Enemy equipment is burning. More specifically, the large anti-submarine ship "Admiral Levchenko" in the Barents Sea. The fight for survivability continues, but we hope it's in vain.
This is what happens when the "superpower" receives sanctions from Ukraine and cannot service the engines produced in Mykolaiv on their own. Ten years were not enough to solve this problem. One of the installations caught fire.
Great training, guys, keep it up.
Just so you understand, there are a few hundred crew members there. Not the "Moskva," of course, but still not bad.
Hmmm, Russia pivoting away from Crimea? Equipment depletion, or reorientation because Ukraine is finally shooting at targets inside Russia? Or just giving up because they got whole bunch of air defense systems blown up by ATACAMS in one day, without doing anything useful against the incoming missiles?
Yeah, my bet is that they’ll start a huge resupply operation using the rail lines, and intentionally slow the civilian evacuation traffic on the bridge (perhaps using both sides of the road) to a crawl, thus using their own citizens as human shields.
I know that Russia generally doesn't have hangar facilities to park their aircraft in, that this is one disadvantage that they have to live with.
But I have a hard time believing that they couldn't get some kind of pavillion-type temporary structure or something. It seems like a major issue from an intelligence standpoint.
Like, if those aircraft vanished into a hangar and then came out two months later, maybe they've had parts swapped and they're a good, new aircraft. We wouldn't be able to tell from a satellite.
But because we can see all the work that Russia does on their warplanes, we can make some pretty good inferences about what they're doing, even with low resolution. So that makes the problem a lot simpler -- just identify which ones are the ones that we know don't function. I suspect that it's probably possible to -- especially with military recon satellites, rather than the commercial stuff being used above -- distinguish between individual aircraft, like by getting a side view of their tail sections.
For some stuff, they can maybe fly the aircraft to a facility that does have hangars. But they can't do that if the aircraft was damaged badly enough that it can't fly.
It sounds like they are, in fact, building a number of them, so maybe they've done the same calculus and come to the same conclusion.
This move follows increased threats from Ukrainian attack drones and missiles. According to sources, the hangars are intended to protect aircraft from ATACMS ballistic missile submunitions. Additionally, these structures prevent satellites and other optical detection systems from determining whether a hangar is empty or occupied, enhancing operational security.
Have you ever heard of Veterans Row? (I don't support Russia)
It's across the street from the VA in Westwood. It's also right next to a really dangerous intersection, and people will plow into their tents. There was supposed to be a campus there, so people lived their in protest/ to have access to the VA. I used to live in a cheap sublet around the corner from them during the pandemic. It was strange how bougie the area was in contrast. The "war on homelessness" turned into a war on the homeless.
Netflix don't make games (for now). They just bought the game's license, remove all IAPs and paywalls, and include it with your Netflix subscription.
Generally it's a good thing. HOWEVER! The way Netflix did it requires the studio to make a complete separate version of the game and give it to Netflix.
So most of the time, it became abandon-ware. Because the separated Netflix version stopped getting updates and bug fixes soon or right after release.
But none of those reasons actually matter here, because any plane is easy to destroy if you don’t properly secure your airbase, and Russia demonstrably kinda sucks at securing their airbases. They tend to rely on the fact that Russia is huge. Which doesn’t help if the people gunning for your shit are highly motivated and can blend relatively effortlessly into your own society.
Just to add to this, every plane is vulnerable while on the ground. It doesn't really matter how stealth an aircraft is if your bombarding the hanger they're in with artillery.
But Russia doesn't even really bother with hangers. This plane was just out in the open, on the fucking tarmac, for God, observers, satellites, and anyone else who cared to see. Even stretching a fucking tent over the aircraft would have at least introduced a certain amount of guesswork to the strike. But no, Russia put "the pride of their airforce" out there for everyone to see and paid the price for it.
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