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Civil turbine engines often do water washes to remove salt (and other contaminants) and these are done much more often if operating over salt water so I presume that Navy's do this at regular intervals even if the aircraft has not flown.
Actually, I shamelessly stole that line from a Twitter guy named Darth Putin. If GTX, RogerdeLluria, Buffnut, Thump and the whole Hee-Haw gang hadn't linked his posts, I'd never know about it.AsSaparotRob would say, master strategist. Everything is going according to plan
That's correct. It is clear from current photos that the back pressure is blowing his head up.Yep - Moscow got so hot that Putin had a brain fart caused by climate change
Heavy fighting and rapid advances by Ukraine northwest and southwest of Bakhmut over the last 72 hours.
In the north, Russian units appear to be abandoning forward positions from their salient which they had developed in the last four to five weeks, expanding out from the highway. Reports are that Russian units are withdrawing as much as 15km, back to better established positions located forward of the main north-south rail line.
In the south, Ukrainian forces have breached a Russian defensive line set up along a canal and have engaged Russian forces in the villages along the same north-south rail line. Advances beyond 5km being reported. there are a substantial number of Ukrainian units identified as operating in the area, including at least one of the new 'assault' brigades.
Immediately in front of Bakhmut, Ukrainian forces look to have advanced right back up to the outskirts of the city and taken anchoring/blocking positions.
Don't forget:There are 2 prescidents:
1. The Germans flooding the Schelde, Holland, 1944
2. The Chinese breaking the Yellow River levee, 1937, to deny the Japanese access. 800,000 casualties is conservative death toll. Levee not restored till 1947.
The strategy was recommended by Chang Kai shek's GERMAN military advisor.
There is a recovery vehicle in the upper right side of the image or is a mine clearing one?Abandoned (probably damaged) Leo 2A6. This picture seems legit. Looks like a Ukrainian assault group got obliterated. I wish it didn't, but we know we are going to see this type of images.
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BMR-2 Mine clearing tank based on T-55 chassis.There is a recovery vehicle in the upper right side of the image or is a mine clearing one?
24 hours later... Hows that worked out then....?Lots of Ukrainian blogs/social media accounts reporting 'something big' happening in the next 24 hours....
A number of the more reputable sources are being conspicuously silent. It's 8:15 AM in Kyiv at the moment....
"something big" is happening24 hours later... Hows that worked out then....?
Movement towards something big, perhaps."something big" is happening
Turkey can go pound sand.Spain and Ukraine Discuss Transfer of Patriot SAM System for Air Defense, but Turkey Denies | Defense Express
Ukraine seeks strengthened air defense as Spain considers transferring patriot batteries while Turkey raises concernsen.defence-ua.com
Is that a Ukrainian recovery vehicle? Just making sure that isn't a green trash bag or it is a small AFU cross painted on. If it is, then the AFU has advanced through the area.
24 hours later... Hows that worked out then....?