As disgusting as it is, it shows the kind of people some U.S. politicians and citizens are supporting. Maybe it will open some of their eyes? Same with the military showing the concentration camps after liberation in Europe. Hoping we would never let that happen ever again.
This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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I didn't realize the Antares boosters were built in Ukraine and use Russian engines.
https://www.space.com/northrop-grumman-firefly-replace-russian-engines-antares-rocket
https://www.space.com/northrop-grumman-firefly-replace-russian-engines-antares-rocket
"Bryansk International Airport (Russian: Международный аэропорт "Брянск") (IATA: BZK, ICAO: UUBP) is an airport in Bryansk Oblast in western Russia.[1] It is located 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) from the city of Bryansk, along the international R-22 highway connecting Moscow and Kyiv. A military airfield was first built at the site in 1927 and it became a civil airport for refuelling in 1934 and an official airport in 1961.[3] In September 1995 it became an international airport."
According to Wikipedia the first Russian soldier who was drafted in the partial mobilization called the hotline and surrendered.
I Want to Live (hotline) - Wikipedia
Hmmm maybe this explains a lot.
"With little fanfare, Ukraine has developed and used a guided artillery rocket in combat with a longer range and heavier warhead than the vaunted Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS) munitions provided by the U.S. and allies.
Called the Vilkha-M, it is a modified 7.6m (25-foot) long Soviet BM-30 Smerch multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) artillery rocket.
The Vilkha-M has a range of 110km (68 miles) and a 300mm, 485-pound warhead that can hit targets with great accuracy, Ivan Vinnyk, first deputy head of the National Association of Ukrainian Defense Industries, told The War Zone Tuesday.
By comparison, the GMLRS munitions - fired by the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS and the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) provided to Ukraine - have a range of up to about 80km (about 50 miles) and a 227mm, 200-pound warhead.
Their precision, he said, is boosted by so-called “gas rudders” - scores of small holes emitting propellant - used to direct the missile on the target via GPS. While the Vilkha-M is said to be quite accurate and a precision munition, just how accurate isn't disclosed at this time.
And there are plans underway, said Vinnyk, to modify the Vilkha-M to boost the range to 150km (about 93 miles).
www.thedrive.com
"With little fanfare, Ukraine has developed and used a guided artillery rocket in combat with a longer range and heavier warhead than the vaunted Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS) munitions provided by the U.S. and allies.
Called the Vilkha-M, it is a modified 7.6m (25-foot) long Soviet BM-30 Smerch multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) artillery rocket.
The Vilkha-M has a range of 110km (68 miles) and a 300mm, 485-pound warhead that can hit targets with great accuracy, Ivan Vinnyk, first deputy head of the National Association of Ukrainian Defense Industries, told The War Zone Tuesday.
By comparison, the GMLRS munitions - fired by the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS and the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) provided to Ukraine - have a range of up to about 80km (about 50 miles) and a 227mm, 200-pound warhead.
Their precision, he said, is boosted by so-called “gas rudders” - scores of small holes emitting propellant - used to direct the missile on the target via GPS. While the Vilkha-M is said to be quite accurate and a precision munition, just how accurate isn't disclosed at this time.
And there are plans underway, said Vinnyk, to modify the Vilkha-M to boost the range to 150km (about 93 miles).
Ukraine Is Using Guided Rockets With More Range Than HIMARS-Launched Ones
Though produced in small numbers, the Vilkha-M can reach targets 68-miles away with a much larger warhead than the M31s fired by HIMARS.
www.thedrive.com
Just tacking this on here.
MSNBC reports that Putin's emergency meeting with his security council started out being televised or streamed but that stopped abruptly. Hope he went full bunker Hitler and they cut him off.
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If I recall correctly, the Ukrainians were typically the the forefront of Soviet military development. Glad to have them as an ally not an enemy!Hmmm maybe this explains a lot.
"With little fanfare, Ukraine has developed and used a guided artillery rocket in combat with a longer range and heavier warhead than the vaunted Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS) munitions provided by the U.S. and allies.
Called the Vilkha-M, it is a modified 7.6m (25-foot) long Soviet BM-30 Smerch multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) artillery rocket.
The Vilkha-M has a range of 110km (68 miles) and a 300mm, 485-pound warhead that can hit targets with great accuracy, Ivan Vinnyk, first deputy head of the National Association of Ukrainian Defense Industries, told The War Zone Tuesday.
By comparison, the GMLRS munitions - fired by the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS and the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) provided to Ukraine - have a range of up to about 80km (about 50 miles) and a 227mm, 200-pound warhead.
Their precision, he said, is boosted by so-called “gas rudders” - scores of small holes emitting propellant - used to direct the missile on the target via GPS. While the Vilkha-M is said to be quite accurate and a precision munition, just how accurate isn't disclosed at this time.
And there are plans underway, said Vinnyk, to modify the Vilkha-M to boost the range to 150km (about 93 miles).
Ukraine Is Using Guided Rockets With More Range Than HIMARS-Launched Ones
Though produced in small numbers, the Vilkha-M can reach targets 68-miles away with a much larger warhead than the M31s fired by HIMARS.
"What did the Rashists do with occupied Yevpatoria. Beaches 3.6 km long were destroyed with trenches. Boats and rafts would be better prepared when the Crimean bridge is destroyed by the Armed Forces."
Maybe Switzerland will have to agree to this.
I swear just when you think we are in the year 2023 and European countries are forward thinking and progressive, it seems as if like Marley's ghost in a christmas carol, so many of them are shackled to weights from their past causing almost insurmountable inertia.
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Not truly war related, but these people deserve the right to freedom, life and self determination.
Sound up and Slava Ukraini!
Sound up and Slava Ukraini!
I'll have to ask my cousins' husband what the story is. While it's not his area, he is president of Northrup Grumman Mission Systems. (Man I wish I had half the bucks he makes)
They were, and retain a tremendous number of defense related industries and engineers. They helped to build a lot of Soviet ships, and the reason the Russians cannot float new ships is the engines for larger ships come from Ukraine, where the Soviets put the plant that makes them. I forget the exact size, but Russia supposedly cannot float anything bigger than about the size of a destroyer on their domestic made engines.
Significant aeronautical engineering in Ukraine, too. The Hostomel airfield was a hub for Antonov.
I totally believe this. I was reading in the Economist today about Grigory Sverdlin, a Russian dissident who ran a charity that assisted the homeless in Russia for years. He became vocal against Putin, and against the war, and he was given enough signals that he joined the mass exodus from Russia. He now is at the forefront of assisting Russian soldiers to defect. He claims to have assisted 4000 cross out of Russia.
Also, a lot of good stuff about morale in Russia, and the flight of the young, educated people from Russia. Good stats on who supports the war in Russia, and why, and the massive cultural shifts going on in Russia.
https://www.economist.com/briefing/...-stalled-but-putins-war-on-dissent-marches-on
This is a quote from the Deputy Commander of the Ukrainian National Guard about Bakhmut,
“There are many more Russians here than we have ammunition to destroy them.”
“There are many more Russians here than we have ammunition to destroy them.”
More and more desperate.
"Vladimir Putin signed a decree allowing Moscow, if martial law were to be proclaimed. to suspend the directors and shareholders of any Russian company that does not respect state defense contracts."
"Vladimir Putin signed a decree allowing Moscow, if martial law were to be proclaimed. to suspend the directors and shareholders of any Russian company that does not respect state defense contracts."
IIRC this has been hit at least several times.
"The resistance is organized to face encirclement attacks by #Wagner The retirement plan is prepared for when or if it is needed. The goal: maximum attrition on these poor Russians, cannon fodder"
"Actually, if we see the thousand and one combinations of weapons that have been attached to the Soviet MT-LB, we realize that we can well call it the #Frankenstein of armored vehicles."
"The #MTLB will be weak as hell, but it always seemed to me a vehicle #todoterreno clearly and capable of carrying out almost all kinds of missions. But in combat I don't get on ONE, not even crazy."
On Russian television, confusing viewers is ultimate the goal: "When you don't trust anything, you don't act"
