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6 minutes ago, Nivek said:
I think the problem with this line of thinking is that they are hoping to become the next skimming official. Not hoping for a less corrupt regime.
I think you underestimate the level of idiocy in Russia. Anyone with any ability or talent leaves, be it via athletics or brains. Anyone left is a knuckle dragger or just smart enough to sort of manage a bunch of knuckle draggers.
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2 minutes ago, Bevo said:
Who do y'all got in this fight? I think earthquake, volcano, tsunami and tornado are a reach. Perhaps a mother of all sand storms is in order.
I'd sooner sew my face to the carpet than root for either of them.
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19 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
I’m beginning to think they sunk the fucking thing. Russian bots have been pushing out videos from two years ago of it entering port as evidence that everything is fine.
I saw a track of naval activity in the area earlier, and lets just say, it seemed....busy. It may not have sunk, but it may well be so damaged they have to scuttle it. If it were minor, they wouldn't have near the presence in the area. Additionally, a aircraft tracker showed US drones all over it.
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1 hour ago, Satchel said:
On a serious note, it is concerning to hear her kid tell the police that the allegedly abusive dad has guns around, but that he doesn’t believe his dad would ever use them in him. Given Granny Lauren’s husband’s emotional instability, this sounds like a tragedy waiting to happen.
Would it really be a tragedy? I'm not advocating anything, but I think the word you are looking for is ironic.
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3 minutes ago, Telegraph_it said:This is true. When I went to Queenstown I lost a drinking game and had to throw a sheep in a volcano.
That's no way to treat your date
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33 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:
nothing to see here ....
It's about to come out that he did a test run of obstruction of justice at Margo a Lago. Like, no, they fucking really practiced. Unreal, and hilarious at the same time. How the hell can a career criminal be so bad at it.
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Just because there is never a time for a haka
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9 minutes ago, Rimbo said:Russia’s 'invincible' hypersonic missiles prove anything but, as Ukraine utilizes U.S. Patriot defenses
Russia’s hypersonic Kinzhal has been shot down repeatedly by U.S.-supplied air defenses.
Thu, May 25, 2023 at 2:40 PM PDT·5 min readIn this article:It was meant to be the Russian “wonder weapon,” but it turned out to be just another example of Vladimir Putin’s military over-promising and under-delivering.
The Kh-47M2 “Kinzhal” — which means “dagger” in Russian — was billed as a state-of-the-art hypersonic missile, “invincible,” in Putin’s words, to Western air defenses. For the early months of Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, it seemed to be just that. The missile had been used in the first year of the war to successfully strike several targets across Ukraine, no doubt causing significant damage.
Turning point
Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder addresses a news briefing at the Pentagon on Wednesday in Arlington, Va. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
That all changed when Ukraine received U.S.-manufactured Patriot PAC-2 and PAC-3 air defense systems in April. The PAC-3, the latest version of the venerable American system, was originally developed as part of America’s Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed “Star Wars” by its critics, first introduced in the early 1980s by President Ronald Reagan to counter ballistic missiles.
Over a little more than two weeks, Ukrainian-manned Patriots shot down seven out of seven Kinzhals launched at targets throughout Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder confirmed the first shoot-down at a press conference on May 9, and another administration official speaking to the New York Times on May 16 confirmed the other interceptions.
During the May 16 attack, which directly targeted the Patriot system, part of the platform suffered “minor” damage, according to U.S. officials, that was repaired within a day. The Kremlin, of course, has maintained the fiction that all its missiles successfully hit their targets. “The fake report that a Kinzhal was allegedly intercepted is a wishful thinking attempt,” a Russian Ministry of Defense source told the state media outlet TASS.
Even if the Ukrainian military is overstating its defensive capability, a Russian missile falling anywhere in Kyiv would have been detected by locals and recorded on social media. Since the arrival of the Patriot missile batteries, that has not happened.
Assessing the hypersonic threat
A 9K720 Iskander-M is displayed at a fair within the ARMY-2019 International Military and Technical Forum in Moscow on June 25, 2019. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
The Kinzhal entered service in December 2017. Two years later, Putin declared that it and other Russian hypersonic weapons proved that Russia was leading the world in hypersonic capability. The boast was reminiscent of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s bravado in the late 1950s, when he claimed that Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles were rolling off the factory floor “like sausages,” feeding the false perception in the United States that the U.S. was at a disadvantage and suffering from a missile gap with Moscow. “We have a situation that is unique in modern history when they are trying to catch up with us," Putin said. “Not a single country has hypersonic weapons, let alone hypersonic weapons of intercontinental range.”
He was wrong.
In reality, the Kinzhal is not that impressive. It is an upgraded version of Russia’s older, ground-launched 9K720 Iskander ballistic missile, modified so that it can be air-launched from Russian aircraft. As for Putin’s claim of the weapon’s hypersonic speed, this was true in the same way all ballistic missiles since the German V-2 rockets started pulverizing London in World War II have achieved hypersonic speeds at certain phases of flight.
Despite Putin’s grand claims, air-launched ballistic missiles are not new technology.
The GAM-87 “Skybolt” air-launched ballistic missile was developed by the United States in the late 1950s, and hit top speeds of Mach 12, well in excess of the speeds the Kinzhal can reach. However, the project was ultimately canceled in 1962, when U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara assessed that the system provided very little benefit over the United States’ existing arsenal of land- and submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
Russian scientists charged with treason
The 9K720 Iskander (NATO reporting name SS-26 Stone), a mobile theater ballistic missile system, is rolled out during the Victory Day parade, on May 9, 2011, in Moscow's Red Square. (Konstantin Zavrazhin/Getty Images)
Putin’s claims relied on confusion over the definition of “hypersonic” and also the conflation of the Kinzhal with the newer generations of hypersonic weapons. Hypersonic cruise missiles and hypersonic glide vehicles have the ability to maneuver — to evade air defenses, for example — at speeds in excess of Mach 5, something the Kinzhal cannot do. This makes new-generation hypersonic weapons much more difficult to intercept than traditional ballistic missiles traveling at hypersonic speeds.
Regardless of the exaggerated Russian claims, the Kinzhal was still an impossible target for Ukraine’s Soviet-legacy air defense systems to shoot down. A Ukrainian government source told Yahoo News that the provision of such air defense systems, while primarily providing an invaluable shield for Ukrainian people, is a cheap way for Ukraine’s Western partners to gain real life combat data on their performance against the latest Russian weapons.
Russian hubris that the system worked perfectly seemed even more incredible in light of the arrest of the third scientist responsible for the development of the Kinzhal on charges of “high treason.” On May 16, the same day Ukrainian Patriots shot down six incoming Kinzhals, Russian state media announced the arrest of Valery Zvegintsev. Zvegintsev joins Anatoly Maslov and Alexander Shiplyuk, two other high-profile Russian scientists who worked on the Kinzhal project and were arrested for alleged treason in the summer of 2022.
It is sort of surprising that people stealing toilets wouldn't be able to figure out how to make hyper-sonic weapons. Maybe they should recalibrate their collective goals to not shitting in a bucket or outhouse. You know, start small, before you know it, they might have washing machines.
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1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:
He’s going to spew a ton of hate from behind bars, probably go extreme white supremest.
Hard to spew much from ADX Florence. Nothing quite like a room with a view. And I disagree, he shouldn't be shot, he should see the gallows; and get this, I"m anti capital punishment!
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7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
You fight Russia with your chosen weaponry, I'll fight them with mine. I thought we were in the nest in the trust tree?
Well, everyday is a workout when you gotta carry around a 20 pound python in your jeans.
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Speaking of Swedish hardware
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These ones get me a bit
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10 minutes ago, Bevo said:
There are only 600 and they cost $1M each. How many would Germany donate?
It's sunk cost, who the fuck else are you going to shoot them at in the next 10 years? They also aren't currently in production (which in military terms means they already have better stuff that is in production). Getting rid of them likely actually saves money in a fiscal sense.
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4 minutes ago, HornOnTheBayou said:
Trump and OJ are working together to find out who took the top secret documents to Mara Lago.
OJ always had good instincts, either running the ball or being suspicious of Ron Goldman and his secret document laundering ability. I'm glad he's on the case. If OJ teams up with that Kevin Sorbo dude, watch the fuck out, it's all getting solved.
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40 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:
By putin's logic I'm a Comanche.
While none of the rest of these heathens will apologize for the treatment of your people, please allow me. Also, I'd like to stand on 17 please.
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What a shit show for the Russians, and it's about to get worse.
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5 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:
Also no blood or bodies to be found. Those dip fucks would be parading the corpses like piñatas if they existed.
I'm sort of surprised they didn't grease a few undesirables and put them there. Of course, they also have ample cargo 200's around to stage a photo or so. Really sloppy work on their part, or basically a Russian masterpiece.
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11 minutes ago, 686 said:
Kicking the counteroffensive off in a serious way over a US holiday weekend would be good for publicity and the political capital that follows.
The Ukrainians have proven to be consistently savvy when it comes to appealing to its biggest benefactors. Going on Memorial Day with a message tying the two things together would make sense.
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15 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
Holy shit the state TV talking heads are actually admitting to the invasion of Russia by Russians.
This is right out of Austin Powers.
There are always some good comedic gems in these, but today my favorite with the idea of mining their own villages and giving militia anti tank weapons to shoot anything that moves. I'm guessing a bunch of drunks with mines and anti tank weapons will turn out just fucking swell. I'm hoping they do it.
Bonus fun stuff, he mentions using tactical nukes to eliminate all of Alaska. I'm thinking that maybe this guy doesn't have a fucking clue. Perhaps our high value traitors that are full of info like Scott Ritter or Steven Segal have his ear.
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3 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:
Everyone hates Russia, and everyone is coming for their pound of flesh.
Reminds me of the schoolyard bully in 6th grade. One guy stood up to him, got beat, but knocked a tooth out. After that everyone he'd bullied went after him.
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6 minutes ago, KYHorn said:
This is almost certainly the plan. Russia pretty much has to respond
Just looking at that map and wondering if we might have some Moldovan free legion guys wanting to go into Transnistria?
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
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Yeah, these folks aren't machiavellians here scheming to get to power. The vast majority are fucking morons that can't see five feet in front of them (due to being chronic drunks and children of the same), let alone are they capable of scheming their way to any sort of power.