Objectively that is backwards. If you dont understand the root cause you are helpless to mitigate it from happening again in the future. Ideally you fight and kill your enemy not cause you hate him but because you understand him.That's an excessively liberal approach to the problem of Evil. People who repeated rape, murder and torture are inherently evil. We have this silly modern pop-sci approach to psychology where the perpetrator is transfigured into the victim. Yes, they may have been terribly traumatized as a child - that still doesn't excuse their behavior. To do so is to make an error which will result in history repeating itself in some sort of horrific way.
Put NATO flags on the ships and be done with it. The Samoli pirates learned you don't fuck around with a ship with a US flag on it. I'd love to teach Russia the same lesson.Well I guess the Russians having failed to successfully mine the port approaches are now willing to missile neutral shipping.
Ukraine has thus far refrained from attacking civil shipping headed to Russian ports. The Black Sea fleet does not remotely have the assets to protect their shipping lanes from USVs.
SourceRussia is trying to get back parts of defence systems it had exported in an attempt to restock for its invasion of Ukraine, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
In an article published on Wednesday, the US-based newspaper reported – citing three people with knowledge of the encounter – that Russian officials visited Cairo in April and asked Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to return more than 100 engines from Russian helicopters.
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According to the newspaper, Moscow has also contacted Pakistani, Belarusian and Brazilian officials to try to recover engines and transport helicopters its forces lost to Ukrainian defences early on in the war.
Put NATO flags on the ships and be done with it. The Samoli pirates learned you don't fuck around with a ship with a US flag on it. I'd love to teach Russia the same lesson.
I guess I didn’t notice why you made your original point, because we are talking about two different things. My bad.Objectively that is backwards. If you dont understand the root cause you are helpless to mitigate it from happening again in the future. Ideally you fight and kill your enemy not cause you hate him but because you understand him.
What side of the fence is evil? Depends. Who writes the history book?
Range goes up with air launch. Ukraine patrols offshore with TB2s. They need 150-200km of reach out and touch for AD and Anti ship.
Those comrades were total bros. Usually Russians are depicted or portrayed as zombie ants but that's not the case here.Those crafty Ukrainians... they land a drone on the rooftop where Russian drone ops are operating. One wanders over to see...
Hmm, how'd that deal go south - Russia wanting to pay in Rubles? Or Brazil not wanting to step on the feet of the Western alliance (NATO/EU).Further indications the VKS is racking up a ton of hours on their fleet and now has to scour the globe for spares.
Hmm, how'd that deal go south - Russia wanting to pay in Rubles? Or Brazil not wanting to step on the feet of the Western alliance (NATO/EU).
SourceRegional Russian airlines have about 100 An-24 and An-26 passenger airplanes, their average age is 50 years.
Representatives of the companies have called for extending the technical life of such airplanes because there is nothing to replace them with.
According to the Russian authorities' plan, by 2030 a quarter of domestically produced passenger airplanes should be written off, but in reality this will happen by 2028.
It is also reported that there are problems with maintenance of An-2 airplanes, as the engines for them are produced in Poland.
SourceNew bogus narrative from Russian sources: the Kremlin is increasing armaments production and can rebuild everything. FAKE:
1. The Russians lack many of the necessary subsystems that came from the West and will be sanctioned for years.
2. The actual production rates of things like T90s, for example, are a small fraction of Kremlin claims,
3. The Russians have no hard steel alloys for barrels.
4. Most of the electornics in the KA-52, for example, were Western and are not available now in Russia;
5. Russia has a fraction of the manufacturing capability of the Soviet Union, as analogies are worhtless,
6. The diversion of production to defense is already bleeding the rest of the Russian economy dry (they lack skileld workers across many sectors);
7. Whatever they build will be bled by corruption, embezzlement and kickbacks. See e.g. the 1.5 million missing winter uniforms story. (a problem likely to grow in a desperate economy).
This is good, although better would've been to sell the engines, but machine in some crack starts in the rotors. So then after a few cycles a rotor let's go and totals the helicopter.Further indications the VKS is racking up a ton of hours on their fleet and now has to scour the globe for spares.
A summary of the left bank situation in one picture;
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The yellow explosion above is where Ukraine is trying to gain a second beachhead.
Grasshoppers gotta Frag by hand now?
Russian Soldiers in Crimea Beat Commander to Death Before Fleeing: Ukraine
The troops from Russia's 20th Motorized Division attacked their commander in Simferopol, Ukrainian intelligence said.
Grasshoppers gotta Frag by hand now?
Russian Soldiers in Crimea Beat Commander to Death Before Fleeing: Ukraine
The troops from Russia's 20th Motorized Division attacked their commander in Simferopol, Ukrainian intelligence said.