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    Russian special military operation in Ukraine #61

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    Post  GarryB Today at 6:17 am

    These drones can do some very rough aiming if they have weather data for the altitude at which it will fly.  Basically you launch and select a flight altitude based on winds and the drone can climb higher mid route to change course if you need.  I suspect it would need a  dense enough target map to make every flight a winner. Other than that they'll be used as decoys when IIR guided SAM is missing.

    They will be horribly inaccurate, like V-1 and V-2 weapons from WWII where the only target they could reliably hit was London... because it was enormous.

    In effect these balloons would be ideal if the target was the Black Sea or open empty terrain in Russia.

    Blind firing of artillery shells would be about as accurate.

    This is a terror weapon, like the desperate incendiary balloons the Japanese launched at America during WWII to try to start forest fires.

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    Post  Hole Today at 9:59 am

    So I presume the same is true of the Ukrainian army.
    This would mean that the health care system in Banderaland is as good as the Russian one.
    Which I doubt.

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    Post  GarryB Today at 10:32 am

    More sinister, I don't think the Russian medical care system is on the lookout for human organs to harvest... likely for paying customers in Europe and the US... or anywhere that they have money... like the Kiev doctors and nurses might.

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    Post  ALAMO Today at 10:59 am

    sepheronx wrote:I like how Russia trolls everyone

    I have told you.
    This thing backfired in a way nobody of the perpetrators figured Laughing
    They are really pissing their pants now.

    An interesting interview with one of the commanders of the 21.OMBR, Alexander Tymoshchuk. He claims arriving to the Kurskaya Oblast with a strength of 350 men.
    What left the oblast was ... 40 people, of which 15 were alive as he was giving the testimony.
    Peremoga ...

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    Post  Eugenio Argentina Today at 12:00 pm

    There's been a lot of talk about the F-16s, but they've been in Ukraine for months, and there's no sign of them achieving much.
    Lately, they're not even mentioned.


    Cool

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    Post  ALAMO Today at 12:54 pm

    Well, it is even better.
    They did mentioned it a day or two ago, how hose are now "irrelevant to the effort" Laughing

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    Post  Arrow Today at 1:00 pm

    Maybe they don't have enough suicidal pilots? Who in their right mind wants to take on the world's second largest air force and the first AD. Very Happy

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    Post  ALAMO Today at 1:53 pm

    Lack of salokadzhe can be the issue Laughing

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    Post  franco Today at 2:10 pm

    Russian MoD reporting 2380 Ukrainian casualties over the past 24 hours including in the Kursk;

    During the day, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to more than 340 servicemen, 13 armored vehicles were destroyed, including three tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles, three of them Bradley BMP made in the USA, and five armored combat vehicles, as well as five artillery pieces, 11 vehicles and two electronic warfare stations. Six servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrendered.

    In total, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost 25,662 soldiers, 172 tanks, 89 infantry fighting vehicles, 103 armored personnel carriers, 982 armored combat vehicles, 675 vehicles, 221 artillery pieces, 38 multiple rocket launchers, including nine HIMARS and six MLRS manufactured by the United States, nine anti-aircraft missile launchers complexes, five transport-charging vehicles, 54 electronic warfare stations, 11 counter-battery radars, three air defense radars, 22 units of engineering and other equipment, of which 13 engineering barrier vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearance unit, as well as three armored recovery vehicles.

    https://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12534019@egNews

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    Post  GunshipDemocracy Today at 4:11 pm

    "Two Majors" TG - the first burned down Abrams near Kursk / near Vesoloye


    https://t.me/dva_majors/55634




    @ Flaming Python
    Stalin did reshuffle some Koreans, presumably because a large Japanese army was nearby, and they were afraid of spies/saboteurs. However even in the 2021/22 census, there were still slightly more than 100,000 Korean-Russians living in Russia.



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    Post  GunshipDemocracy Today at 4:21 pm

    Pet's food and baby milk explosions in Odessa again.
    Vids in VK widget.


    https://rg.ru/2024/10/20/v-portu-odessy-nachalsia-silnyj-pozhar-posle-raketnogo-udara.html



    A major fire broke out in the port of Odessa after a missile strike

    Residents of Odessa are publishing photos and videos of a powerful fire in the port, where Iskander ballistic missiles have once again landed.

    The Odessa port - or rather all three ports of the Odessa agglomeration: the Odessa commercial port, the port of Chornomorsk and "Yuzhny" - are large transshipment bases for military cargo delivered by sea from NATO countries. Mainly from neighboring Romania.

    Therefore, Russian missiles visit Odessa berths with the same frequency as dry cargo ships under the flags of banana republics, but with ammunition and military equipment in their holds.

    This time the Iskanders hit something that burns very well. A crimson glow lit up half the sky above the southern cities, and the stars were covered by thick black smoke.

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    Post  ucmvulcan Today at 4:25 pm

    my God man, the Russians need to stop hitting the Vatican issued exploding baby formula and guided missals

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    Post  ALAMO Today at 5:20 pm

    The thing on Two Majors vid is clearly not M1.
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    Post  Mir Today at 6:23 pm

    ALAMO wrote:The thing on Two Majors vid is clearly not M1.

    That's a Swedish CV-90. I did however saw a knocked out M1 together with a couple of CV-90's somewhere a few days ago.

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