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I think you might want to look up the definition of Republic. western nations are democracies.

from the video I can tell this was up-res'd, either by the sun or ukraine. the video in question probably had fewer pixels available than an NES game. meaning it was either quite far away, or was artificially downsized to distort the source of what ever was used to fake this. Unless we get the raw footage it might as well be considered junk.

So I left the comfort of art twitter to go check in the depths of current events twitter. All the reports of attacks on Mykolaiv are like 8 hours old, looks like a normal shelling, or rocket attack. However lots of English speakers calling the Ukrainians Nazis, and complaining about giving the Ukrainians weapons, and that made me feel sick inside. sticking to art twitter. reading current events on twitter is like stepping into a cesspool.

so just because my eyes are trained to look for this stuff, that 2nd image has gone through an AI upscale and any speculation should be thrown into the trash, unsure of the first image, didn't compare the res to the original, but considering the guy posting this has 22 followers, expect this to be a twitter follower grab or hes dumb and doesnt under stand that tech, he's posted multiple "high res versions" ignore this pls. its bad data.

I am a know nothing person, but is there a reason people assume its a redeployment, and not just being called that to cover a failure or being done to prevent a potential collapse?

your comparing an apple to an orange, the TB2 is considerably smaller than a mq-9 reaper and Super Tucano. and sizes are only going to get smaller still. this is the issue, not just thing is sky does thing in sky things.

Tanks maybe going the way of the battleship, but that doesn't mean AFV's are going away. things are just going to have to change to adapt to this new environment, I suspect things like Japanese type 16 are going to looked at by many nations very closely in the coming years. or who knows, some defense contractor will solve the issue with lazers or something.

two interesting videos.

I just saw this and was going to post it, this doesn't count the DNR or wagner guys I bet. so its probably alot higher.

a very smart friend informed me that the TB2 moves slowly enough that enough Russian SAM systems have a hard time tracking it. now I have no way to verify this and I have my doubts, but considering he was dismantling a AIM9 (L?) on his webcam I give the information more weight that your average joe.

the answer is they already have deployed their best stuff. one can assume the t14, and t90am are nothing more than parade pieces, at least right now. the only kit that doesn't have photos after having been abandoned or destroyed is that clownish terminator thing. but that also may also just be a parade piece.

you are correct. its just the way things were worded gave me the impression that the author was thinking Zelensky should take the deal. but that is my mistake to have read it that way, and I suspect upon re-reading that its the turks who are flavoring it that way, not the BBC.

no that's not what it said, the terms the BBC have stated are what we already knew. no joining any blocks, cede Donbass and Crimea, and make Russian a protected language. and disarm. its not progress. the BBC is delusional thinking this a a good deal for Ukraine.

the image compression is consistent, and the way the symbol is washed out by the light on the right side of the vehicle leads me to believe its not an obvious fake. someone with moderate skill could still pull this off, but I see no obvious red flags of manipulation.

I think being drunk is part of the pre-flight check. that or they wanted to go home. "we expended our ammo, very successful sortie."

one in which the moon is actually made of cheese.

that seems fishy. to design, produce and ship something like that would take probably longer than the conflict has been going on. unless its a mockup. I haven't made a patch before though (only stickers) so maybe its faster? feels fishy.

Personally, I think this thread is one of the better places processing information. Artist twitter/socialmedia is filled with people with bad takes, people ignoring the situation, or people screaming about WW3 and we're all going to die. My favorite however, is people begging for the sanctions to be lifted, because pretty much every Russian contract artist is now out of a job. which is very pitiable until those same people then start screaming about how this is NATOs fault (most of these people don't know what NATO is) and going on about biolabs or whatever this weeks excuse for the invasion Russia has cooked up.

Like, I know its a suicide drone, but that body casing looks like its practically cardboard. I wonder how many of these get destroyed in shipping, or damaged by a little bit of rain.

considering the BTR that sounds more correct. also this reeks of being a propaganda film.

Kraze and Haiduk will correct me if i'm wrong, as I have been in the past. But I thought the yellow arm bands where emblematic of the territorial units, not the army. the BTR is interesting however, no big stupid Z, but it looks like an 82, I was under the impression Ukraine didn't operate those (unless its a capture)

Probably just for show, since it looks like it was taken straight out of a museum with how clean it is. but still neat to see.

I'm reading a (bad) translation of that supposed FSB document now I think? if its real, then it is real bleak. one of the lines that stood out to me was: "By and large, the country has no way out. It’s just that there is no option for a possible victory, and defeat is everything, sailed at all. They 100% repeated the beginning of the last century, when they decided to kick weak Japan and get a quick victory, then it turned out that the army was in trouble." I have seen a lot of comparisons recently to other conflicts as people grasp to explain this not just to nerds like us, but the public. The Russo-Japanese war is one I have forgotten about, but probably a good one to think about in this context. (edit, i know its been around for a while, but this is the first I have heard of the document)

do t80s burn aviation fuel or is it some other grade powering those turbines?

Yup, the Greeks have a bunch.