Russia invades Ukraine

[undercoverbrother]

Navy.............no thank you

[edslunch]

Originally Posted by FLAMESRULE

It still baffles me that a small speed boat sized object like these UAV maritime drones can get that close to a modern warship. Anyone know if they use anti-radar/sonar/noise tech or is the Russian gear that bad (a bit rhetorical)?

Looks pretty stealthy

[Fuzz]

Ya, so that boat has radar limiting design elements. This is a typical radar reflector. With 2 surfaces at right angles, the radar signal will be reflected back at the detector, pretty much ensuring detection. You can see this boat has no right angles in the planes where a signal would reflect. Really oblique signal paths won't reflect off the second surface, so the beltline of the boat shouldn't be an issue. If you imagine radar signals hitting this thing, they just won't hit anything big enough to bounce directly back at the radar emitter. Which I'm sure they tested and optimized for.

[karl262]

I read that the guy the ship was named after died on valentine's day 1943.

[Cheese]

Russians pissed at losing a boat attack civilians

https://twitter.com/user/status/1758036459582337418


Another Oil Depot in Russia catches fire.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1758040165811908986


Russian gains in '23

https://twitter.com/user/status/1758083653970653484


Ammunition plant in Russia goes boom

https://twitter.com/user/status/1758124733554458666


Ukraine uses GLSDB for first time bomb is ever used

https://twitter.com/user/status/1757936512849637438


Canadian family that moved to Russia....

https://twitter.com/user/status/1758041553967186159

[Fuzz]

Ahahaa! Imagine being so frightened of "the LGTBQ" that you'd move to Russia, not speak any Russian and lose all your money. I think your kids have more to worry about than liberal ideals. Like if they inherited their parents stupidity.

[pseudoreality]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Ahahaa! Imagine being so frightened of "the LGTBQ" that you'd move to Russia, not speak any Russian and lose all your money. I think your kids have more to worry about than liberal ideals. Like if they inherited their parents stupidity.

It reminds me of guys that go from Calgary to Iraq or Syria to join ISIS. What kind of BS Kool aid are you drinking to think life would be better? Rigid ideology is a funny thing.

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by pseudoreality

It reminds me of guys that go from Calgary to Iraq or Syria to join ISIS. What kind of BS Kool aid are you drinking to think life would be better? Rigid ideology is a funny thing.

Reminds me of what the tagline is for one of the better Canadian podcasts out there (Screen Time) . . . . We ended up in a world where facts are fluid, and your reality is a reflection of your ideology.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Ahahaa! Imagine being so frightened of "the LGTBQ" that you'd move to Russia, not speak any Russian and lose all your money. I think your kids have more to worry about than liberal ideals. Like if they inherited their parents stupidity.

They literally banned images of men eating ice cream together because it has gay undertones.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...ne/ar-AA1lBbpW

[Cheese]

Bringing you some highlights, Avdiivka side, may be NSFW

NSFW!

https://twitter.com/user/status/1758132681181979040

https://twitter.com/user/status/1758137209260281906

https://twitter.com/user/status/1756627473331007561

https://twitter.com/user/status/1756587536565064104

https://twitter.com/user/status/1756567058546831667

[curves2000]

Sobering look at the Russian military industrial complex and it's production which appears to be shocking even veteran experts.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...n-war-planners

Pretty much a mandate to run 12 hour shifts, twice a day for a lot of companies to turn out what is needed in order to win the war.

While the west, NATO and EU dither on assistance, stuck in the mud so to speak, Russia is ramping up and in a big way.

Scary to think that they can produce this while other countries can barely deliver the crumbs. In Putin's interview with Tucker Carlson he indicated that if the west stopped arming Ukraine, it would be over in a few weeks and that may actually be the case if things don't improve.

Godspeed to the Ukrainian Defenders

[Snuffleupagus]

All that shiny steel means nothing if nobody is left to operate it, $4.5m tanks being abandoned because of $2k drones is a fun watch

[Ozy_Flame]

One thing that seems peculiar is Russia is ramping up artillery fire. This is the kind of ammunition needed to fight a front-line war. And yet, it has been proven multiple times now that Ukraine has the capacity to take out Russia's Red Sea naval fleet, military and oil production facilities, and platoons of Russians at a time with nothing but drones.

The ammunition, weapons, and defense systems that Ukraine does have - even if in smaller numbers - appear to be more effective and efficient at fighting the Russian war machine. I mean you're seeing tanks from the middle of the Cold War being used by Russia to very little effect.

Then, as mentioned, there are only so many competent people to fight these front-line wars. They're not producing and sending in West Point graduates here.

I mean if the Russians want to fight a conventional war, that's on them. In fact, wars of attrition are what they have historically been known to be very successful at. But it stands to reason they still are having trouble trying to contain the effectiveness of Western technology, something that's going to be their biggest challenge going forward.

[CaptainCrunch]

We can talk about Russian production all we want, but we know there are serious problems in terms of things like design, access to required technology and corruption. Russian modern equipment is suffering from not only design flaws but outright corruption. Things like substituting in inferior materials on armor, inferior computer chips so that managers can steal this money is the scourge of Russian production.

At the same time, I think we can safely say that corners are being cut on training their conscript soldier base.

These two things have been a problem since the fall of the Berlin wall. At the same time, Russia has always struggled with quality control and advanced material manufacturing.

While Russia has the ability to send a lot of equipment and ammunition to the front in theory, it doesn't help if half of it fails on arrival.

The problem for Ukraine and their military is that they are running into some supply issues. On top of that one of the common errors in any war is that prewar projections for supply use rarely is true. In a war you go through things like ammunition and fuel and equipment rapidly.

There are lots of questions, can Russia marshal enough men, equipment, ammunition and food to create a massive advantage in numbers, they tend to have a strategy of 5-1 kitchen sinking in war.

Can Ukraine hold on.

It feels like both sides have lost the initiative, and neither have the means to get it back. I expect in 5 years we'll still be talking about this war and when its going to end.

[Ozy_Flame]

I don't think this ends until Putin or Zelensky dies. It's going to be a grind-it-out, supply-based war of attrition and Russia will be sending close to or over a million Russians to the meat grinder before this is said and done.

[Huntingwhale]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1758455835611545698

Pretty big news as Putin's former political opponent died in custody. Was constantly told by many that he was kept alive so as not to be martyred, so does this mean russians will finally rise up in defiance? Obviously not, but I'm still pretty surprised he was finally allowed to die. Can only imagine the cruelty he suffered each second he was alive.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Huntingwhale

https://twitter.com/user/status/1758455835611545698

Pretty big news as Putin's former political opponent died in custody. Was constantly told by many that he was kept alive so as not to be martyred, so does this mean russians will finally rise up in defiance? Obviously not, but I'm still pretty surprised he was finally allowed to die. Can only imagine the cruelty he suffered each second he was alive.

So big he got his own thread! How big of man do you have to be to criticize Putin while in Russia.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

So big he got his own thread! How big of man do you have to be to criticize Putin while in Russia.

You don't. ##### Riot did it too!

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

You don't. ##### Riot did it too!

They aren't still in Russia are they?

I have a ton of respect for people like Crystia Freeland and Zadorov.

[Fuzz]

Ah, I see they fled. Pussies.



https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023...mir-putin.html