Russian forces thrown into communications chaos after Starlink cutoff
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BrightlightJohn
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Elon Musk is an very successful business man and a near genius! He is very stable and has does much to promote new technology. Good for him that Elon Mush understands that Russian, China, North Korea, and Iran are a threat to world peace and security. Making it more difficult for those nations to access Starlink promotes America first!
I commented that it's sad that Techspot won't remove Russia propaganda accounts, but they will remove comments pointing that out, and my comment was removed, but without any notification.
What is wrong with you mods? You keep the bad guys and remove anything that points it out. No logic at all.
What is wrong with you mods? You keep the bad guys and remove anything that points it out. No logic at all.
The expected losses for an attacking force over a defending force are said to be 3 to 1 but Russia has been using "meat wave" attacks against entrenched positions which is just resulting in slaughter. The drone and missile attacks on cities have certainly resulted in Ukrainian casualties but most of these are civilian.
But in what condition are your submarines and what would they be fighting against (Ukraine has no navy)? We recently watched a Russian submarine limp through the English channel as it had no where to repair. What's left of your Black Sea fleet had to leave Sevastopol in Crimea as it was unsafe and now stays in the port of Novorossiysk for it's own safety. After losing the naval base in Tatras so there's no longer any base in the Mediterranean. The Baltic fleet is completely cut off as it's completely surrounded by NATO countries. The Pacific naval base in Vladivostok is safe for the moment but China will retake it's territories from Russia once Russia is weak and this war is weakening Russia on a daily basis.
They always say that truth is the first casualty in war. Russia has never been known for unbiased reporting. America has recently gone the same way but for different reasons. There was a program here that used to fact check the current presidents speeches but they just gave up in the end as it all appeared to be fiction. Even the BBC which, years ago, used to pride itself on finding the truth just tows the party line (the recent genocide in Palestine was a case in point). Maybe we truly are in a "post truth" age.
I guess the easiest way of judging what's happening is to look at the battle lines. They've hardly changed over the past year yet Russia continues to attack. It tried to hire replacement troops from North Korea and North Africa. They've also moved to a continuous daily draft of people into the army rather than the previous yearly draft process.
a cheap way for Long-range drones, designed for remote control and intelligence gathering (as they carry cameras and radio sensors), can be precisely directed to a target that may have moved from its original location, or to a different target if the primary one is no longer present. Furthermore, some small units appear to have been using Starlink. All the other talk about "chaos" seems to be just the latest propaganda.
The 3-to-1 ratio comes from the Napoleonic Wars and earlier conflicts, where this was partially true due to certain balances of power. But that ended long ago through superior firepower, intelligence, and countermeasures. I don't recall, for example, the US losing three times the number of defending forces of the attacked countries in its post-WWII wars of aggression. The previous commenter was right. What do you think happens in those places where four FAB-500s fall at once, or one FAB-3000, or where those iskanders and drones, or MLRS warheads, falls, or being saturated by tube or reactive artillery? Or the superiority achieved some time ago by the russians (acknowledged by ukrainian forces, at least in some sectors of the front) in the number of small drones?
The casualties caused and military targets destroyed by Russian missiles and drones will not be shown or publicly disclosed by the ukrainian authorities unless they can't hide them, for the simple reason of negative propaganda. Thus, civilian casualties caused by drones and missiles that fail, are shot down, or are diverted by EW, plus the Ukrainian AD missiles that fail (none of this dissapear into thin air, you know), serve for "positive" propaganda. For the same reason, they publish those "numbers" of Russian missiles/drones shot down, which in my opinion are the ones actually shot down plus those whose impact they have managed to conceal. It's incredible how easy it is to immediately see which of those places were attacked just by looking at the public satellite images of high temperatures and seeing what is in that place on the ground in any other image service, from Google Maps to Bing Maps.
...and it seems that this quote has an effect even on those who understand it.
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I think the same rule applies just as much now as in Napoleonic times. You defend from prepared ground and you also have more incentive to fight. The US has a tendency to pick fights in countries where much of the population doesn't have running water or electricity. I don't think the same ratio would apply if you're attacking them with fighter jets.
People die obviously but the jets that launch them will immediately be targeted. I believe the FAB guided bombs are launched by Su-34 fighters. Approximately 40 of these have been downed with 110 remaining. Of these 110, I doubt that all are flight worthy and are instead being cannibalized for parts to keep the others running.
I'd agree with most of that. I guess the problem for Russia is that every Ukrainian civilian casualty is met with disgust by the rest of the world while Russian civilian casualties will just be met with a shrug simply because you guys started all this.
It has an effect on all of us.
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