The funny thing is he thought they were one being shown prototypes and shiny pieces kept for just such occasions.
This video has been posted several times since the start of this thread,I believe it might predate the current war
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Drones and fire reported in Zaporizhzhia
Interview with Cossack Gundi. I am not sure what to make of it. Glad he's alive at least.
Massive potential but that was stolen.
Russia has a mob with guns, if it had a 3rd world quality army it would be in Moldova already.
You'd think there's lots just under the surface just bubbling away. Which seems to be correct.
Weren't they blaming the asiatic russians for the rapes and murders north of Kyiv. Seems they wanted revenge on the white enemy.
Their football mirrors the tensions of daily life.
if the republics do breakaway many will become enclaves that will likely be reabsorbed back into Russia proper in time, there are about 10 that could escape Russia and live as exclaves
It's pretty old. I've seen it before many moons ago.
Crazy scenes if you think about it. Imagine telling somebody in January that, later that very year, Iranian suicide drones would be reigning down on a European capital city.
Looks like he is going back to plan A, attack again from Belarus border, try take Kyiv again
Nope
It's mad, I think the psycological terrorism is probably even worse for civilians compared to shelling. At least with shelling they get air raids and have a little time to prepare. With this it just sounds like a swarm of exploding hornets and you have no idea where they'll come down.
Well unfortunately UAV have been out the box for years. Yes the smaller ones are more psychological. I'm Waiting for Drone hunter killers and drone drone hunter killers. It's all very FPS games from the Go pros and drone footage now. War completely laid bare with all the horrors. Desert storm was Shakey Night vision or radar. Now it's in 4k live sometimes.
Nah, that’s bonkers thinking. You’ve really fallen for propaganda if you can’t feel for Russian kids and adult civilians.
Thats not a million miles away from goose stepping against… whatever
It's a tough one. I'd imagine we're all sorry for any kids killed or hurt in this accident. But adult Russian civilians? I dunno. When there are so many innocent Ukrainians being killed by their soldiers? I'm not sure my empathy levels are high enough for much sorrow.
Seeing how many Russians left the country when they were at risk of being mobilised compared to how few left when the war started, I think it's safe to say that most Russians don't really care what happens to the Ukrainians as long as they themselves are ok. So it's hard to feel much pity for them when they're on the receiving end. I wouldn't wish it on them but nor am I going to lose any sleep over it.
I agree, kids are innocent, adults have complex responsibilities including fermenting change in their own country.
Good thread on iran's wunderwaffe loitering munition drones
The one that was downed was using some older Intel chip. Thinking outside the box prob does not have TPM or anything like that Could be linux. Could they not broadcast code injections or kill Kernel if Linux. Or low Teck solution some kind of Ferris mixture to make them visible on radar. Knowing Iran it's probably working on 2g or 3g work on them that way ? Would the American noise generators work on them ? hypersonic maybe cause interference. I know you want to down them safely probably armed as soon as launched is the issue.
I'm afraid I'm a Luddite in tech matters. However, there must be ways to defeat these drones. In all likelihood the trick will be manufacturing enough anti drone systems and deploying them quickly.
I've no use for Chomsky, but that looks like a fake quote. First off, that's an old image of Chomsky, he's an old man. The only places I can find this quote, are Darth Putin on Twitter, and here (at least, via simple goog).
The next step (contractors on the ground) ?
I also like that the US are making noise about the anti-sanction aspect of Iran's drone supply.
Obviously it has been decided that Putin WILL lose all of Ukraine.
That's the joke, isn't it? He has only said "the west supplying weapons prolongs the war", but wouldn't say anything when someone is helping out Russia.
Ahh... I missed it. He's an old unrepentant red and should be ignored.
Death toll from the plane crash yesterday updated.
Yeah, the "breakup" of Russia would only be a temporary reprieve. A few decades down the line, we'd be dealing with attempts at the re-unification of Russia. There's always going to be some bit called Russia that harks back to its imperial past.
I think the worst that would happen is that it would lose some bits at the edges. Imperial Russia, and the Soviet Union after it, did a good job of planting ethnic Russians in any area they wanted to control. They're either a majority or a plurality in most areas.
If Putin went with a Russia collapse, and the next regime weren't as well disposed to Kardyov, I could see Chechnya and possibly the other North Caucasian republics going it alone - and then there being a war between them.
Tuva was part of the Chinese empire until 1919, and was an "independent" state until 1945, variously under the sphere of influence of Russia, the Soviet Union and China. Taiwan even lays clam on it as part of the Republic of China (although the PRC doesn't). So that could be interesting in the case of Russia collapsing in to a political vacuum. But it's only a tiny bit of the country.
There's some other bits that aren't Republics that could get annexed by neighbours if the situation deteriorated enough. But the core of Russia won't be going anywhere.
How quickly can the damage to the electrical grid be fixed?
"The west is bad, m'kay..."
Probably not as fast as the Russians could destroy it again. It's a large distributed target with multiple points that can be targeted. Very hard to defend against it seems. I'd imagine that grid damage can be repaired a lot faster than damage to generation infrastructure and depends what in particular was damaged. Great Island was offline earlier this year for 4 months with a turbine fault.
Not as fast as it's being destroyed. Power stations will take years to rebuild. I don't know how connected Ukraine is to it's neighbours.
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