Machor
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The lowest flying modern fixed-wing combat aircraft I have seen in action: Ukrainian Su-24:
All did not go well at the rehearsal for the Victory Parade in Vladivostok:
US support for Russia:
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Ukrainian soldier drone-hunting with Lithuanian EDM4S Sky Wiper:
Ukrainians use captured T-72B3 to tow T-80B which they have just captured:
Ukrainians doing ballsy AT practice with captured BMP-3:
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Mother Ukraine received gifts today: More TB2s.
They are welding shut manhole covers for communication cables in Bryansk - the replies mention the same was done in Oryol:
Child conscripts in Luhansk:
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8 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
Dan provided a good answer already, but I'll put it to you this in a context that might help you understand...
Think about Quebec finally passing a referendum separating itself from Canada. It is not ratified by the Canadian government and, therefore, not constitutionally legal. Quebec doesn't see it that way and seizes all federal property within its borders for its own uses. Soldiers that had sworn an oath to defend the Canadian constitution now swear to fight against Canada on behalf of an unrecognized Quebec nation. They utilize the equipment, training, and doctrine developed and paid for by Canada in order to advance their separatist cause. New soldiers raised might not have this history, but they were born citizens of Canada and as such are expected to follow its Constitution. They attack into Ottawa with the intention of defeating the Canadian government and are eventually defeated.
It would be difficult to describe this as anything other than treason. It's what happened in the US so... treason is the best term for those Southerners who took up arms against the United States. Terrorists is another term, but it doesn't exactly fit.
To tie this into Ukraine, those citizens of Ukraine who have switched sides to support Russia are traitors by any reasonable definition of the term. It gets a bit murky with "collaborationist" who do not actively fight on behalf of Russia. Some are otherwise good people who are focused on keeping themselves and/or their fellow citizens alive under very difficult circumstances. Others are zealots, others still are looking to take advantage of the situation for their own benefit. It's extremely messy to sort all this out. Extremely. But taking up arms against Ukraine or providing direct assistance that leads to the deaths of Ukrainians (civilians or military) is very easily sorted... traitor.
Steve
Thank you for taking the time to reply [out of likes again], and thank you, Steve, for the thoughtful Quebec analogy. I will not be posting anymore about this topic. I did find the following article helpful for further context, and it has an extremely long discussion below it that was active all the way until this March, where one can also see contrarian views:
"WHAT SHOULD WEST POINT DO ABOUT ITS ROBERT E. LEE PROBLEM?"
https://mwi.usma.edu/west-point-robert-e-lee-problem/
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1 hour ago, Battlefront.com said:
all Southerners who fought for the Confederacy are, by definition, traitors
Steve,
OT, but honest question for a historian like yourself, coming from someone ignorant about the ACW, and without any personal stake in the history: I had read that Southerners were not traitors because, in the US system, their allegiance was first and foremost to their native State. What is your take on this?
Please don't ban me - It really is an honest question.
P.S.: Should Ukraine ever retake Donbas, or even Crimea, the question would have relevance today.
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Ukrainian M777s in action:
Close-up video of the knocked-out T-90M:
Someone is really intense with his aquarium:
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15 minutes ago, Huba said:
Zmiiny would literally translate to "Adder", not "Snake", am I right? In Polish it's "Żmija"
Nope, but the question led to an interesting observation. So, following etymology:
Polish 'żmija' (adder) = Ukrainian 'змія' (snake) = Russian 'змея́' (snake)
Polish 'wąż' (snake) = Ukrainian 'вуж' (grass snake) = Russian 'уж' (grass snake)
Ukrainian 'гадюка' (adder) = Russian 'гадюка' (adder) = no Polish equivalent
So, the Polish Adam and Eve decided they'll distribute the two Indo-European roots they have for 'snake' to indicate 'snake' and 'poisonous snake', whereas their Ukrainian and Russian counterparts went with 'snake' and 'harmless snake'. At some point, the latter two were nonetheless forced to add 'poisonous snake' to their lexicon as a third item.
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1 hour ago, AlsatianFelix said:
Is this diagram of artillery ranges correct?
Days ago I posted a video of Russian 2A36s headed for the front, and with rocket-assisted ammo those outrange the M777.
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Russian Su-24M striking a Ukrainian position at super-low altitude, dropping probable FAB-500 bombs retarded with parachutes and with delayed fuzes. I'm curious if the purpose is precision bombing, or survival of the platform:
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7 hours ago, dan/california said:
Going to be a fast parsing of every university in the western world for some Buryat speakers who would like green cards or equivalent, and to continue their educations at government expense if they just take this little sabbatical to Warsaw...
Bearstronaut cannot disclose their methods, but I can think of some technological solutions as a civvie - the most important thing is that you know the target language is Buryat.
Compare this to a situation where two stations simply start speaking Onödowáʼga꞉ (see what I did there
), where I would be clueless.
And the problem has, erm, wider implications. I had the chance to meet a top scholar who receives funding from the Pentagon for studying 'alien semantics': There are operations that are possible in theoretical semantics but not found in any natural language, suggesting the restrictions have to do with the wiring of the human brain. Should we ever encounter an extraterrestrial language, we'll be in for a rough ride.
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9 hours ago, Bearstronaut said:
There’s other things you can do but I can’t really say what.
Roger.
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Trent Telenko at his best: discussing truck tires. He has noticed the "MADE IN USSR" mark on the tires of a Russian Grad truck, and as you can guess, that means Russia is in a bad bad place:
And one for the record: Turns out the Russian SA-13 on Snake Island was also taken out by a TB2:
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Russian TV fantasizing about turning Britain into the next Atlantis - they also took the Irish out while they were at it:
Erm, the LOTR analogies related to this war have really gone overboard - Ian McKellen has showed up in Lviv:
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Russian Signals using Buryat as 'poor man's Navajo' - are the SIGINT pros on the Forum @Bearstronaut able to divulge how a modern military would counter this?
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For the folks who want Zalas in CMBS to be vulnerable to Stingers: A Ukrainian Valkyrie drone took a shot of Russian MANPADS unsuccessfully trying to intercept it (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/ufxvnd/russian_manpads_shot_missed_its_target_pictured/ )
The Valkyrie [What's the Canadian connection?]:
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After posting official statements that Poland would be getting its TB2s in Fall [Why that late?] and Canada had sold Ukraine "30-40" Wescam sights [For what? Replacing Turkish sights in their existing inventory?], I finally have a 'smoking gun' proving that Ukraine is receiving new batches of TB2s: This part from a downed TB2 captured by Russians was manufactured in March 2022 (the date is at the bottom, next to the Baykar logo):
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6 hours ago, Haiduk said:
cossacks (most of them just clowns in WWI style uniform, but they aren't infantil millenials)
Cossacks can give infantile millennials a run for their money:
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1 hour ago, BeondTheGrave said:
Yeltsin- Tried to fix things, didnt, lives mostly abroad.
Yeltsin is long dead (2007).
FWIW:
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"Waste the Ukrops (derogatory term for Ukrainian soldiers, but I am now seeing it being employed for all Ukrainians)"
"I didn't know."
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Flesh+Blood (+steel) to the grinder:
Ukrainian volunteers joining the Russian ranks in Melitopol:
Orenburg Cossacks have been brought to the Ukrainian border; will go in after signing contracts:
Russia's reply to the artillery being supplied to Ukraine (I'm seeing 2A36s and D-30s):
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Ukraine's Su-27s are up and flying (and I used to think using Ukrainian air support in CMBS was 'unrealistic'):
IDed as Su-27s by an expert:
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6 hours ago, Haiduk said:
Moscow is also needs a brigade of psychiatrists.
Yup.
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34 minutes ago, chuckdyke said:
Required possibly in an isolated fire base. Depends on the mission.
My bad: The M777 apparently has the same traverse as the M198, not 360 degrees - I deleted all my posts referring to this.
), where I would be clueless.
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
in Combat Mission Black Sea
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Previous flights were going through Hungarian airspace as well.
It isn't a TB2 delivery if you don't say that it is.
AKA: 'Don't tell, don't ask.'