Greg Boeser
1st Sergeant
Accidents are the leading cause of death in this demographic. Any speculation is just tinfoil hat conspiracy theories.
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Accidents are the leading cause of death in this demographic. Any speculation is just tinfoil hat conspiracy theories.re . . . 'Putin ally 'falls off boat into sea'
"At least eight Russian businessmen have died in apparent suicide or accidents in just six months"
and
"Another Russian energy boss dies mysteriously, as Putin ally 'falls off boat'"
makes 9.
I am thinking that Putin is going to have to sit at a long table and look over his shoulders (more than before the war) for the rest of his life.
It may well be a case of drive 100 tanks in one end, clean them up, then drive them out the other end and say they are new.I wonder how accurate this is vs. propaganda. But 100 tanks does not replace the two thousand lost.
Putin, "Steiner's assault will bring it under control."Nothing is better than a combat report presented with a German(Austrian) accent.
As far as I know, all existing T-90 variants were planned to be modernized to T-90M from 2020 to 2025. Deliveries and orders of modernized T-90M continue through 2022 despite economic sanctions. Probably most, if not all, of those 100 tanks are older T90 versions updated to T-90M standard.It may well be a case of drive 100 tanks in one end, clean them up, then drive them out the other end and say they are new.
i tend to agree with you - assymetrical deployment of airbrake is most probable cause of this. During development of Su25 they have tested such thing for boosting aircraft control. Test has been conducted on high celling but response was so violent that test pilot refused to do it once more time and the test have been never repeated again.I buy some of this, I doubt both engines would flame out though. If he did not have structural failure, it's apparent he over banked and spun in. Even if he got into the lead's wake turbulence, it should have not tossed him around to an extent where he couldn't control the aircraft (Su25 T/O weight should be about 40,000 pounds so we're not talking small aircraft here).
There does seem to be something coming off the left wing. The Su25 does have speedbrakes at the wing tip IIRC. I'm wondering if that's the point of failure
The only other thing to took at is if he shelled an engine (compressor or turbine blew) and that resulted in taking out flight controls. I know these aircraft have a lot of armor around the engines to prevent this, but you can always have that one piece of engine shrapnel that got lucky.
Then .... and now ...
Exclusive: As war began, Putin rejected a Ukraine peace deal recommended by aide
Putin's chief envoy on Ukraine told the Russian leader as the war began that he had struck a provisional deal with Kyiv that would satisfy Russia's demand that Ukraine stay out of NATO, but Putin rejected it and pressed ahead with his military campaign, according to three people close to the...www.reuters.com Amid Ukraine’s effective counter-offensive, Russia’s FM Lavrov proposes negotiations with Kyiv
Moscow is not against negotiations with Kyiv, amid the broad Ukrainian counter-offensive in eastern Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the propagandist TV channel Russia-1 on Sept. 11.news.yahoo.com
If Rusia lacks the resources to train and equip a large force (it must have some true if they are telling that in TV prime time), maybe the western sanctions are biting harder than is acknowedged publicly. Just saying.Interesting "talking head" clip from Russian television. Clearly some soul-searching going on about how to proceed:
I particularly like the dig at the Andrey Turchak's comments while visiting Kharkiv that Russia will be there "forever."
I also note the guy, who steadfastly refuses to be interrupted, talks of mass mobilization pulling people out of factories to go to "war," not to "the special military operation."
At worst, it will be an all-out defeat which could cause Russia itself to implode, much as it did after the break-up of the Soviet Union.