Kinophile

11 th! 
This is nuts. 
 

11 th! 
This is nuts. 
 

You can recall dozens Russian planes and choppers, which were "shot down" in first several months. Indeed these were either "morale boosting", or mistaken reports (target just dissapeared from radars for many reasons, but crew reported about downing), or it could be E95M aerial target jet drone, which Russia actively used during first months as false targets and our radar crews could think they lock on real aircraft or cruise missile and then to report about downing, or it could by cruise missiles. So, from there is derived "340 destroyed planes", but in real in five times less.  

I doubt this is real number. 
Now we have next: 
 - two confirmed Su-35 and A-50U from Russian side
- the video of falling down unknown combat aircraft near Dyakove (presumably Su-34, this is mathes with COSPAS information about eject signal from this area - Su-35 was shot down significantly west from this place)
- COSPAS ejection marks on the map allegedly from three Su-34 (including the one, mentioning above)
- bad quality of something falling down on the screen of some SAM (StarStreak?) claimed as Su-34
- just a claims of shot down jets. 
So, we have 3 100 % confirmed, 2 with high probability confirmed, 2 allegedly confirmed by COSPAS marks and rest 4 just unverified claims
 

11 th! 
This is nuts. 
 

11 th! 
This is nuts. 
 

11 th! 
This is nuts. 
 

I posted previously about Japan promising aid. Well they came through in nicely timely fashion. Norway too! 
 

To be fair he's not in the best of health. It may not be as much a surrender and he just cannot do the job any more - or can see that day coming rapidly. He certainly has given enough service to get a break.

https://twitter.com/anno1540/status/1762413281933709718?t=p1K73kamQpdNPgK7p9QpfQ&s=19
Singing the CV90s praises. The barracuda coating works. 
Western tech living up to the promises. 

I've met the authors. Great scholars who have taken huge risks and lost much to keep going. Now in London because arrest in Russia was imminent. All their books are well worth the money. 

It helps to read the FT directly instead of the somewhat cherry-picked excerpt, I think.
https://www.ft.com/content/f18e6e1f-5c3d-4554-aee5-50a730b306b7
While it says, e.g.
the whole article is more about a possible conflict with a nucelar power, China in particular, than Ukraine. The longer version of the Alberque quote:
 

I posted previously about Japan promising aid. Well they came through in nicely timely fashion. Norway too! 
 

So... It's so great and stealthy it had to be escorted by a flight of Su35s... And it's oh-so-special Missile faceplanted into a field. 
Pretty sure the 35s were intended as meat shields to literally take a Missile hit, not  just engage UKR aviation /AD. 

No delivery date so likely months. 

I posted previously about Japan promising aid. Well they came through in nicely timely fashion. Norway too! 
 

So... It's so great and stealthy it had to be escorted by a flight of Su35s... And it's oh-so-special Missile faceplanted into a field. 
Pretty sure the 35s were intended as meat shields to literally take a Missile hit, not  just engage UKR aviation /AD. 

So... It's so great and stealthy it had to be escorted by a flight of Su35s... And it's oh-so-special Missile faceplanted into a field. 
Pretty sure the 35s were intended as meat shields to literally take a Missile hit, not  just engage UKR aviation /AD. 

https://twitter.com/anno1540/status/1762413281933709718?t=p1K73kamQpdNPgK7p9QpfQ&s=19
Singing the CV90s praises. The barracuda coating works. 
Western tech living up to the promises. 

https://twitter.com/anno1540/status/1762413281933709718?t=p1K73kamQpdNPgK7p9QpfQ&s=19
Singing the CV90s praises. The barracuda coating works. 
Western tech living up to the promises. 

Macron for the rhetorical win. I had regained some hope in Scholz, but man, fool me once... 

Seriously, 10 in 10?
 
 

Danger close...