Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[BULLY HUNTER_77]

Lol. That scenario you’re describing is as real as cold fusion. I doubt the Air Force caused the Eastern seaboard or any significant portion of the US to fry. That’s what it would take to test this. Please explain how you can generate energy out of nothing because that’s what you’re positing: that the nuclear explosion will convert a large percentage of energy to the EMP which will in turn multiply itself a millionth-fold due to the presence of conductors?

Uh, my dude... it's called the Starfish Prime test. Luckily it was over the Pacific Ocean and only knocked out the Hawaii Power grid (with only 5.6 kV/M). The results of the test were so terrifying that we immediately shared them with the USSR during the height of the cold war. Why do you think detonating nuclear bombs in space is banned by international treaty?

Besides Starfish Prime, there's the Minuteman III Hardness Surveillance Program. Our ICBM electronics are about as hardened as you can get. I can't find the video on the open Internet but there's video of a failure and I have seen hardened electronics burst into flames with my own eyes. It's a shame I can't share the video with you because they actually play Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire when it happens because they have a morbid sense of humor.

Your questions are all answered in more detail in the Wikipedia article I originally provided. The energy isn't "generated from nothing." When a nuke is detonated in atmosphere, the energy (megatons of TNT energy, fren) is absorbed by atmosphere and the ground, so only a city is destroyed. When a nuke is detonated in vacuum, the energetic gamma rays keep traveling until they hit something. In this case, they strip electrons from particles in the upper atmosphere and create a Compton effect electrical current, which interacts with earth's magnetic field on continental scale.

If that were true, we would have cheap and endless energy like Wakanda. Absolutely ridiculous.

An easy way to think about it for a layman is a nuke detonated in space bends the Earth's magnetic field like a trampoline. The area of effect coverage is caused by the Earth's magnetic field "springing" back into place. So, the energy is coming from the nuke itself interacting with the dynamo in Earth's core. Is this really so hard to believe? You've probably seen the destruction of one Nuke with your own eyes - now imagine if all that energy would only really interact with the national power grid.

Hardening from an EMP can be done also by isolation (Farady cage), proper dissipation methods etc. There is a lot of literature on this and I was concerned at first on the prospect of the EMP but now, not so much.

Remember, we're talking EMP effects (~27 kV/m) on a continental scale. In theory, a Faraday cage could protect the United States power grid... but a Faraday Cage around the entire US power grid? That is massively fucking impractical. like more impractical than building an ESA vault around every power draw on our electrical grid. You can look out your window and know this protection doesn't exist.

If your electrical equipment is powered off and disconnected, the EMP won’t do shit.

True, but how many of your appliances are currently plugged into an outlet this very moment?

Critical infrastructure like Mai power generator facilities and major hospitals are now resistant to EMP damage.

It’s why the countermeasures to substations were of nominal cost.

Hypothetically, you can make your own pocket EMP and fey a cops car and dashboard cam if you’re pulled over and you could conceivably harden your vehicle so it is unaffected.

Based on these, I am absolutely certain that you don't know what you're talking about. If you're curious about the subject, I recommend buying a college textbook or taking a course. I'm just a retard on the Internet and my knowledge is very surface level - I'm not going to be able to answer all your questions on the subject. Or you can choose the believe the Orange Man is tots protecting your laptop and bank account - it makes no difference to me.

 

[PeruvianPerun]

My city got our first Груз 200 delivered yesterday. I think this, and not sanctions and buyers panic, really makes you realize, despite action in thousand kilometers from you, it IS your countrymen fighting out there.

 

[Narcotics]

Time for some schizo posting. This statement in particular:

"The idea that we're going to send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in, American pilots and American crews, just understand. Don't kid yourself, no matter what you all say, that's called World War Three, okay?"

I have absolute faith that ol' Senile Joe and Giggly Kamala fully intend for this to turn into boots on the ground in Ukraine after this. Why? One word: Trains.

Call me retard but i think potatoe Joe is just so senile that he didn't know what else to say after tanks and he just said trains to Say something

 

[naffatune]

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the comments are incredible. twitter flipping out on biden like he has canceled the next avengers movie they were promised.

Lol this was made clear by Biden before (I believe he said attacking would mean nuclear war). Even if he never said any of this, I don't think it would be in the US military high command's best interest.

You can't force limited governments onto people who prefer authoritarian states. The only appropriate way to deal with situations like this is to let the two authoritarian crapholes destroy each other over time and allow American orgs to rebuild the place once the dust settles.

 

[Eureka Coffee Grinder]

Call me retard but i think potatoe Joe is just so senile that he didn't know what else to say after tanks and he just said trains to Say something

he was an amtrak ambassador, and when you start losing your facilities like joe, you just default to something that you are familiar with, and it was amtrak/trains, since they paid him so well.

 

[Wy4M]

https://twitter.com/colonelhomsi/status/1502715617274642435

 

[Sopmod Senior]

For all the money the Soviets/Russians spent on the development of the Ka-50/52 and it's escape systems they seem to be very vulnerable. I never thought the contra-rotating blades were a good idea on an attack helo, you take a hit in the blades and they hit two blades.

Skadovsk - Wreckage of one of two Russian Ka-52's shot down by Ukrainians today.
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Btw, has anyone seen any footage of t-90s, destroyed or otherwise?

I've seen some of the 'newer' model T-72s that are sort of T-90s but honestly a lot of what I've seen has the turret mangled so it's hard to tell. I don't know that T-90 is necessarily used much except for export designations (and the T-90A), the whole T-72B3/B3M seems to be applied more.
Edit: T-90AM (Shtora dazzlers and Relikt reactive armor along with new remote weapons station for MG on turret roof) in invasion markings, dunno where the picture was taken.

 

[kuuu]

This is hell. Or present day Mariupol. Not much difference.
Btw, has anyone seen any footage of t-90s, destroyed or otherwise?

 

[JosephStalin]

Well, no. Texas and California are very different culturally, as shown in their respective politics.

Have lived for extended periods in both Texas and California. Believe it's best to say both places have areas where the culture is much the same, and places where the culture is different. Would say Austin is more like SF or LA far as being liberal. Get in far enough from the CA coast, you'll find areas in CA that are culturally similar to many places in TX.

The thing with politics in CA is the coastal crazies outnumber the conservatives inland. In TX the conservatives still overall outnumber the crazies.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

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the comments are incredible. twitter flipping out on biden like he has canceled the next avengers movie they were promised.

Shit, I'm done, You've got me, I'm the wrong kind of slav and will butcher the sentence structure.

It's not about who got who, but about what really matters.

 

[Mussi]

This is hell. Or present day Mariupol. Not much difference.
Btw, has anyone seen any footage of t-90s, destroyed or otherwise?
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Why is there a Russian soldier among the Ukrainians at 0:49 in that video? Blue arm(band) bandit.

 

[Wy4M]

Why is there a Russian soldier among the Ukrainians at 0:49 in that video? Blue arm(band) bandit.

Blue = AZOV

 

[Kerwin White]

Minor blog post, but this war has completely cemented my political alienation. The few sources of information I found that were willing to question the covid narrative, are all varying degrees of retarded over Ukraine. Every mainstream politician is a flag-waving member of Team Ukraine. I don't think a single person in my life would be happy if they knew what I actually thought about this.

If I didn't have a family, I'd seriously consider fucking off to Asia. I want no part of what the West has become. When did this Earth become so gay?

 

[kuuu]

Why is there a Russian soldier among the Ukrainians at 0:49 in that video? Blue arm(band) bandit.

From what I've read it's supposed to be Ukrainian special force units with blue arm bands.
Saw a vid earlier where a whole squad had those.
Couldn't find the vid, but here's Poroshenko with it.

 

[Forest Portal Triumph 747]

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the comments are incredible. twitter flipping out on biden like he has canceled the next avengers movie they were promised.

The handlers controlling Chomo Joe thankfully aren't THAT retarded. They know they're goners in the case of Nuclear Armageddon. Unfortunately, the NPCs they have programmed for decades are cheering on the opposite. You can count on Chomo Joe's handlers to make more decisions that backfire on them, with the one saving grace is that they don't seem like they will get us *all* killed.

 

[draggs]

And I saw videos where Ukries are leaving tons of equipment every time they leave a settlement in eastern Ukraine and even separatist/Russian soldiers are starting to adopt Javelins and NLAWS in significant numbers.

I also saw a vid of a Ukrie safehouse getting bombed.

There's also that video of the assault on Hostomel airport in the first days of the war.

I don't know what that has to do with Russia not even bothering with the basics of warfare like don't do nothing about ambushers setting up shop a hundred feet from the road your men are traveling on but ok

 

[naffatune]

Why is there a Russian soldier among the Ukrainians at 0:49 in that video? Blue arm(band) bandit.

Hmm? Blue armband = Russian?

Judging from what I've seen, blue armband = Azov

I was recently thinking about why some Ukrainians would wear blue armbands. The answer (which I should've known earlier) is that they're used for Azov troops.

Here's a video of Azovs in the basement of a school in Cheremushky, Mariupol (link).

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Also, how did you forget that blue = Ukie? I'm pretty sure you knew it before.

 

[Kane Lives]

From what I've read it's supposed to be Ukrainian special force units with blue arm bands.
Saw a vid earlier where a whole squad had those.
Couldn't find the vid, but here's Poroshenko with it.
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This fucking war really had me wondering if both sides might be suffering from a lot of blue-on-blue as well. When you're fired on and you see a tank down the road you shoot first and ask questions later.

 

[Coccxys]

Which tabloid was this?

The i, the one the independent lauched to be all cool and down with da kids so aimed at annoying know it all lefty uni kids.

This tells you all you need to know

 

[Mussi]

Blue = AZOV

From what I've read it's supposed to be Ukrainian special force units with blue arm bands.
Saw a vid earlier where a whole squad had those.
Couldn't find the vid, but here's Poroshenko with it.
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Hmm? Blue armband = Russian?

Judging from what I've seen, blue armband = Azov



Also, how did you forget that blue = Ukie? I'm pretty sure you knew it before.

My bad, I forgot that a lot of people weren't here for the Armband Era of this thread. I was making a Chris Chan joke while poking fun at that. I don't believe I've ever seen a DNR, LNR, or Russian soldier with a blue armband.