Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Hitman One]

Is that actually the case? I'm certainly no expert on nuclear weapons, but I know a nuclear detonation is a very mechanically tricky thing to pull off.

I'm sure releasing a bunch of highly-enriched uranium into the environment would be decidedly bad, but would intercepting a nuke in flight have any reasonable chance of detonating it?

The idea is to intercept the ICBM in the short period where it is in space before the payload falls back to earth.

 

[JustSomeDong]

The primary portion of the bomb (the fission initiator) requires literal nanosecond-scale precision to work properly, so no. I never worked on any nuclear ordnance, but I would say even dropping the thing on the floor slightly while moving it would require a full teardown and inspection.

Like you say, dropping thousands of pounds of plutonium dust into the atmosphere is not recommended.

I read somewhere that most ICBMs use accelerometers or something for arming. As in it won't actually arm the warhead until it reaches a certain speed, at the downward arc of it's ballistic trajectory, I think. This is shit I read a long time ago and I don't even remember where, so grain of salt. But that's also when any ABM defenses would be useful, sooo..... I think a kill wouldn't pop it off, but it sure would be a radiological mess.

 

[Sammich]

I'm sorry, but I can't take seriously an article written by someone who used the name "Tyler Durded", lol

Jesus, you are fucking retarded. It's a blanket pen name used on that site. IIRC everyone that writes there or for there has that pen name. You dumb bastard.

 

[JustSomeDong]

Jesus, you are fucking retarded. It's a blanket pen name used on that site. IIRC everyone that writes there or for there has that pen name. You dumb bastard.

It's still cringe af, like almost anyone who references that movie.

 

[IamnottheNSA]

Some of my neighbors have been putting blue and yellow ribbons on their mailboxes. I don't even need to ask them why blue and yellow ribbons. It's like everyone sperging out about BLM two years ago; normies getting latched onto causes because it's the thing to do, I suppose.

Standard bugman behavior, nothing unusual.

 

[Hitman One]

I read somewhere that most ICBMs use accelerometers or something for arming. As in it won't actually arm the warhead until it reaches a certain speed, at the downward arc of it's ballistic trajectory, I think. This is shit I read a long time ago and I don't even remember where, so grain of salt. But that's also when any ABM defenses would be useful, sooo..... I think a kill wouldn't pop it off, but it sure would be a radiological mess.

Accelerometers and star trackers so they can dead-reckon their whereabouts autonomously. Ain't gonna be no GPS if the balloon goes up.

 

[Dave_Ph]

Has the cyber war started? Spectrum outages for
Internet
TV
Phone in my area

Estimated repair time is late tonight so entertain me. Dance Minkees

 

[Turk on the lurk]

Mykolaiv - Russians are keeping shelling residental areas.

Voznesensk - Firefight between Ukrainian and Russian troops.

Unknown - Ukrainian police is defusing an OFZAB-500 aircraft bomb.

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Bonus:

 

[KiwiSeperatist]

Some pictures are NSFW:

https://mega.nz/folder/uhUU0TKD#jXJktw9iWpUeSqmdVyqaGw

May God Bless you anon.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

>bombs are going off outside
>better go take a look

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Retard, Russia has nearly 6000 nukes at their disposal and would be able to take out every major European target with a hundred max. If even 1% of the weapons that Russia would launch at the US actually landed then America would be an unlivable nightmare. In fact, even if every single nuke was shot down by the US' magical space weapons, then plenty of them would detonate mid air and wreak hell on Earth's atmosphere.

I'm a bit more concerned knowing that there are people in the world who legitimately think that a nuclear war would somehow not just have no negative impact on them, but would also be beneficial for them.

Nuclear bombs require a precise order of events to actually detonate properly, shooting it out of the sky disrupts the chain of events required inside the bomb's mechanisms to achieve this. There's also no guarantee that upon a successful detonation as to what efficiency a nuclear bomb will fission, the Fat man bomb only had a %16 efficiency fission rate of the present nuclear materials.

This goes without mentioning that nuclear bombs require around-the-clock maintenance to stay in working condition, and we all know from the shredded tires on their trucks what the quality of maintenance is like in the Russian armed forces.

This is also assuming that it will ever escalate to launching nukes, which it won't, because the chain of command will likely refuse to get nuked in kind & nobody wants that. The only real reason Russia is able to invade Ukraine is because of an absence of a nuclear deterrent, because it frees up the region to infantry conflict. Launching nukes would mean Putin blows up the place he's invading after sending his own troops into the country, which is where the center of conflict is. The instant he does that, the world nukes Moscow.

No, WW3 will most likely end up just like the Cold War with people hesitating to launch the big bomb.

Also, you are not privy to the full extent of NORAD's capabilities, military secrets are secret, the only reason shitty ground missiles manage to get passed the Iron Dome is because of their close proximity, and there's the North Pacific ocean & Bering Sea sitting between Russia & North America.

No, your shitty, unmaintained nukes are not getting to the West coast.

 

[tehpope]

Between Ukraine banning exports and Russia's sanctions... 28% of the world's wheat supply has just disappeared.

Ukraine Bans Wheat & Grain Exports Vital To Global Food Supply, Citing Citizens Under Siege (source)
(https://archive.ph/41UWG)

"Russia and Ukraine together supply nearly a third of the world’s wheat and barley exports"

As many people in this thread know (but most normies have no idea)... The Arab Spring started because of a bad harvest in Eastern Europe. Put some compost on your living room carpet, lads. It's time to make bank.

And you know what they say... Rate this post informative or your mother will die in her sleep tonight.

So less beer I guess.

 

[Meat Target]

Mykolaiv - Russians are keeping shelling residental areas.
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Voznesensk - Firefight between Ukrainian and Russian troops.
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Unknown - Ukrainian police is defusing an OFZAB-500 aircraft bomb.
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Bonus:
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Why are they pouring water on it? What are they extracting, some kind of fuse?

>bombs are going off outside
>better go take a look

I mean, my retarded ass will look out the window in a tornado.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Is that actually the case? I'm certainly no expert on nuclear weapons, but I know a nuclear detonation is a very mechanically tricky thing to pull off.

I'm sure releasing a bunch of highly-enriched uranium into the environment would be decidedly bad, but would intercepting a nuke in flight have any reasonable chance of detonating it?

I'll take what is an EMP for 100,000 rads, Alex.

 

[Dave_Ph]

Nuclear bombs require a precise order of events to actually detonate properly, shooting it out of the sky disrupts the chain of events required inside the bomb's mechanisms to achieve this. There's also no guarantee that upon a successful detonation as to what efficiency a nuclear bomb will fission, the Fat man bomb only had a %16 efficiency fission rate of the present nuclear materials.

This goes without mentioning that nuclear bombs require around-the-clock maintenance to stay in working condition, and we all know from the shredded tires on their trucks what the quality of maintenance is like in the Russian armed forces.

This is also assuming that it will ever escalate to launching nukes, which it won't, because the chain of command will likely refuse to get nuked in kind & nobody wants that. The only real reason Russia is able to invade Ukraine is because of an absence of a nuclear deterrent, because it frees up the region to infantry conflict. Launching nukes would mean Putin blows up the place he's invading after sending his own troops into the country, which is where the center of conflict is. The instant he does that, the world nukes Moscow.

No, WW3 will most likely end up just like the Cold War with people hesitating to launch the big bomb.

Also, you are not privy to the full extent of NORAD's capabilities, military secrets are secret, the only reason shitty ground missiles manage to get passed the Iron Dome is because of their close proximity, and there's the North Pacific ocean & Bering Sea sitting between Russia & North America.

No, your shitty, unmaintained nukes are not getting to the West coast.

Brandon

 

[Matt Damon]

This goes without mentioning that nuclear bombs require around-the-clock maintenance to stay in working condition, and we all know from the shredded tires on their trucks what the quality of maintenance is like in the Russian armed forces.

Also, you are not privy to the full extent of NORAD's capabilities, military secrets are secret

I am not counting on Russia's presumed incompetence and secret magic the US military pulls out of its ass to protect me from thousands of thermonuclear weapons.

I'll take what is an EMP for 100,000 rads, Alex.

Sure, but that has to be planned to detonate at altitude. Intercepting a nuke won't cause that.

 

[Reddit Gold]

Nuclear bombs require a precise order of events to actually detonate properly, shooting it out of the sky disrupts the chain of events required inside the bomb's mechanisms to achieve this. There's also no guarantee that upon a successful detonation as to what efficiency a nuclear bomb will fission, the Fat man bomb only had a %16 efficiency fission rate of the present nuclear materials.

This goes without mentioning that nuclear bombs require around-the-clock maintenance to stay in working condition, and we all know from the shredded tires on their trucks what the quality of maintenance is like in the Russian armed forces.

This is also assuming that it will ever escalate to launching nukes, which it won't, because the chain of command will likely refuse to get nuked in kind & nobody wants that. The only real reason Russia is able to invade Ukraine is because of an absence of a nuclear deterrent, because it frees up the region to infantry conflict. Launching nukes would mean Putin blows up the place he's invading after sending his own troops into the country, which is where the center of conflict is. The instant he does that, the world nukes Moscow.

No, WW3 will most likely end up just like the Cold War with people hesitating to launch the big bomb.

Also, you are not privy to the full extent of NORAD's capabilities, military secrets are secret, the only reason shitty ground missiles manage to get passed the Iron Dome is because of their close proximity, and there's the North Pacific ocean & Bering Sea sitting between Russia & North America.

No, your shitty, unmaintained nukes are not getting to the West coast.

It's afraid.

 

[MadStan]

this is a disastrous idea
the reason the brussels bureaucrats want an EU army is because that would finally enable them to be the tyrant emperors they've always wanted to be instead of the ineffective bureaucrats they are currently.
the main appeal of such an army is that it would be an extraordinary tool for harsh crackdown on internal dissent due to the soldiers having no ties to the locals they are supposed to oppress.
yellow vest meme protests in france? just bus in bulgarian and greek soldiers who don't speak french and don't give a single fuck about french civilians, they'll brutalize these locals into submission as much as the brussels overlords want.
maybe anti austerity protests in greece again? send a batallion of soldiers from finland or estonia, they'll have no problem stomping them into the dirt.
or perhaps hungarians refusing to accept rapefugee quotas again? send troops from germany and france, they'll have no second thoughts putting these uppity magyars in their place again, by force.

This is absurd.

Your argument for no EU army is that it will be used as a tool of tyranny against their own people is that the only thing stopping the current armies they do have from doing this...is...what exactly?

 

[Cold Root Beer]

Mykolaiv - Russians are keeping shelling residental areas.
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Voznesensk - Firefight between Ukrainian and Russian troops.
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Unknown - Ukrainian police is defusing an OFZAB-500 aircraft bomb.
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Bonus:
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>Area is actively being shelled by artillery
>"Hmm, better open my window and start filming with my phone"
>Shells start landing closer to you
>"OMG I'M GOING TO START CRYING, CLOSE THE WINDOW, AND CONTINUE TO FILM BEHIND THE SAFETY OF THIS THIN GLASS PANEL"

Somehow the combo of Ukrainian brain and female brain doesn't lead to good decision making capabilities.

 

[Delicious Diversity]

WMD WARNING!

The US is claiming the Russians may deploy chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine as a false flag attack:

This tells me one of two things: either the US has intelligence to suggest a false flag attack by Russia using WMDs is being planned, or the CIA is itself planning such an attack to frame Russia.

Keep an eye out for glowie shenanigans lads...