Posted on 01/26/2023 3:21:24 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Update from Ukraine | The most Wrong Action by Ruzzia on the South | Jets are coming to Ukraine
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A comment so nice that you had to post it twice.
My comment must have agitated you.
I’m guessing ignorance is your strong subject. Europe needs to grow a pair of balls and take care of Europe. We’ve bailed that shit hole of a continent out of every war because they’re incapable of handling anything on their own. They may be the older brother but it’s time for them to grow the f-ck up and be responsible adults.
I agree with you.
ДСНС УкраїниState [Emergency Service of Ukraine]
Kherson rescuers help rebuild the enemy-destroyed building
• SSNS specialists continue to repair administrative buildings and educational institutions affected by shelling.
• Januar y 25 in one of the schools m. Kherson, rescuers stuffed broken windows with plywood plates.
• And in the village of visokopíllâ, rescuers fixed the roof of the local school.
Because it went so well the last time we had a batch of real powers in Europe...
Don’t get me wrong, I think all NATO members should contribute 2-3% of their GDP toward their defenses.
Maybe a good formula would be 2% toward self defense that really is geared mainly toward manpower and defensive systems, and ~1/2% to pay the US to maintain a presence.
Way to go NEOCON... Ukraine is NOT America’s problem. You want to protect something, protect the southern border.
You beat my last post by 30 seconds give or take. Europe needs to take 100% of their GDP if that’s what it takes to protect thems6. It is NOT our job to clean up their shxt. Enough is enough and I’ll stand by that 1000%.
Must de-humanize Russian people so we can kill them all. Lets call them RuZZians or Orks, just like we called Germans Nazis and Krauts, Japanese and Vietcong “Gooks” etc... Its a Human thing to do —I am sure Ancient Egyptians had insulting, de-humanizing things for Hittites too. The Russians have words for us as well. Castrated Running Dogs comes to mind. Maybe that is Chinese?
“Jets are coming to Ukraine”
I thought the Jets were staying in East Rutherford, New Jersey?
Westoids is used for the entire west.
They see the US as the leader of a pack of countries who have given up themselves to be our slaves.
😂😂😂
“Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday of shameful subservience to the United States and suggested he should ritually disembowel himself.”
Still laughing about this one...
Very interesting that Ukraine is able to revive some of their defense industry in the face of the Russian attacks. I had assumed they still had some of the people to do it (probably 60+ year old engineers and techs!), but while getting pounded...
Also interesting that Ukraine (they say) was able to shoot down all the Iranian drones. Granted I missed how many(?) and any notion how they did it.
Did the German announcement of tanks to Ukraine coincide with Zelenskyy’s birthday?
ARTICLE
Within 30 minutes, Ukrainian forces shot down three Russian Ka-52 attack helicopters.
January 27, 2023
https://www.defenceview.in/within-30-minutes-ukrainian-forces-shot-down-three-russian-ka-52-attack-helicopters/?utm_id=125808
The Ukrainian military downed three of Russia’s “most advanced” combat helicopters on the 11th-month anniversary of the Russian invasion.
The Ukrainian General Staff asserted that three Ka-52 helicopters had been shot down in the Donetsk region within 30 minutes. Moreover, a Su-25 fighter from the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) was also destroyed.
“Within half an hour on January 24, Ukrainian fighter jets shot down three Russian Ka-52 attack choppers. Airplanes flew missions in and around Yevhenivka (Volnovakha district, Donetsk province ). Defense forces from Ukraine were able to shoot down a Russian Su-25 fighter jet near the town of Bakhmut.”
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, anti-aircraft missiles brought down all helicopters in the first hour of January 24.
However, it is unclear from the tweet what type of anti-aircraft missile was utilized to bring down the helicopters. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense tweeted, “Alligators shouldn’t fly,” about Russian helicopters.
It is not the first time the Ukrainian Armed Forces have shot down several Russian helicopters in record time. In October 2022, the Ukrainian armed forces reportedly destroyed four Russian helicopters in 18 minutes in the country’s south.
One of these helicopters was a Ka-52 Alligator that crashed in territory that had, at the time, been recently liberated from Russian control.
Because of the massive air defense system and anti-aircraft missile deployment by the Ukrainian military, Russian planes avoid Ukrainian airspace and fire missiles from a safe distance.
The Ka-52 helicopter, on the other hand, is used for fire support and has been tasked largely with eliminating Ukrainian tanks. Because of this, Kyiv’s anti-aircraft defense threatens the helicopter.
For example, a recent viral video showed a Ka-52 helicopter flying a Ukrainian defensive position near Ugledar. The Alligator has successfully shot down several Ukrainian tanks and military vehicles.
However, several state-of-the-art helicopters are expected to be lost in combat after being hit by advanced MANPADS deployed by AFUs.
Since hostilities began in February of 2022, Ukraine estimates that Russia has lost a total of 281. In December, Oryx, an open-source intelligence tracker, reported that Russia had lost at least 27 Ka-52 jets. With the addition of the three confirmed deaths, the total is thirty, assuming no further deaths have occurred.
A Ka-52 billed as the world’s best attack helicopter costs around $15 million. A Ka-52 Alligator would have been over ten times as expensive as the anti-aircraft missile used to shoot down the Russian helicopter. And in less than an hour, Russia lost $45 million worth of the stuff.
Ka-52 Alligator of the VKS
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The Ka-52 is the most modern combat helicopter in Russia, having a ceiling of 18,000 feet and a maximum speed of 186 miles per hour.
Its most notable features include cockpit chairs that sit side by side and ejection seats for the pilot. Its six wing-mounted hardpoints can house more than 4,000 pounds of weaponry, including cannons, rocket launchers, and missiles.
On the right side of the fuselage is a 30mm automatic cannon, and some variants of the helicopter also incorporate a forward-facing infrared (FLIR) camera in the nose.
The Ka-52, commonly known as the “Alligator,” is an all-weather assault helicopter designed to destroy unarmored and armored ground and air targets, ground personnel, and low-speed air targets. In addition, it serves as an air command post and surveillance platform for an assault helicopter squadron.
The Russian Aerospace Forces have extensively used the Ka-52 to fulfill these objectives. It can also destroy enemy infantry and helicopters at tactical depth or on the front lines.
The performance of the Ka-52 in combat, where it incurred losses during the ongoing Ukrainian conflict, strongly contradicts Russia’s claim that it can operate flawlessly in modern combat zones. Ukrainian MANPADS destroyed nearly all of the Ka-52s lost in combat.
It has been stated that the helicopter encounters intense vibrations, resulting in mechanical failure and fatigue caused by vibrations. Images and videos posted online have shown Ka-52 helicopters with various degrees of body vibration damage, usually during takeoff or landing.
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Neocon? Labels are irrelevant.
Look, I'd really prefer some sort of better world where a strong Europe (Moscow included) could solve its own problems without us and not go off the rails every generation or two. I'd prefer a neutral media, too (among many other things I'm sure we agree on).
However, I'm a realist. When it comes to Europe, there is no post Roman Empire evidence that without us as "glue" and part of its defense that a militarily "strong" Europe will do anything but revert to its DNA (or whatever it is). In this century that means they end up in a major nuclear arms race and nuclear war in a generation or so. Short of the US beforehand completely disconnecting itself economically (because most everything else flows from that) from the rest of the world, and maybe quadrupling our defense budget, we'll get hit too. Probably hard.
Quite confusing article as to what actually shot down the Russian craft. Fighter jets? Manpads?
Fighter jets would be especially encouraging.
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