Posted on 05/27/2023 5:12:39 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the origin of a piece of equipment can't be established, it is not included in the list. The Soviet flag is used when the equipment in question was produced prior to 1991. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.
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Russians killed his brother.
How Can Ukraine Use the F-16? Retired USAF Generals and F-16 Pilots Explain.
May 24, 2023 | By Chris Gordon
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/ukraine-use-f-16-former-generals/
The Biden administration’s long-awaited decision to support a European effort to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16s is the first step in a lengthy process to transform Ukraine’s Soviet-style air force into a Western one, a pair of retired high-ranking U.S. Air Force generals told Air & Space Forces Magazine.
“It’s not about delivery just now,” said retired Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander. “Ukraine is going to need an air force to defend itself because Russia will be back.”
Less clear is whether Ukraine will field the aircraft in time to influence developments on the battlefield this year.
The U.S. has aided Ukraine’s air force so far by providing munitions, including High-Speed Anti-Radiation missiles (HARMs) that the Ukrainians have jerry-rigged to operate from their aging Soviet-era planes. In recent months, the U.S. has also provided extended-range JDAM guided bombs.
Poland and Slovakia are providing Ukraine with MiG-29s from their inventories. But there is no debate the F-16 will mark a quantum leap over the planes currently in Ukraine’s inventory.
“The integration of avionics, weapons systems, and weapons are decades ahead of what they’re flying now,” Breedlove said. “There will be an increased capability, increased radar range, increased weapons range, etc. But this is not the be-all to end-all.”
Ukrainian officials have expressed hope they will be flying the planes by the fall, but some U.S. officials said they cannot guarantee the aircraft will be in Ukraine’s hands before the end of the year.
A U.S. Air National Guard analysis assessing Ukrainian pilots’ skills, reported by Yahoo News, said they could be trained to operate the plane in as little as four months. It could take months more, however, to turn those pilots into airmen who can hold their own in combat and make full use of the F-16’s attributes, experts said.
If Ukrainians are not thoroughly trained in Western tactics, “you’re not going to realize any of the benefits of having a real four-plus generation aircraft,” said Breedlove, a former F-16 pilot. “If you take an F-16 and fly it and use it like a MiG-29, you’re just going have a hotrod MiG-29, and that’s it.”
Still, the time needed is likely far short of the 18 months the Pentagon previously cited as the fastest possible timeline.
“We always overestimate how long it’s going to take to bring a new weapons system into the Ukrainian military,” Breedlove said. “They can clearly outperform our expectations.”
For now, Ukrainian forces are expected to rely on HIMARS rockets, armor, artillery, and British Storm Shadow missiles as they seek to bust through Russian defensive lines during their planned counteroffensive.
“If they are not successful in their counteroffensive, then everything else is largely a moot point,” Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder said May 23 when pressed on specifics about the provision of F-16s.
Until last week, the White House had held back from facilitating Ukraine’s acquisition of F-16s because it was worried that supplying Ukraine with the planes risked escalation with Russia and because of concerns the aircraft would not survive Russia’s formidable air defenses.
Instead of aircraft, U.S. officials have focused on providing Ukraine with air defenses, which has resulted in largely mutually-denied airspace over the country. But some F-16 proponents argue that since Ukraine’s counteroffensive is so critical, the U.S. should have been quicker to supply Kyiv with Western aircraft.
Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Larry Stutzriem, a former F-16 pilot and director of research at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, said military planners should not throw up their hands but should use drones, electronic warfare, countermeasures, and real-time targeting to enable Ukraine’s air force to find pockets in which it can operate and strike. Stutzriem said it’s not about only the aircraft, but the integration of many capabilities to gain air superiority. Then, the fighter can strike Russian forces and their logistics.
“It can go fast with great flexibility to strike the adversary in depth, not merely where the land forces engage along a front,” Stutzriem said. “That’s why airpower was invented, to rise above the trenches and slog of land warfare.”
“Russians killed his (Jarosław Kaczyński) brother.”
Wow.
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate. Russia has accumulated a lot.
It will probably be a hundred years or more to live down this war, among Ukrainians.
@Maks_NAFO_FELLA 4h
#BavovnaToday 27.05.2023 (Daily explosion update)
BAVOVNA (Explosions): Berdyansk (👀🔥), Shebekino (👀🔥), Nikolske, Mariupol, Volnovakha, Yasinuvata, Belgorod
“Partisans!”
We are everywhere.
You guys do not understand oil and gas.
The bible of oil and gas is the BP World Statistical Report. It’s a big spreadsheet on the BP site. Released each June, so the newest upcoming.
Norway’s oil production is from the North Sea. It came online in the 1990s and is in terminal decline. The entire North Sea, not only Norway’s portion. Same true of the UK’s portion.
Current output about 2 million barrels/day. This is joules. The money aspect is not important. Money is valued by the imagination of counterparties. Oil is the same number of joules no matter what anyone imagines. That number is going to be a bit higher post virus. 20 years ago it was 3.2 million bpd. The North Sea is dying.
Norway’s oil comes from what used to be called Statoil company, renamed Equinor. It is government owned, with a portion publicly traded. Essentially the same as Rosneft.
Read that again. It is government owned. It is not capitalism, or rather, it is capitalism to the same extent Rosneft (49% publicly traded) is. The government owns that oil. Under the sea and coming out of pipes. It’s purely socialism.
As is their sovereign wealth fund’s big numbers. It is in 3 parts, all part of the Government Pension Fund. So you guys who thought Norway has generated numbers via capitalism, nope. Not at all. Socialism.
Norway’s gas output btw is 114 billion cubic meters per year. The North Sea is not very gas rich. As oil dies, so will gas.
GAZPROM . . . 701 billion cubic meters per year. 49% publicly traded. They haven’t even started on the Bazhenov shale yet.
Oh and someone presumed there was a technological scarcity of skills in Rosneft, Lukoil and GAZPROM. Without pointing out the enormous flow this supposed incompetence is producing, of far more compelling merit is the very clear . . . even obvious reality that expertise is global. You can always, capital A Always hire whatever you need. US oil skillsets have eroded badly since shale arrived on the scene. Dealing with conventional fields like Sakhalin and Kara Sea is an area of tech in which Russia is clearly superior.
Much as Soyuz proved for 10 years the superiority of Russian rocketry — it being the only way to get astronauts on the ISS.
Recalibrate guys, Russia is superior now. As soon as you realize that most other things become clear.
Lukashenko’s plane has not returned to Minsk. It arrived in Moscow on May 24th and is still there.
I don't. It is merely instructive to see your collected opus through the FR database. As a reasonable portrait of how you present your views.
I am pleased to learn from / of you that : "The pentagon staff officers will present the worst case scenario for transition..." Milley and Austin are not as you portray their roles.
Please note I did not assign the phrase,"magic weapon," to you. The ABC, Politico and PBS assign the phrase to Milley.
"Thanks for posting my list of responses." You are welcome.
For the sake of debate let’s say you are right except for the last line, corruption, greed, inefficiency will bring all this to naught. Additionally I predict much of this will become Chinese property and then there is the Black Sea products that will be developed by the Ukrainians once the Russians have been dealt with
Looking at the Russian social system, demographic decline, authoritarian govt, remember second greatest military….
Russia could be superior in many things only problem, their Russian
To lighten things up a bit, Russia has lost a lot of its finest Special Ops and elite troops, and in their desperation to replace them quickly they have lowered their standards and training levels, at least that is what this 10-second video indicates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FEJhytyGIA&t=10s
“Ukraine struck oil pipeline installations deep inside Russia on Saturday with a series of drone attacks including on a station serving the vast Druzhba oil pipeline that sends Western Siberian crude to Europe, according to Russian media.
Ukrainian drone attacks inside Russia have been growing in intensity in recent weeks, and the New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence believes Ukraine was behind a drone attack on the Kremlin earlier this month.
Ukraine has not publicly acknowledged launching attacks against targets inside Russia. The Ukrainian defense ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Saturday.
In the Tver region, which lies just northwest of Moscow, two drones attacked a station that serves the Druzhba (Friendship) pipeline, one of the world’s largest oil pipelines, the Kommersant newspaper said.
The Tver local council said that a drone had crashed near the village of Erokhino, around 500 km (310 miles) from the border with Ukraine.
The Telegram channel Baza, which has good sources among Russia’s security services, said the drones attacked a station serving the Druzhba pipeline.
Druzhba, built by the Soviet Union, has capacity to pump more than 2 million barrels per day (bpd) but has been severely under-utilized after Europe sought to reduce its dependency on Russian energy after President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine last year.
Russia’s oil pipeline operator Transneft said earlier this month that a filling point on Druzhba in a Russian region bordering Ukraine had been attacked.”
(Indicted War Criminal) Little Pukin is still afraid of the Big Bad Covid.
“He remains isolated in his pandemic-era cocoon, requiring Russians who meet with him to quarantine for days. (A cosmonaut honored at a Kremlin medal ceremony on Tuesday started his speech with, “Sorry, we’ve been silent for a week in isolation.”)”
One reads this evening of your side, "Zelenskyy: Ministry of Justice Drafting Bill on Same-Sex Partnerships" Your side, as you say. Source on FR: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4156458/posts
...and...
https://spzh.news/en/news/74016-zelenskyy-ministry-of-justice-drafting-bill-on-same-sex-partnerships
Autonomous F-16 fighter jets being tested by the U.S. military
CBS News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoHpY-KoO3U&t=1s
“You guys do not understand oil and gas.”
You addressed that to “All”
“49% publicly traded... It’s purely socialism.”
Math error.
“GAZPROM . . . 701 billion cubic meters per year.”
Fact error. Try 400 billion cubic meters last year, with exports collapsing.
“expertise is global. You can always, capital A Always hire whatever you need.”
Fact error. Sanctions forbid that.
“Russia is superior now.”
Delusion.
LGBTQ tbdxyz.... Same sex this. Same sex that.
Don’t care.
Just kill RuZZian Boys. Thats what I care about.
Let me get this straight. If a nation adopts a law legalizing / giving some benefits to “same-sex partnerships”, does it give a neighboring nation a license to invade this nation and destroy it (commit genocide against it)? Is it what you really believe?
Dealing with conventional fields like Sakhalin and Kara Sea is an area of tech in which Russia is clearly superior.
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When you wrote that, were you smoking marijuana laced with Fentanyl?
The tech for the Sakhalin field is provided by a Western company, without which the field would cease to operate.
Maybe they should take that “expertise “ and get their aircraft carrier operational
Besides putins obsession with Ukraine there does not seem to be a rational reason for his actions. NATO has been on russias borders for quite awhile and no NATO invasion. Russia has been trading with the west and at least ethnic Russians and oligarchs were doing pretty good. Their military was thought to be a threat. Their hypersonic missiles were a concern. Their military export business was doing well. But that is all gone. But a thought occurred to me that perhaps another reason could be that Russia was being surrounded by ever prospering countries with freedom, something many in the federation did not have and that is a threat to a controlling authoritarian regime. Think this is the last gasp of the Soviet Union which Putin so loved
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