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  I just tried several variations. Your theory seems to be incorrect. I just posted with no links at all in the post. No mention of any twitter handles. Just text.
  It's not visible logged out.
context: Glad it's official. >
  
  5 measly drones. Ladies and gentlemen, the second army of the world. >
  
  They’re not even the second best army in Ukraine at this point! >
  
  4th best, next to foreign legion and ant pile # 3. >
  
  It was speculated waaaaay back (Late February) that it was a potential reason why the ground forces of the invaders didn't seem to have any air support.
  
  Another potential explanation is that the VKS are not confident in their capacity to safely deconflict large-scale sorties with the activity of Russian ground-based SAMs operated by the Ground Forces. Friendly-fire incidents by ground-based SAM units have been a problem for Western and Russian air forces alike in multiple conflicts since 1990. Running joint engagement zones in which combat aircraft and SAM systems can engage enemy forces simultaneously in a complex environment without friendly-fire incidents is hard; it requires close inter-service cooperation, excellent communications and regular training to master. So far, Russian forces have shown extremely poor coordination across the board, from basic logistics tasks, to coordination of airborne assaults with ground forces activity and arranging air defence cover for columns on the move. In this context, it might be the case that the decision was made to leave the task of denying the UkrAF the ability to operate to the ground-based SAM systems, with the explicit understanding that this would be instead of large-scale VKS air operations. However, once again, this is not a sufficient explanation in itself, since given the limited fighter and SAM assets available to Ukrainian forces at this stage, the VKS could still have conducted large-scale sorties against key targets at pre-arranged times, during which Russian SAMs could be instructed to hold their fire. >
  
  How the fuck do they not have effective IFF in 2021?
  The last time the US shot down their own place looks like it might be 1991, and they've fought actual wars since, albeit one sided.
  It's insane that even corrupt Russia has their shit this out of order, particularly because this is the kind of shit that foreign buyers expect to work. >
  
  Patriots shot down a couple coalition fighters in 2003 >
  
  690 today. Still higher than average. Some pretty heavy fighting these last few days >
  
  I feel like 8 tanks is the most I’ve seen in awhile. >
  
  They seem to be keeping the tanks further back and using them as artillery instead of pushing forward and using them for assaults.  Because those assaults seem to end up with a lot of scrap metal for their efforts.  Praise be, Saint Javelin. >
  
  Any source for that? >
  
  It’s unclear how many tanks are used this way, but already some weeks ago, Russian milbloggers were having an argument whether using tanks as artillery was a good idea or not.
  The context was that they were being used that way. >
  
  Was the last dude the one who was just going to launch missiles all the time? I can't remember. >
  
  Well he did launch missiles all the time. Just the ukrainians failed to be impressed. >
  
  Only blown up so that NATO analysts don't discover that the tail rotor is pedal-powered, and, you know, all the illegally imported western parts. >
  
  
  that the tail rotor is pedal-powered
  
  Wait, does it have a tail rotor? Usually dual overhead rotor helicopters don't have a tail rotor. >
  
  It’s pedal powered, so only for show! >
  
  Here's a quick summary so anyone can understand. It's not a high tech weapon, it's actually the lowest tech weapon you can make. And it has a range of 150km. 
  They take an air dropped bomb that has GPS guidance. They strap that bomb to a rocket. They put the whole thing in a HIMARS compatible pod. 6 of these missiles fit in the pod. >
  
  
  And it has a range of 150km. 
  
  When dropped from a pretty high altitude (don't hold me to any of this, it's all from rough memory, 12,000 feet gets you 80km if I remember correctly with the best jdam upgrades - and yes, I know the units are mixed, that's to get everyone equally riled up, just kidding, that's the units whatever source I was listening to was giving last week).
  The question is going to be can Ukraine fly that high without major losses. I hope the answer is yes with the S-300s busy doing what airdefence ^currently doing.
  Edit: I was talking about just the airdropped version. That has the potential to be useful as well as this system. >
  
  I think /u/CyberdyneGPT5 is mixing up two things. This article is about strapping a Mk-81 (250 lb. 99 lb. warhead) bomb to a rocket and hot-gluing that mfer to a rocket and launching it from the HIMARS vehicles.
  I think someone else is also advocating air-launched JDAM (1000 lb.) bombs, but this article ain't it. >
  
  
  The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakhovka dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the Dnipro’s water could be raised enough to stymie Russian crossings, but not flood nearby villages.
  
  So they're saying the damaged sluices were from Ukrainian attacks? It makes sense since it would make no sense for Russia to partially explode a crossing they could have wired with demolition charges. >
  
  TIL HIMARS is so accurate you can target an exact spot to make holes in a specific floodgate from the shrapnel. That is insane. >
  
  Accuracy about to get better with the coming upgrade >
  
  Bloomberg analyst calling Bradleys "in effect, light tanks" has really riled up the tank fandom. >
  
  ...tank fandom? >
  
  Oh indeed. That's a thing. Big time. >
  
  I’m imagining subreddits like /r/TankPorn (which exists) as well as things like /r/tanksfuckingrussians (which does not exist but should). 
  Maybe a tank feet subreddit dedicated to treads. Can’t think of a clever name for it though. >
  
  
  Maybe a tank feet subreddit dedicated to treads. Can’t think of a clever name for it though. 
  
  /r/treadpilled >
  
  My hero! >
  
  Another Russian caught wearing Nato/Ukrainian uniform pieces on the battlefield. One more thing to make Russia pay reparations for after the trails. >
  
  So what exactly is Putin trying to achieve now? He didn't capture Ukraine in 3 days, and now it's been turned into a war of stalemate. What exactly is he hoping for now that would magically turn the war into his favour? >
  
  To break Ukraine's (the populations) resolve.  He has basically laid out a diplomatic way to end the war which would be Ukraine agreeing to the annexation of the 4 regions that Russia wants and holds most of (not including Crimea which would be part of the agreement).  He is hoping that making life as miserable as possible for the Ukraine population (constant power outages in sub zero temperatures, constant fear of missile strikes) might cause the majority to push for the Ukraine government to agree to Russia's terms.
  Now I don't think this will work but I also understand that it's a minority of the population that live in those 4 regions, furthermore as a large chunk of that territory has already been under Russian control for many years now I can see how at least some of the Ukraine population who don't have friends and family from those regions could believe that Ukraine should accept those terms to end their suffering. >
  
  Trying to break an enemies' resolve with attacks on civilian targets never works.  Ask Hitler about the battle of Britian >
  
  It has worked exactly once.  And it took two nukes, the firebombing of Tokyo, the destruction of basically the entire Japanese Navy, and about a million Soviet soldiers moving towards Vladivostok for it to work. >
  
  But didn't it "work" only because they were afraid that US would nuke Tokyo and kill Imperial Family? It was not about Japanese civies, but the Emperor.
  It never works against democracies. >
  
  It was a combination of factors.  The lack of any naval support, the hammer-and-anvil aspect of the US invading from the south while the Soviets hit from the north, the threat to the Emperor, and some of the higher command finally realizing that while they could make us bleed they couldn't actually win. >
  
  My understanding is that it worked because much of the wartime industry that was interspersed with residential areas was wiped out. 
  Anecdotally, my ex’s grandfather owned a factory in Tokyo that made airplane parts. It was destroyed by bombing and the family had to flee Tokyo. >
  
  Would Ukraine be able to logistically handle several hundred M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles? >
  
  Yes. Logistically a mature platform like the Bradley has a lot of expertise from the US. They [Ukraine] just need to know how to use it and do some maintenance tasks. There's expert support in Poland and Germany that can do major repairs. US also has them covered on ammunition supplies and applications of whatever variants are given. >
  
  Outside repairs are convenient in theory, unless Poland pulls a Poland again. Like they did when they asked the Germans to hand over PzH2000 IP if they wanted to set up a repair center, so it had to be done in Lithuania instead. Poland's greed added several days of just shipping to get a PzH repaired, instead of just doing it at the Polish border.
  It'd be ideal for UA to make repairs inhouse, especially if instead of only low double digit PzH2000's there'll be hundreds of Bradleys floating around. Let's hope the technicians are already being trained. >
  
  From what I read it was Germany pulling a Germany again: they demanded Poland to provide them a large hall for the repairs, raw materials, that Poland would pay ALL the expenses (including accommodation and wages for workers transported there from Germany) AND finally that no Polish personnel was allowed in the premises, because, you know, trade secrets. I’m sure these were generous terms and it failed only because of Poland’s greed and stupidity. >
  
  Where did you read this? >
  
  On the Internet >
  
  "Next year", so in 2 days? >
  
  Is Russia still using nuclear missiles without warheads as decoy? Haven't heard anything about that recently. >
  
  Almost every cruise missile that Russia possesses is dual-purpose. They can deliver both conventional warheads or nuclear warheads. That one case where a dummy warhead was found was likely a mistake rather than a decoy. These missiles are not cheap, I seriously doubt they are going to waste a missile intentionally to act as a decoy when they can just put an explosive on it and do more damage. >
  
  Afaik they are extremely inaccurate, which doesn't matter so much with a nuclear warhead because even if the nuclear blast is 1 km off, you are still dead. But with a conventional warhead you can't really hit anything without extreme luck. >
  
  That probably doesn't matter as much to the Russians as they are, clearly, more interested in committing terror attacks. >
  
  I just saw the recent videos of Ukrainian soldiers intercepting Russian cruise missiles with portable anti-air weapons. The missiles are moving so slowly. Are cruise missiles suppose to be that slow (hence "cruise") or is it just with those particular Russian missiles? >
  
  They're still traveling quite fast at cruise speed, subsonic but 450 miles per hour for a KH-101. They can burst higher than that on approach. 
  The manpads are firing at a short burst of 1,600 mph, so the relative speeds can be deceptive. 
  Yeah, I suck for doing that in MPH but it'll help us Americans understand with our 65-75 MPH highway speeds. >
  
  450 MPH = 724.205 KPH
  1600 MPH = 2574.95 KPH
  For non-Americans. >
  
  Thanks for the equivalents >
  
  Day CCCX, Part I. Thread CDLI. >
  
  Still fighting the good fight >
  
  Is it possible to get a post shadow-banned?
  Look below airframe unfortunately.
  Here is a screenshot when I am logged out.
  Here is a screenshot when I am logged in.
  Notice that huge post there, only visible when I am logged in.
  Anyone else see this? >
  
  It's happening a ton lately on sources I used to regularly share. It's automatic generally.
  Not sure what changed but certain Twitter accounts and other sites are instantly hidden. These are credible sources too. 
  I've given up on trying to track it and just accept some of what I post will be filtered.