Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Some info from a link I was sent, translation included.

Naval drones are allegedly breaking through the barriers to the Crimean Bridge, Russian media outlets claim.

The Russian occupation authorities have again blocked vehicle traffic on the Crimean Bridge and halted sea transport, Russian state media reported on Tuesday, June 3.

"The roadstead in the Sevastopol bay has been temporarily closed, and sea passenger transport has suspended its movement," RIA Novosti reported.

Meanwhile, Russians on local Telegram channels are writing that explosions were heard near the bridge.

"The attack on the Crimean bridge continues. A passage is being broken through the barriers. The bridge is closed. The enemy attack continues in the Black Sea area," the Emergency Situations/Crimea reported.

Russian military blogger Vladimir Romanov claims that the Crimean bridge is being attacked by naval drones. According to him, the occupiers were allegedly able to destroy one drone, but the attack is ongoing.

And the pro-Ukrainian Telegram channel Crimean Wind reports that a powerful explosion was heard in Kerch at around 3:00 p.m.

"A helicopter was lifted into the air, flying over the coastline along the strait. There is panic in Kerch public places," the report says.

Russian air defense is operating at Belbek airfield near Sevastopol. Explosions were also heard near Feodosia.

Meanwhile, a Turkish early warning and control aircraft (EWAC) is operating over Romania, which can guide missiles to their target.

A video shot by eyewitnesses also appeared online. It shows the Crimean Bridge shrouded in smoke. This could be either a specially placed smoke screen to make it difficult to aim missiles and UAVs at the bridge, or the aftermath of explosions in the area of the bridge.

Ukraine are pressing every advantage they hold hard right now. No doubt in my mind that there is more to come.

Lmao

This must have been planning this for a long time.

Huge array of targets have been struck right around the peninsula.

This is large, ongoing and going to be costly to the Russians.

The Orcs themselves admit that two A-50s were destroyed, which leaves only one still operational.

A real 8647, not a staged one, might silence him for a bit longer than that.

https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1929881862492520566

Another orc headquarters completely destroyed by a Ukrainian glide bomb. There'll be very few orcs walking out from that unscathed.

Classic Darth.

Speaking of the bridge, I came across this image which clearly illustrates that setting off a 1,100 kg pile of explosives on the sea floor might be a lot more damaging than the hacked video feed of what happened on the surface, might suggest.

3 Effects on nearby structureThe underwater detonation of an explosive can have serious effects on a nearby
structure (such as a ship or submarine). The same amount of explosive can cause greater damage underwater than it would have caused in air, because water is much less compressible than air.First damaging mechanism (high pressure)Just after the detonation, a shock wave and an expanding high-pressure gas bubble will appear. This shock wave moves at a very high speed and will generate a very high pressure. When it hits the structure, it gives rise to the first damaging mechanism.Second damaging mechanism (whipping effect)While the pressure loading due to the shock impact can be very high, the duration is usually very short compared with the dynamics of the bubble. The explosive products form a high-pressure gas bubble and this bubble expands owing to the high pressure.However, inertia causes the bubble to over-expand and the pressure inside the bubble becomes lower than the surrounding reference pressure; it then stops expanding (for example, the maximum bubble diameter in a typical explosion of a torpedo of 500 kgTNT is of the order of 10 to 20m). The hydrostatic pressure is now larger than the pressure inside the bubble and a collapse phase will follow. If the frequency of the bubble ‘matches’ the eigen-frequency of the structure, it can lead to the so-called ‘whipping’ effect which can potentially constitute the second damaging mechanism.Third damaging mechanism (jet impact)In most cases, in the collapse phase, the attraction of the bubble towards the structure,the influence of gravity and inertia will cause a high-speed water jet to develop. The jet traverses the bubble and impacts on the other side of the bubble surface. This jet can be directed towards the structure and is then associated with a third damaging mechanism.

https://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/h.tan/pages/teaching/explosion-engineering/Underwater-I.pdf

Accumulating a 1,100 kg pile of explosives means the Ukrainians have an as yet unknown sub surface capability. I'm thinking a remotely piloted subsurface vessel that can carry a substantial cargo of remote drone subs with explosives payloads that can each then swim up to the piles and park. If they had shaped charges and could attach themselves to the piles in the right way, that would be a huge increase in destructive potential.

Frankly this idea seems a bit shaky from point of view of the required energy needed to power all this as it's along way around Crimea.

Marichka underwater drone looks like a strong possibility:

Another possibility is it was one of the mystery navel items Biden gave them years ago.

Brilliance upon brilliance.

I presume that from the Crimean Tatar perspective Russians who settled in Crimea from the 1783 annexation under Catherine the Great should leave as well.😁

I see even Lindsey Graham's balls have dropped in the wake of Ukraine's demolition of Russian strategic aviation 👀

The Americans will be very very interested/afraid of the attack Ukraine just pulled off against the Russian bombers, how many American bases would be susceptible to a similar attack, and now the Ukrainians are the world's leading authority on the planning and logistics of such an attack, well they are for a few months until it's replicated, but still we can see how there are currently at least four Ukrainian companies working with the US to develop their drone tech. Drones are the future of warfare and the yanks want to get out in front and Ukraine offers them the training ground and real world feedback.

Hopefully this desire from the military to learn from Ukraine's drone success will be enough to overcome Trump's desire to swallow Putin's balls

Russian Mafia and American Mafia were trying to pull a protection racket on everyone based off of russian infamy. They're looking stupid now.