The War in the Ukraine

solarz said:

You have to realize that Russia has been heavily infiltrated by the CIA since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Maybe even before. There's still a wide swathe of the Russian demography that looks up to the West as a role model.

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ok, time to put on my tin foil hat.... What if.... what if Putin made a secret deal with certain Ukraine top military brass to perform a coup while Russian troops enter Kyiv to secure the city? And the coup didn't pan out or worse it was a trap laid out by hostile three letter agency..... this can explain so many things.....

Whatever the cause it doesn't matter now, Russia need to finish it the hard way no matter what

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Ukraine begins to admit losses during the failed operation to take Snake Island.

The news portal of Vinnytsia reports the death of a soldier of the 10th aviation brigade of the Ukrainian Navy Vasily Ilchuk."

For those that want a good chuckle

Updates on day 76 of Putin's 3 day war, sorry, "special operation", shows big gains for Ukraine east of Kharkiv:

Maikeru said:

Not sure what to make of this. Interesting if true:

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A great example of “Medium is the message”, by choosing to publish via Twitter, his article became an unreadable mess

Maikeru said:

Updates on day 76 of Putin's 3 day war, sorry, "special operation", shows big gains for Ukraine east of Kharkiv:

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If Russia’s intention is actually to secure the breakaway Oblasts’ administrative boundaries, it would make sense for them to fall back to the northern Kharkiv/Luhansk boundary.

james smith esq said:

If Russia’s intention is actually to secure the breakaway Oblasts’ administrative boundaries, it would make sense for them to fall back to the northern Kharkiv/Luhansk boundary.

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It's still unclear what Russian intentions are here. One possible interpretation is the one you gave: they're retreating to the border and using the Donets River, which is broad enough to be considered a lake for large stretches in Kharkiv oblast, as a natural defensive line. But there are dangers with that approach. For one, Ukrainian artillery could easily strike at the town of Vovchansk, through which a lot of Russian forces are passing on their way to the eastern front. Vovchansk is a key logistical node because it's close to Belgorod, and it also links up with Velykyi Burluk. I am a bit surprised that the Russians haven't thrown more troops into the fight across the border to try and hold their position near Kharkiv. I've heard rumors that they're about to launch a counterattack, but nothing concrete has happened yet. I think eventually they're going to have to do something about it, otherwise Ukrainian artillery will disrupt the highways out of Belgorod and the Russians will be forced to move their main logistical chain further south (meaning things will take more time, more fuel, etc).

supersnoop said:

A great example of “Medium is the message”, by choosing to publish via Twitter, his article became an unreadable mess

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Ah Trent transformed from tires expert to later Russian nuclear weapons expert and then counterbattery radar countermeasure expert and now artillery targeting.

Richard Santos said:

actually aircraft entering service in the early 1990s are expected to have glass cockpit. transition to glass cockpit began at the end of 1970s in the west, and were largely completed by early to middle 1990s for both military and civilian aircraft.

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Those "glass cockpits" in the early 1990s did not use color LCD panels. They were still using CRTs. You had MFDs with monochrome CRTs. I am old enough to remember those. AFAIK you only had AMLCD panels in the late 1990s. And the F-22 was the first new fighter aircraft design to use them. The Super Hornet being the first US fighter aircraft to actually use some AMLCDs. But the Super Hornet still came with a mix of CRTs and AMLCDs. The Super Hornet entered service in 1999.

siegecrossbow said:

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this is not news... There are pictures out there from Syria (RuAF Su-34s) and Indian Su-30s with GPS receivers...

I do not know about the Su-30MKI. Since that is supposed to use avionics the Indians developed with the French and Israelis. It is a bit of a hodge podge and a mess. Plus like I said, GLONASS is less accurate the closer to the equator you are. And guess where India is.

I am pretty sure the Russians still have a lot of legacy aircraft with mostly analog dials and such in service. Most of their Soviet era transport aircraft and helicopters for example. And the Su-25s. Anything made before the mid 2000s in the period between the Soviet collapse and the increase in the Russian defense budget is also dated like that. While there were programs to make more advanced avionics like in the MiG-29SMT and some variants of the Su-30 those were funded by export clients and the Russian Air Force never ordered them because they didn't want to use equipment which relied on foreign components. And all of those programs did. The export Su-30s had French display screens. And the MiG-29SMT used Western CPUs and electronics. Russia had programs to make their own modern electronics in the late 1990s, early 2000s, and by the late 2000s those became widely available.