Ukrainian War Developments
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Yup, here's an article from r/Collapse (recommend for climate doomer stuff)
"Agricultural fields in the midwestern U.S. have lost, on average, two millimeters of soil per year. This is nearly double the rate of erosion that the USDA considers sustainable. Furthermore, USDA estimates of erosion are between three and eight times lower than the figures reported in the study."
But I think we're getting a bit off-topic, and its better to move this discussion to the climate change thread to concentrate all the doomer stuff there.
It's a new batch, that article briefly mentions the previous batch:
Are the manpads doing anything though? Unlike earlier stages of the war there doesn't seem to be much news about manpads shooting down planes and helicopters any more and you have Russian UAVs flying all over Kiev tracking military vehicles to their hideouts.
These maps are a bit strange... we got the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant captured more than two weeks ago but still nothing on the map. Not sure what is left of the east at this point, maybe a lot of contested ground and sieged city but the Russian advance seems bigger than that with the news broadcasted even in the west.
We'll see I guess. Last update seems to indicate Ukr forces in Mariupol is compressed to a very small area already in the city center, I think the Russians will finish it in this coming week, not placing bets though....
Not sure if russian propaganda. One of the KA-52 assaulting on 1st day said 18 manpads fired at him. I do believe some stingers do not work anymore.
The Russians started conducting most of their airborne assaults at night. Seems the US supplied MANPADS don't have night sights.
Russian helicopters have night vision. So...
That explains lower Russian helicopter losses at this moment.
One major advancement since Afghanistan is that Russian helicopters have night vision sensors. And recent helicopters like Mi-28 have IR signature reduction.
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