Russian Special Military Operation in the Ukraine - Mark IV: The Partitioning of Discussion

[Napoleon III]

Thankfully no. They only succeeded in blowing up a military blogger by sending a dumb broad with a bomb to his birthday party. Attempts to poison Russian pilots with a cake, blow up factories or railway tracks all failed spectacularly.

Chechens had a much higher success rate and body count.

We think of terrorism as suicide bombers, but Ukraine has killed plenty of civilians using artillery and cruise missiles. In addition, they did that raid into Belgorod. Considering Russia is devoting resources to taking Avdeevka right now I'd say the terror-shelling accomplished its job. The goal is to try and force Russia to use more of their resources to stop the terrorism rather than fight the war.

The Chechens have been more successful it is true but, Russian security forces were not as good back then and Chechens being better doesn't make Ukraine bad.

 

[ConsentAccidentVictimNo98]

Space launched missiles bypass (or rather: they done it beforhand) the most vulnerable stage of an ICBM.

There are then other main downsides to an orbital nuclear warhead. The orbit will decay for starters, you also are then reliant on the orbit and being near/over your target when doing a burn to be able to redirect towards it. If your orbit decays too much, you need to account for recovery. There is then also the problem of the launch vehicles costing more, you won't be able to do maintenance and so on. There are overall a lot of downsides.

 

[Betonhaus]

Do we have any public records of Russian rocket launches ever since Nasa stopped using them? Is there a way to track what has been sent to space, or is that being kept secret?

 

[Corn Syrup Connoisseur]

ever since Nasa stopped using them

NASA didn't stop using Soyuz launches.

https://archive.is/CirOY

 

[Fapcop]

Do we have any public records of Russian rocket launches ever since Nasa stopped using them? Is there a way to track what has been sent to space, or is that being kept secret?

There has been quite a few. Including some military satellite launches. I forget the website, but there was a Russian who kept a close watch on their program, launches etc. Even had a Patreon with exclusive content as I recall.

EDIT: Found it: https://www.russianspaceweb.com/site_update.html

Knock yourself out, there’s a lot of stuff including about their spy satellites. (Whatever is publicly available anyways.)

 

[blackjack101]

new heavy launch engines, scramjet engines, aerospike engines, methane engines, nuclear space tugs, etc. Feel like Musk only wanted to get close with Russia during the start of the operation because it is too hard to find people in the U.S. capable of critical thinking to start new rocket engineering feats.

 

[The Ugly One]

NASA didn't stop using Soyuz launches.
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https://archive.is/CirOY

TOTAL EMBARGO (unless we really need your stuff lol)

 

[make_it_so]

TOTAL EMBARGO (unless we really need your stuff lol)

Just goes to show how fucking toothless the effort was. As far as we can tell, the worst damage Russia received from the "unprecedented sanctions" was Russians not being able to use their Visa or Apple Pay accounts for about 12 hours.

 

[Seedling]

Just again just goes to show how fucking toothless the effort was. As far as we can tell, the worst damage Russia received from the "unprecedented sanctions" was Russians not being able to use their Visa or Apple Pay accounts for about 12 hours.

They also got a kickass homebrew McDonald replacement aparently, worth the brief inconvinience i would say

 

[Jump]

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You have it backwards.
It is better to live on your feet then to die on your knees.

Hohol's remember 149.2Mhz. You don't have to die for globohomo

 

[Duke Nukem]

It's just the brazen automatic assertion that Putin is the enemy who needs to be hurt. Why can she assume it is obvious and everyone will go along?

It is better to die for the Emperor than to live for yourself!
Now we just need to figure out who the Emperor is..

The wireheads need to die immediately. Glory to the UEF! Uniting humanity under one banner.

I'm guessing the Neuralink testing is the beginning of a real world equivalent of the Borg?

We think of terrorism as suicide bombers, but Ukraine has killed plenty of civilians using artillery and cruise missiles. In addition, they did that raid into Belgorod. Considering Russia is devoting resources to taking Avdeevka right now I'd say the terror-shelling accomplished its job. The goal is to try and force Russia to use more of their resources to stop the terrorism rather than fight the war.

The Chechens have been more successful it is true but, Russian security forces were not as good back then and Chechens being better doesn't make Ukraine bad.

After the war is over, I can imagine the next conflict will be against armed Ukrainian nationalist types with western gear. I suspect most of the aid is being diverted to the elites and maybe other conflict zones.

 

[Fapcop]

I'm guessing the Neuralink testing is the beginning of a real world equivalent of the Borg?

After the war is over, I can imagine the next conflict will be against armed Ukrainian nationalist types with western gear. I suspect most of the aid is being diverted to the elites and maybe other conflict zones.

The FSB has a lot of experience with this kind of warfare.

(Historically of course it also took a few years to completely cleanse Ukraine of last stand nazi partisans in the Forrest’s.)

If they can get a character like Dudayev with a booby trap, I don’t doubt that they could take care of some ukrops last standers filtrating across the Polish border.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

https://archive.ph/OKv7k

https://archive.ph/GYUHo

 

[Fapcop]

TOTAL EMBARGO (unless we really need your stuff lol)

Like with hundreds of millions of dollars of Uranium?

Europe of course still uses Russian gas and oil. It’s just sold through third parties, typically India or Turkey who get to skim off the profits by adding a couple of dollars.

It’s retarded as F that we need to pay more for gas, just so our politicians don’t get totally humiliated by their own retardation.

As for imports, if they can’t make it themselves, Russia just pays a little bit more and have it shipped through Georgia, Kazakhstan, etc.

If you look at the statistics, Russia’s imports have fallen by roughly the same amount that imports have increased in the surrounding countries. Gee, wonder why?!

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

Great news straight from Budanov on the F-16's! Only a few minor details remain before they can be deployed, like how to get them into Ukraine, where to operate them from and how to maintain/refuel them! Oh, and training the pilots! Other than that Ukraine is all set to get those F-16's!

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1757872815460524140

 

[make_it_so]

Great news straight from Budanov on the F-16's! Only a few minor details remain before they can be deployed, like how to get them into Ukraine, where to operate them from and how to maintain/refuel them! Oh, and training the pilots! Other than that Ukraine is all set to get those F-16's!

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Ukraine's F-16's are basically the Star Citizen of foreign military aid at this point.

 

[Seedling]

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Can't leave the corrale piggie, you're gonna make for amazing mett at the frontlines

 

[Cuckoman]

where to operate them from and how to maintain/refuel them!

They are not fooling anyone. They will fly them non-stop without maintenance until they are all shot down.
Just like they can not maintain anything, not even in peace time.

I do look forward to see what happens though. This may be the first time a LONG time where we would have semi-modern aircrafts like the F-16 going against an enemy with modern air-defence systems.
I mean, we are no longer talking about F-16 vs a goatfucker with an ak-47, we are talking about an F-16 vs modern AD batteries.

I personally think that AD systems have evolved much more quickly than aircrafts and this will tell whether I am right or wrong.

 

[make_it_so]

They are not fooling anyone. They will fly them non-stop without maintenance until they are all shot down.
Just like they can not maintain anything, not even in peace time.

I do look forward to see what happens though. This may be the first time a LONG time where we would have semi-modern aircrafts like the F-16 going against an enemy with modern air-defence systems.
I mean, we are no longer talking about F-16 vs a goatfucker with an ak-47, we are talking about an F-16 vs modern AD batteries.

I personally think that AD systems have evolved much more quickly than aircrafts and this will tell whether I am right or wrong.

F-16's were facing relatively contemporary AD systems as late as the mid-80's in Lebanon/Bekaa Valley and Desert Storm, possibly Kosovo, and came out ahead.

Of course again, the issue here is that 1) those were flown by actual competent pilots with months to years of training and experience, and 2) these aren't contemporary build F-16s, these are early to mid-80's builds that the Benelux countries were going to get rid of anyway as they bough F-35s.

 

[geckogoy]

these aren't contemporary build F-16s, these are early to mid-80's builds that the Benelux countries were going to get rid of anyway as they bough F-35s.

Its not like they are useless but they will probably mainly be cruise missile buses like the ghetto su-24 refits they are flying currently