jmsaari
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35 minutes ago, ink said:
Yup. Could be I suppose. But isn't a Kh-35 a bit bigger (longer)? I appreciate the screen grab is a bit pixely, but this missile seems a bit small/short somehow.
Yeah it looks short & stubby there, but it's pretty much impossible to say the angle of dive, and what projection we're seeing... i'm assuming nowhere near perpendicular from side.
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52 minutes ago, ink said:
Kh-59 or similar? Or perhaps one of those new GPS-guided turbojet-assisted munitions? Though, if anything, the accuracy is possibly too good for that.
Looks too fast for Lancet (though it's often hard to tell from these kinds of videos).
Maybe Kh-35U? Still image just before impact doesn't quite look like any arty rocket or LMUR, or Kh-25/29, but Kh-35 would have about the right configuration for the image...
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1 hour ago, BansheeOne said:
“I made it clear,” Mr. Burns later recalled from his seventh-floor office at the C.I.A., that “there would be clear consequences for Russia.” Just how specific Mr. Burns was about the nature of the American response was left murky by American officials.
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1 hour ago, urbanoid said:
They felt disrespected and sidelined by their Western allies during WW1 and after, with Washington Naval Conference etc. With the militarists in power they assumed that their next war will be against an enemy that will outnumber and outgun them, so maybe that's why they encouraged cruelty - if you can outgun or outnumber them, maybe you can at least scare them shitless? Other thing is that since such a prospect required brainwashing their own military into thinking that surrendering is an absolute dishonor - no wonder that they treated the already dishonored POWs like they did.
It seems to me it was just a combination of things, mainly the underlying chauvinist/racist attitude towards the non-japanese and lack of discipline in how prisoners and non-combatants were treated from 30's onwards, combining to amplify the worst psychological effects that long brutal wars can have. The leadership didn't seem to decide to use the brutality as a scare tactic, but just saw zero reason to give the slightest fuck about whatever may or may not happen to POW's & civilians.
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11 hours ago, alejandro_ said:
Maybe this will be common in the future, one of the soldiers in a platoon being equipped wth a shotgun to face UAVs
https://twitter.com/i/bookmarks?post_id=1764335362682335406There was recently an interview of western volunteers somewhere, IIRC Garand Thumb's channel (?), where they mentioned that having at least one 12-gauge per squad was becoming increasingly common on UKR side as well.
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4 minutes ago, Markus Becker said:
Oh no Canada.
Canada pledges millions to 'gender-inclusive' effort to remove landmines from Ukraine
I was skimming through that and found myself checking several times this is really actual news and not a bee parody article. "establishing a gender and diversity working group to promote gender-transformative mine action in Ukraine."
"In Ukraine, HALO has been a proponent of gender equality in mine action, a traditionally male-dominated sector." -
Amazingly no injuries except for the ego, reputation & career of deputy Hernandez, but how in the bloody hell you 1) mistake the sound of an acorn dropping on a car for a gunshot, 2) somehow convince yourself you were hit by gunfire, and 3) empty your magazine into the car without hitting the suspect inside of it....
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On 1/14/2024 at 2:50 AM, Ssnake said:
Some people have no original thoughts.
And many more are careful when, where & how to voice them in the current atmosphere.
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6 hours ago, Josh said:
Video I saw has it bursting into flames on impact, with no obvious smoke before. Does not mean it wasn’t shot down, but it seems less likely this was a patriot hit.
The video I saw showed the same, but also panned back to the direction for where the plane came and there was a sizeable grey smoke puff in the sky, but no smoke trails to any direction from it. Whatever hit it, just didnt cause a fire.
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18 hours ago, Josh said:
There’s no way a Tu-22 would be in the same time zone as Ukraine. Kh-22 has a several hundred mile range.
There was some rumour on twitter yesterday (cant find anymore) about it having been shot down right after take-off, which, if true and not just a regular mishap or outright fabrication, would sound like most likely an Igla/Stinger team.
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The curious thing would be what is different between Finland and Switzerland: starting from 2016, by cancer diagnoses, we've had according to cancer registry of the Finnish epidemiological research center for cancer and Finnish cancer foundation:
2016 - 33900
2017 - 34300
2018 - 34400
2019 - 35300
2020 - 34700
2021 - 36500
2022 - 35500Basically indicates the slowly but steadily rising trend as expected with an aging population, with a notch at 2020 (similar to diagnoses in just about everything), which apparently got picked up in 2021, and last year returned back to the regular trend.
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34 minutes ago, Murph said:
The Cold War is OVER! It has been over for over 30 years
Unfortunately somebody forgot to tell that to Putin.
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Question for the artillery experts, how likely is this sort of firing to a) damage the weapon, b) send already the first round well off the mark? M777 being as light as it is I would imagine there's a real risk the gun is starting to move already before the round is clear of the barrel...
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1 hour ago, Roman Alymov said:
Pro-Ukr video illustrating realities of trench digging in frost conditions (and it is just the start of winter) https://t.me/info_zp/53463
Shaped charge to puncture through frozen layer, enlarge the hole a bit manually with steel bar if need be, and a few kilos of ANFO below the frost layer in the hole is the only sensible way to dig trenches in frozen ground...
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Came up on my twitter feed; I present you the trans-AR:
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On 11/8/2023 at 1:21 AM, glenn239 said:
A TASS follow up on the S-400 story from last week,
MOSCOW, November 7. /TASS/. The Russian army has used S-400 Triumf systems to launch anti-aircraft guided missiles with active homing heads, a source close to the Russian Defense Ministry has told TASS.
"Russia used S-400 Triumf system in tandem with the A-50 early warning and control aircraft in the special military operation in Ukraine. S-400s launched anti-aircraft missiles with active homing heads. The system's use against enemy aircraft was successful," the source. TASS has no official confirmation of this.
On October 25, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said the army’s new anti-aircraft missile systems shot down 24 Ukrainian aircraft in five days.
According to another source, the S-400 missiles were fired at maximum distances to hit targets at altitudes of about 1,000 meters. "New warheads" were reportedly used.
How many times Russia has now shot down the entire Ukrainian air force?
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2 hours ago, Wobbly Head said:
Plus the issue that it is not large drones causing the problem. It's small drones dropping granades and mortar rounds. Sure you can make an automated radar system to target drones. They are even trialing those systems less the weapon system at certain prisons. But when your drone has a similar profile to large birds. Coupling them with a weapon and making it fully automated would be an expensive way to reduce the seagull population.
Well, it's both, really. There was an interview of some Ukrainian officer who was of the opinion that bigger problem than quad-copters, Lancets or Shaheeds are the Orlans: cheap and numerous enough to make engagement by SAMs with any sort of regularity infeasible, numerous enough to basically make the Ukrainian troop movements and positions completely visible for the Russians, net result being that any big concentration of forces will get swatted by RUS arty in no time. Something like the OTOmatic could perhaps be a good answer to those.
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3 minutes ago, Perun said:
Ok but how do we know which side lounched it
Technically we don't for sure, but Hamas & IJ uses small rockets a lot, Israel doesn't, and looking at the frag pattern around impact crater points to launch from inside Gaza, somewhere to the south-west from impact.
So either the sneaky jews infiltrated Gaza to launch rocket to kill innocent palestinian children in a cancer hospital and make it look it was Hamas, or one of the palestinian rockets that we know they were launching, fell somewhere in Gaza as we know about 25% of them do, and hit the parking lot.
Take a pick as to which sounds more likely.
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So it looks like this is the impact point:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F8tvgyiWoAAWqdM?format=jpg&name=medium
Presumably something fairly small hit there, most likely a Qassam or some such malfunctioned and hitting the parking lot a lot of fuel went up as a secondary.
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3 minutes ago, Der Zeitgeist said:
Daylight view of the blast site:
There's no way in hell that was a JDAM, or killed 500 people.
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On 8/4/2023 at 9:39 AM, Ssnake said:
See above.
You mean Tim's last link to Tony Heller video ? First Tony Heller is not someone I would take at face value. I would strongly suggest taking a couple of videos of his, and go through what he claims equally skeptically as one might take Al Gore or Greta Thunberg and check if it holds, and equally importantly what he's omitting. Odds are there is at least one or the other, if not both. I bothered to do it only a couple of times a few years back, once someone comes out as liar (both omissions and outright BS) there's no point to take anything coming out from such source seriously anymore, especially when he sometimes seems to make it intentionally difficult to find the original sources what exactly a plot he's showing is & where it's from. Some of the stuff he's spouting is such that an honest mistake is very hard to believe.
Re: the specific points he makes there, firstly he's not claiming climate models are used to create the virtual weather station data, just that some date is "fabricated and fake" and the corrections applied are for the purpose of creating an artificial warming where in reality there's none.
The reality is that the locations and types of weather stations have changed, urban heat island effect is a thing, and you can estimate the effect if a measuring station moves, likewise for the time of observation, and type of instrument and it's immediate environment, and the combined effects of all these. Unsurprisingly, Heller only mentions the time of observation adjustment, and makes it seem as if all else is for the sole purpose of introducing apparent warming when in reality there's none. That assuming the data he's showing even is what he claims it to be, he's posted enough flat-out lies that I won't take the raw data as 100% factual is-what-is-claimed-to-be without double-checking.
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Speaking of survivable near-FEBA air search, I wonder how practical something like this would be:
http://www.mobileradar.org/Documents/Silent_Sentry.pdf
Doesn't seem to have picked up, not sure why, but certainly would seem to have a lot of potential if only it can locate the target accurately and reliably enough, isn't prohibitively expensive, and doesn't require so many emitters around it to not work in practice in many parts of the world....
Probably at least one of those ifs havsn't worked out so far.
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5 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:
Is this it?
I think that's the UV sensor for detecting the missile launch
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23 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:
In Afghanistan they affected weight and top speed, and didnt work that well anyway. In fact I had grave difficulty finding one fitted to KA52. This it seems is about it.
Not sure which you're talking about, IR suppressor or DIRCM, but the exhaust suppressor is there, compare to this where it isn't:
Vice versa with the DIRCM, which I've understood are those two small domes near the main undercarriage that are present in the lower picture, but absent in yours.... how well either works is anyone's guess. Exhaust suppressor isn't a magic trick that makes the helicopter invisible in IR, but reduces acquisition range especially vs older seekers and improves IRCM effectiveness. But as we've seen everything frrom Mi-24s in Afgganistan to Apaches in Iraq getting hit by IRH SAMs, it's not a Klingon masking device vs seekers in any case... and performance of one from just looking at from outside is impossible to even guess, beyond that the one in Ka-52 seems fairly small which would seem to indicate they've emphasized perhaps weight saving over signature reduction performance - but even that's little more than guessing.
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Should be fine for couple of R-60s, bigger issue might be that the attacks seem to be mostly at night these days, and finding the things at night in a Hawk might be hard...