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xtsho

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Crimea air base attack ‘frightened the life’ out of Russia
173,819 views Aug 10, 2022 " Suddenly Ukraine possesses the offensive power to hit anywhere they want in Crimea." Major General Chip Chapman describes the Ukrainian attack on Saki air base as ‘frightening’ for the Russians on #TimesRadio.
They should be frightened. Russia was unable to close the deal early on and now they're stalled and running dry. All of the weapons from western countries are in place including some advanced systems manned by foreign contractors. Ukraine is the new proxy war. Russia can't defeat the Ukraine. Their weakness is on full display. Sweden and Finland are now in NATO. Things just keep getting worse for Russia. putin has destroyed Russia for the next decade at least.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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R9X Bladed "Ninja" Missile - Real Sci-Fi Weapons
137,423 views Jan 14, 2021 Last video, we covered a kinetic weapons system known as Rods From God. In this video, we're covering another kinetic weapon system, but one that's actually moved past the hypothetical stage.

This is the AGM-114 Hellfire missile, particularly the R9X model. Foregoing conventional explosive payload, the R9X relies purely on kinetic energy to destroy its target. Upon approaching impact point, the R9X opens up with 6 steel blades which rotate around the body of the missile. These blades are capable of cutting through vehicles or even concrete buildings, and have earned it names such as the "ninja missile" and "Flying Ginsu".

This weapon has been implicated in a number of attacks by the US Air Force, including the killing of high profile terrorist targets such as Qassem Soleimani. There are of course still details unknown about this weapon, but enough is available that we can dissect it for the high-precision futuristic ordinance that it is.
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
Not to reveal my hidden love for reading shady conspiracy stuff, but I really thought everyone knew the knife missile was real.
It was new on me, but it made immediate sense.
In ‘91 we were dropping guided bombs within feet of the aimpoint.
Now we can do it within inches, and without a remote operator.

It also allows one to say Surgical Strike with a smug face. ;)
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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the russians aren't being cooperative...imagine that....if zaporizhzhia melts down, that should be considered an act of international terrorism akin to 9-11 and should be more than sufficient provocation to get NATO involved in this fight....FUCKING FINALLY...
if there is a nuclear melt down because we were dragging our feet and using Ukraine to do our dirty work, WE should be fully responsible for it, as much as the russians...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/12/ukraine-war-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant-iaea-un-watchdog-warns-catastrophic-consequences
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Cannon fodder, they earned their rubles, but their families will probably get ripped off anyway. The problem the Russians will have is they killed off any separatists they had in Donetsk by drafting them into the army and getting them killed, while turning the rest of the population there against them. When this shit is over there will be no Russian sympathizers or separatists left in Ukraine, 98% of the population thinks they will win the war and that includes almost all the Russian speakers too!


Bodies Of Russian Mercenaries Litter Field After Donetsk Battle With Ukrainian Army
450,821 views Aug 12, 2022 Ukrainian soldiers say they found bodies on the battlefield with uniforms bearing Grim Reaper patches near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region and a slogan that is a calling card for the Vagner Group, a Russian-allied mercenary paramilitary organization.
 

printer

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Ukraine Used New Ballistic Missile on Crimea Airbase
Ukraine used homemade long-range weapons to hit a Russian airbase in Crimea earlier this week, destroying nine Russian warplanes, killing one person and wounding 14. This was the first known major attack on a Russian military site in Crimea and a significant development in the war as Ukraine was thought to not be equipped to threaten targets on the peninsula.

Russian officials denied any aircraft were damaged in Tuesday’s blast – or that any attack took place.

A Ukrainian official told The New York Times Kyiv was behind the blasts, saying that a “device exclusively of Ukrainian manufacture was used.”

Crimea holds huge strategic and symbolic significance for both Ukraine and Russia — further emphasized by how both danced around what actually happened. The Kremlin’s demand that Ukraine recognize Crimea as part of Russia has been one of its key conditions for ending the hostilities, but Ukraine has vowed to drive the Russians from the peninsula and all other occupied territories.

Hours after the blast, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised again to do just that.

“This Russian war against Ukraine and against all of free Europe began with Crimea and must end with Crimea — its liberation,” he said in his nightly address.

The base on the Black Sea peninsula is over 100 miles from the nearest Ukrainian military position, out of range of the missiles supplied to Ukraine by the U.S.

Still, how Ukraine managed to hit Novofedorivka’s Saky (Saki) Airbase is a bit of a mystery as the location is outside the range of all known operational Ukrainian artillery and missile systems, per 1945.

The device could be Ukraine’s Grim-2 missile, which has an operational range of at least 155 miles, according to 1945, but there is very little information on its mass production.

President Vladimir Putin has long insisted Crimea is Russian and warned that any attempts to take it back would trigger massive retaliation. Moscow’s apparent swallowing of the strike showed Putin’s weakness, said Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov.

“He’s expected to protect Crimea as Russia proper,” said Zhdanov. “Now he’s afraid to recognize that it was done by the Ukrainian armed forces.”
 

printer

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Grim-2: Did Ukraine Use a Homemade Missile to Hit a Russian Airbase?
Ukraine issued an official denial of involvement in the strike (and sarcastically mocked the Russian Ministry of Defense’s official explanation that the explosions resulted from non-adherence to fire-safety standards). But an unnamed Ukrainian official with knowledge of the incident told The New York Times that Ukraine had in fact been behind the explosions. While the official did not give any specific details, he asserted that “a device exclusively of Ukrainian manufacture” was used in the strike, which he said was conducted with the help of partisans loyal to Kyiv.

One possible contender for the mysterious “device” is Ukraine’s Grim-2 missile. With a name that translates to “thunder” in English, the Grim-2 has also been known as the Sapsan, as well as other transliterations of the original Ukrainian, such as the Hrim.

Ukraine’s domestic research-and-development program for a short-range ballistic missile dates back to at least 2003. The program sought to develop a successor to the Soviet-era Tochka-U that could rival Russia’s Iskander-M ballistic missile system. The status or operationality of the Grim-2 remains unconfirmed. Nonetheless, the weapon is reportedly designed to be launched from a 10×10 or 6×6 transport erector launcher vehicle, and it can reportedly carry a 1,100-pound warhead and make evasive maneuvers in response to missile threats. According to Ukrainian sources, the missile has an operational range of at least 250 kilometers, and possibly up to 500km. This theoretically would put the Novofedorivka airbase barely within range, if the Grim-2 were fired from standoff distance in Ukraine’s southwest.

The use of the word “device” to describe the weapon that set off the Aug. 9 explosions leaves plenty of room for interpretation. According to another theory, Ukrainian partisans or special forces could have used a Ukrainian-made drone to set off the explosions. It would not take much to set off a chain reaction of explosions by striking munitions assembled near aircraft parked at the base, a feat a drone could carry out.
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
I ran into similar numbers a coupla weeks ago. Same problem: annual costs portrayed as monthly.

I suspect WION propagated the error and did not bother to check it. Lotta that going around these days. The bit that matters does not show in the thumbnail.

 

DIY-HP-LED

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I heard last week that Russia was losing 500 men a day in total casualties and apparently are continuing to do so. Even for the Russians recruiting the scum of the earth and mercenaries from the middle east, this number of dead and wounded is unsustainable, along with the troops goes their equipment too. Russian officers, fuel and munitions far to the rear are also getting attacked in large numbers and it is harming both their offense and defense. A large number of Russians and their equipment could be cut off and trapped on the west side of the Dnipro in the south near Kherson.
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Update from Ukraine | Ruzzian Command is running away from South Front
 

BudmanTX

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If UA can hit that air field, and I have read from 7 to 13 planes got destroyed, plus attack helicopters btw...what are the chances of them hitting that naval base....hmmm

Every time I look at those photos and I have seen vid, what would make a crater like that too...interesting at the least
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
Russia has been bruiting the words Existential Threat about.

This could plausibly be perceived by Nato as one.

 

printer

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Russia has been bruiting the words Existential Threat about.

This could plausibly be perceived by Nato as one.

Attacks were made on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city of Marganets, from where the attacks on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant were carried out
Russian troops at night continued to strike at military targets on Ukrainian territory, as well as in the part of Donbas occupied by Kyiv. The objects of military infrastructure and the places of deployment of Ukrainian militants in Kharkiv and the region were under attack.

It is reported that at least five facilities operated by Ukrainian security forces in Kievsky, Slobodsky and Novobavarsky districts of Kharkov were hit.

Territories in the city of Marganets and its environs (Dnipropetrovsk region) fell under the blows. From there, Ukrainian troops have been shelling Energodar and the territory of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. As a result of the strikes, the enemy's deployment sites were defeated, several units of heavy equipment were destroyed, including multiple launch rocket systems.

Recall that on the night of August 12, a meeting of the UN Security Council, convened at the initiative of Russia, was held in New York. During the meeting, security issues of the Zaporizhzhya NPP were discussed in connection with the constant shelling of the station from the Ukrainian side. It is noteworthy that the head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, who was the first to speak at the UN Security Council meeting, who had recently declared an emergency threat due to the shelling of the station in Energodar, announced that, according to his estimates, “at the moment there is no threat to nuclear safety at the ZNPP”. This is said by a person who has not even been on the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP. At the same time, Grossi called for an end to all hostilities around the nuclear power plant, otherwise, as he put it, "it could lead to disaster."

It is quite obvious that hostilities can be stopped in only one way - by strikes on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to move the line of contact from Energodar and directly from the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

The Russian Foreign Ministry destroyed the fake Western media about provocations at the ZNPP
The American media mindlessly reproduce the absurd lies of the Ukrainian authorities and keep silent about the facts about the provocation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in order to disrupt the international mission of the IAEA. This is stated in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.

“The authors of publications do not mention the real reason for the failure of the international mission of the IAEA headed by [Director General] Rafael Grossi at ZNPP. Journalists thoughtlessly reproduce the absurd lie of the Kyiv regime that the Russian Armed Forces allegedly deliberately fire at the station’s infrastructure, ”the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement circulated by the press service.

The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that the disinformation campaign is similar to the one carried out by the Kyiv regime in Yelenovka, when the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the detention center with Ukrainian prisoners. “Things that appear in the American media are another attempt by the collective West to shift the crimes of the Kyiv regime onto the shoulders of the Russian Federation with the help of its propaganda machine,” the ministry concluded.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are actively shelling the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant , which is under the control of the Russian side. The facility has a large storage facility for nuclear fuel. On August 11, the US asked for an "urgent agreement at a technical level on a secure demilitarization perimeter to secure the area" around the station, a similar idea put forward by UN Secretary General António Guterres. In response to this, the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, said that such a decision would make the nuclear power plant more vulnerable . Dmitry Polyansky, Deputy Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, said that no one in the Organization believes in the words of the Ukrainian authorities that the Zaporizhzhya NPP is being shelled not by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but by Russian troops.
 
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