I think Putin is going to have to give a full apology at some time, maybe not right now, but eventually. The current apology is not enough if they did shoot at a civilian airliner, and all the evidence points to that at this moment.
The missile posting will continue until the media can clearly define what a hypersonic weapon is. So forever I guess...
Russian Air Force when directly compared to the Ukrainian Air Force yeah pretty much uncontested. MiG-31s and Su-35s can fire R-37 missiles from much longer ranges than Ukrainian aircraft can return fire with their own R-27 missiles. Su-35s also make very capable escort aircraft for Su-34 bombing missions, the Su-35 can carry R-37 BVR long range air to air missiles, R-77 medium range BVR air to air missiles, R-73 short range infrared heat seeking air to air missiles, and Kh-31 anti radiation air to ground missiles, all simultaneously. So an escort capable of dealing with all possible threats at the same time. The Ukrainian F-16s are deployed in a defensive posture, not an offensive one. But Ukraine has plenty of air defence systems capable of taking out Russian aircraft, Patriot and S-300 being the highest level ones. So Russia can't just fly over Ukraine, they could only do that at the beginning of the war. The only Russian aircraft you'll hear of or see operating behind Ukrainian lines is again, the Su-57. There was a video of one shooting down it's S-70 drone companion within Ukrainian airspace after losing control over the S-70.
You can't replace an air force with drones though. Look at Iran, lots of drones, but an outdated air force. The lack of a modern air force has hurt them, it's why they want to get the Su-35 form Russia. Drones similar to an MQ-9 Reaper drone also can by shot down by a lot of air defence systems, you don't need Patriot or S300/400 high level system to shoot down a drone of that level. Ansar Allah has shot down over a dozen Reapers using SA-6/Kub SAM systems first deployed in the 1960s, forcing the USA to use drones which fly faster and at higher altitudes for intelligence gathering. And in a direct war with the US, their way of achieving air superiority is with their aircraft shooting down your aircraft and drones and destroying your air defence systems in an offensive action and not a defensive war. So something like AIM-120 and AGM-88 HARM production rates and stockpiles would be more useful than Patriot or SM-3 production rates as a metric.
I mean you can't disguise an aircraft or drone visible on a runway, a geosynchronous orbit spy satellite over the airbase will see it. Stealth is to do with reducing radar and heat signatures in flight, and is a valuable technology being developed by the United States, China, Russia and even Turkey.
Bookclub yay!
and get us all on the same theoretical grounding (from which we can then argue with each other at a more enlightened level).
That's the optimistic new years thinking we like to see. By March it it usually fizzles out though.
It looks like the twitter account of the suspect in the latest terrorist attack in Germany has been found. The suspect appears to be an ex Muslim atheist man who left Saudi Arabia for Germany in 2006, and believed that the German government was persecuting ex Muslim and women Saudi refugees, along with trying to spread radical Islamic ideology across Europe? Saudi Arabia apparently wanted to extradite him, and Germany refused, and that appears to be related to his work in helping apostates, mostly women, to escape Saudi Arabia for refugee status in Germany, which was interpreted as participation in human trafficking, again of mainly women. The details are unknown at this time, this is all speculation with regards to that. In some of his tweets, he says that Germans are complicit in the persecution he faces as an ex Muslim and that he wants to take violent action against German citizens. He also appears to be a Zionist. Also went on an unhinged rant about how women social media influencers and models leaving Islam would lead to the collapse of the religion. It appears that he has a fixation with regards to ex Muslim women.
Content warning for his twitter account: Islamophobia, condoning terrorist acts, sexism, Zionism, and everything in between.
If anyone wants a good source going through the recent drone/UAV/UAP hysteria in the USA, the twitter account I'll link below goes through it video by video, ID'ing the objects using geolocation techniques and FlightRadar24. Spoiler alert: it's all civilian or military aircraft. On some occasions it's stars our out of focus lights.
Whoever's running this PsyOp, you can shut it down now lol. The American people are more ignorant than you estimated.
Exclusive: Syria's new rulers back shift to free-market economy, business leader says - Reuters, 10 December 2024
Syria's new government has told business leaders it will adopt a free-market model and integrate the country into the global economy in a major shift from decades of corrupt state control, the head of the biggest Syrian business lobby said on Tuesday.
"It will be a free-market system based on competition," Bassel Hamwi, head of the Damascus Chambers of Commerce, told Reuters in an interview...
Yes, it's real, we're getting neoliberal free market jihadists now, 2024 just keeps on giving...
"People are still waiting to see if it will be an open society or an Islamic state," a Beirut-based Syrian businessman said, who asked not to be named to talk freely.
Why not both, an open market and Islamic state?
Hamwi said he had been informed by Adelaziz that the stifling customs system would be done away with, fulfilling a major demand of traders and industrialists.
"Everyone who registers at the chambers will be able to import the goods they want into the market, within a specific system," he said.
Reuters spoke to four prominent Syrian businessmen who said the message from the new authorities appeared encouraging and a far cry from a system that had been heavily controlled by a small cohort of loyalist businessmen close to the Assads.
related meme, because if you don't laugh, you'll cry.
Israel is currently undertaking one of the largest offensive air operations in it's entire history in Syria, bombing basically any piece of SAA/ex SAA military equipment, research facilities (both civilian and military), military bases and installations, weapons caches and ammunition caches, air defence systems, tanks, fighter jets, naval assets, ports, factories, etc. All that equipment that the HTS captured from the SAA is turning to ashes at this moment, all across the country. Israel is striking as far east as Hasaka, launching over 300 airstrikes in the past few hours. 150 airstrikes were reported yesterday. The United States is, as expected, providing assistance, flying MQ-4C ISR recon drones over the coast of Syria and Lebanon. Israeli ground forces are also in the Damascus countryside and 20km/12.5mi away from Damascus city itself. It's a disastrous situation, one that's was entirely predictable should the government of Syria fall.
I made a comment a few months ago about how the SAAs air defence systems, including S-300 PMU-1's supplied by Russia, S-200s, Tor and Pantsir point air defence systems, were the only things in Syria preventing a large scale air attacks from Israel, and the skies of Syria turning into the skies of Lebanon and Gaza. Yes Israel could conduct air strikes into Syria, but those required extensive effort and planning, and were only done on a small scale, nothing like what is happening now. Some were dismissive of my comment given that Israel could conduct these limited strikes. But it unfortunately seems that I was right, now that those air defence systems no longer exist or have operators, Israel has free reign over the skies of Syria and are conducting some of the largest air operations in their history... The Syrian state infrastructure is being completely dismantled.
Israel is continuing to bomb major cities in Lebanon (in Bekaa, Beirut, Tyre) along with the southern villages and border crossings with Syria, while continuing to release "evacuation orders" for residential buildings. The ceasefire is supposed to come into effect within the next two hours, it seems as if Israel is trying to cause maximum destruction before they won't be able to anymore, and for the genocidal entity that means murdering as many people as possible and terrorising civilians.
MarmiteLover123
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Think you were right actually, it looks like the top part of the booster from one of the missiles in the Zulfiqar series.