I think that the microchip-purple-monkey-dishwasher conversation has been done to death at this point. Any chance we can knock it on the head?
First, there's no need to be a dick. You're not there either.
Second, the idea is to use Ukr's advantages such as size of country to bleed out the orcs, then attack with conditions suit. It appears the political goal may be beginning to harm the military goal around Bakhmut.
Last year Ukr successfully used strategic withdrawls to inflict massive harm on the orcs. If Ukr are suffering high casualties in Bakhmut then withdrawing to another prepared defensive position is a good move. Allowing mordor to call the tune, not so much. Bakhmut is just a place two armies have met, it's not a prize.
Ukraine still fighting in Bakhumt.
I am surprised BUT the Ukrainian commanders appear to know what they are doing so got to trust them on that. Hope it pays off whatever their plan is.
More experts giving their advice for Ukraine to leave Bakhmut 😂
Maybe they should get onto putler and request terms for peace while they're at it?
Solovyev getting a small dose of reality on one of his glamour frontline visits
There isn't anything that specialised in a washing machine. All the parts will be standard, except for maybe a bit of code from one manufacturer which says the best way to wash is spin 50 times that way, then 25 the other way whilst the other manufacturer has that you should spin 13 times the other way first or it just doesn't get clean properly... Then they can say that their machine has super duper cleaning power and charge an extra 50 notes for it.
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unless Ukr command know's more than me, which could be possible...
There's no 'could be' about it.
Lol
they're not literally off the shelf though are they? they'd still have to be ordered and the supplier would have to do due diligence. It would still be pretty hard to get them, especially the more specialised ones.
Remember russia has it's own chip making industry. They can make simple diodes and stuff like that. It's just more complicated stuff they need from abroad because their industry is years behind the west.
Orwell Road should be ashamed of their mongrel herd of herds.
Time for Ukr to withdraw from Bakhmut from all I'm reading. It's served it's purpose, unless Ukr command know's more than me, which could be possible...
You mean when they build a $10 million missile they wouldn't want to risk using a 10c chip when they could spend $300 on some western white goods to guarantee the quality? From that standpoint it makes sense.
Russia did produce a list of chips it was seeking from friendly countries months ago and for the most part it was western produced stuff like Texas instruments and not generic chips etc..
Considering the reduced frequency of mass missile strikes on Ukraine, there's something preventing Russia from ramping up or even keeping pace with production.
Thick savages
It's still pretty simple - loads of Finns cross over to Russia to fill their petrol tanks. Any Russians doing business or who have family in Finland easily get visas. No-one is going to check if they have a box full of microchips in the boot or not when they go back and forth.
But it seems Russia doesn't have too many problems getting stuff like that from Turkey or Belarus, so small-time smuggling doesn't really make a difference.
If I was building missiles in a war, I'd take the truck loaded with dodgy chips rather than 3 washing machines in the truck. Just as likely to kill the useful parts in dismantling the washing machine, but run through the dodgy chips and find the working ones would be far easier and result in way more of what you are after trying to create.
And yet border guards have been searching people leaving Finland for Russia.
If the chips are listed on the disk use sanctions list they would be confiscated.
Never mind Akihabara and baskets of chips.
What I want to know is can you get a basket of chips at Abrakebabra?
Looking from a safe distance ...That's all they are going to have....
This all made a random recollection occur to me where there was that panic over the PS2 and how one of its processors could've been acquired by hostile countries to make missile guidance systems.
I read on Telegram that the Ukrainians are developing their own Shahids and that there will be swarms of them heading the Orcs way soon.
The source is an FSB leaker who has been leaking stuff since Mar 4th last year. It's impossible to verify if it's true or not, but have read a good bit of their stuff, e.g.
The advantage of stipping a western produced appliance is for one:
1) The devices themselves are usually not subject to the same restrictions as other devices
2) The quality of the semiconductors and microcontrollers are much higher.
The quality thing is important. They could totally drive a truck down to Shenzen and just fill it by the shovel-load with Chinese-produced chips. But you're going to gamble on what percentage of that (if any) will meet the quality needed for a CE mark. Normally when you throw together a cheap knock-off piece of tech, that doesn't matter too much. But if you are now using that stuff to determine the firing rules of a munition...you kind of want to be somewhat certain the whole thing won't go up in your face when you wire in a warhead.
So, although this is probably limited, I would not put it past them to gut appliances to get to the decent chips inside.
At least I think we have established that washing machines are not being dismantled to make bombs, they just happen to contain some similar parts.
I saw some coverage last week of some town where they conducted a "double-tap" strike, where they hit the exact same location about 10 minutes after they first strike it. That's a tactic that's designed to inflict casualties amongst first responders. In that particular case it was firemen who were injured.
You're replying to another 'expert' who has just re materialised on the thread - beam me in Scottie. And March only 7 days old.
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I'm chuffed that the wing sets are Australian in terms of design, development and manufacture.
Luckily the AFU are very adapt at selectivly striking RU targets to cause maximum trouble. Can imagine the Russians might get abit worried about their arms caches within range of these. Ukraine has a knack of knowing where those are :P
Francie, I'd say that the reasons they are leaving the tank in the first place gives them no time to think, let alone worry about the tank....Life preservation being the main motivator.
Do you have any references, articles etc. on Afghans torturing Russians in Afghanistan?
I remeber Akihabara well in the 90's, baskets of chips etc you could wade through. "Before the Cold War thawed, East Bloc buyers were often seen here brandishing stacks of yen and snapping up precious computer parts."
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