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So you're saying the Duke 28 was supplying weapons to Ukraine?

Interesting - I wonder do the Ukrainians know that? 🤔

By any chance does the present fly around by many aircraft have anything to do with Hungary denying the use of its airspace to any country, including it's own NATO partners providing military aid to Ukraine? What do you think might happen where a plane carrying military aid ultimately destined for Ukraine were to fly over Hungary?

Or maybe it's more likely to be related to the fact that Hungary is increasingly looking a lot less like an honest player with regard to it being a member of the EU. With Hungary having no issues with Russians planes carrying Nuclear material landing in Hungary to furnish fuel for its own nuclear energy power plants or that the building of a new nuclear power plant awarded in 2014 (without a tender) to nuclear giant Rosatom is cited as just one of the many indications of warm ties between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Russian President Vladimir Putin? Or that Hungary being one of the first to pay roubles for Russian gas despite EU sanctions and generally giving the finger to Ukraine and the EU?

Nah can't believe it myself.

Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate of the Russian Navy Black Sea Fleet is reportedly on fire near Zmiiny island in Black Sea. Rescue operation ongoing, multiple aircraft, rescue vessels in the area

there will be no Russian Navy once this is all over

Because it's a bit of a bollocks to drive a tank across the Irish sea.

If someone were to control Ireland though, they'd have control of the eastern atlantic. We also have a deepwater port in Donegal.

However for ourselves, we're in a relatively safe position because we're an island.

Vikings.

I read somewhere that both the Brits and Russians and possibly the Germans all developed detailed maps of Ireland around WW2 and after in Cold War period in Russia's case. Worth pondering http://redatlasbook.com/topointro

A whole gang of aircraft are now pinging the black sea.

Alongside Forte 11 and RRR7236 it appears that NATO 11 along with Turkish navy aircraft are all taking a look

When the soviet union fell, a lot of their military plans became public. I saw the plans they had for the invasion of Ireland. They were on display in the college I went to. Full maps of Dublin with the different areas they should take. Some of them actually correlated with the sites of the 1916 rebellion. I believe the Phoenix park was going to to be a big runway. And I'm not 100% certain of this but there might have been a contingency plan to nuke killybegs, because it's a deepwater port and it would deny it's use to the US.

The germans prepared guides and plans for an invasion.

I saw stuff about the guides they were going to hand out to troops. Very basic stuff like "the locals drink guinness". :)

I tried finding it again but couldn't.

The fact that such a plan existed doesn't mean it was ever likely to be actioned. It's just one of those things to have on file, ready, if it ever needs to be actioned. I'd be completely surprised if the USA doesn't/didn't have one either. The UK certainly has one.

Officers and generals have a lot of free time when not on active duty. It's quite possible, likely even, that the Soviets had invasion plans prepared for nearly every country in Europe, if not on earth.

I think it would only have been actioned in the case of a third world war, between the USSR and NATO, which thankfully never happened. Even then I'd imagine it would have been a war where nukes hadn't been used yet. Because otherwise I doubt anyone would have enough living soldiers left to invade anywhere.

I find it a bit depressing that the thread about Ukrainian refugees seems more active than the thread about the conflict.