saying the Crimean people invited you is quite different then the sovereign govt. Just like Russia was invited by the Syrian govt. You do not need unsc approval to invite troops into your own country for any reason.
Crimea was a semi autonomous region that has its own governance, that happened to be part of the Ukraine by decree of a Soviet leader exercising a right he did not have.
You need UNSC approval for any troops you send to be called Peace keepers.
of course russia has some control over this.
Don't confuse me saying Russia has no control over what Kiev does with me saying Russia is powerless and Kiev holds all the cards.
Kiev can do as it pleases and it was always within Kievs power to follow the agreements they signed and solve this problem peacefully without any bloodshed at all.
If Kiev decides to send everything they have in one last push then all Russia can do is react... Russia has troops in a large area not concentrated anywhere in particular and they can't be sure where Kievs forces might attack... Kiev is getting real time intel from the west so even if Russia found out their plans and moved their forces to counter them then HATO intel would notice the movements of Russian forces and Kiev would most likely shift their line of attack to somewhere else that is more thinly protected.
Case in point late last year the Orcs supposedly made advances and pushed Russian forces back... well that was no accident... HATO intel probably showed them places where there were very few Russian soldiers and so they attacked there... with there being so few they had to pull back and concede ground or be wiped out.
They did withdraw but killed lots of enemy troops in withdrawing and pretty soon after they were able to push back in most places and currently they are occupying territory they didn't have before.
With the coordination of tanks and artillery and air power and drones I really don't think any offensive by Kiev is going to go very well at all... it will become a real bloodbath and they have cheap bombs with glide kits and plenty of artillery to do it on a large scale but without an enormous financial burden.
but certainly they know enough and have intel and attack capabilities to severely hinder the movement of heavy weapons.
The Orcs will make every effort to hide heavy weapons and disguise them as something else... but of course once they start to use those heavy weapons they will be picked off fairly rapidly I suspect.
very underrated weapon. Its steep trajectory and huge charge are pretty terrifying.
Very powerful ammunition and a relatively clever but simple vehicle platform where a couple of men can roll up with wheel barrows with the rounds and the vehicle has the equipment to lift the rounds off the ground and prepare the round with a fuse and booster propellent charges and load the round into the tube despite it being about the same weight as me (124kgs) and fire the round with no risk of dropping it or doing your back in... various hand operated cranes and mechanically driven rammers to load the bombs.
Simple and relatively basic and effective.
It is not a rocket science, you know Laughing
Just a straight strip of concrete.
That is fine on a German autobahn, but the roads in the Ukraine are not the same... and the F-16 is a fussy bitch.
Actually, only the MiG-29 used to have real secondary air inlets at the top of the fuselage, but that solution was not carried further
The MiGs had solid intake doors, while the later designs use the mesh grids the Flankers use where the upper intake louvers are no longer required.
Unless the road is a real rubbish dump or next to one where the wind can blow crap over the road the F-16 should be fine as it's nose wheel is well behind the air intake.
I have seen a photo of an aircraft sitting on a runway running up its engines and the aircraft happens to have a puddle of water on the ground just where the air intake is and a column of water is forming from the puddle up into the air intake.
Stones and rubbish don't need to be flung up by the wheels to enter an air intake like the one fitted to the F-16 or MiG-29 or Su-27, the intense airflow can suck things quite a distance away.
One of the things they found with the AV-8 is that the very idea of operating in a supermarket carpark... something they claimed when they were trying to sell the idea of a VSTOL aircraft, is that it doesn't matter if you have people walking around picking up stones and fragments of metal and things... you start operating jet aircraft in a supermarket carpark and the plastic bags or paper rubbish around the place is enough to destroy the engines very very quickly.
Operating from open ground required PSP or pierced steel planking to be laid down to just stop dirt from being ripped up and sucked into air intakes, though obviously with VSTOL aircraft the problems are made worse by jet exhaust being directed into the ground directly.
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Yes, it is propaganda...
Any true intelligence shown in the US would be immediately called Putins puppet and have sanctions imposed on it.
that would make sense and the blast seemed quiet small and far away, yet it wasted those three guys, 2 of them almost instantly.
To be fair the middle guy was already wounded.
Mortar bombs are often very effective against troops standing up and exposed and in the open.
A mortar bomb normally comes in at a very steep trajectory so it comes in nearly vertical so the nose mounted fuse and the tail mounted fins point up and down respectively, but the side walls of the bomb which create the most fragments on most explosive rounds face sideways spreading a nice even circular pattern of deadly fragments.
Even a hand grenade might land on its side with the top pointing at the men you threw the grenade at which would reduce its lethality... a mortar bomb of 82mm calibre will be about 4kgs of explosive and fragments, compared with a hand grenade with likely 90 grammes of explosive and maybe another 500 grammes of metal fragments, so about half of one kg.
I suppose no conspiracy theory needs to be applied here bro
During the cold war on parade missiles and missile tubes were often painted white or silver, but for combat operations were often painted green or similar less bright colour... I suspect they had been painted for displays and shows and nobody bothered to give them combat camouflage redos.
^ Ok ok. I just don't recall seeing the bright white ones recently. And the missiles on this one were mis matched. We know they are short of buk missiles and they cant mfg them in Ukr.
Either way, it wouldn't surprise me if some Indian weapons turn up on the Ukraine side
All during the cold war you had to look out for funny little things like this because they normally didn't say anything, so don't stop paying attention to such things, but I think this has been explained.
Buks can use the old Sa-6 missiles. They have plenty of them.
They are backwards compatible, but do they have lots of older missiles?
And if they do what sort of condition will they be in now?
Using SA-6 missiles would require the target to be illuminated constantly from launch to impact, which will alert the target and allow them to respond with an anti radiation missile which is probably faster than the SA-6 missile.
Explode few meters away from the buk. This should also work against APS like Arena-E.
Rather impressive how effective the camouflage of the vehicle is when it gets on that rough patch... of course except the white painted missile.
The second missile appears to have mud wiped all over it in an attempt to camouflage it, which appears to be very successful... in fact only the lack of track marks suggests to me that there are not already other vehicles sitting next to that vehicle.
With HEAT warheads the plasma beam that penetrates armour can take a few cms to form properly... some early model RPG-7 warheads actually improved their penetration performance if they hit standoff armour and detonated a few cms before it hit the main armour... against weakly armoured SAM vehicles and artillery vehicles detonating the warhead before impact would not stop it from penetrating most targets and might be triggered when a vulnerable part of the target is lined up with the warhead.
A low hit on the BUK vehicle where the penetrator burns through the crew compartment might not start a big fire that destroys the vehicle, whereas a high hit that penetrates a missile and starts a big fire that sets the other missile on fire where the propellent and warheads of both missiles burn would do much more damage and is much more likely to destroy the vehicle... even if the crew can bail and survive in this take destroying the vehicle is more useful.
So this may be Vietnam all over again – never count on the Pentagon learning from their mistakes – but could be something way more alarming, according to a top Beltway intel source, retired: “Our interpretation of this breach is that intel sources in the United States have released critical intel data in order to avoid a nuclear war with Russia.”
The western politicians are so wrapped up in their own bullshit propaganda that they don't realise how bad the real situation actually is and they are making decisions based on a fantasy that is going to bite them in the arse...
This should also work against APS like Arena-E.
ARENA works by destroying the HEAT warhead with fragments so even if it explodes it does not form a proper plasma beam at the target tank the APS system is protecting. If the ARENA system hits the incoming threat before the incoming threat explodes then it would work as intended, but if the incoming threat explodes and sets forth a penetrating plasma beam before the APS munition hits it then it will be dangerous to the target.
Of course most standoff detonating rounds like this weapon or perhaps top attack rounds that use self forging fragments could be intercepted by APS systems too.
Most standoff detonating missiles mostly wont have huge penetration performance... top attack SFF warheads normally penetrate less than 300mm or armour but because they target top armour they are normally effective enough anyway.
It's the other way around I remember the start of Russia's intervention in Syria the west was amazed by the 24hr operations of the Russia Air Force.
He also mentioned how cost effective the Russian air campaign was in comparison to US air campaigns with their super expensive aircraft and super expensive guided weapons compared with Su-24s and Su-34s and Su-25s mostly dropping dumb bombs with near guided weapons accuracy and Tu-22M3s against area targets that needed more HE.
There's a video on telegram showing someone getting their head cut off. According to the arm bands the victim is a Ukrainian and the cutter is a Wagner.
Such a thing is all about propaganda... western audiences are losing interest and really don't give a shit about Ukraine any more so this video pops up... how convenient... would be interesting to track who posted it first and whether they were CIA, NSA, or M16 funded.
I mean look at the pathetic video proof that Su-27s rammed a US drone... the artist stitching that together couldn't even get that right with clear yellow stripes on the propeller disappearing with one of the prop blades during the collision... FAKE.
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