August 21, 20241 yr 9 minutes ago, Bill said: That combined with Russian tank crews tending to store their spare ammunition on the floor of the crew compartment. Nice touch.
August 23, 20241 yr Author https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasF/s/tMd1SDVY0m Use to be able to embed Reddit links
August 28, 20241 yr Author Ukraine’s ex-Danish Lockheed Martin F-16s have scored their first aerial victories. According to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, the supersonic F-16s shot down Russian cruise missiles during the Russian air raids targeting Ukrainian cities on Monday. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/08/27/ukraines-f-16s-have-scored-their-first-aerial-kills/?ss=aerospace-defense
August 29, 20241 yr Top Ukrainian pilot killed when US-made F-16 fighter jet crashed Quote A top Ukrainian pilot was killed when a US-made F-16 fighter jet crashed on Monday, just weeks after the long-awaited planes arrived in the country, a Ukrainian military source told CNN. The Ukrainian Defence Forces do not believe pilot error was behind the incident, the source added. Pilot Oleksiy Mes, known as "Moonfish,” was killed in the crash while "repelling the biggest ever aerial attack” by Russia against Ukraine, said the source, adding that the pilot was buried on Thursday. The crash is being investigated and international experts will be invited to participate in the probe, the source added. The death of the pilot is a major blow for Ukraine. The first F-16s only arrived in the country earlier this month and Moonfish was one of the few pilots trained to fly them. Zelensky said on Tuesday that the Ukrainian Air Force used the F-16 to destroy missiles and drones launched by Russia on Monday, the first time any Ukrainian official confirmed the jets were being used in combat. Kyiv waited a long time to get hold of the F-16s, and the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has been asking its Western allies for the fighter jets since the start of the full-scale invasion. But as with other equipment, Western countries hesitated before finally agreeing to provide F-16s. The Netherlands and Denmark pledged to provide them early summer in 2023, but it took another few weeks for the US to green-light the transfer. When they arrived earlier this summer, Zelensky said he and his government held "hundreds of meetings and negotiations” to secure the jets. A group of Ukrainian pilots started their training in the US in the fall. While it normally takes a year to get fully trained up to fly the planes, Moonfish and others had to do it in six months. Ukraine is hoping the F-16 will give it a much-needed boost. The jets are multi-role: they can provide air cover for troops, attack ground targets, take on enemy planes and intercept missiles. With the right armament, F-16s could deter Russian fighter-bombers from approaching the battlefield. Still, the jets are no silver bullet. Ukraine can use them to deny Russia control over the skies, but experts say their capabilities are inferior to the most modern Russian combat aircraft that would likely prevail in an air battle with the F-16. Moonfish: Top pilot who lobbied hard for F-16 Moonfish and another pilot Andriy Pilshchikov, known by the call sign "Juice,” became the faces of Ukraine’s campaign to get the F-16s. It was an uphill battle, but Juice and Moonfish pulled through it together. They were young and enthusiastic, spoke good English and were willing to fight to get the US jets into Ukrainian skies. Flying the F-16 was their dream and when Juice died in a plane crash during a combat mission last August, Moonfish made it his goal to fulfill it. Of the two, Moonfish was the quiet one: an aviation geek not keen on publicity. But when Juice died, Moonfish had to take his place. In a rare interview with CNN, he admitted that if Juice were alive, he’d be giving interviews. A man of few words, passionate about his job, he had his emotions under control. A straight talker who knew everything about F-16s. "Andriy was the ‘ideas man’ and the main driving force behind it all,” Moonfish said. "And I feel responsible to him for ensuring these planes arrive.” Speaking to CNN while in training, he said it was necessary for him and other Ukrainian pilots to undergo a truncated version of the training. "We would have had a lot of time to study the jet completely in peacetime, but we do not have the time,” he said.
September 5, 20241 yr On 1/15/2022 at 10:31 AM, Abracadabra said: U.S. laying the groundwork for their next instigation. Sailing warships near Russia's borders, regime change operations in neighboring countries and bringing NATO memberships right up to their border but Russia's defensive reactions are cast as provocation. Ukraine should recall the U.S. performance in Afghanistan and expect a similar betrayal.
September 10, 20241 yr Quote Ukraine strikes Moscow in biggest drone attack to date Ukraine struck the Moscow region on Tuesday in its biggest drone attack so far on the Russian capital, killing at least one woman, wrecking dozens of homes and forcing around 50 flights to be diverted from airports around Moscow. Russia, the world’s biggest nuclear power, said it destroyed at least 20 Ukrainian attack drones as they swarmed over the Moscow region, which has a population of more than 21 million, and 124 more over eight other regions. At least one person was killed near Moscow, Russian authorities said. Three of Moscow’s four airports were closed for more than six hours and almost 50 flights were diverted. Kyiv said Russia, which sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, had attacked it overnight with 46 drones, of which 38 were destroyed. The drone attacks on Russia damaged at high-rise apartment buildings in the Ramenskoye district of the Moscow region, setting flats on fire, residents told Reuters. A 46-year-old woman was killed and three people were wounded in Ramenskoye, Moscow regional governor Andrei Vorobyov said. Residents said they awoke to blasts and fire. "I looked at the window and saw a ball of fire,” Alexander Li, a resident of the district told Reuters. "The window got blown out by the shockwave.” Georgy, a resident who declined to give his surname, said he heard a drone buzzing outside his building in the early hours. "I drew back the curtain and it hit the building right before my eyes, I saw it all,” he said. "I took my family and we ran outside.” The Ramenskoye district, some 50 km (31 miles) southeast of the Kremlin, has a population of around quarter a million of people, according to official data. More than 70 drones were also downed over Russia’s Bryansk region and tens more over other regions, Russia’s defense ministry said. There was no damage or casualties reported there. Drone war As Russia advances in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv has taken the war to Russia with a cross-border attack in Russia’s western Kursk region that began on Aug. 6 and by carrying out increasingly large drone attacks deep into Russian territory. The war has largely been a grinding artillery and drone war along the 1,000 km (620 mile) heavily fortified front line in southern and eastern Ukraine involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Moscow and Kyiv have both sought to buy and develop new drones, deploy them in innovative ways, and seek new ways to destroy them - from shotguns to advanced electronic jamming systems. Both sides have turned cheap commercial drones into deadly weapons while ramping up their own production and assembly to attack targets including tanks, energy infrastructure such as refineries and airfields. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has sought to insulate Moscow from the grinding rigors of the war, says the Ukrainian drone attacks are "terrorism” as they target civilian infrastructure - and has vowed a response. Moscow and other big Russian cities have largely been insulated from the war. Russia has hit Ukraine with thousands of missiles and drones in the last two-and-a-half years, killing thousands of civilians, wrecking much of the country’s energy system and damaging commercial and residential properties across the country. Ukraine says it has a right to strike back deep into Russia, though Kyiv’s Western backers have said they do not want a direct confrontation between Russia and the U.S.-led NATO military alliance. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine about Tuesday’s attacks. Both sides deny targeting civilians. Tuesday’s attack follow drone attacks Ukraine launched in early September targeting chiefly Russia’s energy and power facilities. Authorities of the Tula region, which neighbors the Moscow region to its north, said drone wreckage fell onto a fuel and energy facility but the "technological process” of the facility was not affected.
September 10, 20241 yr 32 minutes ago, paco said: BRING BACK ABRA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 13, 20241 yr President Biden is facing mounting pressure to lift the ban on Ukraine using U.S. weapons to strike deep inside Russia and appeared to admit on Tuesday that his administration is moving in that direction.
September 13, 20241 yr 7 hours ago, lynched1 said: President Biden is facing mounting pressure to lift the ban on Ukraine using U.S. weapons to strike deep inside Russia and appeared to admit on Tuesday that his administration is moving in that direction. I'm 100% for that at this point.
September 13, 20241 yr 17 hours ago, lynched1 said: President Biden is facing mounting pressure to lift the ban on Ukraine using U.S. weapons to strike deep inside Russia and appeared to admit on Tuesday that his administration is moving in that direction. About damn time
September 13, 20241 yr 13 hours ago, DrPhilly said: I'm 100% for that at this point. All fine, well, and good so long as you are prepared for expansion if Putin backs up his remarks.
September 14, 20241 yr 7 hours ago, lynched1 said: All fine, well, and good so long as you are prepared for expansion if Putin backs up his remarks. Putin knows it will end horribly if he tries to expand into a NATO country. Poor Moldova.
September 14, 20241 yr 6 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: Putin knows it will end horribly if he tries to expand into a NATO country. Poor Moldova. Because NATO will nuke the nukes?
September 14, 20241 yr 35 minutes ago, lynched1 said: Because NATO will nuke the nukes? Putin doesn’t want a nuclear war.
September 14, 20241 yr 12 hours ago, DrPhilly said: Putin doesn’t want a nuclear war. Why not? He likely has more than the US does. Certainly more than Europe.
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