Russian special military operation in Ukraine #52

Cover from Kinzhal somewhere in Russia.

Conscripts make up the largest group enlisting as contractors each year. In fact without higher education, it is a prerequisite, to have served as a conscript to enlist as a contractor.

They are running out of men to keep the country running. That's why their canalizations are dead.

Soon it will be other stuff like supply of market, construction, repair of lifts... and stuff like that that will be impacted. It's just a matter of time. More and more are going abroad or at the front.

Any list of interceptions of Russian missiles supplied by the Kiev regime can be dismissed out of hand. That they are now dialing back
their ludicrous 120% interception rate claims from the past is a type of joke as well.

Its possible or probable? that a Gepard wasn't designed to allow rapid protection against incoming anti radiation missiles.

These AAM based ARMs will be supersonic... in fact if you have some R-27s they probably already have some radar homing seeker heads in stock for the job so missiles coming in at rather high speed from an altitude out of range of the 35mm shells that are probably cheaper than the air burst shells the Gepard is firing to stop them.

It is using something that is otherwise unlikely to be used for anything in a job that would be rather useful... it would be good to get rid of radars on Kievs side of all types and shapes and sizes and something that was mass produced for a long time that could easily be converted into something useful for the job would mean your existing weapons could concentrate on other tasks.

To shoot down incoming ARMs it would need to operate its radar continuously making it an easy target for multiple missile attacks... even just damaging the radar will massively reduce its performance and local spare parts and support probably does not exist.

Those natural gas power plants using gas turbines will basically be scrap iron in a couple years. Without parts and maintenance from Siemens and GE they will be worthless.

They are not getting parts now, so no change at all really... but Russian engine makers are working on the problem and will no doubt come up with solutions.

But there is quite a lot of stuff that the Russian state can confiscate. From foreign shares in the oil & gas fields, to foreign shares in Gazprom and Rosneft, etc.

I think we can be certain that Russia has been giving this a lot of thought for quite some time and probably have a list of things they want to seize if given the chance... lots of variables might change what gets on the list and what order the items on the list have, but I trust them to pick things that do the most damage to those trying to damage Russia.

I mean if the Russians keep going at this speed it won't end by 2025.

What is the hurry?  Rushing things will only increase losses and not necessarily speed anything up.

The lengths of this war depends on them

If the Ukrainian people decided it could end anytime they wanted...

Who the f..ck gives a shit about the desires and wishes of some spineless puppet?

Indeed... they thing Russia should bend to their opinion and will even now...

ukraine probably can muddle along like this for 2 years.

Not if the money stops. And the Money is stopping...

Can you post a 101 on how to delete a previous reply from a post you are quoting ? It's easy to F up and delete the wrong quote code and then it's all f'd up

You mean like this one?

https://www.russiadefence.net/t7196-tutorial-on-quoting-very-important-you-read-this

Remember if you are posting a quote by quoting an entire post it would probably be easier to simply type @ and then the member name instead to show who you are talking to rather than quote the entire conversation.

I do agree it can be tricky because if you delete parts of quote sometimes the number of brackets is not even which can completely mess the formatting.

If in doubt instead of clicking on send click on preview.

Brackets are nested outwards so if everyone was quoting everyone else but no one said anything the last posts would look like this:

For example if I take post number 444 on this thread it looks like this on the page when posted:

Backman wrote:

Big_Gazza wrote:

franco wrote:

Kiko wrote:@Manov. Murió Gonzalo Lira. Gonzalo Lira is dead.

Details...

https://www.rt.com/news/590559-gonzalo-lira-dead/

Collapsed lung and pneumonia, Ukrop prison authorities ignored his condition, US gov ignored his plight...  

Very sad. But Gonzalo had some concerning vibes about him over the last 2 years. He was so resigned to his fate. Its almost like he wanted it to happen.

I heard that he was worth 18 million dollars. What a waste of a life. He didn't have to work but ended up like this

But when you use the quote button you will see:

{quote="Backman"}{quote="Big_Gazza"}{quote="franco"}{quote="Kiko"}@Manov. Murió Gonzalo Lira. Gonzalo Lira is dead.{/quote}

Details...

{/quote}

{url=https://www.rt.com/news/590559-gonzalo-lira-dead/}https://www.rt.com/news/590559-gonzalo-lira-dead/{/url}

Collapsed lung and pneumonia, Ukrop prison authorities ignored his condition, US gov ignored his plight...  {/quote}

Very sad. But Gonzalo had some concerning vibes about him over the last 2 years. He was so resigned to his fate. Its almost like he wanted it to happen.

I heard that he was worth 18 million dollars. What a waste of a life. He didn't have to work but ended up like this{/quote}

Which looks complicated but if I remove the content from each post and simplify it it looks like this:

{quote="1"}{quote="2"}{quote="3"}{quote="4"}4{/quote}

3

{/quote}

2 {/quote}

1{/quote}

Which is just a set of nested tables the quote person corresponds to their quoted text of the same number.

So to trim everything except the last quote which you are replying to you select between the brackets between the quote 1 and quote 2 and you drag and select down to the last bracket after the number 2 quoted text so you are left with

{quote="1"}
1{/quote}

Remember the brackets are the square brackets but if I use square brackets here you wont be able to see them so I use the shift key when pressing the bracket buttons to get the curly brackets.

This will be added to the tutorial link above so it is easier to find.

WOW....the official air defense reports keep getting worse and worse.
They failed to intercept anything in last night's attack, not even Shahed drones.

I think we can officially surmise their AD is almost completely depleted at this point.

Perfectly logical though, in a fight where one is landing blows and the other is trying to defend it makes sense for those blows to include attacks that weaken the targets ability to block your blows so you can hit where you please.

Couldn't happen to a more deserving city

Is it coming up out of the sewers or is that a judgement?

Until Ukraine is completely depleted, the west will not let them collapse.

Elements in the west are already using funding for Ukraine as leverage to get their own agendas pushed through politically... whether it is the Republicans wanting a wall or Hungary just wanting to be noticed. Not everyone in the west is making money out of this shit show and after the coming elections many of those that are are going to be out of a job with no ability to pull strings any more...

Suggesting the west can support the Ukraine for two years... well lets be honest... at the moment that is the UK and Germany but really it is the US, and if the US wanted to quit this game and go home the game would quickly end... just like US occupation of Afghanistan, and hopefully like US occupation in Syria and Iraq and Germany and South Korea and Japan... but now I am getting silly aren't I?

Isos wrote:They are running out of men to keep the country running. That's why their canalizations are dead.
Soon it will be other stuff like supply of market, construction, repair of lifts... and stuff like that that will be impacted. It's just a matter of time. More and more are going abroad or at the front.

Very good observation.
I will add something more to it.
The more modern agglomeration is, the more it will be affected by that.
What people in rural conditions consider as relatively unpleasant events, can physically undo habitation in a city.
Trash treatment will be the next phase.
It is a very costly and labor consuming business, and a big part of it is hard physical work that hardly can be substituted with female labor. No woman can handle a 1000l trash can.
With no effective and working street cleaning and trash management, the city will be flooded with garbage in less than 2-3 weeks.
As it is not a major problem in winter, it will start to be one as soon as there will be no minus deg outside.
This garbage will simply melt and decompose.
I was in Milan years ago when municipality workers went on strike and they were not dealing with garbage. The smell was just killing you, and the rats out there were bigger than usually cats are.
Diseases will follow, and there is inevitable migration on the horizon.