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What is the most powerful flying bug?
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🦋 15 3.71%
🦇 115 28.47%
🪰 12 2.97%
🐦 67 16.58%
dragonfly 94 23.27%
🦟 14 3.47%
🐝 87 21.53%
Total: 404 votes
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stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

sum posted:

If I'm connecting the dots right, it seems like Ukraine's new indigenous "attack drone" is a modified Soviet recon drone from the 1970s.
https://twitter.com/Heroiam_Slava/status/1599410848513945603
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1599836496382787584

lf it's a 40 year old drone, can you rig precision guided GPS hardware on it?

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OctaMurk
Jun 21, 2013

sum posted:

If I'm connecting the dots right, it seems like Ukraine's new indigenous "attack drone" is a modified Soviet recon drone from the 1970s.
https://twitter.com/Heroiam_Slava/status/1599410848513945603
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1599836496382787584

back in my day we just called those "cruise missiles"

January 6 Survivor
Jan 6, 2022

The
Nelson Mandela
of clapping
dusty old cheeks


( o(
Goes to show the Soviet Union could have kicked modern day Russia's AND the Ukraine's asses had this scenario even been technically possible

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/apocalypse0s/status/1599683369079828480

Crimean bridge back to normal.

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

A Ukrainian Tu-141 crashed in either Romania or Serbia on the third day of the war.



The Soviets came up with some interesting stuff. Putting cameras on an anti-ship missile was a pretty clever improvisation. Crashing it into something is a step back lol.

Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 21:22 on Dec 5, 2022

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo
It looks like the Ukraine is now using Vengeance Weapons. Interesting.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Zelenskyy's Miracle Weapons

OctaMurk
Jun 21, 2013

January 6 Survivor posted:

Goes to show the Soviet Union could have kicked modern day Russia's AND the Ukraine's asses had this scenario even been technically possible

The soviet union would have captured kyiv on the first day of the war, nay, the first minute

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Futanari Damacy posted:

It looks like the Ukraine is now using Vengeance Weapons. Interesting.

Just wait until Ukraine pours all that remains of their industrial base into making a single 8 engined "Amerikabomber Moscow Bomber".

Starsfan
Sep 29, 2007

This is what happens when you disrespect Cam Neely

Nonsense posted:

Zelenskyy's Miracle Weapons

this repurposed drone from the 70's will surely be the last straw that will bring the Russian menace to their knees

Did Al-Saqr get banned? Haven't seen him around recently :(

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Maybe he's just enjoying life and painting miniatures.

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

Военный Осведомитель posted:


Переданный Украине польский ЗРК С-125 Newa SC. Данная модификация отличается установкой на шасси танка Т-55.

@milinfolive
(from t.me/milinfolive/94056, via tgsa)

S-125 Nevas spotted in Ukraine.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/philippilk/status/1599708446558822401

opps

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

https://twitter.com/POLITICOEurope/status/1599798146569326594

quote:

The 2 percent pledge had been a key promise of Scholz’s Zeitenwende speech to the German Parliament in February, just days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in which the chancellor said: “We will from now, year after year, invest more than 2 percent of gross domestic product invest in our defense.”

During a government press conference, Chief Spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit scaled down expectations for Germany’s defense spending, telling journalists that the 2 percent target would be missed not only this year, but also likely next year: “It’s still open whether that [goal] will be achieved” in 2023, Hebestreit said, adding that his “cautious expectation” was that Germany would still meet the target within this legislative period, which ends in 2025.

Last month, it had already emerged that Germany will likely miss its 2 percent target in 2023 as the regular defense budget of about €50 billion will slightly shrink by about €300 million. Only a comparably small first tranche of a massive €100 billion special military upgrading fund is expected to be paid out.

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010




Europe could just learn to code

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019
Probation
Can't post for 11 hours!

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Europe could just learn to code

maybe they can make iPhones for Apple ethically :)

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo

This is excellent news, seeing as the world has only ever been harmed by a militarized Germany. The shift to a purely agrarian economy will blunt their ability to sow destruction, if not their appetite for it.

Z the IVth
Jan 28, 2009

The trouble with your "expendable machines"
Fun Shoe

Danann posted:

(from t.me/milinfolive/94056, via tgsa)

S-125 Nevas spotted in Ukraine.

Didn't Tom Cruise outrun literally infinite numbers of these?

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

ЦАПЛІЄНКО_UKRAINE FIGHTS posted:


Today is another significant sad date.

On December 5, 1998, the Ministries of Defense of Ukraine and the United States signed an agreement on the elimination of 44 heavy bombers and 1068 air-launched cruise missiles X-55. "It is worse than a crime, it is a mistake".

The price of today's tragedy of Ukraine.
(from t.me/Tsaplienko/22047, via tgsa)

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019
Probation
Can't post for 11 hours!



Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007


Putin has made a pact with the Sun Tribe, the cold is being purged as we speak

Dixon Chisholm
Jan 2, 2020

Loving the stinky condom here. Just a classic visual metaphor.

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

Donbass Devushka posted:








From March to December...
(from t.me/DonbassDevushka/35477, via tgsa)

Collection of headlines predicting the Russians running out of cruise missiles any time now.

Slim Jim Pickens
Jan 16, 2012
The Russians are loading their cruise missiles with fertilizer bombs, a local imitation of state of the art Ukrainian weapons

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

DancingShade posted:

Just wait until Ukraine pours all that remains of their industrial base into making a single 8 engined "Amerikabomber Moscow Bomber".

One faction wants to do this but zelensky's preference is a giant 200 ton tank

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019
Probation
Can't post for 11 hours!

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

The Russians are loading their cruise missiles with fertilizer bombs, a local imitation of state of the art Ukrainian weapons

they’re loading it up with the poops from poots pamps

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Futanari Damacy posted:

This is excellent news, seeing as the world has only ever been harmed by a militarized Germany. The shift to a purely agrarian economy will blunt their ability to sow destruction, if not their appetite for it.

It is time for the Morgenthau plan to shine.


Yeah, I don’t know how this is going to pencil out considering how much domestic inflation there has been and that the Germans have been still sending some arms and equipment. It seems like they need at least a 15-20% bump to their budget.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Futanari Damacy posted:

It's very funny that the price cap's success is predicated on there being no other market for Russia to sell the oil. Unfortunate that the tacit threat of lack of shipping insurance means the west is going to openly target tankers at sea causing ecological catastrophe. The intentional destruction of Nordstream was desperate, but we can see it was just the beginning.

Hopefully with Europe no longer being an unnecessary drain on Russia's oil, poorer countries will have access to fairly priced energy and be able to develop as opposed to that oil unnecessarily heating Europe's homes.

also russia is physically connected to like every asian country by land. they dont need the sea

Starsfan
Sep 29, 2007

This is what happens when you disrespect Cam Neely

Danann posted:

Collection of headlines predicting the Russians running out of cruise missiles any time now.

I'm still a little sour over investing all of my money into tire companies when the word was out that Russia would run completely out of tires for their vehicles 2 weeks into this thing :(

Throatwarbler
Nov 17, 2008

by vyelkin
Japan isn't doing the price cap for its oil from the sakhalin pipeline because "no, seriously we need that to live". Hungary also isn't taking part.

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

Futanari Damacy posted:

Mighty big of Europe to voluntarily take a permanent reduction in the standard of living in exchange for emptying their armories for the US proxy war... wait, what do they get out of it again?

the chance to hurt putin...and thats worth more than anything

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Russia having a base named after Engels shows their commitment to socialism

Conspiratiorist
Nov 12, 2015

17th Separate Kryvyi Rih Tank Brigade named after Konstantin Pestushko
Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth sixth some day
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1599854402025627648

Dunno whatever they hit at Engels but that's a Tu-22M3 out of action.

RE Russian claims of modified Tu-141s, they've intercepted multiple of those throughout the conflict so either this is a new/modified capability or their AD failed.

Ardennes
May 12, 2002
It doesn’t look structural, you replace wings and cowling on jet aircraft.

Ardennes has issued a correction as of 02:00 on Dec 6, 2022

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

they'll meet the targets since it's gonna be 2% of $0 GDP soon

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo
https://twitter.com/philippilk/status/1599708430549540864
https://twitter.com/philippilk/status/1599708455144603648
https://twitter.com/philippilk/status/1599709088354471937
Shame.

Conspiratiorist
Nov 12, 2015

17th Separate Kryvyi Rih Tank Brigade named after Konstantin Pestushko
Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth sixth some day

Ardennes posted:

It doesn’t look structural, you replace wings and cowling on jet aircraft.

I suppose the fuselage could indeed be sturdy enough to withstand without internal damage a blast that ripped off the ailerons and wrecked the truck parked next to it.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
i'm trying to figure where the explosion was in relation to the plane to both create that damage and not gently caress up the rest of it

Clip-On Fedora
Feb 20, 2011


No!! Not the Yuletide stink tree!!!

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mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

Throatwarbler posted:

There was supposed to be a "reciprocal visit" between Chinese and Russian bombers a few days ago, with Russian Tu-95s taking off from Shanghai and Hangzhou, I'm not sure if it was revealed which Russian bases the Chinese bombers went to but it was probably Engels?

Why the hell would it be Engels? Ukrainka is RIGHT THERE as a reasonable candidate for landing and reasonably close to where China and Russia did their presence patrol near Japan and Korea, and it is not part of a busy wartime airfield. If China wanted to demonstrate inter-operability and cooperation, they can do so without flying an additional 3,500 nautical miles across , which would require aerial refueling support or en-route landing stops to even make it to Engels.

It's like 4,000 nm from Shanghai to Engels. If you violate Mongolia's airspace...

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