Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
The Yamal area (the Peninsula, surrounding waters and a bit to the South) produces (produced) more than 70% of Russia’s natural gas.
It has harsh Arctic conditions. “Yamal” literally translates as the end of the land. Nothing else but some reindeer herders.
There is vast, undeveloped and uninhabited wasteland between those gas deposits and China.
Wonder if they get WWPD bracelets as well
Perhaps my favorite were “priests “ blessing statues of stalin
WWPD
“Figured that (intercepting drones and missiles) is what they (Ukrainian F-16s) would be doing, rather than complex multiship operations”
You and FtrPilot both called it.
Looking ahead to 2025, as the numbers of Ukrainian airframes increases, as well as the numbers and skill levels of pilots, perhaps we will see other types of missions increase.
Indications are that Russia will continue, or even significantly increase, their high volume of drone attacks. Drones and meat waves seem to be the main things that they are able to pull off, and a lot of investment has been made into drone manufacturing, and missile/drone procurement from Iran and North Korea.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇷🇺 President Trump says he understands why Russia doesn't want Ukraine to join NATO and blames Joe Biden for the war in Ukraine.
"Russia for many years said you could never have NATO involved with Ukraine. That's been like written in stone. And Biden said no, they… pic.twitter.com/T0RQhlB6mR— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) January 7, 2025
Ukrainians how is the Kursk OFFENSIVE going?
— Anna (@provemewrong411) January 7, 2025
Ukrainian forces have been pushed out of Makhnovka south of Sudzha, Kursk. pic.twitter.com/8VLWYoaPeP— KalibratedMaps (@Kalibrated_Maps) January 7, 2025
Well, this was unexpected… The Russians are taking lots of prisoners in the Kursk region. Apparently, Ukrainians now go there to surrender en masse.
pic.twitter.com/hvBHyWeUIY— Gabe (@GabeZZOZZ) January 7, 2025
‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦🪖SHOCKING: Retreating #Ukrainian invaders in Kursk caught by a #Russian surveillance drone throwing their own wounded men out of trucks in panic!
‼️The Western media will never show you this! pic.twitter.com/bvsHKs5fko— Maimunka News (@MaimunkaNews) January 7, 2025
Massive losses of Ukrainian forces, who launched another suicide offensive on Bolshoe Soldatskoe in the Kursk region for Zelensky and NATO
"The last couple of days will be remembered by the Ukrainians for a long time! But not all of them," writes Russian General Apti Alaudinov. pic.twitter.com/aOfFYqMa4o— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) January 7, 2025
Donald Trump announces he intends to change the name of Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. pic.twitter.com/Oe2lTjd5RG— Pop Base (@PopBase) January 7, 2025
This is serious work. Good to hear they are still reliable.Tankers are a necessity. The US has used them recently when Iran set a missile barrage to Israel.
Israeli tankers are 707s that they converted. These were used when Israel unleashed on Iran 6 weeks ago.
“how is the Kursk OFFENSIVE going?”
Another 1,970 Russian casualties yesterday.
How tall of a pile of bodies is that, for Putin’s unholy altar?
More than an Olympic-sized swimming pool’s worth of Russian blood, every year, to satisfy Putin’s insatiable lust for conquest and theft.
What will it take for Russians to make a stand against such an evil bloodthirsty killer, who is so totally given over to evil, that he openly names his weapons of mass destruction after his true Lord and Master, Satan (Sarmat, in Russian)?
Reporting From Ukraine:
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The complete transcript.
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[ Deep Penetration: Kursk Frontline Collapses!! ]
Today [ Jan 07, 8 pm ], there are a lot of important updates from the Kursk direction.
Here, the Ukrainian forces have launched a surprise counteroffensive in the Kursk direction, aiming to exploit gaps in the overstretched Russian and North Korean defenses.
With superior forces and tactical terrain advantages on their side, the Ukrainians have launched a new offensive toward key positions that could redefine control in the region.
The goal of the Ukrainian offensive in the area is to reach Bolshoe Soldatskoye and diminish the Russian tactical gains achieved during the last 3 waves of their counteroffensives. Such a move could effectively collapse the Russian lines and force them to a defensive posture, completely throwing off the Russian plans for pushing Ukrainians out of Kursk.
By widening their bridgehead, the Ukrainians can cancel out all Russian counteroffensive efforts and effectively retake the initiative for the 1st time since August. During the previous Russian counteroffensive efforts from September until now, the Russian and North Korean forces in Kursk sustained losses so heavy that they could no longer launch attacks toward the Ukrainian positions, indicated by the recent Russian redeployment of additional forces from their offensives in Eastern Ukraine to Kursk.
Furthermore, the largest concentration of Russian and North Korean forces was in the western part of the salient, around Novoivanovka. This situation exposed gaps in the Russian and North Korean lines, which created an opportunity for a Ukrainian counterattack to disrupt their combined efforts.
By launching a rapid counterattack now, the Ukrainian forces could effectively take advantage of gaps in Russian lines, before the Russian reinforcements could arrive and take up positions. Ukrainians understood that the lower frontline activity northeast of Sudzha meant that the Russian garrison here was likely stretched thin, leading to the settlement of Berdin being the weakest link in the Russian line, and the focus point for the Ukrainian spearhead.
The main tactical advantage of the Ukrainians is the element of surprise, combined with numerical superiority in this section of the front.
As Ukrainians maintained an extremely favorable casualty ratio to the past Russian and North Korean human wave offensives, Ukrainian forces had room to prepare several battalions of their reserve units to exploit this gap for a breakthrough. The Ukrainian attack was also made possible by the proximity of their units to Sudzha, their main supply hub, which significantly increased the strength of their nearby logistics and accelerated their offensive.
If we look at the topographic map, we can also see that all villages near the main highway are in the lowlands, while the highway is at a higher elevation. This means that there are no kill zones for Russians to easily eliminate the Ukrainian assault, as Russians have to fire up at the convoy, while Ukrainians can rain down fire on them as they drive past.
On top of that, Ukrainians deployed powerful electronic warfare systems in the area to prevent any Russian drones from reaching the column.
However, Russians had preemptively mined the highway to prevent such an exact Ukrainian surprise assault. Unfortunately for Russians, the ground had frozen and hardened from freezing December temperatures, combined with there being little combat here to unearth the frozen ground.
Recently released footage shows that this allowed Ukrainians to move across the fields along the highway, circumventing the Russian mines, as mine-clearing vehicles led the convoy just in case.
Additional footage shows the Ukrainian convoy firing on Russian positions as they drove past, eliminating the threat of coming under a Russian crossfire. Lastly, footage from Russian drone operators shows them attempting to strike the Ukrainian convoy, but the connection immediately being disrupted by Ukrainian electronic warfare.
Overall, Russians had completely exhausted their offensive capabilities in Kursk, exposing vulnerable weak points in their defenses, which Ukrainians masterfully exploited. As a result of the Ukrainian surprise assault and tactical superiority, preliminary information indicates that Ukrainians have overwhelmed the Russian skeleton force guarding Berdin, and have taken full control of the settlement and the surrounding area.
If Ukrainians can successfully consolidate their control here, they will create a strong launching pad for a follow-up attack toward Bolshoe Soldatskoye, the key Russian deployment point and logistics hub for all Russian operations east of Sudzha.
The KC-135s are also modified Boeing 7O7s actually built on the original smaller airframe before Boeing enlarged the 707 production line.
The reality is besides major structural parts there is little on the 135 that have not been changed and upgraded.
I have been to depot maintenance where the planes are literally stripped of their aluminum skins and reskinned.
The Boeing of old should be proud of the KC-135s and B-52s still flying.
Remarkable
I am curious to know the state of the Russian air fleet. Would imagine maintenance is not great, who knows about spare parts. We often had to cannabalise parts off broke planes to keep others flying even with a decent supply chain.
Total numbers don’t tell the whole story
🍈 is spewing out posts like Putin’s meat waves of men,‘surely even more will win the day😎
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