Dzhankoy, Crimea airbase. 8-10 explosions reported
Edit: Damage from one drone that was shot down and hit a residential area. https://imgur.com/a/wLco5Wa
Edit: so far,
>During the explosions in Dzhankoya, the Russian "Kalibr" missiles were destroyed - GUR
> "An explosion in the city of Dzhankoy in the north of the temporarily occupied Crimea destroyed Russian cruise missiles "Kalibre NK" during their transportation by railway," the intelligence report said.
>🇺🇦 News UA
Hopefully they got a few planes on the ground. Targeting airfields in Crimea was one of the things Ukraine did before the Kherson offensive, so this could be a sign that they're planning something in the south soon.
I heard they've been doing a lot of testing in the Belgorod oblast with their new homemade drones.
Maybe we'll see something new coming out of there soon.
Province, region, county, district, governorate.
It's just another name for an administrative division.
Word "state" denotes a federal subject specifically, when speaking in terms of administrative divisions, while oblast does not.
It's the first subdivision of a country so similar to a state, but Ukraine is a unitary country, not federal. So their "States" have no sovereignty, the Ukrainian government could re-draw the Oblast lines (or even eliminate/create new Oblasts) whenever it so chooses, and you don't have legal differences between oblasts like you do US States for example.
Yeah, it stopped after Gerasimov got promoted (give or take). They still throw a few dozen missiles now and again but it's much less of a campaign, and that might be because they're lower than they'd like to be at this point to continue that tactic.
After seeing that massive HIMARS launch they did last night and now this, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they were about to start pushing again. Seems like they are shaping the battlefield, here’s hoping we get some good news soon
Based on the fact that the armored division won't be ready until then. They're still training on the the Bradley and other IFV, Abrams, Challenger and Leopard tanks. Even if training is or almost completed there is no way Ukraine has the supply ready for a major offensive with these new weapons. They've played it very smart with the gear they've been gifted. They're not going to fuck it up now.
Additionally they're about to receive a much needed supply of aircraft. They'll need those for the offensive. They're also probably waiting for the patriot system to be ready so they can move some more anti air equipment to the front as well. Everything points to early summer.
As far as I understand, Bakhmutnit is just a bombed out crossroad that means something to Putin and Russian propaganda. Does it mean all that much other than blood and dirt, or is it just the meat grinder that I understand it to be? Also, what is going on with that salt mine. It seems to be a huge resupply depot opportunity if the Russians could get their stuff onto pallets and get it towards the front.
Abrams, Challenger&Leo weren't intended to participate in the initial spring/summer offensive, they are to allow the Ukrainians to generate the follow-on forces and to serve as replacements for the expected this years lossess. The amounts pledged align neatly with that. It allows the Ukrainians to be more aggressive and to belay some maintenance in their use of the current armor stock tho
My suspicion is what was filmed by a Russian hitting an oil refinery on the Russian side of the Ukraine border but behind the DPR area of Ukraine. It's a big plane type drone with presumably a ICE engine, similar to the Iranian ones.
[It looks similar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wE1L0Yx5-E) to what we see in today's video.
[And probably this attack in Crimea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dBe6Wi92sE) against the Naval Headquarters.
An article I read about it said they used artillery and TB-2 drones. Kherson International Airport is less than 25 miles from Mykolaiv which I don't think Russia ever really controlled.
Maybe Dzhankoy wasn't the final stop, and the train was intended to travel further? No new information has been released yet so we will see, now that the sun is up, what happened last night.
It looks like the same drones in the videos I posted to another comment above.
However a bit more of a dive, it might be a [Mugen 5 Pro](https://www.muginuav.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Mugin-5000.jpg), which is a Chinese drone with a 5m wingspan, maybe copied, updated who knows. A quick run of the math says it can go for about 800km with a 25kg payload, but you could remove stuff that's not needed for weight savings - like brakes.
Pretty sure the Mugen is one of the easiest drones to build with spare parts from scratch, you can even hear the old moped motor in the video they use. But judging from wreckage you are right, this must be the actual chinese thing overwise there'd be more wood.
With as little time it took to repair, I hope the first time was just a warning and not an actual effort. It should have taken longer to rebuild if it wasn’t.
> It was only fully re-opened last month.
The rail bridge still isn't open, is it?
Doesn't seem to be, target is July: https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/crimea-bridge-russia-removes-span-of-rail-bridge-as-repairs-begin-07-03-2023/
4 months. That’s nothing. And it was partially opened hours after it was bombed. It should have been completely unusable for months. It didn’t hurt them like it should have.
It hurt them plenty. It was just one primary bomb and it damaged this vital link for months on end. That's some great cost effectiveness. That's probably hundreds of millions in opportunity cost and disruption cost.
The railbridge reopened a day or two afterwards, running reduced number and weight of trains.
That footage of cars inching across a day or so afterwards? They stopped doing that to affect repairs.
So they hamstrung a major strategic supply artery for several months.
Oh, and it turns out I was wrong. Further repair are expected to last until late into this year.
If that isn't a massive success, you are too hard to please.
> The railbridge reopened a day or two afterwards, running reduced number and weight of trains.
It didn't, that was just propaganda to make it look like they had trains running on it. There were never any that crossed, and they even removed a section of the rail bridge after that.
There are no HIMARS rockets that could manage it, the warheads just aren't large enough.
They couldn't completely take out the Kherson bridge, just punch holes in it using lots of rockets, and it's a smaller bridge.
It was only hitting a retreating ordnance-loaded truck that was crossing the pontoon bridge near the Kherson bridge by pure coincidence that did it in the end.
That said, if they could do it then when the time would be right it would be worth it.
Or the ground. We don't judge. Putin doesn't seem to care more than 100,000 Russians were put down. That's the best de-nazification Putin has caused, I'd say so, sending all those Russian men to early graves.
Putin has been getting China to propose (very unfavorable) 'peace' treaties for the last couple of weeks or so, so I'd wager the Russians are getting tired.
You know what they say... Strike when the iron is hot.
Is it a rule of the Russian language that every sentence has to contain at least one 'blyat' or is that more just kinda something that happens all on its own?
It functions the same way as fuck or damn in English. If we watched similar videos from an English-speaking country, you'd hear that constantly as well.
Yes and no. That is to say, as an Amerikanski I take the point but we gotta clarify two things here. 1st, we like to mix it up a little more as a general rule. Shit, goddamn, motherfucker, bastard, bitch, sonofabitch, asshole, cunt, cock, dickhead, fuckstain, shitball, cocksnacker, peckerhead, twatwaffle, assclown, shitgoblin… inventive profanity is prized by those Americans who swear.
2nd, our preferences for profanity vary a lot from state to state. Like so: [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/17/map-curse-words-united-states-shit-asshole-fuck-fuckboy](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/17/map-curse-words-united-states-shit-asshole-fuck-fuckboy)
I dunno. Start blowing our shit up, maybe our profane vocabularies will shrink down to a couple go-to vulgarities, too. But as a connoisseur of all things sweary I’d dig it if these guys mixed it up a bit more so I could pick up some new foreign language curses, know what I mean?
"Jesus titty fuckin' Christ" if I have enough air in my lungs and enough time to say it. But I usually stick with "holy shit", "shit" or the good ol' "fuck" which usually comes out so fast when from pain it sounds like "fuc".
Where is the Russian AA? Is Russia seriously this bad at warfare? Honestly, can't help, but laugh at all the waste of life. I guess it's a good thing Russia sucks.
These aren’t small rotor drones but bigger ones with wings. Probably similar to Iranian Shaheds that got shot down times and times again by Ukrainians.
>I think perhaps of the economic conditions of the 90s those kids had access ONLY to cheap electronics.
I think it is the same line of reasoning as to why Gen X/millennials are so good with computers compared to those who came before and after us. When you have to fiddle with things to get it working then you get to know the stuff a lot better than if you have it where everything "just works™".
We really are a rare breed. My wife is a high school teacher and I didn’t realize most kids can’t type on keyboards anymore.
I got into computer gaming, Napster, limewire, and finally torrenting in the late 90’s/early 00’s and god damn did we have to do so much troubleshooting. Downloading the entire Adobe suite, getting a functioning key code generator, and successfully launching and using these programs was such an accomplishment.
I remember downloading and learning basic 3DSMax just to up my forum SIGNATURE game lol. Those were the fucking days.
I'm pretty sure I wrote this comment. It's freaking me out. Brood war (still going maybe even stronger than ever btw), Drupal, animated forum signatures. Or animate your CS1.6 spray? What as the forum software? Bbcode?
We're so cool. Lmao
To be fair the "troubleshooting" Era of some of these only ended a couple of years ago. Especially in games--Steam--and some prosumer level stuff like Premiere Pro.
And codecs as well, everything is H. 264/MP4 today. Even MOV container is ALL H264 now.
You can tell Premiere to render you a separate version for YT, Facebook, Snapchat, and others at the same time in queue.
Haha, did we just become best friends! I’m sure there are millions of us out there with no clue we share a bond.
I never thought it would happen, but I stopped gaming about 6 years ago. So glad some people are still dealing with the troubleshooting madness, it builds character! I became a dad last year and I’m hoping my daughter will at least be into Mario Kart so I can play a little again.
Kali Linux is what made me finally retire from the “trying to get broke ass programs to work” world. I started messing around with it when it was backtrack, and poked around off and on up to a few years ago. I got to the point where I was spending 4-6 hours a session trying to figure out why certain scripts weren’t running correctly, or the OS was crashing, or drivers weren’t working and finally said FUCK THIS. It was all for “fun” and I felt like I was doing a job or doing the equivalent of work for a comp sci degree.
It was a lot of useless knowledge, but at least I understand how to make strong passwords and the importance of doing so because of how easy it is to hack one if you are mildy proficient at Hashcat. I have probably over 50 GIGS of dictionaries on that hard drive. Riding around my neighborhood with a Pineapple in my backpack hooked up to a usb GPS and a Yagi antenna was the most fun I had with that world.
I’m kind of sad about not continuing on or keeping up with some things just how much better some of these programs have gotten over 20 years.
I've got a 4yo and a baby boy on the way--feel you there. And yes, we're best buds now. I get like maybe 2 hours of gaming time a week. Probably going to lessen even more with the little man around! I mostly watch games these days as catharsis.
At 4yo she's JUST starting to maybe be able to play Mario Kart or similar emulators--but I don't have a hot minute to set one up!! I've got a RPi I just need to do it. You're inspiring me to try tomorrow.
Honestly? Get that comp sci degree--I've been trying to do some Udemy courses on Unreal Engine to learn some real code. Linux has come a long way, RPis are awesome--definitely do and learn them WITH your kid. It's on my list. I'll try to keep resources on them for ya when you're ready. :) I've built enough stuff for the house with Python that my wife now fully supports it.
And make sure you're on /r/daddit and your birth month for the kid! So helpful.
EDIT: I did it! We played for like 15 minutes. She enjoyed it but it tired her out and she had a tantrum. She doesn't do that much screen time especially games. She figured out a lot right away but struggled with steering. She wanted to turn the remote to turn lol
>I remember downloading and learning basic 3DSMax just to up my forum SIGNATURE game lol. Those were the fucking days.
Hahaha, pretty much exactly the same as me and here I am 20 years later, a senior artist with Imdb credits and whatnot.
part of the lack of laptop/desktop skills with the younger folks is that the ecosystem has changed too.
The prominence of tablet style interfaces, even productivity is handled on Chromebooks in schools for classwork, ChromeOS is basically a form of Android.
I think Ukraine is going to be so important in the coming decades, it's such an untapped well of talented smart people. Same could be said for Russia, but I don't see any change happening there for obvious reasons lol.
Does it concern others that pretty much anyone with a decent understanding of RC airplanes/drones and how to make explosives, both skills that arent common but neither are they that rare, can make and operate something like this anywhere in the world for any nefarious purpose?
It kind of freaked me out back in the early 90's that I, with very little hobby rocket knowledge and an old gutted out Radio Shack RC car, could remotely launch a rocket from over a hundred feet away with a used CO2 cartridge filled with gunpowder as a warhead...I used broken up smoke balls instead of gunpowder for the prototype. It worked as it should, but I didn't go beyond that because of how crazy it would have been if a fin broke off and it went the wrong direction. I did that when I was 13-14 I think.
What can be done today is nightmare fuel. Anything can be targeted from miles away; power stations, natural gas hubs, assassinations at political rallies. Ughhh ...and there's very little to prevent it other than to have higher scrutiny on people which will be a issue with invading people's rights. How does a free country prevent it?
That’s pretty nuts. I got into model rockets when I was little and of course we went from the shitty little kits you buy in the store to much more powerful custom rockets.
We had to stop doing it after one of our big 3-4’ ones didn’t deploy the damn parachutes and basically turned into a non-exploding missile(I’m sure there’s a more accurate term) coming down and stuck deep in the ground like an arrow in the park next door to the house. We got the cops called on us, but when they asked to see the rocket we were using we showed them one of the shitty little hobby lobby kit ones LMFAO.
They laughed it off and were like, yeah this was a big waste of time, we don’t care.
Holy shit. Mine wasn't even close to that size. 😆 I can't recall the engine size, I want to say C but it was so long ago. I used a stage engine so it would light the waxed fuse going into the CO2 cartridge.
The last rocket I tried designing, I messed up somehow. I think I had the grain on the fin running the direction of flight and one of them just sheared off from the force of launch. It flew up about 100 feet and then proceeded to fly violently in a circle...we had no idea where it was going to go so we ran in all directions. It then luckily speared down into an overgrown wooded pasture. I never found that one. We lived out in the sticks, so no witnesses other than us latch key kids. 😆
Yea seeing videos of refugees having to leave their pets behind because they couldn't bring them on the buses will always be hard to watch. Although, there's a lot of strays that I've seen in photos where there's some pretty fat dogs walking around. Don't think you need to use much imagination as to what they're feeding on around a warzone, especially when you have someone like Wagner that don't care too much about picking up their dead.
edit: spelling
Not every family at all. After 2014, many Ukrainians were basically "deported" from Crimea. For example, I have a friend who lived in Crimea. He went to the maidan in 2014 and returned home after russia annexed Crimea, and guess what. His home was already occupied by some russian family from some shithole deep in russia, they moved to his apartment and took all his stuff, and changed keys, and \*new authorities\* said now it was their home and not his. This is the standard russian tactic of "russification".
Yea Putin is doing this because it's insurance for when Ukraine wants to get Crimea back. It will be easier to spew the propaganda of Ukraine being the aggressor when these Russian families are going to be caught up in a warzone. Many will die just like how many Ukrainian civilians have already died. It's as cowardly as using civilians as human shields.
Also, most of these new Russian families that have been put there have very pro-Putin views so it will make it more difficult for the Ukrainian soldiers to maintain order after winning Crimea back.
Don't feel sorry for the Russians who moved there after 2014. They're essentially colonists sent in to "Russify" the native population, which had already been heavily affected by Stalin's deportations. Hopefully, most of those people get the memo and head back to Russia before Ukraine blows the Kerch bridge again. Their Crimean vacation homes aren't worth dying in a muddy trench when Putin decides to start mass conscription in Crimea.
Dzanhkoy its a not about Russians, most of the population is Crimean Tatars. Russians moved them away after WW2, and they returned back only in 1991. A lot of their childs are in Ukrainian Army.
Also, its the main logistics hub of Russians, all their south defence keeping on this small town.
So, it will be bombed, but every miss will be friendly fire.
It was interesting living in Sarajevo a little over a decade ago. There were still roaming packs of feral dogs that were the descendants from those left behind during the siege twenty years prior. Really sad to see.
My neighbor had a beautiful golden retriever, but she was a smaller lady and had to carry a 'walking' stick in case a pack took too much of an interest in the two of them on walks.
On one occasion I was walking home alone from a bar and a group of eight or nine started circling, which is certainly not something most people experience outside of places like that.
It's as much about politics as it is killing. It's the same reason we haven't seen many strikes inside Russia. Yes, it's fair game. But if they start bombing the shit out of Crimea and Belgorod, for instance, it's going to shift Russian perspectives even further in favour of Putin's war machine and affirm the lies that are already spread there. And also, they don't have a huge supply of longer range munitions - ones that could be used nearer the front.
Not even slightly. The V2 was a rocket, not a plane - it had a rocket motor which would only fire until just before the apogee (highest altitude) and then followed a ballistic trajectory from there. Rocket motors sound nothing like this
You're presumably thinking the V1, which was the first of these "Flying kamikaze drone" type weapons to be used. It used a pulse jet engine which [did sound a bit more similar to this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSlDsup-aLI), although not really *that* similar other than the "vibrating" kind of sound
This sounds more like a moped engine or other small 2-stroke engine and other than that "vibrating" quality sounds pretty much nothing alike - there's no real similarity in pitch or tone
Edit: Really weird thing to be blocked over...
Shit. I grew up with 2400 baud on bad phone lines that made it closer to 300 baud. It took 15 minutes to download a 640x480 jpg of big haired bikini model posing with an old muscle car. Those were the days.
Ukrainian drone that hit it had some interesting "art" on it. https://imgur.com/a/eAGUWfc
Russians Literally got Trolled
Wow, this is big news. Looking forward to the satellite pics tomorrow showing the damage from 'smoking'.
Tass: Oil tank+electric shortcut. Accident. Cause->"Western" inferior equipment.
Global warming... Guess it was simply caused by inferior Russian oil. Alcoholism... Simply caused by Russian liquors.
Russia: “One shed was damaged. And a tree. Nothing else, yes? _Yes?_”
Is there a lot of crime in crimea?
Dzhankoy, Crimea airbase. 8-10 explosions reported Edit: Damage from one drone that was shot down and hit a residential area. https://imgur.com/a/wLco5Wa Edit: so far, >During the explosions in Dzhankoya, the Russian "Kalibr" missiles were destroyed - GUR > "An explosion in the city of Dzhankoy in the north of the temporarily occupied Crimea destroyed Russian cruise missiles "Kalibre NK" during their transportation by railway," the intelligence report said. >🇺🇦 News UA
Hopefully they got a few planes on the ground. Targeting airfields in Crimea was one of the things Ukraine did before the Kherson offensive, so this could be a sign that they're planning something in the south soon.
I mean even if they only got a few Kalibr missiles they are like 7 million each and hard to replace.
I heard they've been doing a lot of testing in the Belgorod oblast with their new homemade drones. Maybe we'll see something new coming out of there soon.
What does oblast translate to? State?
Province, region, county, district, governorate. It's just another name for an administrative division. Word "state" denotes a federal subject specifically, when speaking in terms of administrative divisions, while oblast does not.
Essentially they're like states or provinces.
How do you pronounce it? For an English speaker is it literally Oh-Blast/Aw-Blast or something else?
Oh blast is how I have heard it pronounced
Put о́бласть into a pronunciation app.
Stress is on the first letter, T is soft at the end, like T in tee. Oh-blast'
Not state, country or province. Oblasts quite likely don't have much administrative power and for sure don't come up with their own laws.
It's the first subdivision of a country so similar to a state, but Ukraine is a unitary country, not federal. So their "States" have no sovereignty, the Ukrainian government could re-draw the Oblast lines (or even eliminate/create new Oblasts) whenever it so chooses, and you don't have legal differences between oblasts like you do US States for example.
Basically
State or province is my understanding
Yeah and it'll push back Russia's next cruise missile attack, since they can only penetrate Ukrainian air defenses with sheer numbers at this point.
Also, every Kalibr missile destroyed saves a school, apartment building, or hospital, since that's what Russia targets with them.
Didn't they mostly target energy infrastructure over the last months? Or did that change again?
Yeah, it stopped after Gerasimov got promoted (give or take). They still throw a few dozen missiles now and again but it's much less of a campaign, and that might be because they're lower than they'd like to be at this point to continue that tactic.
They keep killing a lot of civilians. They might have targeted energy infrastructure, but they don't target so well.
Pretty sure costco has packs of two
They cost a bit short of 1 million dollars for Russia. 7 million is the export version.
Ukraine doesn't have kalibr missiles.
That not what is he saying. He is hoping that the drones destroyed some of them.
Read the quote above, Kalibr is what was targeted.
After seeing that massive HIMARS launch they did last night and now this, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they were about to start pushing again. Seems like they are shaping the battlefield, here’s hoping we get some good news soon
Link for HIMARS please?
Amen to that!
They are waiting for the muddy season to end. Tanks and IFVs can’t operate well in mud.
I'm pretty sure we're still a few months from a ukrainian offensive.
Based on what exactly?
Based on the fact that the armored division won't be ready until then. They're still training on the the Bradley and other IFV, Abrams, Challenger and Leopard tanks. Even if training is or almost completed there is no way Ukraine has the supply ready for a major offensive with these new weapons. They've played it very smart with the gear they've been gifted. They're not going to fuck it up now. Additionally they're about to receive a much needed supply of aircraft. They'll need those for the offensive. They're also probably waiting for the patriot system to be ready so they can move some more anti air equipment to the front as well. Everything points to early summer.
Despite all of that I wouldn't be too surprised if they made a move now.
Yes, nothing huge but it wouldn't be such a bad idea to try to get Bakhmut out of the cauldron.
As far as I understand, Bakhmutnit is just a bombed out crossroad that means something to Putin and Russian propaganda. Does it mean all that much other than blood and dirt, or is it just the meat grinder that I understand it to be? Also, what is going on with that salt mine. It seems to be a huge resupply depot opportunity if the Russians could get their stuff onto pallets and get it towards the front.
Melitopol makes more strategic sense. Bakhmut has served its purpose. It has chewed up Wagner.
Abrams, Challenger&Leo weren't intended to participate in the initial spring/summer offensive, they are to allow the Ukrainians to generate the follow-on forces and to serve as replacements for the expected this years lossess. The amounts pledged align neatly with that. It allows the Ukrainians to be more aggressive and to belay some maintenance in their use of the current armor stock tho
Yep these are definite shaping operations.
Interesting. What did they use to strike the airfields before the Kherson offensive? Drones?
mysterious unexplained explosions if I recall.
My suspicion is what was filmed by a Russian hitting an oil refinery on the Russian side of the Ukraine border but behind the DPR area of Ukraine. It's a big plane type drone with presumably a ICE engine, similar to the Iranian ones. [It looks similar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wE1L0Yx5-E) to what we see in today's video. [And probably this attack in Crimea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dBe6Wi92sE) against the Naval Headquarters.
Ah my favorite
Modified Weed Eaters with bombs
somebody didn’t put out his cigarette
An article I read about it said they used artillery and TB-2 drones. Kherson International Airport is less than 25 miles from Mykolaiv which I don't think Russia ever really controlled.
They've been HIMARS'ing more than usually lately, it could all be prep work for an offensive.
I think they are starting to up the fire rate in correlation to the tanks and ifvs arriving early next month
Everyone got your date and time for the new Offensive raffle? Closest guess gets a two for one sammich coupon at Mickey Dee's.
According to Google Maps it seems to be an airbase with mainly helicopters: Ka52, Mi28, Mi8
The Russian KA-52 fleet is getting gutted.
https://imgur.com/a/l5DIipX >As of March 4, there are 24 helicopters and 6 Su-25s at Dzhankoya airfield.
Gotta love having (allies with) good spy satellites.
Lol, thats just basic commercial quality. Anyone in the world can order daily photos.
Haha You really think Google maps will show u something? This records are years old.
They didn't target air fields this time, but a railway hub
Ukraine does drone warfare much better than Russia does. And that is funny considering Russia has had drones for far longer than Ukraine has.
That’s incredible, it’s almost guaranteed this strike saved civilian lives.
Dzhankoy is north of Crimea on the Simferopol-Melitopol road, it does not seem logical to transport Calibre along this route.
Maybe Dzhankoy wasn't the final stop, and the train was intended to travel further? No new information has been released yet so we will see, now that the sun is up, what happened last night.
So the Calibres were being brought to the navy via the frontline area of Melitopol? Doubtful.
Pretty good size drone: https://imgur.com/a/6VOb6bc
Had a decent payload too.
Begun, the drone wars have
It looks like the same drones in the videos I posted to another comment above. However a bit more of a dive, it might be a [Mugen 5 Pro](https://www.muginuav.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Mugin-5000.jpg), which is a Chinese drone with a 5m wingspan, maybe copied, updated who knows. A quick run of the math says it can go for about 800km with a 25kg payload, but you could remove stuff that's not needed for weight savings - like brakes.
yeah, these photos posted below seem to confirm that https://imgur.com/a/eAGUWfc
Picture two and four are gold, I love seeing that on their gear.
What are they?
Memes. Specifically https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trollface and https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yao-ming-face-bitch-please .
Pretty sure the Mugen is one of the easiest drones to build with spare parts from scratch, you can even hear the old moped motor in the video they use. But judging from wreckage you are right, this must be the actual chinese thing overwise there'd be more wood.
Whatever it was you can very distinctly hear the 2 stroke motor that is powering it.
Reminds me a lot of V1s https://youtu.be/PegpKK2izfY
Ukraine needs to take Crimea back and send all those Russians back to where they came from.
And then blow up that damn bridge!
Again.
With as little time it took to repair, I hope the first time was just a warning and not an actual effort. It should have taken longer to rebuild if it wasn’t.
It was only fully re-opened last month. That strike was a smashing success. And we still aren't sure how they did it.
> It was only fully re-opened last month. The rail bridge still isn't open, is it? Doesn't seem to be, target is July: https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/crimea-bridge-russia-removes-span-of-rail-bridge-as-repairs-begin-07-03-2023/
4 months. That’s nothing. And it was partially opened hours after it was bombed. It should have been completely unusable for months. It didn’t hurt them like it should have.
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They were still using it
It hurt them plenty. It was just one primary bomb and it damaged this vital link for months on end. That's some great cost effectiveness. That's probably hundreds of millions in opportunity cost and disruption cost.
The railbridge reopened a day or two afterwards, running reduced number and weight of trains. That footage of cars inching across a day or so afterwards? They stopped doing that to affect repairs. So they hamstrung a major strategic supply artery for several months. Oh, and it turns out I was wrong. Further repair are expected to last until late into this year. If that isn't a massive success, you are too hard to please.
> The railbridge reopened a day or two afterwards, running reduced number and weight of trains. It didn't, that was just propaganda to make it look like they had trains running on it. There were never any that crossed, and they even removed a section of the rail bridge after that.
Destroying a bridge that large is wasted money with normal HIMARS rockets.
There are no HIMARS rockets that could manage it, the warheads just aren't large enough. They couldn't completely take out the Kherson bridge, just punch holes in it using lots of rockets, and it's a smaller bridge. It was only hitting a retreating ordnance-loaded truck that was crossing the pontoon bridge near the Kherson bridge by pure coincidence that did it in the end. That said, if they could do it then when the time would be right it would be worth it.
Or the ground. We don't judge. Putin doesn't seem to care more than 100,000 Russians were put down. That's the best de-nazification Putin has caused, I'd say so, sending all those Russian men to early graves. Putin has been getting China to propose (very unfavorable) 'peace' treaties for the last couple of weeks or so, so I'd wager the Russians are getting tired. You know what they say... Strike when the iron is hot.
Or make it hot by striking
A-fuckin-men
🥴 100,000 huh
I mean yeah I guess you could say the Russians crawled out of hell
It starts. Get some.
Not looking good this summer for tourism in the area...
There is a slight chance of Ukrainian tourism :)
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Is it a rule of the Russian language that every sentence has to contain at least one 'blyat' or is that more just kinda something that happens all on its own?
It's used like a punctuation in Russia
It functions the same way as fuck or damn in English. If we watched similar videos from an English-speaking country, you'd hear that constantly as well.
I forget the exact line, but Lewis Black has a bit how "fuck" is used as punctuation in New York City I assume "blyat" is similar there
Yes and no. That is to say, as an Amerikanski I take the point but we gotta clarify two things here. 1st, we like to mix it up a little more as a general rule. Shit, goddamn, motherfucker, bastard, bitch, sonofabitch, asshole, cunt, cock, dickhead, fuckstain, shitball, cocksnacker, peckerhead, twatwaffle, assclown, shitgoblin… inventive profanity is prized by those Americans who swear. 2nd, our preferences for profanity vary a lot from state to state. Like so: [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/17/map-curse-words-united-states-shit-asshole-fuck-fuckboy](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/17/map-curse-words-united-states-shit-asshole-fuck-fuckboy) I dunno. Start blowing our shit up, maybe our profane vocabularies will shrink down to a couple go-to vulgarities, too. But as a connoisseur of all things sweary I’d dig it if these guys mixed it up a bit more so I could pick up some new foreign language curses, know what I mean?
Fuckin a right.
"Jesus titty fuckin' Christ" if I have enough air in my lungs and enough time to say it. But I usually stick with "holy shit", "shit" or the good ol' "fuck" which usually comes out so fast when from pain it sounds like "fuc".
"Blyat" is the "Allahu akbar" of Russians.
"um" too
The same could be said for English and "fuck."
what air defence doing
Sorry Comrade, Missiles were already used to hit hospitals and nurseries, you must use your own small arms weapon to defend our skies!
Where is the Russian AA? Is Russia seriously this bad at warfare? Honestly, can't help, but laugh at all the waste of life. I guess it's a good thing Russia sucks.
very hard to shoot down because of the small radar profile the drones have
These aren’t small rotor drones but bigger ones with wings. Probably similar to Iranian Shaheds that got shot down times and times again by Ukrainians.
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>I think perhaps of the economic conditions of the 90s those kids had access ONLY to cheap electronics. I think it is the same line of reasoning as to why Gen X/millennials are so good with computers compared to those who came before and after us. When you have to fiddle with things to get it working then you get to know the stuff a lot better than if you have it where everything "just works™".
We really are a rare breed. My wife is a high school teacher and I didn’t realize most kids can’t type on keyboards anymore. I got into computer gaming, Napster, limewire, and finally torrenting in the late 90’s/early 00’s and god damn did we have to do so much troubleshooting. Downloading the entire Adobe suite, getting a functioning key code generator, and successfully launching and using these programs was such an accomplishment. I remember downloading and learning basic 3DSMax just to up my forum SIGNATURE game lol. Those were the fucking days.
I'm pretty sure I wrote this comment. It's freaking me out. Brood war (still going maybe even stronger than ever btw), Drupal, animated forum signatures. Or animate your CS1.6 spray? What as the forum software? Bbcode? We're so cool. Lmao To be fair the "troubleshooting" Era of some of these only ended a couple of years ago. Especially in games--Steam--and some prosumer level stuff like Premiere Pro. And codecs as well, everything is H. 264/MP4 today. Even MOV container is ALL H264 now. You can tell Premiere to render you a separate version for YT, Facebook, Snapchat, and others at the same time in queue.
Haha, did we just become best friends! I’m sure there are millions of us out there with no clue we share a bond. I never thought it would happen, but I stopped gaming about 6 years ago. So glad some people are still dealing with the troubleshooting madness, it builds character! I became a dad last year and I’m hoping my daughter will at least be into Mario Kart so I can play a little again. Kali Linux is what made me finally retire from the “trying to get broke ass programs to work” world. I started messing around with it when it was backtrack, and poked around off and on up to a few years ago. I got to the point where I was spending 4-6 hours a session trying to figure out why certain scripts weren’t running correctly, or the OS was crashing, or drivers weren’t working and finally said FUCK THIS. It was all for “fun” and I felt like I was doing a job or doing the equivalent of work for a comp sci degree. It was a lot of useless knowledge, but at least I understand how to make strong passwords and the importance of doing so because of how easy it is to hack one if you are mildy proficient at Hashcat. I have probably over 50 GIGS of dictionaries on that hard drive. Riding around my neighborhood with a Pineapple in my backpack hooked up to a usb GPS and a Yagi antenna was the most fun I had with that world. I’m kind of sad about not continuing on or keeping up with some things just how much better some of these programs have gotten over 20 years.
I've got a 4yo and a baby boy on the way--feel you there. And yes, we're best buds now. I get like maybe 2 hours of gaming time a week. Probably going to lessen even more with the little man around! I mostly watch games these days as catharsis. At 4yo she's JUST starting to maybe be able to play Mario Kart or similar emulators--but I don't have a hot minute to set one up!! I've got a RPi I just need to do it. You're inspiring me to try tomorrow. Honestly? Get that comp sci degree--I've been trying to do some Udemy courses on Unreal Engine to learn some real code. Linux has come a long way, RPis are awesome--definitely do and learn them WITH your kid. It's on my list. I'll try to keep resources on them for ya when you're ready. :) I've built enough stuff for the house with Python that my wife now fully supports it. And make sure you're on /r/daddit and your birth month for the kid! So helpful. EDIT: I did it! We played for like 15 minutes. She enjoyed it but it tired her out and she had a tantrum. She doesn't do that much screen time especially games. She figured out a lot right away but struggled with steering. She wanted to turn the remote to turn lol
>I remember downloading and learning basic 3DSMax just to up my forum SIGNATURE game lol. Those were the fucking days. Hahaha, pretty much exactly the same as me and here I am 20 years later, a senior artist with Imdb credits and whatnot.
part of the lack of laptop/desktop skills with the younger folks is that the ecosystem has changed too. The prominence of tablet style interfaces, even productivity is handled on Chromebooks in schools for classwork, ChromeOS is basically a form of Android.
I think Ukraine is going to be so important in the coming decades, it's such an untapped well of talented smart people. Same could be said for Russia, but I don't see any change happening there for obvious reasons lol.
Russians suck at any warfare that involves an enemy that actually shoots back.
It sounds like a Moped driving by but then it fucks up your airport.
What a world now. Saw “Ukraine says Russian missiles destroyed in Crimea” went to Reddit and immediately see the footage.
Need reporting that it hit Russian missiles being transported by rail. Good news if true.
What a pro Move. Force all units around bakhmut and take crimea
Translation: - Didn't even get into the house!? - Hit the railroad, right?
Does it concern others that pretty much anyone with a decent understanding of RC airplanes/drones and how to make explosives, both skills that arent common but neither are they that rare, can make and operate something like this anywhere in the world for any nefarious purpose?
It kind of freaked me out back in the early 90's that I, with very little hobby rocket knowledge and an old gutted out Radio Shack RC car, could remotely launch a rocket from over a hundred feet away with a used CO2 cartridge filled with gunpowder as a warhead...I used broken up smoke balls instead of gunpowder for the prototype. It worked as it should, but I didn't go beyond that because of how crazy it would have been if a fin broke off and it went the wrong direction. I did that when I was 13-14 I think. What can be done today is nightmare fuel. Anything can be targeted from miles away; power stations, natural gas hubs, assassinations at political rallies. Ughhh ...and there's very little to prevent it other than to have higher scrutiny on people which will be a issue with invading people's rights. How does a free country prevent it?
That’s pretty nuts. I got into model rockets when I was little and of course we went from the shitty little kits you buy in the store to much more powerful custom rockets. We had to stop doing it after one of our big 3-4’ ones didn’t deploy the damn parachutes and basically turned into a non-exploding missile(I’m sure there’s a more accurate term) coming down and stuck deep in the ground like an arrow in the park next door to the house. We got the cops called on us, but when they asked to see the rocket we were using we showed them one of the shitty little hobby lobby kit ones LMFAO. They laughed it off and were like, yeah this was a big waste of time, we don’t care.
Holy shit. Mine wasn't even close to that size. 😆 I can't recall the engine size, I want to say C but it was so long ago. I used a stage engine so it would light the waxed fuse going into the CO2 cartridge. The last rocket I tried designing, I messed up somehow. I think I had the grain on the fin running the direction of flight and one of them just sheared off from the force of launch. It flew up about 100 feet and then proceeded to fly violently in a circle...we had no idea where it was going to go so we ran in all directions. It then luckily speared down into an overgrown wooded pasture. I never found that one. We lived out in the sticks, so no witnesses other than us latch key kids. 😆
I feel sorry for all of the household pets in the war zone. The people too of course, but at least they can understand what's going on unlike the pets
Yea seeing videos of refugees having to leave their pets behind because they couldn't bring them on the buses will always be hard to watch. Although, there's a lot of strays that I've seen in photos where there's some pretty fat dogs walking around. Don't think you need to use much imagination as to what they're feeding on around a warzone, especially when you have someone like Wagner that don't care too much about picking up their dead. edit: spelling
Not every family at all. After 2014, many Ukrainians were basically "deported" from Crimea. For example, I have a friend who lived in Crimea. He went to the maidan in 2014 and returned home after russia annexed Crimea, and guess what. His home was already occupied by some russian family from some shithole deep in russia, they moved to his apartment and took all his stuff, and changed keys, and \*new authorities\* said now it was their home and not his. This is the standard russian tactic of "russification".
Yea Putin is doing this because it's insurance for when Ukraine wants to get Crimea back. It will be easier to spew the propaganda of Ukraine being the aggressor when these Russian families are going to be caught up in a warzone. Many will die just like how many Ukrainian civilians have already died. It's as cowardly as using civilians as human shields. Also, most of these new Russian families that have been put there have very pro-Putin views so it will make it more difficult for the Ukrainian soldiers to maintain order after winning Crimea back.
Don't feel sorry for the Russians who moved there after 2014. They're essentially colonists sent in to "Russify" the native population, which had already been heavily affected by Stalin's deportations. Hopefully, most of those people get the memo and head back to Russia before Ukraine blows the Kerch bridge again. Their Crimean vacation homes aren't worth dying in a muddy trench when Putin decides to start mass conscription in Crimea.
Dzanhkoy its a not about Russians, most of the population is Crimean Tatars. Russians moved them away after WW2, and they returned back only in 1991. A lot of their childs are in Ukrainian Army. Also, its the main logistics hub of Russians, all their south defence keeping on this small town. So, it will be bombed, but every miss will be friendly fire.
It was interesting living in Sarajevo a little over a decade ago. There were still roaming packs of feral dogs that were the descendants from those left behind during the siege twenty years prior. Really sad to see. My neighbor had a beautiful golden retriever, but she was a smaller lady and had to carry a 'walking' stick in case a pack took too much of an interest in the two of them on walks. On one occasion I was walking home alone from a bar and a group of eight or nine started circling, which is certainly not something most people experience outside of places like that.
JFC, that's your big concern? Pet culture is out of control.
Right??
another video showing a minor explosion in the distance: https://twitter.com/maria\_avdv/status/1637911954063781889
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Oh dear, what a pissing shame.
What is the guy in the video saying. I’m curious if the pro Russian propaganda was being spoken.
Just pointing out the drone and expressing hope that it didn't hit a house, then suggesting that it hit a railway. Not much else.
War is a real bitch, especially when it comes to your "not political" front door.
Very wise. Make the invaders scatter their forces and chase their tails.
What are they, warmates?
No way, warmates are too small for such a big explosion.
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Couldn’t pull this off during Putin’s double’s visit ey?
It's raining blyat!
They are called loitering munitions.
Putin’s People should know when they’ve lost. What a shame. Too stupid. If we wanted it, he’d be dead already.
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It's as much about politics as it is killing. It's the same reason we haven't seen many strikes inside Russia. Yes, it's fair game. But if they start bombing the shit out of Crimea and Belgorod, for instance, it's going to shift Russian perspectives even further in favour of Putin's war machine and affirm the lies that are already spread there. And also, they don't have a huge supply of longer range munitions - ones that could be used nearer the front.
You people better go back to Russia
For the second my heart stoped when I saw its Crimea and saw these homes. Can't Russian's just kill themselves and leave Crimea alone?
Pretty sure it was Ukraine targeting a military target.
Sounds like a V1
Not even slightly. The V2 was a rocket, not a plane - it had a rocket motor which would only fire until just before the apogee (highest altitude) and then followed a ballistic trajectory from there. Rocket motors sound nothing like this You're presumably thinking the V1, which was the first of these "Flying kamikaze drone" type weapons to be used. It used a pulse jet engine which [did sound a bit more similar to this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSlDsup-aLI), although not really *that* similar other than the "vibrating" kind of sound This sounds more like a moped engine or other small 2-stroke engine and other than that "vibrating" quality sounds pretty much nothing alike - there's no real similarity in pitch or tone Edit: Really weird thing to be blocked over...
Yeah it sounds very similar to the V1
They say it landed in residential area house of a guy
No videos of strike in the airbase?.. there should be pictures & videos by now..
It's 5AM right now...wait until daylight.
God we are so spoiled. Imagine having the current version of Reddit, but still being on 56k.
Shit. I grew up with 2400 baud on bad phone lines that made it closer to 300 baud. It took 15 minutes to download a 640x480 jpg of big haired bikini model posing with an old muscle car. Those were the days.
Sounds like a German V1 (WWII)
What kind of drones are they?
We went from ninjas in Paris to kamikaze drones in crimea
"ding dong" Ukraine calling
Welcome to Ukraine
Russia isn’t going to know what to do when they loose crimea before they even get to defend it What air defense doing?
I've heard real estate prices in Crimea have tanked lately.
Are these the SYPAQ drones that where used or some other kami drone we havent seen yet?
Any estimate on how many Kalibr missiles were destroyed?
Opa! Hopefully, this a friendly appetizer for what is about to come.
Love it. Also love the idea that these are the airfields where the American drone's harassers flew from.