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Russian Forces Shoot Down Own Fighter-Bomber Amid Overnight UAV Assault on Crimea
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We are very lucky they are so fucking stupid
Russia hurt it self in confusion, it was SUPER EFFECTIVE
I don't see how they can threaten Europe and NATO unless they're holding something back that we haven't seen.
They do it so European countries spend more on their own defense and less on Ukraine. They are better at psychology than at fighting
I think all they've got is nukes at this point. That and waves of bodies carrying rocks.
And tose nukes have not been touched in 40 years
I know what youβre saying, but even one of them going off near a target would result in unimaginable suffering, and probably trigger an escalation from there.
The core components decay and then become non fissile meaning it is a giant projectile, nothing more
We hope.
Considering the now obvious corruption in the russian military where spending was misappropriated to varying degrees over decades to reveal the Russian Bear as a paper tiger, is there any credible evidence of their nuclear readiness?
I heard an example from Military Historian Gwynn Dyer near the start of the war, that the military was funded to buy $10,000 military grade tires for offroad driving into the heart of Ukraine as driving on the roads was considered tactically unsound. They quickly discovered that instead of the expensive milspec tires, they bought cheap chinese knockoffs forr $2k that only look the part, but self destructed after 10's of kilometers of offroad driving, leaving the tires and the supply of spares exhausted long before reaching their destinations. This was part of why tanks were abandoned in the initial invasion as supply chains crumbled and fuel couldn't be brought forward.
The Russian political and military elite being famously corrupt at all levels is often describes as a Mafiocracy. Rule of gangsters because of this.
Now a nuclear deterent is the biggest gun in the arsenal and a key pillar of strategic abilities. Presumably it should be the best funded, most sacrosanct of assets. Did the russians let peacetime corruption skimp on parts, labour, maintenance etc...
If anyone could share any credible info I would be oh so grateful.
Nice work!
Manned or unmanned?
The source article says it was an Su-30SM, which is a highly capable and expensive manned jet. It also says the crew ejected successfully
Thanks a lot, I could've just opened the article π€£ sorry
Oh this article doesn't say, it's the RBC one that it links to early on that specifies (and even then the English version of that doesn't say) https://www.rbc.ua/rus/news/rosiyani-zbili-vlasniy-litak-timchasovo-okupovanim-1760688255.html
Offtop and that's old news but I still find it a little hillarious that there is a Ukrainian version of Russian Business Consulting, that then parted and the Ukrainian one is still on the surface, while the head RBC, initially pretty based, got undiscernible from every other complicit shit rag servicing ru government. Human history loves taking weird turns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBC-Ukraine
Well I'm glad you mentioned it because I didn't know about it and it is quite funny
You are welcome. Being russian I refered to russian RBC as an edition that talks purely about money for wealthy guys in commercial sector, and thanks to that it could be free from the pressure of the government for a long time, you know, talking directly of what losses and gains a clever capitalists can gain under any regime. But a couple of years before the 2024 invasion they started to retranslate obvious lies from our government-aligned medias. I don't know what the situation is with the ukrainian edition, that's to ask ukrainians about, but I haven't noticed anything unhinged in uki-side reposts there and on reddit.