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Originally Posted by GlobalNav
(Post 11280287)
It would be far more effective for Russia to stop sending its troops to Ukraine and to remove the ones that are there. Otherwise Ukraine will send them back in stretchers, ambulances and body bags.
People so readily accept lies. I wish they would listen to BBC. |
Aviation content.
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Originally Posted by henra
(Post 11280341)
As much as I like your analysis and conclusion and would love to see Russia going a rational approach and choosing alternative 4, I have major difficulties seeing this happening.
Irrationality has brought them to where they are and I don't see the slightest sign of rationality suddenly kicking in. And I'm afraid meanwhile the problem is not only Putin any more. He has pushed the population (where a significant part were anyway feeling phantom pains for loss of the Soviet empire) so far in a direction that it will be very difficult to get himself out of the obligation to deliver. Any retreat will be seen as weakness and defeat by the people. Tyrants are typically overthrown when they are weak and compliant and not when they are strong and cruel. So, the better options for Russia are rather not the good options for Putin himself. That's why we will likely continue to see this tragedy for quite some time to come. |
Russia pulls military aircraft out of Crimea
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate reported that no less than 24 planes and 14 helicopters had been transferred out of airfields in Crimea. |
According to a utuber the very busy looking flight radar map of USA shows 400 military aircraft airborne over USA.
50% above normal busy. Blackhawks in flocks of twenty, submarine hunters doing search patterns in the desert. Mjb |
Originally Posted by ORAC
(Post 11280366)
Russia pulls military aircraft out of Crimea
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate reported that no less than 24 planes and 14 helicopters had been transferred out of airfields in Crimea. surely if you knew you could hold it there would be no need to evacuate them. |
I wonder how many are stolen?
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Originally Posted by langleybaston
(Post 11280180)
Gentlemen, the enemy has four options.
He will choose the fifth. The other team gets a vote, and assuredly will do something that will surprise. The logical choices remain the same, the illogical choices are up to the players to select. The spectrum from smoking ruin to sending flowers. The national interest however is more specific in the options. We are seeing a bunch of crazies messing about with a NPP that can cause as much or more devastation to their own team as to anyone else, so, yup, Door #5 is always in play. |
Originally Posted by ORAC
(Post 11280366)
Russia pulls military aircraft out of Crimea
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate reported that no less than 24 planes and 14 helicopters had been transferred out of airfields in Crimea. |
They really are not the brightest military in the world.
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Originally Posted by NutLoose
(Post 11280446)
They really are not the brightest military in the world.
https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet/...17046413742080 https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/...84173731586050 OTOH, would be nice that they don't realise that they are geolocating themselves, so perhaps a great thing to not mention. the more snaps followed by suggestions to vacate the premises, the sooner balance will return to the rock. |
A 34-year-old former Russian paratrooper, Pavel Filatyev, has published a remarkable in-depth account of his experiences of the Ukraine war. He served with the Feodosia-based 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment and fought in southern Ukraine for two months. A thread follows. Filatyev was part of the force that captured Kherson in February and was hospitalised with an eye injury after spending more than a month under heavy Ukrainian artillery bombardment near Mykolaiv. By that time, he was completely disillusioned with the war. While recuperating, Filatyev wrote a scathing 141-page memoir titled 'ZOV' (after the recognition symbols painted on vehicles of the invasion force) and published it on VKontakte (Russian Facebook). Not surprisingly, he's now been forced to flee Russia for his own safety. In this first installment, I'll cover FIlatyev's experiences in the six months before the war, when he was going through training as a paratrooper in Crimea with the 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment. It was not a happy experience for him.….. |
Just reading today's MOD Intelligence Update.
" It is highly likely that many Russian tank crews lack the training to maintain ERA, leading to either poor fitting of the explosive elements or it being left off entirely." A bit puzzling when it talks of maintenance: what maintenance would there be ? As for "leaving it off ", am I likely to be right in guessing that the tanks are delivered without the ERA and this is then fitted either at some base depot , or by the actual crews themselves ? |
Originally Posted by NutLoose
(Post 11280446)
They really are not the brightest military in the world.
https://www.kyivpost.com/russias-war...n-attacks.html Also from The Guardian: " Russia appoints new Black Sea commander. Russia has reportedly replaced the commander of its Crimea-based Black Sea fleet after explosions rocked the peninsula this week. Russia’s RIA news agency cited sources as saying Admiral Igor Osipov had been replaced with Vice-Admiral Viktor Sokolov. If confirmed, it would mark one of the most prominent sackings of a military official in the war so far." |
Originally Posted by Tartiflette Fan
(Post 11280533)
...Admiral Igor Osipov had been replaced with Vice-Admiral Viktor Sokolov. If confirmed, it would mark one of the most prominent sackings of a military official in the war so far."
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Originally Posted by Tartiflette Fan
(Post 11280531)
Just reading today's MOD Intelligence Update.
" It is highly likely that many Russian tank crews lack the training to maintain ERA, leading to either poor fitting of the explosive elements or it being left off entirely." A bit puzzling when it talks of maintenance: what maintenance would there be ? As for "leaving it off ", am I likely to be right in guessing that the tanks are delivered without the ERA and this is then fitted either at some base depot , or by the actual crews themselves ? |
A message from Ukraine before winter sets in an the Russian PR campaign about energy starts..
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Film showing the Dam bridge still in use and "heavy Vehicles" on it, though the military truck shown is coming towards the camera from this side of the damage, so could be staged, i.e reverse up to it then pretend to drive off it and the tanker seen could be empty, stripped down, or craned on to a good bit etc, as oddly the camera vehicle pans away and stays pointing away as it passes by. It looks like they have put large plates or slabs over some damage.
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Originally Posted by ORAC
(Post 11280494)
A 34-year-old former Russian paratrooper, Pavel Filatyev, has published a remarkable in-depth account of his experiences of the Ukraine war. He served with the Feodosia-based 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment and fought in southern Ukraine for two months. A thread follows.
Filatyev was part of the force that captured Kherson in February and was hospitalised with an eye injury after spending more than a month under heavy Ukrainian artillery bombardment near Mykolaiv. By that time, he was completely disillusioned with the war. While recuperating, Filatyev wrote a scathing 141-page memoir titled 'ZOV' (after the recognition symbols painted on vehicles of the invasion force) and published it on VKontakte (Russian Facebook). Not surprisingly, he's now been forced to flee Russia for his own safety. In this first installment, I'll cover FIlatyev's experiences in the six months before the war, when he was going through training as a paratrooper in Crimea with the 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment. It was not a happy experience for him.….. Also reported here: ‘I don’t see justice in this war’: Russian soldier exposes rot at core of Ukraine invasion |
Originally Posted by NutLoose
(Post 11280583)
Some added more, you can often see knocked out tanks where they have been scavenged for the blocks, I do wonder about the ineffectivness on some is simply down to the wooden and rubber blocks fitted in some of them by those making a quick buck back home.
Does the MOD know nothing about OPSEC? Or are they now fighting for the Russians? |
Originally Posted by WB627
(Post 11280639)
What a bunch of f:mad:wits, tell the Orks what they are doing wrong so they can put it right :ugh:. Did the MOD learn NOTHING from the Falklands war when the BBC told the Argies why their bombs were not exploding? :mad: ?
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Australia cancels approval for new Russian embassy building.
Authorities in Canberra cited failure to meet construction deadlines as the reason for terminating the lease on a new building, though they said the full-scale invasion of Ukraine "did not help" Russia's case. |
Originally Posted by NutLoose
(Post 11280610)
Film showing the Dam bridge still in use and "heavy Vehicles" on it, though the military truck shown is coming towards the camera from this side of the damage, so could be staged, i.e reverse up to it then pretend to drive off it and the tanker seen could be empty, stripped down, or craned on to a good bit etc, as oddly the camera vehicle pans away and stays pointing away as it passes by. It looks like they have put large plates or slabs over some damage.
https://twitter.com/glosmeusec/statu...83086092107779 |
Interesting NYT profile of Selçuk Bayraktar (of TB2 fame): The Turkish Drone That Changed the Nature of Warfare
Good example of how to combine technical genius with political nous. |
Originally Posted by WB627
(Post 11280639)
What a bunch of f:mad:wits, tell the Orks what they are doing wrong so they can put it right :ugh:. Did the MOD learn NOTHING from the Falklands war when the BBC told the Argies why their bombs were not exploding? :mad: How many ships and lives did that then cost us?
Does the MOD know nothing about OPSEC? Or are they now fighting for the Russians? See wooden replacements |
Originally Posted by fdr
(Post 11280685)
So... the dam there is actually a run of river design, it is not a flood or reservoir type.... The road way is elevated above the dam wall proper, the dam being earth, and gravity mix. On the southern side, there is a lock... that the single road crosses on a bridge. That would seem to be a choke point worthy of some precision, drop the bridge, take out the lock function without impacting the dam proper.
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....539e8f40c.jpeg https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....f4c38403b.jpeg https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....f33c479a9.jpeg |
Possibly the first video of the American M982 Excalibur in action: as claimed, guided shells fired from a M777A2 howitzer were used in Kherson Oblast. Wow, just working down the line taking them out one shot at a time.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update...33483945099264 |
NBC NEWS:
A Ukrainian military intelligence official tells @NBCNews that Russia has told its nuclear workers stationed at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant NOT to go to work tomorrow. Andriy Yusov, a spokesman for Ukraine's military intelligence directorate, tells me they received information a half-hour ago that Russia directed the Rosatom (Russia's state-run nuclear company) officials at ZNPP not to show up tomorrow. This comes after Russia said Ukraine was planning a provocation tomorrow at the plant. Ukrainian officials believe that's Russia laying the groundwork to conduct a false flag operation there tomorrow and blame it on Ukraine…. |
Russian SU-30SM RF-81771 down, unknown location
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b31485f06.jpeg |
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Nutty, your M982 link requires an account unfortunately.
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Originally Posted by NutLoose
(Post 11280755)
Possibly the first video of the American M982 Excalibur in action: as claimed, guided shells fired from a M777A2 howitzer were used in Kherson Oblast. Wow, just working down the line taking them out one shot at a time.
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Russia's top propagandist Vladimir Solovyov, twice honored by Putin for his "service to the Fatherland," threatens the US & Europe with nuclear war if they defend the Baltics from Russia.
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Russian vehicles parked inside the nuclear power plant:
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Originally Posted by FUMR
(Post 11280831)
Nutty, your M982 link requires an account unfortunately.
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Originally Posted by Tartiflette Fan
(Post 11280839)
Incredible accuracy at probably 25 km range (assume both gun and truck well back from their respective fronts). they must have a lot of those shells, otherwise I'm not sure that would be a good investment of a $ 110K shell to knock out a truck - even a big one. Having said that, I've no idea what other equipment would normally accompany those big Kamaz trucks.
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Yup, that worked. Thanks.
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Russian media: Russia transfers MiG-31 aircraft equipped with Kinzhal missiles close to Lithuania, Poland.
Russian media TASS reported that 3 Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor aircraft have been relocated to the Chkalovsk airfield in Kaliningrad, which borders Lithuania and Poland. |
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