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  On 1/12/2024 at 3:47 PM, MissingInAction said:

Is UK stepping up their game due to the partisan fuckery in the US?

Or are they just pulling thier weight?

 

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There's an upcoming election, the party in power has extensively fucked up the country and is far behind in the polls, and supporting Ukraine is about the one thing they can/will do that's popular with the electorate. There may be more to it than that but I don't think so. 

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  On 1/13/2024 at 11:54 PM, Chad Fuck said:

What's the rest of the story?  For those of us who don't do X?

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I'm guessing he got a draft notice and decided to go out on his own terms.

That or Christian Fletcherski wanted to stay in their last port of call and offed the captain.

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We lost around 420 Lt. Colonels in 10 years of Vietnam, with almost half (187) being Air Force (pilots shot down).

Russia has lost 200 in less than two years, with a fraction of the overall numbers of troops serving in Ukraine than we had in Vietnam - in total, we had 2.7 million American who served in Vietnam, with a peak of 560,000 in 1969 - Russia hasn't even come close to 500,000 in Ukraine.

 

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  On 1/14/2024 at 12:06 AM, Macanudo said:

I'm guessing he got a draft notice and decided to go out on his own terms.

That or Christian Fletcherski wanted to stay in their last port of call and offed the captain.

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There's a "Last Call" joke in here somewhere.  Dammit, I had something for this...

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https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/26706

OPINION: Where is General Gerasimov and Why Does it Matter?

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“After a series of Ukrainian missile strikes in Crimea, the continued silence from the Kremlin is potentially telling. Is Putin worried that Kyiv is actively targeting his high command?”

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It has been a week since Ukraine conducted two deep fire missile strikes against Russian targets in Crimea on January 5th. British Storm Shadow and French SCALP cruise missiles were used to strike a command post near Sevastopol and a radar station in Uyutne near the coastal western city of Yevpatoria.

Visegrád 24 reported shortly afterwards that 23 Russian troops were killed in the Ukrainian attack on the Russian airbase in Saky, Crimea. Nine were purported to be special forces – and five “high-ranking commanders.”

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Soon thereafter rumors quickly began circulating that one of those high-ranking commanders was Russian General Valery Gerasimov. WarVehicleTracker tweeted an image from the Telegram channel known as “Ordinary Tsarism” that suggested Russian President Vladimir Putin’s theater commander had been “in a command post near Sevastopol at the time of the attack.”

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It is doubtful that he is dead. Indeed, on January 6th, former deputy chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ General Staff, Lieutenant General Ihor Romanenko warned “against believing rumors about the elimination of the head of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, in an interview with Radio NV.”

Yet Gerasimov’s continued absence from the public stage and Moscow’s ‘radio silence’ to date on his status are interesting. Gerasimov was last seen in public was December 29th, presenting awards to “military personnel who distinguished themselves during the liberation of Marinka' in occupied Donetsk region, Ukraine.”

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Posted (edited)
  On 1/15/2024 at 12:23 AM, elfenix said:

twitters think russia lost some important airplanes

 

 

 

 

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What could be behind this uptick in "friendly" fire on Russian aircraft? Is hacking possible? Sabotage, lack of radar or other equipment due to attrition, or an increase in incompetence?

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  On 1/15/2024 at 12:37 AM, KYHorn said:

What could be behind this uptick in "friendly" fire on Russian aircraft? Is hacking possible? Sabotage, lack of radar or other equipment due to attrition, or an increase in incompetence?

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They’ve lost around 3,400 officers since Feb of 2022.  That’s a lot of institutional knowledge when you factor in that Russian junior officers fill in roles that NCOs do in the West.

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That A-50 AWACS is (was) a super valuable asset. Russia likely only has something like 10 or so flying. And maybe fewer given the absolute state of the the VKS. 

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  On 1/15/2024 at 2:21 AM, 956 Worldwide said:

That A-50 AWACS is (was) a super valuable asset. Russia likely only has something like 10 or so flying. And maybe fewer given the absolute state of the the VKS. 

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And, I believe Russian air defense doctrine is heavily reliant on command and control identifying and vectoring to targets.  Take out that command and control and they become error-prone.

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Posted
  On 1/14/2024 at 5:07 PM, Parliament said:

The Middle East kerfuffle is a side show.  Nothing that resembles an existential threat.  Why do we flake out every time that shithole catches fire.

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Strategically it is absolutely a sideshow. Politically we live in a place where that sideshow gets 400K people to protest in DC, unfortunately. 

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  On 1/15/2024 at 2:23 AM, TwiceHorn said:

And, I believe Russian air defense doctrine is heavily reliant on command and control identifying and vectoring to targets.  Take out that command and control and they become error-prone.

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Yes, and they treat their air operations as more like flying artillery than owning the sky.  There is also a major skill gap between Russian and Western pilots; the Russians just don’t fly as much and don’t practice complex air operations.  They steer their jets as onesies or twosies. 

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  On 1/15/2024 at 2:21 AM, 956 Worldwide said:

That A-50 AWACS is (was) a super valuable asset. Russia likely only has something like 10 or so flying. And maybe fewer given the absolute state of the the VKS. 

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The downing of the A-50 was apparently the first ever destruction of a long-range airborne early warning aircraft in history.

https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-achieves-world-first-downing-150400964.html
 

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The destruction of a Russian A-50 in the skies over the Sea of Azov on Jan. 14 was the first-ever documented downing of an airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft in history, Ukrainian military news outlet Defense Express reported on Jan. 15.

Previously, downing AEW&C aircraft was considered to be highly implausible, since these sorts of planes typically avoid the front lines and stay as far away as possible from the adversary’s air defense zone. They are also usually protected by an escort, and their radar capabilities allow them to spot any incoming threats long before they materialize.

"No one in history has ever shot down a long-range radar detection aircraft, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces have once again accomplished what was considered impossible and has never been done before," Defense Express writes.

The downing of the Russian A-50

Media reports that the Ukrainian military had shot down a Russian A-50 AEW&C aircraft, as well as an Il-22M11 airborne command post over the Sea of Azov began to surface on Jan. 14.

The two planes were on duty near Strilkove, Kherson Oblast, and were downed around 9:00 p.m. EET on Jan. 14, prompting an emergency landing in the Russian town of Anapa. The crew urgently requested evacuation and sought assistance from emergency services.

It was later revealed that Ukrainian Air Forces downed the A-50 near Kyrylivka, Zaporizhzhya Oblast.

"This is for the Dnipro! Burn in hell, devils!" the Air Force commander Mykola Oleshchuk said on Telegram on Jan. 15.

The Fighterbomber Telegram channel, allegedly run by Captain Ilya Tumanov of the Russian Armed Forces, reported casualties among the pilots of the downed A-50, while claiming the damaged Il-22M11 successfully made an emergency landing.

The Kremlin has refused to comment on the situation.

 

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Posted (edited)
  On 1/15/2024 at 3:48 PM, Chopper said:

Russian carnage in the morning is the best carnage. A+ explosion and dual camera footage.

 

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Wow thats nuts.  Some way to go.  Any video of the troop carrier up thread to accompany the still?

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  On 1/15/2024 at 8:23 PM, butthurt said:

Dumb question and it's probably already been answered, but what kind of explosive do they use to take out a tank like that on drones? 

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Anti-tank/shaped charge/ mortar shells (or anti-tank hand grenades).  They’ll use normal hand grenades against troops or soft-sided vehicles but mortars/anti-tank/shaped charges against armor.  60mm or 80mm  

In this instance they hit the engine deck which was not as armored (being in the back and behind the turret) and it may even be the air intake area they hit which is the most vulnerable.  Those shaped charged mortars/hand grenades can also probably generate enough power to make it into the fuel tanks and set them off (and they have ammo up against the fuel tanks).  

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  On 1/15/2024 at 10:20 PM, Parliament said:

With respect, how much finding out have these guys gotten so far?  A few air strikes and like one high-level guy whacked?  Not like we've released the kraken or anything.

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We waited until the Houthi crossed a clear line, after we told everybody what would happen in advance.  We gave them plenty of slack.  If it’s actually the IRGC and it was actually aimed at the consulate, then the gloves will come off.  

The administration can’t be seen as weak on this either, for a lot of reasons.  

If it was IRGC aiming at the consulate, at the least, we will hit Iranian units/infrastructure within Syria.  Probably target some high level folks.  

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  On 1/15/2024 at 10:36 PM, atomheartbevo said:

We waited until the Houthi crossed a clear line, after we told everybody what would happen in advance.  We gave them plenty of slack.  If it’s actually the IRGC and it was actually aimed at the consulate, then the gloves will come off.  

The administration can’t be seen as weak on this either, for a lot of reasons.  

If it was IRGC aiming at the consulate, at the least, we will hit Iranian units/infrastructure within Syria.  Probably target some high level folks.  

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  On 1/15/2024 at 10:36 PM, atomheartbevo said:

We waited until the Houthi crossed a clear line, after we told everybody what would happen in advance.  We gave them plenty of slack.  If it’s actually the IRGC and it was actually aimed at the consulate, then the gloves will come off.  

The administration can’t be seen as weak on this either, for a lot of reasons.  

If it was IRGC aiming at the consulate, at the least, we will hit Iranian units/infrastructure within Syria.  Probably target some high level folks.  

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The gloves ain’t coming off. The response will be targeted and measured. We don’t want to be seen as escalating considering the current environment. If IRGC really did strike our consulate, it means the Anti-Israel crowd are trying to widen the affair to lessen our support. 

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  On 1/15/2024 at 11:59 PM, Neonmoon said:

The gloves ain’t coming off. The response will be targeted and measured. We don’t want to be seen as escalating considering the current environment. If IRGC really did strike our consulate, it means the Anti-Israel crowd are trying to widen the affair to lessen our support. 

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At the least, we will hit their stuff in Syria hard.

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