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[Roger A. Shrubber]

I also might completely evacuate Kyiv as quietly as possible right before i began that offensive....If putin is going to use a tactical nuke, that's where he would do it.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/04/asia/us-philippines-military-base-access-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

US gains military access to Philippine bases close to Taiwan and South China Sea

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

They don't have a death penalty in Muscovy. This woman should plead guilty and when she gets to prison volunteer for the Wagner army and once she is sent to Ukraine she can surrender and be treated like a hero.....

It's probably not the Ukrainians, he's just another Russian asshole and they kill hundreds of them a day. He was the boyfriend of the one who go blown up in her car by another female suspect. It looks like an internal struggle among rightwing/mafia types. We have seen a confluence of rightwing extremism and crime in America, all the rightwing grifters are crooks and they are busting republicans every day, yesterday the FBI killed one, a former governor's assistant. Trump and those around him are other prime examples of such grifting, corruption and crime. Russia is a kleptocracy from top to bottom, so crooks are common. Shit like this happens in a mafia state.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

i can talk myself in circles and still not know a damn thing. The Ukrainians are good at improvising and working off the cuff, but the nature of the conflict demands certain behavior, and precludes others.
One thing you keep bringing up and that i think would be a good idea is knocking their railheads back a few tens of kilometers from the border. The russians do use trains to move a lot of supplies, equipment, and personnel, and the further they have to be ferried to the fighting from, the better.
But what the Ukrainians will do is up to them. Retaking Crimea and destroying the Kerch bridge would be a huge victory, but putin would retaliate with everything he has left. Perhaps the Ukrainians are trying to attrite more russian materials before they invite that kind of retaliation?
I personally would concentrate on solidifying a defensive line between Kharkiv and Donetsk, and then from Donetsk to Mariupol. that would give them a solid front to work behind, and the kerch bridge is 115 miles from melitopol, less than 100 from Henichesk...

We armchair generals can only enumerate the possibilities, obvious things like driving to the south and cutting off the Russians in the south, then destroying the Kerch bridge to cut off Crimea, it doesn't take a genius to figure it out!

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

i can talk myself in circles and still not know a damn thing. The Ukrainians are good at improvising and working off the cuff, but the nature of the conflict demands certain behavior, and precludes others.
One thing you keep bringing up and that i think would be a good idea is knocking their railheads back a few tens of kilometers from the border. The russians do use trains to move a lot of supplies, equipment, and personnel, and the further they have to be ferried to the fighting from, the better.
But what the Ukrainians will do is up to them. Retaking Crimea and destroying the Kerch bridge would be a huge victory, but putin would retaliate with everything he has left. Perhaps the Ukrainians are trying to attrite more russian materials before they invite that kind of retaliation?
I personally would concentrate on solidifying a defensive line between Kharkiv and Donetsk, and then from Donetsk to Mariupol. that would give them a solid front to work behind, and the kerch bridge is 115 miles from melitopol, less than 100 from Henichesk...

I might not be a general, but I can imagine what they would think looking at a map of Ukraine and the current state of affairs! Shit I don't have to imagine, because there are first class military minds online and TV telling me what is likely to happen!

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/04/asia/us-philippines-military-base-access-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

US gains military access to Philippine bases close to Taiwan and South China Sea

the chinese fill their depends about the Taiwanese president talking to kevin mccarthy...the most ineffectual fuck in the entire government, but they haven't said one word about this?
WTF?

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

We are starting to see some of those FPV drones the Ukrainians have been showing off in action with a lot more videos like this. The bomb one of these things carries is remotely armed using a spare channel with a switch on the control transmitter. This is primarily done for safety purposes and the drone usually armed before it hits the target, then another motion sensor or contact switch attached to the bomb detonates it. This guy had a video signal which meant he had good control reception at the drone, so he kicked it inside the hatch and hit the switch as it was dropping in BANG!

FPV Drone With Remote Charge Enters Tank Turret

 

[BudmanTX]

Welcome Finland to NATO......now it's time for Sweden.....

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Things like power transformers can be hardened against drone attacks by breaming and sandbags, but the main passive defense would be commercial fishing nets or chain link fence strung from high posts over the target.

Downed Iranian Drones Examined After Latest Russian Assault, Here's What Ukraine Intelligence Found

279,511 views Mar 29, 2023 UKRAINE
Ukrainian military is reportedly studying the downed remnants of Iranian-made drones, following the latest wave of Russian attacks. A Ukrainian intelligence officer said the Iranian-made Shahed-136 and -131 drones were "simple but effective" weapons. This happened after Russia attacked Ukraine using combat Shahed-136/131 drones and guided aerial bombs on the night of March 27-28. Watch the video to know more about the study and how does it help Ukraine?

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

How the Ukraine war plays into Xi Jinping's hand

735 views Apr 4, 2023
"I don't think Xi's peace plan has a hope in hell.'

General Sir Richard Shireff warns President Macron to remain 'cautious' in his upcoming meeting with President Xi.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

culpable? seriously? culpability is an issue? how about tens of thousands of cases of kidnapping children? How about cases of bombing civilians shelters and hospitals, schools?...FUCK your culpability, he was a fucking enemy, now he's a dead enemy, and you're next, comrade.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/blame-biden-for-deadly-st-petersburg-bombing-putin-ally-vyacheslav-volodin-says

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

culpable? seriously? culpability is an issue? how about tens of thousands of cases of kidnapping children? How about cases of bombing civilians shelters and hospitals, schools?...FUCK your culpability, he was a fucking enemy, now he's a dead enemy, and you're next, comrade.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/blame-biden-for-deadly-st-petersburg-bombing-putin-ally-vyacheslav-volodin-says

Hey, watch Tucker tonight and he will be doing the same!

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Welcome Finland to NATO......now it's time for Sweden.....

No rush, we can wait out the assholes, Sweden does not have a border with Russia, and they would have to come through a NATO country first, they can chill for a spell and are defacto allies anyway. Besides when the Ukrainians are done with the Russians, they won't be attacking anybody, but will be licking their wounded assholes from inside their borders for a decade.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

I think what you are seeing in front of the camera is a simple switch for the detonator and could indicate a shaped charge. They just need to put a copper cone inside a piece of ABS pipe filled with plastic explosive and detonate it from the rear, the focused explosive jet will go from the back out the front of the APC, right through it. They need some standoff distance to work best and that could be why the trigger is out front. It is lighter than an RPG warhead but still effective against armor.

Kamikaze drone strikes a fast-moving Russian armored personnel carrier

 

[cannabineer]

I think what you are seeing in front of the camera is a simple switch for the detonator and could indicate a shaped charge. They just need to put a copper cone inside a piece of ABS pipe filled with plastic explosive and detonate it from the rear, the focused explosive jet will go from the back out the front of the APC, right through it. They need some standoff distance to work best and that could be why the trigger is out front. It is lighter than an RPG warhead but still effective against armor.

Kamikaze drone strikes a fast-moving Russian armored personnel carrier

It won’t be lighter, and it will be less reliable. The RPG charge made to the necessary close tolerances, and it is not cylindrical. The weight saved by the more sophisticated charge geometry more than redeems the use of sheet metal in the housing.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

It won’t be lighter, and it will be less reliable. The RPG charge made to the necessary close tolerances, and it is not cylindrical. The weight saved by the more sophisticated charge geometry more than redeems the use of sheet metal in the housing.

He uses plastic and tolerances don't need to be that close, it is much more effective than a pipe filled with explosives and no liner. The trigger out in front of the drone detonates it after arming and provides some stand off distance, it need not be super-efficient or precise for these purposes, the drone will hit at the right angle and speed most of the time.

 

[cannabineer]

He uses plastic and tolerances don't need to be that close, it is much more effective than a pipe filled with explosives and no liner. The trigger out in front of the drone detonates it after arming and provides some stand off distance, it need not be super-efficient or precise for these purposes, the drone will hit at the right angle and speed most of the time.

nice! but that is not simply a piece of pipe, and that copper cone is a custom-spec piece. The designer did the dimensional heavy lifting on a pair of precisely matched components.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

It won’t be lighter, and it will be less reliable. The RPG charge made to the necessary close tolerances, and it is not cylindrical. The weight saved by the more sophisticated charge geometry more than redeems the use of sheet metal in the housing.

Hitting a tank or APC with a pipe full of explosives will do little damage, unless ya go in the hatch. Usually those that carry RPG warheads are easy to see with the warhead sticking out and no trigger required. There would be no point in attacking a buttoned up moving APC without a shaped charge on the drone.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

nice! but that is not simply a piece of pipe, and that copper cone is a custom-spec piece. The designer did the dimensional heavy lifting on a pair of precisely matched components.

Not required to merely multiply its effect and copper cones can be punched out to any angle. BTW you can punch holes through steel using a martini glass as a liner, or a plastic pop bottle wrapped in coper foil shoved into a pipe to provide standoff distance and a liner!

 

[cannabineer]

Not required to merely multiply its effect and copper cones can be punched out to any angle. BTW you can punch holes through steel using a martini glass as a liner, or a plastic pop bottle wrapped in coper foil shoved into a pipe to provide standoff distance and a liner!

look how poorly their best shot compares to the much smaller commercial charge