The best resource for that type of info is Oryx’s visually confirmed list. They have one for both Russian losses and Ukrainian losses. Every link is to a picture or video of the loss; click a few. Then just scroll and scroll and scroll.
Did someone just defect?
I wonder why
The US isn’t in a war with hundreds of thousands of casualties, the entire economy re-geared to produce wartime materials, huge needs to on-shore production as foreign partners cut ties, oil and ammo depots exploding all over the country cutting the two major sources of export revenue, central bank interest rates at 19% putting even the safest of loans at credit-card levels of interest, demographic decline that makes Europe’s problems look downright peachy, and persistent double-digit inflation wiping out the real value of everyone’s savings and making it even harder to afford imports.
In short, the US has a healthy economy and Russia has a wartime economy that is doing it’s best to win the war before an economic collapse.
Russia faces a shortage of engineers, turners, and CNC machine operators. The Russian job portal Avito in September received 2,000 resumes for turners, in comparison to 60,000 position openings. For CNC operators, there were only 600 resumes for 18,600 vacancies, despite the alluring salaries.
Those are some awful numbers. You know a large percentage of those few resumes are going to be junk applicants. But with those huge disparity rates, they are probably going to get hired anyway and the businesses are just going to attempt to do their best to get the junk applicants to be somewhat useful.
It’s the tip of a shaped charge warhead, though that particular one does look awfully like a barrel.
Not this specific link/story, but some of the recent sanctions specifically target things Russia has been doing to get around prior sanctions. Such as sanctioning specific dark fleet vessels, sanctioning new entities that have been created to evade prior sanctions, and putting pressure/restrictions on banks to not just rubber stamp transfers to obvious shell companies.
Europe has also been providing aid very heavily of the non-military variety given they have more spare civilian capacity than military. This includes power generation and transmission to Ukraine, parts, etc.
The recent Perun video also talked about how ~50% of power generation is still online in Ukraine, due to it coming from nuclear plants. Still not enough to fully power the country, particularly if transmission is not kept online, but that is a better picture than I previously thought it was.
Ah, I see we are doing Outlaw Star now! Gotta get in range of that cleaver, baby!
I know Russia is pushing hard this last week to try to take Kursk back. And it seems Ukraine is continuing to be tight lipped about the area. So I it is hard to confirm if that is where Russia decided to send the armored vehicles.
Russia’s lines in the area are extremely tenuous (the bridges over the river have been blown in the east/west section). So they absolutely have to keep up the pressure or risk an encirclement. Map from this recent video.
Wind and solar also have to be paired with either cheap natural gas or energy storage systems that are often monstrously expensive. Unfortunately these numbers are almost always left out when one discusses prices.
People do appreciate the lights staying on, after all.
Polar bears hunt humans for food. You cannot scare them away, you and your loved ones are prey. You will not win a fight against them, they are too big and too strong.
Unless you are fine being dinner, then yes, the polar bear is getting shot.
Speculation: Looks like some kid’s balloons that were showing up on radar. A interceptor was tasked to take it out, WTFed it was a balloons, then decided to complete the mission to clear up the radar return. These interceptors are not recovered, too dangerous, and it is doubtful there was another target in battery range.
Alternative Speculation: It’s a training mission for intercepts using an easy target.
America, fuck yeah!
A Mustard video on the creation of the F-15 that goes over the comic. Nebula Version
Bullets don’t have much energy unless the explosion is contained/directed inside a barrel. Here is a firefighting demonstration on how to deal with burning ammo. The tl;dw is: just make sure you are wearing the facemask and other insulated clothing so you don’t catch one in the eye, but they are otherwise harmless.
Also, as Wileshire mentioned: larger things like rockets and missiles can be dangerous still as the rocket motor can ignite, and send the whole thing at high speed to nearby areas.
FIRMS is going even more nuts than your image. Is there even a base left?
Yeah, an audible Jesus at that first video. The other sites in the distance just make it all the more…
I wonder if this specific missile was damaged beforehand. Javelins are pretty good kit.
Russia doing this shit doesn’t surprise me any more. Which, just makes this all the more sad.
Hopefully Biden green-lights long range strikes soon. Unfortunately, I think he is waiting till after the election.
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