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  1. 2 hours ago, Jiggathebauce said:

    I don't get why Russians keep claiming FF. It makes them look bad, and it makes it out like the key to defeating the Russian air force is their own air defense. Lmao

    I do wonder how much impact the Ukrainian drone offensive on Russian soil has led to Russian AA jitteriness. How you could misidentify an A50 for a drone or missile though is anyone's guess, so what would these guys have thought they were actually firing at?

  2. 10 minutes ago, Kraft said:

    New video, looks like this was local AA

     

    By order of Russian MoD, we are tired of not being believed when we say friendly fire downed our planes. Therefore, if you launch AA rockets at target you must video it and upload it to internet so we can prove to decadent and ineffectual west we shot ours down.

  3. 19 minutes ago, IMHO said:
    1. You're a kinda week or two late with the news.
    2. It was A-50 and Il-22. Seems like A-50 didn't make it and Il-22 was able to survive.
    3. You sure you can a be a reliable and referencable source if you missed these basic things?

    How can he be a week or two late when the plane came down less than a day ago?

    You seem to be referring to the A50 that was shot down in mid-January (and an Il-22 damaged).

    This is a second one that has come down and rumors are still swirling.

    Talking about missing basic things...

  4. 56 minutes ago, Maciej Zwolinski said:

    On the Internet I found someone's translation of "dolbayeb" as "****head", which I like as it is both correct as to the meaning and  the closest ethymologically. Dolboyebism thus could be translated as "****headery" or "****headism".

    English has ****headedness but although it can mean stupidity or being obnoxious, it doesn't really convey the idea of deliberately making decisions that are stupid.

    I had suggested cock up but a cock up could happen by accident rather than being a deliberate act of stupidity. There is another compound word that includes elements of the direct translation and according to the Urban Dictionary means "an extreme degree of nonsense, especially when coming from an authoritative figure" (so pretty bang on in the case of officers lining soldiers up near the front line) - s**tf**kery.

  5. 59 minutes ago, Haiduk said:

    Today a range again. Kherson oblast. Nobody disn't cancel dolboyebizm [I can't translate this in Englisg equivalent - it means "enormously fu...g stupid way of decision making or a deed]

    In British English you might call it a "cock up" (ruin something as a result of incompetence or inefficiency) but it includes a dose of British understatement so perhaps doesn't capture the magnitude of the Russian word - "massive cock up" might rectify that.

  6. On 2/13/2024 at 4:54 PM, Kraft said:

    Also while Im at it, if translations dont work the fighter who got shot by the Machine Gunner (in the head?) Survived but was badly wounded.

    He is apparently alive and back fighting. He commented in this reddit post ( https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1aqo3gp/if_you_watched_the_combat_footage_from_chosen/

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    Evening folks, 'Mossy' here. I'm the dude that got shot in the neck in this video.

    First off, thanks for your concerns! I'm doing good now. I healed quickly thanks to the medical professionals that dealt with me and a great rehab team in Kyiv. I've been back fighting on the frontline since the start of December and I'm pretty much back to 100% despite a tiny bit of nerve damage I'm still working on.

    As for the corner thing, I just want to clarify a few things because I get it looks bad, completely understandable. Unfortunately the footage is edited in a way that doesn't show what actually happened. There wasn't actually a corner in that point of the trench. It was like a chicane kinda thing, not big enough to conceal a human body. The dude that shot me was about 20 metres down the trench. The footage makes it look like he was sitting down and I got shot whilst peeking, but that's not the case. He actually stood up, lifted his PKM and hajji fired sporadically over the top of the trench. The rounds cut through the soil and hit me directly in the neck from my front, rather than from my side. In the uncut drone footage you can see what really happened. That same burst of fire actually got another one of our guys in the head too, luckily it only clipped his helmet. He was outside the trench at the time and couldn't have physically been hit from that angle if there was an enemy in that part of the trench.

    My mistake was not knowing how much dry soil a 7.62 round fired from a PKM

     

     

  7. EU proposes sanctions on Chinese firms aiding Russian war effort
     

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    As the EU, the UK and US representatives prepare to meet in Brussels on Wednesday, a source said more tools were needed to ensure Moscow could not get around existing restrictions.

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    As part of the push, the EU’s diplomatic service has proposed adding about 20 firms, including three in mainland China, one in Turkey and one in India to an export blacklist of those providing support to Russia’s military.

     

     

  8. 41 minutes ago, hcrof said:

    It looks inefficient but it clearly works, does anyone know more?

    The Russians always claim they destroy sea drones before they hit, so likely evasive maneuvers to try to avoid fire. They could also be using decoy drones to draw fire while another makes an attack run. In this case it looks like three drones all hit the same spot midship.

    It also must be difficult to get a sense of the ship's speed through the FPV so they might have to make sharp adjustments to target especially specific points on the ship. And they also might have protocols to limit collisions between the different drones, for example holding patterns while waiting.

  9. 52 minutes ago, Kraft said:

    Also since I cant edit my original post anymore, just an innacuracy on my part, these arent international legion they are 'chosen company' international volunteers who are integrated into 59th. Canadians, Americans, a Swede and a japanease fighter. Also while Im at it, if translations dont work the fighter who got shot by the Machine Gunner (in the head?) Survived but was badly wounded.

    Sounds like (one of) the go-pro guys is British and I'm sure I heard a New Zealander (possibly Australian) in there ("Oh, yup"; the guy warning about the dud grenade in the trench).

  10. 1 hour ago, The_Capt said:

    But each of those monoliths has long serving government employees who are not robots (even if they look like ones).  We have seen this before as some big mover comes in and then enjoys the slow-rolling resistance that will outlast them.  So unless he plans on firing great swaths of civil servants - and that is one big union to take on, I do not see him cutting through all that any easier than he did last time.

    That is very much the plan:

    Project 2025 - "Project 2025 is a plan to reshape the executive branch of the U.S. federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Established in 2022, the project seeks to recruit tens of thousands of conservatives to Washington, D.C., to replace existing federal civil service workers it characterizes as the "deep state", to further the objectives of the next Republican president"

    Steve Bannon calls for ‘4,000 shock troops’ to dismantle US government ‘brick by brick’

    Whether they could pull it off would have to be seen. I recently saw Bannon talking again I think saying that the training of the first cadre of thousands was underway and they were going for more but I can't remember where now.

  11. 23 minutes ago, Zeleban said:

    https://ria.ru/20240209/simonyan-1926316813.html

    Not only Gerashchenko. Margarita Simonyan, one of the main Russian propagandists, complains that Tucker Carlson did not start a conversation with Putin about conservative values (after all, this is the main idea of Carlson’s viewers). Thus, even loyal Putin propagandists criticize this interview

    That article is certainly more credible than the unlinked Telegram sources mentioned in Geraschenko's tweet. Assuming what Geraschenko said about the Kovalchuk clan is correct, neither them nor Simonyan blame Putin for the flawed interview; the Kovalchuk clan blame Gromov and Peskov (and Carlson a little bit) and Simonyan blames Carlson wholly. This makes even less sense if Putin himself is unhappy with the interview. He was in the chair and could have talked about any subject he wanted but preferred to dither on schoolbook history.

  12. Deal reached on 50 billion euros in EU aid for Ukraine (from the Guardian's live updates, which I don't know how to link directly, if it can be)

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    Deal reached on 50 billion euros in EU aid for Ukraine

    Charles Michel, the European Council president, has announced that a deal has been reached on 50 billion euros for Ukraine.

    “All 27 leaders agreed,” he said, adding that “this locks in steadfast, long-term, predictable funding for Ukraine.”

    The agreement comes after the bloc’s most influential politicians sat down with Hungary’s Viktor Orbán this morning.

    Orbán had vetoed an agreement during a summit in December, and efforts have been ongoing to bring him onboard.

    Michel’s announcement indicates leaders succeeded in convincing the Hungarian leader.

     

  13. 1 hour ago, dan/california said:

    And every defense contractor is briefing their pet congresscritters on how THEIR product is perfect for the new doctrine, whatever it is...

    Add one more to the pool - Ex-Google CEO’s secret startup to build Ukraine AI-powered $400 kamikaze drones

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    Schmidt emphasized their cost-effectiveness and their relevance to the Ukrainian conflict. He pointed out the dwindling significance of conventional arms deals in favor of these AI-powered weapons.

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    Schmidt's history of advocating for military technology, his extensive government connections, and his strategic investments in defense tech further solidify his role as a key player bridging Silicon Valley and the Pentagon.

     

  14. Interesting video from the POV of a Russian tank in an attack on Ukrainian positions interspersed with Ukrainian drone footage showing the same action. I assume the Ukrainians captured the tank with the camera intact.

    Despite RPGs flying and vehicles already knocked out, the tank wanders up to the Ukrainian trenches through the smoke and I don't think fires a shot.

    Warning: aftermath with bodies shown at the end.

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