My old man told me about it, said it was headline news, and a big deal was made of it in Melbourne.
I gotta be honest with ya, I don’t think I knew (nor cared) who won.
I care now. Fark Russia.
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I like the cammo job they did, but somehow reminds me of the Dumb and Dumber dog-mobile
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Sine, you have spelt Pr***" incorrectly.
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Russians become more like Nazis everyday.
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I cared then.
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Reasons for the bond between US RWNJs & Russia (why do we need these coloured people?) becomes clearer each day.
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Yeah, they are all died in the wool fascists. They don’t even pretend to hide it.
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The extent of isolation and the amount of people is unclear. Once interesting thing is the Russians committed one of their best units, 2nd Special Purpose Brigade to fight in the town. We have mostly seen poorly trained and equipped units without mechanized support in this fight
Video of the 2nd SP bde.
I think they might have been committed in an attempt to connect with the “isolated” units in the aggregate plant. Also worth noting is that Ukraine have committed a lot of UAV units in this direction, and it feels like they are trying to use a more mobile defense than in earlier large defensive battles.
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Vladimir Kuts won gold in the 5km and 10km at the Melbourne Olympics for the Soviet Union, about the biggest star at those Games. Actually he was Ukrainian, from the Sumy Oblast.
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Same as Sergy Bubka
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Bugatti Gate or russian propaganda is so half-assed because it is probably drunk
Hinkle as a noun should enter the vernacular with a meaning equivalent to a paid shill and disingenuous farkwit. As in “Mate, don’t be a Hinkle”
Bugatti seem to be launching legal action over the fake, against whom is unclear
Fellas making merry
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Russian T-62s on the way to the front.
They have thousands of them. Crews will die in them, but Putin hardly cares about the costs.
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The Czech - Ukrainian company UAC has started manufacturing UAVs in Czechia exclusively for the Ukrainian army.
The company, which employs about 80 people, mostly Ukrainians, produces several types of drones, such as the Leleka-LR (Stork-LR) reconnaissance drone and the Mace loitering munition.
The Mace can be armed with a HEAT warhead that penetrates armour up to 400mm, a HE warhead for destroying trenches or command posts, or a thermobaric warhead that is very effective against enemy personnel.
The Czech-Ukrainian UAC based in Kolín employs around 80 people, mainly Ukrainians. They plan to produce and deliver hundreds of reconnaissance and strike drones to the Ukrainian military annually.
They are almost self-sufficient in production, buying only, for example, internal combustion and electric motor. In the future, UAC intends to gain a decisive share of the Central European market in the category of medium-sized drones and to supply the armed forces of NATO and other countries.
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Russian Claim of Devastating Missile Strike on Ukrainian Fighter Base Filled with Half-Truths
Pro-Russian social media on Monday claimed that two missiles had hit an air base in Ukraine’s northern Poltava region which took out as many as seven fighter aircraft and killed or injured dozens of ground personnel. However, Kyiv Post fact checks of the available evidence point to much more moderate results – along with Kremlin-inspired information manipulation.
A tightly edited one-minute drone video initially published on the pro-Kremlin Telegram channel FighterBomber, on Monday evening, showed images of the Myrhorod air base in the Poltava region where, according to Russian reports, two cluster munition-equipped Iskander-M missiles detonated among parked Ukrainian fighter planes.
The Russian milblogger Dva Mayora informed its 600,000-plus followers that the strikes had destroyed two Ukrainian combat aircraft and damaged four more.
The Zaporozhskiy Front Telegram channel reported the Russian attack was “… the smoothly coordinated work of [Russian] reconnaissance and missilemen. Operators of [Russian] reconnaissance UAVs [Unmanned Aerial Vehicles] observed the buildup of equipment at the airfield over several days. As soon as a significant number of aircraft had assembled there, the information was transmitted to the missilemen, and the dispatch of the Iskander-M did not take long… 5 fighter jets were destroyed, 2 were damaged, and up to 25 ground crew were eliminated.”
Russian “military correspondent” Boris Rozhin editorialized: “Now Ukrainian patriotic society is looking, for the second day, for someone to blame about the destruction of aircraft and personnel at the Myrhorod airfield. The cluster munitions from the Iskander missile absolutely nailed the target. So now someone has to be blamed. It seems likely the [Ukrainian] losses were extremely heavy.”
Yury Ihnat, Ukraine Air Force official spokesman, in a Monday evening statement confirmed the strikes took place but denied the reports of substantial damage being inflicted. He said: “there were certain losses… but absolutely not of the type that the enemy is trying to say there were.”
After reviewing the FighterBomber video, Kyiv Post has concluded that the official Ukrainian version of events appears to be more accurate, with Russian claims of multiple Ukrainian aircraft being destroyed appearing to be exaggerated – and very possibly intentionally false.
Kyiv Post geolocation confirmed the video was taken near the Myrhorod military airfield, home base to Ukraine’s 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade. The video shows one missile scattering cluster munitions over the southwestern end of the airfield, and a second missile striking a parking apron in the same vicinity.
The 9K720 Iskander (NATO: SS-26 Stone) has a reported maximum range of 500 kilometers (312 miles) and carries either a unitary high explosive warhead or cluster munitions.
The first 30 seconds of the video, much of it zoomed in, shows as many as seven Su-27 fighter aircraft parked next to taxiways at the western end of the airfield. Fuel trucks, fire trucks, tow trucks, and probable maintenance vehicles are parked nearby, with several people visible on the tarmac.
At the 30-33 second mark of the FighterBomber video a cluster munition detonates and scatters bomblets across an area of around 250 x 250 meters (800 x 800 feet). The center point of the strike was at approximately grid 49.92949, 33.62630.
Screenshot from FighterBomber video of strike on the Myrhorod airbase. The leftmost image shows fighter jets in an area of the airfield later hit by Iskander-delivered cluster munitions in the right-hand image where no aircraft are visible.
No Ukrainian aircraft are visible in the sections of the video showing the cluster munition strike, possibly because the drone was a long way off and its field of view was limited. However, the same scene shown earlier in the video did contain aircraft, but after the strike, there were no secondary explosions, and some parking sites seem empty.
Taken by itself, the video of this first missile strike did not offer conclusive evidence that even a single Ukrainian aircraft had been hit, although it could not be conclusively ruled out.
FighterBomber, among other pro-Russia observers, said the strike destroyed four Ukrainian aircraft. Given the contradictions between pre- and post-strike sections of the video, in respect of the first missile strike, it was clearly possible that selective editing was used to create a false impression of a damaging strike against the Ukrainian airbase.
At the 50-58 seconds section of the video, supposedly documenting the second missile strike, a probable unitary warhead detonates approximately at grid 49.928566, 33.627107 – the edge of an aircraft parking apron.
The Russian drone operator records a bright orange explosion flash, and black and gray smoke rising from the strike location. After a bit of struggle adjusting its zoom, a building and possibly grass next to the parking apron are clearly on fire. However, no aircraft is visible. The zoomed in images clearly show the parking apron to be empty.
Yet, at the 11-second mark of the video, purportedly prior to the strike, a Su-27 fighter jet is clearly visible at the same location. The strong implication is that the editors producing the FighterBomber video selected images to create the impression of destroyed Ukrainian aircraft, when that likely was not the case, Kyiv Post’s review of the footage found.
The explosions and fire following the second missile strike were more likely the result of a successful hit on ready-to-use aircraft munitions stored on the parking apron, and not on a Ukrainian fighter jet, Kyiv Post research into open-source satellite imagery found.
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You can purchase a 12m wide canopy that fits over 2 shipping containers for $2k AUD. An SU-27 has a 14m wingspan, so a slightly larger canopy would be required, so let’s call it $5k per parking apron to hide a fighter.
Install these on 200 parking spaces and park 5 jets in there somewhere. You’ve now reduced the chance of an aircraft being hit to a negligible level for the fraction of the price of a single jet.
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Another misleading headline from Harris. Fenenko is mocking Russian liberals for saying “why do we need the coloured people when we have the white EU and Anglo-Saxon countries?” His point is that the only support Russia gets is from non-white countries (seems to forget Hungary).
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