Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Manic Moran

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119955321#Comment_119955321

Might be surprisingly well. Most countries don't have an equivalent to the Assault Breacher Vehicle for example.

However, the question misses the point. The US operates as a joint force, and is organized and structured to fight that way. Along how the US Army would perform without air support is kindof like asking how another army might perform without reconnaissance units or tanks. Its a part of the system.

cnocbui

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119957723#Comment_119957723

Of course, any country would ban them after being caught red handed, the way they were.

jmreire

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119957723#Comment_119957723

And rightly so Grumpy. Zelensky specifically mentioned Russian influenced Churches in his new law. Kirill Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (and as big a gangster as Putin) claimed in the early days of the invasion that he was Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as well but was told to go home and mind his own business as he has no authority over the Ukrainian branch, no more than he has over the Serbian or Greek Orthodox Churches either. He is not 100% supported by the Russian Orthodox Church either. There are many priests there who disagree with him.

xxxxxxl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119957739#Comment_119957739

I think they mean the FSB is banned.

Wolf359f

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119957723#Comment_119957723

You're scraping the bottom of the barrel again.

Polar101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119957723#Comment_119957723

There is a war ongoing, and Ukraine is trying to reduce the ways the invader can influence them. Seems like a very necessary strategy.

RoyalCelt

Ukraine apparently has completed testing of a long range drone. Meanwhile a Wagner source confirmed that NK are sending artillery shell's while China is sending trucks and medical aid through a type of lend lease.

America must be delighted seeing NK, Russia, China and Iran emptying reserves. I know China don't officially but they likely do through NK.

Russia's only big advantage on the battlefield is their ability to cover large areas under not stop artillery fire. If their stocks are already low how long could NK keep shipping before they say no. Another year?

Estimates have Russia firing between 40 and 60k shells per day. If that output was to drop below 10/20k next year they'd be in big trouble.

xxxxxxl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119957843#Comment_119957843

They can get all the shells they like they cannot replace the lost artillery pieces and spent barrels. No one seems to be handing them over.

Rawr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119957843#Comment_119957843

The North Koreans themselves are sitting on a lot of decaying Cold-War era kit. Much like Russia has shown to be.

To their credit, Pyongyang have a knack of being good at keeping old Soviet kit in working order (they’ve been caught before smuggling MiG fighters from Cuba for repairs). But even that will go so far until they run out of usable gear. Also, they dare not say no to one of their few allies in the world, but eventually they’ll eat into stocks that were meant for a War with South Korea (which I’m guessing is looking increasingly less likely with Russia’s disintegration). Russia has the potential to sink NK with them.

Francie Barrett

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119957435#Comment_119957435

There's no liberation of the left bank, so I don't know what you're talking about.

Francie Barrett

There's a fundamental issue to why it's almost impossible for Ukraine to secure the left bank amphibiously at this stage. Logistics.

If you want to think that raising a flag in a swamp in the gray zone invalidates my statement, be my guest.

Gatling

Russian airbase hit 1000km from Ukraine last night, several TU95 bombers damaged , ukraine recently tested a new drone with over a 1000 km range carrying a 75kg warhead,

This could be a game changer

https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1599660288113987584?s=20&t=emNEYagcHmpUTXIV08KSew

Fighting Tao

Honouring fallen hero’s.

https://twitter.com/mriyareport/status/1599158550625800192?s=46&t=RgV8de0AwaphhOk7v0_78Q

Mr. CooL ICE

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119957979#Comment_119957979

Could? Will!

Belgorod is no longer the most dangerous place in russia

Dubh Geannain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119957922#Comment_119957922

Only an incredibly stupid person could not know what he's talking about.

Don't see a full on landing happening myself anytime soon but as has been pointed out you let yourself down with your original tone.

Widdensushi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119957132#Comment_119957132

Every cloud and all that...

Cordell

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119957785#Comment_119957785

Russian Orthodox Church should be banned in Ukraine simply because it's an agent of the enemy. And this doesn't affect religious freedom in any way, Orthodox churches are free to practice the Orthodox faith as independent churches, just as Orthodoxism prescribes.

Say my name

Just to prove RuSSia lives in their own little (they think is insulated from the real world and consequences) bubble.

We've had the sledgehammer to the head broadcast and the delivery of a sledgehammer to EU offices.

Now we have on social media the hanging of Ukrainian collaborators in occupied areas and the pictures shown with signs on their bodies warning to Ukrainians in occupied areas. Zero fukks given.

I won't show links. It's easy found. All it shows is desperation by the Rashist forces and more evidence to sink the sh1thole of a country back to their isolationist wishes.

Mike3549

https://mobile.twitter.com/Tendar/status/1599729313766551554

everytime UA hit something huge, ruskies lose their sh!t.

Hobgoblin11

https://t.me/dnepr_operativ/31173

Air defense is active in Dnipropetrovsk region amid new Russian missile attack

Furze99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119958725#Comment_119958725

Maybe they need to go really big next time and give Grumpy here something to worry about.

jmreire

So now, with Ukraine having developed its own long range drone system, Ruzzia can no longer play the NATO, we will start www3 card, Ukraine is free to fire at will? No NATO/US/ UK etc weapons being used.

seenitall

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119959027#Comment_119959027

They can play any card they want, that is so frustrating. If not that one, another made up one will do just as well. All arrogance, delusions, dissimulations and lies. While Ukraine under ruthless attack has to be seen to “play fair” and not do this, that or the other lest they provoke an escalation by the bear, hurt their international standing, and what have you. Ukranians are bearing up amazingly well under the double standards of this situation.

At least they are now striking more targets inside Russia so hopefully the situation is slowly changing.

Markcheese

Those new drones only have a 75 kg warhead , there's a limit to what they can do,

although every airbase,and military facility out to about 1000km from Ukraine now needs air defence , pulling them away from the front ..

Cordell

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119959027#Comment_119959027

Russia blamed NATO and the west even though there were no NATO or western troops, so why stop now? They can still claim the drones were developed with NATO assistance, western know-how and components.

greenpilot

Re: Airbase Blast.

Here is some interesting footage of the attack. You can clearly hear a Jet Engine riar overhead and, around 12 seconds later, the blast is visible. The engine sound may or may not be related, but as someone who spent a lot of time over the years around Mil jet engines, that sound lacks the high-pitch whine of a small, cruise-missile-type turbofan engine. I'll ask other aviation nerds on here what they think, but to my ears, that's a pretty powerful sounding either twin-jet or single engine on full mil-power. ( without afterburner).

Secondly, the latest Ukranian-developed drone, recently tested by Ukraine, carries a 75kg warhead. That blast, from what I can tell and what other observers have commented on, is significantly larger than 75kg.

Here's my theory. It's not beyond the bounds of possibility, that Ukraine may have launched either a Mig-29 or member of the SU- family, having converted it into a drone-ship filled with explosives. They have an excellent aeronautical engineering industry quite capable of doing this and it has precedence. Converted fighters were used extensively by the US for both as targets for missile testing, and for decoys/attacking during the Vietnam war.

I'm looking forward to finding out what really happened and what wreckage will be disclosed at the site.

What's your thoughts?

https://youtu.be/L2x6djEa1ss

Hobgoblin11

Moldelectrica warns about possible blackouts across Moldova

josip

I read somewhere that a fuel bowser was hit at one of the airbases which would account for the disproportionately large explosion.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63857451

A serious escalation by Ukraine... How are Ukraine able to get missiles/aircraft/drones so far into the USSR Russia without being shot down?!

Gatling

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119959423#Comment_119959423

The same Way they fly mission's into occupied territory everyday, Russia has the same holes in their air defense as everyone else,

Russia is huge compared to some countries they won't have the air defense systems covering every inch of their territory