Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Techpriest]

On a different note, here's the follow up video of the last video about the Russian air industry that I posted:

TL;DW: A couple weeks back Putin signed a law letting Russian airliners re-register their leased aircraft in Russia. Effectively allowing Russian airliners to steal their leased planes and get new airworthiness certificates and insurance from Russia instead of international companies that can be forced to revoke them by sanctions. Bermuda and Ireland most effected. Russian airliners next problem is going to maintenance. There's a bit more detail about maintenance, but the short of it is that regular maintenance requires regularly replacing parts that have received a certain amount of wear to ensure safety. Russia can no longer buy spare parts due to the sanctions. Beyond the obvious problem, its a problem for those airworthiness certificates, which to meet international standards requires using certified parts that they can track from manufacturer to aircraft if a problem is discovered.
Theoretically Russia can just manufacture it's own replacement parts for western built planes, but that'll kill the value of the planes as using uncertified parts means that their proper maintenance can no longer be assured. Their first alternative would be ground the western planes they don't need and use them for parts for the remainder; then once the war ends and they can buy parts again, they can buy parts for the planes they cannibalized. But that'll only hold them for a few months to several months before they start running out of some items.
Their next option for western planes would be to buy parts through a country that they're still on good terms with. Such a country would be risking themselves being slapped with a ban on being sold aircraft parts. Russia's apparently already attempting this option. Some government official by the name of Valery Kudinov said China had already told them "no", and they were in talk with Turkey and India. He was promptly fired for revealing that.
Their final option would be to turn to Russian built aircraft. Unfortunately everything they've got has some key parts that were foreign built. These at least Russia can manufacture replacements for as the plane manufacturer can certify parts for its planes. However the whole process of getting things designed/integrated/certified/manufactured could take months to years.

In short, in a few months Russian aviation authorities are going to have to start choosing between grounding western built aircraft, or compromising on the international safety standards they adopted many years ago. Unless they can convince another country to risk the wrath of the US and serve as a middleman and sell them the parts instead.

That’s a hard sell as they nationalized (stole) a bunch of planes they had a lease on. Anyone doing parts work for them would be risking not getting paid on top of sanctions.

 

[Screamer]

Yeah that’s the thing. I’d expect more damage visible, but the video is such shit quality it’s hard to know.

I don't think I've ever seen a video of someone being shot where there is blood splatter like in the movies. Tends to just make a hole.

 

[Mr Processor]

That just brought a tear of joy to my eye. If all he nukes is LA, I say we just let it slide. Pretty sure it falls under the definition of a public service. It certainly would go a long ways towards helping California deal with its homeless problems.

 

[Duke Nukem]

I don't think I've ever seen a video of someone being shot where there is blood splatter like in the movies. Tends to just make a hole.

Yeah but we need extreme gore like in Doom or something. Now explosives on the other hand, well, I just saw those severed penis pics and holy shit I can't imagine where the rest of the body is. Probably somewhere in orbit.

Also please Vlad, if you're going to hit something please make it the West Coast and leave everything else alone. Okay maybe you can do DC as well but still.

 

[Josterman]

The next time you feel the need to share anything from that clown , log off and seek the peace of the noose.

Ok I won’t post his shit here I got plenty of more pro war with Russia accounts I can choose from like vindman’s wife

https://mobile.twitter.com/natsechobbyist/status/1508176929240739841?cxt=HHwWgsCr3aW7j-4pAAAA

And this “anti racist” racist she is dead silent about Russians being attacked based on their skin color but is pro war

https://mobile.twitter.com/ImSpeaking13/status/1508246910582276107?cxt=HHwWloCyrd-kr-4pAAAA

https://mobile.twitter.com/ImSpeaking13/status/1508246159864827904?cxt=HHwWgMC4iYb5ru4pAAAA

Big brain tim pool time

https://mobile.twitter.com/Timcast/status/1508187579694424067?cxt=HHwWhoC95Z2nlO4pAAAA

 

[A_throwaway_name62919]

That’s a hard sell as they nationalized (stole) a bunch of planes they had a lease on. Anyone doing parts work for them would be risking not getting paid on top of sanctions.

True, though presumably anyone willing to attempt to keep selling parts to them as a middle man would be smart enough to arrange things so that they didn't get stiffed. Then again, I think the banking sanctions are still fucking with Russia's ability to pay for anything internationally. So Russia paying for anything will likely be complicated regardless.

 

[Wormy]

I don't think I've ever seen a video of someone being shot where there is blood splatter like in the movies. Tends to just make a hole.

This. The blood just oozes then sorta pours out depending on the trauma.

 

[SneedEyeMitch]

I don't think I've ever seen a video of someone being shot where there is blood splatter like in the movies. Tends to just make a hole.

I'll see if I can find a better video, but pig flesh is a good meat to measure the damage a gun can do.

Here you'll see the guy shoot a pig point blank in the head, and you'll see no blood splatter, just a hole made.

Skip to 1:32 for the head shot.

 

[Wash away the rain]

Hmmm ... doesn't this mean the U.S. will follow suit.

Nah the us has so many sub territory’s with common historical and racial/ethnic backgrounds, and common law/language backgrounds only an extreme minority would ever imagine breaking away from the status quo

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Yes, that's why there was mass outrage and prison sentences for anyone involved. I'm sure Arab news is an oh so unbiased source to back up your delusional ramblings.

It's 100% the usual CIA bullshit. One of the first thing burgers do in training a vassal's military is teaching them the dark arts of torture and human rights abuse for the optics.

What's amazing about America is that they're easily the most fucked country when it comes to mass murder of civilians and abusing PoW's Remember the shit they got up to in Iraq? Industrial scale torture, having their attack dogs bite off prisoner's balls, raping women and children while their dad's are tied up in the next room. The stuff they admitted to in Abu Gharaib was a tiny fraction of the what actually went down. The 'inquiry' was of course a cover up

https://www.arabnews.com/node/249910?msclkid=8f218999addd11ec9d962e05d953922e

Yet US servicemen/women reported it it, and it wasn't just one person. I remember there was a US Navy guy who was told by a glowie to bring his dog and sic him on a prisoner and he absolutely refused, stood his ground despite being threatened and left, with his dog, and wrote it up. He was just one of many.

Burgers always hand waive away their mass murder and torture.

"Oh you're bringing that up again!" Yes I am burger and stop excusing torture you filthy degenerate.

We are all God's children and there is hope for sinners but not for burgers. They're not people, they have no souls.

Us burgers aren't a monolith. I an a burger cat and I stand with my rus and uke felines that want no part of this faggotry. But yes, the biggest source of faggotry is from the burger humans, via their uke proxy humans.

 

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In case anyone was wondering why, a week ago, the Ukrainian SBU and their Western media puppets were spreading a fake recording of a 'Russian soldier' whose squad supposedly was trying to find 7.62x39 ammunition so they could shoot it out of their 5.45x39 AK74s into their legs (ummmmm.... yeah....the SBU isn't sending their best) and have convincing 'battle injuries' so they could go home... well, with the revelation of these widespread kneecappings and other war crimes against Russian POWs, now you know exactly why they were doing that.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russian-soldiers-shooting-themselves-legs-26495336

The ukrop excuse for how all their POWs ended up kneecapped will just be 'uh it wasn't us they shot themselves in the legs so we would mercifully take care of them'.

Yet US servicemen/women reported it it, and it wasn't just one person. I remember there was a US Navy guy who was told by a glowie to bring his dog and sic him on a prisoner and he absolutely refused, stood his ground despite being threatened and left, with his dog, and wrote it up. He was just one of many.

Still the exception rather than the rule.

Just look at the 2006 murders at Gitmo. The Sergeant of the Guard that night, Joe Hickman, wrote a book that exposed the fact that the CIA murdered three detainees (including, from memory, two literal random goatherders who were going to be released in weeks anyway) and the Army completely covered it up. No action has been taken by the US military against those responsible, unless you count retaliating against the guy who blew the whistle, of course.

 

[Derka Derka]

The Russians only have like 12 BMPTs. I think the Russians weren't in that much of a hurry to adopt them because they can do the same job with regular Shilkas. The Shilka isn't optimized for urban combat but it works well enough. Someone probably did cost-benefit analysis and determined that continuing to use regular old Shilkas was cheaper than having BMPTs.
Also outside of Mariupol, the fighting has *not* [yet] been in urban areas. It has been in rural and suburban areas. Urban areas are getting attacked with long distance weapons like missiles, artillery, and airstrikes, but we haven't seen the heavy Grozny style urban warfare yet.

This video I count 15 on the train (even though the title says 9)

https://youtu.be/yOyOEi-qgnY?t=50

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

In case anyone was wondering why, a week ago, the Ukrainian SBU and their Western media puppets were spreading a fake recording of a 'Russian soldier' whose squad supposedly was trying to find 7.62x39 ammunition so they could shoot it out of their 5.45x39 AK74s into their legs and have convincing 'battle injuries' so they could go home... well, with the revelation of these widespread kneecappings and other war crimes against Russian POWs, now you know exactly why they were doing that.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russian-soldiers-shooting-themselves-legs-26495336

The ukrop excuse for how all their POWs ended up kneecapped will just be 'uh it wasn't us they shot themselves in the legs so we would mercifully take care of them'.

7.62x39 wouldn't even shoot out of a gun chambered for 5.45x39. It might not even chamber fully enough to set the primer off. Even if it did, no bullet would come out, and you would have a very blown up gun, along with severe shrapnel injuries.

 

[Lone MacReady]

Vanquish? Good taste.

 

[Techpriest]

7.62x39 wouldn't even shoot out of a gun chambered for 5.45x39. It might not even chamber fully enough to set the primer off. Even if it did, no bullet would come out, and you would have a very blown up gun, along with severe shrapnel injuries.

Can an AK-74 even chamber a 7.62x39? I’d assume the Soviets would have made sure it couldn’t to keep that from happening.

 

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7.62x39 wouldn't even shoot out of a gun chambered for 5.45x39. It might not even chamber fully enough to set the primer off. Even if it did, no bullet would come out, and you would have a very blown up gun, along with severe shrapnel injuries.

yeah, I meant to note that sorry, it was very lazy work by the ukrop propagandists, on par with the Putin+dildo missile posters

 

[Josterman]

I got these from the meme king himself defiant Ls in today’s memes we got max boot and Biden as usual


And this no lib who wants a war who judging by his profile pic is a tard maybe

https://mobile.twitter.com/tomiahonen/status/1508185010423140353?cxt=HHwWgsC4ndeRk-4pAAAA

And joe Walsh

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

Can an AK-74 even chamber a 7.62x39? I’d assume the Soviets would have made sure it couldn’t to keep that from happening.

Going off of the case measurements I'm getting from the ammo encyclopedia, I'm gonna go with no, the 5.45 has a much narrower case diameter. You could probably get 5.45 to chamber in a 7.62 weapon, but I don't have any on hand to test, and we'd be back to the blown up gun problem if you tried shooting it.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Your daily cringe update on the war
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All those critters look like they want out, they all have the thousand meow stare.

The west doesn't seem to know that Navalny is the Russian Richard Spencer but a bit more extreme.
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Spoiler: Copy Pasta from the Youtube desc

Alexei Navalny and the Russian Nazis​

15,581 views Feb 3, 2021 Let's retrace the stages of Alexey Navalny's political path together. For liberals Navalny has become a symbol of the struggle for rights and democracy in Russia and the world today. We will start from when he was one of the organizers of neo-Nazi marches. We will move on to political campaigns against immigrants, xenophobic messages and support for the violence of the Russian anti-immigration movement, among the most ferocious in the world, responsible for hundreds of racially motivated killings. Thanks to Dmitri Kovalevich and Greg Butterfield for the English translations. SOURCES
Navalny asks to allow the 2006 Russian March https://www.svoboda.org/a/269476.html
Navalny request for expulsion of Georgians from Russia https://www.theatlantic.com/internati...
Russian March 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oewtl...
Russian March 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGQ8v... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3IkC...
Al Jazeera - Russian March 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRoi5...
Euronews - Russian March 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CYds...
Xenophobic campaign "Stop feeding the Caucasus!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWR8i...
Speech of Navalny on the stage during the Russian March with the neo-Nazis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTH-g...
Racist video uploaded to Narod channel https://archive.org/details/VideoAlex...
Al Jazeera - Punitive raids against immigrants in 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvp0u...
Navalny's support for punitive raids https://world.time.com/2013/10/14/rus...

source: https://youtu.be/Yba-LJ8clgc

Edit:
Article from 2013 by the Atlantic: https://web.archive.org/web/2013080...ei-navalny-a-liberal-or-a-nationalist/278186/

Our glowies are schizos, first they boost Antifa faggots to destroy America and now they use IRL Nazis to destroy Ukraine/Russia.

 

[Mr Bunny]

All those critters look like they want out, they all have the thousand meow stare.

Our glowies are schizos, first they boost Antifa faggots to destroy America and now they use IRL Nazis to destroy Ukraine/Russia.

Don't forget funding radical Islamists in middle east.