He is from the same line of many Communist Soviet leaders and earlier, don't minimize what he is, the savage past that he draws inspiration and example from.
The Germans were in the hapenny place compared.
Bit of a correction there. the F-16CM is just a regular F-16 and not specifically hardwired for the Wild Weasel/SEAD role. It can certainly do that role, it has the sensors & computers to handle it, but the Wild Weasel designation these days is more of a general term for US SEAD aircraft. Those two F-16s over Romania, Viper 51 & 52, seem to be flying CAP by the looks of it. Just surprised that their ADS-B transponders are still active, or rather, visible on flightradar24.
I'm hoping they televise the next Ukrainian ploughing championship.
@Dohnjoe - This is Adam Gabbatt taking over from Léonie Chao-Fong.
Sounds like a coup in China.
He's not kidding anyone except himself.
They were also invaded by the Swedes in 1709, during the Great Northern War (Napoleon was reportedly reading a book about this campaign during his own invasion in 1812). The Swedes were defeated at the Battle of Poltava which, of course, is in Ukraine, not far (in Russian terms) from Kharkiv. 😊
Russian embassy in Prague, someone accidentally tripped and spilt red paint on it
If things are going as badly as is being reported they may well be wheeling out T-34s before too long... 😁
Ha, and on top of this the Ukrainians actually said a few days ago that all captured Russian equipment is tax exempt
The US has “seen a number of missteps” by Russia in its invasion of Ukraine, the US defense secretary said on Friday.
In an interview with CNN Lloyd Austin said Russian troops “have not progressed as far as quickly as they would have liked”, adding that Russian forces have “struggled with logistics”.
Austin told CNN he has not seen evidence of “good employment of tactical intelligence” or “integration of air capability with a ground maneuver.”
“There are a number of things that we would expect to have seen that we just haven’t seen,” Austin said.
“Many of their assumptions have not proven to be true as they entered this fight.”
He added: “I think [Russia] envisioned that they would move rapidly and very quickly seize the capital city, they’ve not been able to do that,” the Pentagon chief said.
This is Adam Gabbatt taking over from Léonie Chao-Fong.
Imagine those farmers tax returns: Assets acquired on which depreciation is claimed:
1 BTR-80
1 Ka-52
2 TOS-1 MLRS launchers
.
It's blostering nato's Eastern borders more so Poland.
Simply because Poland have to think of Belarus on its border as well as Russian missiles and aircraft.
If Western Ukraine falls or come under Russian forces you definitely would not want these systems falling into there hands.
Jeeze if the Russians are fearful of invasion just imagine how the Poles, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Finns feel about invasion.
Maybe they're more like the English, invaded a couple of times and still go on about 1066. 😁 You notice some differences when you travel aorund Europe. In Ireland and often England castles are as likely to built in the nice part of the bottoms of valleys as a show off piece by the local lord, whereas in Europe you have whole towns built on the top of hills for defence. They were more used to being invaded.
Russias biggest just about within living memory event was WW2, or the Great Patriotic War from their point of view. Tens of millions died because of that. There would be very few Russian families in the west of that nation who didn't lose a few relatives to that and it still holds some sway in their psyche. Add in 80 or whatever years of the Soviet Union and the constant fear instilled in the people of The West. That dropped off in the 90's but they then dealt with the economic rape of their country, which putin has said was either the fault of The West, or they let it happen because they want to see Russia broken. That crap runs deep.
And yeah it is/was more of an empire than a country. Not unlike China. Unlike the European powers neither bothered their arses with colonial empires in the New World because they already had one in the old. And like Empires tend to do after a while both looked inward(Ottomans the same). Both were heaviliy centralised in power and both had vast tracts of land in the beyond they barely cared about or noticed and relied on local lords to look after and funnel taxes from to their czar emperor in Moscow/Bejing. And other parallels of empire can come into play too. The Chinese see Tibet as "theirs" because it once was within the imperial borders. The Russians had/have similar with bits of Poland and the like and Ukraine is an obvious one. They certainly see Crimea as theirs. I would reckon this imperial thinking still informs a chunk of the people and certainly the leadership.
I have mentioned this problem before, these systems are being sent to the wrong countries. Sending out of date 80's era systems to a country being bombarded relentlessly and the really good stuff to countries that aren't. The very definition of WTF?
Absolutely. They are F-16CM Wild Weasel aircraft. If you click on the large aircraft to their left, you will see that it is a KC-135 refueling aircraft. They are all flying at the same altitude. Wild Weasel flights carry Anti-Radiation missiles that lock on to enemy radar emissions. You'll see the fighters disappear from FR shortly when they switch off their transponders.
I was thinking more of a Thor's hammer / rods from god kind of thing. Tungsten rods the size of telephone poles that would enter the Earth's atmosphere at extreme speeds and unleash an immense amount of kinetic energy where they hit. Being tungsten, they would be resistant to the heat of re-entry.
I believe a bond movie incorporated the idea. The notion would be to have first strike capability that could neutralize almost all of Russia's nuclear weapon payload delivery mechanisms before it's use was detected (stealth coatings+). It's probably the US can track most of Russias ballistic missile subs and that many are tailed.
The idea wouldn't be to use it, just break Russia's economy as they try to match it, then be a lot less concilliatory and reasonable in dealing with the broken Russia than the last time.
Putin want's to be a cowardly barbarian sheltering behind the threat of his big stick, build a bigger stick that can break his.
No one is giving you enough credence to think of you as a crack Russian cyber agent.
Just someone peddling conspiracy theories.
the Ukr should have its own list of individuals that suddenly disappear/ kidnapped/ arrested and keep them highlighted especially at the UN level such disappearances etc, is a continuation of the war
@greenpilot
Is this interesting?
He hasn't started liquidating people in camps yet, so he can't be compared apparently
Photo from a supermarket in Russia where everything is totally fine and okay
Russian helicopter with "Onwards to Berlin" written on it
A bit strange, but okay, not going to knock any humanitarian stuff
UK Sky Sabre is heading to Poland as well
Also exactly what America did under Bush to get support for the Iraq war. Worked there too
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