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For the love of Christ woman,  stop posting the same fucking thing every 20 mins just to make your neurotic self feel better.     Bring something useful to the thread other than your inane babbli

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I volunteered today. Log/Admin role to replace people for 30-60 days. The operation is in the west, or should the Orcs win will be pulled back behind the NATO wall. Either way the humanitarian effort

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Broke 100 again, and they increased their interest rates to 16%, so they're running out of more and more ways to reduce this back under 100

Yeah, but you’re talking about a battle-tested economy though.

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And we are three months or so out from Putin’s next election so they can raise the rates and then drop it, and if they are losing a thousand or so a day from wounded/killed/sick, that’s potentially another80,000+ Russians that won’t be able to vote against Putin.

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Moldova, small as it is, could easily expel the Russians. They have every incentive to do it. There are 1-2k Russians in the Transnistria region but there are more than enough Moldovan police and military to arrest those guys and eject them from the country at any time.

The problem is that Russia has them over an economic barrel. They provide almost all of the gas and fuel that keeps the place running. It's the same for almost all the republics, they hate Russia. Somebody has to be willing to go first, then the Russian Federation collapses. 

Good to see at least Moldovans are making diplomatic moves in the right direction.

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^Here is a brick in exchange for your son.....Also love that GuGGi robe, it just screams class

"Your son lived long enough to scrawl out this message, knowing he was going to die.  Here's the message."

In a different part of Ukraine, apparently shipping continues (note: this guy up front states that he's selective about what he includes in his reports so that the Russians cannot use the info, so there's more going on than he mentions):

 

And Sutton does a great job of talking about how Russia has to adapt to a country with no navy defeating Russia's navy.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2023/12/russia-forced-to-adapt-to-ukraines-maritime-drone-warfare-in-black-sea/

If you can measure a new weapon's impact by the lengths the enemy has to go to feel safe against it, then Ukraine's maritime drones are hugely successful. The Russian Navy is deploying a multi-layered approach to defeating them.

Ukraine’s maritime drones, small boats filled with explosives, are having a disproportionate influence on the war in the Black Sea. Earlier this month journalists were shown a secret basewith at least 16 Magura V5 maritime drones, showing that more is to come.

Known properly as uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), maritime drones are not unique to Ukraine. Even Russia has a few projects. Yet while Ukraine wasn’t the first to use them, it is still a novel technology which took the naval world by surprise. The way Ukraine uses them is accelerating the inevitable rise of armed USVs worldwide. It certainly took the Russian Navy by surprise.

The first, and most visible, defense has been the addition physical barriers across harbor entrances. These are likely moderately effective at preventing Ukrainian USVs from penetrating the harbors, and are combined with machine guns and warships on sentry duty for a robust defense. Sevastopol has received multiple layers of nets, floating booms and even a chain of barges. Other harbors also, and most recently the Kerch Bridge. The latter was only added after Ukraine successfully damaged it with an explosive laden USV on July 17 2023.

Beyond the harbor walls, aircraft are the main threat to Ukrainian USVs. They can be detected by Russia’s vintage Be-12 Mail flying boats which can then alert other aviation units. These have radar which was designed to find the periscope of a submarine, so the small USV is likely detectable. The flying boats will be used to alert helicopters which can fly out to engage the USVs.

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Russia’s high-value ships, such as the weapons transports Ursa Major and Sparta-IV and government connected tankers, are now escorted across the Black Sea. This is normally done by patrol ships and frigates. The ships also turn off their AIS (automated identification system) to avoid being tracked by open sources. These efforts are only partly effective.

These convoys have been targeted by USVs on several occasions, with the escorts facing the brunt of the attacks. Two of these high-value ships recently crossed the Black Sea and are now in the Mediterranean. Ursa Major and the tanker Yaz, sistership of Sig which was hit hard by a USV on August 5, will make the perilous return tourney in the coming weeks.

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Russia could have implemented some defenses much earlier, even before the first attacks. Yet these are the realities of war. What we have learned however is that Ukraine has maintained the initiative. Russian defenses are reactionary, so the next major development is more likely Ukrainian than Russian.

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Love it, and sorry to the Navy posters here, but Navies do not take back land. And that is what Ukraine has to do. All the Grunts out there know what I mean. You can give me all the support you want/can, but I got to get off my ass into cold boots and move in a direction. This is all cute, but the focus needs to go back to the land battles. AP had a good segment on it today.

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So they've been producing SU-34s since 2006 and they've been in service since 2014, and they have produced close to 160.  20 or so have been lost in Ukraine - only 12% or so of all Su-34s lost, but the crazy thing is, a lot of them were lost making bomb runs with unguided bombs, which put them in proximity to air defenses.

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So they've been producing SU-34s since 2006 and they've been in service since 2014, and they have produced close to 160.  20 or so have been lost in Ukraine - only 12% or so of all Su-34s lost, but the crazy thing is, a lot of them were lost making bomb runs with unguided bombs, which put them in proximity to air defenses.

Most of the precise stuff that can go on their strike aircraft needs to be guided in manually, that’s why the Su-34 is a two seater. They don’t have FLIR targeting pods. 
 

They’d been chucking dumb bombs with guidance packages from a distance and it actually kept them farther away. Seems like AFU got a German Patriot and deployed it smartly. 
 

Imagine how well they’d do if we stopped being assclowns about more aid. 

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If you’re tired of playing Santa for your kids, show them this NSFW video explaining that Santa died in Russia descending a 24-story building very rapidly while his wife and kid looked on

https://nypost.com/2023/12/22/news/red-robed-russian-santa-claus-plunges-24-floors-to-death-in-botched-stunt-watched-by-wife-and-kids/

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So earlier when I posted about the US and other allies seizing frozen assets and giving them to the Ukrainians to "buy" weapons, well the Russians aren't happy about this.

I think they just realized we are going to use their own money to fight them, which is hilarious in it's own right.   Helps everyone, and is a nice fuck you and double whammy to them.  

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If you’re tired of playing Santa for your kids, show them this NSFW video explaining that Santa died in Russia descending a 24-story building very rapidly while his wife and kid looked on

https://nypost.com/2023/12/22/news/red-robed-russian-santa-claus-plunges-24-floors-to-death-in-botched-stunt-watched-by-wife-and-kids/

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Must have pissed off Putin.

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If you’re tired of playing Santa for your kids, show them this NSFW video explaining that Santa died in Russia descending a 24-story building very rapidly while his wife and kid looked on

https://nypost.com/2023/12/22/news/red-robed-russian-santa-claus-plunges-24-floors-to-death-in-botched-stunt-watched-by-wife-and-kids/

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The sad thing it is that as he fell yelling, “Ho-ho-ho!”,  his wife kept screaming, “What, what, what??!”

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