Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Those knots....

Twisting words ,who's twisting your words.

People tieing themselves in knots is fun,

We already know they have attacked ambulances so it's safe to say these will definitely be targeted, unfortunately as seen elsewhere Russia sees any kind of medical vehicles or hospitals legitimate targets,

I remember back in 2014 Russian vehicles marked with RCs were transporting soldiers and weapons into the east of Ukraine under the guise of humanitarian aid.

I'd genuinely like to know what's upset you, you've blamed me and one or two others yet I don't believe that's true ,

So what's your actual opinion on the illegal invasion and occupation of Ukraine by Russia ,

How would you have prevented the invasion or would you have stood by and done nothing

I'd say that its Prigozhin trying to terrify Putin into giving him what he wants in order to prevent Ukraine from taking complete control of Bakhmut, and then rolling all the way to Moscow.

Seeing as how Russia purchases commercial satellite images as well as having their own and recon with drones etc... it would be kinda hard for Prigozhin to bluff it. But speaking of which, imagine working in Maxar and just photoshoping in hundreds of tanks and troops around the area!

It's like training for a video game ffs. What's next? teaching them tap-strafing followed by jumping up and down to avoid splash damage?

Are you baseing it all on a heavier bomb falls faster than a smaller bomb?

Would it not be cancelled out with the heavier bomb having more surface area, creating more drag?

It's a matter wing loading - wing area divided by weight. As the wing moves through the air, the forward impetus being front loaded by the aircraft and then gravity, it generates lift as a function of it's area and speed through the air. if you have small wings on a heavy bomb, you have to increase the angle of the glide slope to increase the speed of the airflow and so increase the amount of lift that is partially countering the weight of the bomb. But then the penalty is decreased range

With bigger, mainly longer, wings, on the same bomb, the amount of lift proportional to the weight is greater at a given airspeed so the glide slope can be shallower and so the distance it can travel before intersecting the ground is greater.

Gliders have long thin wings and are built as light as possible in order to have as low a wing loading as possible, which means the can have extremely shallow glide-slopes and so fly a long distance from a given height. Gliders pioneered the use of modern light weight materials in aviation. The Boeing 787 was the first commercial airliner built largely from carbon fibre, but the guinea pigs that proved the materials worth were gliders in the 1990s.

Bombs of different weights without wings should fall at almost the same terminal velocity as Galileo showed that gravitational attraction is independent of mass, so only air resistance makes a difference. One of the Apollo lunar astronauts proved it by being filmed dropping a large feather and a geologists hammer simultaneously, showing them both impacting the Moon surface at the same time. Those were cool times.

Not by enough to make any appreciable difference and certainly not enough to counteract the wing area deficit.

Here's a graph from the original testing and development of these. As you can see there is a phase just after release and the wings are opened where the the bomb swoops up to convert kinetic energy into height, but this phase is relatively brief compared to the length of time it then spends gliding to target.

I was going to google feet in a nautical mile to get a more accurate visualisation of the glide ratio since the graph axes are to different scales. But then I stopped and said f..k it, no. If they can't be bothered dragging their imperical asses into the 21st metric century, I'll be buggered if I'm going back in time just to be able to better understand their data.

Not one bit surprised,and people wonder why we call them orcs ,

Top gun has a lot to answer for 😜😜

Someone been reading too much "His Dark Materials"?