The point of that moronic dispute is not that ukrs have used nukes, but that they hit tactical nukes storage and detonated it.
Anyone who thinks nuclear weapons can be set off like that probably should not be allowed to be unsupervised.
Russia has resumed production of engines for the Tu 95MS without any problems and recently for the new Tu 160M, which is a very big achievement.
Not just resumed production... they have improved the performance of both engines and improved the efficiency of the Bears propeller blades to reduce noise and vibration significantly.
The new upgraded engines for the Tu-160M will be further improved models that might improve thrust levels to the point where supercruising might be an option which would massively improve performance.
The North stream pipe was damaged along many meters . A normal explosive only makes a hole .
By normal, you mean a block or blob of explosive? Do you think the US Navy are idiots? They would have used an explosive device that was custom designed to do the job... most likely a complicated shaped charge warhead that cut lines into the pipes to extend the destruction and make them not so easy to repair.
Why nuclear ? Well send a message !
The message would be that only the US or France or the UK could have done this to their own ally Germany... and it would have been a message underlined in the radiation left by such a small explosion.
Two types of nukes are Fission and Fusion... the former is Uranium or Plutonium and the energy is created by the atoms splitting releasing lots of energy and lots of radiation. Fusion is fusing light elements of hydrogen together and creates far less radiation... but requires a fisson explosion to generate the heat and pressure to start a fusion reaction. Fusion is cleaner but only makes sense for big booms.
There was no huge boom... just a large area of gas escaping an underwater pipe.
Nuclear strikes in both cases are possible . But if so , then NO government will publish or make public such information . Doing so , will force their hand in a nuclear retaliation . Something they want to avoid .
Ignoring the obvious problems that when a tank explodes its fuel and ammo (HE and Propellant) often all explode together... it would be rather unusual for different explosive types to explode separately...
No government is going to ignore having an opponent explode a nuclear weapon on their territory to avoid having to use their own nukes in retaliation... that is just stupid.
All of a sudden we have a " failed , " Russian ICBM Rocket launch . All of a sudden , we have a " publicised , " Chinese ICBM test launch into Pacific . Why ?
Both launches were scheduled years ago and have nothing at all to do with this so called event.
It's a great machine. I think they should upgrade the rest of the MiG 31 to the BM standard, now it's a great multi-role machine, which apart from the role of an ALCM interceptor is a very dangerous fighter for BVR fights etc. with the new R 77 and R 37M or as a carrier of Kinzhal and ASAT weapons.
It is a great machine, but its replacement is on the way...
I think there is a general underestimation here of what damage a nuclear explosion will do - even a small tactical one, where the explosive power will look somewhat similar to the Beirut explosion.
Not to mention the consequences of using one against Russia...
The west wont even test nuclear weapons and are humming and harrring over whether to send long range weapons to Kiev and allow them to use them as they please... there is no question they would be using nuclear weapons against a target with open air stored explosives that don't need a nuclear weapon to destroy.
Especially when the radiation is clear proof that even the IAEA couldn't fudge over and pretend it could not detect.
There were much smaller explosions successfully used to kill a major gas fire in the 60's. These were small underground explosions that imploded the gas wells to extinguish a major gas fire that lasted for years until nuclear explosions was used! No subsequent radiation leaks were discovered.
The French claim their nuclear weapons don't create any radiation at all... as long as they are detonated in the Pacific Region....
A Carrier is now, with the advent of large ballistic missiles, one of the most significant single points of failure there is in the military. Straight through and explode under the hull.
Correct. And rather ironic. A 200kg HE bomb would not do critical damage to a ship the size of an aircraft carrier but drill it through the decks into the water beneath the ship and use that 200kgs of HE to create a massive airbubble that rises and lifts that part of the ship out of the water and you will break the back of the ship... ships are not designed to be picked up in one place without proper support to the structure and it will break the hull and sink the ship like no hole in the top can.
The target distribution is a big deal. It is a known problem there that if you sling 20 cruise missiles at an enemy flotilla probably 18 of them are going to hit the same ship and the other 2 will have for whatever reason seen another ship first
You clearly don't understand how Russian and Soviet anti ship missiles work... the wolfpack technique means one of the missiles will climb and scan the targets with radar and then it will drop down and allocate each missile in the flight of missiles a target... some targets, like Carriers or AEGIS class cruisers will get 4 or 6 missiles allocated to them to ensure a kill, while any remaining missiles will be allocated other targets to ensure a good clean out of the surface group.
Further they will coordinate their attack to make it more likely they will reach their target so some might climb and then dive on the target while others stay low.
“Russia is underperforming” in its war in Ukraine, says Poland’s Foreign Minister
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. “We are overperforming, and we just need to stay the course until Putin runs out of recruits and resources… We will stay the course,” he adds
And what did he say about Afghanistan... we are winning... we just need to wait for the Taliban to realise they have lost... we will stay the course and we hope the US will too because despite saying we will stay the course we wont if the US doesn't.
Nobody can say that Poland didn't ask for it with their bellicose rhetoric.
Burn Polish people because their politicians are morons? A bit harsh.
Hope it's not a bluff...
Now it is Russian law... and we know Putin is a stickler for laws.