Official Ukraine Thread: Putin On The Fritz

Where is the guy who fell asleep and took out the bridge in Maryland? Need him on this project.

 

Looks like we may be doing some BDA for the Ukrainians.

 

What’s the point of keeping so much materiel in storage?

 

If anyone gets bored, its kind of cool to see some of the old hardware we have sitting out in Arizona.

https://earth.google.com/web/@32.17...QzYH3LEtlvAKhFBaXJwbGFuZSBCb25leWFyZBgCIAEoAg

"More than 4,000 military aircraft are parked on the base, from B-52s to stealth bombers, where they are salvaged for parts and broken down for scrap. It's one of the most popular satellite pictures online, making guided tours of the area a hot ticket."

There is a bunch of F15s, F16s, and F18s out there.

Funny enough I don't see many of the F117 Stealth fighters we "retired" a few decades ago... (they aren't retired but are now used as targets for mock drills defending against stealth attacks).

 

My understanding is for two main reasons:

#1: Just incase.
#2: For parts. For various reasons they stop making certain types of units after a while...including replacement parts. They use the stored units as farms for parts.

 

here is one of the army ones- a lot of the stuff is underground. Go here and check out north- rows and rows of stuff and countless fortified storage:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/rVcrp28oEEVaupwx5

 

another army one- hawthorne army depot

just rows and rows of underground storage (this one is ammo storage)

https://maps.app.goo.gl/3q7orXbHSKjfK2yFA

 

Usually its spare parts, but in the cases of some equipment, we leave it out in the desert so that other countries can see we have put it out there. We signed an agreement at one point to get rid of our F14s, so we severed the backbone of the aircraft and left it in the desert for Russia to take satellite pics of to verify they were not flyable any more.

 

Gotta be prepared for the next war, I suppose.

 

First I’ve seen an abrams with a cage

 

Haven’t seen this done before

 

Re: Israel/Iran - confirmed details are scarce but it seems hezbollah was about to send a pretty massive rocket/missile barrage at Israel overnight. Israeli Air Force did an equally massive preemptive strike and took out pretty much everything before it launched.

Again confirmed details are scarce but this seems like a significant development.

 

This is a CoD mission irl

 

Lots of speculation that durov was defecting to the West. Russian officials at all levels told to scrub messages from telegram and not to use it.

 

Trying to find out more about this telegram guy and my feed is all right wingers and free speech chuds crying about how unfair this is.

 

They do understand “free speech” is an American thing, correct?

 

if they can do this to the rich imagine what they will do to you

lots of Tucker Carlson clips

 

hopefully this exposes some people

 

Does that mean that Moscow is now free to hit?
Does the US give them missiles?
If we provide Ukraine with missiles and they "modify" them, does it then become a Ukrainian missile? I'm assuming that would count as a US missile.

Poland may have an excuse to get involved now.

 

This is an interesting thread from someone who fought for Russia.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1827998149987778873.html?utm_campaign=topunroll

Here's a clip:

 

Ukraine finally admitted recently that they only shoot down like 18% of Russian missiles

Their infrastructure is fucked up

 

I blame Israel for not letting us get the Iron Dome to Ukraine.
And the GOP for holding up funding for so damn long.

 

They spent over 1 billion on their attack yesterday. That's crazy.

 

Fuck Russia

 

Feel like this has been reported on many occasions and nothing ever comes of it

 

Isn't that area to UKR heavily mined? I thought I read it has miles of mines and it would take forever to get through it.

 

It is. Belarus would take enormous losses if they tried to come across. I think it is more to make Ukraine keep some manpower in that direction just in case.

 

Lukashenko said last week or so he was sending them because Ukraine invaded Russia and was concerned they would enter Belarus. Most likely just posturing for Putin.

 

Wait, which is it?

 

not the propaganda

 

I think he’s asking where did you get your information

 

I'm just confused. Did 14% get shot down , or did 82% get shot down? That is wild variance.

 

“Kill the archer” is a hell of a sentence

 

I may be wrong, but I believe it’s 14% of missiles, 82% of the total incoming projectiles (drones mostly).

 

That’s what I was thinking as well.
That would match up closely to what Ukraine reported.

 

Visegrad is a shit source, speaking as someone who's a big UKR fan. I don't think they're wrong on what you posted, but generally not great.