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5 hours ago, Parliament said:

What has been the turning point?  Is it as simple as Ukraine being able to doggedly wear down Russian infrastructure?  They've been barely able to take out assets barely faster than Russia can replace?  Do that for 2.5 years (!) and you achieve superiority?

Two things, first, their long-range weapons that are just coming online - we've been waiting to see them in action, and they aren't even at full production yet.  Second, it's the concentrated effort (and success) to bring down the Russian oil & gas infrastructure, and by proxy, their economy. The Russians appear to be powerless to stop them from doing it, which means Russian air defenses are absolutely strained. Seeing a reduction in exports and gas stations in Moscow being out of some fuels seems huge, and that is while they still have reserves sitting in tanks.

If Ukraine can keep up a steady pressure on oil & gas, even increase it, I don't see how Russia recovers, at least on the civilian side. If they do something like drop the Kerch Bridge, Russia will have to have fuel depots to supply vehicles going over the land bridge, which means static targets (and Ukraine doesn't even have to hit a depot, just the infrastructure supplying it).

 

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3 hours ago, Parliament said:

Atom/Inka: Pound for pound, what western European NATO member punches the hardest?  (Per capita) who has the most capable military?

I don't know about per-capita, but I'd say England, France, and Poland would be contenders - England and France have experienced leaders (NCOs and commissioned officers) thanks to recent combat experience (Poland does as well, they were with us in Afghanistan). France has a lot of recent experience in Africa. They all have very integrated militaries from a combined arms point of view - they engage in training exercises on a large scale with everything integrated so infantry know how to work with armor and artillery, etc..  England and France have solid navies. Their leadership is serious about Russia.  Poland might get the edge in the future, but they aren't done expanding so I'm not sure how big they are.

Germany would be in the mix because they are large, but their leadership position is kind of wonky.

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6 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I don't know about per-capita, but I'd say England, France, and Poland would be contenders - England and France have experienced leaders (NCOs and commissioned officers) thanks to recent combat experience (Poland does as well, they were with us in Afghanistan). France has a lot of recent experience in Africa. They all have very integrated militaries from a combined arms point of view - they engage in training exercises on a large scale with everything integrated so infantry know how to work with armor and artillery, etc..  England and France have solid navies. Their leadership is serious about Russia.  Poland might get the edge in the future, but they aren't done expanding so I'm not sure how big they are.

Germany would be in the mix because they are large, but their leadership position is kind of wonky.

Finland says "combined arms?  We're good with iron sights."

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Russia is to Poland as ou is to us. With slightly less sister fucking in russia. 

Their hatred for the russkie cocksuckers cannot be over stated.

I think that gives them the edge because once they get started they ain't stopping for shit.

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Zelensky warned Ruzzia, "FAFO"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned senior Russian officials to end the war in Ukraine or risk becoming a target.

In an interview on Thursday with Axios, Zelenskyy said that sites in Russia could be targeted, after range restrictions on weapons provided by Ukraine's allies were lifted.

"They have to know where their bomb shelters are. If they will not stop the war, they will need it," Zelenskyy said in an interview with The Axios Show in New York, where he is attending the United Nations General Assembly.

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In the Axios interview, Zelenskyy explained he was hoping for the US to deliver an unspecified type of long-range weapon.

He insisted that Ukraine would not launch attacks on civilian targets, adding: "We are not terrorists."

https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-zelenskyy-threatens-attack-on-kremlin/a-74139720

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damn.... straight up telling Moscow " we know where you hide during airstrikes, we gonna blow your ass up if you dont quit"

 

he needs to send 1 more warning and then do a true decapitation strike against all the senior generals spots they know about.  (no chance getting Putin- hes hiding somewhere safe)

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23 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said:

damn.... straight up telling Moscow " we know where you hide during airstrikes, we gonna blow your ass up if you dont quit"

he needs to send 1 more warning and then do a true decapitation strike against all the senior generals spots they know about.  (no chance getting Putin- hes hiding somewhere safe)

One of those fancy new missiles right into the Kremlin would be pretty sweet.

But probably more productive to hit some targets near Moscow and make them move their limited air defenses in closer, freeing up targets for Ukraine elsewhere.

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For all of Russia's bluster, they've decided not to see if NATO would shoot down any of their jets.

FlightRadar24/FlightTracker getting a workout.  Now do Mike Gundy's replacement.

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Meanwhile, in Germany

 

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Update from the Guardian

 

  • Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his top military commander have said Russian offensives failed to meet their goals and Moscow was suffering heavy losses on the battlefield. Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address on Friday that Ukrainian forces had inflicted heavy casualties on Russian troops in a counteroffensive near Dobropillia in the eastern Donetsk region. Military commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi told reporters that “the Russians’ spring and summer campaign has effectively been disrupted”. Zelenskyy disputed Russian president Vladimir Putin’s account that his forces were achieving their battlefield goals. “For some time they have been forced, year after year, to invent new reasons why the deadlines they announced keep getting pushed back,” he said.

  • Syrskyi said Russian plans to create a “buffer zone” in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions in the north and north-east, to take Pokrovsk and to capture all of Donetsk region had failed. Speaking about a Russian breakthrough in August near Dobropillia, Syrskyi said Ukraine had cut off Russian forces along the Kazenyi Torets river in what he called a “trap”. He said that since the beginning of summer the Russians had been attacking with a tactic he called “a thousand cuts” – a high number of tiny infantry assaults. The active front line was now 1,250km (777 miles) long and an estimated 712,000 Russian personnel were involved in the fighting in Ukraine, he said.

  • Russia deliberately flew drones into the airspace of Nato member Poland this month to test the alliance’s response, stoke fatigue in member states with its war on Ukraine and step up pressure on the west, the Ukrainian military spy agency said on Friday. “Such hybrid operations likely aim to increase pressure on Ukraine’s western partners, potentially leading to: reduced support for Ukraine, especially military aid,” it wrote. The agency sent the written assessment to Reuters after Nato jets downed Russian drones that entered Polish airspace on 9-10 September. Russia denies planning to target anything in Poland with drones.

  • Nato is “united” and its members are prepared to defend the bloc’s airspace, Keir Starmer and Mark Carney agreed after drones were spotted over Danish airports this week. The UK and Canadian prime ministers met in London on Friday and a Downing Street spokesperson said the two together “expressed full solidarity” with their counterpart from Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, “following recent incursions by unidentified drones into Danish airspace”. Drones spotted over Copenhagen airport grounded flights out of the Danish capital on Monday night. Jes Jespersen, a senior police officer in the Scandinavian country, said the drone pilot was a “capable actor” and indicated it was a performance intended to “show off”.

  • The EU has agreed to move forward with plans for a drone wall at the heart of its eastern defences as momentum grows for a €140bn loan to Ukraine based on Russian frozen assets, reports Jennifer Rankin. After a meeting with ministers from 10 mostly central and eastern European member states plus Ukraine, the EU’s defence commissioner, Andrius Kubilius, said a drone wall to protect against incursions from the skies was an immediate priority and core element of the bloc’s eastern flank defences. The issue has risen up the agenda after the spate of drone incursions in Denmark, Poland and Romania as well as the violation of Estonian airspace by Russian fighter jets while Russia continues its bombardment of Ukraine. The Kremlin, meanwhile, criticised Donald Trump’s suggestion that Nato members should shoot down Russian military planes over Europe as “reckless”.

  • Reconnaissance drones that violated Ukraine’s airspace could have flown from Hungary to check the industrial potential of western border areas, Zelenskyy said on Friday, prompting a mocking rebuke from Budapest. The Ukrainian president was citing a preliminary military assessment of the drone activity and did not say when those particular reconnaissance drones had been sighted over the border region.

  • Belarus unveiled a proposal on Friday to build a second nuclear power plant capable of supplying energy to Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine. President Alexander Lukashenko raised the plans during a meeting at the Kremlin with president Vladimir Putin, who appeared to publicly support the idea. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the exiled leader of Belarus’ opposition, told the Associated Press the plans put “all of Europe at risk”.

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12 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

For the aircraft porn aficionados

 

Also impressed they've finally stopped using eurotrash techo music for the soundtrack for these moto clips.

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3 hours ago, Bevo said:

Update from the Guardian

  • Reconnaissance drones that violated Ukraine’s airspace could have flown from Hungary to check the industrial potential of western border areas, Zelenskyy said on Friday, prompting a mocking rebuke from Budapest. The Ukrainian president was citing a preliminary military assessment of the drone activity and did not say when those particular reconnaissance drones had been sighted over the border region.

 

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