It does when it's driven by drunken buffoons who don't even know to air down or chain up in mud.

I first saw that map at least a decade ago. It targets 2 coal power plants near me. 1 no longer exists (it was literally dismantled and the rest imploded) and the other is on a rushed schedule for decommission.

Someone who thinks it will be a hybrid-war coup due to drinking their own koolaid.

Man, I wish Sylvan was here.

There is a fair number (or used to be) of coal fired power plants in that region as well

lima-xray will tell you all day long that the Russkies aren't going after population centers. They are going after strategic nuclear targets, bases nuclear weapons and maybe a couple of capitals. DC for sure. They aren't going to bomb the abandoned cola plant near your house.

Way off.
Doesn’t include Phoenix as the state capitol, much less Luke Air Force base.

ETA…
No hits on Lackland in San Antonio?
Yeah, that’s a little off.

Don't get mired in big cities that don't matter initially.  Pretty sure we took Baghdad before Fallujah

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Use advance settings to set parameters such as wind speed, fallout, etc.

I've been under the impression that nobody really knows exactly how effective EMP bursts would be. It's not something that has actually been demonstrated.

Ain’t that the truth

Some just can’t handle reality so they make up their own world

If everyone launches everything and they all boom?  It’s a wrap.  Few cockroaches, the raccoon that keeps tipping my trash  cans, a couple dudes in Florida and maybe some weird lava eating bacteria on the ocean floor.   That’s it.  Whatever survives the blast dies from nuclear winter.

But didn't they take Basra and Najaf right away? I want to say that Tikrit was an early target as well.

Allow me to think out loud…..on the surface, this is a “heartbreaking/heartwarming video. Now further…like my kids, is this Russian soldier sorry or sorry he got caught?  I regrettably watched the video of the father, son dogs get shredded.  And the follow up of the surviving son deaded and thrown in a ditch with the surviving GSD standing over their dead bodies.

Kill ‘em all proper or kill ‘em with compassion.  

Not so much, really. Here's a work of non-fiction that talks about EMP (both natural and man-made) and what can be done to protect critical things from it: EMP Protection and Resilience Guidelines

Now we are talking! Finally, a First Strike post. Think I'll go fix myself a drink of grain alcohol and rainwater!

Yeah i hit on that a little bit, a few cluster bombs like that can wipe out some crazy amounts of vehicles

Yeah, well , ar least it’d solve my personal question of burial or cremation.
In true to the end ARFCOM fashion, I’d get both.

Why are there potentially active volcanoes on that map?

The pants are around the ankles.

that's my entire point.  and, the F-35 was never on the ADS-B out iirc.  just the tanker and the Rivet Joint.  

remember the last time we fielded a new, completely functional but not yet battle tested fighter with kick ass capabilities in a hot combat zone?

the last day the russians and north vietnamese aircraft fucked with the US Navy was the day before the F-14 arrived.  after that they stayed away.  Phoenix missiles and the radar on the F-14 actually worked.  we never got to try them out for real because the Russians knew exactly what they could do.  

our shit works.  their shit that works (which is nowhere near wha they claim to work) is totally known to us.  98% confidence on that.  no professional experience but if it's high fast and loud usaf or countries using our shit have been demonstrating very high kill ratios for 30 years or so against Russian hardware.  luck?  training?  intel?  better?  don't know, don't care.  probably all of the above.  our retired projects in museums represent higher capabilities than anyone else on the planet has except our allies.  

anyone thinking otherwise is a fucking idiot that should not be listened to.  

ffs the Israelis take our F-15, make them better, then sell the upgrade kits back to us.  1970s aircraft.  not because we can't, because it's cheaper for us to do that than to build a new airframe, and it's still on the leaderboard with the highest kill ratio of any aircraft flying.  hell yeah I love capitalism and the free world.  you do not get that kind of innovation and flexibility from a central command economy.  

the shit I was reading about in avleak in the 80s got used in Iraq and Afghanistan.  but there was a 10 year "wonder what happened with that project Raytheon was pitching" gap.  we had the capability, but didn't want to use it.  slowly built up the expensive and complex systems.  tipping our hand means all that investment might be useless when we really need it if an adversary figured out a way to defeat it sooner rather than later.  

the shit I was reading about 10 years ago has not yet surfaced.  I hope it doesn't because that means we are serious about war.  war is not good.  it will be expensive and loud and we would have to use shit we do not want to use. we do not want to use it just to make a news cycle for sniff to cover his latest depends wardrobe malfunction.

keep giving the Ukraine people and forces the tools they need to stop the Russians.  we are not the participants on this rugby field.  we are the referees.  everyone's got this point completely wrong.

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Just as long as my potassium iodide tables get delivered first.

Do you know where Tyumen is? It’s almost 3000 kilometers away from Kiev lol.

Any news or video of the huge explosions that apparently hit Kiev?

How long do they last, I have a bottle left over from Fukushima?

Yeesh... I hate to do this, but do you have a link? I need to see it myself to understand where you're coming from.