Ukrainian War Developments

[enroger]

For military applications you don't need volume, you need reliability. In the 70s U.S. the military was the main buyer of chips, now they are reduced to just i guess less than 2%.

You need volume and reliability if you want large number of drones and PGMs at your disposal. 2% sounds small but you are counting all the smartphone and cars and smart toaster smart microwave oven out there, then you realize 2% is absolutely huge

 

[solarz]

It is funny the same people who claim that mainland Chinese are brainwashed and don't listen but at the same time refused to accept different of opinions by adopting cancel culture.

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The strong pro-war sentiment online has shocked many Chinese. Some WeChat users on my timeline warned that they would block any Putin supporters. Many people shared articles about China’s long, troubled history with its neighbor, including Russian annexation of Chinese territory and a border conflict with the Soviet Union in the late 1960s.

One widely shared WeChat article was titled, “All those who cheer for war are idiots,” plus an expletive. “The grand narrative of nationalism and great-power chauvinism has squeezed out their last bit of humanity,” the author wrote.

Another Hanjian prostitute.

 

[Kaeshmiri]

Be interesting to see what China does if Russia accidentally kills any of its citizens:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1497851498318946304

Nothing. Its a war and shit happens. But most likely Anti Russian sentiment will sweep China if it happens.

 

[yongpengsuen]

NLAW anti tank rocket launchers captured by Russians. Reverse engineering under way.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1497948431981109259

 

[BoraTas]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1497941632209108992

Bayraktar TB-2 doesn't have enough firepower to cause 70 charred bodies. The only scenario I can think of is MAM-L thermobaric variant getting used against soldiers in open. Otherwise, it can take out just 4 APCs with 10 soldiers inside each. HEAT warheads have low post-penetration lethality. Most of the occupants would survive and the dead would not be charred. A single Bayraktar TB-2 can't cause more than 10-15 deaths by striking a Russian armored column.

I spent a few days being silent on social media to avoid getting into useless discussions. Ukraine is doing better than most have thought and I despise Russian aggression. But Ukrainian authorities are lying A LOT. They are not winning at all and their loses are likely the several times of Russians. Otherwise Russians wouldn't be at their capital in 4 days. They are losing territory faster than Saddam's Iraq in 2003.

I will continue to be generally silent. Even though I have less than 1000 followers I may demoralize a Ukrainian by chance. If these stories motivate them, good for them. But these stories are not real nonetheless.

 

[yongpengsuen]

Havoc attack helicopter over southern Ukraine

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1497956339448004612

 

[Laviduce]

 

[foofy]

NLAW anti tank rocket launchers captured by Russians. Reverse engineering under way.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1497948431981109259

Good. Give one to china please...

 

[tokenanalyst]

You need volume and reliability if you want large number of drones and PGMs at your disposal. 2% sounds small but you are counting all the smartphone and cars and smart toaster smart microwave oven out there, then you realize 2% is absolutely huge

Smartphones are a good chunk of ICs capacity this days, while Samsung alone sells millions of smartphones with complicated SOCs, the military probably need 10000 CPUs units ( to build 500 drones).

 

[yongpengsuen]

Good. Give one to china please...

China has PF-98. Also, NLAW does not seem to be better than RPG-30.