Must be a Tu-141/143, probably Ukrainian. They are the only one building and operating the things in a recon role
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Must be a Tu-141/143, probably Ukrainian. They are the only one building and operating the things in a recon role
Things are going well. As it has been stated before in this thread, seems the US and EU overplayed their hand and things are going to unravel fast
The Polish MiGs were upgraded by Israel. The other ones were not and a lot are not operational. Even the Polish MiG-29s would at best have similar capabilities to the MiG-29SMT. An aircraft Russia took out from service because, well, it was shit. And the Russian Air Force only bought those MiG-29SMT because Algeria rejected the aircraft. They were in service for a couple of years and then were put into storage. The RuAF's only combat operational MiG-29s are in Armenia and those are MiG-29M2 aircraft.
Eh, you are not a Cold Warrior then. Do you not know the theories of limited nuclear exchange of the 1960s-1970s?
There are multiple scenarios where you would use a limited strike with tactical nukes. One would be to hit the assembly areas of the enemy. In the case of NATO this was typically large Soviet army formations. In the case of the Warsaw Pact this was typically NATO airbases. This supposedly should prevent a conventional escalation. At least according to one theory. You escalate with nuclear weapons to deescalate conventional war. The first thing Putin did before he marched into Ukraine was put the MiG-31K with Kinzhal on duty in Kaliningrad. But you people still think he is just joking around. Tsk.
Kinzhal has 2000km+ range and either conventional or nuclear 100-500kT (programmable) warhead. The A-Bomb the US dropped at Hiroshima had 20kT. If the US sent those MiG-29 from Poland from Rammstein Airbase in Germany into Ukraine then it would a valid target to use a tactical nuke on. As the largest US NATO airbase in Europe.
If NATO then follows the tactical nuke scenario of the 1960s-1970s then they would use their nukes on the Russian troop formations in Ukraine to prevent the Russian Army from invading Europe. This would likely also hit Ukrainian cities. Then if you continue with this Cold War scenario to its logical conclusion, the Warsaw Pact forces would retaliate on losing half their army with an all out strategic nuclear strike. Every single target on the map would light up.
This is sad. Kharkov is the home of the T-34. It was designed and first produced at Factory No.183 there.
Oh well. NATO also bombed the Zastava factory in Serbia. So Putin is just playing by the NATO rulebook.
I guess he was not joking when he said he was going to show them what decomunization was really like.
Those guys in the Middle East seem to be kind of tired of the US. You do know Saudi Arabia nearly ruined itself in an oil production war with Russia not that long ago right? They are not interested into getting in another.
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Why would these two countries be anything but overjoyed at soaring oil prices?
That is literally a protest... they cropped out the people on the side holding signs protesting the war...
don't worry, Jews always got what they deserved.
Zelensky is Jewish, does he have a story like: how did my grandparents survive the Holocaust? his hanging out with the Ukrainian nazi may imply his grandparents were collaborators.
Will they change their tune if US gives them weapons?
I knew they would reject increasing oil production, but they straight up didn't take Biden's calls. That's the diplomatic equivalent of eff off. Savage!
Biden: Hello...
MBS: New phone, who dis?
It seems one of the biggest casualties of 20 years of the "war on terror" has been the loss of the nuclear doctrine in the US military.
That's then there's countries like Poland, France and the UK, who never had any real experience of it as they were under the umbrella of another nuclear power.
From the WSJ article:
Don't think weapons will help.
The Saudis hold the leverage here and they'll milk every drop of this crisis along with the Iranians and Venezuelans.
Russia is getting some breathing space from this poor diplomacy.
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