"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (32 Viewers)
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Russia energy sanctions will stay despite US diesel deal, von der Leyen says
The Commission president warned that “Russia is not a trusted supplier of energy.”
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Token
Senior Airman
A lot would depend on how the parts got to Russia.
We are talking generic components here (chips, DSPs, Op Amps, sensors, mounting hardware, flash memory, antennas, etc), each with many possible benign applications, not parts designed or marketed specifically for that drone. It is unlikely that the US parts makers sold directly to the Russian end user. It is much more likely that the parts were purchased via various bulk vendors, possibly using shell companies or cut-outs to mask the end user.
It would be unreasonable to hold a company responsible for the end users implementation if the maker had no realistic way of knowing that the parts would be used that way.
If Stanley tool company makes a hammer that gets sold to an unknown (and unknowable) person at an Ace Hardware store, and that unknown person later uses it to bash in someone's head, what reasonable person would hold Stanley responsible?
Some sources seem to indicate that many of the US parts documented in these drones were produced, and probably sold, before the war started.
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Major Ukrainian Arms Maker Rethinking Future Reliance On Starlink
Reducing the speed at which weapons using Starlink can operate affects a wide range of Ukrainian offensive campaigns and defenses against Shahed drones.
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Aerial Drones Appear To Be Picking Up Wounded Off The Battlefield In Ukraine
A heavy-lift hexacopter is shown pulling a wounded soldier from what Ukraine describes as a drone-saturated kill zone in what would be a world first. A heavy-lift hexacopter is shown pulling a wounded soldier from what Ukraine describes as a drone-saturated kill zone in what would be a world first.
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𝟒𝟗𝟏 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 on the frontline. He амputated his own leg with a knife to survive. And when all hope seemed lost, a drone came to bring him home.
This is the extraordinary story of Ukrainian soldier Kostiantyn Vlasenko.
Imagine a concrete drainage pipe in almost-occupied territory. Two soldiers inside. Then there is only one left. Without legs. With no hope that anyone will come for him. And so it goes, month after month.
Kostiantyn Vlasenko, from Kryvyi Rih, volunteered to fight. He had to beg for a long time just to be called up.
He was assigned to a position known as "Vertun", a concrete drainage pipe converted into a shelter.
He and his comrade held it for months. Until one day, his comrade was кilled, on his 50th birthday, February 16.
Kostiantyn was left alone.
The enemy knew he was there. They dropped a speaker playing a recording telling him to surrender. His own side would never save him, they said. A white drone would come for him and take him home.
Kostiantyn answered over the radio: "russian warship, go f**k yourself." And stayed at his position.
Then came the explosive drops from enemy drones. His left leg was badly wоuпded, and he twisted his right.
His legs began to diє. The flesh on his left foot rotted away on its own. He амputated his right foot himself, with a knife, resting it on a brick.
"Tears were running down my face. It had to be cut off. So I cut it off," he recalled.
Later, he joked to his commander: "Congratulate me, I no longer have flat feet or size 44 shoes."
When the weather warmed up, he crawled to where his legs had been left behind. There, he saw orange-and-black butterflies swarming around them.
"I thought: God, butterflies have come out of my legs, too."
It sounds like something out of a Stephen King novel. And that is no metaphor. His wife had sent him King's The Outsider in a care package. The book helped keep him going, along with thoughts of his daughter, Khrystyna.
Then came the rescue.
A drone flew in to bring Kostiantyn home alive.
The pilot dropped instructions. The drone landed and shut down its engines. Kostiantyn clipped himself on with a carabiner, gave the camera an OK sign and a heart, and took off.
As they flew over a river, he feared only one thing: that they would be shot down and he would fall into the water. He couldn't swim.
Other drones provided cover. The enemy shot one of them down.
But Kostiantyn made it.
491 days at his position.
Both legs lost.
A drone sent to bring him home alive.
And a man who still doesn't consider himself a hero. He says: "I don't like being first. I'd rather be second."
He is alive. He is back on solid ground.
His heroism and his story will live on forever.
And Kostiantyn will see his daughter again.
MiTasol
Major
I totally agree with the first sentence above but the highlighted sentence is totally unrealistic.
The Russians are currently producing around 5800 Gerans of all models per month or about 190 per day. That is over 69,000 per year.
Nobody with an IQ greater than their shoe size would believe that Russia is buying parts that were produced over 1,700 days or 4 years 7 months and 27 days ago.
Anyone that believes/says that Russia is using products manufactured that long ago is swallowing and/or repeating Russian propaganda.
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SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
That is cool.
Marijn Markus (@marijnmarkus)
🤯 Ukraine carried out world’s first medical evacuation of a human via drone from the battlefield the 30th mechanised brigade of Ukraine managed to save their injured comrade from a minefield. Absolutely insane. 🔍 Npte this was a modified heavy вомвeг hexacopter from Gurzuf Defence, adapted...substack.com
MiTasol
Major
And very soon Ukraine will be selling licences to make such drones to emergency services in countries all over the world.
- a Win for emergency services and patients everywhere.
- a Win for reducing rescue costs (compared with using a helicopter)
- a Win for availability - the probable construction cost will be about the operating cost of a helicopter for a couple of hours.
- a Win for accessibility because the drones can work in confined spaces and inside buildings
- a Win for all those drone racers who want to put their expertise to work.
- a Win for Ukraine with income and being recognised for being the worlds leader in rescue drone operations.
- a Win for humanity, and
- A loss for the two countries that forced Ukraine to develop this technology.
I think all contracts of this nature have a similar clause. But in such a clear cut situation as to who was attacked and who did the attacking would you buy weapons from a country that is doing so much to deny supplies to the nation who was attacked.
PS I think its worth noting that the USA has been paid for some of the equipment they are refusing to supply.
Apparently as USA has paid some before....but all in all USA had supported way less than any scandinavian country when measured per capita in average.
MiTasol
Major
The US is, unfortunately, rapidly approaching the point where they will be the suppler of last resort.
