It will be called the Low Infared Netting Ultra Strength aka the LINUS aka the Cope Blanket

Look at GD, someone makes a comment and the responses are a various combinations of buzzwords and whataboutisms. She knows her base and works it well.

If she spent as much time writing bills that have a prayer of a chance to get heard as she does making videos, being a meme or going on right-wing media she'd get something done. For now she's focused on fundraising and soundbites

Sounds fake, or at least the Klaxon horn.  It doesn't have the same distortion as the person talking.  Plus it sounds like one from an US diesel sub.

It's been said by others but, the 4channing of ARFCOM.

Guess we've gotten a sneak peek of what that entails with Buffalo.

The first story on 60 Minutes tonight was about these guys.

https://www.bellingcat.com/about/

Using social media to document war crimes in Ukraine and uncovering Putin's assassination squads. Rather dangerous sounding work.

I'm no fighter ace but this is a totally different tactic. The Russians are not "popping up" and engaging any target. They never see the target but are lobbing their unguided rockets in the general direction of the enemy.

This is the equivalent to infantry using their automatic grenade launcher for indirect fire. They have no idea where the rounds will hit, they do not see the target, but are hoping to get lucky.

Infantry analog is holding your rifle above your head, hopefully out of the foxhole and emptying a mag towards the enemy.

Ugh. One of the things I did a long time ago was develop the algorithms for an automated offset pop-up weapon delivery maneuver. Suffice to say determining the specific roll angle required to match the time in the mostly-inverted pull-down and the heading change was a royal PITA. It was kinda fun watching the algo work splendidly the first time, though. I was never able to beat the accuracy of the algo flying the sim manually. Neither was anybody else.

They were Ukranian SU-25s.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/uqa239/two_ukrainian_su25_attackers_launching_rockets_at/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

eta: After further review, it does appear they are lofting the rockets. I am a bit disappointed.

I don’t think he means “there is a coup happening at this moment.”  Based on the interview I read it as “The process of moving against Putin/finding his replacement” is underway.

Agreed.  I’m skeptical to say the least.

Which would do absolutely zero good.

Both are regional powers.

That isn't what they were doing.  Those were not fairly heavy gravity bombs where most of the weight is the explosive and that have a nice clean parabola that can be calculated, they were small warhead direct fire rockets that are going to burn out at varying rates and therefore hit all over the place when they come down ballistically.  They're really not meant to be launched that way.  

What you saw in that video were either 57mm S-5 or 80mm S-8 rockets, if the former max warhead weight is about 2 kilos, if the latter, about 4kg...about a hundred times smaller than most bombs (and about 5-10 times less payload than a 155mm arty round), but they do pack 20 in a pod (doesn't look like 20 got off in that video though).  Might have about 5km range fired ballistically, with a huge CEP.

Even with 20 rockets, that's still not much of a boom for blind area bombardment considering the platform risk.  They rely on being fairly accurate in direct fire pointed at a target or target area before firing for maximum effect.  But like I said, lobbing them is a way to avoid ground fire and still lay some hate on the orcs, and the friendly troops love seeing it.

Just not there.  There are other places.

That hits the nail on the head.

Where do they attach stuff.

Main problem is nukes.  An alliance of regional non-nuclear powers is only useful against another non-nuclear power.  Otherwise some shithead is going to say, “I get to invade you and rape, murder, and steal my way through your country.  If you invade me I’ll nuke you.  If you dare to resist me and kick my ass, I’ll nuke you.”
That’s why NATO ultimately rests on the US nuclear deterrent.

Well, and the UK and France, too, to a lesser extent.

The discussion was on central European countries which are not nuclear powers forming an alliance.
Even France and the UK only have nuclear forces sufficient to deter an attack on themselves.  If Russia could be assured of the US sitting it out, I believe they would take the bloody nose to wipe the UK and France out and conquer Europe.
MAD is a thing, and if an aggressive (but sane) actor calculates that they can benefit from an exchange then nukes are not a deterrent.

The last one needs to be changed to a Ukrainian tank

Double post

Both are also rocking Glock Field Knives; they seem to be the most common field knife in the conflict.

The fact that Kadyrov said this makes it even more laughable and retarded.

Which is sad as they kinda suck

"Bloody Nose"

You're talking about ~350  one+ megatonish sized explosions. Largely from things that will only allow about 15 minutes warning.
A guy could bleed to death with that nose

Seems like a waste of vital airpower. And a waste of semi hard to get rockets

Russian TG channels.


"I want to tell about my grief so that people know the truth. My husband, a simple worker. Sent on March 14 to the distributor of the military unit 08805 in Makeevka. On March 27 he was sent to Mariupol. On March 28, he wrote an SMS early in the morning, saying that he is the 3rd line of defense. Since then, silence ... For a whole month I was looking for my husband, hoping that he was alive, that there was simply no connection. Military unit 08805 lied to me on the phone. Yes, and when they arrived they were not allowed into the unit. They did not report where he serves. At the end of April, they said that he was not here, that he was in the direction of Kherson. And when I myself found my husband in the morgue of Mariupol, I informed the unit that he had died. But he was not listed as dead on their lists and wounded. The unit of me asked - WHERE HE SERVED???? Me, who was looking for him and tried to find out in the unit. According to the stories of colleagues, it was not possible to pick him up from the place of death, since there were battles. How long did my husband lie there - unknown. Part does not keep records of the dead, wounded and missing. Do not tell the truth to relatives, so that there are no panic. Our family itself was looking for its own, calling the morgues of Mariupol, Mangush. Found it at the end of April. April 21 was the act of opening it. But no one considered it necessary to inform his relatives that he was lying there. As the workers of the morgue said - THIS IS NOT IN THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES. Our relatives lie in sacks under fences in Kalinin, Makiivka, and so on. for 1-2 months and NOBODY tells them about it. Poor mothers, wives, children must examine all the corpses that are in the morgues and look for their relatives themselves. Why do we women of Donbass have to endure this!? For 8 years they killed us, worked for a penny like slaves, and now they have destroyed our men!!! There is a purposeful destruction of the male population of Donbass. I was found by his guys, who respected my husband, became friends, but they were lucky - they remained alive. They reported that on March 27, half an hour after their arrival in Mariupol, they immediately entered the battle. Our husbands, sons, without military experience, without protective equipment, were simply thrown into battle right away !!! What is the 3rd line of defense???? On March 31, my husband died and many men were with him too. Men are gradually being taken out of there. They throw our inexperienced, unprotected husbands straight into battle. They call them "mushrooms". They only have helmets. And they are mowed down like mushrooms. With the help of our inexperienced guys, enemy firing points are revealed. Now, in addition to hatred for Ukraine, hatred for the DPR and Russia has been added for using our relatives as targets. How many volunteers are there who want to fight!!! Why was it necessary to mobilize ordinary hard workers and purposefully and thoughtlessly send them to death?!!!"

These are all, not isolated cases, a lot of people write, unfortunately I can’t publish all the stories.

Deterrence levels aside, and I do have opinions on the matter at odds with your own, I think Russia's saber-rattling and Iran's ongoing nuclear ambitions are about to lead the world to a whole host of nuclear proliferation, with nations like Ukraine, and some others, joining the nuclear club.  There's about a dozen countries that have existing nuclear infrastructure and scientific, technological and industrial expertise sufficient to go nuclear, even if only in a rudimentary sense, in a year or less.

The Charge of the Light Brigade
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!" he said.
Into the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.

"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
  Someone had blundered.
  Theirs not to make reply,
  Theirs not to reason why,
  Theirs but to do and die.
  Into the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
  Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
  Rode the six hundred.

Flashed all their sabres bare,
Flashed as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
  All the world wondered.
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right through the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reeled from the sabre stroke
  Shattered and sundered.
Then they rode back, but not
  Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
  Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell.
They that had fought so well
Came through the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of hell,
All that was left of them,
  Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
  All the world wondered.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
  Noble six hundred!

I totally agree.  Nations at risk will have to arm up with nukes.  They simply cannot trust Russia and China and cannot expect nuclear deterrence from the US forever.  Ukraine and Poland have to and absolutely will.  The Baltics should but don’t have the resources.  Germany should but they may be too socially compromised.  South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Australia/New Zealand have to and probably will.
This will make nuclear war inevitable in the medium to long term even if we avoid it this time.  Thanks again Putin, you fuck.

Any half-intelligent tyrant should have been looking for nukes for decades.  Realistically, they're the ultimate insurance policy.  Does anyone think we would have invaded Iraq if Saddam actually had a half-dozen nuclear SCUDs?

If things were going differently, would this woman lament the Ukrainian men, women and children killed by her husband and people like him?  You have sown the wind and you are reaping the whirlwind.
At least now you know whom you serve and that you mean NOTHING to them.