Ah, the Kerbal space programme.
"Failure is always an option."
Just waiting now for the breaking news via twitter or the Athlone Chronicle about Putin being under house arrest...
@Overheal & @Curious_Case
You can see the white line charges to blow the canopy in this pic. It's a pretty cool helicopter to be fair.
It's been tried. One early American idea was a downward firing one... Others fire the pilots out sideways. The Russian alligator Ka 52 IIRC blows the rotors first and the fires the crew up and out.
Thanks stuff like this tickles the Futureweapons/Ace Combat portion of my brain.
Stop for a moment and appreciate how Kerbal this engineering solution is:
To my knowledge it is only fitted to the Ka52.
Supposedly the Mi28 has seats which go sideways, but there is great suspicion on that due to forces on the neck. (Plus a higher minimum altitude)
Ejection seat - Wikipedia
So you can't back it up. Carry on.
Do you have a source on this or are you simply making things up? The Swiss have active sanctions against Russia which is unprecedented for them.
They sell arms to be used for defence by the country who buys their equipment but they do not allow those weapons to be transferred or sold to a third party and especially so if that country is in an active conflict. It is not hard to understand. It is similar to how Ireland defends its corporation tax. The Swiss government have even provided a loophole of sorts so that basic components can still be used even if the final products would be sent to Ukraine. They are treading a fine line not to break their own laws and constitution. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/war-in-ukraine--neutral-switzerland-confirms-its-position-on-transfer-of-war-material/47647352
The Swiss people are very much for the end of this war with a Ukranian victory but their rules are not quickly changed and would require a popular initiative followed by a referendum to change their constitution. This is very very slow process in Switzerland and would take years.
Or ejector seats !!!
Source or idea
Vertically launched like a jet ,
Rotors are blown outward away from the fuselage and then pilot and co pilot are fired up and clear
Sideways I guess? deployed by something like the deployment system of an airbag?
My idea (for the Russians) involved vertical deployment !!!
thats probably them using the aul Nazi label again
all Russians must be Environmentalists this winter
Not sure what you mean? I don't think it (Russian invasion of Ukraine) has been great [for Polish govt.'s world view or their "big brain" strategy such as it is].
They are between a bit of a rock and a hard place now, the war has brought contradictions to the surface for them (i.e. fact that their lovely "allies" like Orbán and the "MAGA" types in the US Republican party would like to see the support for Ukraine ended and a Putin victory in the war, while they in reality rely on ideological "enemies" like the Biden admin. or the EU + Germany to carry on their current Ukraine policies!)
They can't really resolve these contradictions now.
Well if they were 'thugs' in fairness...
Russian armed forces shelled two civilian thug boats in Mykolaiv Oblast.
Tug boats. The thugs are the ones that shelled the civilians.
Russian armed forces shelled two civilian thug boats in Mykolaiv Oblast. As a result of the shelling, two crew members were killed, the fate of one more person remains unknown
They already have them equipped on some of their helicopters
From what I understand, some TB2s were used in the recent USV attack on Sevastopol. Not sure whether they were simply acting as relay platforms for the surface drones, eyes in the sky for Ukrainian Navy command or acting as their own attack force, but to have both USVs and UCAVs engage in what is looking more and more like a coordinated operation, possibly with one acting as top cover for the other, is quite remarkable in its own right.
Bayraktar are building a drone factory in Ukraine.
The Turkish defense company Baykar plans to complete the construction of its production plant in Ukraine in two years
The company's CEO, Haluk Bayraktar, on the sidelines of the SAHA exhibition in Istanbul, told Reuters that plans are moving forward, despite some obstacles created by the invasion of Ukraine.
Three Bayraktar TB2 drones, which the Baykar manufacturer gave to Ukraine free of charge after the People's Bayraktar campaign, have already arrived in Ukraine, said Haluk Bayraktar, the company's general director
Over the course of three days, from August 31 to September 2, a pair of Bayraktar TV-2 unmanned aerial vehicles destroyed enemy equipment with a total cost of about $26.5 million. These are 8 T-72 tanks (estimated cost of each one is $3 million), one ACACIA self-propelled gun each ( $1.6 million), BMP ($0.6 million) and howitzers ($0.3 million).
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Effective Turkish Bayraktars in the skillful hands of our soldiers are a powerful weapon! One of the devices is help from friendly Lithuania.
I'd say that's a yes.
Looks like they still work to me.
Let's try selling helicopter ejector seats to the Russians 😁
Lol ......
Not buying it ,the first line gave it away
No parachute is deploying that low off the ground. Fair fux to the pilot for keeping it in the air so long in such critical state but it doesn't look like they'd be able to escape that wreck.
I'm waiting to see your "highly likely" Russian attack on British infrastructure.
I got a business idea - parachutes for helicopter pilots-
I imagine that the Russian invasion was quite a boon to their worldview, given that the EU remained in lockstep with Germanys comfort zone in supporting Ukraine
Kherson, Khersonska Oblast, Kharkiv, Kharkivska Oblast, Poltavska Oblast, Donetsk Oblast(17:13). Red Alert: aerial threat. Sirens sounding. Take cover now!
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