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

Found this interesting. Russia started using new type of aerial bombs with a turbojet engine and jam-resistant navigation system.
Sorta of like USA's PJDAM which is still being developed I think.
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Found this interesting. Russia started using new type of aerial bombs with a turbojet engine and jam-resistant navigation system.
Sorta of like USA's PJDAM which is still being developed I think.

This perhaps explains all the reports of new highly accurate "glide bombs" in the conflict. Its not really a glide bomb at all. Its not really at the complexity of a cruise missile either. More of a bomb with a highly accurate targeting system. This also explains why these things have become such an effective weapon in the last few months.
 
This perhaps explains all the reports of new highly accurate "glide bombs" in the conflict. Its not really a glide bomb at all. Its not really at the complexity of a cruise missile either. More of a bomb with a highly accurate targeting system. This also explains why these things have become such an effective weapon in the last few months.
Unlike American bombs, the Russian FAB bombs are made in one piece.

So they can’t just take off the tail piece like Americans do with their JDAM.

(The Russian guide FABs have a fold out wing installed on top.)

In other words, they brought this new guided bomb from the drawing board to the battle field in something like 12-24 months, which is really impressive.

And they can STILL use their FAB stocks to make glide bombs.
 
Are you really even living if one of your cooking pots doesn't have "Made in Czechoslovakia" printed on the bottom?
I still got some old Soviet cutlery in the kitchen and a bunch of Soviet tools in the garage. Still using old Soviet pliers to this day, wrapped in blue electrical tape and all.

If it works, why change it?
 
When was the last time that happened tho?
I don't think its ever happened in the US, so its pretty much just "theory", however, rural Americans are at the present time, the heaviest armed, so I imagine any government attempt to round up rural people to send to a war they are ideologically against would be met with an armed response.

Ukrainian farmers unfortunately are a different lot. I imagine there would be a LOT more firefights in Ukraine between the people who don't want to fight in the globohomo meat grinder and the holhols who are determined to drag every last Ukrainian into it like crabs in a bucket at the behest of "Not Ukrainians" if they were armed like their American counterparts.
 
In other words, they brought this new guided bomb from the drawing board to the battle field in something like 12-24 months, which is really impressive.
It sure helps when you're just trying to make a weapon that does a thing well, not a multitool that can adapt to every possible situation. They slapped modernized electronics and guidance techniques onto an otherwise simple and dedicated platform. Engineers of all stripes tend to succeed in environments where they have clear, conflict-free goals.
 
Still don't understand the whole debacle with France. There are conflicting statements about the french potentially sending troops to Ukraine. But i suppose this is one of those things where we have to wait and let time reveal the answer? Then again, there were french mercenaries in Ukraine before, so i guess it's accurate to say that the new french troops would still be fair game for Russian bombardment
 
When was the last time that happened tho?
There is a lot of standoffs between the police and random fuckheads. It just often makes the news and people forget it an hour later. Also the initial outbreak of rioting during 2020 was really hectic and the police got overwhelmed very fast, some of the footage was people just taking potshots with pistols and rifles as police cars were driving by. Americans are largely docile by nature but when the genie gets out of the bottle its really fucking hard to put it back in without overwhelming force. Half of the current crime wave in the US is directly derived from the 2020 disorders.
 
Still don't understand the whole debacle with France. There are conflicting statements about the french potentially sending troops to Ukraine. But i suppose this is one of those things where we have to wait and let time reveal the answer? Then again, there were french mercenaries in Ukraine before, so i guess it's accurate to say that the new french troops would still be fair game for Russian bombardment
France is desperately trying to stay relevant as a military power, despite not having the ability and resources to back it up. That's why they're making bold statements that they don't intend to follow through with, trying to "fake it till they make it." Losing central Africa was a big blow to French elites so this is the form their coping and sneeding takes.
 
round up rural people to send to a war they are ideologically against would be met with an armed response
The problem is that they aren't ideologically opposed to wars on behalf of our oligarchs; look how they were easily manipulated into believing that in order for the Second Coming to occur jews and their temple are an absolute prerequisite so we must send billions of our tax payer's money to Israel and defend it with our lives, despite that being an absolute heresy in every iteration of legit Christianity.

A lot of them are also extremely susceptible into conflating Russia = USSR because their boomer/Gen X dads still sperg about commies. Cold War anti-USSR propaganda has been dusted off, regurgitated, applied and spread by the US/EU against Russia, when the reality is they're closer to anarcho-capitalists.
There is a lot of standoffs between the police and random fuckheads. It just often makes the news and people forget it an hour later. Also the initial outbreak of rioting during 2020 was really hectic and the police got overwhelmed very fast, some of the footage was people just taking potshots with pistols and rifles as police cars were driving by. Americans are largely docile by nature but when the genie gets out of the bottle its really fucking hard to put it back in without overwhelming force. Half of the current crime wave in the US is directly derived from the 2020 disorders.
The last thing that happened that was comparable was the Bundy standoff and the killings afterward. That was around 2014 tho.

Your example isn't really the Feds vs Fudds. Okie City, Ruby Ridge and Koresh were the last gasps.
 
The last thing that happened that was comparable was the Bundy standoff and the killings afterward. That was around 2014 tho.
We'll you're talking an organized militia standoff, the 2020 riots was a lot of individual actions and opportunistic mob action pushing police back and firing on them when they were overwhelmed. The original topic was about randoms just beating the shit out of press gang members and the analogue to this would be police/court order servers getting shot to shit, which happens all the time.
 
Still don't understand the whole debacle with France. There are conflicting statements about the french potentially sending troops to Ukraine. But i suppose this is one of those things where we have to wait and let time reveal the answer? Then again, there were french mercenaries in Ukraine before, so i guess it's accurate to say that the new french troops would still be fair game for Russian bombardment
Its a dog on a leash.
Macron is throwing inflamatory statements every other day only for his clerks to rush in right after and say
"no we actually don't have any plans for that he's talking out of his ass"
Macron is trying to look good, to show he's actually supporting Ukraine cause and that if it was up to him they would had troops rising the french flag on Moscow. But in reality it IS up to him, he already showed he doesn't give a shit about congress and has veto them before just to pass his laws trough but he knows that despite being the only EU country with a functional army left it is still not enough to face Russia on a 1 on 1 let alone use nukes.
He's making these stupid chickenwar statements because he's rellying on everyone else holding the leash so he doesn't actually go trough with it.
Its all optics no ops, i am even willing to bet that if Russia cuts out odessa today they would just move the goalpost to the next region
 
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