What's the most recent updates or movement on the conflict btw?
The War in the Ukraine
- Thread starter SampanViking
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Yeah ''irrecoverable losses'' is a nice definite number, ''casualties'' is not.
But in real life outside all cope and propaganda numbers fantasies, we will not know near real figures before the war ends.
And even then, it will not be enough and people will still spin them one way or the other. Case in point the Winter War and Continuation war where casualties are still used to cope with the loss of both wars.
escobar
Brigadier
Russian Su-27 aircraft struck the propeller of a U.S. MQ-9 drone, causing U.S. forces to have to bring the MQ-9 down
With a missile or collided physically? Wording is very vague.
Out of all the things to complain, buddy chose that one.
EUCOM must have had one helluva trip in some Limburg coffeeshop.
Sounds like it collided with the propeller, destroying the prop and causing the drone to glide into the ocean. Su 27 won’t be flying again for some time if true, and that pilot should be send to Bakhmut.
Vostokmash steel factory is captured. However that's only part, not the whole of the AZOM industrial complex. More to go.
Sounds like it was done on purpose, you don't accidentally collide with the prop of a Reaper that easily. The articles also mention the Su-27 was trying to disturb the MQ-9's flight by discharging fuel and flares infront of it before the collisio.
So, they basically shot down the drone in a way that offers plausible deniability about the intent
plawolf
Lieutenant General
What does it count as if the Russians brought it down with a missile, but the missile was still attached to the Flanker?
Either way, chalk it down as another thing the Russians should have been doing since day 1.