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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,066 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    How did the bomb in the truck get on to the bridge.


    Was it a suicide bomber or put in a lorry and some Red Army man told drive or thinking he had some other cargo.


    Doesn't really matter I suppose.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,322 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Says this: The feeble minded ignoramus parrots the propaganda.

    Follows with this: Are you aware the vast majority of "western medics" embedded with the Ukrainian forces are transplant specialist, there to harvest the organs of the dead.

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    And of course the usual hordes of Poles dead*, yet at the same time posied to invade and annex western Ukraine. The Russian Mir within and without seem obessed by this point. Well they don't exactly like the Poles, because unlike Napoleon and a certain Austrian corporal they actually invaded and took Russia, for a while at least. That's the problem with invasions against locals that don't want you. They rarely last for long. Tinpot dictators and the politics and cultures they inspire throughout history have constantly forgotten this point as they try to make another "Rome" in their image, while forgetting that the reason the latter won and lasted so long was because for the most part they offered a better bet than what had been there before and even though they were so "right wing" purple haired people would have a fit, they were also quite "liberal" in the sense that they didn't really care what you got up to so long as you weren't playing silly buggers against Rome and paid tribute and taxes.

    Note too how putin's rambling speech hit the points of your MAGA/conspiracy/right wing/conservative types in the West. The gay nazi gender bender trannies are after your kids type angle. IMHO they've been cleverly massaging those groups for years, just like they did with peace groups and Left wing outfits during the Cold War. The number of the latter that vanished near overnight when the USSR fell was "interesting". Their backing essentially dried up. These days social media and echo chambers makes this task all the more easy, especially and ironically in freer societies where disagreement is a given. It would be much harder for a Western interest to do this somewhere like Russia or China as disagreement against the official narrative has been rendered verboten, even unthinkable. Great if one agrees with their narratives, not so great, even decidely unhealthy if one doesn't.



    *with hands cut off no less. That's a new one on me. I wonder will I hear same from the same sources I know. To be forgotten next week, replaced by masses of Black American mercenaries(remember those? Pepperidge Farm remembers)

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Bunker busters and thermobarics put an end to that fairy quick



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,017 ✭✭✭jmreire


    That's all it ever was, to take control of Ukraine and its resources. Every thing else they claimed was just lying propaganda, all their "Red Lines"....NATO encroachment, Protecting Russian citizens in Dunbas, " De-Nazifying" Ukraine. Reversing the 2014 illegal Coup. ETC. LIes and more Lies from that factory of lies, the Kremlin, with the biggest liar and thief of them all Vladimir Putin.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    Similar warhead to the current missiles Ukraine uses in their himars. They were able to badly damage the bridge in Kherson.

    It could be enough to cause damage that makes it too risky for heavy goods to travel over it or cause it continuously to need repairs. Not to mention the tail tracks that just need to be weakened to cause damage.

    That's assuming they have GLSDG's already. Nothing official as of yet. However it would have been extremely rude of Biden to visit Kyiv without a gift 🤣



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 803 ✭✭✭technocrat




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭20Wheel


    Putin is a dictator. Putin should face justice at the Hague. All good Russians should work to depose Putin. Russias war in Ukraine is illegal and morally wrong.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    The Small diameter bomb 2 can penetrate more than 6 feet of reinforced concrete and have a programmable fuse so it can detonate just after it penetrates and make a big hole in a bridge,and it doesnt take more than one to make any bridge useless.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Good to see. Expect Richard Boyd Barrett, Mick Wallace, Clare Daly etc to start screaming about our neutrality being 'undermined' in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.......



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,785 ✭✭✭✭josip


    The Kerch bridge will only be in range of the GLSDB after Ukraine makes it to the coast. So the bridge won't figure in their current planning.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,064 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Would you have a link for that, I'm coming up dry? The SDB II appears to be called storm breaker and it's air launched and has an even smaller 53Kg warhead and seems mainly intended to hit moving vehicles.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    Hard to imagine it would have enough inertia after gliding for so long to penetrate 6 foot of concrete. I'm literally picturing it gliding slowly to the ground in order to get the max range out of it. Steeper attack angle, the shorter the range etc...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,849 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout



    Nothing says serious organisation like a gmail email account with a random number in it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,849 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout



    Not to mention that even with the extended range of GLSDB, the Kerch bridge still isn't in range:


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    The only ammo that'll reach that bridge is an ATACMS


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,066 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    The left are getting antsy, Russia is stalled, unless there is a significant change.

    The next big offensive could be its last.


    A ceasefire and talks will allow further bedding down by Russia.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,395 ✭✭✭✭Furze99


    So what's going to go down in the next few days?

    Some sort of big military statement from the Russians?

    Or will they let the anniversary of their foolishness slip by quietly so as not to draw domestic criticism?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,919 ✭✭✭ronivek


    I'm not sure if they actually have the capability to make any kind of "big military statement"; unless they decide to employ chemical or nuclear weapons. Consensus seems to be that they have already more or less exhausted their mobilised troops and that the rumoured "big offensive" is actually already underway.

    If I had to guess: we'll see one of the largest missile and drone attacks of the war on or about the 24th. Possibly they'll select some prominent civilian targets that will generate more gnashing of Western teeth but not enough to prompt long range weapon or fighter deliveries. Otherwise it'll be more of the same grinding attrition style advances to secure the Donbas.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,525 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    If I were you, I'd use https://obsproject.com/ to record the media playing on your computer and then you can add text over the recording?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,621 ✭✭✭timmyntc


    they may try to attack in the sparsely populated part of Kharkiv region, so they can attack Kupiansk from 2 sides and attempt to reclaim some of the territory lost last year in their collapse. Ukrainians have reported new military camps outside Voronezh and Kursk, so they think attacks may come from these toward Kharkiv and possibly Sumy.

    other than that, more bodies thrown at Ugledar and Avdiivka. Reports of convoys of wagners arriving in Mariupol and Melitopol, likely these will be thrown at both Ugledar and Velyka Novosilka


    if they had any tactical nous at all, they would not wait until the anniversary of their invasion to do all this as everyone so clearly expects, but its Putin so a great patriotic show for the motherland is what they'll get. (Just dont show the aftermath)



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Yes your right

    The design objectives for the storm breaker SDB 2 GBU-53/B are quite different from those for the GBU-39/B. The SDB 1 GBU-39/B is a weapon optimised for fixed targets, especially hardened infrastructure and basing, whereas the GBU-53/B is intended for attacks on moving battlefield targets, especially vehicles and heavy armour. In the simplest of terms the GBU-53/B is a glidebomb equivalent to the AGM-65 Maverick missile, but with a more flexible and countermeasures resistant seeker.

    So yes two different uses for them,but for the GLSDB its the GBU-39/B thats used



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Bitcoin


    Ammo shortages for the orcs are getting critical. They are tearing each other apart on social media over it.

    The orc collapse will come a lot sooner than you think.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,369 ✭✭✭paul71


    I have not really seen much commentary about this in the press, or perhaps I have missed it, but has there been a notable decline in Russian missle attacks on Ukrainian cities since the early/mid winter assault. I remember the almost daily headlines of "90 missles" from mid November to late December. While there are still attacks, are those days now gone?


    Have they now failed to break the Ukrainian power network and realised they have wasted their most dangerous offensive weapons on civilian targets rather than military ones? Or are the missle defense systems now making the attacks ineffective?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,849 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    For anyone wondering why the Russians are shooting themselves in the foot by starving their most effective current fighting unit (PMC Wagner) of ammo (and fresh prison recruits), Perun has an excellent video on the competing factions within Russia:





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,369 ✭✭✭paul71


    You will need to wait for his next reincarnation, he appears to have been site-banned and the bizzare racist thread he started in AH is gone too.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    They will end up like the Rest.

    Warning ⚠️ tweet contains highly blurred images of dead Wagnerites




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    I mean in relation to being ground launched rather than air launched at 30k feet over or near a target so it can literally nosedive down though the concrete vs ground launched and having to glide at a shallow angle to maintain maximum range.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    There's a few videos showing them smashing through concrete aircraft shelters, maybe they can climb to gain a particular altitude that makes it capable of penetrating concrete



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,369 ✭✭✭paul71


    Combined with the Wagner groups complaints that they are now only receiving the same level of ammunition supply as the rest of the Russian army, it is all very telling.


    Perhaps it is all not true!!! Perhaps the West with 10 times the population, a market economy, GDP per capita 5 to 10 times higher can actually out-produce a nation of Oil and Gas extractors.



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