Is it just me or does anyone else think there is more significance to recent goings on around the Kerch Bridge?
Looks like marine traffic is still backing up either side and that smoke curtain yesterday was strange, even by Russian standards.
You should see tv channels in orcstan. If its not propaganda taking up channels for the rest of the world known as 'news', the rest are all kind of conspiracy documentaries. Conspiracy is like an oxygen for average russkiy.
Wanker Group. This is ruZZian culture. 🤮
Remember the water drones from yesterday ??
One may have had success
I believe someone already claimed this was from a previous attack based off the time of day
It stopped the Vietnam war. Massive protests and antiwar propaganda stopped it. It is what is terrifying Putin and his cronies at the moment, and why he's cracking down so hard on any kind of anti-war rhetoric. The pressure is building up all the time in Russia, and when it reaches critical mass, it will explode, these incursion's, bombings, fires etc. in Russia are all contributing to public unease. But Putins real threat I think will come from within his own circle, some one close to him, but more exposed to external factors ( like seeing his wealth and power draining away.
More good news
I personally think the Gripen is a better fit than the F16
Yes it is, cheaper, easier to maintain and a an extremely Capable aircraft, especially the newest Gripen E
It's a great plane, but there's so few of them compared to F16s or even F35s.
Yes, they are more cost effective, but the last crashed Gripen was knocked out by a cormorant. Do orcs have any access to cormorants by any chance?
.35 seconds on google ;)
Have you seen testing jet engines by firing frozen Turkeys at them
Live on #LCI, General Jean-Paul Perruche analyses the absence of General Valery Zaluzhny, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces:
"Ramstein where he should have been"
"His wife heading to the hospital"
"It would be important [he] to come forward"
lol true, but from the video above it looks like they still result in ejections.
The mil-spec people know better than I but to my pleb engineer background it seems like a solid frozen turkey would be more brittle than a live turkey, the latter having a much more irregular break up within the engine, the frozen one will get vaporized into chunks almost immediately.
But anyway not all jet engines are alike either. A commercial liner jet engine is a very different animal to a fighter jet engine, especially in terms of size and redundancy. They're built for entirely disparate service roles (bleeding edge combat performance for 1 pilot with an ejector seat vs. long haul economy and passenger safety for 100s). From the F16 video above it seems a bird strike is going to result in an engine failure, thus an eject scenario, but at least the engine won't disintegrate.
GE9X:
F100 Pratt & Whitney (F16):
I could find numerous videos online of commercial jet engine birdstrike tests, but none for mil-spec fighter jet engines. Though I could find thrust test videos, leading me to think it's not a case of 'testing environment so sensitive its classified' but rather they would probably not like to point out the engine doesn't survive functionally from such a test (just my 2c).
The Americans will have a pretty good idea of what happened.
John McCain
Putin.
McCain was nobody's fool, and he would have made it a very close race with Obama if not for his identity politics **** up by picking Palin as his running mate.
Where he lost my tacit interest though was his "maybe 100 years" attitude about staying in the Iraqi quagmire, it just came off as never accepting an L for USA, by 2008 most Americans were already ready for the war for oil to be over.
March 31, 2008 — -- In early January, at a town hall-style campaign event for Sen. John McCain in Derry, N.H., a man in the audience stood to ask the Republican presidential candidate a question about his support for the war in Iraq.
What followed was an extraordinary discussion that lasted six minutes. McCain predicted that Gen. David Petraeus' counterinsurgency strategy would eventually make Iraq more secure, allowing economic, social and political progress to take place.
"What happens is American troops withdraw and they withdraw to bases and then they eventually withdraw, or we reach an agreement like we have in South Korea, with Japan," he said. "We still have troops in Bosnia."
The man in the audience wasn't satisfied. We weren't at war in those countries, he said. And he questioned whether the troop surge in Iraq was truly succeeding, as McCain had asserted.
"I do not believe that one U.S. soldier being killed almost every day is success," he said to McCain. "There were three U.S. soldiers killed today. I want to know how long are we going to be there?"
Back and forth it went until the man started to ask another question. "President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years --"
McCain interrupted with words that have haunted him ever since.
He said either "Maybe a 100," or "Make it 100."
Bosnia was a totally different animal. We didn't charge into Bosnia to depose Lukeshenko for getting off the petrodollar. We didn't go in on lies that they had WMDs, we went in because genocide.
While I would have loved for a Marshall Plan for Iraq etc. like McCain alludes to, in no way were we greeted as liberators etc. to do any such thing.
Could be weeks old.....
Isn't that right
The regularly updated list of confirmed Russian military deaths.
Very interesting breakdowns.
Buryatia: Population just under 1 million, 702 dead.
Moscow: Population 12.7 million, 149 dead.
A Buryat is 60 times more like to have died in this war than a Moscovite.
Russian propagandist says not to trust this video, but many in the comments section are asking questions.
Is the ship intact, interesting, or will it now stand on the same shelf with the "Moscow"? Judging by the explosion of the first drone, there are so many explosives that it should have been turned in half. MO is just a shame.
and again.
Already familiar. Lies, swindle and cheating - a badge of the Russian Ministry of Defense. All our successes in Ukraine are not due to, but in spite of.
and again, etc.
But didn’t it seem suspicious to anyone that in the official footage they were destroying a drone on a clear day, and the attack was at dusk?
Looks like they've grown a replica in those Ukrainian biolabs
Putin has a very delicate balance to maintain in Russia life hasn't really changed for the middle and upper classes in Russia at all since the invasion started it is the poor who have been drafted and the standing army of professional soldiers who have done most of the fighting. This is also why Wagner was sent to Bahkmut as those kind of losses amongst regular Russian soldiers would have been intolerable but no gives a **** about mercs and crims.
If Putin started drafting the middle class and upper class kids he could face a revolution but this is also a problem for Zelenski and Ukraine for how much longer will the people of Ukraine tolerate these losses? If the counter offensive is a success and drives Russia back all well and good if it's a costly failure what then??
lol
Good stuff. Glad he's not dead
This is the sawdust and wood-glue Putin. The real one is in the cellar of the Kremlin, or dead.
Not a lot to go by on that video at all
Ukrainian general still alive. Russian vessel was actually struck by a drone.
I'm beginning to think that smoke on the Crimean bridge wasn't an exercise.
“Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”
Give it up man!
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