Russia - threadbanned users in OP

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On this I would have no problem, the person I was replying to was on about placing ALL Russians under arrest/intered.

The more that lot in Moscow belter on like this, the more we know they are living in misery.

Some interesting Aviation Movements from today and yesterday.

Yesterday, a relatively recent arrival to the Italian Airforce, a G550 with its conformal Early Warning radar, is seen finishing up its monitoring of both Belarusian and Kaliningrad borders.

Further West, a USAF KC-135 is well on its way back to its probable base at Mildenhall. Its historical flightpath gives us a clue to where its accompanying flight of F-16's was operating ( with their transponders off). The KC-135 is one of a number of assets based around the venerable Boeing 707, with some still flying with "steam gauges" and flight engineers.

This morning, over Lithuania, a gaggle of Beechcraft B200's betray its use as a base for these versatile SIGNIT aircraft. These have been operating along the Russian, Belarus and Kaliningrad borders for months now and are operated by the US Army. ( I can still remember the calls "N1, 12%, fuel in" with this type....)

Finally, our old friend, Global Hawk FORTE 11, is seen returning from an all-night foray over the Black Sea. Unusually, it had its transponder off all night until it returned to friendly airspace this morning, on its way back to Italy.

1: care to show the letter you sent to the newspapers condemning the actions of the IRA?

2: Yeah, angry letters are more effective than sinking battleships, ffs this gets more ludicrous by the hour 🤣🤣

"but I don’t see why any these people should remain in the civilised world if they disagree with our values."

Again with the ridiculous hyperbole, if they refuse to stand on a soapbox and scream their dislike for Putin they must be removed immediately 🙄

And straight after the ridiculous hyperbole we follow up with a healthy dose of scaremongering for good measure

"Once again it’s only a matter of time before we endup with an atrocity in Europe after being radicalised and incited by crazy Russian propaganda and tv"

Headline in tomorrow's Times is self explanatory ; experts saying it could take Russia 30 years to fully recover from the dictator's war on Ukraine. Also, fears that he could be bonkers enough to try and take Kyiv again.

Putin and the like of him want to drag as many as possible down to a serf level

Keep it up greenpilot. I find you interesting

Great question, and for fear of going off topic, I'll explain briefly.

The Beech 200 is a twin-engine turboprop aircraft. Essentially a jet engine with a propeller stuck to the front. When starting, you flick the electric starter motor to "on", wait until the rotational speed of the engine, or N1, reaches and stabilises at, or preferably above 12% of total rotation. Only then do you introduce fuel into the engine by moving the Condition lever to Low Idle. This ensures plenty of cold air flowing through the engine before ignition.

If you introduce fuel at too low a percentage, the engine could potentially " Hot Start", which means the ITT temperature peaks way too high or goes " off scale high", causing damage.

From a Russia v Western perspective. Most Western aircraft use electrical systems in the startup sequence, which is fine until your power goes down and you're stuck on an airstrip somewhere with no start-cart. Many Russian aircraft use compressed air, provided by a compressor on the plane, negating the need for electrical power.

Many years ago, I took the opportunity to train in a Yak-52 at Weston. An incredibly tough aircraft with a 9 cylinder 350bhp engine. It used compressed air to rotate the engine for starting, had air brakes and the flaps and landing gear all used compressed air for operating. Russian aircraft are built to operate from unprepared and unsupported airstrips in extremes of temperatures.

Hope that answers your question.

Keep up the good work Greenpilot., its very interesting.

the word war has been used by Putin

Here comes the Sound of Music to Ukrainian ears and unmitigated terror to the Ruzzians. Even its appearance is terrifying, not to mention its name, Warthog. Bring them on, sooner the better.

The annoying part is the US saying they won't give Ukraine XYZ, only months later they row back and give them XYZ, but it will take a few months training. Like the Patriot system. Why couldn't Ukraine be training on that system months ago?

As for Russia attacking from Belarus, well they would deploy Sam sites within Belarus and Ukraine may be reluctant to attack them on Belarusian soil. These Sam sites operated by Russia would give quite a lot of air protection for a ground force moving towards Kyiv.

The excuse Biden gave for not giving the likes of ATACM's was ridiculous. Because they are a different sort of weapon (it's just a longer range version of what Ukraine already have) it would risk NATO or the EU breaking up. I'd love to know what NATO or EU countries (if any) are against it and would leave the Bloc/pack because the US give Ukraine a weapon to defend their citizen's being murdered, raped, kidnapped etc...

HARM missiles were given to Ukraine early in the war, adapted to be fired from Migs, have routinely being fired at SAM sites within Russia and there's been **** all said about it from either side.

At Sivershchyna direction Russian army shelled Hirky of Sumy region, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report