Russia - threadbanned users in OP

The fact that they didn't ground the aircraft says something,

By the way who jinxed Boeing we know the Russians are bad but who thought flying on Boeing aircraft lately is turning a little Russian

Of course they know it was shot down,

They did it themselves

If it were the Russian's, it demonstrates a lack of IFF capability, system security, and huge co-ordination issues. Replacing an AA operator isn't going to fix any of that, and those issues aren't being fixed any way fast. So you take the valuable target out of the grey area.

If it were the Ukranian's, it demonstrates a previously unavailable SAM distance, or A2A capability. Naval capability is also a very tiny possibility.

Does the patriot shoot any other missile's which could reach the new flight path? I'd love if Ukraine we're given two more better missiles to have another go. One more of these lost Russia wouldn't risk anymore close to Ukraine they'd become useless.

In the early days of the war I watched this thread quite closely and I also watched the various YT videos on Ukrainian updates daily also.

I haven’t really watched anything in a while but I did watch the latest kings and generals video on YT this evening and it seems the war doesn’t seem to be going to plan for the UAF?

It looks like a stalemate with marginal Russian gains in the last few weeks maybe?

How will this work for Ukraine with a potential change of government in the USA and a potential lack of funds for the war plus the fact Ukraine are talking about mobilisation now for 500k people to keep the fight going.

IDK it looks a bit like a miracle is needed to beat an enemy that has absolutely no regard for its own soldiers that it just throws into the meat grinder to try and overwhelm the Ukrainians.

There was a program on TV the other night, and by God, it was a revelation!!! From the time Boeing joined with McDonnel/Douglas they seem to have gone downhill, with all the focus on making cash the primary aim and function. To put it mildly, quality control seems to have become non-existent. Be interesting to see how Boeing compares with other plane manufacturers when it comes to manufacturing defects.

Bad week for them between the blow out in Alaska, windscreen crack off Japan and and an engine fire last night,add the other issues with the 737 max , something is going wrong somewhere with QC ,

Doesn't seem to effect military aircraft but then most Boeing aircraft are flying decades with the US airforce ,vs newer civilian types

Ukraine means outskirts in Russian. I mean the west of the Ukraine, where pro-EU/US sentiment is stronger.

Ahh Comrade sure we would have been fine so. Given Donegal is the most northerly country in Ireland we could have all just popped over there.

I wonder are we aware of all the significant fire outbreaks in Russia and how many outbreaks are there per one million of population ? Outside of the fire-bombing of potential refugee centres I guess Ireland have experienced about one equivalent major outbreak every three years. So at 5m of a population that would mean circa .07 major outbreaks per year per one million of pop.

And so if Russia has 20 major outbreaks per year and with a pop of 150m, that would make it .133 outbreaks per 1 m of pop .

That would mean that there are circa twice (1.9) as many outbreaks in Russia than there are in Ireland. The only overall difference the high % of the outbreaks in Russia that are military related

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Just like Chechnya and Georgia, I suppose? And currently Bashkortostan? Oh my!!! Big bad evil U S of A...... again!!! Biggest existential threat to the Russian Federation is Putin and his friends. And not only to the RF, but to the World, all of it. And make no mistake, he would play the same game with China, except that China would not take it from him, as the west has done for far too long,,,China is not fooled by his nuclear threats. Matter of fact, China has actually reverted to re-naming places in Russia that formerly belonged to China, with their original Chinese names.....and guess what? What did Mr Putin and Friends do or say? Nothing!!! Absolutely nothing. While Ukrainians doing the same thing in Ukraine, replacing Russian names with Ukrainian ones, brings howls of outrage on Russian TV. even the usual Nuclear threats from Mr. Nuclear Man himself, Medvedev.

edit: I don't think he's "hedging bets" any more (!), the phone calls are over for now + have been for a while.

They are still one of the larger EU budget contributors. EU contributions are often omitted discussing European countries aid to Ukraine, and comparing it to non EU members.

So if Hungary continues to block future Ukraine aid through current EU mechanisms and other member states decide to go around them (rather than facing them down e.g. trying to remove their Council veto), France will be an important source of funding for that.

Eager Chinese recruit!!!!

Before and After.... LOL