but why?
>>64379790Why are they low on funds? Might have something to do with the invasion they've sunk themselves into.
>>64379790war is going banan
>>64379790Huh? I thought that the oinkssian economy was booming according to /pol/, what happened?
the russia has realized that aircrafts and ships are no longer necessary in the age of hypersonics and the rooster will crow
I wouldn't worry about it comrade...or else.
>>64379821As I say every time they bring that up. If you have $1,000,000 and get $1,000 per day and something happens and you're now $100,000,000 in debt but you get $2,000 per day now, you can literally say that you're 100% better off income wise now. You can claim you're better off than you were before. But you're still $100,000,000 in debt. So it is meaningless. They don't understand this. Which is why they bring up 'GDP growth is higher than X' well duh, if you've been hit for hundreds of billions and introduce draconian economic laws then you can make number go up.They also forget the IMF decides what your GDP growth is and is based on the statistics that are available (or, usually, provided by the country in question) meaning what Russia hands over to the IMF doesn't mean it is accurate. IMF also says that PPP is fucking retarded but they go to PPP GDP cope now because they're like 4th strongest in PPP.
>>64379800>Why are they low on funds?they were intending to pay for running expenses with gasoline sales, now they were forced to reverse both the flow of gasoline and the cash, instead of exporting to asia they're now importing from asia
>>64379830AN2 as a monoplane? Pig disgusting.
>>64379830Good fucking lord what have they done to Annichka?!
Aircrafts and ships are useless in a land war.
>>64379790It's almost as it they have a war economy, their being sanctioned and their primary export is being attacked.When any retard says sanctions do nothing try to remind them they take years to take full effect but can be devastating, there is a very good reason Iran despite being an oil rich nation is still flying F-14s brought in the 1970s.
When will we start to see civilian airflight crashes? I thought we would have had a few already by the end of 2025. Whenever it happens, it will be a very clear indicator everything is crumbling.
>>64379893There is no tourism and their population is taking out loans to buy bread so I don't think they will be putting a heap of hours on airliners.
>have a horrendous airforce and navy>cut the budget to them even moreKek
>>64379893>will we start to see civilian airflight crashes? Ithere have been lots of forced landings, the russians got some plane stuck middle of siberia rotting right now
>>64379790But...the gdp...the ppp!
>>64379830>>64379839>>64379850TOTAL EXTERMINATION ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH, NOT ONLY THEIR EXISTANCE MUST BE DESTROYED BUT EVERY BOOK AND MONUMENT WITH THEIR NAME MUST BE DESTROYED THE VERY MEMORY OF THEIR EXISTANCE WIPED OUT SO THEY SUFFER THE THRICE DEATH OF LIFE, INSCRIPTION AND THE VERY MEMORY OF THEM BY THE COLLECTIVE MIND OF HUMANITY IT ONLY HAS ONE WING HOW DOES IT HOVER IN A HEAD WIND HOW DOWS IT STOL HOW DARE THEY IT LOOKS LIKE A METAL BOX WITH A SLAVIC NEEDLE COCK ON THE END OF IT THE COWARDS, THE FOOLS!*Enraged Khornate noises*
>>64379809Imagine believing that unironically. The implications that come with it for anon irl.
>>64379790>If the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.>There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.t. Military Command For Dummies
>>64379832To be totally fair, the Russian domestic industrial repair sector has never had such high demand>>64379952Literally anon. Literally.
>>64379893commercial aircraft have like 100x the safety factory anything else does. Even in shithole countries they buy from the same manufacturers that are governed by 1st world regulations. I'd kind of expect them to fail last even if 90% of the maintenance crew is sent to the donbass.
>>64379954>There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.Vietnam several times & Afghanistan several times, if you can't achieve military victory by force simply lasting long enough the other guy gives up is a valid stratergy.
>>64379945#BalkanizeRussia
>>64379952But total refinery death means the economy is literally going boom
>>64379969>#LindseyGrahamForCzar
>>64379969St Petersburg should be a satelite of Finland
>>64379981Pietari is Finland, just as Haishenwai is Korean.
>>64379981>>64379995Moscow should remain a city state under their own control as a reminder of the dangers of corruption to the rest of the world.
>>64379969Seriously, where do I sign up to make this happen?
>>64379968I think he's comparing against the alternate universe where you didn't have to fight somebody and invested the money in infrastructure. The value of defending against foreign conquest is obviously infinity if you're forced to do it.If Putin acquires all of Ukraine and Europe goes back to placating him maybe the 2-week SMO could actually turn a profit eventually? But a general rule of economics is that a little money invested in economically productive stuff now is worth more than a lot of money later. And bending your whole economy to put steel and bodies in the mud is the opposite of economically productive.
>>64380001Why not give moscow a wall like the one they built in Berlin :) ?
>>64379995>Haishenwai>Not Haesamwi>Self reports for reeducation session>>64380001Just had over Moscow and the areas between them to Belorussia, Luka's peel and chill leadership style suits them and the tubers must grow.
>>64380017This, as long as the wall is actually one made of napalm
money
>>64379809Yes, it's literally making booming noises. Ka-booming noises, even.
>>64380008Oh yeah, for the attacker the faster it's over the better, the ideal annexation bypasses the enemy military and just replaces the government.As for turning a profit if it had of been a 2 week SMO I think the extra gas fields as asian demand is increasing would be very worth it but as it stands it'll be the death of Russia if they continue and the death of Putin if they stop so Russia is going to die.>>64380017I'm up for that but we will need to maintain it because if they must then it'll crumble just like Russia and the USSR before it.>>64380020Nah, Luka should be awarded Marshal of the Russian Federation and then dragged of to the Hague to answer for Russia's crimes.
>>64379806Banan was the objective. That's monke's problem, it's not going banan at all.
>>64379945Welcome to being a moderate, Norktard.
>>64379857>obligatory
>>64379790For Russia, having a serious blue-water navy was always and always will be a luxury. I am surprised by the aviation cuts though. I assume that someone in the Kremlin made the executive decision to suspend the Su-57 and Su-75 programs until the end of the war, so that they can focus on Su-34 and Su-35 production.
>>64379830The Mad Max era has truly begun..>HURRY UP AND SOLDERWELD THE HELISPINNAROONI TO THE FUSSELEGGE YOU SCRITCHY PIDORVATS OR I SWEAR TO DA TSARRY THAT MY COCK WILL GO INTO UR BEAR CAVES FOR THE ENTIRE REMAINDER OF THE SPESSY OPERTAN! NOW TURN THOSE NUTTERS TILL THE WINDING GOES TO THE RIGHT WIND RECTION!!
>>64380093The shipbuilding was never about naval power, with the north west passage opening thanks to climate change Russia was planning to use their expertise in ice breakers to produce cargo ships that can survive some ice.It's a solid long term economic plan but they can't afford to worry about long term right now.
>>64379809It's booming in the sense that the USA is only not in a recession if you look at companies going insane dumping capital into datacenters in hopes that chatbots will beat the hallucination problem.these weapons are also basically useless for Russia strategically. Russia's geography has always made the navy (particularly the surface fleet) a cargo cult prestige project that has never been able to functionally challenge western navies aside from some fringe cope theories that never had a chance to be refuted before the surface fleet rusted to practically nothing or was destroyed by $500k spicy speedboats. The air investments are largely an issue of Russian dependency on imports for their advanced aviation, these are much harder to sanction bust than semiconductors. Without sanctions busting Russia is basically back to 1990s level technology and planes built to such a specification are functionally useless in 2025. Their conventional airforce is currently useless for anything except missile trucking because they can't conduct combined arms operations to effectively SEAD especially now that Ukraine has western provided air defenses. So they're investing everything in drones and paying sign on bonuses for new meat.
>>64380106>The shipbuilding was never about naval power, with the north west passage opening thanks to climate change Russia was planning to use their expertise in ice breakers to produce cargo ships that can survive some ice.>It's a solid long term economic plan but they can't afford to worry about long term right now.Even if this is true, I feel like the shipping lane potential of a warmer Arctic has always been grossly overstated. Motherfuckers in Alaska have been hoping and praying for those shipping lanes to mature ever since they became a state.
>>64380111anon, it's a joke about Russia's refineries exploding
>>64380106Yeah this is the caveat to the whole "russia is destined to be a land power" deal. If the arctic actually melts they would have a major reason to maintain a large surface fleet. Absent that there's no reason to have more than a coastguard and boomers.
>>64380057>dragged of to the Hague to answer for Russia's crimes.No, it undermines the deterrent purpose of the ICC. He has avoided direct participation to avoid that fate, him not joining the war proves that the system has some value. Putting him on trial is counter productive as it removes the incentive for moderately competent dictators to rein in their more destructive impulses. >>64380070I have been a moderate for some time; i am quite certain that by keeping Russia in the war DPRK ammunition supplies result in a net loss of Russian lives and long term they create a almost irreversible cycle of dependence that will cripple them as a culture for at least a generation. That does not even mention the strategically suicidal condition of being a client state of Pyongyang.The US didn't arm Iran or Iraq because it wanted to help either, it wanted to harm them both.
>>64380114>Motherfuckers in Alaska have been hoping and praying for those shipping lanes to mature ever since they became a stateIt's one of those things everyone can see coming but no one knows how long it'll take. A good comparison is EVs, everyone knows they are the future and eventually nearly every car on the road will be electic but a million factors influence if that'll be in 20 years or 200 years.
they dont need aircraft to police and subdue their own people who will riot out of starvation soon. they just need tanks and armored vehicles.
>>64380114the NSR is about half the length of the current suez route between Asia and Europe. They've been waiting for those routes because they just haven't melted enough to be viable yet. Expanded icebreaker fleets would make them viable faster.
>>64380114>>64380133Funny enough of the three (two really) Northernmost ice free Pacific ports in Asia it isn't Vladivostok that will be getting a direct rail line from china first, it is Wosan. The only real issue is that Wosan needs to be significantly expanded to handle significant the PRCs transpacific traffic which seems to be happening, ironically this probably means that the PRC might very well quietly be pressuring the USA/RoK to sign a Korean peace deal*Wosan, Vladivostok and Fukino combined would not be enough, if there was a joint port zone combining Fukino and Wosan into what would effectively be one huge port that might work with enough investment****>But Fukino belongs to Russia!If both the PRC and DPRK decide that it doesn't then it doesn't.
>>64379830Disgusting!
>>64379790LAND WAR LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO.>>64379809Wew, that one flew over a lot of Anons heads.Like a comically slow drone homing on a refinery.
>>64379809>Russia’s economy is literally boomingYes. Quietly exploding.
>>64379790>slashing subsidiesJust means they expect private investors to take up the financing.Which means they expect some sort of shake up in sanction regimes in 2026 (them ending or not being a factor).
>>64379914It's high IQ thinking. If there's no funding to navy and air force, that means they will cease to exist meaning less issues to tackle!
>>64380332>the sanctions will be gone in a few monthsWhy do ziggers cope like this? It just makes them deny reality which is even worse for their situation.
>>64379790Russia's Ukraine ambitions are dependent on its financier China holding up its end of the bargain and China's not doing so great internally.
>>64380341>Why do ziggers cope like this?They've been utterly mind raped ever since trump turned on them
>>64379830>To adapt the engine to the aircraft, engineers converted it into a single-shaft turboprop. The free turbine was removed, and the gearbox was connected directly to the compressor.>After modification, the power output dropped from 1,500 to about 900 horsepower — a reduction of 40%. Nevertheless, Technoregion believes the new TR-301/117 will outperform the previous version equipped with the Czech M601 engine (720 hp). Ah, so there it is, the previously used engine is possibly no longer available for them.Does this mean Russia can no longer produce 40s tech radial engines at a reasonable and economic rate?Are they still not able to develop a replacement for the An-2 despite attempts going back to the 60s?Wtf.
>>64380408>Biden was sitting on the throne in the white house like theoden of Rohan and zelensky whispered war mongerings in his ear like grima snake tongue.If anything the vatniks are reliable in their deliberate forcing of their alternative view on The Lord of the Rings.
>>64380396The 1,500 HP engine is Ukrainian as is the entire aircraft. They could get modernized versions of the ASh-62 from China or even the Norks but they want a domestic engine so what they are using is inferior to even those.>>64380408Yes i agree fellow American from Texas region, should stop of sending money and risk nuclear war and instead secure borders. Also cancel F-35 and spend money to buy Ruble instead of useless fiat US Dollar that is owned by strong China.
>>64379969>choose your warlord state
>>64380425I await the restoration of Ingria, even though Soviet deportations and "Russification" all but destroyed the peoples of the region.
>>64379830>VDV soon to be jumping from flying banan
>>64380425Medvedev could not possibly compete with Lukashanko for control of the rump state mainly because he is a literal retard and whoever made this has a hilarious sense of humor in giving the far east a copy of Taiwan's Flag.I don't care that he isn't a option, only one man can save Russia:
>>64380425could play a game of Diplomacy on this map...
>>64380463Medvedev is a schizo hoi4 modder who was cursed to trapped in a Russian politicians body
>>64379809This is fine.
>>64380496>>64380463Speaking of, does /k/ have a general consensus as to Lukashenko's military leadership skills so far?
>>64380418Honestly the the funniest part about Russians being called Orks is that Russians themselves were the first to do it, they took one look at LOTR and went "Hey, Tolkien's talking about us(((" and then some Russian author wrote a fanfic about the Orks smashing up the Elves because they also assumed those were Europeans
>>64379995Get a room, hyperwarfags. Or better yet, tank proving grounds with complete HD video coverage.
>>64380522Anon, what do you think the Ukraine war really is?
>>64380522that's your heritage, this board wouldn't exist if they didn't invent the internet to connect neo-helsinki to the daegu occupation government. Show respect.
>>64380511(Schwarzkopf chuckle)
>>64380511Nonexistent. The entire Belarusian military is essentially 4 motor rifle divisions and 1 armored division that haven't seen combat since the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Essentially the whole apparatus exists to prevent Luka from getting Ghaddafied by the entire population of Minsk.In the first week of the war he had a televised press conference where he was basically just blurting out the entire Russian invasion plan whilst his cheifs of staff looked on in dumbfounded horror, their faces screaming "holy shit shut up you're telling them everything"I fully believe he tried to join in to get good boy points with Monke but his top brass flat out told him they if they got stuck in that massive fucking traffic jam to Hostomel they'd straight up refuse to order their units in, and that if he forced them, they'd be stuck there and nobody would be around to make sure his anus remained bayonet-free.After that point he has barely spoke of or even acknowledged the war is even happening.
>>64380396>Does this mean Russia can no longer produce 40s tech radial engines at a reasonable and economic rate?>Are they still not able to develop a replacement for the An-2 despite attempts going back to the 60s?Maybe they use the other engine for drones or something, do they have drones this big?
>>64380560You are brown
>>64380560So you're saying the mighty puccian bear is losing to its inferiors?
>>64380560you mean number 1, after india saar
>>64380579>russia doesn't fight for territory but for THDDaddy Putin would disagree with you
>>64380546So you admit he is the most intelligent leader of the entire war by making the brilliant strategic decision to do absolutely nothing but peel potatoes? Sounds to me like McClellan will have stiff completion in the 'Troops Choice' category in the Sun Zu 'Best Leaders of all time' award contest.
>>64380560>PPPYou are easy to ignore
>>64379830>NATO reporting name "Borzoi"
>>64380511He has managed to keep Belarus out of the mess despite Russians staging it from their territory. That alone seems like a smart decision.
>>64380606>Be McClellan>Encounter a Confederate screening force>"OH FUCK! IT'S ALL 200,000 MEN OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA!">Bunker down and fire telegraph after telegraph to DC begging for more troops
>>64380579>winningHow is Russia winning.In b4>muh advances>muh landIrrelevant.
>>64380663>Russia is RICH in egg power. Also in cabbage and low cost mobile internet. That is why PPP makes for a retarded comparison. You waste of DNA faggots keep on harping on about it, yet none of you pieces of garbage can explain why a basket of retail consumer goods, especially in a country with abysmal GINI, would be a good metric to determine the wealth of a nation, especially considering that you ignorant ass took PER CAPITA out of it. You rank next to Malaysia and the poorer nations in Europe when this somewhat more relevant metric comes into play.If you have children already I hope they never breed. If you have managed to avoid impregnating your low class devotchka yet, I'll literally pay for your vasectomy, faggot. You are a net loss for human civilisation.
>>64380663I just bought 12 eggs for €1.99 2 hours ago.t. German
>>64380579>russia doesn't fight for territory but for THDOkay. So why is Russia losing, then? You know, what with TZD progressing much faster.
>>64379838What gas? refineries are blown up
>>64380665The really odd thing is we know he was capable of decisive action, even highly complex, innovative and risky actions. With hindsight it seems clear he was deliberately avoiding decisive engagements and would not chase retreating enemy forces because he simply refused to see them as the enemy. He really did see them as confused fellow citizens that needed to be convinced and contained but under no circumstances significantly harmed. He was too nice of a guy for his position. Under idea circumstances he would have been promoted out of command and made Secretary of War but the guy we already had was excellent at it.
>>64380720Don't upset him with real data.
>>64380663LMAO, eggs are literally cheaper in Germany than in Russia right now.
>>64380606He was forced into that decision by his own military commanders telling him that there'd be both a military coup and a general revolt if he tried anything else.
>>64380733>He listened to his commandersSo he is smarter than Putin and nearly every other dictator ever?
>>64380744Not a great achievement. Most people will listen to the person pointing a gun at their head.
>>64380396You got a link for that greentext mate?
>>64380761Even that is an accomplishment. Almost all Dictators fail because they don't listen to expert advice and/or don't realize that they are doing something that will result in a coup which is really the same thing.Either way the result is the same: Spending the afternoon picking potatoes instead of being hanged outside a gas station or dragged out of a sewer pipe. One of the top five smartest dictators of the century so far.
>>64380474>you have NO CHOICE BUT to wage land war in AsiaSounds horrible. Make the thread.
>>64380800>>64380761>Putin demands Luka join the war>Luka agrees>Putin demands to know where the Belarus troops are>Meanwhile:
>>64380827why is luka doing rollerbeetle racing?
>>64379790Because they're winning too hard in Ukraine.
>>64379830>Flying BananMakes perfect sense really.
>>64380332What it means is Putin and Co don't care if all the civilian airlines in russia go tits up, so long as they can delay a complete military and governmental collapse for a little while longer. Besides, the serfs don't need to fly, all they seem to do is flee conscription or leave and never come back.>private investmentI don't think even russian oligarchs are stupid enough to invest in russian domestic industries right now.
>>64380831>He doesn't knowThe commies spent decades blaming the CIA for this shit, claiming the 'murrican federal glowniggers had air-dropped or smuggled in bugs to sabotage potato crops all over eastern Europe.These particular posters are east-German, but the same campaign/narrative was the standard all over the communist-bloc.
>>64379790When its real life and you cant load your last save.
>>64380634heh
>>64379968>>64380008NTA but I think you both kind of missed his point. It might seem like hair-splitting but it's not to when anon referenced>There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfareObjectively speaking, the only benefits to Vietnam and Afghanistan were victory. I think what anon was getting at is the fairly indisputable fact that no nation winds up better off after a *protracted war* than when they started. >invariably high attrition rates of either valuable personnel and/or of whole civilian demographics>economy generally in ruins>pre-war status is invariably worse-off than post-war>inb4 Burgers and WWIINot comparable, really. The only time the Americans have come close to anything as genuinely costly as a prolonged, protracted war wasn't even Vietnam or Afghanistan, it was the Civil War where 600,000 Americans died at a time when that was an appalling percentage of the young male population. America's demographics at the time and more or less unironically good immigration stats are probably what cushioned that for America compared to Europe with WWI or WWII.
>>64380606>>64380800When master strategist Zhugalienko faced news of imminent annexation, he ordered his borders open, sent his troops to the Polish border disguised as Negroes, and sat alone in the central square of Minsk peeling potatoes. When Muscovite armies came, they did not dare enter the city fearing a cunning trap, and so they left Belarus alone and went to go die in Ukraine.
>>64380908that was a fun time
>>64380908>These particular posters are east-German, but the same campaign/narrative was the standard all over the communist-bloc.Pole here, can confirm.
>>64379790They aren't going to be able to build enough ships or aircraft to make a difference in Ukraine. Their economy is in the shitter and they simply don't have the money to waste on these projects.
>>64380008I reread the end of your post and you did get the anon.
>>64380975Thanks, saved.
>>64380953>Mein Monke, please give me permission to charge into the city!The troops within Minsk may be few, but what about those in the potato fields around the city? Zhugalienko is careful by nature and will never take risks. Hurry and retreat!
>tfw we're gonna see russia die not from a invasion by china or nooks but by a suicide war in EU4 style by themselves
>>64379790Man was not meant to fly or he would have wings, plus, expensive when your economy is wrecked.
>>64379790>"We didn't need those industries"
>>64380093So in short no stealth fighters, no armatas, no T-I-G-E-R-S, no T-15's? Just USSR era gear, same old same old.
>>64379832>If you have $1,000,000 and get $1,000 per day and something happens and you're now $100,000,000 in debt but you get $2,000 per day now, you can literally say that you're 100% better off income wise now.Wrong because $100,000,000 debt comes with interest payments that fucks your net income, retard.
>>64379790>get into business of war>all of your out-of-country profits drop for reasons according to immoral war>oil gets demolished, massive cuts to everything>bread, eggs and milk soars in price, once that happens that's what it means things got bad>it's been that way for 3 years nowNot unexpected they slash budgets.
>>64379790The Russian economy is taking a beating from the war and the sanctions, especially when Ukraine really started to go all in on fucking up shit like refineries, in other words the longer it goes on for the worse it gets for the Russian economy
>>64380606>>64380546You both cannot see the sheer political genius that is Luka. Underestimating him is easy, but he's been in place longer than Monkey. He knows better than anyone how to play the real game: which is to keep playing. (Admittedly, he almost slipped a few years before when there was a near-revolution brewing, but poot-poot saved him... Unfortunately for him, such aid never comes for free.)His "accidentally leaking" the invasion plans was a careful "ow~ sorry putin sempai I'm such a dummy nyoron~ :3 " move. Unlike the Banan king, the Potato king knows that starting wars is fucktarded, so he's been very careful to stay out of the whole mess as much as possible. He also knows he's very likely next on the list if (when) putin finally gets the quackdhaffi special. It's a tightrope walk.Ultimately, he wants the war to be over and for no one to win. Status quo is his only interest.
>>64380953>>64381141A true shitposter of the three keks.
>>64381018Have another.
>>64380788>wasted dubslmgtfyhttps://carroemotos.com.br/russia-tests-classic-an-2-aircraft-with-mi-8-helicopter-engine/
>>64380634https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwzboBhj1UQ
>>64381417>riding a can of horse meat
>>64380332>Just means they expect private investors to take up the financing.Kek, who the fuck is going to do that? Who's going to spend money on an industry that is actively dying from lack of planes and spare parts?>shake up in the sanction regimesKek. Even if that were likely, no one would invest.What it actually means is that Monke has given up on having decent aviation and is going to spend the money on chinse scooters instead so he can advance another 5km next year.
>>64380332by private investors you mean Chinese and Turkish investors, of course
>>64379893Realistically, you won’t.Or rather, you will. But it won’t be due to maintenance or whatever. Knowing Russian commercial aviation, it’ll be something retarded like “And then first officer Yevgeny tried to flirt with Captain Boris by performing sexual acts using the control yoke, disconnecting the autopilot in the process. Both pilots were thereafter distracted by a mosquito flying around in the cockpit and thus were not aware of their descent until they were too low to recover. Total Zigger Death ensued”
>>64379893not anytime soon. Donnie removed sanctions on belarus national carrier. Which means vatniks can now buy how many spare parts they need for their stolen planes directly from boeing and airbus
>>64381417Why is the US scout checking out his own commanding officer's ass?
>>64381590It's drawn by Russians, why the fuck do you think?
In nine months russia lost equivalent of 10 US divisions in just confirmed dead and missing
>>64380126>everyone knows they are the future and eventually nearly every car on the road will be electicno they are fucking not and never will be. ICE motors are and will always be superior to the gimp mobils. Dont confuse heavy marketing shilling and herd mentality for anything practical. On the engineering level there is no comparison between the two if you want a real comparison reusable rockets are painfully superior to old school disposable shells. The advantages are so painfully lopsided that SpaceX is outpacing low earth orbit tonnage several times of the rest of the world combined
>>64381616The fuel isn't inexhaustible, anon. Eventually, non-EV cars will become too expensive to operate.
>>64380831>>64380908It's a joke, that thing in the background is a Starship Troopers plasma bug sized potato weevil, Luka's #1 enemy. Since the start of the war Belarus has been cut off from Roundup and other western pesticides and more importantly Dutch seed. Luka supplies a significant amount of agricultural products and the embargoes have hit them hard, them giving the DPRK a years worth of potatoes and other products on behalf of Putin did not help. It might backfire, Kim and Luka both going all out on agriculture and a team up is already happening on high levels, Kim needs food and Luka needs weapons so the exchange is obvious. >Bro i heard you needed potatoes>I heard you need canned fish bro>Yo bro let's make a deal>Deal, so you heard the latest shit about what Vlad is doing?>Bro, wtf?>I know right?>>64380953If it works it works right?>>64381310Actual truth.
>>64381406>because they're winning?
>>64380396Full context: SibNIA (Chaplygin Siberian Scientific Research Institute Of Aviation) tried through various efforts to replace the AN-2. The AN-2 however is what meets the budget, and the environment (zero, and brutal). The project is to use surplus to create something from nothing. Sitting airframes, and surplus helicopters. AN-2s serve as regional passenger and cargo aircraft throughout russia, and attempts at making composite replacements is expensive. One offs are possible, but no one has time for one offs. So the constraints:The radial engine is heavy, fuel, and oil hungry. It used to be acceptable because there were spare parts of it everywhere and anywhere, now that is not the case. So what do you do with a bunch of good airframes but no engines, with a budget of effectively zero? Chop down the helo engine, accept the losses, because they already exist and are "free".Because the engine weighs a fraction of the wright radial clone, you can also squeeze in some other efficencies. Get rid of the lower wings because the plane never flys slow enough for crop dusting, and the runways it uses are bad, but not that bad, go ahead and enjoy the weight savings on that too, as well as drag savings.Now the plane is lighter, faster, and more fuel efficient, and they have staved off the collapse of their regional aircraft infrastructure for another 10-15 years with spares alone, and the possibility that the equipment used can now be refurbished. Failing that, the airframes will continue to be "good enough" and a new source of engines can be found later.Its not much, but its what you work with when you have nothing.
>>64380463>Gendo and SEELEs faces when Third Impact is stopped because GDL beats GNR.
>>64381811Oh, it's even worse than that. Agriculture in Russia is in for interesitng times: Domestic production of agricultural machinery has been reduced ~30% across the board this year despite sanctions removing foreign competitors from the market. All because demand has cratered as farmers can't afford to buy new or replace their old machines and tractors.
>>64382093The harvest failed in both Puccia and Belarus this year. We're going to see some funny shit in another year's time of this.
>>64382315I'll be honest here. Famine and cannibalism ARE on my bingo.
>>64380425>Allah save the Caucasus, for no-one else canBaller line
>>64380953>"What's the penalty for being late?" >"ASS RAPE." >"What's the penalty for rebellion?" >"ASS RAPE.">"Well -- we're late."
>>64382008Now mention that the only three nations who know how to make make the airframes and engines are Ukraine, the PRC and North Korea. Note that that list does not include Russia. >>64382038Mari is best girl and i will fight and die on a hill for her. >>64382093>>64382315>>64382325Norks took some of Russia's agriculture programs, there are areas like livestock breeding, forestry and fishery hatcheries where the DPRK has outright robbed them blind. Russia doesn't even understand half the things the Norks are taking from them long term. That suits the DPRK and me just fine. Not a current song, i just like it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6duNkhANjc&list=RDj6duNkhANjc&start_radio=1
>>64382398>make make>that thatI've reached a level of autism in my life where i stutter while typing, i'm not sure if that is a accomplishment or a warning sigh.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6duNkhANjc&list=RDj6duNkhANjc&start_radio=1
>>64380106>It's a solid long term economic planno it fucking isn'tClimate change is going to fuck Russia harder than anyone who isn't living in the killzone around the equator
>>64381616>On the engineering level there is no comparison between the twoYou are correct, ICE will never be able to match the raw power of an electric motor
>>64382093They're also using up horses that would normally work in agriculture.
I understand the ships but didn't the have trouble in Ukraine because of the lack of airpower?
>>64382398i thought you were just a skaven
>>64382810I'm offended by the comparison, in WHF 30+ years ago i played Undead. I''m angry on behalf of Giant Clown Nagash and my 500+ skeleton models. Before i stopped playing 40K i had a neat little 2000 point army of a Inquisitor, a squad of Grey Knights and Arbitrators in 2ed. Back then it was the WD Arbitrators army, 1500 points of plasma grenades with persistent templates, 2+ riot shields, instant kill shock mauls not to mention executioner shotguns with indirect fire templates that did knock back on a 4+. Of course i abused Vortex and Rad grenades constantly.
>>64379830>Monoplane turned into a biplaneKino.>Biplane turned into a monoplaneAbomination
>>64381616>ICE motors are and will always be superiorThat's simply not true. Electric motors are vastly superior to internal combustion engines in every possible way.It's just that fuel is even more superior to current batteries.
>>64381224>Just USSR era gear, same old same old.You can atleast bet on them getting new production Buhankas, for what its worth anyways... That and gear from alibaba.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6AqWDbqp44&list=PLo-ZDovAG7m8D8nWmJ6cwc0OclhEMM7up&index=31>vidrel, Russian economy 2022+3
>>64380827I'm howling m8
>>64381637And minerals for car batteries just grow on trees? Like the power needed to charge the same batteries?
>>64381616>ICE motors are and will always be superior to the gimp mobils.Is this a joke? Literally anyone with a modicum of knowledge about cars will tell you otherwise.The only reasons EVs struggle to become widespread in western countries are oil lobbying and the fact that for some reason environmental policies have become intertwined with conspiracy bullshit and bipartisan retardation.
>>64383160>Like the power needed to charge the same batteries?It near enough does with nuclear and even fossil based power plants will be more efficient than a piston engine.
>>64382966>>Biplane turned into a monoplane>AN-2SLAUGHTER THEM ALL UNTO THE SEVENTH GENERATION KILL THEM ALL KILL THEIR LIVESTOCK POISON THEIR WELLS SALT THE EARTH LEAVE NO STONE ON TOP ANOTHER LEAVE NOT EVEN THE VIRGIN CHILDEREN ALIVE ERASE EVEN THE MEMORY OF THEIR EXISTANCE FROM HUMAN HISTORY SO THAT EVEN GOD DOES NOT REMEMBER THEIR NAMELet it be know that that the moment i saw that image marks the exact second i became a moderate.
>>64383169>>64381417>>64381018>>64380975>>64380962>>64380908Would any of you believe that when i was studying agriculture in collage my advisor was a guy who worked with DARPA the 60s to determine the USA's capability do exactly this sort of shit but against the PRC?
>>64379821Well its certainly booming, in a way
>>64379830YOU CAN SEE WHERE THEY CUT OFF HER LOWER WINGS THEY LEFT THE STUBS STICKING OUT*Incoherent frothing geocidal rage noises*
>>64383195Note: 'geocidal' wasn't a typo.
>>64382427Canada and Russia are expected to be the only winners as they have vast tundra that could be used for agriculture while other far north countries have shitty rocky ground.
>>64383223wouldn't a softening tundra mean that all russian infrastructure in siberia and generally north straight up breaks apart? railway, roads, gaspipes, houses... the soil was stable, and anything built on it designed in mind that it was stable.also, how useful will it be for farming since it doesn't have much nutrients unlike say chornozem? amazonas slash and burn? plants need nutrients unless you shower them with fertilizer (with that you can even make stuff grow in shitty saudi arabian desert farms)you'd need many cycles of building rootmass, life in general, in that tundra soil for something to happen. there isn't an abundance of trees on bare tundra soil to slash and burn either.then there's the problem russia doesn't have the knowledge and infrastructure to build infrastructure; unlike china.
>>64383223The land is not going to be viable for agriculture and even if it was the yearly window in which it is possible to grow food will shrink dramaticallyIts also not going to stay unfrozen year round, as weather extremes become more frequent and severe
>>64383169take your meds
>>64380408>the Ukraineyour ass will be in the ass soon, petya
>>64380908i remember a story about journalist in East Germany that refused to publish this shit on account that it was clear already the year before that the next will have a colorado beetle plague only to never work as a journalist afterwards kek>>64383187> a guy who worked with DARPA the 60s to determine the USA's capability do exactly this sort of shit but against the PRC?Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest, pests and pathogens targeting crops and livestock are often overlooked but are bioweapons all the sameFor the Colorado beetle specifically, it was analyzed for its potential as a bioweapon already during WWI if i remember it right
>>64381406they are winning alright. the darwin award that is
>>64380126> A good comparison is EVs, everyone knows they are the future>2025>still believing this bullshitJesus…
The casino when they double down.
>>64379790petrol no gasurkraine has bombed most of the gas. no point making this that can't work and got no gas for.also all banks are near crashingand so making cuts to save the country from colapsing would be my guess.
>>64383300>Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest, pests and pathogens targeting crops and livestock are often overlooked but are bioweapons all the sameHe was part of a DARPA program that figured out that the airborne mass spectrometers we we using to monitor Mao's atomic efforts could also be used to monitor their use of synthetically produced fertilizer. He was brilliant and also a traitor. He gave the PRC the salt resistant turf grass strains the prevent the PRC's artificial islands in the South Sea from washing away. Before that he helped engineer strains of rice and wheat blast that would have killed half their population in a extended war but Nixon put a stop to that funding. He really hated Nixon and then as some sort of revenge turned his turf grass knowledge into telling the PRC how to reclaim land without it washing away.I'd name him but i'd probably get a three day ban for doxing.
>>64382398Everything NK could possibly learn from Russia on that front is openly displayed and sold at any state fair in the US. You would simply buy a ticket. Up to and including technical drawings and machine specs.Because to us they're insects.
>>64383366The USSR had some decent fishery and goat programs that are now the property of the DPRK, they did shit like physically haul off concrete fish hatchery tanks. It would have easier if they just copied them but when the DPRK takes something they take everything.>>64383357>>64383300Fuck it, my old collage advisor is a traitor and if i get a ban so be it, at least i said so openly and on the record:https://www.fsa.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/m_sullivan_ri_sed.pdf
>>64382987Says the eternal virgin.
>>64383384please feel free to go ahead and explain how ICE is supposed to compete with power like this>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt0SQeX0LrQ
>>64383195I see "strut support assembly 1&2"
>>64383300It was scrapped as it was found the beetle would become too dominant and double back on our own shit.
>>64383375I have a hilarious moment whenever i see the Kim Il Sung Turf grass Institute on KCNA, it is a direct copy of the URI facilities. There is a small (16X24 foot) green house attached to the garage that i personally refurbished with a tiny $2000 USDA grant to try out methods of growing dry land rice strains/ I've seen it on KCNA, i only used about $800 of the grant. I can tell they are using my design because of the cheap plexiglass roofing panels i used to fix it, i wanted to impress the USDA/URI by giving them most of the grant money back.It worked BTW, you can grow dry land rice in turf grass fields in RI. As of 2010ish you can also do cotton but mostly as a trap crop, especially if you intermix it with tobacco.>>64383398IT IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE TWO WINGS WHY DOESN'T SHE HAVE TWO WINGS AN 2 HAVE TWO WINGS THEY NEED TO DIE AND BE EXTERMINATED FOR TAKING HER WINGS THE ONLY SOUND I EVER WANT TO HEAR FROM A RUSSIAN IS THE SOUND OF A NORTH KOREAN TANK CRUSHING THEIR CHILDRENS CHARRED SKULLS UNDER THER TRACKSI am a moderate when it comes to biplane designs.
>>64383397Easy. It works. EVs are a wonderwaffen based on subsidy, slavery, shit tech, CHINA, and the retarded notion that a superficial solution is not soviet duct tape.Never mind the industry is trash and the products have the life of a grasshopper, the pure power curve has no backbone. Hooked bumper to bumper the ICE vehicle will rip the other's frame in half. EVs have power at the second of demand and as soo as there is and "tug-back" on the rope, the fucking things fold.Ok kid. Nice fuckin toy, but it's a toy. Come back when you grow a cock.
>>64383413You are close to being the dumbest and/or most deluded person i've ever encountered on /k/ and that list includes Armatard, Mike Sparks, Armchair Warlord and myself.
>>64383223Canada's soil up north isn't suitable for agriculture and we're paving over our rich agricultural lands to house millions of 78 IQ shitjeets.
>>64379790sayonara
>>64383413Man if only someone tried to use electric motors to do something like haul mile long freight trains they'd figure out how right you are in a hurry. It's a good thing nobody uses electric propulsion to do that.
>>64379822UnderratedYou don't NEED to be on an airplane. Why, are you so important? Don't you realize the state needs those parts more than you?
>>64383430You know someone's a retard when even Norktard says they're a retard.
>>64383413you really need to learn not to speak about things on which you have no knowledge
>>64381310It was abhorrent that America reused to send more help when the people of Belarus were embracing democracy and attempting to hold the regime accountable for Russian election interference. Other western countries like the UK were providing a proper amount of help. It is humiliating for the US that more was not done.
>>64383539I agree in principle and spirit, but what kind of aid could America send to a protest movement?
>>64383169>The only reasons EVs struggle to become widespread in western countries are oil lobbyingLMAO no, stop smoking so much
>>64382420>that thatThat one was correct. I like the "warning sigh" though.
>>64383543M2 Bradleys
>>64383543The US should commit to not only long-term support for pro-democracy institution building in Belarus, but also affirm hard lines for when it would cease to recognize the regime due to potential actions taken against the protestors. In addition, the US should have identified key protest movement leaders and provided them with increased funding and even weapons aid.
>>64383579>>64383575>Send weapons. Eh. Seems unreasonable. Mayhaps the US State Department should have treated the Belarus protests like it did the Maidan protests.
>>64383589Xaxaxa yes send weapons most unreasonable. I am from New York oblast and are demoralized
>>64383589>Seems unreasonableNot really. The M2 Bradley is the new right arm of freedom. Why pussy foot around? What would the thirdies do? Go crying to BRICs?
>>64383592Missouri Oblast, actually. I'm very fond of the warm-water port in NOLA. >>64383593Giving a Bradley to a protest movement is reasonable? How do you even get the thing into Belarus without starting a war?
>>64383600>Giving a Bradley to a protest movement is reasonable?What are you, a commie? Of course it's reasonable if we do it, who'd stop us?>How do you even get the thing into Belarus without starting a war?We have these things called "aircraft" maybe one day your little backwater pissant "country" will get some too. Doubt it though
>>64383438>heaven takes the best...>these faggots, however, go to the eternal rape pit with all the other ziggers
>>64383412How juche of you! Care to share the greenhouse specifics? I happen to have a liking for experimental agricolture too
>>64380518Well it certainly is true that Tolkien inserted some rather outdated and morally naive views in his work where, convnetienly, the blonde rich pale guys are all good and the downtrodden brown folk who are poor are to be killed without moral questioning. Ugly = evil is basically fascist theory on esthetics. It's a bit sad because he could write very well but came from a deeply problematic background has caused a lot of harm witb his views to literature and society and perpetual othering
>>64383652>Ugly = evil is basically fascist theory on esthetics.I guess fascism wasn't all wrong then.
people don't hate russia because it keeps invading its neighbours, people hate russia because it's an undeveloped dump of a country that keeps invading its neighbours
>>64383187>capability do exactly this sort of shit but against the PRCWhy bother when chinks did worse themselves?
>>64380827>>64380908>>64383300"During the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, the word kolorady, from the Ukrainian and Russian term for Colorado beetle (Ukrainian: жyк кoлopaдcький, Russian: кoлopaдcкий жyк), gained popularity among Ukrainians as a derogatory term to describe pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts (provinces) of Eastern Ukraine. The nickname reflects the similarity of black and orange stripes on St. George's ribbons worn by many of the separatists"Heh
>>64380511Early on a /k/ommando bet that he'd end up running Russia by the end of this war. Stranger things have happened.
>>64379830>>64380634>>NATO reporting name "Borzoi"
>>64379965>Even in shithole countries they buy from the same manufacturers that are governed by 1st world regulationsyou know where they don't?Russia.
>>64383600>I'm very fond of the warm-water port in NOLAI'm forcibly reminded of telegram's most powerful gay retarded vatnik 's wholesome tale of two patriotic residents of Louisiana autonomous okrug and their visit to famous warm water port to see the iconic US navy nuclear guided missile cruiser.
>>64383439The thing about electric motors on locomotives is, outside of a few single cab-car commuter trains, theyre not powered by batteries but either on-board diesel engines or overhead electric lines via pantograph.Generally, the idea of using battery-electric locomotives for freight hauling is a non-starter
>>64383412>a trap crop, especially if you intermix it with tobaccoInterracial anthropomorphic gay crossdressing plantsona porn? Norktard, you coombrained little freak, Dear Leader is going to have executed for that.
>>64380315What's that, communal gangbang flashlight?
>>64383833i don't understand. is this what russians think america is like or is that how russians imagine their navy?
>>64380408>the UkrineShitskin detected
>>64383975that's the newest squad member's jobit's just pig snout
>>64379830russias civilian aviation industry is even more fucked than their military equivalent and the replacement for the venerable AN-2 is one of the best examples of the total shitshow that is going on therePicrel is a copypasta translated by an anon from 2ch dating back to 2018 that describes it pretty good
Russia is just straight up losing at this point, isn't it?
>>64383978It's what a very special russian makes to accompany his incredibly mid AIslop created with a telegram bot designed for gay furry porn.So somewhere in between I'd say.Pictured, one of fine Louisianans from the story in a previous episode with the vehicles necessary to brave the harsh Louisiana winter.
>>64384044Here's what he has to say about the Russian military
>>64384036here is Sibnia's abandoned take on on the AN2 replacement >fully composite biplane without analogues in the world
>>64379790This is proof that Ukraine's attacks have been ineffective. Russia wouldn't cancelling ships and aircraft if they were running low. The truth the OSINTbros don't want to face is that Russia has built so many new ships and aircraft they've run out of places to put them. The reason why you only ever see obsolete equipment in Ukrainian drone videos is because Russia is sending their old Soviet stockpiles first to free up room for the new super--advanced next-gens they've been (to borrow a phrase from Nikita Khrushchev) "churning out like sausages". See? I awkwardly referenced an almost-slightly-obscure historical anecdote which means I am very well read.Announcement: I'm going to be taking a break from twitter for a few days for unrelated reasons.
>>64379893The chances of a Russian commercial airliner crashing have actually gone down since 2022 because most of their air defense batteries are in Ukraine.
>>64384044Is it wrong that I kind of want one of those not-a-jeeps in the background?
>>64384056Why are they likes this? It cannot be the mongols influence alone. I mean, many other countries have been through mongols (and even communism) but none turn out this way.
>>64383412>trap cropTIL how that thing was called.>>64383965>immediately jumps to interracial anthropomorphic gay crossdressing plantsona pornFound the Russian.
>>64384085and that is the new replacement a monoplane this time, by the Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA)Not that it's any less of a disaster than the previous attempt, costs already exploded, making it more expensive than a cessna grand caravan so no wonder they are trying to rig anything to the old AN2 airframes just to have something to fly The issues with the domestic motor aren't even the only ones, turns out they did several design errors making the plane unstable at low speeds and require a longer runway than most rural airports it was supposed fly to, which would take another 5 years and 10 millions to fix The shitshow got so bad that solovyev ranted about it on his show, calling for the designers to get shot kek
>>64379830Whoever is responsible for this should be subjected to the nine familial exterminations
>>64379893Fuck crashes, I've been saying since under a year in that the Ukies should target their civilian airports. Russia CANNOT REPLACE ITS AIRLINERS. They were leased and Russia stopped paying those leases when the war started, so they're all stolen tech that Russia has no capability whatsoever to replace. A single nighttime attack on Russia's major airports would decimate their civilian aviation. The attacks on the oil refineries are doing some damage but it's repairable damage, and a slight variation in gasoline supply doesn't really visibly bring the war home to the average Russian citizen. They also don't see that they've lost ~80% of their tanks, APCs, and artillery. But not being able to fly anywhere in a country that's 11 time zones across would probably get them to notice that the war is taking them backwards.
>>64384333Better have the thieves keep those planes until they break them and get a hundred people killed. The blame will then only be on those who authorized the use of said planes.
>>64381637WOOD GAS
>>64383187To be fair the chinese had no problem starving themselves on their own.
>>64384393Wir müssen zurückkehren
>>64384333>11 time zones acrossNobody wants to go to 10 of those timezones and, of the people that live in them, none have the money to fly anywhere.
>>64380975>>64381018So according to Polish propaganda Americans are humping beetles?
>>64384431Well, it's true.
>>64379830Could someone explain to this non-planefag how bad this is?I take it it's pretty terrible due to all of you flying into a bloodthirsty rage, but is it like if someone took the engine out of a Ford Escort, dropped the engine from a Ferrari into it and then turned it on without doing anything else to the car whatsoever?
>>64384393>>64384411You're laughing but that's a technology they could unironically import from Best Korea.
>>64384484Two wings = SOVLClipping wings = BLASPHEMY!
>>64380717>none of you pieces of garbage can explain why a basket of retail consumer goods, especially in a country with abysmal GINI, would be a good metric to determine the wealth of a nationWhite person with an IQ over 100 here. I can explain.Does the fact that you would not be able to afford rent in San Francisco mean you are homeless right now? Is a San Franciscan grocery store bagger who is making $5000/wk but spends $3000/wk on a 1 bedroom apartment and $2000/wk on food to pay the $5000/wk salaries of San Franciscan grocery store employees objectively richer than you just because all the numbers are higher where he lives? Does the fact that you could not afford to live in San Francisco (median housing cost $1.3 million) on your current salary mean you can't afford everything the average San Franciscan has (food, clothing, and shelter) just where you are instead of in the San Franciscan economy?That San Franciscan grocery store bagger does have some advantages when purchasing from areas where the cost of living is lower. But since the majority of his money is spent in the local economy where ALL the numbers are higher you need to normalize this when comparing relative wealth. That he is making $10 where you are making $1 does not make him 10 times richer than you when he needs to pay $10 for an apple while you can buy one for $1. You both have an apple worth of wealth.Ask yourself how every Gazan man can afford to have 10 children. You live in the supposedly richest country in the world. Can you afford to have 10 children? Look at your paycheck and try to calculate how much more you'd need to earn to afford 10 kids, then know that a Gazan man has that amount. Could he afford a F-150? No, they're not made locally and priced where he could afford one. But can he afford to have 10 kids? Yup. So the wealth difference between you is not as much as the salary difference in global "F-150 purchasing power" dollars would indicate, now is it?
>>64384484You have to forgive Norktard, he has the extra special tism.
>>64379965Yes, except guess which country manufacturers don't sell spare to anymore.It starts with R and rhymes with Prussia.They've been dodging and weaving to get second hand spares, but clearly they are not able to keep up with demand.
>>64380511Putin refused to make him even a Colonel in the Russian army because of his (merited) fear of the potatoe savant.
>>64384534>Ask yourself how every Gazan man can afford to have 10 childrenGibs? We have that here as well.
>>64384484Wing clipping is abuse
>>64379937COME MISTER TALLY MON TALLY ME BANAN
>>64383413>Easy. It works.Anon we've been using electric motors for over a century now and I can tell you with confidence that they work.In fact, in pretty much all applications where you can connect to the grid we use electric motors instead of ICEs.The ONLY limiting factor is energy supply, which is why ICEs are used in cars and vehicles in general.
>>64384489>You see Il Hoe-Yong, enemy cannot gas conscript if conscript arrive at front pre-gassed
>>64384489It's like they tried copying gas-vans but didn't know you're supposed to seal them in first.
>>64384883>but didn't know you're supposed to seal them in firstYeah, the top should look something like this.
>>64384135>inhales>exhales>inhales
>>64384500Four wings goodTwo wings bad
>>64380093>For Russia, having a serious blue-water navy was always and always will be a luxury.Au contraire. A blue-water navy has been a vital--- even essential, component of their Great Power larp since the days of Peter the Great. Take that away and the serfs will begin questioning why they suffer so much if it's not to make Russia strong.
>>64381255And if you made enough money to pay the interest + an extra 2,000 you'd still be in deep shit dumbass
>>64384534These are just questions, rabbi. Not answers. And they seem to be only tangentially related to the topic at hand.
>>64381637You are correct but what matters is if something is functionally infinite/finite. There is objectively a finite amount of available fuel but whether or not that makes a difference is still up in the air. We do not know how much potential fuel there is nor how better we will become at using it in the future. After all we're decades past what people thought would be peak oil yet we still have a lot and it's still economically competitive with alternatives.
>>64383160I mean it doesn't grow on trees but the sun and wind are more ubiquitous than trees already so. You're right on the mineral issue however batteries are improving faster than ICE are so it's eventually going to fall in their favor.
>>64384135>>64385017qrd?
>>64385204His latest rant straight up included that phrase at the end.
>>64385236jesus lol why hasn't he offed himself yet?
>>64379790The cuts will have an outsized effect because the one untouchable part of the budget is the money being lost to corruption. Whatever they slash will have to come out of the legitimate spending column, not the OAPNSGCMDICTROPOB* column>*oligarchs, acquaintances of Putin from the 90s, and some general's cousin's major defense industrial company that's run out of a PO box
>>64379790What do you need ship or plane for when you don't have fuel?
>>64385239Sheer cope and whatever cosmic force he pissed off that also grants him his inverse Cassandra powers.
>>64379830>>64380396>shoving a helicopter engine into a planeso we're at this stage of "santions don't work xaxaxaxa". and i thought ziggers needing a special parliamentary commission to approve refurbishing old tank engines was bad.
Smekalka is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.
>>64384484Yes.
>>64385239>Haha, as if! I'm gonna live forever just to spite yo-ACK!- Copelord posting, colorized
>>64385013Reminded me of the dad's army episode with the gas van.Now I want a Rusdian Dad's Army..>Mister Jonesovich.. is that a drone I hear?>Don't you worry Pikeyrovich, that's Comrade Mainwaringovich with the secret weapon!>Secret weapon?>Yes Pikeyrovich, with the secret weapon we will defeat those darn piggiewiggies!>"okay lads gather round, here is the new secret weapon that HQ has send to us.">oi thats just a burned out tank hull with an ukie outhouse taped on top!>Silence! Who was that? Put the dick to his lips as punishment!
>>64384085>without analoguesYou misspelled BEZ ANALOGOV there, buddy
>>64384159No, the beetle jeep (jeeple, if you will) is pretty rad.
>>64383430>>64383529>>64383439It all has to be done through:distributed powerslave laborredundant points of friction/propulsionEVERY SINGLE THING BUTElectric motor do it. Because they will never be good enough.SEETHE.
>>64383436It's suitable for throwing in a bag and selling to potheads THANKS MEGA CROP FAGGOTS.
>>64383589I'm unclear as to why "send weapons" can ever be unreasonable.
>>64385697Speak English m8
>>64383195>when your local board hyperautist gets his wish>it's a monkey's paw scenario
>>64384500Hi Norktard
>>64384759Good, the only thing a motor does is translate stored energy to using-energy. When EVs suck at one of these things... they suck at being a vehicle.
>>64383652>Well it certainly is true that Tolkien inserted some rather outdated and morally naive views in his work where, convnetienly, the blonde rich pale guys are all good and the downtrodden brown folk who are poor are to be killed without moral questioning. Ugly = evil is basically fascist theory on esthetics. It's a bit sad because he could write very well but came from a deeply problematic background has caused a lot of harm witb his views to literature and society and perpetual otheringI know that's bait but still. faggot
>>64382892Nerd.
>>64385428picrel
>>64384205some say puccians invented homosexuality as we know it
>>64386291>they dont like it up 'm comrade mainwaringovich!>who and what corporal joneavich?>the ukiewukies comrade mainwaringovich!>shutup you old geezer, you havent had an erection in over 40 years!>thats enough out of you walkerovich, report to the front lines on the double!
>>64383652Unironically they are correct browns have no sense of honor or virtue beyond what they signal to the surrounding community, they have no internal code to which they adhere and to the white man are objectively evil and selfish to a degree which most whites do not understand due to the alien nature of their thoughts and proclivities.When a mudman is evil it is an animalistic evil which is based on hedonism and self indulgence. When the white man is evil it is mechanistic; he has set aside his morals and forsaken good in order to achieve a goal. Orcs and muds are animalistic and only dangerous because the hyper-white angel Sauron is organizing and directing them and his white lieutenants lead them. Like all evil white men Sauron became a tyrant out of loyalty to a preexisting cause or a desire to order the world into a more efficient and prosperous form believing the people would love him even in their slavery to him. Being thwarted repeatedly filled him with hate and by the natural decay of his virtue he forsakes his original motives and pursues Tyranny as an ideal in and of itself. He seeks to order the world not for the good of ruled but to aggrandize himself, and for a outright spergy need to micromanage all life to prove to himself he is the smartest and the greatest king in history. Only white men can be truly good and thus only they can fall to be truly evil, the rest are just animals following their base desires.Also race be real, yo. You are the "other" by your very nature.
>>64380020Luka said he’s not gonna run for another term in Belarus - will he pine the Wect to support him as a moderate Putin replacement?
>>64383448Holy reddit
>>64384534>Can you afford to have 10 children?I have five, if i want to live like a Gazan and save nothing for the future of those children I could have ten. Kids are cheap if you have no aspirations for them.
>>64386394We can't be sure of that but their capability in the field is truly without analog
>>64385239>>64385407>>64384135He said he will kill himself, but was wrong about that too.
>>64384484It's more like if you took a classic V8 muscle car and replaced the engine with a modern turbo 4 cylinder. It might make more power but it's just wrong, and in the plane's case it also completely ruins the classic aesthetics and makes it look retarded. (Almost like if you replaced all the front end bodywork with a shitty imitation of a new car.)
>>64386450You posted cringe anon
>>64386450Indeed, I always thought Saruman's white hand symbol was a bit on the nose, even moreso in the movies. Perhaps the mythology and setting resonate so well with people because it speaks to so many long understood if unspoken truths
>>64383679But it is.To focus on aesthetics over function is to fail.You can make something that works that is pretty, but you should never make something pretty that doesn't.
>>6438072Thats what he's saying
>>64384159It's kind of suggaesque, so no it's very understandable.But would you brave the Louisiana taiga mudroad in it visit nuclear battlecruiser?That's the real question
>>64379830I don't care what anyone else says, I kinda like it.
>>64387212>the jeeple
>>64379830>>64384484This isn't the worst thing yet. If you go into the Baikal plane project, that is the project of developing a new simple small plane to replace the aging An-2 fleet, you'll find even more retardation. They've spent 10+ years and billions of dollars, failed to develop a working plane, while also not being able to restart An-2 production. While chinks produce their An-2 without any issues.
>>64384534>Ask yourself how every Gazan man can afford to have 10 children1. By not providing them the same living standards as you (or any other civilized person) assume kids need. It's not hard to make kids, despite what some incels would claim. It's hard to live good with kids wanting retarded levels of consumption. 2. By living on foreign gibs.
>>64381578Kek
>>64379790yes yes 2 more weeks
>>64386926>He said he will kill himselfFuck, so much for that idea.
>>64387213
>>64387271>They've "spent" [...] billions of dollarsIt's a feature, not a bug.
>>64385428>Dadovshchina's Army
>>64381255>your net incomeWhich is why they claim that their economy is "growing" by citing gross revenue and obfuscating the net revenue numbers.
>>64386817What the actual fuck?
>>64379790>warmachine that's taken millions of men, and even millions more in Russia's money.Gee Bill, I dunno. Could be a lack of literally EVERYTHING. Retard.
>>64383169If you think about it, the future is Hydrogen.>You wouldn't need completely new fuel infrastructure, just replace all the gasoline and diesel pumps and tanks with Hydrogen ones.>The by-product of Hydrogen combustion is water, which is where we get the Hydrogen from in the first place, so once the technology is advanced enough, we can get the vehicle's alternator to re-electrocute the water to separate the Oxygen and the Hydrogen to create a self-fuelling engine.>Hydrogen engines and the fuel is beyond cheap compared to EV's once the technology has matured, since you can find some water or some kind pretty much anywhere on the planet>Unlike EV cars, slight damage to the fuel cell won't cause a catastrophic runaway reaction that leads to the entire engine blowing up and creating a self-fuelling fire that lasts for a week straight unless you fully submerge or bury the vehicle>The efficiency of the engine will remain constant, compared to an EV that is highly dependent on temperature and quickly declines after years of use. Meanwhile, a vehicle with a hydrogen engine that can go 100 miles on a sunny day can do the same when it's snowing five years later on the same engine.>EV's require multiple rare earth metals to create, which means they rely on a global supply that makes them very susceptible to disruption when crises happen in one or more countries, whilst a hydrogen engine shares most components with a standard combustion engine, with most of changes coming from burning a gas rather than liquid fuel; which allows for full domestic production of the engine.EV's are just the AI for the car world. They're big and trendy now, because all the big tech guys and corporations are shilling it, but give it 10 years after bubble bursts and the more practical solutions will come out on top.
>>64388001Hydrogen is unironically the future, but it's how a few engineering challenges between it and wide adoption
>>64385195The trouble comes when you have to leave an urban environment with easy access to electricity. Space rovers get away with it because they only have to move a few feet a week and spend the rest of the time doing low-power tests. Going out into the countryside or trying to do long-distance trips is going to be a massive pain in the ass, as the fuel cells are going to have to become small enough that you can change them yourself without going into a specialist garage or bring a generator with you to charge the car either on the go or during rest stops.
>>64385173The trouble with oil estimations is that it's based on what oil is easily available and not the amount we know actually exists. Once the easily obtainable oil runs out, we will still have the option of extracting the oil that was, either for ethical or economic, not exploited before.One of the most interesting debates at the moment is whether or not we should invest in large-scale deep sea mining, where we basically strip mine the ocean floor to get at the goodies farted out by underwater volcanoes and stuff that was washed down rivers/eroded from cliffs/sank in a Spanish galleon. The profit margins for countries with a cost could be massive, whilst also providing more jobs in a career that could support families for generations like coal mines used to. It could also ease the burden on poorer third-world countries if it turns out that rare metals are a lot more common than we realised and would stop so many people fucking with them to keep them down and broken to make exploiting them easier. Of course, the environmental damage from the operations is going to be significant, and we know so little about the deep ocean that there's no way to even begin to know how catastrophic the consequences could be. We need those rare metals for our technology and our all-devouring hunger for microchips and fuel cells; but is that worth the risk of killing the ocean and the vast majority of life on our planet with it?This, and what we do with an unfrozen Antarctica, which is going to be a geopolitical clusterfuck of biblical proportions, are going to be the biggest environmental questions the next few generations are going to have to find answers to.
>>64387862>What the fuck Just the purest expression of mysterious russian soul
>>64384333Anon, only the rich fly. Everyone else just takes the train. The vast majority of people wouldn't even notice if their civilian fleet just stopped existing.
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>>64384159I have good news, Anon.https://youtu.be/zUwDCy-Sfhs
>>64379790Can the Russian aviation industry even develop new military engines?
>>64379790I dont see why theyd do that especially in these times. Do they have a russian source on this? How did they figure this out?
>>64383169>Literally anyone with a modicum of knowledge about cars will tell you otherwiseYou've been fed troon logic, bro. Not only modern ICE are way more efficient that the numbers you think, but the fundamental issue is that you're thinking about it wrong. First, you do get a ton of "free" work due to the "inefficient" nature of ICEs, work which you actually want. That heating running? That's free work you get. That AC you're running? Also "free" (not really, but still) work. There's a reason why most EVs decimate their range once you have to either run AC or heat up the car. But that's not even the tip of the iceberg. The fundamental issue is that with ICEs you're pumping fuel into your gas tank and make energy in your engine inside your car via a chemical reaction using the fuel in your tank _and the air from the atmosphere_, i.e. you bring fuel and you get the oxidizer for free from the air, both then interact to produce energy right here and now for you. While in the case of typical battery EVs you're not taking fuel with you, you're taking the resulting energy which got produced elsewhere and have to haul it. This is fundamentally inefficient overall. You need proof? Well, look up energy density of gasoline (~12,000 Wh/kg) vs LiPo batteries (~200 Wh/kg) - yes, it's more than 50x (fifty times) better. Hence why a typical car with 50 liter gas tank can fuck even the premium EVs with hundreds of kilograms of battery in range without breaking a sweat and don't get their range decimated by turning on the heat or AC.So yeah, even if ICEs are "only 30% efficient", you actually work with way more efficient processes overall, while with EVs on paper you have insane efficiency, however IRL the car struggles to reach basic bitch ranges of casual ICE shitboxes. Because you the "30% efficiency" of ICEs in _energy generation_ get compared EV's "90% efficiency" of _energy transfer_. Notice the difference here.
>>64385473the cool kids use the "ANALOGOVNET" term, or "ANALO GOVNET" for added emotional damage
>>64387572Yes and no, they did want the plane, but they've failed. Not because of corruption itself, corruption is just a force of nature there, an act of god, built into the system. Corruption should've just made the project more expensive, but even making it 10x or 20x more expensive should've still resulted in them making the plane. But there's no plane. Not because the money got stolen. But because of the state of modern russia:- hubris;- unsubstantiated ambitions;- lack of modesty with plans;- lack of any reality checks;- lack of honesty;- lack of efficiency;- general lack of a single vision, soviet-tier "I did my job right, not my problem";- general issue with culture of manufacturing;- general culture of lying;- etc, etc, etc;So yeah, instead of cloning the old plane with some modern improvements, which should've been easy and straight forward, and concentrating on actual production, setting up servicing for the planes and so on they've spent most of their resources on trying to create a "cool modern ANALOGOVNET" shitbox, with composite and shit. Stumbled and fumbled every step possible. For example, the R&D faggots using foreign composites, while the actual manufacturers being forced to use domestic composites, which SURPRISE-SURPRISE sucked ass and didn't have the necessary characteristics, resulting the plane breaking under basic load. Why do you even need composites for a fuckin' "cheap flying minivan" (that's what an AN-2 is)? Because it's cool, modern and ANALOGOVNET. Hence you have 10+ years wasted, billions of dollars wasted and no actual planes.
