Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Binkov's Battlegrounds" channel.

  1.  @cjthebeesknees  Homie if the US has to dip into the M60 reserve the nukes already dropped
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  2.  @ameyas7726  First of all, it was used in battle so you're wrong. It was used overseas. Second, it served the role of national defense. Plenty of countries buy fighters and never get into wars. They did their job.
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  3. Cope.
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  4. The commander of the battery himself said the modifications were minimal in interviews. Turning off radars isn't a away to increase effectiveness against stealth, it's to throw off HARMs. Which doesn't work anymore, because HARMs now save the last known position of the radar in their internal memory.
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  5. Koreanium Finnish Empire rises again and Fino-Korean Hyperwar occurs
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  6. ​ @jont2576  but what Washington Post says doesn't correspond with reality. So Ukraine with non-functioning weapons managed to attrit the Russian army so hard they're now riding motorcycles and welding corrugated metal to broken tanks?
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  7. ​ @morlov4076  The Bradley crews say they would be KIA if they rode BMPs.
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  8.  @andrewscott8892  both Rumsfeld and McCain wanted the F-22 program shut down.
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  9. The more you exaggerate Ukrainian losses the worse the Russian army looks for being unable to beat such a degraded force.
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  10. If Iran didn't want its consulate annex bombed, they shouldn't hold Quds force meetings there.
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  11.  @GreedosGun  They've shot down plenty of drones. Not to no avail. There's just more drones than effective counters. Which can change in the future.
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  12. Lmao this channel was called a Russian shill before the war. Cope.
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  13. lol
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  14. Taking ground costs a lot of lives. The Western way of war is making it impossible to fight. We'll just force you to show gestures of good will.
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  15. No such thing was revealed.
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  16. "iLlEgAl" bro name the law that was broken Shame is thinking you're hard for downing a F-117 when the remainder of the fleet still dropped bombs and forced Milosevic to concede.
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  17. Then Serbia kept getting bombed and Milosevic gave us what we wanted in the first place.
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  18. How much does it cost to replace the Iranian officer who was providing the drones and got assassinated?
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  19. Funny how you're not mentioning the Bradleys, which Ukrainians are praising and saying they'll never ride in a BMP/BTR again.
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  20. Wrong. The drones were not carrying Starlink antennas. They reportedly used Russia's how cell network.
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  21.  @rayven1749  the Gripen is deceptively expensive.
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  22. Lies. Not only did Russia leave the treaties in 2023, the US stores B2 bombers inside climate controlled shelters due to the RAM coating. And Ukraine never signed such treaties so they would have no obligation to follow such "limits". Which wouldn't be in place anyway due to Russia's decision to withdraw from the treaty. Now ask your Moscow handler for new talking points.
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  23. Russians understand what is fed to them by propagandists. Anyone who disagrees fled the country, is in jail, or hiding in their grandparents' house to avoid mobilization. This "survival war" is creating a massive crisis. Putin is the best NATO salesman, and he is destroying Russia from within. Men dying, fleeing the country or returning disabled in a country that already has a male/female unbalance.
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  24.  @Shackapalooza2010  that's a bad comparison because both the Rafale and the F-35 cost over a hundred million.
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  25. How it Putin protecting Russia? He's destroying the country. Men are dying and fleeing abroad.
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  26.  @longdongjon1201  It's not bots. We're sick of being played, we're sick of negotiating with terrorists. We're not bloodthirsty, Moscow is.
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  27. There's no two-seat F-35. The Hornet scenes had cameras in the rear seat while a real pilot flew in the front. On a F-35 even if there were cameras, an actor couldn't fly it.
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  28. And they snuck past Russians?
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  29.  @leafymarmot6348  an aircraft that can't take off from Navy carriers let alone short deck carriers?
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  30. Several falsehoods. The Kiev axis was a repeat of the Czechoslovakia plan: seize airfield and use it to land air mobile forces next to the capital. The southern invasion axis was compromised by traitors in Ukrainian politics, it is known that certain bridges being blown on time would have halted the advance there. Kharkiv was a massive battle, because Russia responded with aviation. Once AAA and MANPADS ambushes took care of Ru AF it became a slaughter because the best way to produce casualties is on an enemy on the run. The pictures from Kharkiv show an absolute butchery. But Ukraine outran both their supply lines abd also reached the end of their 3d topographic map prepared for the offensive and could no longer plan the best terrain.
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  31. According to an Iranian who "leaked" the Mossad docs to a no-name rag from Turkey nobody heard of.
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  32. They were absolutely allowed to. They just can't afford it. The US stores B2 bombers inside shelters. The RAM coating wears out and America can afford climate controlled shelters to preserve the stealth capabilities.
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  33. Depleted uranium is used in cannon rounds, not bombs.
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  34. Vatican uses ololooo It's super effective! Russian units are converted into the Vatican's side.
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  35. "the Ukraine" ya know, if you keep using that expression you will keep exposing yourself as a Russia shill
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  36. No, they didn't. They told you that in close up trench fighting in Bakhmut, shovels were used. Your either pretend to not understand, or you actually lack the capacity to do so.
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  37. Patriot systems are better suited for ballistic missile defense. The drones are easier to counter with less costly means.
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  38. ​ @TheZachary86  the US produces over a hundred F-35s per year. Russia's capacity is indeed laughable.
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  39. ​ @djordjetodorovic4176  That's nonsense. Not only can SAMs without air forces prevent overflights, the US has operated with air force and no air defense and still made it.
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  40. The US is giving another package and lend lease starts in a month or so.
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  41.  @deriznohappehquite  they say Ukraine is betting on "wonder weapons" but every damn day they say Russia has hypersonics...
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  42. Channel was liked when it took Russia's numbers at face value. Suddenly channel is hated once it starts reporting the problems happening in real life. Hmmm.
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  43.  @andrewscott8892  But if Obama had lost in 2008 then McCain would have been president, and he was an anti-tech boomer who didn't like the F-22. It would have been canned anyway.
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  44. But that's exactly the sort of videos he's always done.
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  45.  @atgimm2090  We're not downplaying Iran. We're correctly pointing out that Russia is running out of tricks.
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  46.  @maeton-gaming  Hugging the ground, releasing rockets in lofted trajectories, and buzzing back home isn't "success".
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  47.  @jaredyoung5353  There's like 600 of them.
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  48. ​ @Dominus1904  The war started in 2014 when Russia invaded. There was no bombing of Donbas, Russia fired at Ukraine first.
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  49. That makes no sense. They are slow because Ukrainian defenses won't let them.
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  50. Will they send 18 year olds with DCS training? Because quantity may be cheap, but pilots aren't.
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  51. It was a combination of carelessness, extreme skill and the planets lining up. The Have Blue program is from the 1970s, not 90s.
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  52.  @renos4939  "they've been trying to do an a jack of all trades fighter" - Like the extremely successful F-16? "such as replacing the a-10 warthog" - The A-10 has been replaced for the most part. B-52s, B-1Bs, F-16s, F-15E Strike Eagles, etc already do its job. "It's held back by the fact that it's trying to be more than one thing than what it can be specialized at" - Nobody says the F-16 is held back. Or the Eurofighter, Dassault Rafale, etc. Everyone uses and wants multiroles. Somehow the F-35 is the only that has a problem.
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  53. ​ @Doomer1984  The average Russian made a run for the border.
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  54. ​ @memberberry5898  "Sorry we didn't know it was hypersonic" - Patriot
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  55. ​ @ozymandiasultor9480  Damn and Russia still can't make the Su-57 cross section smaller than the F-16.
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  56. ​ @ViolentCabbage-ym7ko  Russia claims Ukraine took heavy casualties every time they lost a battle. We're kind of tired of baseless claims.
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  57. No? The F-22 was did its job.
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  58. Serbia didn't have a problem attacking smaller countries.
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  59. Russia is getting aid from Iran and North Korea.
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  60. Not really. Six were lost in Iraq. They can be brought down with a single hit from a missile.
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  61.  @maeton-gaming  "Hello fellow Westerners I am Joe Burger from Los Angeleski Oblast. Russia are the good guys, follow Incel Slava Z."
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  62. ​ @boxtears  The J-20, F-22 and Su-57 are all similar but distinct. This one is much closer. If anything it proves F-35 naysayers wrong, someone else did all the math and arrived at roughly the same shape.
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  63. Jammed GMLRS rockets just default to INS guidance, which adds a few meters to the CEP. Jamming may be no problem, but the thousands of tungsten balls are.
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  64.  @Oldsmobility98  The definition of air superiority is the suppression of the enemy air force threat. It has nothing to do with sorties. If you fly from Rostov to Belgorod that's a sortie. It means nothing.
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  65. The other way around. Soviet doctrine gimped both the Russian and Ukrainian air forces, so drones have to fill in the gap. Ground based air defense has also shown itself vulnerable to weapons like ATACMS.
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  66. But they're not. A lot of the manufacturing in Russia during WWII was American, a lot of resources were American, and a lot of finished products were American or British in origin. Then during the Cold War the production was spread around the USSR and Warsaw Pact, for example many Soviet ships were built by Ukraine and Poland. In terms of aviation their "mass production" can't match America, look up how many F-35s are built per year.
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  67.  @atgimm2090  I hope the protesters manage to topple the regime hust to throw all that effort away.
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  68.  @earlwyss520  Only 187 F-22s were built, the F-35 already has 665 built. How is this a career dead end?
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  69.  @giantskeleton420  The F-22 was "risked" over Syria to drop JDAMs in areas other aircraft couldn't go into.
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  70.  @chakraborty1989  "otherwise it can assemble a million+ strong conscript within weeks" - And do what? Do they have enough guns? Enough ammo? Enough vehicles? How would the railway supply line be strained by a million reservists? Can they feed those people? What happens to the Russian economy if a million working age men have to leave the country?
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  71. Medvedev threatened Armageddon if the Kerch bridge was attacker. He went back and deleted the post.
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  72.  @LordEmperorHyperion  How is Putin winning the economic war? Men are fighting instead of working, the US has not lost a single carrier, sub or fighter aircraft in this war, and most NATO members are not sending tanks. So how are they depleted, and how does Putin win an economic war when he's sacrificing half of his working population on a useless conflict?
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  73. There's no dedicated SEAD/DEAD doctrine or enough training for it. The Coalition had F-4Gs in Desert Storm, which despite some problems (such as running out of fuel too soon in Package Q), were flown by pilots who were dedicated to the Wild Weasel mission. Hunting radars was their bread and butter. Russia does not have this kind of pilot.
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  74. They're not selling anything. These were puchased decades ago.
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  75.  @gaborrajnai6213  The airforce isn't intact. Not only have they lost dozens of airframes, they also have a limited supply of pilots and spare parts.
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  76. Bradley crews love it.
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  77. 150 dollars worth of Gepard shells bring down the drones. These are for Iranian ballistic missiles Russia is trying to get.
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  78. The S-500 is an anti ballistic system. Not a S-400 upgrade.
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  79. TheBoomguy64 usa and other countries assumed neutral in this scenario
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  80.  @Oldsmobility98  Then why did they send riot police into Kiev?
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  81. Shortly? It served for another decade. It participated in the Iraq war.
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  82. Hold up, didn't Russia get IMF loans in the 90s?
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  83.  @chadimirputin2282  Amazing. So a crew is welded into a functional tank but won't use it against their own commanders? Vatnik propaganda doesn't make sense.
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  84.  @swedhgemoni8092  They fire a lot of missiles from submarines.
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  85. lol over 600 deliveries since last year
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  86. Never happened.
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  87. So Russia is losing to a destroyed army?
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  88. The poorly trained 93rd mechanized destroyed the 1st Guards Tank Army. The defenders of Moscow lol
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  89. There's like 8-10 Su-57s in flying condition.
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  90.  @thesaltbaron3029  lmao posting this online won't make Russia win
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  91. ​ @EvaExplores-x2x  the F-35 is "obese" because it carries weapons and fuel. You cannot make a slimmer fighter without sacrificing payload and range.
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  92.  @tetraxis3011  They've already announced a drone with 75kg payload to respond in kind. Germany in WWII was bombed even more and they were manufacturing fighter jets until the last day of the war.
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  93.  @mcribisback7105  First, Russia's defense budget benefits from purchasing power parity. Russia pays less for their own products so their budget is 220 billion USD equivalent. Second, we didn't send advanced air defense until the Iranian drones arrived. We mostly sent short range Stingers, which were declared obsolete in 2020 and a replacement should be selected next year. So no, it wasn't state if the art anything giving them trouble. It was Soviet/Warsaw Pact stuff and some old Stingers.
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  94. ​ @hansweissmann_xviii6754  The F-4 didn't need a gun. 90% of the kills were by missile. Remedied pretty quickly? Flight lead pilots like Robin Olds prohibited their fighters from using the gun in air to air because they did not get aerial gunnery training to use it. But they were trained with missiles.
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  95. It also seemed Germany was winning in the Soviet Union, and the US in Vietnam.
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  96. The S-400 already got killed by HIMARS. I'm not impressed.
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  97. ​ @Antiteshmis  Russia is using T-54s while the US has a desert full of Abrams sitting around.
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  98.  @susansullivan7292  "Too fast" - No such thing. Stop listening to Pierre Sprey. "different arms load" - It's mostly the same. "different mission (air superiority)" - The F-16 is not an air superiority fighter, it's a multirole. The F-15 is the pure-bred air superiority fighter. "less protection against ground attack." - Because it doesn't need it in the first place. It's not meant to get hit. "To my knowledge although there was talk about phasing out the A-10 for who knows what, this train of thought was reversed." - Because the USAF is literally chained to the A-10 by Congress as they can never get approval for the long deserved retirement. So they just stopped trying. "I totally get why A-10s cannot operate without the pre-existing air-superiority" - Forget air superiority. The A-10 is vulnerable against the ground. Even a country without an air force can wreck A-10s. "but the missions of the two designs are very different" - They're really not. The F-16 provides a higher percentage of close air support missions.
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  99. The large convoy could just move?
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  100. The US is sending more Bradleys.
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  101.  @aflyingcowboy31  "You do realise the Russia military has around 1 million military personnel right?" - Which includes office and desk clerks, gate guards, cooks, the drivers who chauffeur generals around, etc. The vast majority of an army are support personnel, not combat infantry.
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  102.  @joshuamitchell1733  "According to your own side they have lost/is losing territory, but you guys are saying this is how you win a war?" - Yes. The USSR lost territory. Then got it back.
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  103.  @joshuamitchell1733  You need history lessons. The Soviet Union won when Nazi Germany caused attrition on itself trying to capture it. Russia is making the same mistake as Nazi Germany. Russia should honestly stick to fighting on home turf.
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  104. It can be dozens of miles away from the industrial area.
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  105. You didn't see the prices shown in the video.
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  106. The F-22 has very limited air to ground capabilities, only being able to drop GPS guided JDAMs. The plot states that GPS is being jammed in the area.
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  107.  @rainerkinzinger555  "on the ground and in telegram" - lol telegram is full of crap too
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  108. ​ @FireBeam  Tungsten carbine is as toxic as DU. Russian and Ukrainian rounds already use tungsten. There's no point in concern trolling, Russia's invasion already poisoned the land. Might as well drive them out for good.
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  109. Yes. In Desert Storm a F-4G armed with AGM-88s was painted by radar and the pilot assumed it was a ground radar and fired. But it was a B-52 tail gun. The B-52 got its tail damaged, landed, and was christened "In HARM's way".
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  110. They're closer to the MiG 1.44 concept.
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  111. The point isn't the village but breaching lines and getting within range of Tokmak. Advancing until tube artillery can cut the rail supply line is a stab to the jugular as the only alternative will be the M14 highway.
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  112.  @zakkbrown9522  I'm a far right conspiracy theorist and I support Ukraine.
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  113.  @dusanstankovic5545  No, the EU did not confirm such thing.
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  114. Patriot systems have hundreds of intercepts under their belts. But a failure from 2015/2016 and another from 2018/2019 gets you people talking.
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  115. 1. G forces damage the airframe to. 2. Going over Mach 1.6 just increases the IR signature and burns fuel. 3. The F-35 has a stealth nozzle. 4. Shooting a fleeing jet is a losing proposition. From the moment the rocket motor stops burning, missiles get slower and slower. Meanwhile the jet is getting further away.
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  116.  @RadicalTek  Nope. Dropped JDAMs in Syria.
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  117. ​ @One10ab  Russian media accidently released an article claiming victory in three days.
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  118. Not true. Paramount asked for a Navy consultant to supervise the work and they spent a lot of time crafting the story. It's unrealistic because it needs to be a movie and because the Navy imposed some restrictions on the information that could be disseminated. The Fighter Pilot Podcast has an episode where they interview the consultant and he had a lot of fun doing the movie, he even appeared in a cameo.
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  119.  @randomdude2832  They have no air advantage due to SAMs and the artillery is held back by ammo depots being kept 100km from the front.
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  120. 350-370 million per Rafale isn't cheap.
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  121. The Soviets helped North Vietnam, dude. Double standards, much?
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  122. Cope. Kharkiv got rolled up pretty nicely, disproving your claim.
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  123. Russia is also cut off from many Western suppliers their weapons depended on. Russia may mobilize the meat, but they won't have the steel.
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  124.  @fatherelijahcal9620  as usual, "libertarians" ensuring that liberty dies by supporting every dictator on earth
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  125. The reason is that M830A1 HEAT has the option of being fired with the fuse set for anti-air with a proximity switch, and serves as a HE round in case of a near miss: https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m830_h3-s.jpg
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  126. How would they use materiel? They have no trained maintenance, no source of spare parts, no Western caliber ammo.
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  127. Ukraine traded ground for time since the start of the war. Then counterpunched.
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  128. @Postal Mann Not a single HIMARS has been lost or captured or else evidence would have been provided.
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  129. Sanctions seem to work well. They're refurbishing T-62s because they can't equip newer tanks with high tech,
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  130. A few years? Almost a decade.
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  131. Didn't help them so far.
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  132.  @hermannpiana6649  All you people repeat the "size of England" phrase. Well, the USSR lost multiple Englands to Germany. How did that turn out?
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  133. Least delusional Putin fan.
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  134. Did East Germans and Poles want to live under the thumb of the Warsaw Pact? Moscow didn't have a problem with it back then.
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  135. Big mistake.
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  136.  @J_Madison  Desert Storm. Iraq unironically had a better army in 1991 than Russia does now.
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  137. lol modern air defense systems, it's old Stingers and Iglas bringing them down.
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  138.  @c0ldyloxproductions324  "the problem with building an aircraft for bvr is that when u run out of missiles u have to still get in close" - No, you don't. That's a mistake. If you're running out of ammo in a gunfight, the solution isn't using the bayonet. You'll just get shot. "what happens when the enemy still has an aircraft that can dogfight and the f35 can’t" - What happens when the aircraft that can dogfight can't even get close? What happens when the aircraft that can dogfight simply eats a high-off-boresight missile at close range? "we should have learned our lesson with the f4 phantom" - The lesson with the Phantom was "give pilots situational awareness". Most Phantoms shot down in air to air were victims of ambushes they couldn't see coming and had nothing to do with guns. The vast majority of Phantom kills were made with missile, and the Navy never added guns. "Ull have to get in close and gun kill" - And while you're wasting time trying to line up a gunshot, you eat a missile from a wingman. Or while trying to get close, you eat a high off bore axis IR missile. The situation is too dangerous to want to score a gun kill.
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  139. The A-10 by the way is the biggest fixed-wing user of APKWS. The cost of Hellfires from helicopters or Mavericks from fixed wing is pretty steep, so guidance kits for rockets provide a middle ground.
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  140. Wishful thinking. The JF-17 already filled that space.
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  141. He's a pilot, not an engineer. How do you know it's more capable? The F-35 is larger than the X-35 because it has to carry weapons and fuel internally. Slimming down an aircraft means sacrificing weapons and range.
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  142. Nananana Hey hey Goodbyeeee
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  143.  @cemo3292  Patriots have stopped most missiles from Yemen, only a few went through.
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  144.  @cemo3292  Ukraine uses the S-300 because that's what they had.
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  145. Okay, which countries are buying massive orders of Russian aircraft?
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  146.  @rainerkinzinger555  You read some "news" that confirmed what "telegram channels" have been saying. Take your meds, schizo.
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  147.  @aflyingcowboy31  You cannot support 1 million troops with 180k personnel.
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  148. ​ @VladimirStevanoviclennon33  Why was Ritter in prison, by the way? And why does Barletic live in Thailand?
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  149. ​ @kresbes7240  Radar silence is not systematic defense, it's letting bombers through lol
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  150. The USN doesn't see operational use of Super Hornets past 2050 while the F-35 is scheduled to operate past 2070.
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  151. What war machine? These are old.
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  152.  @tracycampbell1055  The F-4 didn't need a gun. The US Navy didn't need it, the USMC only used gun pods for ground strafing, and something like 90 percent of kills by USAF Phantoms were by missile. The gun myth is History Channel fuddlore.
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  153. No, we won't need land warfare tools in the ocean.
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  154. Russia cannot manufacture enough tanks to make up losses, and they cannot train enough crewmen.
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  155. Syrians don't need to be fed or armed?
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  156. S-400s couldn't stop two Ukrainian helicopters from attacking Belgorod fuel dumps.
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  157. ​ @jamiegray6931  the win rate is that every time radars are shut down, the bombers get through. HARMs are consumables, if they coerce the air defenses into shutting down, job is done. The strike package will hit the target and air defense fails their mission by refusing to defend the air space.
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  158.  @ccdsds3221  "air superiority is not a thing" lmao
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  159. The Abrams had an unmanned turret design proposed. It just didn't get picked.
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  160. I mean, perfectly credible. Some dictator wastes money on three shiny new fighters, most of the nation's defenses are decades old.
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  161. Russians have bluffed a lot. Medvedev promised Armageddon if Crimea was attacked, then deleted his post out of embarrassment when Ukrainians did it anyway.
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  162.  @truxton1000  Your comment sounds exactly like what was said 10 months ago. Ukraine punched Russia's teeth out in Kharkiv, forced the Kherson retreat, etc and you people keep saying Russia will prevail. Another offensive and the humiliation will have to get you people to shut up, no?
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  163. ​ @pja6476  the USSR collapsed, no nukes detonated.
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  164. Three French Rafales have been lost to crashes so far...
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  165.  @chiraccorona2  Canada and Finland got them. Are their thermometers broken?
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  166.  @chiraccorona2  So they literally bought planes that can't fly during winter? Stay on topic.
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  167.  @Miami1991  Ursula is known for her incompetence. I think it's funny you use her as a paragon of factual truth as if her ministry of defense did not try to sue Heckler & Koch by alleging the G36 was a bad rifle and got beat in court. She's an embarrassment who never got anything right in terms of military matters.
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  168. ​ @yellowtunes2756  yes it did do something, there's footage of RPG rounds being blown prematurely.
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  169.  @Joesolo13  That is not true. The A-10 flew around 8,000 sorties, the F-16 flew 13,340.
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  170. Moscow was already in NATO range from the Baltics.
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  171.  @rainerkinzinger555  "I believe a ukranian in kharkov more than a media outlet in the west" - I believe the continued explosions in Russian depots and HQs than some random is Kharkov.
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  172. But then they'd be blamed for the flooding with 100% certainty. By blowing it, they have you defend them for free.
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  173.  @r200ti  HIMARS have flattened buildings that were either used as barracks or HQs. Tons of soldiers and officers taken out by the "flea bites". HIMARS also silenced Russian artillery, they have had to pull back ammo dumps 100km away from the frontline to keep the ammo safe.
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  174.  @gaborrajnai6213  Many donors kept their donations a secret. For example, nobody knew the US had given Ukraine AGM-88 HARMs until Russians started taking photos of the tail of the missile. Italy and France kept a lot of their support secret.
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  175. lel how are Russian losses minimized when they're driving tanks into minefields?
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  176. The DPR and LPR are Russia's cannon fodder.
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  177. Which tail number?
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  178. Schizo Vatniks sperging about Poland taking back Galicia while forgetting about the 80s Solodarity movement. They do not understand history.
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  179.  @Magneto_502  "missle defense will include something similar to the An/Seq-3 on jets" - And why would you want to get close to an aircraft that is increasing its defensive potential? Want to defend yourself? Create a window and run before you're dragged into the fight. Get all your wingmen to help. If you're alone and up close, you've already placed yourself in a low survivability situation where trying to fight your way out through circling around is simply not going to go well for you.
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  180. The M777 killed and maimed many artillerymen. The Javelin took out many tanks, even a helicopter I believe. The M270s made the smoking accidents. The PzH 2000 got so much work done they overstressed the firing system.
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  181. The US was using helicopters like trucks and BMPs, driving troops around. Vietnam also spanned the 60s and 70s.
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  182. Bro there's tons of bodies. But due to websites like liveleak being shut down you have to work harder to find it. There's footage of UA troops entering towns after RU retreat and the bodies are laid in the streets and rubble.
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  183.  @maxmagnus777  Countless videos. There's everything. Guys missing their face because they probably got shot by autocannon, guys with huge holes in their body from which you could see the yellowish fat coming out where the muscle and skin used to be. Tons of burnt bodies of people who were leaving their vehicles as they burned. Like charred statues. There's footage of guys who died and the bodies froze during the night so they're found stiff. There's even some footage of angry Ukrainians desecrating the corpses. They come from telegram channels because most of this stuff is too gruesome to post on youtube. In the early days of the war a ton got posted, but I guess Ukrainian forces are enforcing more opsec because the videos were giving away positions. Also the abuse of corpses is bad for optics.
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  184. Cope, botski. "Waa waa we were provoked" grow up.
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  185. ​ @РемиБоняшки  Shape and structure is the most important aspect. Regular fighters have received stealth materials and it only causes slight reduction.
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  186.  @nomanor7987  It's perfectly fair. Cope harder.
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  187.  @Valorius  M1 Abrams won't push anything back to the sea, if you can just send enemy troops to be bottom of the sea. Are you seriously arguing for M1 Abrams lined up at the beach when a double tap with anti-ship missiles sunk the Mockba?
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  188. Cheap drones, Lancets, 155mm Excalibur rounds and even 30 year old ATACMS have taken out air defense in this war. Turns out that even "cheap" weapons work. And the A-22 trainer aircraft converted to kamikaze drone slipped through defenses and hit factories inside Russia. It's not stealth.
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  189. Yes and no. Kharkiv was supposed to be the northern axis of a pincer maneuver that failed. Kherson was an oblast capital with the river on its back. Russia would have to reinforce the right bank no matter how the media portrayed it, so the city would be more important than Kharkiv.
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  190. lmao
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  191. The game has changed. It went from tank rushes to artillery onlaught to Russians making videos begging for shells.
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  192. THAAD isn't a replacement for the Patriot. Just like the S-500 isn't a replacent for the S-400. None of you people understand anything. Also, they're Shaheeds. Geran is the name Russia uses to pretend they can build things.
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  193. But pilot interviews from the time show that they did watch the tank to see if it caught fire, because if not they had to do a second pass. With missiles a single hit obliterated them and they didn't need to circle around to do BDA.
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  194. He posts spam to avoid being sent to war.
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  195. ​ @hamzatariq5073  It's a cross, a generic symbol used by many militaries.
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  196. ​ @comradesoviet the "expeditionary force" burned through the contract army, the reservist units (BARS) and Wagner. Hence the need for 300k mobiks.
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  197. Suicide drones against tanks and troops isn't the same as against playgrounds.
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  198. ​ @covid6942  America has troops in Moscow too. They're the embassy guard.
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  199.  @covid6942  Uh, no. They're not engaging Russian forces or overthrowing governments. They use "black ops" (lol) to protect dignitaries and infrastructure. There's a reason PMCs like to hire former SOF - they had VIP protection training. SEAL Team 3 I believe did a lot of embassy and diplomatic protection duty. Russia also has a SOF unit inside their embassies.
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  200. But F-35 info was stolen. Security had to be beefed up after that but it did happen.
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  201.  @garretttobin7451  "NATO contractors" never fought Russia. Ukrainians have destroyed prestigious units like the 1st Guards Tank Army. Ukrainians are more experienced in tank warfare than anyone on NATO.
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  202.  @Theggman83  Name a single NATO crew that has fought Russia in tank battles. I'll help: none. Ukraine has fought Russia, they have more experience than NATO.
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  203.  @garretttobin7451  Knowing how to box matters more than the brand of the gloves. You're telling me a trained crew of 19-20 year old kids who never been to war (or outside their country) can fight better than 1 year veterans of full blown war? Not even American tankers from Desert Storm have more experience.
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  204.  @garretttobin7451  What bodies? Poland, a country with 38 million people, which shares a border with Ukraine, had 2,500 volunteers killed? Oh my god!
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  205. Last time I checked, if you send 100% military age men to war you'll have no men in the workforce.
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  206.  @drno3391  20 year olds get top secret clearances all the time. It takes like 6 months to get one. The military gives tanks, artillery, autocannons, fighter jets to young men. They can't trust them with an intel brief?
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  207.  @ccdsds3221  that's the funny part, there's only a handful of them in action and they've already malded and coped and seethed about it so much they posted a video claiming they destroyed two.
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  208.  @bmwthreethreefive5798  The only F-15s being "replaced" by F-35s would be F-15s used for ground strike. And even then many of them will stay in service for many years until retirement. The F-15 is an air superiority fighter and the F-35 was never meant to replace it. The F-15 is to the F-16 what the F-22 is to the F-35. The F-15 is the expensive, overpowered, air to air dominance aircraft while the F-16 does everything. The only issue is that not enough F-22s were built and the F-15s configured for strike have proliferated.
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  209. lel remember when that happened to the patriarch's watch in Russia? They photoshopped it out of the wrist but left the reflection
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  210. Mighty Russia did not waste any missiles on the drones that attacked their Engels strategic nuclear bomber base. Who's laughing now, Ukies?
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  211. There was really no option.
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  212.  @CruelandCold  The F-35 is almost an AWACS in itself.
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  213. ​ @yellowtunes2756  Doesn't matter if the tank is cheap or expensive. To paraphrase the Slipknot song, when you dig your own grave you fill your mouth with all the money you will save. Losing the war is worse than spending money.
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  214. The CBS report interviewed the anti-Ukraine Amnesty International activist (several people who arrived in Kiev at the start of the war said she criticized Ukraine before the investigations even started). She said she doesn't know where the weapons are going. Which is obvious, the military doesn't tell the civilians matters of state secrecy, or else it leaks and Russians send cruise missiles at weapon storages. Then they cut to the leader of a NGO who does not handle weapons that only 30% of the aid makes it to the front. He has come out and said the aid deliveries are much better now. That piece was a disgrace to journalism.
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  215.  @spearthumb68  Damn Ukraine only getting 20% of the aid and kicking Russia's teeth in. Imagine if they got the full 100%. They'd be reaching Vladivostok by now.
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  216.  @nicholascazmay2126  They're not holding anything. They already lost massive amounts of modern equipment. NATO would just wipe out the rest like a videogame with cheat codes. Remember tank plinking from 1991?
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  217.  @randomdude2832  Strategic reserves exist for rainy days.
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  218. ​ @joebiggs135  Irrelevant. Crimea was invaded in 2014. The point is to achieve war termination by returning to pre-war status quo.
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  219. I'm pretty sure that they have more volunteers than they can train.
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  220. Over 625 "expensive" and "impossible to mass produce" F-35s delivered as of 2021.
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  221. Yeah speaks volumes about Russian strategic incompetence.
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  222. ​ @Jasonsoloka2024  there's IR blocking smoke too
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  223.  @dylanwhite3383  it was used for shows of force and bomb drops in Syria.
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  224. ​ @AspieTrips  He's wrong because Russia is getting military aid from North Korea and Iran. That's like having to cheat at school by copying the special ed kids. Russia was taken seriously before 2022.
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  225. ​ @Antiteshmis  Russia's GDP growth is entirely measured by Rosstat, the Russian state's own statistics department. There is no independent confirmation of their numbers.
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  226. One went overboard and another crashed due to pilot disorientation. Not engine failure.
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  227.  @J_Madison  "CIA/DOD numbers in said documents put losses at 7:1" - But they don't. They state Ukraine sustained at most 17k KIA, Russia at most 43k KIA. Plus 180k wounded.
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  228. ​ @AnnedolfFrankler911  How is it self-defense to invade countries that haven't attacked you? How come Russia isn't defending itself in Finland?
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  229.  @raysschoko  That makes no sense. It's Russia fighting to the last man, forcing them forward against impenetrable defenses. The US armed forces would suffer a lot less casualties than the Ukrainians, uncle Putin is a coward and he would nuke the world if US troops arrived.
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  230. Historically, Winter punished Russia in the Winter War with Finland and in Ukraine 2022.
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  231.  @hiteshadhikari  NATO promised not to create bases in East Germany. Promise kept.
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  232. Ukraine used helicopters to strike fuel depots in Belgorod.
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  233. ​ @xKevmachinex there were predictions about nuclear false flag last summer too - it's all schizo fear mongering
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  234.  @karlyo6937  it's bogus, they spliced two interviews together
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  235. Oh no, Eritreia's military industrial complex is gonna save Russia. It's Iran that's supplying Russia and little else from other allies, so essentially cheap Iranian drones get shot down by 150 dollar bursts from Gepards.
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  236. They have INS guidance and the GPS uplink is encrypted which makes it harder to spoof.
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  237. Have Blue is 70s technology.
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  238.  @majormoolah5056  It wasn't assymetry. Iraq had the Soviet concept of air defense (and some Western tech) and the US had the game plan to destroy Soviet defenses. It was a parity exchange, it just happens that the Soviet concept was proven wrong by the American concept.
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  239. Bruh you need a source to tell you that the VVS isn't dominating the skies and controlling the ground warfare from above.
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  240. the model for nuclear winter is based off the huge fires in Japanese towns. Cities made of concrete and brick will not burn down to the sane degree and throw that much dust up.
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  241.  @hansweissmann_xviii6754  No, you buy a better history book. You watched bad History Channel documentaries. I actually read the military reports on missile effectiveness.
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  242. ​ @TheRealBillBob  But Russians complain that because of Ukrainian drone videos, they're using drones for grenade drops instead of recon. They fell for the psyops.
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  243.  @TheRealBillBob  What translator?
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  244.  @CaptainBogroll  Yes.
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  245.  @r200ti  Ritter enjoys children too much. Ask him why he spent time in prison.
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  246. Yes, it has seen combat. It dropped JDAMs in Syria.
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  247. Half if those billions are wages and providing the troops with goods and services. So stop lying. And second, time and time again we have seen quality defeat low cost. These low cost drones make war painful, but do nothing to prevent Ukrainian victory.
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  248. That just means that Western air power is so good, we shoot down enemy aircraft with our own aircraft before they get within range of our defenses.
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  249.  @jebise1126  not true - Ukraine is getting smart artillery rounds. We understand one-shot-one-kill beats dumping munitions into empty fields.
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  250.  @u2beuser714  if you want a boxing match, call the gym, call the sports commission, call a referee and get a scale for the weigh in. You show up to sucker punch an athlete, expect everyone to beat you and grab weapons.
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  251.  @sweetchiliheat7866  "muh both sides"
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  252.  @Zetler  That's all just lies lol
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  253. Yet Kharkiv was retaken with a tank thrust.
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  254. That's wrong, and the A-10 has mostly been replaced by F-16s anyway.
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  255.  @TheConnorian  the spam bots are getting crazy, we thought the "information war" was going to be hacking like in the movies - turns out it's just people with walls covered in phones.
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  256.  @cedric3973  They started a year ago. Plenty of Americans have seen Ukrainians hanging around US airbases since last year.
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  257.  @josephjames259  A dozen? A hundred Leopards are being sent.
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  258.  @PrimericanIdol  No? They fly towards a fixed GPS coordinate. If there's an observer to direct new coordinates, then that's a job for artillery and not a 1000km flight.
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  259. The S-500 is an anti-ballistic system, not an upgraded S-400.
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  260.  @zerge69  One already got shredded by HIMARS. If a 70-80km range rocket can take out the command vehicle, I'm not impressed.
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  261. Then why was a Russian officer sacked for claiming that their artillery was insufficient and under threat of counter battery?
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  262. HARMs can be fired in a ballistic trajectory to increase range. If the missiles are set to pre-briefed mode, you don't need to fly over enemy MANPADS.
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  263.  @fearoffema  Quality has a quantity of its own.
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  264. Taiwan will just make the call that if they're about to lose, they'll just make the Chinese victory Pyrric beyond belief. Forget the US, before America could realize what was about to happen Taiwan would fire all cylinders and make as many Chinese parents lose their only sons as possible. The economic consequences of the one child policy when tens of thousands of males die would unironically topple the CCP.
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  265. Taiwan will just make the call that if they're about to lose, they'll just make the Chinese victory Pyrric beyond belief. Forget the US, before America could realize what was about to happen Taiwan would fire all cylinders and make as many Chinese parents lose their only sons as possible. The economic consequences of the one child policy when tens of thousands of males die would unironically topple the CCP.
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  266. ​ @lucaslucas4267 Russia is fighting Ukraine. If NATO showed up Russians would be rolled up like Iraq.
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  267.  @Awaken2067833758  Afghan farmers had fighter jets?
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  268.  @TheFarnhem  I don't watch CNN. How about you stop sipping the MacGregor and Scott Ritter kool aid?
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  269.  @Awaken2067833758  So you're admitting that your response had absolutely nothing to do with the topic, which was the requirement to have SAMs to contest air superiority?
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  270.  @Awaken2067833758  But that's unrelated to the topic. The claim was that a SAM network is necessary to protect the fighters. The US clearly is able to send in fighters alone and win. An integrated SAM network wouldn't have done anything against farmers either. You're literally just pretending not to get it so you can throw snide remarks.
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  271.  @Awaken2067833758  Why would attacks on civilian infrastructure be necessary to fly fighters? Also, this is moving the goalposts. Aircraft can carry cruise missiles too, meaning aircraft still have the capability to go alone. Serbs constantly brag about their air defense not being destroyed in 1999. So which is it? I thought the cruise missiles had to hit the defenses first.
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  272. In Kharkiv the Russians called fixed wing and helicopter support. Ukrainians with Stingers, Buks and Gepards were waiting for them.
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  273.  @GRIGGINS1  You were proven right about self-fulfilling prophecies, nothing more. The F-22 program was shut down too early. That means that the only option is to kill it and retire it when the NGAD comes online because there's too few of them. If the intended F-22 order had been manufactured, or even a hundred or hundred and fifty less, there would be enough of a supply of F-22s to justify keeping it in service.
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  274.  @c0ldyloxproductions324  "Or watched any episodes of dogfights" - It's an edutainment show that oversimplifies things for a general audience. Please. "in some cases retreating isn’t an option" - Sacrificing millions of dollars worth of aircraft and a pilot is not an option either. "phantom pilots had to get close in" - Because of many external factors. "but didn’t have a gun" - This wasn't an issue. Phantoms without guns splashed MiGs all over Southeast Asia. Again, the gun story is edutainment exaggeration. If you look at the actual history you'll realize it wasn't the issue you were told it was. "Nvr isn’t the end all be all" - Who said anything about BVR? You can be WITHIN visual range but not want to get any closer for a guns kill. "close in maneuvering gun kills" - No. It will be a trade of highly effective missiles. If you keep getting closer you will not survive the missile exchange. "in fact old fashioned dogfighting will become more prevalent as stealth tech gets better" - No. The enemy will simply pull high AoA, fire a high G high off boresight IR missile and end you before you can get behind his tail. "eating a missile from a wingman is highly unlikely due to rules of combat the wingman holds fire while flight lead engages" - False. Wingmen create interlocking cones of fire to support each other. For someone who tells others to read on the history of dogfighting you're not even aware of basic tactics like the Thach Weave. "the f15s were still scoring gun kills al the way up into desert storm" - The last gun kills in air to air between fighters happened in the 80s. "u can say gun kill situations are too dangerous" - The missiles were much less dangerous than now. "Then how come by the end of the war nearly all phantoms navy or army either had an external gun pod" - This is false. First, the Army did not have Phantoms. Second, the Navy did not field any Phantom with internal cannons. The naval variants of the F-4 did not have cannons. Gun pods were mostly used for ground strafing because the targeting was not suitable for air to air and many flight leads did not allow their pilots to bring gun pods because the extra drag and weight penalty was not worth it. You can look at the Phantom kills record over Vietnam, the USAF scored around 6 kills with gun pods and 5 kills with the internal gun. Meanwhile missiles were used for 86 kills. The Navy got 40 kills without guns. "there was most definitely naval f4s armed with a Vulcan gun" - Not internal ones. Wikipedia lists the naval variants used by the US, you can look at them. The internal cannon required the use of a smaller radar and the Navy needed the larger radar to detect bombers capable of launching anti-ship missiles at longer ranges.
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  275.  @c0ldyloxproductions324  That has to be the worst response I ever got. The point wasn't guns or missiles, the point is that you DENY that wingmen can assist each other and I provided evidence that they do.
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  276.  @c0ldyloxproductions324  "u can’t always retreat" - When the alternative is dying trying to pull a stunt, you don't really have an option. You will not save any lives trying to force a guns kill. "how they are to conduct themselves in combat" - Two and four aircraft tactics are literally based on trying to split the enemy formation so that a wingman can take out pursuing aircraft, what the hell are you talking about? "wat u said that is clear proven wrong with historical combat events recounted by actual pilots and dogfights was based on historical recounts" - Not only are you aggressively misspelling almost every word, you're talking about history that happened before the modern times. "the events are very much real" - The events can be real but the stories twisted for entertainment. The Phantom gun story is a twisted narrative that doesn't represent the actual events. Phantoms weren't lost due to lack of guns, they were lost to high speed ambushes in which the Phantoms wouldn't have been able to get close enough to get a guns solution. "since u clearly don’t understand" - No, it's you who doesn't understand but you simply insult others and claim they don't understand.
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  277.  @c0ldyloxproductions324  "wat would happen when neither side can detect each other because stealth aircraft are fielded by both sides?" - Stealth aircraft are detected at close range. The F-117 shot down over Yugoslavia was close enough that it could give the SAM a lock from 8 miles out. 8 miles is too far away for a guns kill. "The only option left is to gain visual" - But visual can be anywhere from 5 miles to 10 miles depending on the size of the aircraft and the contrast. Not to mention that with IRST/EO capabilities you can get visual from beyond visual range. "and fight maneuvering fights" - The point is that the maneuvering fight is now based on trying to get a missile shot off while at the same time defending from incoming missiles. With all aspect IR missiles and the ability to shoot them at very high angles relative to the nose means that you don't need to keep aircraft pointed at each other. "the 3 major super powers all have stealth fighters america China and Russia" - Russia has 12 Su-57 and they're shoddily constructed. They're not a big threat.
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  278.  @CoffeeMatt10  RWR does not warn of a missile shot if fired with the radar in track-while-scan mode. It only warns when the missile goes active, which is just a few miles away and seconds from impact.
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  279. @Postal Mann HIV rates in Russia. That is all.
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  280. You're missing the A
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  281. ​ @hiteshadhikari  It's also against international law to steal territory. Russia steals your car but then demands a full tank of gas.
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  282.  @03056932  What investigative journalism? Fanfiction posted on Substack?
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  283.  @lamwen03  NS1 wasn't the trump card, NS2 was.
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  284. +RinsvindMage but armed forces can control their training and keep fresh recruits arriving to replenish the losses, while the factory making the autoloaders is bottlenecked by their assembly line. You'd have to contract other company to make it, and wait for their factory to be up and running. You're right that human losses are worse than material losses, but not all material losses are irrelevant.
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  285. ​ @evananthony1395  Which genus was wiped out in Iraq?
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  286. ​ @thefuryritchie  The Donbas was occupied by Russia. Russian forces fired Grad rocket artillery from the Donbas which was replied to with counterbattery fire.
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  287. ​ @slyfox3333  Those ethnic minorities were conscripted by Russia. If you cared about Russian ethnic minorities in Ukraine, you should have begged Putin to not sign the law authorizing the annexation of the regions which allowed for mobilization and thus the mass casualties in that population.
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  288. ​ @YorkerEli  kek and yet HIMARS forced the Kherson retreat by potholing Antonovsky bridge.
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  289.  @YorkerEli  They had crossed by then. The bridge didn't need to be blown up, the structural damage was enough to reduce supplies.
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  290.  @robertwilson214  Skill issue. Maybe North Korea could have a bigger military if they opened up... oh wait the ruling dinasty would lose power if they gave up on isolationism.
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  291.  @JordanWallace-nb4id  Both sides have artillery and air superiority has nothing to do with artillery.
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  292. Tanks have fought without air superiority for most of history.
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  293.  @JordanWallace-nb4id  And? The ammo depots are 100km away from the frontline because they kept blowing up.
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  294.  @JordanWallace-nb4id  No ammo, no advantage.
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  295. What does that have to do with the air force?
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  296. ​​ @Joesolo13 Old Patriots were tested against hypersonic gliding Pershing II warheads. Like 25 years ago.
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  297.  @silverletter4551  It's everyone's problem, actual agreements were signed over this
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  298. How is it an escalation? Russia has been bombing Ukraine.
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  299.  @ИмияФамилья  lmao as opposed to your sources
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  300.  @VladimirStevanoviclennon33  The brilliant analysis of Douglas MacGregor was that Ukraine was on the verge of losing in April 2022. He's whispering sweet sweet lies into your ear to make you feel warm and fuzzy, but reality will come crashing down. Jeffrey Sachs thinks that it's possible to become carbon neutral without nuclear (wrong), that the 2019 virus originated in the US, he's pro-China, etc. Many of his opinions range from conspiracy theory to carrying water for foreign powers for no discernible reason.
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  301. The USN already asked to halt Super Hornet production last year as they think it's a waste to purchase aircraft that will become obsolete by 2050.
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  302. ​ @phil4818  Do not change the subject. Immigration is not related to the war.
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  303. ​ @ljubomirkocic6811  like Joan Jett said, I don't give a damn about my bad reputation.
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  304.  @freddyd1783  That A-10 cost to build is completely outdated. It's a 15-18 million dollar aircraft, but in 1970-1980 dollars. Adjust for inflation, please.
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  305.  @Slider93  all those sales had to happen anyway. Old stocks get scrapped and replaced.
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  306. ​ @theeternalsuperstar3773  Novorossiya doesn't exist. They conscripted the men and used them as cannon fodder. Recently deceased Murz said as such.
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  307.  @larrycable1948  And? Tank operation is a higher skilled job than being a conscript, and it's a perishable skill.
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  308. Ah yes. When you can't secure the skies and use air superiority to minimize your losses on the ground, that's just "another war doctrine". I'm sure the guys on the ground appreciate the different "war doctrine" where the air force could save their bacon but won't.
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  309.  @lowenhartw.4253  Okay. This video is about the air force. What you don't understand? Artillery is winning the war, but there's probably a lot of artillerymen dead or missing limbs because the air force isn't doing their job.
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  310.  @lowenhartw.4253  People are used to the US way of using air power, because everyone dreams of using it. Everyone wants aircraft to do the hard work and not put troops in danger. Iraq and Serbia has true air defenses. Other units are losing men to accomplish those tasks. They need to step into range of the enemy to do work, which means that eventually they get killed or wounded. And equipment gets destroyed too. Meanwhile an aircraft could do that without losses. The Russian airforce not doing those tasks is getting men killed. Little losses? Every day you can see the video of them getting struck.
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  311. Syria.
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  312.  @johnnykrauze  crypto has a public ledger, how do you launder money that is publicly transfered for everyone to see?
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  313.  @tylerissla7139  The Marines? Which is why they needed the F-35B as a Harrier replacement in the first place?
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  314.  @octaviacoquus8857  The US explicitly sets up the military to fight the multifront scenario. Considering we're not even fighting the European front, China only has us in a single front.
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  315. So instead of getting a breathing room and targeting the enemy, they're going to waste munitions on civilians? Why?
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  316.  @Gstyle1  It already changed. It struck multiple HQs and ammo dumps.
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  317.  @Nick-wh4jt  Then go volunteer to guard a Russian supply depot in Ukraine. Put your money where your mouth is.
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  318. Shutting down a radar to avoid HARMs isn't an achievment. Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses is meant to do that. If air defense wants to survive, they can. They'll just be allowing soldiers and high ranking officers to die instead.
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  319. "so they can free up 300k already in service and ready to fight soldiers" - Just stop. Russia already did that. They tried to play it cool and pretending everything was fine. There's no "300k already in service". They already got sent into Ukraine. Now the mobilized are also going to Ukraine.
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  320. NATO has not yet sent a single western tank or jet or naval asset yet you people claim we're running out of weapons. We sent Cold War stocks and former Soviet weapons. M113s and GWOT MRAPs. The only weapons we could run out are Javelins and Stingers which aren't a problem.
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  321. The US relied on helicopters a lot more than Russia does.
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  322. Layered air defense couldn't protect Moscow, Engels or itself. S-400 radars and command posts have been struck by HIMARS.
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  323. ​ @Ghastly_Grinner  the Ghost of Kiev was made up by the internet. The Ukrainian air force said he wasn't real but represented the spirit of the pilots
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  324. ​ @Ghastly_Grinner  Russia started with 200k and 50k DPR/LPR. Then Russia used regular troops to make up for losses. Then Russia mobilized 300k. It's estimated Russia has used 500 to 700 thousand troops.
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  325. How many losses in a week?
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  326.  @aniksamiurrahman6365  What happened to the A-50, Sergei?
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  327.  @truxton1000  Russians never had a point. They made up fake news. They brought down comms towers to end Ukrainian broadcasts and set up their own Russian TV channels to feed the Ukrainian population disinformation. They claimed Kiev was coming to kill them, which was totally false. Even then, they had to send Igor Girkin - a FSB agent - to start the fake civil war. Russia just sent Russian soldiers. It was all fake. They created the war out of whole cloth. The goal was achieved? The war hasn't ended. They achieved the goal in Kharkiv and Kherson city, and Ukraine snatched the goal right back. They will retake the East and then take out the Kerch bridge once more, forcing the Russian army into a siege they can't win.
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  328. Why do we need to test? We already know they work.
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  329. A growth of 0.6% is abysmal. 0.06% is downright catastrophic.
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  330. ​ @zsmith4853  Canada joined a military alliance with China in 2013.
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  331.  @pja6476  They were already several countries, it was a union of republics. Sure, they all were controlled by Moscow, but it wasn't a single country splitting. It would be very unlikely because the Soviet military controlled the nukes. So what if the republics wanted to nuke each other? It was still Soviet generals in control of the bases and with the launch codes. There's a reason that despite all the rumors about the black market nukes, not a single one has been purchased by terrorists.
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  332.  @pja6476  What advantage? Trading them off is the best advantage they can get. The factions? Let them fight for who owns the most houses without indoor plumbing. You have sons and daughters living in Paris, London, LA, New York... why fight for rural backwaters?
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  333.  @rayven1749  good luck getting parts if the E/F become the standard
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  334.  @chiraccorona2  Oh, the "reports". Several of them by people like David Axe, who have no understanding of what they report on.
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  335.  @AixlaachenPax1801  So what? The F-35 hasn't served as many years but there's also more of them. The F-16 has a much worse safety record, losing a shocking amount in the first decade of service, and everyone loves it. The Harrier had like 26 crashes in the first decade of service in the USMC, and today it's considered legendary. A British F-35 takes a dive and suddenly everyone loses their minds.
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  336. They have, many train cars were retired as a result. There's no licensed manufacture lol they just slapped a sticker.
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  337. The rocket engines have to be checked for cracks.
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  338. The Flanker series of flight sims was originally about an invasion of Crimea. The Eagle Dynamics team eventually made DCS and now the map is about the Caucasus and Crimea is no longer modelled.
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  339. Ukrainian crews have more combat experience than 18-19 year old Americans.
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  340. The US does not make use of carpet bombing as it's extremely inefficient and risks the air assets.
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  341. Many of the tanks captured in the Kharkiv offensive lacked engines.
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  342.  @keithmoore5306  If you open the gates to cause a flood you admit you did it. Blow up the dam, you claim the other side did it.
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  343. Each mechanic will be trained in one type of tank and assigned to the units that use them.
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  344. It's not a MMO. Why do free2play games without persistent worlds still call themselves MMO?
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  345. Did you watch the video? More than 300 million per plane.
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  346.  @flashpointfps7619  The F-35 has been used in combat, just not in air to air. And it can dogfight. The claims that it couldn't stem from a 2015 report on a test aircraft that had software limiters that prevented it from being maneuvered too hard.
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  347.  @MrLense  the Yak 141 three swivel bearing is based on a Convair design from the 60s.
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  348.  @ok-gs5ly  Harriers can do VIFF'ing. But VIFF and Cobras are mostly useless. They kill your speed and make you an easy target.
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  349.  @Nick-wh4jt  So? The UK paid off their lend-lease debt. The debt is purposefully paid off over many decades to hurt those countries the least.
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  350. Cheap as a missile? We have those. They're called missiles.
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  351. Many pro-Ukraine people left the East in 2014, and Russian citizens moved in.
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  352.  @catocall7323  A Russian officer was sacked for blowing the whistle on the fact that their counterbattery can't handle Ukrainian artillery. Russian guns have been suffering 20-30 losses on a daily basis for almost two months.
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  353.  @gaborrajnai6213  Actually it's just a few hundreds. Airworthiness matters.
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  354.  @alispeed5095  You can't see that from St. Petersburg. Say hello to your Glavset handler for me.
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  355. The Apache was one of the first aircraft to go into Iraq. It didn't have the benefit of a full SEAD camapign, they had to go in low and destroy radars.
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  356. No. Humvees and MRAPs would not be very useful.
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  357. The other way around. A manufacturer complained about the Russian government requiring an older BMP variant even though it was more expensive. Money is "cheap". It wouldn't matter if the Armata was the same cost, if the electronics required more lead time due to sanctions.
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  358. People really get their pp hard quoting Russian MoD daily reports on youtube comments.
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  359. The USSR also had T-34s, IS-2s, KV-2s, Matildas, etc.
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  360.  @destroydapacka  Here comes the cope. I didn't mention Lend Lease, I just said that the Soviet Union also had plenty of vehicle models to deal with.
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  361.  @KaloyanKasabov  the Russian disinformation campaign is spreading the rumor that Poland wants revenge for Bandera and will invade Western Ukraine.
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  362.  @Leoluvesadmira  The Phantom scored 86 kills by missile in USAF service, and the Navy never added guns to their Phantoms.
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  363.  @Magneto_502  And again, what makes you think that you'll be able to get close to an aircraft with defenses so good it's invulnerable to missiles? If aircraft start carrying airborne lasers and defenses get better, why would you think the laser wouldn't simply take out an aircraft trying to use the gun?
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  364.  @Magneto_502  "At that point it's going to be laser dog fighting" - How can you "dogfight" when the lasers themselves prevent you from getting near? You can't "dogfight" a laser gimbal that simply turns back and burns a hole in your aircraft. The same thing that makes active defenses against missiles effective is the same thing that ends dogfights forever. You can't have one. You'll just die.
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  365.  @Leoluvesadmira  "the IR seeker still needs to be able to see the target" - And the IR seeker can not only go off boresight and see targets almost 70-90º to your flight vector, modern missiles are starting to get built-in with the capability to have sensor fusion dictate a target to them or even the pilot's helmet mark a target, come off the rail, turn into the target, then turn on the seeker. Yes, the seeker needs to be able to see the target. And now you can make the missile go to where it needs to be, and then "open its eye" to see the target. And the IR seeker is effective at essentially double-digits on the number of miles. So who'd want to get close anyway? "the same holds true for a radar seeker" - Okay. Not only are radars capable of having a very wide cone of scanning, you also have RWR, you also are linked to your wingmen's radars and also receiving information from AWACS. So even though you have some limits (and sensor fusion is starting to address them) you're very unlikely to not just be able to mark a target and fire. "I need to turn or pull some maneuver to see him" - The problem is that you need to understand that fundamentally everything has changed. That "maneuver" is pulling high AoA and firing. That's it. The F-35 is usually compared to the Hornet in nose authority, which means you can point it really well. And this now matters more than being able to turn like in the old days. What used to take several minutes of dancing around to position yourself for a missile shot is now done in seconds. Everyone can just shoot at each other and the missiles are deadlier than ever. So who would want to get close?
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  366. "Nato + usa" what does that even mean???
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  367. Peace? With a knife to the neck? We know what Rusnyas do to Ukrainians who surrender.
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  368.  @joeclaridy  Enrichment facilities is the most complicated part of proliferation. This could be a decades long setback if the PhDs and engineers responsible for the plant were inside when it was struck. It would also have to be located in a new site that would be easier to attack as the "secret" facility in the impenetrable mountain collapsed.
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  369.  @sergarlantyrell7847  Because the aircraft in the air were patrolling for attacks against the airbase. If they had attacked the SAMs the aircraft would know the target was the enrichment facility and go there.
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  370.  @sergarlantyrell7847  Yes, that's right. That was the reason for the time limit. I guess the attack on the defenses would tell the fighters to look in the trench because they were travelling west when looking for targets, rather than south.
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  371. ​​ @myronplatte8354  If they're not in a hurry to take territory, why are they doing frontal assaults on Bakhmut? They tried to encircle the city and Ukraine reinforced the flanks to stop the capture of the city. So they were forced to do what they didn't want to do, attack the city itself. That means they want territory at all costs.
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  372. They said they'd use nukes to protect annexed areas. Then Ukraine invaded those areas after the fake referenda. They said nukes would fly if Kerch bridge was attacked. Then they didn't.
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  373. They spend more Rubles on defense, less money to support their forces on the ground.
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  374. The C variant isn't STOVL...
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  375. How is it a sitting duck? It splashes 4th gen aircraft at a 17 to 1 ratio. Without many missiles? They carry 4 AMRAAMs in the B and C variant, 6 in the F-35A. A flight of 4 F-35As can wipe out 24 enemy fighters in one sortie.
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  376.  @texasranger24  Your argument makes no sense. Why would the enemy get that close before taking a shot? He's literally walking into the wolf's den and signing his own death warrant by doing that. Few missiles? Do you think a single enemy pilot wants to dodge 6 AMRAAMs? I don't think they'd win. It would be a draw because of the AIM-9X. Anything the MiG, Sukohi or Eurofighter do, they eat a missile. They may as well take out the F-35, but they will always eat a missile. The F-35 can pull high AoA and take the high off boresight shot no problem, meaning that there's no aircraft in the world that can escape. Not to mention that real life isn't a 1:1 jousting match. An invading force could take out a few F-35s from that starting position, but the rest would start shooting missiles at the confirmed hostiles. There's hundreds of F-35s manufactured and delivered. Who has an air force large enough to deal with that?
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  377. I know this is the fault of who wrote the information for the sponsor slot, but how is warthunder a MMO? It's not any more "massive" than a Battlefield server, there's no persistent world, it's only instanced combat, etc.
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  378.  @jonnekallu1627  the first weapons sent only take a day or two to train. The weapons being sent right now required months of training.
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  379. TWO! MORE! WEEKS!
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  380. Insulin could be cheap but legislation monopolized the market.
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  381. ​ @YorkerEli  The West has not sent a single Western fighter yet, only a handful of tanks, and Desert Storm era Bradleys. How are we depleted?
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  382.  @YorkerEli  We have stockpiles and factories.
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  383.  @caelestemundus5178  WWII did not have modern anti-ship missiles. Did you watch the first months of the war, how Ukraine used a Tochka-U (which isn't even an anti-ship missile) to target a Russian supply ship?
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  384. Exactly. We shouldn't pass laws banning Nazism, communism, Pastafarianism or flat earthers. We shouldn't resort to censorship.
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  385.  @oskargrabnar2869  No. Uniformed soldiers. They had been dead long enough that their eyes were missing, and some were beneath the rubble as they died during fighting.
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  386. There's British planes flying over the Black Sea too.
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  387.  @nomanor7987  Operation Barbarossa was an invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany. Russia is the invader.
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  388.  @ВикторФирсов-е9ф  The cleaning operations involved digging up the topsoil and burying it under "clean" soil. Allegedly Russian troops dug trenches, which turned a safe area into a hotspot. Chernobyl isn't as dangerous as it was thanks to the work of Liquidators. But digging around uncovers what's been buried for our own safety.
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  389.  @maybeasinner8007  The radiation if you walk around is not serious. But many isotopes like Strontium 90 and Caesium 137 have a 30 year half-life and it's been almost 40 years, so those have little under half the radiation compared to 1986. It's still serious. The reason you can walk around the exclusion zone is because the soil was turned over to bury most of the fallout, and rain washed down the rest. But if you dig, you kick up dust. That's why it's said you don't pet the Chernobyl animals, they may have dug around and got dust in their fur.
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  390. Here comes the Storm Z reject squad.
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  391. But the Pantsir protects the S-400 from getting swarmed. Like the saying goes, if it bleeds... we can kill it.
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  392. @C. Caner Telimenli so in the end it won't matter how good the equippment is, if operators are just going to neglect their duties.
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  393. Above ground nuclear tests are banned.
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  394.  @Valorius  1. You won't have the ability to operate the M1 effectively in Pacific islands. 2. Which also means the "heavy armor" force opposing will also be operating in terrible conditions if they actually deploy. 3. Abrams can't swim. If the enemy has armor waiting for you, you won't be able to use it until you've already landed the troops.
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  395.  @johnroberts9922  The kill potential of the NASAMS comes from the fact that the radar and launcher can be placed so far apart that the pilot on the receiving end can't use the RWR to defend.
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  396.  @gaborrajnai6213  Solid fuel boosters are used by almost all missiles. Gliding to target is what every missile does. Even the Meteor uses solid fuel, but with an air intake instead of using pre-mixed oxidizer. They can maneuver in the terminal phase by having a long sustain phase. Give any missile a powerful boost phase, or sustain phase, and they all maneuver well in the terminal. All it takes is speed and/or altitude.
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  397. 17:1 at Red Flag, though
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  398.  @the13xiii52  "Russians make weapons in quantity." - There's like 40 Armatas and 14 Su-57s...
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  399. Why would Russia buy tanks they can't get parts or ammo for?
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  400. It delivered JDAMs in Syria.
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  401. The fighter mafia hated the F-15 and lobbied for the lightweight fighter program.
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  402. Why?
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  403.  @patrickradcliffe3837  "you spent more then a trillion dollars on this weapons system" - That's not true. The trillion dollars is a projected cost of the entire fleet until retirement.
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  404.  @patrickradcliffe3837  That's government work for you. Either way the 500 cap makes no sense considering that the USAF will surpass 300 next year, and that's just in F-35As. Even the most drastic cut proposed was 800 units, but a more "realistic" proposal is 1,050 units.
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  405.  @patrickradcliffe3837  The US at the time was not involved in any conflict that would require the F-22.
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  406.  @patrickradcliffe3837  Why? The F-35 falls completely in line with modern needs.
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  407. Our priority is destroying those using gas as a weapon against us.
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  408.  @rmeinhofer  Victoria Nuland? A que mandou a União Europeia para o caralho porque os EUA queriam que o Yanukovych ficasse com o poder? O Putin activou a missão na Crimeia e os falsos separatistas do FSB antes que algum Nazi tivesse atacado alguém.
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  409.  @hamzatariq5073  Nazis did not have a cross symbol. That was a German symbol prior to Nazi Germany.
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  410.  @comradesoviet  The mobiks are doing frontline assaults. Which tend to go terribly bad.
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  411. ​@Marie Tsuki Equipment "reserves" has two meanings. There's stuff in storage WE DON'T USE AT ALL and need to be dismantled. There's the reserves of ammunition which exist to have enough for training and emergencies. We didn't empty the equipment reserves, and the ammo reserves will be replenished by increased production.
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  412. @Marie Tsuki Did you read my comment?
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  413. In June they had the battle for Sievrodonetsk. You're using one of the bloodiest battles to establish a baseline.
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  414. A figurehead?
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  415.  @tawahachee  A government building full of FSB agents.
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  416. "Two more weeks"
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  417. Except they're getting the old stuff.
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  418. And the A-10 got killed. The USAF is forced to keep dragging it around but it gets less and less missions.
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  419. ​ @yakovbrod9992  bots are human. Like in Chernobyl "bio-robots" cleaned up the radioactive material, the Russian government pays humans to be bots.
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  420.  @fredwerza3478  That quote was by a guy who stole it from The Godfather movies. He made it up.
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  421.  @fredwerza3478  Whatever you want to believe.
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  422. Post Kiyv Post Snake Island Post Moskva Post Kharkiv Post Kherson
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  423.  @garretttobin7451  So basically an insignificant amount? 10,000 Russians died in like a week of human wave attacks.
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  424. ​ @Xeonophon Armies were larger in WW2, invalid argument.
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  425. ​ @Slavic_Goblin  Glide bombs were dropped outside Ukraine for over a year. I'm sure Kiyv Post reported on it then. Saying it is happening "now" is propaganda as it intends to convey improvement. There isn't. Belgorod was bombed multiple times because the shoddy guidance kits fell off and the live bomb just dropped into cities.
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  426. No, it's not safe to assume that. We'd see that from space. You can't hide the factories and airframes for a thousand aircraft.
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  427. They didn't have a plan to blow the dam. Just sluice gates. A plan which is irrelevant now because Russians are already across the river so making a crossing harder does not help Ukraine.
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  428. So they switched to attrition, but then attrited their own forces with frontal assaults...?
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  429.  @lyntoncampbell1425  They did it. They tried to copy Shock & Awe and failed.
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  430.  @thegoldengoat2560  Exactly. Should have neen retired in 1993 as it was meant to.
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  431.  @vii7031  It was an air launched Iskander. It's hypersonic in the technical sense that it reaches mach 5 during flight but it's not an air breathing hypersonic.
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  432. They don't need to come near the frontline.
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  433.  @janis.lauva.  You don't understand aircraft. They can drop bombs from tens of miles away.
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  434. The original Star Wars used the plot from 633 Squadron and The Dam Busters.
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  435. Lacking the A, boy.
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  436. (sorry if it doubleposts) When it comes to Americans, the 120mm M830 had a flat nose design, but the replacement M830A1 has an aerodynamic cone.
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  437.  @thehorsecockexpress1068  Ukraine doesn't want foreign volunteers.
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  438.  @Bubo-Scandiacus-Hoot  They either got in early or have extensive experience. The volunteers were worse than useless and Ukraine asked them to go home. Only around 20k remain, and they're not taking more. Save for exceptions.
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  439. Until someone finally slaps an electro-optical tracker on a 50 cal and starts to shoot them down just just a few dollars worth of ammo.
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  440.  @pogo1140  I think it's funny this was somewhat addressed in the movie Stealth. When they use dispensables they say "releasing chaff and flares" (or "chaffing flares" although that sounds dumb).
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  441.  @warmachine676  And Israel is Israeli soil, which the Quds force has been attacking.
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  442. But the F-15EX costs almost as much as a F-35A.
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  443.  @duceposting1831  But the crew inside doesn't die.
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  444.  @thiagorodrigues5211  The Vietnamese destroyed US planes with SAMs. The Soviet fighters got a clubbing, there's a reason the F-4 Phantom is called the "World's Biggest Distributor of MiG Parts".
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  445.  @duceposting1831  And yet they praise the Bradley. Why would they do that?
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  446.  @duceposting1831  Armor thickness and material doesn't trump design. We have the videos of crews exiting taken out Bradleys. They are good vehicles. Period. The men driving them say the BMPs are death traps in comparison. They know this war. You just post about it and say it's all the same after driving neither.
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  447. They wouldn't have sent F-22s if the mission wasn't too dangerous for other aircraft.
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  448.  @r200ti  Damn Ukraine ran out of tricks in Feb and still clowning the Russians.
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  449.  @londonberry2180  It was repaired in a day or two.
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  450.  @randomdude2832  Go back to Kharkiv. Russia lost like 7 planes and helicopters trying to provide air support to their troops, then stopped responding to calls for support. There's more than strategic SAMs. There's mobile platforms like the Buk, Osa, even a couple captured Pantsirs. A combo of Buks, Gepards and Stingers sprung the trap in Kharkiv and shot down the aircraft coming into the scene. There's videos of the Russian soldiers in Bakhmut begging for artillery support.
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  451.  @randomdude2832  In one or two days. lol, still seething about the Ghost of Kiev 11 months later. Obsessed. They're not using drones with impunity. Truck mounted machine guns and Gepards take them out. They don't use jets and helicopters in combat extensively. They're almost unseen, only doing long distance unguided rocket volleys.
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  452.  @ViolentCabbage-ym7ko  Russia hasn't crumbled because of Iran and North Korea.
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  453.  @andrewscott8892  They're giving away their reserves, always a good sign.
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  454.  @andallthatcouldhavebeen...9175  How is it a cope? Misleading journalists are misleading, deal with it. You can clearly see that the question about weapons was asked to the Amnesty International woman, and the 30% stuff was asked to a person who runs a NGO that doesn't handle weapons. It's an editing trick.
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  455.  @colderwar  "what we called the place here up until the war" - speak for yourself. I knew better and never called it "the Ukraine" out of respect. They do not accept foreign volunteers without combat experience. If you want to call it The Ukraine so much, then you can wear the Russia uniform. They are that desperate and will take you.
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  456.  @johno1544  "economic warfare" aka sanctioning a country massacring hundreds of thousands of civilians in China?
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  457.  @berserkasaurusrex4233  The Uganda? The Uruguay?
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  458.  @berserkasaurusrex4233  Already backpedalling. Thanks for admitting defeat. The Ugandans because we also say The British, The Americans, are you out of your mind? You're only digging yourself deeper.
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  459.  @colderwar  Exactly. Meanwhile Russian PMCs hire foreigners, they even hand out Russian citizenship ))))))
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  460. ​ @YorkerEli  Aircraft are shot down. Ships are sunk.
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  461.  @t.s.9996  How are you sure you're taking out targets when you're just releasing high dispersion weapons? By your own standards most missions are failures due to the inability to target with precision and readjust.
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  462. The AWACS could be intercepted by fighter jets...
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  463. This is our business. Budapest memorandum.
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  464. Worth nothing that when Vietnam got S-75s their AAA kills increased because American pilots started flying lower to avoid radar SAMs. Flying higher doesn't hide from radar.
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  465. Dude, they already have more tank battle experience against peer enemies than any Western nation. It takes half a year to train a kid straight out of bootcamp. These guys have been warfighters for a year.
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  466. Two more weeks, Zisters!
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  467. ​ @Ghastly_Grinner Damn Ukrainians getting beat that bad and Russia still can't move forward! EMBARASSING!
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  468. Ukraine is sort of "unique", many of the lessons learned there won't apply to a different country.
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  469. ​ @stopitas5790  "bUt WhAt AbOuT?"
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  470. Yeah a South Korea/Israel vs North Korea/Iran proxy war.
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  471. It's a total mobilization just under a fancy name.
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  472.  @jackuzi8252  Not true. The Republican party mostly supports Ukraine.
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  473.  @jackuzi8252  Not really, China is a naval war while Ukraine is a land war.
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  474. ​ @nunya___  The reserves sit on a decaying area. It's like the Anerican rust belt but actually war torn.
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  475. Why? Only naval forces and training squadrons fly MiGs. They retired the majority of MiG-29s because it's less powerful and has less range than the Flanker.
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  476.  @milsimmaniac711  That makes no sense. The MiG-35 program was scrapped precisely because they had no foreign buyers and thus couldn't afford it. The MiG-29 production could be restored but the MiG-35 production would have to be built from scratch.
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  477. The 5th gen aircraft were shot down because they were caught by surprise. The first that got raked by a gun was not expecting it while they were interrogating the F-14A, the third was shot down by an unseen Hangman. In air combat most losses are from pilots not expecting to be hit. Not fair fights.
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  478.  @daiwizzy  I didn't tag anyone so the response is to the OP. The third one is movie magic, it's difficult to show the tension from getting yeeted from 15 miles out so they put the Su-57 right behind it and with no chance of missing.
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  479. ​ @JeRefuseDeBienPrononcerBaleine  Western sources focus on Russia proper, Ukraine counts Russians and separatists.
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  480.  @manojpatra2840  India acquires some material from Russia. Turkey got kicked out of the JSF program for buying the S-400. I doubt they'd be allowed to acquire F-35s.
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  481.  @pashapasovski5860  "Stealth is a myth" Russia and China develop stealth
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  482.  @pashapasovski5860  F-15EX is corporate welfare for Boeing.
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  483.  @CoffeeMatt10  Stealth also includes heat. The F-117 has flat exhaust to reduce engine heat signature. Same as the F-22. The F-35 heat reduction is even more advanced. Noise cannot be used to guide a weapon in air combat. The naked eye can't shoot. The F-35 has LPI radar. It mixes frequencies so make it look like all the radio communications in the sky. The air is full of radio waves. By mixing radar emissions it's very difficult to detect the F-35 radar. It's a needle in a haystack. Also, you can have other aircraft and AWACS feed the F-35 with radar information so that it doesn't have to turn it on. Stealth has not been negated. It's used not just in reconnaissance but also strike. It's not a novelty - China, Russia and Europe are all developing stealth. There's no dogfights anymore, just exercises and shows of force (like Greece vs Turkey). If pilots are in for a real fight, they fire missiles. In a dogfight you die for no reason. Supermaneuverability is nonsense. Supermaneuverability is control of the aircraft post-stall. If you stall your aircraft in the air during combat, you're dead. You can't run away from a missile when you lost almost all velocity. "Let's see you try to shoot me?" Okay. Shoot a missile, the plane stopped in the middle of the air explodes. Good job.
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  484. F-117s mask the engine heat.
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  485.  @dylanwhite3383  I guess starting WW3 by shooting down Russian jets is a measured response.
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  486.  @dylanwhite3383  What the hell are you talking about? Nobody mentioned war crimes, I'm just calling you out for defending a massive war. If you want war there's wars being fought right now, you're welcome to join. But don't rope millions of people into it.
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  487.  @dylanwhite3383  Why are you begging for that war to exist? I'm not afraid, I'm simply calling you out for extracting happiness out of war machines being used for killing rather than peacekeeping. Closer look? How old are you? Jesus.
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  488.  @dylanwhite3383  No, you don't have a heart because you're sad the F-22 isn't being used. Now you're just deflecting and coming up with a ridiculous narrative that nobody brought up about civilians, as if an enemy will simply allow you to get inside visual range. Grow up.
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  489.  @dylanwhite3383  I spelled SAD because that's what I meant to say. SAD. Not said. You not only don't have an argument and have to resort to correct people's spelling, you also got the spelling wrong.
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  490.  @longdongjon1201  Only people inside the NPP can create a disaster. It's heavily shielded from the outside.
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  491. ​ @AspieTrips  Protecting Bosnians from Serb genocidal maniacs.
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  492. ​ @aniksamiurrahman6365  Nice cope. The Russian offensive was stalled before Starlink or lethal aid.
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  493.  @alderwolf7687  Dead pilots and burning airframes cost even more. Stealth might be costly but it's the price of admission.
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  494.  @alderwolf7687  Again, pilots cost money. You'll need bottomless pockets to replace them. The reason there's ejection seats is because the government would rather lose an aircraft than a pilot.
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  495.  @alderwolf7687  That doesn't counter anything I said. The pilot is more valuable. You're not saving any money by sticking them in vulnerable machines that can and will be shot down over enemy territory. If you're worried about budgets mind how much it costs to train a proficient pilot.
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  496. 4 HIMARS intercepted? Where did the other two land?
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  497. But the Armata was being delayed before the war.
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  498. Just deleted a troop filled building yesterday.
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  499. ​ @morlov4076  the AIM-120D range makes a Phoenix style missile redundant.
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  500.  @martinilopez1  lel Russia can't fight without muh nooks.
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  501.  @vii7031  Russia is fighting Ukraine. And losing.
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  502.  @spartenkiller456  It also has nothing to do with the subject. The OP seemed to imply the sea accidents involving F-35s were due to engine failures but they weren't.
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  503.  @tsp312  Oryx has corrected duplicates.
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  504.  @Oldsmobility98  Titles don't matter, the objective truth does. Russia got BTFO. Time to get your head out of the sand.
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  505. Traidor, se gostas tanto da Rússia vai para lá.
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  506. @Finite Automata It was a Russian missile impacted by a Ukrainian S-300. The crater was huge which pointed to Russian warhead, but wreckage of Ukrainian AD gave an easy way out to not declare war over a missile landing on a farm.
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  507.  @J_Madison  Russia is ranked #2? Which year was this rank taken?
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  508.  @J_Madison  The leaked Pentagon numbers show that Ukraine is killing Russians at roughly 3:1.
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  509.  @drno3391  Bonus info, the crater was too large to be a S-300.
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  510. @Finite Automata Because a missile knocked off the air can have the guidance or steering damaged, causing it to crash and the warhead detonate from impact fuze or some kind of self-destruct. I ask you the same question: why would an anti-air missile that is made to strike targets painted by radar hit a tractor? The missile can't just lock onto a piece of metal. First of all, S-300 missiles first use command guidance from the ground controller, then switch to semi-active radar homing. This means the ground radar must paint the aerial target. Because the Earth is curved, and there's hills and trees in the way, a radar can't paint a tractor. Please. Think for a second. Aircraft use low altitude flying to evade radar, and you think a semi-active radar homing missile can lock onto a ground target? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, you thought that it was an active radar homing missile. Those emit their own radar energy to see the target. That's fair. Russia has those. Ukraine doesn't. Russia kept developing the S-300 upgrades and the S-400. Ukraine's missile stocks are Soviet era. The active radar homing missiles are the 9M96 series which are compatible with S-300PMU-2 and the 40N6 from the S-400. S-300PMU-2 were never exported to Ukraine. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt once again, and let you off the hook because you assumed all S-300 launchers are the same and Ukraine could have imported some missiles from Russia in the 90s and 2000s. That's fair. The problem is that you don't understand how radar works. Radar isn't a metal detector, it will bounce off the ground too. If you point a radar in the air at the ground, you get clutter. Just noise, because all your radar energy is being scattered by buildings, trees, the ground features, etc. Even if Ukraine had bought the right missiles before 2014 and then modified them to work with their older gen S-300s, the active radar seeker would still not home onto a tractor. It would just see radar bouncing from everything, effectively blinding itself. Do you understand now? Your "reasonable conclusion" is completely detached from reality. I get you. I understand. You have a rough idea how the missiles work, and then created a logical chain of events that made sense in your mind. The problem is, without any actual knowledge about surface to air missiles, or even how radar works, you created an hypothesis and declared it to be "reasonable". It's actually quite an unreasonable hypothesis. Do you understand what I'm saying? I'm not pissed at you because I expect you to have in-depth knowledge of missiles, because almost nobody cares enough about the topic to learn. I'm pissed at you because you come here and declare yourself to have the right opinions, and they're the ONLY conclusion that's reasonable.
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  511. @Finite Automata Skip to 0:45 seconds: watch?v=eWtYtsVboBI That's ground on radar. It's a massive cloud. The ground reflects radar. Tractors are small compared to the Earth. We don't need NATO intervention. Ukraine is shredding Russia on its own.
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  512. ​ @RomanianReaver  Non sequitur.
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  513.  @AnnedolfFrankler911  NATO is not aggressive. Ukraine wasn't going to join NATO. It's not self-defense until you're attacked first. Ukraine is defending their national security.
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  514. MANPADS are very weak due to their man portable limitation. The Iraq "desert army" was the 4th largest in the world and was defended by then modern Soviet defenses.
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  515.  @BRANFED  America has fought over the most dangerous air spaces protected by Soviet defenses, even flying over the USSR with spy planes before satellites became the primary intel source. You're calling the Iraqi Republican Guard or Serbs "tribesmen"? The US has struck Syria with B-1s, through Syrian and Russian defenses. Those Russians in their S-400s, are they tribesmen too?
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  516.  @raysschoko  Russia is fighting to the last man. Stop believing schizo propaganda about women in Ukraine.
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  517.  @BRANFED  Iraq had the Kari IADS built by France, French Roland missiles and American MIM-23 Hawk captured from Kuwait. Cope all you want.
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  518. Down votes drive engagement.
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  519.  @TheGreatLiberator1209  talk about missing the point
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  520. The US is converting RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missiles to replace Buk missiles.
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  521. That was never the idea. The idea was using the F-22, which is the actual air superiority fighter. But not enough ones were made.
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  522. Damn Ukraine winning even with democrats stealing their money. Fighting with one hand tied behind their backs.
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  523.  @Knight_Kin  Invalid argument. I didn't say Winter caused the Soviets to fail, my point is that Winter punishes Soviets/Russians equally. They do not have special powers. They are still made of meat and bone, and they can be made to freeze. There's drone videos of Russians dying of hypothermia in their holes. Winter punishes them.
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  524.  @rbo.4985  Not how air combat works.
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  525. Where where the SPGs in Kharkiv?
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  526. Lukashenko is afraid to get ousted by a coup if his army goes abroad to fight. He doesn't want to deploy.
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  527.  @randomdude2832  Yes they did, Thales for example was criticized for delivering parts for T-90s after 2014.
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  528.  @chinazieswillstartww3253  Multiple accounts from both 2022 servicemen and even older accounts from Chechnya stated that soldiers barely got anything. If they were all veterans, why did Russia create training areas (in decrepit bases) and ask Belarus to train some soldiers too?
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  529.  @TheSecondInitiate  The TOR and Pantsir ate sh!t in this conflict.
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  530.  @3plechief  The vast majority of drones are taken out. US military tech is curbstomping Russia considering that Russia is losing to our surplus and a pack of bubblegum we found under the seat.
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  531.  @biodidu25  France, Paris Oblast?
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  532. ​ @Nick-wh4jt  they'll lose that territory too.
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  533.  @Nick-wh4jt  They're doomed? But it's Russia doing the human wave attacks.
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  534.  SubtoPolecat324  Jets have been asked to do anything since the F-4 days. Naval interceptor, air superiority, close air support and SEAD. No problem. F/A-18s wrote history by shooting down Su-22 and proceeding with a bombing mission. No problem. The F-16 is both the fighter that mimicks the MiG-29 in aggressor squadrons, and was chosen for the strike missiom Operation Opera. No problem. Suddenly the F-35 is the issue?
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  535.  SubtoPolecat324  Jets have been asked to do anything since the F-4 days. Naval interceptor, air superiority, close air support and SEAD. No problem. F/A-18s wrote history by shooting down Su-22 and proceeding with a bombing mission. No problem. The F-16 is both the fighter that mimicks the MiG-29 in aggressor squadrons, and was chosen for the strike missiom Operation Opera. No problem. Suddenly the F-35 is the issue?
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  536.  @teemuvesala9575  the F4 is still the world's greatest distributor of MiG parts
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  537.  @teemuvesala9575  False. USAF F-4s scored 3.8 to 1. This was due to F-4s conducting escorts for bombers falling into ambushes. USAF F-4s performing combat air patrols killed MiGs at a 5.5 to 1 ratio. After Teaball radar and listening station was introduced, the USAF enjoyed a 15 to 1 kill ratio from 1972 to 1973. The USN scored 4.7 to 1 ratios, and CAP F-4s scored 6.4 to 1 ratios. After TOPGUN was introduced they scored 8.7 to 1. Even by the worst metrics the average is 4.25 kills for every lost by USAF and USN. The American pilots were also very inexperienced in air combat as their training was mostly about shooting down bombers. Once training increased and better tactics introduced, the Phantoms beat the MiGs senseless.
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  538.  @teemuvesala9575  Oh, so now you question the statistics. Moving the goalposts. Never heard of a Phantom flyer who didn't know how to fly it. "so bad lol" is that your military analysis or a text sent by a 16 year old?
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  539.  @teemuvesala9575  The 12º degree angle on the wing tips is a stability augmenter. It wasn't a "design choice", it was a fix for a problem found in testing. Amazing how such a badly designed aircraft was so successful both in Vietnam and the Middle East. By the way, the proposed IAI Super Phantom would be able to super cruise and the RF-4X capable of reaching Mach 3 despite having conformal water thanks for the pre-compressor injection. Not bad for an aircraft that is "horrible aerodynamically".
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  540.  @mattipps  No, it isn't. Often the airframe is limited to 7.5 or 8 Gs even though the human inside can sustain 9 Gs.
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  541.  @ЕвгенийБелошицкий-г4я  The Soviet Union lost in Afghanistan too, sit down.
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  542.  @leandrocerneira  The US suffered two losses in the movie. Rooster and Maverick. Typical Z-boy, God wasted a brain on you.
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  543.  @ЕвгенийБелошицкий-г4я  Not true. The Taliban were a group who formed in Pakistan/Afghanistan and fought for control against many former Mujahedeen. Even then, the Taliban did not attack the US. Al Qaeda did.
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  544.  @ЕвгенийБелошицкий-г4я  There was no pro-American regime. Only a pro-stealing regime. The USSR collapsed after Afghanistan. WMDs? Please tell Russia to stop complaining about biolabs.
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  545.  @teemuvesala9575  American analysis like David Axe, who have no actual credentials except being a war journalist almost 20 years ago.
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  546.  @dm1i  Wrong position data can be filtered out by comparing to INS. If the missile is going to land in Kursk, and the jamming tells it that it's about to land in Warsaw, the missile computer can just say "yeah right, that's not possible" and keep going.
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  547. Yeah and if they spent them all in one salvo they'd need months to produce enough for the next.
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  548. Because they had to make it seem like the attack was for the airbase. If they destroyed the SAMs in the canyon the enemy would know that's where they were headed.
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  549.  @garretttobin7451  They have a year of tank warfare experience already.
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  550.  @alexnderrrthewoke4479  Taking off from Rostov on Don and landing in Belgorod counts as a mission. The number of missions is irrelevant, are they risking their lives flying in Ukrainian defended airspace?
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  551. ​ @zarjesve2  But it didn't. The F-117 retired around 2007-2008. It actually retired after the F-14 Tomcat.
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  552. How many can be trained in an air force academy per year? 30? 60?
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  553. Supermaneuverability is an air show trick. Doesn't help in combat unless you're already dead and you figure out that low chance of success is better than certain death.
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  554.  @JosePineda-cy6om  Extreme agility doesn't matter much. Agility has to be paired with speed, energy efficiency and energy recovery. Being agile while you're stopped in the middle of the air does not fool a missile.
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  555.  @majormoolah5056  What? Iraqi Freedom had Rumsfeld's light expeditionary force, Brits, Australians and a few Polish. How was it pronounced?
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  556.  @mcribisback7105  Incorrect. Russia cannot plan an incursion into Kiev without taking Ukrainian fighters into account, so they have no superiority. Even if the SAM threat is greater.
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  557. They did run out, which is why they switched to Shaheds and S-300s to produce more. There's a manufacturing rate and an expenditure rate, whenever your expenditure rate is greater than the manufacturing you are running out. Using alternative forms of attack gains you time to produce more by making the expenditure rate go to 0.
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  558. ​ @hescamping5982  Because if the Washington Post publishes 99 pro-Ukraine stories they call it propaganda, the minute it says something remotely anti-West they copy paste it across the internet. Nobody's "engaging" because it's a cherry picked story, we keep seeing GPS guided weapons making hits when these people say they don't work. What may be true at a certain time and place could change in some other place and for a certain weapon (ground launched SDBs and air launched are not equally susceptible to jamming). But that story is etched into perpetuity so as GPS guided weapons make hits on air defense systems here come the shills saying it can't happen because look at this WP story from months ago. To you, it's a story - you haven't seen it before. To us, who have seen the story copy pasted a thousand times, it's an active program to spread demoralizing info.
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  559.  @Knight_Kin  Hypersonics exist to deal with naval forces moving. A supersonic anti ship missile has to scan a huge area to find a moving ship. A hypersonic missile gets to target fast. It's not about defenses.
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