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Originally Posted By Dracster: "TASS, citing a source in the military-industrial complex, reports on the use of Su-57 fighters by the Russian Aerospace Forces during a military special operation in Ukraine. "The use of Su-57 aircraft in Ukraine began two to three weeks after the start of the special operation. The aircraft operate outside the zone of active destruction by enemy air defense systems, using missile weapons," the agency's interlocutor said. TASS has no official confirmation of this information." https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/48680/photo_2022-05-20_06-30-21_jpg-2390557.JPG View Quote So....they aren't stealth...got it.... |
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Originally Posted By Wreckshooter: That was 41 years ago and after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Wreckshooter: Originally Posted By Tomislav: Originally Posted By Wreckshooter: Originally Posted By MBUZICHOMA: There is that whole thing about us supporting their arch enemy Pakistan. Then the colonialism, I know it wasn't us but the Indians blame us also. We don’t support Pakistan. In fact, quite the opposite. The only real way we cooperate with Pakistan is on CT, and even that is minimal. We don’t sell them military arms. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/21383/8F498C53-FF0D-4EFB-8FF6-BAB669F3A66E_jpe-2389739.JPG That was 41 years ago and after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Pakistan has received F-16's this millenium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_Falcon_operators#Pakistan |
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Kay : A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.
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https://therecord.media/russia-botnet-fronton-social-media-nisos/
Russian government procured powerful botnet to shift social media trending topics in 2017 and 2018, the Russian government was interested in building a large IoT botnet similar to Mirai. The specs laid out a plan to create a botnet out of a web of compromised internet security cameras and digital recorders. But in the documents obtained by Nisos, the researchers say the “primary purpose” of Fronton “is not to create Denial of Service attacks, but to lay groundwork for massively scalable coordinated inauthentic behavior.” The botnet “consists of a layer of compromised IoT devices that communicate with front-end server infrastructure. These servers then pass their data over VPNs or the TOR network to back-end servers,” Nisos explained. “While the system could not exist without this groundwork, it is not the focal point of the Fronton network. This base layer is then utilized by the SANA platform in order to coordinate inauthentic behavior and propagate disinformation at a global scale.” Management of likes, comments and reposts The tool allowed users to program the weekly frequency of likes, comments, and reposts while also providing a list of response patterns that could be used. Users could even set the minimum frequency of actions and well as the intervals between actions. 0day Technologies created a machine learning system that could be turned on and off related to behavioral trends on social media. “Groups are auto-generated sets of accounts created by the system that are organized by platform and country,” Nisos explained. “The operator can choose from a list of names and a dictionary of surnames. The operator can then select the SMS API platform to use in order to create a phone number to automatically respond to two-factor authentication requests and other platform text requests.” In recent years, several social media companies have begun releasing reports on inauthentic behavior, highlighting the global prevalence of fake accounts used for a range of political purposes. Last month, Facebook parent company Meta released an Adversarial Threat Report that found a network based in Saint Petersburg, Russia that targeted Nigeria, Cameroon, Gambia, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo with news critical of France’s influence across the African continent. Meta said it was able to tie the activity to the notorious Russian Internet Research Agency, an organization well-known for its role in interfering in the US presidential election in 2016. The Meta report also highlighted a range of bot activity, espionage and coordinated attacks on Facebook and Instagram in a number of countries, including Azerbaijan, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Philippines, El Salvador and Iran. |
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Originally Posted By Circuits: How very Russian. Stealth fighters, intended to be invisible to air defense systems, not allowed to operate in areas containing enemy air defense systems. Yeah, "stealth fighters" View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Circuits: Originally Posted By Dracster: "The use of Su-57 aircraft in Ukraine began two to three weeks after the start of the special operation. The aircraft operate outside the zone of active destruction by enemy air defense systems, using missile weapons," the agency's interlocutor said. How very Russian. Stealth fighters, intended to be invisible to air defense systems, not allowed to operate in areas containing enemy air defense systems. Yeah, "stealth fighters" As incompetent as the Russians have made themselves look, someone there has to realize every interesting bit of hardware they lose on Ukrainian soil is being made available to Uncle Sam. A downed Su-57 would be stateside as soon as .mil cool kids could truck it out of there. |
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Originally Posted By Grendelsbane: Certainly not stealth enough! Did they ever use them in Syria, or would this be the first time they’ve been used in anger where western ELINT can watch? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Grendelsbane: Originally Posted By thehun06: So....they aren't stealth...got it.... Certainly not stealth enough! Did they ever use them in Syria, or would this be the first time they’ve been used in anger where western ELINT can watch? They were used in Syria. They shared airspace with F-22s and USMC F-35s. Neither side says much about what happened there. I've heard rumors of wacky things. What we do know is that India dramatically pulled out of funding Su-57 development at that time. |
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Originally Posted By doc540: For those that say fertilizer by itself is difficult to ignite. Texas 1 Texas 2 https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/183309/fertilizer2-2390507.jpg View Quote I see you got pictures of an old HunFarm event. |
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Originally Posted By Hesperus: They were used in Syria. They shared airspace with F-22s and USMC F-35s. Neither side says much about what happened there. I've heard rumors of wacky things. What we do know is that India dramatically pulled out of funding Su-57 development at that time. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Hesperus: Originally Posted By Grendelsbane: Originally Posted By thehun06: So....they aren't stealth...got it.... Certainly not stealth enough! Did they ever use them in Syria, or would this be the first time they’ve been used in anger where western ELINT can watch? They were used in Syria. They shared airspace with F-22s and USMC F-35s. Neither side says much about what happened there. I've heard rumors of wacky things. What we do know is that India dramatically pulled out of funding Su-57 development at that time. Ex-coworker of mine said one of his army buddies was KIA in Syria doing secret squirrel stuff and Russians were the bad guys. Who knows what all went down there. |
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"Republic, I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober however they choose." John Wayne
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Originally Posted By Glock63: One incident does not set precedent. Considering the sheer volume of fertilizer handled and the rarity of incidents, yes it is incredibly stable and hard to set off alone. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Glock63: Originally Posted By Zhukov: I see you got pictures of an old HunFarm event. One incident does not set precedent. Considering the sheer volume of fertilizer handled and the rarity of incidents, yes it is incredibly stable and hard to set off alone. Yeah, but it also usually isn't being used as cover with a fairly decent chance of having explosions happen near it. |
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Originally Posted By mbinky: If true the Russians ain't sending their best lol. https://i.postimg.cc/MGN38702/Screen-Shot-2022-05-20-at-3-48-00-PM.png View Quote |
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Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.. |
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Interesting and thoroughly (as possible) researched article on the Rosgvardia unit that penetrated to Kyiv in the early hours and were wiped out. Article states that 77 out of 80 men were killed. Interestingly, the unit (or rather, the aftermath of the unit’s destruction) was involved in two videos which you may be familiar with - the Siberian “town hall” meeting where the mayor tries to deflect citizen outrage over the deaths of their relatives, and the well-known prisoner interview early in the war of one of the unit’s survivors.
https://youtu.be/nAvV8jSEpVs https://www.sibreal.org/a/31737870.html Article also contains several interesting details I hadn’t heard before about the opening hours and days of the invasion. (Commander of the Georgian Legion claims he ran over several VDV troopers with his car after he ran out of ammo!) Article also confirms what we generally understand about the invasion. The troops had no idea what was going on until they were over the border, though commanders probably knew a week earlier. There was little if any actual training for what they needed to do. There was no real plan beyond the broadest and most optimistic outline, which almost immediately went into the shitter when intense resistance developed. https://thedebrief.org/know-no-mercy-the-russian-cops-who-tried-to-storm-kyiv-by-themselves/ |
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Originally Posted By mbinky: If true the Russians ain't sending their best lol. https://i.postimg.cc/MGN38702/Screen-Shot-2022-05-20-at-3-48-00-PM.png View Quote Sound like they didn't Guard it very well. |
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Ukrainians hunkering down while they get air support. With the music I expected Hueys and napalm though.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/uu69cp/ukrainian_jets_provide_close_air_support_for/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb |
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.. |
Russian claims "last of the militants"
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"The United States will provide Ukraine with its MIM-104 Patriot anti-aircraft missile system
The Washington Post reports that this is provided by the aid package adopted yesterday. MIM-104 Patriot has a high combat capability and is the main anti-missile and air system in the arsenal of the US Army." Attached File |
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Originally Posted By mbinky: If true the Russians ain't sending their best lol. https://i.postimg.cc/MGN38702/Screen-Shot-2022-05-20-at-3-48-00-PM.png View Quote I'd like to call bullshit but those dudes look awfully proud of themselves |
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Remorse is for the dead
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Originally Posted By Waldo: How close to a parked one would you want to be? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Waldo: Originally Posted By Dracster: Sound like they didn't Guard it very well. How close to a parked one would you want to be? Good point. |
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Just a stranger on the bus trying to find his way home.
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Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.. |
Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Ukrainians hunkering down while they get air support. With the music I expected Hueys and napalm though. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/uu69cp/ukrainian_jets_provide_close_air_support_for/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb View Quote Unmoglich. Die Ukrainisch Luftwaffe is kaput. The Russians told me so. |
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Originally Posted By Dracster: "The United States will provide Ukraine with its MIM-104 Patriot anti-aircraft missile system The Washington Post reports that this is provided by the aid package adopted yesterday. MIM-104 Patriot has a high combat capability and is the main anti-missile and air system in the arsenal of the US Army." https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/48680/photo_2022-05-20_13-49-58_jpg-2390820.JPG View Quote We're giving them Patriots? |
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Just a stranger on the bus trying to find his way home.
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Originally Posted By Jack67: You can't make this stuff up: Russians fortify using bagged ammonium nitrate instead of sandbags.
https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/556465/ammo_jpg-2390298.JPG View Quote Hey, if you did that in summer, you could wet your ammonium nitrate bags down with water and have a chilled fighting position! |
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Originally Posted By bikedamon: The usual Putin ball garglers aren't taking it well in the thread about this. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By bikedamon: Originally Posted By PurpleOtter: Hey all you "old" guys who have regrets about not serving, now's your chance to fix that! LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - In a sign of Russia's urgent need to bolster its war effort in Ukraine, parliament said on Friday it would consider a bill to allow Russians over 40 and foreigners over 30 to sign up for the military. The website of the State Duma, parliament's lower house, said the move would enable the military to utilise the skills of older professionals. "For the use of high-precision weapons, the operation of weapons and military equipment, highly professional specialists are needed. Experience shows that they become such by the age of 4045," it said. Currently, only Russians aged 18-40 and foreigners aged 18-30 can enter into a first contract with the military. Russia has suffered huge setbacks and heavy losses of men and equipment in the 86-day-old war, in which Ukraine has mobilised practically its entire adult male population. Despite taking full control of the ruins of Mariupol, Moscow remains far from its objective of seizing all of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. "Clearly, the Russians are in trouble. This is the latest attempt to address manpower shortages without alarming their own population. But it is growing increasingly difficult for the Kremlin to disguise their failures in Ukraine," said retired U.S. General Ben Hodges, a former commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe. Jack Watling, a land warfare specialist at the British security and defence think tank RUSI, said the Russian military was running short of infantry. "Russia needs to stabilise manning in its military units in Ukraine and generate new units if it is to improve its position on the ground," he said. "This will be a slow and complicated process, but can be accelerated by mobilising people with existing skills and military experience." The Duma said the proposed legislation would also make it easier to recruit civilian medics, engineers and operations and communications specialists. Separately, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday that Russia was forming 12 military units in its western military district in response to rising threats there, citing NATO membership bids by Finland and Sweden. Struggling in Ukraine, Russia paves way to sign up over-40s for army The usual Putin ball garglers aren't taking it well in the thread about this. |
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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Originally Posted By Dracster: "The United States will provide Ukraine with its MIM-104 Patriot anti-aircraft missile system The Washington Post reports that this is provided by the aid package adopted yesterday. MIM-104 Patriot has a high combat capability and is the main anti-missile and air system in the arsenal of the US Army." https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/48680/photo_2022-05-20_13-49-58_jpg-2390820.JPG View Quote Big news if true! Shoulda happened two months ago. |
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Originally Posted By Dracster: Unmoglich. Die Ukrainisch Luftwaffe is kaput. The Russians told me so. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Dracster: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Ukrainians hunkering down while they get air support. With the music I expected Hueys and napalm though. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/uu69cp/ukrainian_jets_provide_close_air_support_for/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb Unmoglich. Die Ukrainisch Luftwaffe is kaput. The Russians told me so. lol, the Russians say lots of things, I'm waiting for their paper su-57's to show up and do something. It has to be very demoralizing though when Russian units are seeing that Ukrainian air support is still intact. Very much a morale boost for the Ukrainians. |
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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I wonder if we are sending Patriots to Ukraine or if we are sending them to a NATO ally who will then transfer their old Soviet stuff to Ukraine.
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1991: End of USSR. That was a good year.
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Slava Ukraine, Slava Nacii
I pizdetz Rossijskoj Federacii. |
Speculation is that Ukrainian police uncovered a "stay behind" cache prepared by UkrSF. Interesting factoid - the Chinese AKs in the cache were originally sold to Iran, which gave them to Houthis - but US has intercepted the shipment at sea. And now they are in Ukraine.
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Slava Ukraine, Slava Nacii
I pizdetz Rossijskoj Federacii. |
Originally Posted By Dracster: "The United States will provide Ukraine with its MIM-104 Patriot anti-aircraft missile system The Washington Post reports that this is provided by the aid package adopted yesterday. MIM-104 Patriot has a high combat capability and is the main anti-missile and air system in the arsenal of the US Army." https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/48680/photo_2022-05-20_13-49-58_jpg-2390820.JPG View Quote Better late than never. Could have made a huge difference if they had had it months ago though! |
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Originally Posted By Jack67: Exactly. They may not be soaking it in diesel, but they ARE using it to absorb incoming fire. ;) View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Jack67: Originally Posted By Naporter: Yeah, but it also usually isn't being used as cover with a fairly decent chance of having explosions happen near it. Exactly. They may not be soaking it in diesel, but they ARE using it to absorb incoming fire. ;) Bullets by themselves are very unlikely to set it off. Anything likely to set it off would probably wreck your day anyway. |
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Originally Posted By Dracster: "The United States will provide Ukraine with its MIM-104 Patriot anti-aircraft missile system The Washington Post reports that this is provided by the aid package adopted yesterday. MIM-104 Patriot has a high combat capability and is the main anti-missile and air system in the arsenal of the US Army." https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/48680/photo_2022-05-20_13-49-58_jpg-2390820.JPG View Quote |
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS Fact is stranger than fiction -Mark Twain |
Originally Posted By Jack67: Just how good IS the patriot system now? And compared to other peer-comparable systems and general AAD weps like Tor, S-300, s-400, etc.? View Quote I imagine it'd work like between the s300 and s400 brochures, so likely better than both. It's dated but works quite well. |
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WHO IS RUSSIA'S NEW SUPER ENEMY | And How The Hell That Happened? This is a russian youtube guy I've started following. He is basically what I thought most russians are actually like, up until recently when russians convinced me I was way,way too hopeful. He is as honest as he can be about current events. He is not above saying "I'm sure you can read between the lines." As he is in russia he gets a lot of info I don't know anything about. He says he is sick over the russian invasion and has been sick since day one. He has Ukrainian friends. |
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Originally Posted By Jack67: Just how good IS the patriot system now? And compared to other peer-comparable systems and general AAD weps like Tor, S-300, s-400, etc.? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Jack67: Originally Posted By Dracster: "The United States will provide Ukraine with its MIM-104 Patriot anti-aircraft missile system ... Just how good IS the patriot system now? And compared to other peer-comparable systems and general AAD weps like Tor, S-300, s-400, etc.? Better than s-400. It can have 3 types of missiles for various anti air and anti ballistic missile work. Under the hood not the same system as Gulf War 1. https://www.raytheonmissilesanddefense.com/what-we-do/counter-uas/sensors/global-patriot-solutions Patriot has been used by five nations in more than 250 combat engagements against manned and unmanned aircraft, cruise missiles, and tactical ballistic missiles. Since January of 2015, Patriot has intercepted more than 150 ballistic missiles in combat operations around the world; more than 90 of those intercepts involved the low-cost Raytheon Missiles & Defense-made Guidance Enhanced Missile family of surface-to-air missiles. Those engagements were possible because Patriot is built on a foundation of more than 3,000 ground tests and over 1,400 flight tests. Each and every time Patriot is tested or live fired, engineers uncover new ways to further improve or enhance the system. The improvements are necessary because the threat is constantly changing and becoming more sophisticated. I wish they could get them, but I'm skeptical about Ukraine getting these. |
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Better than s-400. It can have 3 types of missiles for various anti air and anti ballistic missile work. Under the hood not the same system as Gulf War 1. https://www.raytheonmissilesanddefense.com/what-we-do/counter-uas/sensors/global-patriot-solutions View Quote Russians make small changes and change the name for marketing. “Da! Su-35 is all new world beater! Only slightly resemble older aircraft on outside!” The US be like “The new buy of Patriot missiles and the Super hornet are evolutionary, Congressman, and don’t need the sort of oversight that a new program would require, or a recompetition of the program.” |
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Originally Posted By mbinky: If true the Russians ain't sending their best lol. https://i.postimg.cc/MGN38702/Screen-Shot-2022-05-20-at-3-48-00-PM.png View Quote Most of their best were lit up during the initial invasion … |
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SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
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Originally Posted By Dracster: "Minus the Russian UAV ZALA Air units of the 30th separate mechanized brigade shot down an enemy ZALA UAV with small arms 5.45 For all about all the costs of BC: one store (30 rounds)! Glory to Ukraine! " https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/48680/photo_2022-05-20_10-58-55_jpg-2390573.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/48680/photo_2022-05-20_11-00-16_jpg-2390574.JPG View Quote It won't be long before we have some kind of big, fast UAVs with microwaves or something specifically for hunting down and burning up other UAVs. |
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Originally Posted By vahog: Hey, if you did that in summer, you could wet your ammonium nitrate bags down with water and have a chilled fighting position! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By vahog: Originally Posted By Jack67: You can't make this stuff up: Russians fortify using bagged ammonium nitrate instead of sandbags.
https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/556465/ammo_jpg-2390298.JPG Hey, if you did that in summer, you could wet your ammonium nitrate bags down with water and have a chilled fighting position! Wet it down with #2 diesel instead. |
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Not fly enough to be halal....
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Originally Posted By Ryan_Scott: Russians make small changes and change the name for marketing. “Da! Su-35 is all new world beater! Only slightly resemble older aircraft on outside!” The US be like “The new buy of Patriot missiles and the Super hornet are evolutionary, Congressman, and don’t need the sort of oversight that a new program would require, or a recompetition of the program.” View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Ryan_Scott: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Better than s-400. It can have 3 types of missiles for various anti air and anti ballistic missile work. Under the hood not the same system as Gulf War 1. https://www.raytheonmissilesanddefense.com/what-we-do/counter-uas/sensors/global-patriot-solutions Russians make small changes and change the name for marketing. “Da! Su-35 is all new world beater! Only slightly resemble older aircraft on outside!” The US be like “The new buy of Patriot missiles and the Super hornet are evolutionary, Congressman, and don’t need the sort of oversight that a new program would require, or a recompetition of the program.” I see you have been involved at some level in the current US Weapons Procurement process as well! It is somewhat surprising and humbling when you look at the control stations or open the maintenance panels on a new version of a weapons system system on which you had previously been an SME and realize you are absolutely ignorant regarding how to operate or maintain the "upgraded" version. |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: ...But there weren't any secondaries. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Originally Posted By Dracster: Originally Posted By Prime: Seven injured including an 11 year old. Russians are saying they hit an arsenal. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/48680/photo_2022-05-20_10-53-26_jpg-2390576.JPG ...But there weren't any secondaries. Russian weapon so stronk there is only primary |
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