Indeed, engaging a vehicle with a modern 30mm autocannon ammunition with a .50 is suicidal...
Big balls, small brain.
A metaphor for the whole conflict really...
Sharif PM of Pakistan
The fact of the matter is that the US was prepared to have good relations with communist China because they perceived the Soviet Union as a greater threat... to their domination of the whole world... if they had given up that dream of being in charge of everyone (which we don't want by the way... most countries like independence and don't like being told what to do by anyone) and just been friendly to China and to the Soviet Union there would be no need for the cold war and conflict.
A strong developing Pakistan is no threat to Russia, just as Russia is no threat to a peaceful developing Pakistan... growing by trade and cooperation is a better path than war and hate.
Taliban shelling Uzbeks make sense, taliban want Russian approval for pipeline to shore up their government
Russia needs guarantees from talibs-
Cheap energy for Pakistan and India will be good for both countries and Afghanistan is going to benefit from transit fees the way Ukraine and Poland used to... but I bet Russia gets less shit from the Taliban than they get from the Poles and nazis.
The huge irony is when this operation is finished if the west is still getting Russian gas piped to them they will probably demand it goes through NSII so they are not funding the neutral Ukrainians and the new Russian Federation members...
Russia should get Ukraine done so that it can deal with this US proxy in Kazakhstan.
They can do both... it is more important to get the Ukraine sorted correctly and properly than to get it done now.
I guess that all people who use DJI drones are fluent in Chinese.
Do such drones come with encrypted control and data channels?
I guess you have made som fuckup with quoting bro
Nah, just lazy... it is a full quote of my post with his own comments added directly and highlighted by making them bold.
Geez man. I've only been on team doom for a couple days and you're cursing me out more than the perma doomers. Very Happy
I am not a perma doomer. Even the q and a Putin did recently had a calming effect.
In a month you will look back at your own panic attack and recognise it for what it is.
It is like people who support very successful sports teams absolutely losing it and abusing their very good sporting teams because the other team beat them on this occasion... except it is not even that...
Looking at the video of what Russian forces abandoned... fucking T-80 tanks... damn fuel guzzlers... and the doom sayers think the solution is to send more soldiers and more fuel guzzling vehicles in there... Russia needs light and highly mobile vehicles there... preferably not all brand spanking new because they might have problems with brand new stuff too... float like a butterfly and sting like a Grad/TOS/Smerch/Iskander armed dragon.
As I have said when we have discussed the T-62Ms - there will be a time when having any tank simply beats not having one
Some might laugh at the ASU-85, but except for tanks the ASU-85s gun can penetrate any non tank target from any angle, and when firing at troops dug in or other fixed positions, the volume inside makes it more comfortable than some armoured vehicles.
See the rich folk in Moscow and Saint Petersburg aren't on the list.
Are you trying to suggest the rich folk in Russia are the same as rich folk everywhere...
There is a joke in Serbia that reads; "What are the residents of Serbia who live outside Belgrade called? The answer is; Outsiders"...
In the UK it would be everyone outside London, and in New Zealand it would be everyone outside Auckland...
It sounds plausible. It doesn't look like the best strategy to me as it can easily cause friendly casualties.
And the Orcs are well known for being very careful regarding casualties of their military and their civilian populations... NOT.
American HARM missiles have shown zero effectiveness against Russian radars.
Their success comes from being a weapon added to an attack aircrafts loadout or a fighter supporting attack aircraft during a strike. When an enemy radar turns on you lock and fire a missile, forcing the radar to shut down for self preservation.
The fact they don't hit anything is not as important as the enemy can no longer use radar as you pass through or near the target you are striking.
Obviously you need a lot of missiles in the strike package to keep those radars off and their lack of kills looks bad in stats, but if it prevents the enemy painting your aircraft and shooting them down it is doing its job.
Interesting that the west never really invested a huge amount into such weapon types... probably the best system is the British ALARM, which is a very clever missile with a range of modes and functions... including one mode where as you approach enemy airspace you launch an ALARM and it climbs up to very high altitude in a vertical climb and then it deploys a parachute and shuts down its engine and listens for a radar signal. If it detects a signal it cuts the parachute and lights up a second stage rocket and flys down and hits the target.
Of course its main problem is the same problem HARM has... Soviet SAMs are designed to shoot them down directly.
HARMs loved serbian dummy radar emmiters made out of civilian antenna and electronics.
I remember reading that one of the decoys they used were standard microwave ovens with the transparent doors cut out so the microwaves could escape out the hole in the door. Don't know whether it was true or just bullshit of course... but an amusing story anyway.
Not buying it. 5th column scum will be padding out the numbers, and passing off all natural deaths in Russia over the last 7 months as "military related", ie the deceased was once conscipted. Follow the money, how much are BBC paying for this "service" and who does it go to? If anyone thinks this is genuine then I have a bridge to sell them.
Yes, you can't be a liar for a living and then expect people to believe anything you say.
The irony is that the west claims RT is a branch of the Russian government and is a propaganda broadcaster, but I would say they were more independent than the BBC was with British and US propaganda... often they actually generate it.
I have my misgivings as to the unit cohesiveness under fire, and esprit de corps of such formations, but anyway. We'll find out soon enough.
I remember a video showing Russian troops and they found this conscript under a truck with his hands tied to something so it looked like he was reaching up and fixing something... he was actually sleeping. When he was woken up the western reporter talked to him and tried to get him to denounce his country, and the guy got really agitated saying sleeping on the job is one thing but he was a good soldier who would defend his mates with his life and he loved his country.
Don't judge people by their actions... some of them might have personal reasons to do a very good job in Ukraine... some might have a grudge to settle too.
Plenty of working age men left the Ukraine to go to the west but lots also went to Russia too because they didn't like what was happening in the Ukraine.
Russia is the best chance of a decent future for the people living there now and if I was Ukrainian I would want to go back and help sort it out too.
Haven't you seen those Hollywood movies about the Dirty Dozen or that Canadian TV Show Dark Matter where the bad guys were given a chance at redemption and took it and became good guys... if it was on TV it must be true right?
Alexander makes some good points, the Duran Shop should sell straight jackets to keep his hands still, it's distracting.
Or sparkly gloves and he can do a Jazz hands show while he is talking...
Sure we can fool ourselves by seeing the things for Russkie via ping glasses, still, the situation is very much different from the fairy tales being lectured to the population.
The core point I have been making is that the west has done this to itself... Russia was happy to sell them cheap energy and put up with most of their shit, but they had to interfere in the Ukraine and try to take the port of Sevastopol as a HATO port just to rub Russias nose in it, and look at where we are now.
Are the Russian Su 34, Su 35 operating in Ukraine carrying a fibre optic towed decoy?
I would think they are using the best gear they have, but I am not sure a towed decoy would work against an optically guided BUK...
Why cant Su-34s do high altitude bombing and recon during bad weather from 9000-12000m, above the range of manpads and optically guided SAMs?
BUK can reach 15km altitude... and can be used in optical guidance mode.
Radar guided sams can be spoofed by chaff. Dont tell russians dont have countermeasures against the buk radar.
When used in optical mode BUK acts more like an ATGM than a radar guided SAM.
NOTE: doesn't appear to be much to negotiate about here. 404 strikes again.
Can't expect them to suddenly get smart.
They signed the Minsk agreements and violated them... I wouldn't trust them signing anything else... even with the French and Germans cosigning the agreement... totally worthless.
Whats the zoom and range of the optical tracker of the buk m1? Using saclos guidance to hit a fighter sized target like 15km away should be very difficult. flying If radar is turned on at all, its bound to trigger RWR. MAWS if missile is fired at all. Su-30, Su-34 can use superior energy flying at 10000-12000m to immediately turn away from the radar signal. The buk m1 only has a max range of 35km, so its NEZ against a high flying maneuverwble supersonic aircraft should be very low.
The BUK has a tracking radar and a search radar... the tracking radar is on the launch vehicle so every launch vehicle has one... the tracking radar normally tracks the missile just launched and the target and sends flight commands to the missile to steer it on an intercept course with the target.
With optical guidance the target isn't tracked by the tracking radar, but flight corrections are generated by comparing the point of aim of the optics system with the location of the out going missile, course correction signals could be sent by tracking radar but they don't need to be directional... more like a radio signal that the missile receives and responds to.
Hitting a fighter sized target 15km is easy have you not heard of optical zoom lenses, and the BUK has a rather large warhead with a proximity fuse so a direct hit is not needed.
The optically guided Vikhr has a CEP of 80 centimetres at 8km range... draw a circle 0.8m across and a missile aimed at the centre point of that circle will land inside that circle 50% of the time... times it by four, 3.2m and 99% of all missiles fired will be inside that circle.... and that was in the 1990s. With new optics and lasers the performance has improved.
The radar and optics on even the old BUK were pretty good.