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Saint Kyivanka posted:For someone like Russia with a sizeable airforce, is it really that many losses though? idk how much it changes their ability to do stuff, but it certainly makes it one of the most destructive days for aircraft in, off hand, at least a decade? E: almost as many were lost in 2008 in Georgia, but this is still a couple more Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Mar 5, 2022 |
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A GIANT PARSNIP posted:If you had a team of MANPADS couldn’t you use a few simple drones to monitor when things were coming into range and get your teams pointed in the right direction? Why not just let the NATO AWACS guide you?
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Of all the bad knock-on effects, food insecurity, esp in ME and North Africa is going to have dreadful, if not destabilizing effects, cf Arab Spring. 80% of Egypt's wheat comes from Ukraine and Russia due to pre-existing trade agreements. https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1499809237966458887
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Saint Kyivanka posted:For someone like Russia with a sizeable airforce, is it really that many losses though? It is. For example for the Su-34 they had on paper 134 airframes. Even in the best of times a 1/3rd of your airframes are out of service due to repair, maintenance, etc. Judging by the state of the Russian military as we have seen I would say that a significant amount are not flight worthy at any time. You could that with requiring units not only at the war front but also in various parts of the country for defense and in Syria. Losing even a handful makes you start making very hard choices. You couple this with even in the best of times they are only able to make about a dozen new airframes a year, which considering sanctions and the general lack of money for procurement means every loss is likely unable to be replaced any time soon if ever. Every loss hurts and greatly effects the long term security and defense of Russia at large and their ability to project strength in the future.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Normal. The KA-50/52 is one of the only (possibly the only?) helicopters to have an ejection seat. It has a system to blast the rotors off the helicopter before firing the ejection seat. Which the few that have been shot down, it looks like the pilots managed to bring them down rather than eject.
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Trump posted:Why not just let the NATO AWACS guide you? Because their country just came into possession of an absolute shitload of drones and MANPADS so you can have hundreds of groups head into the forest with a bunch of the things and see what they can kill? You can still use that AWACS info to identify high traffic areas and to give even more head's up time to the teams.
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Trump posted:Why not just let the NATO AWACS guide you? Because they can't. Ukrainian air defenses aren't exactly set up with NATO datalinks (and even then, that would be a thing for the bigger, long range air defenses).
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Ikasuhito posted:https://twitter.com/5inan_/status/1500133780350197766 what Rust server is this?
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Redgrendel2001 posted:https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1500128330477182978?t=VT22WGczNl17x1qbC2CgiQ&s=19 So we've escalated to taking American hostages, this will surely all be fine as long as the West doesn't provoke Russia further.
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China's Digital Times: !!READ OP WARNING!! .... we must effectively reduce the online public opinion of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. It is strictly forbidden to reprint foreign media reports in violation of regulations. Instigating and inciting Sino-Russian confrontation, badmouthing Sino-Russian relations, spreading harmful rhetoric that favors the United States and honoring the United States, (we must) strictly control extreme and vicious remarks such as pro-Russian and anti-Ukraine or pro-Ukraine and anti-Russian remarks, and other harmful information. https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/677795.html
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Grouchio posted:Thought they announced that last week. They did. Pretty sure they are just saying it again. Just in case someone didnt notice?
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I want to read a depressing short story of the life and death of one of these Russian soldiers as he is lead over the border and promised a liberator's glory, only to end up in that traffic jam from hell. As he slowly runs out of gas, electricity, heat and food, some comrades try and fail to escape by braving the mud, while occasionally the higher ups are shot down out of nowhere. I do feel kind of bad for these guys. On the other hand, they were on the way to bombshell civilians and will likely still do so if they ever reach their destination, so gently caress 'em.
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the popes toes posted:China's Digital Times: !!READ OP WARNING!!
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Redgrendel2001 posted:https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1500128330477182978?t=VT22WGczNl17x1qbC2CgiQ&s=19 The New York Times says Russia is investigating Griner for "large scale transportation of drugs", which carries up to 10 years in prison.
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Grouchio posted:Thought they announced that last week. On that topic, jet-setting US goons can/should check in at a US Embassy or Consulate to subscribe to "alerts" that might be useful while in-country. You can otherwise enroll for alerts online with something called STEP (go to the embassy website). They totes won't put you on a list. Also, travel with a photo-copy of your passport's front page and keep it separate from your passport. A photocopy, if you lose your ppt, will enable a next day ppt replacement, or close to it. Otherwise, you'll loving wait and wait for a replacement.
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Boris Galerkin posted:What name is Masha a nickname for? It can also stand for Mikhail if speaking of a male. Vladimir is Vova, which should be used of Putin in media because it sounds like a baby name. 'President Macron talked with Vova on phone earlier today.'
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Nenonen posted:It can also stand for Mikhail if speaking of a male. I'm kinda relieved we don't have to see, "Mutti and Vova talked today on the phone".
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steinrokkan posted:Think about what is the most prominent feature of a helicopter and also right above the canopy And helicopters, especially attack helicopters, fly so low that you can't eject the pilots downward like on that Russian supersonic bomber (which is also an issue if a take-off or landing fails).
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Mystic Mongol posted:My question is, doesn't walling off your radiator with a log cabin have performance consequences? Surely enough of your trucks have failed engines. In the summer on a freeway? Yes absolutely. On a 2 lane road in near-freezing temps doing about 30mph in a convoy? ehhhhhh the drivers probably appreciate the extra warmth. There are still gaps in the radiator coverage, and the engine bays will draw air up behind the front bumper as well. Whats interesting is the tree branch shrouds over the windshields. Some look like they're to stop small arms fire or grenades, but some like improvised limb risers.
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cant cook creole bream posted:I want to read a depressing short story of the life and death of one of these Russian soldiers as he is lead over the border and promised a liberator's glory, only to end up in that traffic jam from hell. As he slowly runs out of gas, electricity, heat and food, some comrades try and fail to escape by braving the mud, while occasionally the higher ups are shot down out of nowhere. The closest that I can offer you (arguably quite close) is “In the Shadow of Death” by Rūdolfs Blaumanis, a classic piece of Latvian literature. Short enough to get through in a single evening, and available in English.
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Also mandatory reading in 7th grade literature.
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Nenonen posted:It can also stand for Mikhail if speaking of a male. That's Misha.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:The closest that I can offer you (arguably quite close) is “In the Shadow of Death” by Rūdolfs Blaumanis, a classic piece of Latvian literature. Short enough to get through in a single evening, and available in English. or Hamsun's The Hunger? "the adventures of a starving young man whose sense of reality is giving way to a delusionary existence on the darker side of a modern metropolis"
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https://twitter.com/BDStanley/status/1500093881349808128?s=20&t=n-buJlQkIaCj6IVOR0PuCw Russia's staggering incompetence in this whole thing really is something else. From the top leadership down to the unit level. I wonder for how long they left them in there? With that many people in a small box with no toilet, beyond a certain point, it would probably be considered a form of inhumane torture. The_Franz fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Mar 5, 2022 |
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There's started to be more prognostication coming out suggesting russia could run out of steam outright and their military starts dusting off - mass defections or verified crippled fronts engaging in panic withdrawing. Still sounds unbelievable but only russia has gone broke so far banking on its own military capacity to take Ukraine
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Could shifting the discussion to Donbas be construed as a slight walk back of their war aims? https://twitter.com/CGTNOfficial/status/1500158945641570304?s=20&t=LhK6yqV4jtitEO8SbfKw6Q
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Russian troops leaving nuclear plant town https://twitter.com/iaponomarenko/status/1500153084017877003 More totally normal Russian propaganda https://twitter.com/dalperovitch/status/1500158220106620928 Whatever the hell this means https://twitter.com/iaponomarenko/status/1500150385222336519 No comment https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1500113394057330691?s=21
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Boris Galerkin posted:Wouldn’t the wooden logs placed in the front also help with like using the vehicles to push other cars/heavy machinery? I’d imagine the wood would prevent crushing damage against the frame by distributing the force around. No. Just... no. Trucks have bumpers, those logs are above the bumper. Some practical uses would be camoflage (it breaks the truck's pattern from that direction, even better if you're parked under trees). And if you have to cross a muddy field you can try to lay them down as a poor man's corduroy road. But mostly I feel it's common military superstition, like carrying a little bible in your breast pocket so it would catch a bullet. Also truckers have strange tastes for decorating their vehicles in general. Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:generally its better to not ram other vehicles with your fuel truck, if possible Those are pontoon bridge carriers, not tanker trucks.  Here's a video of how it is deployed if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5URDT-Z3dSo&t=117s e:f,b by madeintaipei 
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Ikasuhito posted:https://twitter.com/5inan_/status/1500133780350197766 This is probably for unditching. Carry a load of wood with you then if you get stuck in mud at a time when you need to keep moving quickly you can use it to get unstuck or pontoon across the mud without having to waste time cutting trees down in situ.
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:it is most likely more desperation armor. soldiers gluing all kinds of wacky bullshit to their vehicles is as old as anti-vehicle weapons. the best thing these guys have at hand is logs and rope, so thats what they're using. it is a really bad sign that the russian soldiers feel like they need to resort to this, meaning they've definitely got a negative attitude towards their survivability in supply trucks (things you generally want to avoid putting anywhere they can be shot at) and these guys also have the time to sit around and treehouse their vehicles in the middle of a war zone  the primary value of sandbagging was often in protecting the machinegunner or driver from spalling or ricochets - measures to counter HEAT munitions was usually in the form of mounting the tank's spare tracks as additional armor, or using other "hard" material. however, tests revealed that sandbags actually did a decent job of taking the bite out of angled or glancing shots, and could often cause said shots to not penetrate the armor
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The thing we have to note is that in the beginning of the invasion, the first things to get blown up or the rail connections from Ukraine to russia. As well as Bridges to Belarus. In doing so the ukrainians were able to prevent the Russians method of troop and supply transportation which is train. As well as the fact that the skies are not safe, supplies are going to be tough to bring in. And have to be trucked in. However the more trucks you have the more fuel you need. And the less actual food stuff you can bring because more of your transport capability has to be dedicated to keeping the thing moving. So it's a delicate balance of bringing enough supplies to keep the troops happy in and of gas to keep the trucks moving. Obviously the Russians have failed in the logistical challenge since the nature of it is something they haven't dealt with in a very very long time. I'm seeing reports of partisan activity on the border of Ukraine and Belarus at the road where this convoy starts. Atgm is being used to blow up trucks etc about a week ago I said that this would help trap the convoy it looks like it is doing that. The more of the back of the convoy becomes disabled the more likely people are just going to walk back into Belarus and leave their equipment slash vehicles. As it will be a complete and utter disaster to try to do a complete U-turn in the mud if they even have gas/battery power to turn the loving trucks on. Russia is hosed. Jump on the decisive victory train and let's rock
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