of Chinese manufacturing.
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I think the speech begins soon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxmeFmrPKp0
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Buckwheat Sings posted:That kind of thing doesn't seem to be an issue for Russia considering some of their tanks are made out of painted egg cartons. It's good for them because it reminds everyone that we could easily end up like Germany if we don't keep up on it. Also China exists and is furiously taking notes like they forgot to study for the test today.
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OddObserver posted:https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1507735997253136391 Well that's very good timing. Russian air poo poo really needs to be shut down, they shouldn't be able to just freely hit targets in the west.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:I think the speech begins soon Speech is live.
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Risky Bisquick posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/jmvasquez1974/status/1507516892688359430 Always kinda wary of these guys but he seems to be actually Doing Things and also seems like an alright dude: https://twitter.com/jmvasquez1974/status/1505028325256876033?s=20&t=OzdvF1LdztCVjTSeWRco8A
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cinci zoo sniper posted:I’m curious what’s going to happen if Azerbaijan Bayraktars Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh, but may not be a topic for this thread, for now anyway. Might learn soon. https://twitter.com/kevinrothrock/status/1507763700958117895
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StumblyWumbly posted:Why would Medvedev bother differentiating between "an attack on Russia" and "an attack that paralyzes Russia's nuclear infrastructure"? Russia can’t afford some material needed for their nuclear program -> the West is using sanctions to disarm us -> this is a red line for us -> sanctions must end or we let the nukes fly. Not that I think this is a successful or compelling argument but it felt like a trial balloon along those lines to me. Edit: yeah, the bit about cyberattack makes sense too. Better to be clear that a Stuxnet 2.0 is a red line for them. Good luck proving who your attacker is in that case though.
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That speech might not be the best - a bit rambling - but it is savage in the way it goes after Pooter
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Victis posted:Always kinda wary of these guys but he seems to be actually Doing Things and also seems like an alright dude: Tuckems does have a very punchable face and anyone who recognizes that couldn't be all bad.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Might learn soon. More than anything else, this feels like the strongest indicator that there are things Russia is losing in all this that are not coming back.
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Okay, I had kind of hoped that there’s going to be at least something about policy.
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Bless ol' Joe. He's not Hollywood material, but he's saying the right stuff.
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mobby_6kl posted:https://i.imgur.com/vHX9tSM.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/wccmyKn.mp4 A couple pages back, but this thread moves so fast. I’d imagine the only thing scarier than a mass of angry unarmed people who don’t even flinch at the sound of automatic gunfire, is the knowledge that half of the world is giving them as many AT and AA systems as they can. Ukrainians got some balls.
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Ola posted:Bless ol' Joe. He's not Hollywood material, but he's saying the right stuff. lol I'm excited to hear the performative offense from the Russian embassy twitter accounts at Biden ending his speech with "For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power"
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Okay, I had kind of hoped that there’s going to be at least something about policy. For a speech like that, it was fairly specific when he said Europe must end its reliance on Russian fossil fuels and the US will help, as well as mentioning green energy - so it's not just helpfully shipping shale oil.
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Ola posted:For a speech like that, it was fairly specific when he said Europe must end its reliance on Russian fossil fuels and the US will help, as well as mentioning green energy - so it's not just helpfully shipping shale oil. The only problem with this is Congress is deadlocked and they’ve been undermining any renewable energy program his administration has been trying to enact. By November the Republicans will take over and it will just be shipping shale oil if they don’t just switch sides entirely.
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