Is Ukraine about to have a war?
So, according to Putin the West is guilty of genocide in Ukraine killing and raping civilians.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/...55128240721920
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/...55128240721920
This is painful to watch. Makes me want to send 'em my kids old velcro boots. They haven't needed those since they were six.
To use pallets you need lift trucks, and for field work you would need a big tired farm type, so I suspect the lack of such equipment is what drives all the manual loading. The Russkies also unload their trains by hand.......
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You're not the only one to equate immorality, dishonesty, and criminal behavior with mental illness. The truth is, this guy and his henchmen are simply wicked and evil and deserve biblical judgement for their acts.
tt stops short of praying for Ukrainian Victory though.
The russian airforce publically publicised that they had been crowd funded 2 forklifts to help load munitions on their bombers. So if the airforce doesn't material handling assistance army sure as hell doesn't then pallets are useless
Probably yet another product of the society they've created. Even if they provided something as valuable and attractive as a telehandler it would soon be stolen and sold.
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They’re now snatching Military age men off Moscows streets, 10,000 of them.
They’re now snatching Military age men off Moscows streets, 10,000 of them.
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/...66405823090688
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/...66405823090688
You're a bit late Winemaker, they did exactly that in the first mobilisation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...ilization-men/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...ilization-men/
Putting on a partisan hat, I'm sure the Russian logistical machine will have spare parts, special tooling and manpower on the job promptly and have the aircraft back in the Gepard-sights in a timely manner.
Historically they follow more of a throw away approach just calling in the next mass produced item (and strategic front if needed). They were less interested than the West in repairability and preferred more simple solutions that are cheaper to mass produce.
Even with generals there's always a bulk replacement.
No sign of the fire service. Maybe they have all been mobilised or else Ru AF takes the same approach to fire prevention as Ru Navy.
looks like the Pilot did a good job though
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Looks like Kazakhstan has just about fully left the Russian sphere of influence….
Moving troops to their border with Russia to oppose a rumoured Russian SMO…
Passing a law to restrict if clos3 down all Russian TV channel broadcasts in the country.
Working withe OSCE and EU to build healthcare and other ties and restrict or cut those with Russia.
Kazakhstan warns Russia - we are not Ukraine..
Moving troops to their border with Russia to oppose a rumoured Russian SMO…
Passing a law to restrict if clos3 down all Russian TV channel broadcasts in the country.
Working withe OSCE and EU to build healthcare and other ties and restrict or cut those with Russia.
Kazakhstan warns Russia - we are not Ukraine..
https://twitter.com/mahanologytv/sta...-3wpOy-1OOFF-Q
I looked at buying one that was available in 2015, it is not a bad plane, nor was the MiG 21, or 17 or 19. The 15 sucked... my own opinion.
The soviet aircraft I have flown had very simple and reliable emergency gear extensions... one though was worth reading the label, as the gear was a red T handle on one side of the stick, the other side of the stick had a red T handle too that jettisoned the tip tanks. I used the emergency gear extension once, and it worked pretty well.
As it is a combat recovery flight, all bets are off as to what would work or not, or whether it was a low drag approach. I would go with the battle damage, more than maintenance, as I found that most soviet planes were pretty darn well built to be maintained with a ball peen hammer, other than hydraulics. There was a lot about the MiG-21 [well, later versions, the earlier versions are not much fun high speed on the deck, but later, not bad at all] that was nicer to have than the A-4 and F-4, TSAgI knew a thing or two about building outhouses with pretty good aero.
Using the drogue chutes, interesting, they seemed to add to directional stability, haven't seen that in the AFM of any aircraft, but have led a sheltered life.
PS: have just been in contact with some of my former colleagues from Russia. They are disgusted by Putin, and they have their kids well outside of Russia, but then they did that after the insult of 2014. Putin has embarrassed a lot of people.
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