War in Ukraine

Azerbaijan commercial jet likely shot down by Russian missile defense system, possibly a Pantsir, according to the U.S.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/26/asia/kazakhstan-plane-crash-questions-intl/index.html

 

Nah, nah, nah, man. That wasn’t an Azerbaijani airliner. It was 10 U.S. F35s. Russian IADS wins again!

 

Putin has been labeled a "dumbass" for proposing a missile duel over Kiev.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/euro...ex.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc

 

The plane may have taken some damage by the missile system, but was still able to fly for a while, and then it came apart (or a critical system failed) as they were figuring out how to land it.

 

Don't they ALL go up and down before crashing? Landing, too?

 

Yeah, Ukraine’s army outnumbers rusia's army 4 to1, yeah… You’re such a mess; God bless you.

You’re the most pitiable poster I’ve ever seen. You post deplorable things. When called on it you respond with 5th grade nonsensical rants- simply disgusting.

I will now join 90% of the board and put you on ignore.

 

I would agree to a duel, but if the idea is to showcase who has the best tech, let’s do it like this:

Both sides pick a 1x1m piece of terrain in an uninhabited part of their country (say, middle Siberia for Russia and somewhere in Kansas for the U.S.), put a plywood box of that size on the spot, then report the exact grid to the other side. On a specific day both sides agree to, each side gets to launch one precision-guided munition with a dummy warhead to destroy the enemy target. That munition can be launched from the air, surface, or subsurface, but it has to originate from outside the territory, territorial waters, or airspace of the targeted country. The firing nation must give the targeted nation a “one minute” call before the launch of the weapon and a rough geographic location of the launch vehicle. This to prevent the targeted nation from mistaking the competition for an actual attack. The targeted nation may use any kinetic or nonkinetic means at its disposal to interfere with the inbound munition inside its own territory. The targeted nation may not interfere with the target in any way and must allow a neutral third-party to observe the attack and assess the damage. I think this is a pretty foolproof test of each country’s capabilities and limitations with precision-guided munitions and defense systems. My only concern is that even with a 1000-mile safety radius, Russia still might hit Denver or some other population center instead of anywhere on the prescribed range.

 

So much for chemgator's neocon-inspired idea to bleed Russia by backing a proxy war that's killed hundreds of thousands. Genius

 

Ukraine updates: North Korean soldier captured in Kursk

May I assume we no longer have to play the game of "There's no evidence that North Korea has sent troops to fight against Ukraine?"

 

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I asked my brother (commercial airline pilot) about it right after it happened and this was his answer:
“Hard to say but it kind of looks like a scenario where you lose all flight controls. The only control left is engine thrust which might allow some control over the plane by using differential thrust as well as gaining and losing speed to affect the pitch attitude of the plane. It’s called a phugoid motion and there’s two crashes that happened this way that I know of. The United DC-10 that crashed in Sioux City and the C-5 that crashed during operation baby lift in Vietnam.

I’m sure the data recorder in this crash will narrow it down pretty quickly on what happened.”

I think he was correct as there are now photos of the plane showing shrapnel damage to the vertical stabilizer/tail section which likely took out their controls.

 

Germany is collapsing economically. The UK needing to be held together by the monarchy for the first time since the Victorian era. France is in better shape than those two, at least for now.

NATO expansion to the east brought about the Ukraine-Russia war. And now some of you are realizing that defending a country that is not part of Western Europe wasn't such a great idea.

Instead of bleeding Russia the war will end with Russia in control of Ukraine's vast energy and mineral reserves. Not to mention its richest agricultural land. The neocon plan was to use Ukraine to get rid of Putin, split Russia into smaller countries and grab its resources. Sorta backfired, huh?

For years Russia rejected attempts by Luhansk and Dontsk to become part of the Russian Federation. But Ukraine's oppression of the Russian-speakers, enabled by the US, continued.

If America had a monarchy headed by Elon Musk or the Trump royals this debacle would not have occurred. Monarchies are underrated.

 

President Musk laser-focused on removing regs on Tesla and Space X. He won’t get around to sabotaging Ukraine. Too bad!

 

The cause of the crash was almost certainly a Russian surface to air missile. Contrary to the images created in movies an aircraft targeted by a surface to air missile usually doesn't explode in a midair. The objective of the missile is to prevent a military aircraft from performing its mission. It does so through a warhead that explodes in close proximity to the target resulting in shrapnel which damages the control surfaces of the target aircraft usually along with cables, hydraulic lines and fuel lines rendering the aircraft incapable of continuing to fly. From the photos it appears that the plane was seriously damaged by shrapnel and additionally surviving passengers have indicated that they heard a loud noise, most likely a warhead exploding, immediately prior to the accident. By the way I actually have a little knowledge on how surface-to-air missiles function having completed the Army Air Defense Officers' Basic and Advanced courses at Ft. Bliss in 1974 and 1980 respectively.

 

Interestingly Russian speakers in Eastern Ukraine some of whom welcomed the Russians as liberators had regret within weeks of Putin's invasion.
Enemy tongue: eastern Ukrainians reject their Russian birth language

 

Kursk was always Roach Motel for Ukraine. It holds only a tiny sliver now and is apparently fighting to the last man …

 

How many regime changes since the SMO started ? I thought it was Putin we were going to regime change ?

 

All true things. Just for the sake of trivia, let me tell you about one advance in certain weapons systems since those days. Now there are weapons designed to go straight for the cockpit and target the pilots. Same principle as what you stated: disrupt the mission. Only in this case you also reduce the chances of the aircrew being rescued and coming at you again on a later date. Further, pilots understanding that they have less chance of surviving an engagement and being rescued carries a psychological impact that can likewise reduce mission effectiveness.