![]() Posted by Your Childhood Pet Rock at 7:17 PM on April 6 įOR WHAT? So a small man can declare "victory"? Putin is seriously messed up, y'all. Look at how hard the Russian ruling class clamped down on Loskutov when he did his performance art on Siberian Federalization despite there being no public support and no overt acts from anyone else but him towards that arrangement. It's very much one of their concerns given that those regions are treated like absolute shit compared to how much wealth they generate for Russia. That's not to say it's not continually in the back of the mind of every ruling class Russian. This can be problematic when either trying to breakaway from Russian control or post-independence where those same pluralistic Russian elements form separatist movements backed by Russia. Siberia is 85% ethnic Russian, the Far Eastern Federal District ethnic Russians are over three quarters of the population. In a lot of places, especially in Siberia or the Far East, they still form the overwhelming majority. The biggest problem with any potential breakup of the Russian Federation is that the USSR sent ethnic Russians to every corner of the empire specifically for this sort of contingency. Posted by interogative mood at 4:07 PM on April 6 ![]() The guns and ammo we sent to the Afghan army were getting sold for years to the Taliban to then be fired ar US soldiers. This was problem with Stinger missile systems sent to Afghanistan in the 1980s to fight the Soviets, and more recently with guns and arms provided to the Afghan And Iraqi armies during US occupations of those countries. Is should he noted that when the US sends aid to a war zone like this we have learned to send them as they get used and not oversupply as this leads to increased selling of devices on the black market and leftovers once the conflict is over. Because of the way the army describes these weapons it is unclear to if we sent 100 launchers and 600 drones or just 100 drones. ![]() The Av300 can be carried in a backpack and launched from a handheld launcher but the army also deploys these in a box that can remotely fire up to 6 drones. There is an open question in the milbloggers / forums about what the administration meant by 100 units. The US announced in the last couple of days that they are sending the bigger Av600 models that carry javalin missiles. There US sent 100 Av300 Switchblades as a test but the expectation is that more are coming, assuming the Ukrainians can make good use of them. By all accounts the forest has regenerated and there's wildlife there, there aren't Fallout mutant creatures roaming a barren wasteland. So it is not a stretch of the imagination to think that any contamination is no longer dangerous, even assuming they weren't lied to. ![]() They see a giant containment building and workers in the other reactors. They're sent into Chernobyl either ignorant of what happened or by commanders who told them it is fine. A tank that can't effectively operate its turret is not mission capable.Īnd their trenches dug into the radioactive soils near ChornobylĮveryone is mocking soldiers on this and to be fair, how many of us know safety protocols for literally the only radioactive disaster of its type? Let alone teenagers and soldiers in their early 20s. Keep in mind that simply rendering a tank inoperable is enough, a complete kill isn't needed. From a price comparison it probably puts it more in the Javelin territory though that alone is still a magnitude higher at $78k (without the Javelin unit cost itself). Without the cost of the Reaper platform, the Hellfire alone is $150k. I think them being single use is a bit of a red-herring. Isn't it the case that (a) Switchblade drones are single-use loitering munitions, and (b) the US is only giving Ukraine 10 of them? If so, that seems slightly ridiculous.
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