February 22, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, DrPhilly said: The Soviets had an all time great team. They were awesome. Then we beat them. If we’d played them 10 times they might’ve won 9. But not this game … not tonight
February 23, 20241 yr On 2/20/2024 at 5:00 AM, Talkingbirds said: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/02/19/sukhoi-massacre-ukraine-has-shot-down-six-of-russias-best-jets-in-just-three-days/?sh=195487b3655f
February 24, 20241 yr Russia is using N Korean and Iranian weapons to strike inside Ukraine. Of course Ukraine should use our weapons to strike inside Russia.
February 24, 20241 yr I cannot for the life of me fathom about the Ukrainians not being able to use the donated wares to hit inside Russia. They’ve been using domestically produced drones to do so, and there already been so many "final warning” red lines crossed and nothing happened. There’s a ton of logistics that Russia has just over the border and the Ukrainians can’t hit them with Western weapons. It’s a joke. If things kick off in the South Pacific are we not going to let Taiwan hit any mainland targets?
February 24, 20241 yr Russia / Ukraine China / Taiwan Israel / Hamas / Iran...... Timing and one incident can allow the world a clean slate. What is not to like?
February 25, 20241 yr 18 hours ago, lynched1 said: Russia / Ukraine China / Taiwan Israel / Hamas / Iran...... Timing and one incident can allow the world a clean slate. What is not to like? Ironically, most of the folks on the board have the same thoughts about you.
February 25, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, Next_Up said: Ironically, most of the folks on the board have the same thoughts about you. I'm not sure who should be more concerned about that.
February 26, 20241 yr Hungarian Parliament has voted to approve bringing Sweden into NATO. Should now just be some formalities left. First, Hungary needs to complete their process which includes a step by the President. In theory, it can be thrown back into discussion/debate but it won't. Likely to take a day or two. Second, Sweden needs to deliver formal paperwork to NATO/US. The quick timeline shows it is possible to conclude everything this week. If it takes the slow road then we are a few weeks away.
February 26, 20241 yr 3 hours ago, DrPhilly said: Hungarian Parliament has voted to approve bringing Sweden into NATO. Should now just be some formalities left. First, Hungary needs to complete their process which includes a step by the President. In theory, it can be thrown back into discussion/debate but it won't. Likely to take a day or two. Second, Sweden needs to deliver formal paperwork to NATO/US. The quick timeline shows it is possible to conclude everything this week. If it takes the slow road then we are a few weeks away. Congratulations!
February 27, 20241 yr Pretty good idea what documents were getting burned out in the streets at the start ..... On Sunday, The New York Times published a rare US admission that US intelligence has not only been instrumental in Ukraine’s wartime decision-making but has established and financed high-tech command-and-control spy centers and was doing so long prior to the Feb. 24 Russian invasion of two years ago.
February 28, 20241 yr On 2/26/2024 at 10:37 PM, lynched1 said: Pretty good idea what documents were getting burned out in the streets at the start ..... On Sunday, The New York Times published a rare US admission that US intelligence has not only been instrumental in Ukraine’s wartime decision-making but has established and financed high-tech command-and-control spy centers and was doing so long prior to the Feb. 24 Russian invasion of two years ago. Breaking news: Ukraine existed before 2022. LINK Quote Dialogue and cooperation started when newly independent Ukraine joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (1991) and the Partnership for Peace programme (1994). Quote Cooperation has deepened over time and is mutually beneficial. Ukraine has a long track record of active contributions to NATO-led operations and missions.
February 28, 20241 yr 50 minutes ago, toolg said: Breaking news: Ukraine existed before 2022. LINK Ukraine gave up their nukes and we said we would have their back. Quote Thousands of nuclear arms had been left on Ukrainian soil by Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. But in the years that followed, Ukraine made the decision to completely denuclearize. In exchange, the U.S., the U.K. and Russia would guarantee Ukraine's security in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum.
February 28, 20241 yr 32 minutes ago, toolg said: Russia cracking down on dissidents. This is exactly what Donald Trump wants as president. Commie pinko.
February 29, 20241 yr 8 hours ago, toolg said: Breaking news: Ukraine existed before 2022. LINK No way.......🙄
February 29, 20241 yr Ukrainian Air Force Downs Three More Russian Fighter-Bombers, Bringing Total to 12 in 13 Days https://www.kyivpost.com/post/28805 Suck it, commie lovers!!
February 29, 20241 yr 1 minute ago, Toastrel said: Ukrainian Air Force Downs Three More Russian Fighter-Bombers, Bringing Total to 12 in 13 Days https://www.kyivpost.com/post/28805 Suck it, commie lovers!! I read a similar article this AM Quote Shooting Down 11 Jets In 11 Days, Ukraine Nudges The Russian Air Force Closer To Organizational Death-Spiral The Russian air force lost another Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber on Thursday, the Ukrainian air force claimed. If confirmed, the Thursday shoot-down would extend an unprecedented hot streak for Ukrainian air-defenses. The Ukrainian claim they’ve shoot down 11 Russian planes in 11 days: seven Su-34s, two Sukhoi Su-35 fighters and two rare Beriev A-50 radar planes. But those 11 claimed losses are worse than they might seem for the increasingly stressed Russian air force. In theory, the air arm has plenty more planes. In practice, the service is dangerously close to collapse. Exactly how the Ukrainians are shooting down so many jets is unclear. It’s possible the Ukrainian air force has assigned some of its American-made Patriot missile launchers to mobile air-defense groups that move quickly in close proximity to the 600-mile front line of Russia’s two-year wider war on Ukraine, ambushing Russian jets with 90-mile-range PAC-2 missiles then swiftly relocating to avoid counterattack. But the distance at which the Ukrainians shot down that A-50 on Friday—120 miles or so—hints that a longer-range missile system was involved. Perhaps a Cold War-vintage S-200 that the Ukrainian air force pulled out of long-term storage. It also is apparent the Ukrainians have moved some of their two-dozen or so 25-mile-range NASAMS surface-to-air missile batteries closer to the front line. After all, the Russians found—and destroyed with a missile—their first NASAMS launcher near the southern city of Zaporizhzhia on or before Monday. It’s possible Russian forces’ own actions have contributed to the spike in aviation losses. After finally defeating, at incredible cost in people and equipment, the ammo-starved Ukrainian garrison in the ruins of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine two weeks ago, the Russian army in Ukraine is advancing against other Ukrainian garrisons that also are running out of ammo—all thanks to Russia-aligned Republicans in the U.S. Congress, who have been blocking further U.S. aid to Ukraine since October. Sensing an opportunity, the Russian air force is flying more sorties, closer to the front line, lobbing glide-bombs to suppress Ukrainian troops. "The enemy has overcome the fear of using aviation directly over the battlefield,” the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies explained, "and although this results in the loss of aircraft, their ground forces gain a significant firepower advantage.” This surge in Russian sorties presents Ukrainian air-defenders with more targets. So of course they’re shooting down more Russian planes. It helps the Ukrainian effort that Russian pilots increasingly are blind to Ukrainian missile-launches. The Russian air force once counted on its nine or so active A-50 radar planes—organized into three, three-plane "orbits” in the south, east and north—to extend sensor coverage across Ukraine. In damaging one A-50 in a drone strike last year and shooting down two more A-50s this year, the Ukrainians have eliminated a third of this sensor coverage, and created blind spots where Russian pilots might struggle to spot approaching missiles. In any event, the consequences of the Ukrainians’ recent kills, for the Russians, are dire. The Russian air force is losing warplanes far, far faster than it can afford to lose them. Russia’s sanctions-throttled aerospace industry is struggling to build more than a couple of dozen new planes a year. Escalating losses, exacerbated by anemic plane-production, almost certainly are increasing the stress on the surviving planes and crews. The Russian air arm isn’t yet in an organizational death spiral. But it’s getting closer. The numbers tell the story. On paper, the Russian air force has acquired 140 of the twin-engine, two-seat, supersonic Su-34s. Counting this year’s unconfirmed losses, the air force has lost 31 of the Su-34s. But 109 Su-34s still is a lot of Su-34s, right? Wrong, according to Michael Bohnert, an engineer with the RAND Corporation in California. Shoot-downs represent "only a portion of total losses” of Russian fighters, Bohnert wrote back in August. "Overuse of these aircraft is also costing Russia as the war drags on.” "In a protracted war, where one force tries to exhaust the other, it's the total longevity of the military force that matters,” Bohnert added. "And that's where the VKS”—the Russian air force—“finds itself now.” Bohnert assumed the air force went to war two years ago with around 900 fighters and attack planes and, in the first 18 months of fighting, lost around 100 of them to Ukrainian action. The problem for the Russians—besides the losses—is that the requirement for fighter and attack sorties hasn’t decreased even as the fighter and attack inventory has decreased. So those 800 remaining planes are flying more frequently in order to handle taskings the Kremlin once assigned to 900 planes. And that means more wear and tear, deepening maintenance needs and a growing hunger for increasingly hard-to-find spare parts—imperatives that effectively remove airframes from the front-line force. "The extra hours that it's pressed its aircraft into service since February 2022 have effectively cost [the air force] an additional 27 to 57 aircraft in imputed losses,” Bohnert calculated. And that was before Russian aircraft losses spiked starting in December, and Russian sortie-rates also spiked as the battle for Avdiivka culminated. In other words, the imputed losses likely are even higher. They, combined with recent shoot-downs, could mean the Russian air force is down to 700 flyable fighters and attack jets. Two hundred fewer than it had two years ago. To avoid even greater wear and tear and steeper imputed losses as the shoot-downs continue, the Russian air force soon could face a hard choice: fly less often, or risk a downward spiral in readiness. All that is to say that, if Bohnert is right, the Russian air campaign in Ukraine is unsustainable. And it becomes even less sustainable with every additional jet the Ukrainians shoot down.
March 2, 20241 yr 2nd of 3 steps now complete with Hungary's signing off on Sweden process. All that is left now is the Orban signature and then Sweden will fly their foreign minister over to the US to hand deliver the official final paperwork. That can easily happen next week. Once that is done the Swedish flag will be raised at the NATO headquarters in Brussels.
March 2, 20241 yr 16 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: 2nd of 3 steps now complete with Hungary's signing off on Sweden process. All that is left now is the Orban signature and then Sweden will fly their foreign minister over to the US to hand deliver the official final paperwork. That can easily happen next week. Once that is done the Swedish flag will be raised at the NATO headquarters in Brussels. Will they be flying over in F-16 s. ?
March 4, 20241 yr On 9/22/2023 at 2:32 PM, Mike31mt said: The next service I'll provide is dropping my blanks on your wifes face. STFU loser
March 4, 20241 yr 5 hours ago, Arthur Jackson said: Fake. There are only 10 commandments and that’s clearly marked as 11.
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