The sad thing is this is probably gonna be followed by retaliatory executions
Ukrainian War Developments
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Okay, unrelated to the drone issue.
Why haven't see seen Tu-22M, or even the Tu-95 apart from once at the start of the war? I don't mean using standoff munitions, I mean the old fashioned dumb gravity bombs onto enemy targets.
Why are they not targeting Ukrainian front lines so this war can end?
SinoSoldier
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As if Chinese defense companies aren't already?
It's because of the ghost of Kiev ! Joke aside, It's clearly strange... maybe when they will be out of the Donesk ? High altitude bombing are not in danger of manpads, maybe the weather is not good enough for that kind of dumb bombing?
Perhaps Ukraine still has radars and mid-range SAMs. Russia has still been destroying them as of late. It would not be safe to fly under such conditions. But I agree still agree, Russian air assets have been underutilized.
Surely, that seems unnecessary. Does Ukraine does have any tanks that Russia would need the T-14 Armata
to destroy because they cannot be destroyed by the Russian tanks already in Ukraine?
I doubt that Russia wants to risk having a T-14 Armata captured by the Ukrainians and turned over to the USA.
The USSR decided to try a new T-62 tank in combat during a 1969 Sino-Soviet border clash.
It was supposed to be only a safe test of some of its combat capabilities.
But Chinese infantry immobilized the T-62 and its crew had to abandon it.
The Chinese then studied the captured T-62 (which may be in a museum in China today).
SinoSoldier
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What does the sat. image show?
Lethe
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Michael Kofman has delivered another for War on the Rocks. He points out that Moscow will have to decide in the next month or so whether to release the expiring cadre of conscripts, even as they induct new ones.
So far as I can see, the basic choice that confronts Moscow is this: escalation and a general mobilisation and war economy in order to achieve a more comprehensive victory over a long, grinding war of attrition, or rather backing down to accept a more limited and partial settlement (e.g. control of Donbas + land bridge to Crimea). Given the apparent commitment of Putin and his circle to the current enterprise, the decisive factor is likely to be Moscow's perceptions of its level of domestic support and the material feasibility of a large-scale mobilisation. Would the Russian people accept such a mobilisation, or would it rather doom the present regime? Might Putin even perceive a greater political danger in backing down than in escalating?
Battlefield developments over the next few weeks are likely to play a role in this decision, as is the willingness of Kyiv to make concessions. However, I don't believe that Washington or NATO will play much of a role. The sanctions have been imposed and there is really no credible prospect of their being walked back. The costs have been incurred and the relationships severed. The west is, effectively, out of the picture.
So far as I can see, the basic choice that confronts Moscow is this: escalation and a general mobilisation and war economy in order to achieve a more comprehensive victory over a long, grinding war of attrition, or rather backing down to accept a more limited and partial settlement (e.g. control of Donbas + land bridge to Crimea). Given the apparent commitment of Putin and his circle to the current enterprise, the decisive factor is likely to be Moscow's perceptions of its level of domestic support and the material feasibility of a large-scale mobilisation. Would the Russian people accept such a mobilisation, or would it rather doom the present regime? Might Putin even perceive a greater political danger in backing down than in escalating?
Battlefield developments over the next few weeks are likely to play a role in this decision, as is the willingness of Kyiv to make concessions. However, I don't believe that Washington or NATO will play much of a role. The sanctions have been imposed and there is really no credible prospect of their being walked back. The costs have been incurred and the relationships severed. The west is, effectively, out of the picture.
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How do they know al41f is superior to WS10B when we don't have mtbo and thrust data for ws10? Several sources have stated wet thrust of 130-145kn.
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