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Bobby_Batronic

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  1. Which is why I fear it may happen as a retaliatory strike from the Russians if we press too hard. It’s a delicate balance to strike between stopping the death and carnage, and cornering a wild animal so that he has no choice but act wildly and irrationally. Providing an out so that the animal can be dealt with in a more controlled manner is the answer. I just don’t see that “offramp” as the hot word of the day implies.
  2. We’ll save it for another thread as per request. It won’t be fine. There are some books on the subject based on the actual studies done on the subject. Society breaks down very fast. There are no helping hands from other states or the Feds stepping in in a meaningful way. Not when it happens in all states simultaneously.
  3. It’s not just not having power. No fridges. Food spoils quickly. Almost no one has extra in the pantry. Cars work fine until none of the gas pumps work. And so on and so forth. Shit would get hinky fast. Particularly in the cities, and especially so if it were to happen in the dead of winter or middle of the summer.
  4. Their conventional force has been an underfunded paper tiger for years. They were no more capable of driving on Paris prior to Ukraine than they were of swearing off Vodka for the year. I do fear their cyber abilities, and I’m sure they could get more than a few ICBM’s pickled off if need be. Take out our power grid for a month and the majority of the country dies of exposure, sickness and starvation.
  5. Which do you think is harder: Supplying the logistical train supporting 150,000 soldiers or employing a group of hackers to F up our wide ass open power grid? Already forgotten them shutting down a few pipelines on a whim? Think it’s hard to lob a single high yield warhead high up into the atmosphere for an EMP attack? That’s a button push. I assure you they’ve got missiles and warheads dedicated to that very thing. You’re confusing general ineptitude of conventional forces with asymmetric warfare conducted by specialized units.
  6. Tell Putin he can step down and China can offer him sanctuary if everyone is sanguine about it.
  7. If it’s getting MIRV time then pick a strategic asset and get as close to it as possible. A few blinding milliseconds of light and no pain. I actually wonder if the world’s governments suffice themselves with wiping out the world populace without using nukes. It’s easily possible, and you know some vestiges of governments and militaries will survive. Planet is reusable, limited civilization starts again, and the notional governments still have the big toys to ward off anyone who may have fared better than the others. Rome falls. Just in a lot less spectacular fashion than in a flurry of mushroom clouds.
  8. Russia may have a way back, but they are economically destroyed until Putin is gone. Which means he won’t be in charge much longer, or alive much longer than that. Everyone is thinking nuke strikes. Imagine what a cyber attack that crippled our electrical grid for a month would do. Or an actual EMP attack. Or a hypersonic cruise missile strike on things like the Atchafalaya Locks. You can F up America for a long time and kill most of our populace without glassing our cities. And Putin may not care what the reprisals are once he understands that he’s a dead man walking.
  9. The posts are coming to quickly to track. Naturally a path back for Russia is key, but there is no path back for Putin. And he may act in a terrible fashion once he realizes it.
  10. I’m more than a little worried that a starving, economically destroyed and no longer militarily credible Russia might lead to a situation where some of those lives we’d be saving are our own. They don’t need to nuke our cities to dial much of the world back to the Stone Age with them. Im hoping Putin is retired in one fashion or another in short order, because I think the odds of him lashing out as a cornered animal are well above zero. And he doesn’t value life beyond his own. This is the first time in a long time that an opponent can reach out and touch us in ways the terrorist s only dreamed of consequences be damned.
  11. That’s not how thermobaric, or fuel air bombs, work. Imagine being able to drop a BLEVE type explosion anywhere you want with a munition. A hit on the actual munition by a drone or something doesn’t allow for there to be a gas cloud with delayed ignition.
  12. You must think in Russian.
  13. You mean reading Cyrillic, metric gauges and an attitude indicator that views the plane from the ground instead of the horizon? Just spitballing here, and stick with me….What if we give foreign pilots 737 Maxs loaded with explosives? 😁
  14. Fire finder radar and counter battery artillery are things. Do the Ukrainians have sufficient mechanized artillery pieces and the ability to move and fire like we do? I don’t know. But I’m pretty sure they Russians have MLRS systems with cluster munitions available if they don’t. Maybe one volley. Or two, and then displace rearwards as quickly as possible?
  15. Shame we never built the JSOWs with the smart cluster bomblets that pick targets and fire shaped charges through to top armor. About 15-20 of those would put a real hurting on that column.
  16. No one is shooting most of anyone’s nukes down. That is a pipe dream.
  17. They’ve been talking about restarting the production line on the 124 since most of those are getting long in the tooth and fulfill a heavy lift role that no other non military plane can. That would make it easier to build a new 225 if Ukraine survives this mess.
  18. Who’s got a surplus of Soviet era fighters? Poland? Germany? This isn’t Independence Day where some mad Ukrainian crop duster mounts up on an F18 after a crash course in modern avionics. I suspect Russia may lash out at those countries in some manner first if they’re really in “Why the Fuck Not?” mode.
  19. There’s probably a stealthy multi-role fighter we have that’s been described as being one big sensor being used in that role right now. Maybe one that was just deployed to Lakenheath.
  20. Going around and not reconfiguring the aircraft by retracting the gear or adjusting the flaps is usually a tell tale sign of a wind shear warning.
  21. I didn’t realize they were phasing out their Twin Cessnas. Rode one of those from Lebanon, NH to Boston on the way home once.
  22. I don’t think he understood that “ Russian T-something” referred to tank destinations.
  23. Yup. It’s not downtown Dallas, but it’s pretty much in the heart of the metroplex. I see that synagogue all the time. Quiet little place holed up between some nice housing, a middle school, the Vatican 2.0 and downtown Colleyville.
  24. I guess a Conquest is out of the question also? A II is a hot rod.
  25. Has anyone claimed his luggage? That shit is legit.
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