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cannabineer said:
What shocks me about Tam-5 is the small aspect ratio. That cost them some small amount.
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The guy was a legend in the RC world, he was so blind by the time they made the film he had to put red dye in the CA glue he was using to build the models. Gazzers have gone out of fashion, these days, electric propulsion is the way to go and I have bought several propulsion systems with a motor, esc, Prop and mounting hardware for around $20. Planes these days are made from foam or even cheap dollar store glue.

Stuff from China like Props, drone motors, balsa plywood and propulsion kits, servos are about $2 each and receivers $20 or $30. It's an economical hobby these days and you can build a fleet of planes for cheap from foam board, flying wings and FPV races using them are popular too, mostly with older guys, young people prefer the heart stopping and vomit inducing world of racing quads and free style to tunes on YouTube. :lol: If you were wearing FPV googles flying with a good pilot (anybody can watch with goggles), you would squirm in your chair and might barf!

If you ain't breaking shit, you ain't flying man! Nice tune after the first minute.
 
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What really amazed me about this war was the utility of drones, the Russians have no effective way to deal with them, I would have thought they would have the means to jam them or fire pulses of energy at them and disable them. Even regular RC hobby stuff can be used to mass produce killer drones and counter drones, at least, from off the shelf parts. The Ukrainian army is using commercial octocopter drones to drop anti tank bombs while hovering over targets at night and drone killer drones are easily possible. This does not just apply to this conflict, but to others as well, anybody but America and NATO, who can deal with them and will even better in the future! A small country can pump out killer drones like a WW2 American aircraft factory using cheap common materials and parts bought online from any warehouse. You don't need something as sophisticated as a switchblade, they can be hand launched or using bungies from a ramp. Their range can be extended by using various methods including different radio receivers. They could make a pretty sophisticated killer drone for under a thousand bucks that can be autonomously guided by GPS and hit within 6 feet, or it can be FPV'd to the target. Imagine a unit or a convoy of trucks being attacked by a hundred of them, buzzing around like flies and carrying a pound of plastic explosive each.

This now applies to a lot of smaller countries with grudges to settle or turf to defend, a million bucks could buy a thousand of them and they might cost closer to $500 than a thousand each. Many less developed countries are gonna be interested in home made switch blade imitations, made from off the shelf RC hobby parts bought online. Many of these places are gonna be talking to their RC hobbyist community, lot's of them are engineers or computer programmers.
 
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I'm not sure he got things right about retreating to the black sea, they were in the north, west of Kyiv. There was a battle there and it appears the Ukrainians have cut their supplies further north and destroyed large forces west of Kyiv. I think the Ukrainians cut many of them off who were over extended to the south of the highway. It's a long way to the black sea from there, someone must have gotten their wires crossed! Same place, different spellings, west of Kyiv and north of the main highway. He could have meant Mykolayiv in the south, close to the black sea.

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Putin runs away! Russian troops retreat to the black sea after a catastrophic defeat in Makariv 23/3

 
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Seems pretty jolly for a guy who probably just killed a half dozen Russians using a scope. They probably gave him one of the Canadian .50 cal sniper rifles that we gave them, he knows how to use one. I thought he might be training people, but perhaps they have others for that. He's also an example of Ukrainian troops getting rotated out of combat for R&R on a regular basis. The Russians are in combat for the duration, until they die, or are wounded, or are captured, or desert, or simply go nuts.
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Canadian sniper fighting in Ukraine is alive despite death rumours

A former Canadian Armed Forces sniper is battling two fights in Ukraine – against Russian forces on the front lines and Russian disinformation claiming he was killed in action.
 
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These villagers were armed by the government with more than antitank weapons, they had guns too! Some might have used hunting rifles and some old women might also have thrown bricks, but the level of their preparedness was understated, all the fit men were armed with AK47s. This is what happens when Ukrainians arm towns and villages on the Russian line of advance and give them a bit of training and guidance, along with some explosives to mine the bridge. There were a few regular troops there and armed local people organized, trained and prepared. Some anti armor weapons and a lot of former soviet weapons and equipment and a little bit of time to organize, train and prepare, maybe even a hobbyist drone or two to help them see the Russians coming, cellphones supply communications, with walkie talkie apps, if desired. These local guys destroyed a significant Russian armored force and killed a lot of Russians with minimal help and government resources.
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The small town in Ukraine which saw off the Russian army - BBC News


Heavy fighting is continuing across much of Ukraine. In one small rural town, Voznesensk, Ukrainian troops, backed by local people, have seen off an attack by the Russian army. When Russian forces arrived in tanks they were trapped in an ambush that turned into a rout.
 
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I would opt for a catastrophic defeat for the Russians before the ground dries out in spring, using a big army probably training now and advanced weapons, from NLAWs, Javelins and stingers, to drones and AA missile systems. They will have excellent intelligence, motivated troops, good leadership and plenty of supplies, along with an armed population organized into local fighting units. They will want to do this before the Russians can get off the roads and are vulnerable with many separate deployments of smaller forces that cannot support each other and vulnerable logistics, these can be quickly overwhelmed by mobile infantry forces using drones for close air support and moving mostly at night to unexpected places. They will have expert generalship and advise too, the Ukrainians have a general staff and many NATO advisors, retired or serving generals, they are well lead at all levels.

Vlad will have to settle and if he wants to live, he won't use nukes or chemical weapons, that might signal to the people back home that Vlad has got to go as a matter of personal and national survival. You never know though, he might be desperate, crazy, or wounded enough to try it, the more civilians he kills doing it, the more dire the consequences. I wonder what he would do if they blocked the Baltic from Russian ships in or out through Denmark? Not just Russian warships, all Russian ships, the only port they would have would be in the arctic, way up north, lucky for them there's global warming. If he breaks international law like that, then all international agreements with him mean shit.
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Ukraine war: How might it end?

There are multiple possible scenarios, from outright victory for either side, to a new world war where everyone loses.
 
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This will probably result in revolution in Belarus, or attacks against the railway by railway workers and others. Guess who is gonna get a lot more support, printing newspapers, setting up TV and radio stations and clandestine activities. The Ukrainians would want the railways disrupted at least and preferably shut down.
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Will Belarus join Russia's invasion of Ukraine? | DW News


Speculation continues to grow that Belarus will officially join Russia's war against Ukraine. The country has already allowed Moscow to use it as a military base and place its weapons there, even revoking its non-nuclear status to do so. But since Russia invaded Ukraine, Belarus's leader, Alexander Lukashenko, has said it will not get involved in any military action. He may, though, have no choice
 
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DIY-HP-LED said:
This will probably result in revolution in Belarus, or attacks against the railway by railway workers and others. Guess who is gonna get a lot more support, printing newspapers, setting up TV and radio stations and clandestine activities. The Ukrainians would want the railways disrupted at least and preferably shut down.
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Will Belarus join Russia's invasion of Ukraine? | DW News


Speculation continues to grow that Belarus will officially join Russia's war against Ukraine. The country has already allowed Moscow to use it as a military base and place its weapons there, even revoking its non-nuclear status to do so. But since Russia invaded Ukraine, Belarus's leader, Alexander Lukashenko, has said it will not get involved in any military action. He may, though, have no choice
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If the Belarussians join this shit show,I'd expect their performance to be even worse than Russia's has been,how much appetite for war does a young Belarussian conscript have being thrown into this by a extremely unpopular suck up dictator? News coming from refugees leaving Mariople says that the 1st couple of security checkpoints are staffed by Russian teenage conscripts who are friendly and clueless as to what they are doing in Ukraine,after those checkpoints as you get into central Ukraine these areas are staffed by older and more hardcore soldier's who are deleting phones and are much more aggressive in questioning,searching,etc.
 
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cannabineer said:
There are losses so some infrared.
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Technically correct, but the signature is pretty low compared to what those missiles usually hunt. The hottest parts are the transmitters, the ESC and the electric motor and they are often buried inside a foam airframe with air flow ducts for cooling. Their weakness is they need to transmit continuously, unless flying autonomously by GPS (and other systems), then accuracy is around 6' or closer. Of course starlink control changes things, but that is only possible with larger drones. Generally the electric ones have a low IR signature and depending on what they are made of and how they are designed, they can have a pretty small radar reflection.
 
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