Russia & Ukraine

ATTENTION RUSKIES!!!

HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO BE THE DESIGNATED VILLAGE IDIOT.

(Looks like Andrey's buddy is off to a slow start)

Russia Requests One Volunteer From Every Village Join New Battalion

A man named Andrey from the Lipetsk region said that the administration in each village needed to find at least one "volunteer," according to Mozhem Obyasnit. Andrey said that "age is not important" and that he knew of a 40-year-old who agreed to sign up "but the administration was not so lucky" because before he could do so, "he got drunk, fell off his bike and broke his leg."


https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-troops-mobilization-1728336

Y'all may recall from your Hogan's Heroes days that the pow's liked to make up reasons why they needed to leave the pow camp so that they could get Shultz to come with them to guard them. Then they would get Shultz drunk and do whatever their plan is, but they would have to use a wheelbarrow to get Shulz back to the camp.

Heh. This is Andrey's buddy on his way down to the Russian recruiting office to try to sign up again.


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virtusa said:
I don't agree.
Airfield runways are build on solid ground. Bridges are hanging in the air. The tension on the steel reinforcements in the concrete is completely different. If a few important steel cables in a hanging bridge are destroyed, just filling the hole wil not give back enough strenght to keep the bridge hanging.
Filling the holes in a runway is not that critical as the runway cannot collapse like a bridge can as the runway uses the support of the underground to compensate for any strenght.
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Its a big "if" though and its possible to retention cables by splicing in a new piece. Bridges are famously difficult to damage so much by ariel bombardment that they are impassable.
 
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TreeFrogTrader said:
The other minor- or possibly major - factor that comes into play, is that those himar missiles seem to have ungodly accuracy. Those shots looked like they were systematically lined right up the bridge deck.

What I am getting at is that they probably all hit the deck because that is where they targetted them. And now have found that they work so-so.

Maybe next time they will target the abutments. I am not prepared to say that they do not have the ability to fine tune like that. Looks like they are good at what they do.
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Let them begin to fix it and strike during the day. Afterwards, everyone would refuse to go anywhere close.
( if it was done by Russian soldiers (kinda unlikely))
Maybe a civilian spy could help with that.
 
Nobert said:
Let them begin to fix it and strike during the day. Afterwards, everyone would refuse to go anywhere close.
( if it was done by Russian soldiers (kinda unlikely))
Maybe a civilian spy could help with that.
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True. You know how when you come to a place where roadwork is being done that there are always three teenagers with STOP signs and you have to wait there in traffic for some ungodly period of time waiting for them to flip the sign around and let you pass?

Maybe it's just me, but I would not like to be waiting in traffic for a long period of time next to that bridge.
 
Bugenhagen said:
Its a big "if" though and it possible to retention cables by splicing in a new piece. Bridges are famously difficult to damage so much by ariel bombardment that they are impassable.
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Normally prestressed cables are used. These cables are streched before the concrete is added to the construction. Then the cables are "released" removing the stress on the cables. But as these cables are "retracing" in the concrete, the strenght of the concrete is much higher because the concrete is under permanent stress from the cables that try to retrace.
If now these cables are damaged, the whole concrete element has to be replaced. You cannot just put stress again on the ends of the broken cable and weld or attach a new piece of cable between the two ends. The whole part that was initially build as one piece with prestressed cables has to be removed and replaced.

 
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https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/poland-1000-k2-russia-obsolete

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South Korea and Poland are reportedly close to finalising a $14.5 billion arms deal, which alongside the sale of 48 F-50 lightweight fighter jets will include transfers of around 850 tanks and artillery pieces. These will include approximately 670 K9 Thunder self propelled guns, and 180 modernised variants of the K2 Black Panther tank. The K2 is the only NATO compatible tank in production worldwide using an autoloader, meaning its crew requirements are reduced from four to three, and is widely considered the most capable tank in the world rivalled only by the Russian T-14. While the T-14 has a number of significant performance advantages, including an unmanned turret, greater penetration on its anti armour rounds, and superior armour, Russia has neglected to invest in meaningful acquisitions leaving its armoured units poorly placed to counter large numbers of K2s in the event of a Russian-NATO war or a limited Polish intervention in Ukraine.
 
virtusa said:
I hope that, you Americans, don't make the same mistake and vote for Trump again. There are enough other Republicans to choose from.

As long as Putin lives, the danger is not gone.

https://nypost.com/2021/09/13/russi...t-undersea-cables-spotted-in-english-channel/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...lace-liz-truss-jens-stoltenberg-b1989124.html

If Putin would do that we should just bomb his oil and gas infrastructure.
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This article confirms my point of view. I hope the US will not make the same mistake as Germany did with Schröder and the problems with getting Russian gas now.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-kremlin-midterms-republicans-trump-help-1728234
 
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The position of Turkey in the war:
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-pushing-ukraines-drone-supplier-make-him-weapons-turkey-says-1728160
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Putin recently approached him about creating a Baykar drone factory in Russia.

"Putin says, 'Let's work together with Baykar,'" Erdogan said during the meeting, according to CNN Turk.

Baykar is a drone manufacturer located in Turkey that has supplied unmanned aerial drones to Ukraine, amid the country's ongoing war with Russia.

Answer from CEO of Baykar, Haluk Bayraktar:
"We have not delivered or supplied them with anything, [and] we will as well never do such a thing because we support Ukraine, support its sovereignty, its resistance for its independence,"

"We are actually proud and it's very touching for us to be one of the symbols of this big resistance of Ukraine and as you know Ukraine is under very heavy aggression and disproportionate attacks."

In June, Reuters reported that a group in Lithuania started a crowdfunding campaign to help Ukraine pay for Baykar's TB2 model drones. In response to the crowdfunding campaign, Baykar announced that it "will not accept payment for the TB2s, and will send three UAVs free of charge to the Ukrainian war front."

"We ask that raised funds be remitted instead to the struggling people of Ukraine," the company said in a statement, according to Reuters.

Turkey is choosing the Ukrainian side and comdamn the Russian agression.
 
virtusa said:
Turkey is choosing the Ukrainian side and comdamn the Russian agression.
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Erdogan is a snake who always needs to be bought out and given a little sumpin sumpin in the background in order to come into line.

But that has been done and apparently has been successful. Whether we offered him hookers or to give them New Jersey, I don't need to know.

It was part of the package that was give to him offline in order to get his vote on NATO membership for Sweden and Finland.

It reminds me of Churchill- I think it was- who got into some dealmaking with some British woman and offered her this and that. And she said: "What do you think I am, to be offering that?" And he replied: "Madam, I know what you are, I am just trying to figure out what the price is."

wheeeeeeeeee!!!! some paraphrase involved in recounting that story.
 
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