Yeah...and in other news apparently the sky is blue.
"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (5 Viewers)
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Video Shows Russian Cruise Missile Release Decoy Flares In Flight During Dnipro Dam Attack
A new video shows a Russian missile releasing countermeasures during its terminal stage of flight. On Mar. 22, 2024, Russia launched a large-scale missile
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MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
Hmmmmm, Who could be interested in some F-16 or Mirage 2000?
Greece Plans To Sell F-16s, Mirages To Rationalize Its Fighter Inventory
Greece is set to sell off some of its F-16s and Mirage 2000s as it plans to reduce its diverse combat aircraft fleet.www.twz.com
Mmmmm
I think the Ukrainians could convert those F-4s into a superb long range kamikaze drone and the type could go out in a blaze of glory.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Dunno - the F4 was excellent in the Wild Weasel role and would be a good tool for the Ukrainians in weeding out Russian assets.
MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
Fully agree but then it is one more orphan type to train and maintain and support.
As a Kamikaze drone you only need to fly one with a pilot (which could easily be a non Ukrainian volunteer if well behind the front lines) while the drone operator is being trained. After that no more manned flights unless each one is given a manned test flight. Maintenance? Not much needed during the manned flight stage - critical items only - and none after that.
Again I think they could easily get volunteers from other countries to do that if well back from the battlefront.
As a Kamikaze drone you only need to fly one with a pilot (which could easily be a non Ukrainian volunteer if well behind the front lines) while the drone operator is being trained. After that no more manned flights unless each one is given a manned test flight. Maintenance? Not much needed during the manned flight stage - critical items only - and none after that.
Again I think they could easily get volunteers from other countries to do that if well back from the battlefront.
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Glider
Captain
If you want a good old fashioned bomb truck, you could do a lot worse than an F4. Maintaining it would be a nightmare.
Glider
Captain
I think a key point is made at the end of the piece when it points out that this mobilisation may well include the major cities, areas that have previously been except from mobilisations.
I was listening too a radio program from India and Nepal where it was pointed out that Russian recruitment of people from those area had largely dried, up as the losses incurred had vastly exceeded what the expectations given. The people who had joined up had been told that as they were not Russian citizens, they would be given second line duties manning borders and similar roles. Of course they were fed straight into the front lines.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
The Phantom was the master of getting into the weeds at Mach and sniffing out SAM sites and STA radar networks.
It wouldn't take many, just a few, to light up and paint Red networks.
Ironically, back in the day, the F4 Wild Weasels were up against the very thing that exists in Ukraine at the moment.
It wouldn't take many, just a few, to light up and paint Red networks.
Ironically, back in the day, the F4 Wild Weasels were up against the very thing that exists in Ukraine at the moment.
''...Some European politicians cooperating with the news site were paid from Russian funds that in some cases also covered their 2024 EU election campaign, the daily adds.
The payments targeted politicians from Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands and Poland, Denik N said, citing a Czech foreign ministry source.
It singled out the far-right German party Alternative for Germany (AfD) as being involved...''
www.themoscowtimes.com
The payments targeted politicians from Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands and Poland, Denik N said, citing a Czech foreign ministry source.
It singled out the far-right German party Alternative for Germany (AfD) as being involved...''
Czechs Bust Major Russian Propaganda Network - The Moscow Times
Czech intelligence has busted a Moscow-financed network that spread Russian propaganda and wielded influence across Europe, including in the European Parliament, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Wednesday.
Greg Boeser
2nd Lieutenant
I am shocked. Not.
A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of putinism.
We already have Hungary fully controlled by right-wing Putin friends, also Slovakia to a major part just recently. We don't need more. Ukraine does not need more.
Poland just got rid of most of those people, just their farmers seem to be still influenced by Putins money
Poland just got rid of most of those people, just their farmers seem to be still influenced by Putins money
Thumpalumpacus
Major
I don't think using F-4s would be a good idea. Even in 1990, before the 301st transitioned to -16s, they had far too many IFEs.
I was also thinking about something like this:
en.wikipedia.org
Operation Aphrodite - Wikipedia
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
They're big, fast, carry a ton o' fun and I just watched a vid on Sandboxx where an F-4 drone was shot down by the latest and greatest AMRAAM. I guess there's a bunch left. Think of the mayhem and merriment a dozen or so launched with a drone swarm could provide.
Hmmm...Terminator Phantom. Something similar to what I suggested years ago be done with the RAAF F-111s.
