re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Despite the embargo on allowing experienced US pilots and maintenance staff, what about Europeans experienced in the F-16?

Wonder if it to get NATO countries to allow them to use long range weapons deep into Russia?

Ukraine says take your de escalation and shove it

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That could go a long way to force the Russian glide bombers back out of range and add more effective HARM missiles too.

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The Russian air defenses, and the Russian fighters will keep them away from the line of contact. The R-37 for example substantially outranges the AIM-120

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According to my friends who live in Russia and recently took the train to St Petersburg it is well on its way. Normally the overnight train takes 8 hours which means that train averages around 88 km/hr. It took them almost 18 hours this time. That is an average speed of 39 km/hr. It was so bad that they took a bus back. It was not a nice bus either. My friend said it looked like it had been transported from 1985 to today. He said it still had the Hammer and Sickle on the head pillows


Who do they blame for this?

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Privately they blame Putin but most of my friends are people that I met on missionary trips. They have been anti-Putin stopped allowing Americans to adopt Russian babies and started cracking down on nonorthodox Christians in the mid 2010s. The couple who runs an adoption agency is not afraid openly criticize Putin because someone has to run the orphanage (which has more babies than it can handle BTW) and they do not believe the government will close an orphanage to send them to jail. The average Russian has to limit his complaining to Russian State owned enterprises. The average Russian cannot complain about the war causing the lack of spare part, but he can complain about it as long as he turns his complaint into a complaint about buying western technology in the first place. Like "They cannot keep the trains running on time, why did locomotives which required western technology? My flight is cancelled because of mechanical issues. Why did Aeroflot stop buying Tupulolev airplanes to buy Boeing planes? My friends say that the discontent in Moscow and St Petersburg is really growing, but half of my friends think nothing will ever happen. The other think that a plane will crash coming into Moscow, a train will derail, or some other major disaster will happen that cannot be covered up and the whole pot will boil over then. Personally I am leaning towards nothing happening because I believe the Russian people are sheep who prefer autocratic rule and I really don't want to hope for something like a plane crash or a passenger train derail to happen anywhere.

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R-37 for example substantially outranges the AIM-120

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First of all, those are different missiles. Yes they are both air to air. But the 37 is not designed to take on fighters. It is designed to shoot down AWACS, Tankers, and long range bombers like B-52.

It has essentially 0% chance of taking down an F-16. The F-16 will easily out manuver it.

And second of all, the AIM 120-Ds that Ukraine is getting have about the same range as the R-37. But they are a much more advanced, much more capable missile. The R-37 was built in the 80s with 70s technology. And the Russians have not been able to upgrade them significantly.

The D model has about 1000x more computer power and much higher levels of software development than the 37. It's absurd to say the 37 is a more capable platform. That's simply not true.

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Hira Afridi
@HiraAfridi_
JUST IN ?: Ukrainian forces have opened a new front inside Russia and are breaking through Russian border in Belgorod region.

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Russian opposition channels reported a breakthrough in defense in the Belgorod region and consolidation of the Armed Forces in new positions

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only functioning gas export facility to the few European customers it has left.


Do what?? I believe that that is not their only functional export pipeline

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Ukrainian forces captured the “Sudzha” gas metering station — a crucial part of the last remaining Russian pipeline still sending gas to Europe through Ukraine.

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Russia's main European customers are Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic which all have been given waivers to buy Russian gas through the Ukrainian pipeline network. Ukraine has control of the metering station now as well as the network.

Technically the Turkstream pipeline which supplies the Balkans, Greece, and Italy. However most of those countries have switched to LNG and Turkstream cannot supply the EU countries which have waivers to buy Russian gas.

Ukraine is about to turn the tide on the Ruskies

BS. A quick Google search says they have like five more operating unimpeded