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Is this accurate? I don't know, but it's cool to mess around with. https://www.gfsis.org/maps/russian-military-forces?fbclid=IwAR3vSXhzivAPXvf8B6ARxJX8Vh69zqJhXLl0lVEyXyU2l0dTXT1YPUfumhg
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https://twitter.com/ELINTNews/status/1496987322553876480?s=20&t=M69AG3n_I2MLTcBxJkND5w https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1496973896922263572?s=20&t=R8oGv-S58PHGUha7IVAtww Take with a grain of salt, obviously. AreWeDrunkYet posted:With how much the stealth features on the F-22 have been celebrated, could Raptors be used over Ukraine while maintaining plausible deniability about US involvement? F-22s aren't quite invisible to radar and are obviously quite visible to the naked eye.
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https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1496991029299499010 https://twitter.com/ItsGEEnotG/status/1496987866878160899?s=20&t=vrv822Jk_gOgWtPwMkFOcA https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1496980105326911492 ... I wouldn't want to be a military occupying large cities belonging to these people, propaganda stories or not. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Feb 25, 2022 |
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:With how much the stealth features on the F-22 have been celebrated, could Raptors be used over Ukraine while maintaining plausible deniability about US involvement? Doing it secretly and getting caught ( in an undeniable way) would make more of a stink than doing it openly.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:With how much the stealth features on the F-22 have been celebrated, could Raptors be used over Ukraine while maintaining plausible deniability about US involvement? Acebuckeye13 posted:
Nonsense. There are at least 100 of them there right now.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Nonsense. There are at least 100 of them there right now. Millions and millions!
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The Russians had enough time to track F-22s over Syria to know how/what to look for. Given that we know they've got S-400 batteries in place I don't think we'd want to roll those dice.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The Russians had enough time to track F-22s over Syria to know how/what to look for. Given that we know they've got S-400 batteries in place I don't think we'd want to roll those dice. IIRC, the USAF specifically had them fly with stuff on external hard points so the Russians/Iran/whoever couldn't get profiles on them for when they fly completely stealth.
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Let's not forget, too, about the F-117 and U-2 being shot down.
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We are not flying F-22s over Ukraine. Also the most rapidly available F-22s just got deployed to UAE. Clancy poo poo. Speaking of conspiratorial bullshit, what did he know?! https://twitter.com/theweeknd/status/1496690244753641472?s=21
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pantslesswithwolves posted:This is metal AF facialimpediment posted:https://twitter.com/ItsGEEnotG/status/1496987866878160899?s=20&t=vrv822Jk_gOgWtPwMkFOcA Slavs are a remarkable combination of hard-as-gently caress evolved on brutal steppe and strangely poetic.
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Naked Bear posted:Let's not forget, too, about the F-117 and U-2 being shot down. The F-117 got got because we flew predictable routes and they used some clever jerry-rigged emitter setup that allowed them to triangulate the whereabouts of the jet (but not radiate long enough to eat a HARM) to launch a volley of SA-3s at him. Supposedly a *second* F-117 got damaged *after* the 3/27/99 incident but was able to make it back to base.
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Naked Bear posted:Let's not forget, too, about the F-117 and U-2 being shot down. U-2 is not remotely stealthy.
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Yes and yes. I just mean to say that (even if we were dumb enough to get directly involved) we shouldn't think of the F-22 or F-35 as immune to ground fire, and the loss of an airframe and any debris recovery would be Bad.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The F-117 got got because we flew predictable routes and they used some clever jerry-rigged emitter setup that allowed them to triangulate the whereabouts of the jet (but not radiate long enough to eat a HARM) to launch a volley of SA-3s at him. I think it was also the profile against the moon if I’m remembering correctly. It didn’t help that the pilot was a total douche bag if I remember…Scott O’Grady dipshit and chud.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:I think it was also the profile against the moon if I’m remembering correctly. It didn’t help that the pilot was a total douche bag if I remember…Scott O’Grady dipshit and chud. Scott O'Grady was an F-16 pilot
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Marshal Prolapse posted:I think it was also the profile against the moon if I’m remembering correctly. It didn’t help that the pilot was a total douche bag if I remember…Scott O’Grady dipshit and chud. The F-117 pilot and the dude most chiefly responsible for shooting him down became friends, actually. I've not met a *lot* of Nighthawk pilots, only two, actually, but neither of them were anything but top shelf Grade A dudes. You've gotta have a lot of confidence to be a doorkicker flying a plane that can only fly subsonic and has a tendency to turn into a cartwheeling Dorito chip when it's hit.
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My apologies I got Douchenozzle confused with the pilot and yeah I recall them meeting now, and feel quite silly for mixing the two up. Especially since the F117 pilot was not a thunder turd or anything.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The F-117 pilot and the dude most chiefly responsible for shooting him down became friends, actually. I've not met a *lot* of Nighthawk pilots, only two, actually, but neither of them were anything but top shelf Grade A dudes. You've gotta have a lot of confidence to be a doorkicker flying a plane that can only fly subsonic and has a tendency to turn into a cartwheeling Dorito chip when it's hit. Reminds me of a tale in Blind Man's Bluff of an underwater collision between a US and Soviet sub, both captains being utterly convinced they'd sunk the other and meeting after the Cold War.
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A friend sent me this which is long, but seems to provide some more insight as to what's going on: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=327365416022555 She suggests Putin is coming down harder on Navalny than usual because he's weak at home and the corruption in Russia is starting to come back on them.
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Ghost of Kyiv might be the most metal nickname I've ever heard rock the gently caress on Ghost of Kyiv.
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facialimpediment posted:https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1496991029299499010 I go to look up snake island because I thought it sounded familiar and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Snake_Island Talk about fast
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boop the snoot posted:Ghost of Kyiv might be the most metal nickname I've ever heard now i'm thinking of one of my favourite b films, Ghosts of Mars, and imagining Ice Cube running out into the middle of the russian army yelling COME ON YOU MINDLESS MOTHAFUCKAS
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Because of course Russia started throwing artillery shells right next to Chernobyl.Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Playing around the SpiceyHole...
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Because of course Russia started throwing artillery shells right next to Chernobyl. Given their approach to war I'd genuinely be questioning if it was accidental or purposeful.
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bird food bathtub posted:Given their approach to war I'd genuinely be questioning if it was accidental or purposeful. I think that’s a very valid point.
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bird food bathtub posted:Given their approach to war I'd genuinely be questioning if it was accidental or purposeful. Considering that the wind in Pripyat right now is blowing towards Belarus, releasing a bunch of radioactive material would hurt the Neo-Russian Empire more than it would Ukraine.
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bird food bathtub posted:Given their approach to war I'd genuinely be questioning if it was accidental or purposeful. Bloody stupid either way, given that the prevailing winds will blow all those roentgens back on Russian lines of communication.
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Telling how there isnt a Nickel Grass degree of resupply going on here. It’s like the Biden admin has already conceded
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Suicide Watch posted:Telling how there isnt a Nickel Grass degree of resupply going on here. It’s like the Biden admin has already conceded When you have what is considered by most observers to be a non-rational actor in control of a large military force as well as the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, directly flying pallets of aid into a country that likely doesn't have any functional airstrips as of today is probably not wise. It's also literally D+1, everyone's still trying to figure out what in the gently caress is going on in the fog of war, which is a very real thing still with the amount of bogus info flying around online.
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My zero-knowledge take is that the US is trying to stay largely uninvolved so that we don't aggro Russia, because Putin is a dope in control of more nukes than he has brain cells.
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orange juche posted:When you have what is considered by most observers to be a non-rational actor in control of a large military force as well as the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, directly flying pallets of aid into a country that likely doesn't have any functional airstrips as of today is probably not wise. It's also literally D+1, everyone's still trying to figure out what in the gently caress is going on in the fog of war, which is a very real thing still with the amount of bogus info flying around online. Well a big part of Nickel Grass supposedly was that the IDF had nukes, which Ukraine gave up…I do agree that it’s early days still, perhaps Poland and Romania will start sending more equipment.
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Zamujasa posted:My zero-knowledge take is that the US is trying to stay largely uninvolved so that we don't aggro Russia, because Putin is a dope in control of more nukes than he has brain cells. I'm far more concerned about the potential use of chemical weapons.
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Zamujasa posted:My zero-knowledge take is that the US is trying to stay largely uninvolved so that we don't aggro Russia, because Putin is a dope in control of more nukes than he has brain cells. And he's a man running a country and war with all the composure and reasoning of someone who's downing a bottle of Stolichnaya per half-day.
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Suicide Watch posted:Telling how there isnt a Nickel Grass degree of resupply going on here. It’s like the Biden admin has already conceded Nickel Grass took a week to organize.
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