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>Be Google CEO
>decide to retire
>oh drones sound cool
>create most effective middle strike ~200km range EW resistant drone
Meanwhile Anduril still didn't produce shit
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If they can keep that pressure up 24/7, the mobiks in Kherson and Crimea will start starving soon.
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>>65181760
>Kherson and Crimea
I'd worry about VEHDEHVEH here more
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>>65181764
>VEHDEHVEH
How many times did they 'reconstitute', 'reform', etc. by now?
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>>65181775
depends on division. I think one was reconstructed 4 times
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>>65181753
>Google CEO
Huh?
>>65181760
And don't forget to thank ziggers for restricting all civilian movement on those highways, on top of explicitly mentioning that only heavy-duty, logistics vehicles can pass there
Ukies don't even need to pick and choose what to target anymore as anything going through Zapo-Crimea routes is now guaranteed to be a military asset
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>>65181786
this nigga's, eric schmidt, company is responsible for Hornet drones destroying all those trucks on Melitopol-Taganrog highway
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>>65181764
Heard a few days ago that Kamyanske is basically being abandoned by the Russians.
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So is Russia's AD just finished? Are they out of interceptors? Is it because all their AD operators are cucks who cum to the sight of a slow drone tapping their comrades' asses?
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>>65181786
https://en.defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/mysteries_of_swift_beat_ukraines_new_drone_supplier_with_director_ex_google_ceo_white_stork_and_ai-15034.html
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>>65181840
Did the Syrian refugees leave after Assad fled to Russia?
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>>65181841
>whataboutism
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>>65181852
ironic considering you came into thread about drones destroying Russian logistic to cry whatabout [unrelated topic]
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>>65181806
We've seen multiple occcasions where Russians had decades-old SAMs on the rails, or naval variants.

We can not be sure how the Ukie drones get through.
Do they just deplete one or two launchers and then fly through that gap (or kill the launchers, we have definitely seen them kill launchers with no missiles on the rails)?
Do they just go for places that have no radar coverage?

We have multile vids frmo Russians near targets that quite clearly show one Ukie drone in the lead eating a SAM, with two trailing ones flying into the target, so it looks like they are using the first method to punch through to things like refineries.

But along that highway? Looks like Russian AD is just gone. Even gun systems would be enough to defeat those drones.
Russia should have Shilka and Tunguska, but there is nothing there.
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>>65181753
To try and play Doubles Advocate, Anduril is building very different weapons systems from most everyone else. (I am not saying good, I am just saying different.)

Anyone with enough money can spin up a Sneed factory. It's trivial, which is why there are so many of the damn things. But Palmer is trying for the whole weird loitering, RTLS thing as a micro-scale SpaceX and then much larger munitions and wingman. It's not really the same.

I am not going to defend him, results need to be shown, but it's not exactly comparable. Until he does something, he's completely open to derision IMO, but at the same time what he's trying to do could take years before it bares fruit.
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>>65181753
>That random 'nik getting merc'd because he was on his way to fill up the nearby Exxon Mobile

Shit luck, I'd almost feel bad for him if he was just a regular owner-operator trying to go put fuel in at a gas station, but I know the Russians are just civilian vehicles.
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>>65181871
>I'd almost feel bad for him if he was just a regular owner-operator trying to go put fuel in at a gas station
even if he was, shouldn't have crossed the border illegally
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>>65181868
>Doubles Advocate
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>>65181856
It's a combination of a bunch of things. 4 years of war and now with increasing drone numbers, russians have started to raise concerns over ammunition. 4 years of attrition of both systems and crews mean that the lines have gotten thinner and gaps becoming easier to exploit. The hornets themselves seem to be more difficult to detect. The decrease in ammunition and systems along a huge frontline mean that Russia now has to make difficult decisions about where to try and defend, inevitably leaving some areas lacking. The highway is long and would require many AD systems to defend, plus the road is comfortably within range of multiple strike drone types, so they'd start getting hammered too.
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>>65181942
Various European arms manufacturing projects are also finally starting to gather speed. Unless China goes into full swing giving lend lease to Russia you're looking at an eventual massive material superiority for Ukraine. That's why Moscow is starting to brief it's propaganda apparatus on how to declare victory at-home. Pajeet factories are also priming retards in the west like commies and magas to espouse Russias great victory
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>>65181962
It's "for all incense and porpoises," you absolute monkey.
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>>65181935
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>>65181841
Yes, they are being slowly returned for a few months now and refugee status not getting extended anymore since the war in Syria ended.
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>>65181806
their equipment was designed to be complimentary
every vehicle and every weapon has massive disadvantages that are covered by other systems
this was all designed in the 80's at the height of their military budget
now that they're poor, they can't sustain this complimentary system
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>>65182001
>their equipment was designed to be complimentary
"yes great Tzar, you did very well supporting this weapons system!
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>>65182001
It was also only designed for a short term conflict with NATO jets, they never planned on a long term attritional fight with a nation that can only afford to lob small drones at them. Soviet Doctrine in this case would have been dedicate full mobilization when things looked bad in 2022 and march into Kiev with conscripts, instead monke decided to larp the great patriotic war without American lend lease.
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>>65181968
I think it's premature to assume that this trend will continue at this scale. There are countermeasures that the russians could take. They have started to copy Ukraines interceptor drones, so expect to start seeing those deployed more. That being said, it might already be too late and Russia had a much wider front to cover. Summer is looking to be very hot and if this trend continues, Ukraine has the ability to cut off water supply for an entire section of the front.

Again, I don't want to be too optimistic, but the trend has huge potential and the AD losses alone could prove catastrophic for Russia going forward.
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It's a slaughter, how the fuck can you wage war with supplies being picked off like this?
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>>65181753
>no aftermath
cool footage of jammed drones but this will not bring the acktollah back
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>>65182066
when first truck is intercepted, second arrives and picks up unburnt cargo and continues forward
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>>65182066
more mobiks on the bicycles.
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Poor little zigger
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>>65181935
Have you been away from 4chan for a bit? Posters like that anon are a diamond dozen these days.
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>>65182066
They'll probably start using smaller vehicles that will travel using countryside roads. (That looked like they were bombed even back in 2021)
The answer is always disperssion
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>>65182123
There are no countryside roads. USSR couldn't into a European style of infrastructure density.
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>>65182135
NTA but there are tons of mud paths to reach the fields, so obviously it would suck, but spreading vehicles out isn't unthinkable. There are still bottlenecks like bridges though.

However I think they'll add cope cages to vehicles, maybe add nets to roads especially near bottlenecks, spread them out what little they can and maybe send some retards with guns to try and take out the drones.
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>>65182123
>They'll probably start using smaller vehicles that will travel using countryside roads.
I'm sorry but how exactly are you planning to supply army using small vehicles that carry on average 40 times less for ~200km drive distance
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>>65182145
>mud paths
Good luck using it to transport any significant amount of stuff, especially when it rains and such.
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>>65182045
>a nation that can only afford to lob small drones at them
Such as? Because that's not an accurate description of Ukraine. Pic relevant.
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>>65182059
>I think it's premature to assume that this trend will continue at this scale.
Well, yeah. As with basically everything in this war, it's likely gonna get worse over time for the ziggers.
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>>65181791
he's famous for his open marriage
kind of like warren buffet and his geratric harem
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>>65182067
But that's not Iran??
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>>65182059
They've lost artillery dominance across multiple sections of the front already. The only thing keeping lines static in moat areas are km thick minefields covered by drones. But hey, it's not like they would ever be facing a drone shortage so bad that they'd start to be rationed only for assaults and a smuggler with no experience in manufacturing or electronics (but who is good friends with the tsar) would get put in place of unfucking things. Oh, wait, that happened last month.
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>>65182199
Miggers are retarded like ziggers
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>>65182018
I can't tell if you finished your post or not. Are you okay? Do you need me to call someone?
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>>65182250
I just forgot one closing quote mark, it's not a big deal
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>>65182253
lancet can't do this in 2026
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>>65182066
there are millions of potential conscripts
ukraine isn't efficient or ferocious enough to do to the russians what the americans did to the japs
the russians will not give up without a fight and the ukranians don't have the resources or knowhow to hit them hard enough
both sides are unprofessional and motivated by fear of both sides
ex-soviets are so primitive that they haven't even passed the great war in terms of cultural development
millions of deaths are yet to come and the kaiser carries the ultimate blame for all of it
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>>65182252
I'm glad we cleared that up. I didn't get the reference thoughbeit.
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>>65182253
Sure is a shame for puccia they didn't.
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>>65182066
That's the neat part.
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>>65182260
Stupid hyhyl, just view and weep!
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>>65181764
I miss VEHDEHVEH posting...
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>>65181791
>Hornet drones
Here's some AI slop about the drone
https://aeronaut.media/articles-en/en-hornet-uav-marsianin-2-all-about/
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>>65182268
There is no reference, I'm talking about the equipment being complimentary
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>>65181753
>Meanwhile Anduril still didn't produce shit
What's with the weird Anduril hate? Seems libcoded.
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>>65182352
Anduril is hater by fags from both sides of the aisle:
- democucks hate it because the founder didn't bend the knee back in the day (and had to be pushed out from Facebook);
- republicucks hate it because it highlights just how bloated and overpriced the exist MIC is;
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>>65182364
>- republicucks hate it because it highlights just how bloated and overpriced the exist MIC is;
Gunna push back on this. Maybe legacy republicucks but for the new gen I think "the MIC is bloated, gay and retarded" is like a core pillar of their defense politics. Hence you see guys like Hegseth and Hung Cao being put in leadership positions and talking endlessly about reform.
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>>65182368
>for the new gen
There are pretty much no "new gen" republicans. The overwhelming majority are performative grifters whom turn on a dime.
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>>65182349
Well try harder next time, okay?
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>>65182368
Hegseth is the worst thing to happen to the DoD in 30 years. He supports retarded things because the man who tells him what to do says to do that (nullifying any impact his "reforms" would have had in the first place) and cancels perfectly good programs that we really needed under the auspices of controlling waste, but then does nothing about the actual wasteful programs. A fucking orangutan throwing darts at a board would have done a better job.
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>>65182375
>There are pretty much no "new gen" republicans.
There are certainly different generations and categories of republican and conservatives. Even the whole populist v countryclub republican thing goes back to the 60's.
>The overwhelming majority are performative grifters whom turn on a dime.
Stop confusing internet personalities for the right writ large.
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>>65182391
libcoded post.
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>>65182368
>Hence you see guys like Hegseth and Hung Cao being put in leadership positions and talking endlessly about reform.
they aren't reforming anything
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>>65182417
>they aren't reforming anything
Would be something that someone who doesnt follow DoD happenings would say.

His signature reform is a total overhaul of DoD procurement. He's also adjusted fitness standards, cut civilian staffing, leaned aggressively into AI and so on. READ THINGS.
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>talk in an authoritative voice about stuff you barely spent time thinking about
>now you are considered a serious scholar because a bunch of people driving to work heard you talk for a few minutes while they barely paid you any attention
i hate the podcast generation, and monetizing social media just ruined it for everyone
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>>65181753
How long now before Ukraine hits the Kerch bridge?
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>>65182422
>reform is a total overhaul of DoD procurement.
By handing out no bid contracts to companies that Trumps sons own
>He's also adjusted fitness standards
This is nothing
>cut civilian staffing
To what end? Does this even change anything besides signaling to retards who don't know what jobs got cut
>leaned aggressively into AI
Into AI companies owned by or have giant stakes in by Trumps family. Some of these companies didn't even exists until after Trump was in office.
>READ THINGS.
I wish you would. Hegseth is an alcoholic who was hated by everyone around him, Trump only keeps because he'll do anything that he says without pushback.
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>>65182432
>he has done no reforms.
>okay he has done reforms but I dont like them.
Conversational TKO.
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>>65182397
Yeah, no, it was a genius move to cancel the replacement procurement program for our aging artillery, and then green light some battleships. Stellar.
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>>65182434
>He increased graft and corruption, this was a good thing actually because it owns the libs!
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>>65182434
Removing all mentions of "gay" isn't a reform you retard
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>>65182435
>it was a genius move to cancel the replacement procurement program for our aging artillery
That happened under Sec. Austin and the Biden admin in 2024.
>and then green light some battleships
Navy supports the acquisition of a surface combatant that's bigger than a Burke, always has.

Again, your disdain reads libcoded and not like the critique of someone who actually gives a fuck about this shit.
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>>65182440
>>65182441
>there are no reforms!
>okay there are reforms but I dont like them
Its over. You beat yourself.
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>>65182448
Removing all references to the Enola Gay isn't a reform you faggot
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>>65182447
I like how you ignored the whole part where the US military is copying the Russian model of corruption. I'm sure that won't ever affect performance.
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>>65182454
>i like how you ignored my baseless accusation after i revealed myself to know absolutely nothing about the subject at had
Yes.
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>>65182451
>no i dont want to talk about actual structural reforms and i want to talk about culturewar shit
libcoded and pedestrian.
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>>65182430
There's nothing military significant moving through Kerch Bridge since 2023, even fuel to Crimea is getting transported via land corridor
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>>65182457
>actual structural reforms
give us an example
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>>65182462
Read the thread.
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>>65182464
Surely you can give us 1 example.
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>>65182473
I've given you a bunch. Scroll up.
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>>65182079
It's a doggy dog world, kids.
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>>65182059
Russia does not have the economy to scale up industrial production to outpace the entire EU and several other manufacturers, neither has it got the work force. This is quite literally a slippery slope for Russia, they can only delay slightly with drastic measures.
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>>65182368
They love it because they hold shares in it and don't care about trivial things like "ethics", "accountability", or "democracy". They can use their position to make themselves piles of cash at the expense of the taxpayer and that's not only how they've designed it to be, it's also personally gratifying.
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>>65182518
Russians are known for retarded revolusions/total collapses. Buckle up gents. I wonder what they will come up this time..
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>>65182543
Balkanization.
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>>65182544
Plus licking Chinese boots for scraps of Temu Technology..
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>>65181775
>reconstitute
is that why they were dropped in water?
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>>65182518
Sure, but they could make the war drag on for longer, which is bad for Ukraine even in the best case scenario. Ukraine has a golden opportunity here to really cripple Russia's ability to conduct offensives entirely (already started seeing that with their spring failure) and potentially even degrade their ability to defend significant parts of the front (already being seen in Zaporozhia). However Europe needs to seize on this window and double down.

Russian casualties usually dip during the summer due to greater foliage cover, which also helps them push men forward to capture territory. Russia is currently in a crisis, but if Ukraine can continue their kill : recruitment ratio during the summer that could turn this into a spiral.

I keep hearing rumours that the Ukrainians are planning some kind of offensive for the summer. Obviously this could be Russian doom baiting, but it's not entirely unreasonable if current trends continue.
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It is time for the Kerch Bridge to be rearranged.
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>>65181868
>Doubles Advocate
Based on your digits, you are a Singles Advocate at best.
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>>65182069
lol.
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>>65181868
>To try and play Doubles Advocate
Even the devil only gets one.
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>>65182075
You see his charred body in the follow up strikes
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>>65182720
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>>65182162
What do the diamond icons represent again? Positions of major Russian units or just where a large number of forces are positioned?
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>>65182736
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Joint_Military_Symbology
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>>65182720
What were they thinkingg?
Truck gets droned, recovery vehicle goes there, other truck stops, then everyone gets droned?
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>>65182265
so we should not trust our lying eyes?
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>>65182789
probably that it's a 150km from frontline so there's no second, third and fourth drone going after them
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>>65182544
Europe and US will do their utmost to stop that from happening.
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>>65181764
>>65181775
The dumbest thing about this is that airborne forces were always a dumb idea and have never demonstrated being effective. So it's shocking that they even still exist in 2026. In any country.
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>>65181856
Tanguska/shilka are basically useless without coordination with wide area search radar support. Their fire control radars use retarded amounts of fuel when scanning
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>>65182391
>goes on tangent
>refuses to give example
The only retarded thing hes done is the DDG(X) fiasco, but to be fair it's an extreme fuck up.
Everything else about him is bog standard however
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>>65182473
Ngl, he cooked you senpai, well done, roasted, crispy on the inside to, ya feel me? Like, he brought the receipts and erything ya heard? Nah jit, you gotta roll on outta here now
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>>65181968
>Unless China goes into full swing giving lend lease to Russia
Which isn't going to happen. China is ideologically opposed to getting involved in others' wars, they know the Russians can't be trusted to repay any loans, and China benefits from a weakened Russia both in terms of removing a potential threat and in gaining a dependent vassal. Russia tried to vassalize China in the 50's through 80's when China was decades behind and it would be poetic for the tables to turn as China advances through the 2020's while Russia devolves to the 1940's they idolize so much.
Russia still has nukes so China does not need to prop them up against a NATO invasion. Russia ideologically capitulating to the West wouldn't be a dire emergency since it would take decades for Russia to recover and it would drain the West. China is quite good at profitably trading with Western countries and a more prejudiced, white supremacist Russia wouldn't be ideal, but could be managed.
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>>65182170
>somehow, the V1 returned
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>>65181753
>drone built around starlink terminal
wow such advanced tech LMAO
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>>65183486
Is Elon Musk the most powerful man on Earth? With the simple decision to cut off starlink to certain actos he single handedly changed the course of the war, that's comic book villain tier in terms of power.
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>>65182459
>there's nothing military significant moving through Kerch Bridge since 2023
Which is why it has the second densest collection of air defenses across the entire country, second to Putin's mansion of course. These delusional comments are fucking retarded
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>>65183590
Because it's Putin's little vanity project.
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>>65183590
>>65183837
Not just a vanity project. They've basically moved a fuck ton of people into Crimea post-2014. The region had a big expulsion of Ukrainians and Tatars, meanwhile not only did the population not shrink but it grew due to how many ruslims moved in from russia. This creates an issue, since if the logistics to the peninsula are hit too much, it won't be able to survive by itself, since the region is unsustainable. There's a fuckin' reason it was made a part of Ukraine - they've had ukies subsidize and develop it, because before late 1950s it was a barely populated (by modern standards) salt-ish desert region.

Now imagine how will it look if the bridge goes down and people will have to escape back into russia (e.g. the retarded tourists who visit it routinely) using the highway going through occupied Zaporizhia and LDNR+. Highway which had mines everywhere, drones flying and other shit. It will be a disaster.
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>>65182199
That's the joke
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>>65183565
all the explosions look wrong and the shrapnel look too slow with high parabolic curved trajectories after seeing too many ukraine videos of artillery impacts
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>>65183878
i'm 100% sure zelensky would graciously offer a humanitarian corridor to rub salt in putin's wounds, but russians would probably pillage their own civilians anyways
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>>65183920
>i'm 100% sure zelensky would graciously offer a humanitarian corridor
Don't worry, russians themselves would kill their civilians by mistake in massive numbers.
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>>65183590
>the second densest collection of air defenses across the entire country
And yet, the Taman oil port 5 km from the bridge got droned.
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>>65183931
>civilians fleeing from the enemy?
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>>65183931
>russians themselves would kill their civilians on purpose
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>>65183292
Highly mobile light infantry is extremely useful for a number of things that are not unsupported assaults on fortified positions.
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>>65181856
Have we even seen a single puccian shilka in this conflict?
I know there's some restomod ones running around on the Ukrainian side but overall it seems like they're rarer still than the already rarified tunguska.
Speaking of which, any tunguska sightings as of recent?
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>>65183590
>These delusional comments are fucking retarded
I'm stating factual data. No trucks can cross Kerch Bridge due to fear it will overload damaged supports, so no nothing military significant is crossing Kerch bridge
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>>65184308
>Shilka
saw quite a few early on
>Tunguska
last recorded by Oryx destroyed in December, nice FPV pic of one here
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>>65184309
I thought that they fixed the support columns?
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>>65181764
That close to a body of water? Yeah I'd be worried if I was a VDV
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>>65184349
just because they said they did? Classic mistake, trusting Russians on their word
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>>65183456
Them germans got the design right the first try...
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>>65183590
>Which is why it has the second densest collection of air defenses across the entire country, second to Putin's mansion of course
So what significant military purpose does Putin's mansion have?
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>>65184569
But unlike the allies in WW2, Russia appears to lack in air defense.
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>>65184684
Do not question the importance of the monkebunker
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>>65184684
The secret cum vaults for Serbia
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>>65184686
"Not my problem" - every vatnig, ever.
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>>65184338
>Shilka

Even desperate-for-air-defense Ukraine isn'tusing them. The targeting system is THAT BAD.

>Tunguska
404 except those half-dozen Russian ones the gypsies/farmers torched in the beginning

>>65184308
>some restomod ones running around on the Ukrainian side
Iirc the project to make them not-shitty was proposed and planned but never actually implemented
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>>65184793
>404
dude, did you even read the post?
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>>65184793
>Even desperate-for-air-defense Ukraine isn'tusing them
Didn't they recently made normal SHORAD by fully rebuilding/upgrading a batch of them?
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>>65184351
Considering the traffic restrictions, the russians don't believe themselves either.
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>>65183878
One of the big reasons for the war was creating a land corridor to Crimea in order to secure water supplies that had been cut off by Ukraine since the annexation. But since the dam was blown, and Ukraine firmly holds the other side of the river, that war aim is a complete failure.
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>>65184865
>One of the big reasons for the war was creating a land corridor to Crimea in order to secure water supplies
This is retarded naive western rationalization. The corridor was never the goal, this is just something they can tout as an achievement. They wanted (and still want) the whole of Ukraine due to political and cultural reasons. Everything else is cope.

>that had been cut off by Ukraine since the annexation
Russians themselves cut it off by refusing to prolong the contract lmao.
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>>65184809
If they did that is news to me. Source?
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>>65184878
>This is retarded naive western rationalization
This.

There is a specific canal through Ukraine that brought water to Crimea. It is no where near the "land bridge"

Fun fact - Crimea is naturally atid and was only made farmable after soviets built that canal. One of their many terraforming projects, but one that was a success story. It required dumping tons of water, for many years, into Crimea before the soil because worth it to farm. Those favourable farming conditions have been eroding since the water was cut off and are now GONE. If Ukraine, in a gesture of goodwill, turns on the tap TOMORROW, it will still be many years before Crimea can farm again.
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>>65184898
>"Come Back Alive" (tl note: volunteer charity organization) upgraded 16 anti-aircraft artillery installations
>Get to know the updated "Shilka". An anti-aircraft self-propelled installation with 4 automatic cannons, which was created to combat air targets and was used in many armed conflicts. Over time, its systems became obsolete, but thanks to 400 million charitable hryvnias (tl note: around $10M), it returned to service: modernized, improved and effective again.
>So let's move on to the interesting things, namely what was done:
>- outdated radar detection stations were replaced with modern and multifunctional ones;
>- instead of an analog computer fire control system, it is now digital;
>- a navigation complex, converters, etc. were added.
>Thanks to this, the target processing time was reduced from 18 to 0.2 (!) seconds, and the maximum detection range more than doubled. And if previously the Shilka could only track one target, now it can accompany up to 20 at the same time.
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>>65184917
Whut

Come Back Alive has nothing to do with upgrades tho
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>>65184920
They've did fundraising and financed the upgrades.
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>>65184917
>18 second target processing time
How the fuck were they supposed to hit anything other than a stationary helicopter?
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>>65184862
>actual perfidy and warcrimes
Oh dear, now we can just drone all vehicles because official Russian documents say that all trucks are military.
I'm sure the Ukies will limit strikess to trucks moving west so that civillians moving east can leave the combat area ASAP.
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>>65184938
Many such cases with soviet gear. It's only good on paper and falls apart in actual usability. Kinda like trying to ride inside a BMP while screeching "but muh low profile".
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>>65184938
what did you expect from mechanical computer?
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>>65184938
It's a analog electro-mechanical computer, as in cogs and gears acting on the input signals frm a radar rangegfinder.

The idea was to defeat helos firing wire-guided ATGMs
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>>65184917
Speaking of Shilka, was digging through my 3 weeks backlog of doomscrolling, just came across picrel
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>>65185283
Did Novaposhta sponsor that air defence unit?
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>>65181764
>Former Kakhovs'ke Reservoir

What's the state of that area now?
Is it still a massive mud bath that can't be traversed by vehicles?
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>>65185283
Neat, just saw a Shilka this weekend at a museum. Iraqi capture I think.
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>>65185405
Things started to grrow there, but it's still very soft ground
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>>65182929
But Anon, the New Hindustan - Chechen War would be really funny to watch.
Don't you like fun?
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>>65182123
>TFW you have to decide whether to use the Lada as an Assault UAPC, Med Evac or for logistics.
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>>65185325
Based
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>>65182162
>>65182123
>struggling with logistics?
>just increase your logistical footprint bro
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>>65183445
Didn't China just warn Russia to stop hitting Kiev?
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>>65185563
>Didn't China just warn Russia to stop hitting Kiev?
I don't think they appreciated being told to evacuate their diplomats.
They can see the writing on the wall as well as everyone else, they're loathe to sabotage relations with Ukraine more than they have to to keep making bank off Russia and bleed NATO to what extent they can.
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>>65185563
>Didn't China just warn Russia to stop hitting Kyiv?
Also, Russia just declared that the parliament (Rada) and president's office aren't considered decision making centres and won't be attacked.
The cope is that the parliament doesn't make war decisions and the president is never in his officer (he posts updates from his office several times a day).
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>>65185613
This. China is the boss, and being told to do somoething like this equals loss of face.
That can not be allowed.

I think Russia has not yet graspped hw much they are China's bitch now.
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>>65185563
Russia i s a countyr of the worst sort of fellows, where resistance is a thing of fantasy and the men a re confiscated to warfare.

By all appearances the zeigeist is with the formal declarations, and even Iran is aware of this

>>65185613
For diplomats it is no easy thing; the thistle once shorn from the weed becomes the generator of new success
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>>65185617
I'm sure Zelensky will order his forces to not strike the Kremlin and Duma in return, as a gesture of good will.

Also, Putin is in his bunker and the Duma is not making any real decisions anyway, so both buildings are not command centers, anyway.
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>>65185613
>bleed NATO
King Donnnie's Hormuz Hijinx may have cost NATO more than Russia's 4 year invasion.
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>>65185639
Are you a sober chatbot or a high human?
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>>65185645
>I'm sure Zelensky will order his forces to not strike the Kremlin and Duma in return
Why would Ukies strike that instead of the MoD, FSB, Rosguardia or the like?
The actual military targets are way more useful, I just laugh at Russians talking doing the same thing but only because they're too afraid to commit a senseless blunder instead, and now they're generating cope to justify being normal.
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>>65184865
>>65184878
>>65184916
You're talking about the North Crimean Canal, starting from the Kakhovka Reservoir. Responsible for ~85% of Crimeas water supply.

And also completely fucked now because the ziggers panicked during the 2023 counteroffensive and blew the Kakhovka dam, emptying the reservoir and leaving the canal dry permanently.
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>>65184916
It'll take even longer because the dam that fed that canal needs to be rebuilt.
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>>65181806
They have tons, it’s just all around Moscow, and to a lesser degree, st Pete’s and crimea
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>>65182599
underrated
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>>65185405
Even if vehicles could drive across it the Dniepr runs right through the middle. It's still a major river.
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>>65184945
Oh don't worry. The local zigger governor has already closed the road to all civilian traffic anyway, so everything moving there is by default a legitimate military target.
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So, uh, to get back on OP's topic, it seems this is already starting to show effects. At least, Rybar seems to think so. Pic relevant.
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>>65186232
Seems fake, they've recently just gotten Stepnogorsk/Stepnohirsk, no?
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>>65186232
I've never seen this format of the classic painted map with arrows before.
It looks like a local news weather report lmao
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>>65186283
Ukies have been completely silent about what's going on in the whole area for a while now. Rybar's now crying that the local RuAF forces are starved of supply and reinforcements, and that UAF have total drone dominance and are driving wedges into the frontline by annihilating select zigger positions with concentrated localised attacks combining artillery, drones and grounr forces.

>>65186298
Rybar's a zigger blogger. He's been making maps like that since the start of the war. They've become less common on /k/ because nothing really happened terrain-wise for so long.
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>>65186232
Is pic talking about theoretical Ukrainian offensive if russian supply lines were to collapse? Or just some photoshop job
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>>65186298
Have an old Rybar meme classic from 2022.

>>65186309
Rybar is claiming it's happening right now. That's a zigger blogger claiming it, so do take it with a dose of salt. Still, would be real fucking funny.
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>>65186311
>Rybar is claiming it's happening right now
What the fuck?! You sure this isn't this one of those "khokhols are doing super offensive, but we've stopped them" propaganda shits which russians like to do?
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>>65184916
>If Ukraine, in a gesture of goodwill, turns on the tap TOMORROW, it will still be many years before Crimea can farm again.
Nah that's not how plants work. There's not some magic threshold of how long there has to be water in the soil before plants can grow, there just has to be water.
It might be many years before Crimea becomes a big producer of agricultural products but that would be due to the delay in farmers returning, getting equipment, re-creating the farming constructs that enable large-scale modern farming like vendors for parts, seeds, fertilizer, etc, but those are all society-side and not dirt-and-water-side problems.
Look at those crop circles in the Libyan desert, they didn't spend years dumping water on the sand waiting for the optimal sand-water ratio. They just dumped water (and fertilizer) on the sand and started planting.
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>>65183292
Except for Crete, Belgian forts, Overlord, Market Garden(airborn did their job).
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>>65182599
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>>65186321
>Nah that's not how plants work. There's not some magic threshold of how long there has to be water in the soil before plants can grow, there just has to be water.
Nah, he's right and you're retarded. Learn about soil salinity and other such things. The reason you need to pump water into it for years before it starts working normally is specifically to flush out the salt from the soil. When water supply got stopped this desalination process of soil basically not only stopped but reversed, even more so than due to natural reasons because ruslims started actively pumping out water from the ground, which brought up salt in the upper layers of the soil kek.
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>>65186321
It is in this case afaik. The entire infrastructure setup in Crimea with the canal was basically creating an artificial water table, rather than providing a full-scale irrigation system for every field. That water table has to refill first now before most of the agricultural system can be brought back into functioning.
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>>65186305
>>65186311
Oh yeah I know crybar, I think it's just the lack of military symbols and the curvy blue arrows that put the weather report thing in my head.
That and I was a staggering drunk of harry dubois proportion during the height of the war so my memory may be a bit fuzzy
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>>65186325
By what mechanism would the fields get salty from just sitting there while they finish up the war?
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>>65186317
>That's a zigger blogger claiming it, so do take it with a dose of salt.
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>>65186352
The fields have already gotten salty AF after 2014. Lookup the degradation of Crimean agriculture after annexation.
It works something like this:
- the peninsula itself is surrounded by a salty sea (duh);
- sea water penetrates from the sea into the ground layers of the peninsula;
- that salty water then goes up to upper levels of the soil due to the so-called capillary effect;
- the salty water then evaporates from the upper levels of soil, leaving the salt in the soil;
- there's not enough natural rain to add fresh water from outside to combat this;
- now run this on a loop year over year, decade after decade, century after century

During soviet times ukies have built a canal to supply a fuck ton of fresh water from the Dnipro river, which among many other use cases was used to dump into the fields, which would "flush out" the saltiness slowly. Then in 2014 this stopped and the ground started rolling back to its salty state.

Then ruslims doubled down on retardation and built a fuck ton of ground water pumping stations, to actively pump water from the ground. And since they were removing water from the ground, that ground soaked up the surrounding salt water from the sea even faster that it would happen naturally.
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>>65186354
>take it with a dose of salt from Crimea
kek
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>>65186232
Not sure if it's just Rybar doompostting
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>>65186317
Rybar is usuall ya bit more on the depressive Dostoevsky-esque side of derangegd zigger nationalism
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>>65186377
Once Ukraine joins the EU they ca ask the Dutch to unfuck the salty ground for them.
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>>65186377
>>65187109
well you could just use the water diversion again
or use the higher than average levels of sunshine, acces to cheapish energy and low wage cost to set up greenhouses and grow more valuable crops than grains
even without greenhouses orchards could also work since that's already based on splicing and you can simply splice with more salt resistant rootstock
that would of take a couple of years to bear fruit pardon (the pun)
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Just remember that Russian milbloggers like to invent big Ukrainian offensives to downplay smaller ones so it looks like they've beaten back huge things losing very little.
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>>65187115
to be honest i think theres so much disinformation about the ukraine war that the most solid metric i have for how badly russia is losing is how easily i get called a jewtranny on /v/ or /vg/
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>>65187115
You look at the the overall trends and messaging over a period. For the entirely of 2026 Russians haven't had any big advances that they can crow about, no 'we're encircling X and the Holhols will all die there'. They've lost Kupiansk, economy is starting to spiral, Ukraine is raping their oil infrastructure and there's been lots of little push backs on the extreme edges of the front, because Russian infiltration tactics are terrible for defending ground. After Povkorosk Russian offensive ability has been pretty exhausted and they're out of ideas.
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>>65187231
There have been some indications that another kupiansk situation is happening in Lyman. Their only real success has been getting infiltration units into konstantinivka. The latter is their maximum effort front and the Ukrainians are feeling the pressure there. That being said if/when the city falls, the russians will have to assault the one immediately next to it, and then the one after that.
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>>65183486
Russia can build it too!
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>>65187121
>the most solid metric i have for how badly russia is losing is how easily i get called a jewtranny on /v/ or /vg/
That sounds like a solid metric and you should gather data on it and present some charts.
My only question is whether an uptick in jewranny calls is directly or inversely proportional to Russia losing?
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>>65181764
Isn't crimea geofenced by starlink?
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>>65187330
implessive
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>>65187330
I'm technically illiterate, is the joke here that Starlink works because they sent up a billion comm satellites and the box is just the receiver?
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>>65187357
>Isn't crimea geofenced by starlink?
Not for Ukraine whitelisted terminals I don't think.
I think Ukraine is actually on star shield now, not starlink...i.e. military use is explicitly the purpose.

>>65187364
>I'm technically illiterate, is the joke here that Starlink works because they sent up a billion comm satellites and the box is just the receiver?
We don't know how or even if it works, Russia probably has comms satellites that could be used but presumably not as effectively as star link.
For all we know, it might be a sat phone in there somewhere too, there's a few constellations that could be used though which ones wouldn't b& Russians, I don't know.
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>>65186232
>>65186311
By the amount of shitty slide spam threads today, something big is happening :)
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>>65187635
Refineries got smacked again
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>>65185494
Don't worry comrade, a solution has already been smekalkad and HATO doesn't have anything like it!



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