Ukraine

[mcski]

The pee pee tape + big mad at Zelenskyy = us foreign policy

[Casey E]

Look out gringos!

“Western armed forces are watching closely. For many years they have concentrated their own aircraft at an ever smaller number of air bases, to save money, and have failed to invest in hardened hangars or shelters that could protect against drones and missiles. America’s own strategic bombers are visible in public satellite imagery, sitting in the open. “Imagine, on game-day,” writes Tom Shugart of CNAS, a think-tank in Washington, “containers at railyards, on Chinese-owned container ships in port or offshore, on trucks parked at random properties…spewing forth thousands of drones that sally forth and at least mission-kill the crown jewels of the [US Air Force].” That, he warns, would be “entirely feasible”. “

Game changer.

http://An astonishing raid deep insi... The Economist

[twat]

Lots of lessons to be learned!
Old tires don’t protect your strategic bombers!


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[liv2ski]

Time to go long on hanger construction.

[uglymoney]

Putin has some explaining to do. What a disaster for him and his failing military, failed war, failing country. Some of his people are going out of windows over this in order to take the fall for him.

Trump loves losers like Putin. It makes no sense for Merica but it must be paying the bills in Trump world...make it make sense.

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[summit]

It is funny watching the hysterical flailing by Westerners reading Moscow aligned media streams... just frantic that Ukraine is upsetting the balance of nuclear power rather than simply destroying the planes that are firing cruise missiles at Ukrainian hospitals and power plants. It's hilarious... just add it to the list of 20 other logical things Ukraine did in self defense that was "surely" going be the "red line" to make WW3. Pure hilarity.

[highangle]

Drones do not need explosives to take out a jet. Just fly into a spinning engine. Sully was the Greatest Pilot Ever (tm) and a seagull made him crash.

...So are you going to use LF radio from the SVs to control and individually target your million drones, or will you just stick with UHF?...
Point: The mechanics of your Manchurian Candidate Machines theory render it about as plausible as a Solanum Zombie Virus outbreak....

That said, Norma Ammunition did some tests and it seems you want 1.25oz tungsten #6 in a 2 3/4in high-brass out of an IC choke of a nominal 24in 12ga antidrone shotgun barrel... Tungsten shot, like Hevi Shot, patterns diff than lead and needs less choke anyway... You want a chrome-lined barrel with hard tungsten too, esp HeviShot, as the pellets arent round and hence more likely to protrude from the shot wad, and like steel hits a barrel choke harder.

[banzai]

Lessons learned comrades!



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[highangle]

Fantastically powerful and strong Ruskies soon be coming after us with Semiskopoksnoi Design Bureau Avtomat Kol Flying Ship Bomber comrades. Pray, of course, of children which tremble.


https://www.reddit.com/media?url=htt...fea40f37853c86

[jono]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/com...g_every_truck/

Looks like another chance to practice taking out convoys.

[ötzi]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/com..._from_ukraine/

[skaredshtles]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/com..._from_ukraine/

I chukkled.

[Casey E]

Rusky nation create new economics keep war machine lubed. Get rich quick, dead big prize! "deathonomics" destroy you nazi scum

¨it is remarkable how Russia continues to absorb such staggering losses (it needs to recruit 30,000-40,000 new soldiers each month to fill the lines). To put them into context, Russia’s losses to date are on a par with the entirety of Britain’s losses in the second world war. They are approaching America’s losses in the same conflict, when its population was a similar size to Russia’s today.

Having lost most of the mainly professional army that set out to defeat Ukraine over three years ago, the Kremlin has come up with an almost entirely novel way of replenishing manpower at the front without risking social destabilisation. It combines the ideological militarisation of society, by convincing most Russians that they are engaged in a war against an imperialistic NATO and that there is glory in death, with increasingly lavish contracts for those willing to sign up. “Putin believes that the Afghan War is one of the main reasons that the Soviet Union collapsed,” says Aleksandr Golts of the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies. “He has come up with a revolution in Russian military thinking. I call it ‘market mobilisation’, others have called it deathonomics.

The sums being paid to soldiers, the majority of whom come from poorer provincial towns and are in their thirties and forties, are genuinely life-changing for many families. By the end of last year, according to Elena Racheva, a Russian former journalist who is now a researcher at Oxford University, the signing on bonus had reached 1.19m roubles ($15,000), while the average annual pay for a contract soldier was between 3.5m and 5.2m roubles, or up to five times the average salary. If a contract soldier is killed, his family will receive between 11m and 19m roubles.

The impact can be seen in small towns across Russia where recruitment has been most brisk. New houses are being built, smarter cars are turning up on the streets, and nail bars and gyms are opening.

For now, believes Ms Racheva, Russian society accepts that the system is an alternative to full mobilisation. There is 88% approval of contract soldiers receiving money and benefits for going to war “instead of us”. For the families of the dead and injured, huge payouts “alleviate…their grief, such as feelings of injustice … and allow society to avoid moral responsibility for the casualties and injuries they endure,” Ms Racheva wrote. In other words, the contract is not just between the soldier and the state. The question which nobody can answer is how long that contract will hold.

https://www.economist.com/internatio...ies-in-ukraine

[MultiVerse]

Ten things Rod doesn't want people to read from a Russian via Telegram—a Russian realist on the results of Putin's war:

1 - Russia destroyed, not liberated, Donbass

2 - Russian troops are still stuck in Ukrainian villages that have been wiped off the face of the earth

3 - Black Sea Fleet is destroyed

4 - Parts of Russian Kursk region remain occupied

5 - Russian economy is at the level of Zimbabwe

6 - Russian troops thrown out of Karabakh and Syria

7 - International image of Russia is trampled into the mud

8 - Russian & mercenary army has hundreds of thousands of KIAs and almost a million casualties

9 - Russia is filled with migrants from central Asia (who no longer migrate in order to avoid conscription)

10 - The country in general is complete bullshit

No wonder the country and its supporters are all alcoholics

[highangle]

bullshit baffles brains, bro. russians got their zones zflooded long ago, and quietly acquiesced their agency to the first father figure willing to exploit the frailties and fears of the poorly-educated.

[RTsucks]

Put it that way HA and ima start alcoholism.

[MultiVerse]

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink alcohol with you just because you rationalize that as long as you’re not imbibing alone you don’t have a serious drinking problem

[RTsucks]

Let's hope that horse isn't in Russia or America. Lonely bastard.

[summit]

Ukraine is suffering from repeat cruise missile strikes on infrastructure by Russian heavy bombers that are defensively covered by AWACS. Russia has few of these bombers and basically no ability to replace them. Russia also needs a chunk of them for other purposes.

For almost no resources expended, Ukraine just took out a huge chunk of irreplaceable Russian bombers and AWACS, the chunk that Russia effectively had available to task to the Ukraine effort instead of their other needs. Russia knows that if it continues to use bombers for cruise missile strikes, they are now not protected by AWACS, and if not shot down in the air, will be the target of further drone strikes. Russia knows if they stop using their bombers to attack Ukraine, then Ukraine will focus their efforts on things other than the remaining Russian bomber fleet.

And today Ukraine attacked the Kerch Strait bridge with what looked like a sea drone, although it is reportedly open again.

[MultiVerse]

Beijing backs Russia. Chinese citizens cheer Ukraine. That’s a crack in the system:

Chinese Social media applauds Ukraine's strikes on Russian airbases, ridiculing Russia as "clueless and crumbling" – a "mindless and weak" "dying empire".

https://kyivinsider.com/chinese-soci...ocking-moscow/

[highangle]

Ukraine is suffering from repeat cruise missile strikes on infrastructure by Russian heavy bombers that are defensively covered by AWACS. Russia has few of these bombers and basically no ability to replace them. Russia also needs a chunk of them for other purposes. For almost no resources expended, Ukraine just took out a huge chunk of irreplaceable Russian bombers and AWACS, the chunk that Russia effectively had available to task to the Ukraine effort instead of their other needs. Russia knows that if it continues to use bombers for cruise missile strikes, they are now not protected by AWACS, and if not shot down in the air, will be the target of further drone strikes. Russia knows if they stop using their bombers to attack Ukraine, then Ukraine will focus their efforts on things other than the remaining Russian bomber fleet. And today Ukraine attacked the Kerch Strait bridge with what looked like a sea drone, although it is reportedly open again.

Underwater drones with >1ton of tnt.

Keep in mind that when we crack the concrete and expose the structural steel of the bridge foundation piles to salt water, we haveve effectively cut the steel holding up the entire bridge.

[mcski]

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[PB]

Not only do Trump/Vance have no cards, they have no underwear.

[mcski]

Depends how you define underwear

[ötzi]

Wall Street Journal publishes an editorial entitled, "Ukraine Will Win This War" heres an image of it to read if you like: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/com...nion/#lightbox