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  • AUS-97HORN
    AUS-97HORN

    For the love of Christ woman,  stop posting the same fucking thing every 20 mins just to make your neurotic self feel better.     Bring something useful to the thread other than your inane babbli

  • Im_smarter_then_you
    Im_smarter_then_you

  • InkaUtexas
    InkaUtexas

    I volunteered today. Log/Admin role to replace people for 30-60 days. The operation is in the west, or should the Orcs win will be pulled back behind the NATO wall. Either way the humanitarian effort

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#78902
2 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

IMO, Ukraine needs to do a shit-ton more of this. Hit as much Orc infrastructure as possible.  

At the very least, it’s stretching Russian air defenses extremely thin and showing the gaps in coverage (made worse by the loss of their airborne command control/early warning aircraft).  Makes me wonder if the increased Russian aircraft activity is an attempt to plug the gaps with aircraft.  Really surprised at how much is getting through.  

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#78903
Situation in Kursk region. 🔻 Fighting for Tiotkino is still ongoing, - fighters of the Freedom of Russia Legion as of 15:00The Russian military is retreating. Clashes are currently taking place in Popovo-Lezhachi.
More footage of Russian infantry running away. The Freedom of Russia Legion claims they have full control over Tetkino, Kursk region.

 

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#78904
The United States will today announce its intention to send ATACMS missiles to Ukraine as part of a new military aid package - Politico
Russia sacks naval commander after humiliating Black Sea losses https://t.co/9pC81xZkHO

 

#78905
5 minutes ago, MillerEP said:
Situation in Kursk region. 🔻 Fighting for Tiotkino is still ongoing, - fighters of the Freedom of Russia Legion as of 15:00The Russian military is retreating. Clashes are currently taking place in Popovo-Lezhachi.
More footage of Russian infantry running away. The Freedom of Russia Legion claims they have full control over Tetkino, Kursk region.

 

Looking at the map and seems like a salient could be created. Damn, give them more M-1's

#78906
⚡Judge who issued warrant for Putin becomes head of International Criminal Court.https://t.co/Ikzqry9XVz
⚡️ Daily news about Ukraine due to 11.03.2023 👉Follow us @Flash_news_ua

 

#78909
Free Russian Legion captured a mini horde of Russian soldiers in Belgorod.
⚡️The Danish Defense Ministry announced on March 12 a new 2.3 billion kroner ($336 million) military aid package for Ukraine.https://t.co/pmfMgYi28d


I mostly abandoned Twitter for Threads which is a much better community despite its owners, but had to go back to Twitter today because of the news. And right before Putin's sham elections too.

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#78910

Jake Sullivan just announced the US found $300MM in "cost savings" from negotiating previous packages and is announcing a new emergency security package of aid for Ukraine. He emphasized that it's nowhere near enough.

 https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-supplemental-war-russia-congress-4aa3731543757156858c2211773a5621 

The US will provide a $300 million military aid package to Ukraine, says US National Security Advisor Sullivan.

 

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#78911
EU close to agreement on €5 billion military aid package for Ukraine - The Financial TimesIt is about a new annex to the fund used to finance military supplies to Ukraine.

 

 

#78912
BREAKING:Poland will receive a USD 2 billion preferential loan and an offer to buy 96 Apache AH-64E attack helicopters, along with radars & various missiles.The news were delivered by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.The helicopters will cost around USD 10 bn🇺🇸🇵🇱

 

#78913
"More worryingly, Russia has identified Germany as the weakest link in the alliance and Scholz as a useful idiot to take Germany out of the equation." https://t.co/HHmQKxyfmo
#78914

On the Russian IL-76 that crashed:

A Russian Air Force Il-76 transport aircraft crashed after taking off from Severny airfield in Ivanovo Oblast. All 15 crew and passengers were killed according to Baza. https://t.co/sZG0kMYD9uhttps://t.co/H9d58SmR0chttps://t.co/I8f3vZOxWzhttps://t.co/dc94xmtMzV
#78916
5 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

On the Russian IL-76 that crashed:

A Russian Air Force Il-76 transport aircraft crashed after taking off from Severny airfield in Ivanovo Oblast. All 15 crew and passengers were killed according to Baza. https://t.co/sZG0kMYD9uhttps://t.co/H9d58SmR0chttps://t.co/I8f3vZOxWzhttps://t.co/dc94xmtMzV

Looks like the engine fell off.  Who knew Boeing had a Russian manufacturing division?

#78918
6 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Looks like the engine fell off.  Who knew Boeing had a Russian manufacturing division?

Just curious: what kind of bird strike has two points of smoke and flame? 🤔To quote 'Thirteen Days': "We're those 20mm sparrows or 30mm sparrows?" https://t.co/vfJ3vwaP1d

 

#78919
A new US emergency aid package for Ukraine is confirmed. This Presidential Drawdown Authority package is valued at up to $300 million and includes support for Ukraine's air defense, artillery, and anti-tank requirements.https://t.co/Q4cAf849b6

 

Earlier today, Denmark announced a new 2.3 billion kroner ($330 million) military aid package for Ukraine.The package includes 155mm CAESAR artillery systems (co-financed with France), 120mm self-propelled mortars, and additional 155mm artillery shells.

 

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#78920
Amazing that Ukraine's homegrown drone tech is now able to not only travel 700km distance but to then accurately strike and destroy the most vulnerable and irreplaceable point on a Russian oil refinery.The distillation tower at the Ryazan refinery was struck multiple times.

 

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#78921
The Ryazan Oil refinery has been hit by several UAVs. This is the moment when the possibly third one slammed into the facility.Source: Telegram / Astra— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar)
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#78922
3 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:
Amazing that Ukraine's homegrown drone tech is now able to not only travel 700km distance but to then accurately strike and destroy the most vulnerable and irreplaceable point on a Russian oil refinery.The distillation tower at the Ryazan refinery was struck multiple times.

 

This is a big step towards Ukraine targeting the refinery towers themselves as opposed to storage tanks.

Everybody likes big fires. The tank farms are easier targets, in that hand grenade close is good enough, but you only damage the tanks and the products in the tanks. All it takes to repair them is plate steel and labor. 

Knocking out the towers is huge, like taking out the heart.  The towers themselves are also rolled, plate steel, but the control systems and instrumentation are specialized equipment that is No Bueno for Russia.  There have already been portions of Russian refining capacity shut down because of sanctions stopping the availability of critical equipment, to the point Russia was already curtailing the exports of refined products.

It is relatively easy for Russia to export crude oil to the black market.

Importing significant quantities of refined products is a much bigger issue.

#78925
21 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:
I love Kenny Loggins 😆

 

Lifted the landing gear while still on the runway  :smh

#78926
25 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:
I love Kenny Loggins 😆

 

VR seems like a bad time to engage the retracts.

#78928
12 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:
A new US emergency aid package for Ukraine is confirmed. This Presidential Drawdown Authority package is valued at up to $300 million and includes support for Ukraine's air defense, artillery, and anti-tank requirements.https://t.co/Q4cAf849b6

 

Earlier today, Denmark announced a new 2.3 billion kroner ($330 million) military aid package for Ukraine.The package includes 155mm CAESAR artillery systems (co-financed with France), 120mm self-propelled mortars, and additional 155mm artillery shells.

 

 

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#78932
Fighters of the "Liberty of Russia" Legion "Apostol" and "Domovoy" state that the Russian unit is still in Tyotkyno, Kursk Oblast, despite claims by Russian officials that they've been knocked out with hundreds of losses.

 

Vice President of Lukoil, Vitaly Robertus, 'suddenly' died at the age of 54. The company reported this on their website.All those fires that just pop up at their refineries must have an effect on the health of the people in charge.https://t.co/JBNceHBOGg

 

#78933

The revolt within Russia will start from the Captains down. They are the ones, and their families, that will feel the economic issues.

#78934
28 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:
Fighters of the "Liberty of Russia" Legion "Apostol" and "Domovoy" state that the Russian unit is still in Tyotkyno, Kursk Oblast, despite claims by Russian officials that they've been knocked out with hundreds of losses.

 

I wish them well, but that flag looks like the logo of a protein shake.

#78935

Clear video of one of the Ukrainian drones hitting a tower at the Ryazan refinery.

Footage of a Ukrainian attack drone making its final approach into the Ryazan Oil Refinery this morning, eventually diving into a burning process unit and exploding. Multiple parts of the refinery can be seen burning.

 

 

#78936

Ally of late Navalny accuses ‘Putin’s henchmen’ of attacking him in Lithuania, vows not to give up

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VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — A close associate of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny accused Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “henchmen” on Wednesday of being behind a brutal attack that left him hospitalized.

Police said an assailant attacked Leonid Volkov on Tuesday as he arrived in a car at his Vilnius home, where he lives in exile. The attacker smashed one of his car’s windows, sprayed tear gas into his eyes and hit him with a hammer, police said.

Volkov suffered a broken arm “and for now he cannot walk because of the severe bruising from the hammer blows,” according to Navalny’s The Anti-Corruption Foundation.

He was hospitalized, but later released, and vowed Wednesday to keep up his work.

“We will work, we will not give up,” 43-year-old Volkov said in a short video posted on Telegram on Wednesday, speaking with his arm bandaged and in a sling. “It was a characteristic bandit greeting from Putin’s henchmen.” This seemed to be a reference to both Putin’s thuggish style and his stint as a deputy mayor of St. Petersburg in the 1990s when it was considered one of the most criminal cities in Russia.

Police have launched a criminal investigation.

Gabrielius Landsbergis, Lithuania’s foreign minister, called the attack “shocking.” He wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “Relevant authorities are at work. Perpetrators will have to answer for their crime.”

President Gitanas Nauseda, speaking to reporters, said: “I can only say one thing to Putin —nobody is afraid of you here.”

But the attack in fact underlined a sense of insecurity felt not just by Russian dissidents abroad, but also the many to have fled Russian ally Belarus seeking safety in Lithuania, Poland and elsewhere.

“Unfortunately Belarussian people can’t feel safe even being abroad,” the Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who lives in exile in Lithuania, said. “I think the aim of such attacks is to paralyze people, to paralyze democratic movements.”

The attack took place nearly a month after Navalny’s unexplained death in a remote Arctic penal colony. He was Russia’s best-known opposition figure and Putin’s fiercest critic. Navalny had been jailed since January 2021 and was serving a 19-year prison term there on the charges of extremism widely seen as politically motivated.

Opposition figures and Western leaders laid the blame on the Kremlin for his death — something officials in Moscow vehemently rejected.

His funeral in the Russian capital on March 1 drew thousands of supporters, a rare show of defiance in Putin’s Russia amid an unabating and ruthless crackdown on dissent, as Navalny’s widow Yulia vowed to continue her late husband’s work.

Volkov used to be in charge of Navalny’s regional offices and election campaigns. Navalny ran for mayor of Moscow in 2013 and sought to challenge Putin in the 2018 presidential election. Volkov left Russia several years ago under pressure from the authorities.

Last year, Volkov and his team launched a project called “Navalny’s Campaigning Machine,” aiming to contact as many Russians as possible, either by phone or online, seeking to turn them against Putin ahead of the March 15-17 presidential election.

Not long before his death, Navalny urged supporters to flock to the polls at noon on the final day of voting to demonstrate their discontent with the Kremlin. His allies have been actively promoting the strategy, dubbed “Noon Against Putin,” in recent weeks.

Russian independent news outlet Meduza said it interviewed Volkov several hours before the attack and asked him about risks for Navalny’s team. “The key risk is that we will all be killed,” Meduza quoted Volkov as saying.

#78937
16 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:
Just curious: what kind of bird strike has two points of smoke and flame? 🤔To quote 'Thirteen Days': "We're those 20mm sparrows or 30mm sparrows?" https://t.co/vfJ3vwaP1d

 

I'll defer to any pilots who want to weigh in, but a four engine aircraft should be able to lose one engine and continue to fly.  Really, I think it could lose two and still fly well enough to make a quick emergency landing.  Maybe a load shift or something else, but this seems odd.

#78938

Not a pilot, but an aviation fan.  My understanding is that most, if not all, four engine aircraft are designed fly safely on three engines, some on two for short times.  Whatever set that engine afire and caused it to fall off probably catastrophically damaged the hydraulic control system.  Without hydraulics, most planes fall from the sky pretty quickly.

#78939

I'll say this.....watching drones hit refineries makes my Texan ass pucker like a mofo.  I've driven by plenty of Texas refineries, large chemical plants, etc.  And, ummm....the ease with which a bad actor could create a kamikaze drone, launch it from damned near anywhere nearby, and fly it into crucial infrastructure to go "boom".....yeah, that troubles me.

Do our plants have defensive capabilities?  CIWS hidden somewhere?  A platoon of rednecks with 10 gauges?  Something?

#78940
1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

I'll say this.....watching drones hit refineries makes my Texan ass pucker like a mofo.  I've driven by plenty of Texas refineries, large chemical plants, etc.  And, ummm....the ease with which a bad actor could create a kamikaze drone, launch it from damned near anywhere nearby, and fly it into crucial infrastructure to go "boom".....yeah, that troubles me.

Do our plants have defensive capabilities?  CIWS hidden somewhere?  A platoon of rednecks with 10 gauges?  Something?

Dude, the wind turbines will totally blow birds into the drones. 

#78941
36 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I'll say this.....watching drones hit refineries makes my Texan ass pucker like a mofo.  I've driven by plenty of Texas refineries, large chemical plants, etc.  And, ummm....the ease with which a bad actor could create a kamikaze drone, launch it from damned near anywhere nearby, and fly it into crucial infrastructure to go "boom".....yeah, that troubles me.

Do our plants have defensive capabilities?  CIWS hidden somewhere?  A platoon of rednecks with 10 gauges?  Something?

I've read that if the LNG tanks at the Cheniere terminal at Sabine pass went up it would flatten all of Port Arthur and parts of Beaumont and Lake Charles like a Nuclear blast. That would wipe out Valero, Motiva, and BASF Total refineries in Port Arthur, and probably destroy or damage Exxon Mobil in Beaumont a few more chemical plants and refineries in the area. The Motiva refinery is the largest in North America and the Exxon plant in Beaumont is like 2 or 3 depending on source ...Valero is #8, and the Citgo plant in Lake Charles is #7. Taking 4 of the top 10 refineries in NA offline for probably a decade or more would be end of days economic collapse type shit. 

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#78942
1 minute ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I've read that if the LNG tanks at the Cheniere terminal at Sabine pass went up it would flatten all of Port Arthur and parts of Beaumont and Lake Charles like a Nuclear blast. That would wipe out Valero, Motiva, and BASF Total refineries in Port Arthur, and probably destroy or damage a few more chemical plants and refineries in the area. The Motiva refinery is the largest in North America and the Exon plant in Beaumont is like 2 or 3 depending on source ...Valero is #8, and the Citgo plant in Lake Charles is #7. Taking 4 of the top 10 refineries in NA offline for probably a decade or more would be end of days economic collapse type shit. 

Not to mention the environmental issues.  

#78943
1 minute ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I've read that if the LNG tanks at the Cheniere terminal at Sabine pass went up it would flatten all of Port Arthur and parts of Beaumont and Lake Charles like a Nuclear blast. That would wipe out Valero, Motiva, and BASF Total refineries in Port Arthur, and probably destroy or damage a few more chemical plants and refineries in the area. The Motiva refinery is the largest in North America and the Exon plant in Beaumont is like 2 or 3 depending on source ...Valero is #8, and the Citgo plant in Lake Charles is #7. Taking 4 of the top 10 refineries in NA offline for probably a decade or more would be end of days economic collapse type shit. 

Don't mean to read you wrong and hope I'm not putting words in your mouth, but it kind of sounds like you're saying it could be a little bit of a vulnerability.

#78945
25 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I've read that if the LNG tanks at the Cheniere terminal at Sabine pass went up it would flatten all of Port Arthur and parts of Beaumont and Lake Charles like a Nuclear blast. That would wipe out Valero, Motiva, and BASF Total refineries in Port Arthur, and probably destroy or damage Exxon Mobil in Beaumont a few more chemical plants and refineries in the area. The Motiva refinery is the largest in North America and the Exxon plant in Beaumont is like 2 or 3 depending on source ...Valero is #8, and the Citgo plant in Lake Charles is #7. Taking 4 of the top 10 refineries in NA offline for probably a decade or more would be end of days economic collapse type shit. 

 

Motherfucker, that was suppose to be top secret.

#78946
12 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:
The Ryazan Oil refinery has been hit by several UAVs. This is the moment when the possibly third one slammed into the facility.Source: Telegram / Astra— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar)


send a 1000 more drones. have to hit the heavy rotating equipment, it’s not easy to replace (thinks many many months…a year) ….

Most of the oil refineries in Russia are in the west of the country within reach of the new Ukrainian drones. Ukraine may be able to cripple Russia's oil industry if such strikes continue. https://t.co/b6YXZc51PL

 

#78947

Only one way to deal with rats ….

🚨 Rumors in Ukraine: General Zaluzhnyi replaced in part because of his "excessive" operational secrecy, keeping many out of the loop.FACT: Since his firing, in less than a week, Ukraine lost:- HIMARS system- 2x PATRIOT launchers- Parked helicopters.pic.twitter.com/BnSE3ChTON

 

#78948
2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I'll say this.....watching drones hit refineries makes my Texan ass pucker like a mofo.  I've driven by plenty of Texas refineries, large chemical plants, etc.  And, ummm....the ease with which a bad actor could create a kamikaze drone, launch it from damned near anywhere nearby, and fly it into crucial infrastructure to go "boom".....yeah, that troubles me.

Do our plants have defensive capabilities?  CIWS hidden somewhere?  A platoon of rednecks with 10 gauges?  Something?

Hell, some of us work at a refinery. 

#78950
3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I'll say this.....watching drones hit refineries makes my Texan ass pucker like a mofo.  I've driven by plenty of Texas refineries, large chemical plants, etc.  And, ummm....the ease with which a bad actor could create a kamikaze drone, launch it from damned near anywhere nearby, and fly it into crucial infrastructure to go "boom".....yeah, that troubles me.

Do our plants have defensive capabilities?  CIWS hidden somewhere?  A platoon of rednecks with 10 gauges?  Something?

 

2:00 - 4:45 mark. I know you were kidding.

 

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