Terna = Terny, Donetsk Oblast
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Does Ukraine actually have anywhere to safely house all these F-16s?
The time to call a spade a spade and recognize the end of Globalization is due. Time for the great disconnect with the Chinese economy and a broad Trade war with them has arrived. (Fark your punitive tariffs on our beef and wine, we tariff all your imports) Will the US and its allies do it? Answer = $$$$$$$$$ No, we are too interlocked/dependent and just too politically ■■■■-weak.
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Are you suggesting that anyone would spend millions but end up with a suboptimal Hangar?
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Yeah, they have masses of airbases left over from the end of the Cold War. In 1992 Ukraine inherited 944 aircraft from the USSR and was the second largest airforce in Europe.
And glide bombs etc can not readily reach/destroy these? Or do they just hope Russia hits “the other ones”?
Ukraine plays a shell game with their aircraft. Moving them around the base, or between bases. Russia has extremely poor reconnaissance capabilities, with satellite passes every few days if not more than a week apart. Russia has tried very hard to destroy the Ukrainian airforce on the ground, but by the time Russia locates a jet and flies a cruise missile all the way to it, the jet has gone.
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Xi wedging Trump? Perhaps I am reading too much into it…
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My opinion is that Trump is a Chinese/russian asset, knowingly or unknowingly. I think Chinese and russian grey-zone informational warfare has been wedging the west for twenty years and big money interests have overridden Western national security interests since the 1990’s.
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recoil is minimal.
The jet of hot gassses from the rocket comes out the back of the launcher, minimal force excerted on the launcher, just some friction or breaking the contacts. As the missile leaves the launcher, the gasses then impact the launcher and vehicle, that’s what makes it rock a bit.
The mass of the gasses expelled backwards provides the reactive force (m*v^2).
In contrast, a gun (tank, atillery, mortar) uses the pressure built up in the barrel to launch the projectile; as the projectile travels throught the barrel the reactive force is transfered to the gun system - the gasses and the projectile go forward and the gun goes back with equal force.
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Glide bombs don’t have the range.
the only things that can reach west of the Dnipro are the cruise misiles (large drones) and ballistic missiles.
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Interesting thread
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I’m suspicious of the author, and the likelihood of deliberate agitation and the act of trying to cause NATO division contained in the theme of this article. But I’ll post it here for your own analysis.
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China is like my 2nd home and I’ll be over there for 3 months later this year unless they read my Blitz account.
But I agree with nexta. We and the rest of the western alliance need to hit china with trade sanctions, making it very clear it’s because they are supplying an invader.
nexta’s probably just finished surfing kirra and is currently lying on the beach surrounded by 1960s gold coast meter maids, but when he gets this message he needs to check if his board shorts were made in china.
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A plan by Donald Trump to end the bloody war in Ukraine would have the U.S. ally cede territory seized by Russia in Crimea and the Donbas region.
Details of the plan – which the Trump campaign dismisses as mere ‘speculation’ – come as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky continues to plead with the US to provide more military aid.
I have no problem with Trump putting forward this plan, on one condition.
The condition:
That the USA war on immigration is ended by the USA returning the states to Mexico that they took by force of arms and blackmail in 1848. That would be the states of California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Nevadah, and Arizona along with parts of Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming.
Fairs, fair.
Oh, and return Hawaii. Which they also took by force and coercion.
They probably should cede Alaska back to Russia although they did fairly purchase that.
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