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Gosh! Polish borscht is really closer to ideal one, sometimes very close, but Ukranian is better yet!:-).

Multiple Red Octobers everywhere in USSR are named after second 1917 revolution, october-november, when those fucking commies seized power for 70+ years. They boasted flags and banners of purely red color, that is why that October of 1917 became Red. "Commie" and "The red one" are synonyms in...

No Sandy missions this war on russian side. All comms are eavesdropping 24//7 and Ukranian hunters/killers would be there much sooner. No reasonable sense in this conversation, pilot is in shock and speaks Russian but with heavy Ukranian accent. If he is former UA air force pilot who changed...

Rumors were circling that during the first hours of invasion several attempts had been made by russian SOF to do that. And since all failed, that was the first hint that there's no job russian military and even special forces can cope with properly

There's no such thing like pride in KGB-related people. Look, they view themselves as servants. This time - servants to one thing, power. Kinda full circle: power serving power. No ideas and mind, no other purposes, just constant show of power. That's all.

That was an Army secret operation to get the West Point grad the Navy aircraft carrier skipper, since this grad was just that armed scout helicopter pilot :)

It is already here for namely 100 years. This kind of civil war build on ethnic diversity seems to be endless, unlike American one with more or less economical reasons or Spanish one revolved around religious beliefs of human rights and duty (just like a chain of civil wars in South America)...

"Slav" is relatively indifferent since there isn't direct connection between this word and slavery as such in Russian language, but Oriental words like "mongol", "tatar", "orda" are unconsciously offensive due to the fact that Genghis Khan descents had actually defeated true Rurik breed first in...

Even relatively well educated russians hardly understand what this moron meant firstly mumbling "anglo-saxon": the only war in which Brits were the russian enemies was Crimean War, and then the French were on British side. It is extremely doubtful that any typical russian knows the difference...

Rather something chemical or biological. And next kremlin occupant will be more crazy and unstable. That is why sooner or later there will be war defeat, since this breed is unable to adjust to modern world.

Yeah.... Second pair of Koreas, second Israel/Arab states, but this time for several years only: until West will create something more powerful and undeniable than nukes.

Railways ceased the ticket sells both ways to Crimea and back, airports closed from Feb 24th, so the only way to\from Crimea now is through seized Ukranian south by regional roads. Nearly all of them are within HIMARS range at least partially. The way back home for them will be kinda old good...

And its significantly underperforming military will inevitably significantly underperform the handling of tactical nuke, too. Both laugher and sin, as usually with russians...

The only time that fucking Baltiysk (former German Pillau) main naval base was to offer the berth to aircraft carrier, the VSTOL Kyiv in 1983, the ship, despite being skippered by Capt Pykov, probably the best surface ship skipper in Soviet Navy, stood outside the harbor having just 4 meters of...

Stay away from taxi services with no lisence number on driver's door. The most tricky motherfuckers in East Europe: quite could take you to neighbour street at a price of trip from Prague to Vienna:) Otherwise very nice place, beer is cheaper than Coca-cola and advise to walk over Vltava river...

And we all, at least in Eurasia and North America, are getting closer to one or another form of nuke exchange than ever, counting Caribbean Crisis too. Fucking footprint in world's history that each fucking "genius" is prone to leave on a sand of time.

Town was russian soil for just several hours, from official claim in moscow to liberation. And just like an aircraft carrier superseded battleship in previous big war, HIMARS is definitely sharing the throne with drones. A lot of Ukranians are spelling "Hee-Mars" like "He, [the] Mars" instead of...

In true scientific discussion yes, Decartes would applaud you. But there isn't any hard substance in politics and have never been. Sufficient part of Russian government money frozen by Western sanctions, a natural gold, is physically blocked in Chinese banks on Chinese soil. putin and his guys...

And even they are often wrong. What doesn't really mean that he who should know his place is often right. A matter of probability more than anything else, which is, in turn, a matter of formal training. When it comes to this way, it would be clearer. Aside, in this particular problem with...

Nobody asks me but... Poor guy's TLAMs based on antiship missiles are obviously converting antiship missiles as such into it. Rumors are these were either land-based SLAMs (not mentioned in list of arms) or local derivatives such as Neptune with GPS guidance. Good news is that nobody neither...

The only result with this Russian intel thrash you will get is hammering the last nail into the discussion coffin's cover. Maybe the longhaired history professors will buy this, but not here

А-6В was dedicated Shrike platform back in Vietnam before A-7 even entered the service. On the other hand, what else could single seat land mover do over landmasses, especially one gravely underpowered up to A-7E version? Maybe the best way to get the answer you need is to terrify the retired...

Just around you. Look, armchair experts differ: there are those who have something other to care about and those who haven't. What is in between is an irony. Kinda hard-learned lesson: if you don't have a taste of irony, better go by.

Once in BOJ Intl in Bourgas, BG, awaiting the flight to Vilnius, LT, I've met a couple of guys in USAF uniform - as it turned out, of Herc crew. The first question cocked to slip from my tongue was "what you are doing here?" but thanks God, He had shut my muzzle up and forced to smile and wave...

Ie, everyone may make the Ford F-100 spotless and shiny, but it would be much wiser to spend that money for fuel, tires and motor oil

Unthinkable. They are too dumb to reach the IOC within couple of decades with 5G airplane

Poles want arms for good reason: they border Russian enclave which in Soviet times, when nuke deterrence has worked well, was infested with amphibious, airborne and armour assault forces most of all other Soviet maritime regions,and they know from Warsaw pact plans that neutral Sweden was the...

Watershed is here. All this was absolutely impossible in Soviet Navy. I mean, chewing someone who's subordinate was common thing but apologies.... I don't remember apologies at all, especially on public. I think this is one of few root reasons why russian navy is dead and gone now.

Snake is our Guadalcanal. At least seems to be.

And @Griz882 you're absolutely, crash-bone-ly right about drones: they started to change the war, this one and in general as well, yet there's one trait the drone doesn't have for now - it has to learn how to strafe. Maybe purely psycho but decisive effect from the first hand: if the drone can...

Thanks, really interesting. Something like that was spreading within Ukranian press in 2015 after Donbass frontline was stabilized. Then some Israeli instructors have said "this will be the artillery, gun batteries war just to underline old Napoleon legacy, and the only way to make it more...

BTW, I'm pretty much within the trend: when someone was seeking for the front picture for Wiki page about Harpoon, s/he had somehow retouched me out:)

RGM-84A has never been prone to miss the target that AGM air-launched version used to be. And Russian Navy has no choice but to try to use auxiliary fleet units to deliver SAMs to Snake Island. When Ukranian defenders send all Black Sea Fleet surface and auxiliary ships to the bottom, there...

But when Mav and Rooster joined in the forest, there would be Ukranian enlisted J-TAC there, dressed as Iranian shepherd who'd lead them to Tomcat screaming Farsi and then escaped safely back to a trees;-)

AFAIR in Kevin Miller's book Raven One there was similar situation when GBUs refusing to read either GPS or FLIR targeting forced the VFA CO to drop them in old unguided fashion as simply iron bombs, yet the airplane was old legacy F/A-18C.

Sound of breath. You never really know person until you hear how s/he breath under pressure, this time while following landscape at extremely low, for example. The everlasting but hidden thing mostly absent in first movie and anchoring this second film to a reality, making it live. I easily...

Slightly uncertain, unsure, old Maverick got my heart. A man with dramatic wound within who nevertheless is still struggling for his values is a cornerstone of this planet. But.... I have one question, and one question only: Why Mustang?????? Why not Corsair?????:mad: :mad::mad::mad:

Following this path: Russian conscript is merely cannon fodder. He is not supposed to return to society becoming better than he was before his service. Honestly, when it's war, he is not supposed to return at all, and if he is lucky enough and returns, no one expects he will be better human...

Concur, but here in Europe too, so this is true for everyone everywhere. Paradoxically, as aviation author Robert Dorr and journalist Sebastian Junger both independently stated, the conscription in broad way (military, socially, medically, you name it) may help: every youngster has to know that...

James Hetfield of Metallica has formulated the way: "I want to get back to an old Frontier style of life which is much more healthy than routine urban life" when he spoke about his beekeeping. At least it's better than war.

Yeah many got an AK rifle, hung it home or at work and continued regular life for as far as it would be possible. Friend of mine, a customs agent, sent family to West and told me: "look, goods are goods and they don't stop to arrive. When Russians will come and my territorial defence platoon...

Well, we need to find a confirmation within couple of days but it seems that wounded Ukranian Guardsmen and Marines from Mariupol are transferred to MASH under Donbass separatists' control with promise to be exchanged for Russian POWs. We will see if that will be the case. No one trust Russian...

As in this song: Inventar (inventory), Navar (thick soup), Otar(a) (flock of sheep), Kommentar (comment), Prymar(a) (ghost), Gloohar (wood grouse, also someone deaf or totally dumb) and, main cast, Tsar :-)

I'm quite fine, thanks. Generally, there's nothing to discuss: many Ukranians returned and are trying to stabilise their life. Shortage of fuel, food, somewhere electricity. But in Kyiv all is generally under control as yet. Military seemingly know what they are doing and Western weaponry flows...

Even here people cannot tell one from another. When victim mother says "we fled" while searching for her children by eyes, it may mean kids are holding by armed people behind the camera. Don't underestimate atrocity's effect.

In a steppes even paper numbers matter. Though over Donbass the forces are near equal, RU has air support. Namely here the air superiority is the most important thing. Almost all fame of Soviet IL-2 attack airplane stems from steppes. And more then a half of losses to Wehrmacht AA and Luftwaffe...

Nope. Ghost of Kyiv is the only one but third and fifth are probable, no confirms.

Politics. Then Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov's wife had major construction and building holding and the couple built several towerblocks in Sebastopol for Black Sea Fleet officer families, starting from 2004. Then the Fleet top brass, grateful for that, renamed the cruiser. Late Luzhkov often said...

Well, I think those Filipinos that drove those container feeder and tanker respectively, with all probability, are worse shipdrivers than USN SWOs. It is doubtless that COLREGs is a law but professional responsibility is always on both sides. Kinda "think both for yourself and for this idiot...

Kinda solace: US professional fishering fleet as well as cruise lines both are still alive and while latter was temporary paralized by Covid, the former was at sea even then in quite good shape. Both are carrying much less economical burden than merchant traffic but they are, along with USCG...