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IPCRESS
May 27, 2012

Marshal Prolapse posted:

I don’t think I’ve ever seen that plane before what’s its purpose?

Radio intercept/sigint.

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hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Marshal Prolapse posted:

I don’t think I’ve ever seen that plane before what’s its purpose?

Larger picture which should make it more obvious


It has all of the antennas so it can record all of the signals.

(also as someone that struggled in engineering electromagnetics that thing is terrifying)

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar

hobbesmaster posted:

Larger picture which should make it more obvious


It has all of the antennas so it can record all of the signals.

(also as someone that struggled in engineering electromagnetics that thing is terrifying)

looks more like antwentynas to me

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Marshal Prolapse posted:

I don’t think I’ve ever seen that plane before what’s its purpose?

Looking at the number of antennas on it I'm going with SIGINT.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Ah yes the larger picture helped. That thing looks weird as hell like if it was designed by Chaos space Marines.

Magugu
Mar 30, 2013

I came to drink, fight, and f@ck. And im fresh outta beer, so what will it be?
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe its signals intelligence. Picks up all of the radio traffic, and transmits.

Naked Bear
Apr 15, 2007

Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!
Maybe they're just pumping this out on Russian freqs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P21GD97ljSY

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA
Just heard small arms fire on the Maidan stream for the first time (well, since Euromaidan, at least...). Not a good sign :smith:

IPCRESS
May 27, 2012

Magugu posted:

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe its signals intelligence. Picks up all of the radio traffic, and transmits.

I'm pretty sure it's how F1 teams get around wind tunnel testing limits.

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Naked Bear posted:

Maybe they're just pumping this out on Russian freqs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P21GD97ljSY

It’s a king air so it’s not going to have the power for that. There’s an EC-130 variant that can do it however!

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

Naked Bear posted:

Maybe they're just pumping this out on Russian freqs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P21GD97ljSY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRGMAW1wzQ8

Also they flew those planes over protests in Oregon LMAO

Oh gently caress, maybe they meant we are the fascists supporting Ukraine.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

hobbesmaster posted:

It’s a king air so it’s not going to have the power for that. There’s an EC-130 variant that can do it however!

Commando Solo, right?

Spoggerific
May 28, 2009
https://twitter.com/DavidClinchNews/status/1497382964694597640

https://twitter.com/no_itsmyturn/status/1497385748680556548

Looks like things are getting closer to the center of Kyiv, although there are reports that the most recent attack has been repelled for now.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

psydude posted:

So what happens if Putin doesn't win? And by doesn't win, I mean fails to completely overthrow the government in a short time period. Not like he can just back down at this point. His dick is already too far into crazy, and his entire image is of a strong man who never loses.

If Ukraine keeps winning the media war this hard for another week I think somebody on the inside mercs Putin.

It's a mafia state and bosses who gently caress business up for the capos hard enough don't get to stick around too long.

shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Feb 26, 2022

Hyrax Attack!
Jan 13, 2009

We demand to be taken seriously

hobbesmaster posted:

Larger picture which should make it more obvious


It has all of the antennas so it can record all of the signals.

(also as someone that struggled in engineering electromagnetics that thing is terrifying)

Wonder if Better Call Saul season 6 will have a flashback of Chuck getting trapped inside one of those for a week

bees everywhere
Nov 19, 2002

Stultus Maximus posted:

Commando Solo, right?

Yep! Compass Calls are pretty cool too

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Not to be kissing Boris Johnson’s rear end too much, but this was actually a really good message.

https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1497318170671128584

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

hobbesmaster posted:

Larger picture which should make it more obvious


It has all of the antennas so it can record all of the signals.

(also as someone that struggled in engineering electromagnetics that thing is terrifying)

Hear me out. M.C. Escher, an aerospace engineer, and an ELINT officer walk into a bar.....

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

SMEGMA_MAIL posted:

Turns out it Irelands fault

https://twitter.com/jonmarcstanley/status/1496626558437576704?s=21

-Some Tory who fucks children, probably.

I thought I had read the worst take of the day when I got up this morning, but it turns out it was waiting for me to go to bed:

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1496977267188281344

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

I forgot the weirdest thing about those planes: they’re army.

DoD took away the army’s boats not long ago, how long are they going to have fixed wing aviation?

NJersey
Dec 1, 2008

Spoggerific posted:

https://twitter.com/no_itsmyturn/status/1497385748680556548

Looks like things are getting closer to the center of Kyiv, although there are reports that the most recent attack has been repelled for now.

Since the view is blocked and it looks like a big ball of flame and sporadic explosions, I'm gonna keep going with this good feeling I got from all the report about Javelins that it's just another tank cooking off after another Javelin ambush.

Hyrax Attack!
Jan 13, 2009

We demand to be taken seriously

Stultus Maximus posted:

I thought I had read the worst take of the day when I got up this morning, but it turns out it was waiting for me to go to bed:

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1496977267188281344

I wonder if it were announced Putin had been deposed and all of his financial transactions leaked how many right wing leader/pundits would go into a panic

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Stultus Maximus posted:

I thought I had read the worst take of the day when I got up this morning, but it turns out it was waiting for me to go to bed:

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1496977267188281344
I absolutely adore the college freshman bong hit "but what really is a country, maaaaaan" opinions being fronted about this.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Stultus Maximus posted:

I thought I had read the worst take of the day when I got up this morning, but it turns out it was waiting for me to go to bed:

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1496977267188281344

If I was a :tinfoil: person, this and Trump/Pompeo's poo poo feels like signaling to Russia.

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

Hyrax Attack! posted:

I wonder if it were announced Putin had been deposed and all of his financial transactions leaked how many right wing leader/pundits would go into a panic

Inshallah

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"
It's more difficult to tell where the sounds are coming from, but if you want a livecam that gives you the best split: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ayv7DmYbOg

Oxygenpoisoning
Feb 21, 2006

hobbesmaster posted:

I forgot the weirdest thing about those planes: they’re army.

DoD took away the army’s boats not long ago, how long are they going to have fixed wing aviation?

USASOC owns a lot of the fixed wing assets, so not any time soon. I’m non cool SOF and we used to use Sherpas all the time to jump when I was still at Bragg just to keep the pilots hours.

Also the Army only got rid of some of the boats of the Active Duty mariners. All the bridging boats are still there and so are the majority of the Reservists.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Oxygenpoisoning posted:

USASOC owns a lot of the fixed wing assets, so not any time soon. I’m non cool SOF and we used to use Sherpas all the time to jump when I was still at Bragg just to keep the pilots hours.

Also the Army only got rid of some of the boats of the Active Duty mariners. All the bridging boats are still there and so are the majority of the Reservists.

I partied with a pair of those landing crafts boats when they were stuck in Crete in 2020 due to engine issues. No fights just lots of beer and cheer. Good crews. They gave us like 6 flats of rippits. <3

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

The Strangest Finch
Nov 23, 2007

Spoggerific posted:



https://twitter.com/no_itsmyturn/status/1497385748680556548

Looks like things are getting closer to the center of Kyiv, although there are reports that the most recent attack has been repelled for now.

So (and this question is brought to you by Supreme ignorance tempered with the experience of living near Fort Benning for awhile) while that is loud and chaotic looking as gently caress all, I kind of expected it to be more so if there was armor and helicopters involved? Is the fighting in Kyiv most just un-mechanized infantry right now? Or are these videos just too limited in scope to really guess at what's happening?

edit: Ah, nevermind

The Strangest Finch fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Feb 26, 2022

McNally
Sep 13, 2007

Ask me about Proposition 305


Do you like muskets?

Replies say this is from 2014

Pine Cone Jones
Dec 6, 2009

You throw me the acorn, I throw you the whip!

That looks like a video from 2014, from the protests in Ukraine to oust what's his name.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


N/M

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

McNally posted:

Replies say this is from 2014

Drat. Yeah I saw that in GBS right after posting it here. I think we can all say we hope that’s going on now to Russians.

my bad though for posting misinfo.

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


Welp
https://twitter.com/kevinrothrock/status/1497414659799863301?s=21

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/fridaghitis/status/1497413966133399553?s=21

good job Putin good job good job

Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005


This, combined with the fact that the Russians are already warcriming it up, makes me feel really very not good.

https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1497378245683163142

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Nuclear Tourist posted:

This, combined with the fact that the Russians are already warcriming it up, makes me feel really very not good.

For what it's worth:

https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael/status/1497415780979277828

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

The routers and routes recovered shortly after this.

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1497403127955402756?s=20&t=vs0IkmU64CfflV03lAF90A

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Butter Activities
May 4, 2018


Holy poo poo that was metal

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