Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[The Bovinian Derivative]

C'mon man
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Yeah, but that's gay.

I'll see myself out.

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

Sorry, I know you just got embarrassed at your false flag bullshit again, so I'll just leave that there, only one raging here is you, bro.

But I gotta say, your Confession via Projection is top notch.

When she gets mad and testy, she gets more cute.

 

[DumbDude42]

2) Drone strikes are the current conventional war meta - every country should be heavily investing in drones

to me it seems like drones are so effective because shooting them down from the ground is kinda difficult. they fly very high, so high that sometimes manpads can't even reach them. they are very small and also silent, so it's kinda hard for a human to spot them. and they don't give off nearly as much heat as jet engines or helicopters, which makes IR tracking misisles more likely to miss them.

i have no idea what the meta is when it comes to anti drone measures right now. send fighter jets to shoot them down with air to air missiles maybe? or use radar guided anti air missiles like those american PATRIOT things? but those are super expensive and hard to come by, you could get to a point where your anti air missile is more expensive than the drone it takes down lol

 

[Dave_Ph]

F'ing awesome. My iodine pills arrived!!
No. They're not for the coming nooclear attack. I developed an honest to goodness iodine deficiency. I gave up salt a while back. If you do that and notice the outer edges our your eyebrows disappear try iodine.
But now the panic is screwing availability.

If you have any symptoms you'd like me to diagnose let me know. Google isn't blocking everything yet.

 

[mindlessobserver]

I wasn't aware that Ukraine even had planes left to shoot down or safe runways for them to take off from. I wonder how much hardware they actually have holed up in their USSR bunkers...

That said, it looked like the Russians shot them down pretty easy in that dogfight, with no losses on their side.

So much for that "Ghost of Kiev shooting down 5 Russian MiGs in one sortie" propaganda.

The fact Ukraine is still doing combat air patrols 4 weeks into this is a win for them in its own way. Nobody expected the entire country to last a week. This is literally the Second Winter War.

It's become "If" Russia ultimately wins. They will still have had the myth of their militaries ability shattered. Imagine if instead of Ukraine this was the Baltics. With all their modern NATO equipment and trained Armies.

 

[Doctor Professor Timon]

i have no idea what the meta is when it comes to anti drone measures right now. send fighter jets to shoot them down with air to air missiles maybe? or use radar guided anti air missiles like those american PATRIOT things? but those are super expensive and hard to come by, you could get to a point where your anti air missile is more expensive than the drone it takes down lol

In before some farmer's just found a way to take them out with rubber bands and some gum and Russia's weaponized it.

 

[Dave_Ph]

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When she gets mad and testy, she gets more cute.

Ewww, its been so long since I've had to see that.


Okay, Mr Bunny. This time my right pinky toe.

 

[PhoBingas]

This is actually a behind-the-scenes clip some Russian rapper posted while he was making a music video.
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(lol age-restricted, here's the youtube link)

Shit eh? The more you know. Last year people were saying it was fake covid dead in New York... Now its evidence of staged atrocities. Oh to be a fly on the wall in Putin or Zelenski's gayops server.

 

[Psychotron]

EMP is one environment of many hostile environments that our nukes are designed to survive. The US government actually single-handedly holds up certain "archaic" industries because IBM and Microsoft just don't make hardened computers anymore. Hardening is so 1970s - following Moore's law is more on-fleek.

The bomb is what really gave America it's authority to begin with, and I'm damn sure the things will work.

It's just in the depiction of nuke wars, the nukes always perfectly land in all the city centers.

This cascading EMP phenomenon seems like it may do more damage then the initial blast to most people.

Random stuff catching on fire from spark gaps.
Grandmamama's fake hip collecting electric charge and electricuting her as it find a path to ground.

 

[Cool Dog]

The problem isn't figuring out how an NLAW works. The problem is being able to afford to build a lot off them, which Russia has no real solution for.

Nah, building these its easy, the problem is the design. Sure anyone can tape a grenade to a chink drone and use that like the sandniggers from isis did, but that shit wont do a tenth of the damage and wont work if its too cold or too hot or too windy

This shit has to work in all kinds of conditions, the tech has to be really tested and you wont see that on the patents, its all hush-hush. With all these captured missiles its just a matter of copying the design, thats all. Also many burger weapons have chinese parts and china still exports to russia

 

[Freezard]

i have no idea what the meta is when it comes to anti drone measures right now. send fighter jets to shoot them down with air to air missiles maybe? or use radar guided anti air missiles like those american PATRIOT things? but those are super expensive and hard to come by, you could get to a point where your anti air missile is more expensive than the drone it takes down lol

Theoretically, you try to go for the particularly big weakness of them being remote controlled. How widely used that is or how effective it would be against longer ranged drones, I have no idea, but I know drone guns for use against shit like quadrotors dropping pipe bombs, by disrupting their connection to their controller, is a thing.
Anyways the real meta with any aircraft is to shoot the shit out of the airfield it's taking off from and getting resupplied at.

 

[Wy4M]

I posted earlier about this guy.


He likes to call himself Captain Lee Geun
IG & Youtube: RokSEAL
his website: https://www.rokseal.net/
Visit it and you'll see what a fucking larper faggot he his. Going to Ukraine serves him well.




Edit - I hope he has a copy of his book Ultimate ULTIMATUM with him. I think he's gonna need it.

 

[Echo_Ender]

to me it seems like drones are so effective because shooting them down from the ground is kinda difficult. they fly very high, so high that sometimes manpads can't even reach them. they are very small and also silent, so it's kinda hard for a human to spot them. and they don't give off nearly as much heat as jet engines or helicopters, which makes IR tracking misisles more likely to miss them.

i have no idea what the meta is when it comes to anti drone measures right now. send fighter jets to shoot them down with air to air missiles maybe? or use radar guided anti air missiles like those american PATRIOT things? but those are super expensive and hard to come by, you could get to a point where your anti air missile is more expensive than the drone it takes down lol

Realistically? Anti-Drone Drones. They'll end up making drones that specialize in hunting down and destroying other drones.

They probably already exist but are kept secret.

Someday soon, we may actually have sci-fi drone vs drone dogfights in the skies...

 

[Jarolleon]

Palestinians were doing that years ago too, planting pieces of Israeli rockets and bombs in playgrounds for photo ops. There are no original ideas left anymore.

Five Romeo Romeo says that journalists would go into Salisbury, Rhodesia, and pretend that people napping in Cecil Square on their office breaks were actually murdered protesters.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

As they say, if it ain't broke don't fix it.
The T-72 was never a bad tank, really, despite its ammunition being stored in a way that it sends its crew and the turret into space if hit in a sufficiently comedic way. I am a bit surprised that models as old as the A are being fielded, even if I know the Russians just don't have the finances to come close to bringing their armed forces up to speed (Having a GDP below Canada and Italy doesn't exactly help with what's available for military spending) so they can't just toss them.
Something I'm curious of though, even though it'd require equipment being deployed that I'm sure the Russians don't want to lose because it's too expensive to waste, is how effective Hard-Kill systems would be against NLAWs and Javelins in the field. I'm sure military analysts are waiting with bated breath for word on that one instead of "guided anti-tank missile wipes out cold war era garbage, wow, we totally haven't seen this happen fifty thousand times over the past twenty years."

It might not ever have been a terrible tank, but it was never a great one. From the start it was designed as a wartime production model and not supposed to enter general service. However for cost reasons they said fuck it and made it one of their primary tanks.

 

[Fake News Anchor]

The fact Ukraine is still doing combat air patrols 4 weeks into this is a win for them in its own way. Nobody expected the entire country to last a week. This is literally the Second Winter War.

The fact that I'm only half dead is a win for me.

 

[mindlessobserver]

The fact that I'm only half dead is a win for me.
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The victory conditions of this war require Ukraine to be Fully dead.

 

[Kane Lives]

I wasn't aware that Ukraine even had planes left to shoot down or safe runways for them to take off from. I wonder how much hardware they actually have holed up in their USSR bunkers...

That said, it looked like the Russians shot them down pretty easy in that dogfight, with no losses on their side.

So much for that "Ghost of Kiev shooting down 5 Russian MiGs in one sortie" propaganda.

They do still control Western Ukraine, so they have a literal half of a country to land safely.

 

[Reporterward]

So did that Odessa landing ever happen or is that just a pile of bullshit?

Literally the ONLY ones predicting an Odessa amphibious landing attack are AZOV and the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
Which should tell you all that's needed to know by this stage of the operation.

 

[Random Internet Person]

You’re wrong about Russian propaganda. People in this thread mostly believe American casualty figures and disregard Russia’s, for starters. Anybody trying to say “only 500 Russians have died” would get laughed at. Nobody’s even disputing that Russia’s logistics have been shit or that it is doing worse than people generally expected it to. People just aren’t buying the retarded bullshit about Ukraine being on the cusp of victory, or the idea that Putin is a genocidal madman without reasonable geopolitical goals, or the even more retarded belief that America and NATO dindu nuffin.

Honestly, the only propaganda that seems to have some effect is the line that Vladimir Putin is /pol/‘s poster boy that’s taking on the woke West and giving that structure a much needed punch to the teeth. IIRC, one person here even said Putin was fighting for the right for countries not named the United States to declare war and use the military to settle conflicts.