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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 858 ✭✭✭jolivmmx


    The people that I know who support Russia in real-life are very bitter. They seem to belief that the NWO is out to get them and it is all ****. They see badness in everything, where there is none



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,308 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe



    That cruise missile (8 missiles) attack on Vinnytsia airport in the center of Ukraine looks to have completely destroyed it



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    It think the general plan is that they want to take the south and then encircle Kyiv. When the encirclement is solidified and the Ukrainian Troops move from Lviv, west to East as a counter attack to make the Russians fight on 2 fronts outside Kyiv, then the Belerussians will pour down from the north.

    The Belerussians seems like a big IF at the moment.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Bayonet


    You've missed the Bayraktar TB2 drone. It's become a sort of national hero in Ukraine. Turkish made. It's decent, not top end or anything but is doing the job. US & Israel are pretty much the best drone makers. Turkey bought drones from Israel and then developed their own range based on those designs. Turkey's drones did well against Russian hardware during their brief incursion into Syria.

    The US sending drones to Ukraine would be viewed as essentially joining the war, hence why they've been reluctant.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 858 ✭✭✭jolivmmx




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,808 ✭✭✭threeball


    Musk is a hypocritical toss pot in all aspects of his life. Thats hardly going to change because people are dying on the other side of the world.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,769 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    They have a bit of a history of doing that sort of thing. Shortwave had some popularity before the internet. I used to listen to BBC's Top Of the Pops from Australia.

    Speaking of which, apparently the Ukrainians have been jamming Russias attempts to communicate with their aircraft via SW by blasting out their national anthem on the same frequencies.



  • Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    So given your name, you obviously know a bit about these things. How do these particular drones work? Are they a one-use thing or do they return to base after delivering their load? Electric or fuel powered? What's their range of travel between launch and delivery of payload?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Subzero3


    It happens and nobody should whitewash it. Let's agree the people who commit these crimes should not be part of any functioning democracy (post war).

    The Nazi brigades are certainly not welcome in Europe. Whether they are Ukrainian, Russian or other. Just because they fight on "our" side does not mean carte blanche.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 858 ✭✭✭jolivmmx


    It is scary and mind-boggling that one super-wealthy, non-elected individual has the ability to decide what can be broadcast to a sovereign nation.

    But I guess that this is a topic for another thread….



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,891 ✭✭✭✭briany


    If the Russians are underperforming so far in their invasion of Ukraine, it makes me wonder how much worse the Belarussians would be. I can imagine a group of them driving toward the front in a WW2-era open top military car, honking a silly-sounding horn and they're all sat facing the wrong direction. And then they get stuck in mud later on, and one of them is screaming 'Put it in H! Put it in H!'.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,099 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    That's the craziest looking signature I think I've ever seen 😕



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,308 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭liamtech


    LONDONGRAD - the money laundering capital of the world

    Extremely accurate video - Have a look - blood boiling

    Sic semper tyrannis - thus always to Tyrants



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,929 ✭✭✭PrzemoF


    I read some stuff about Putin from a person (*) that is watching Russia for years. He's not living in the real world anymore, most likely believing in his own propaganda. It can end up in millions of victims or a nuclear war. Or both. Link (google translated)

    The number of refugees getting into Poland should go over 1M today. One of my family members is driving right now with 4 of them towards western Poland.

    (*) Krystyna Kurczab-Redlich, journalist, reporter, author of books about Russia, incl. repeatedly awarded "Head for the Kremlin Wall", biography of Putin "Vov, Volodya, Vladimir. The Secrets of Putin's Russia", author of documentaries about Chechnya, nominated in 2005 by Amnesty International and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights for the Nobel Peace Prize.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Subzero3


    I don't understand why the Russians didn't do this early on. Taking big hits when they could launch missiles unimpeded.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,161 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    I see more and more Ukraine flags going up and long may it continue. As far as I'm concerned I wouldn't waste tiewraps on the invading tyrants forces!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,099 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,049 ✭✭✭Mecanudo


    Putin must be handing that stuff out to everyone 'cos that's the bullshit he's pushing!



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    What has been very noticeable for me is Russia's lack of air superiority in this. They should have had that sealed up in days. If you notice when Russian jets are flying it's in ones or twos and many seem to be at low level too. No mass coordination of aircraft like the US would have. Never mind that the US would have B52's going in in numbers taking out airports and other military targets and anti radar/SAM aircraft going in and AWACS to beat the band and drones 24/7.

    IMHO what we're seeing is that behind the fancy curtain of highly advanced Russian aircraft showing off at international air shows their airforce appears to be seriously lacking in usable frontline aircraft and trained pilots(and likely smart munitions). I remember reading a few years back that because of cutbacks Russian fighter pilots were only getting around a hundred flight hours a year and that was up from the really dark days when if you had a few grand you could go to Russia and get a flight in a Mig. Western airforces would be at least double that and with simulator time on top. I'd be willing to bet that if NATO did go in against the Russian airforce it would be a similar result to when the German luftwaffe took on the Polish airforce in WW2. A near total wipeout. We're also seeing their crap logistics and out of date ground forces and general intel too. So in many ways it's not unlike what you described, a colourised WW2 army on the march.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 858 ✭✭✭jolivmmx


    I was surprised by the fact that London has sent no military aid to Ukraine and by the lack of sanctions versus other countries



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Bayonet


    Don't let the name fool you, I know little. As far as I'm aware, Ukraine doesn't have any suicide drones. It's a pity, because suicide drones would be a real advantage in this conflict. The Baykatar returns to base to be rearmed. It has a fuel engine and it's range is up to 300km. There's a TB3 out, but I don't think Ukraine operates any.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Subzero3


    I think catching a western POW in person or seeing a western soldier kill a Russian will be easier for Vlad to sell the war to the population. The only way Ukraine comes back in this war is by pushing the Russians back South. The north is on the Russian border so Ukraine can only push back so far there. That's why the South it the real battle.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,308 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    They probably thought they'd have the airport by now. Now there's little hope so they destroy it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭joseywhales


    I thought there was actually a sizeable number of Nazi sympathisers in Britain at least, not sure about France, although you would wonder. I think a lot of people felt that the treaty of Versailles was very unfair on the Germans.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,364 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Oh the Gerries had no problems getting eastern Europeans to off their political undesirables. There were plenty of Ukrainians lining up to do their "duty" at Baba Yar, for instance.

    As for Irish people and how surprised they'd be at the causal bigoted slur you'd hear in eastern Europe, I have no doubt that they would be. I've had my own eyebrows raised by some of the comments said to me in conversation by Poles, Slovaks, Hungarians and Balts living here.

    Go beyond Germany and you have a mess of pretty similar peoples and they all have the animosities toward each other going back centuries. Poles dislike Ukrainians, Lithuanians dislike the Latvians, Russians dislike Ukrainians, Serbs dislike the Croats and so on.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,932 ✭✭✭thomil


    Not Bayonet here, but the Bayraktar TB-2 is definitely a reusable drone. Depending on what is needed, it can operate either unarmed, if you just need to keep an area under surveillance or with a variety of different missile loadouts along four different hard points under the wing for an attack role. They use a regular piston engine and run on the same type of AvGas that the Cessnas at your local flying club would use. It can reach altitudes of up to 8000 meters, putting it out of range of many MANPADS, and it can remain on station for up to 27 hours, so it's quite the powerful system.

    Good luck trying to figure me out. I haven't managed that myself yet!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Subzero3




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,099 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,819 ✭✭✭greenpilot


    One interesting aircraft currently operating just north of Kaliningrad is this Swedish Airforce "Korpen". Its a heavily modified Gulfstream used for ELINT or electronic signals gathering.

    It's normally intercepted by SU-27's from Kaliningrad, so worth keeping an eye out for it.

    Screenshot_20220306-131514_Flightradar24.jpg




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