"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (1 Viewer)

[hawkeye2an]

I thought this was a gyro?

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An Austrian Company Has Built A Military-Grade Gyrocopter — And It Looks Awesome [PHOTOS]

Over 100 of these have been sold, and a deal with the U.S. is in the works.

www.businessinsider.com

Needs more cucumber sauce

 

[swampyankee]

Old News - See Little Nellie
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Aah, yes. The military autogyro, an idea whose time has not been coming since its development well before WW2...

Most of the complication of a helicopter without their one real benefit: hovering.

 

[MiTasol]

Does anyone know if this has survived the invasion - it is/was in the Donbass region

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This suggests otherwise

This 'Brand New' Air Force Might Be Built From Stolen Museum Exhibits

Pro-Russian separatists are starting to renovate old fighter jets and helicopters stolen from museums in Ukraine

www.vocativ.com

 

[GrauGeist]

"No matter where you go, there you are..."

 

[WARSPITER]

"No matter where you go, there you are..."

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"Now let's see. There was a whitegoods place just back down the road so I can get some parts there.....".

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

That guy is channeling Wile E. Coyote, Esq.

 

[ThomasP]

Ran across an interesting bit of info, re the lack of explosive in the reactive armour units on the Russian tanks (mentioned up-thread) in Ukraine.

In the First Chechen War the Russians lost a couple of hundred AFVs, including a significant number of tanks. Most of the Russian tanks deployed did not have reactive armour - and of the ones that did have it, many of the reactive armour units did not have the explosive filler necessary. Sounds like what was(is still?) going on with the reactive armour on the Russian tanks in Ukraine.

Also, for anyone interested I highly reading up on the First Chechen War of 1994-96. It has a lot of similarities to what has been going on in Ukraine.

 

[RogerdeLluria]

Russian channels claim that the Russian army stopped the AFU attempt to cross the Seversky Donets River, where the Ukrainian army created a pontoon crossing and tried to cross the river (sounds familiar). I searched about that but found no evidence other than russian claims. Some even claim that 72 Ukranian vehicles where destroyed in the failed crossing. Number that is suspiciously close the Ukranian claims


The only evidence is this video, that shows little to no evidence at all, looks more like a propaganda video.


I detected this claims right after the info about Ukraine stopping several RU crossing attempts started to spread. Anyone has seen any evidence on that?

Interesting that right after the UAF attacks on snake island. Russian claims (with no evidence) also started to circulate that UAF lost several planes helicopters, ships, men and drones trying to assault snake Island.

 

[ThomasP]

 

[Denniss]

If you have nothing good to report just twist, bend or even reverse the truth. So a terrible loss becomes a great victory.
"No, there are no american tanks behind me blasting through Baghdad"

 

[Dimlee]

Not my style of music, but I watched it till the end.

 

[Dimlee]

Thanks for the links.
The last link "prosecutionerservice.nl was one of the links I had also checked.
However there is no conclusive proven evidence that the system was manned by Russian military personal. That the system originated from a Russian military unit was known and
doesn't constitute a proof as to who manned it.
The prosecution even stated in it's final address: The defendants were not regular military personnel and it is not known as to who pressed the button.

What I can't find anywhere in those prosecutor files, is as for the question; were these 4 defendants trained/qualified to operate the Buk M1 system?

Defendants provided assistance, that is clear. They didn't operate the Buk.
Evidence of the military personnel was provided by the witnesses and by the correspondence and intercepted phones/radio talks of the defendants and of other Russian and separatist personnel.

 

[RogerdeLluria]

No comments needed.

 

[Jagdflieger]

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Happened to me a couple of times after my daughter was playing with Lego - and wearing no slippers I can tell you it really hurts.

 

[RogerdeLluria]

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I think this one is closer to reality. Except there are no (serious) peace talks yet.

 

[RogerdeLluria]

Not my style of music, but I watched it till the end.

 

[Admiral Beez]

Does anyone know if this has survived the invasion - it is/was in the Donbass region

Amazing museum!!! - Review of Aviation Technical Museum, Luhansk, Ukraine - Tripadvisor

Aviation Technical Museum: Amazing museum!!! - See 12 traveler reviews, 26 candid photos, and great deals for Luhansk, Ukraine, at Tripadvisor.

www.tripadvisor.com

Aviation Technical Museum (Luhansk) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

This suggests otherwise

This 'Brand New' Air Force Might Be Built From Stolen Museum Exhibits

Pro-Russian separatists are starting to renovate old fighter jets and helicopters stolen from museums in Ukraine

www.vocativ.com

This is why in Canada all museums must legally sever the mainspars or otherwise permanently disable all retired jet fighters. We can't have the now petrodollar rich Albertan separatists seizing museum pieces and raising up.

On a more serious note, I'm forever impressed by Ukraine's civilian soldiers. The woman below is my daughter's age.

 

[wlewisiii]

 

[RogerdeLluria]

 

[RogerdeLluria]