https://xcancel.com/EuromaidanPress/status/2081694022163108091

This. The fire departments in my country measure the danger zone for tanker truck explosions in kilometers. Not even weapons grade explosives.

There are numerous videos of people idly watching a fire hundreds of meters away (burning truck, or factory) and then the crowd panics when half a truck lands next to them.

Drones aren’t CAS. Not the way this article uses the term anyways. They are talking about destroying large groups of enemies. Drones can’t do that. They do small pockets of enemy. Again, it is the opposite of what the article describes. Not an analogue.

To be frank: I don’t see the analogue. To use the methods employed in that article requires air supremacy, not just air superiority. That is a luxury Ukraine will never have. Why? russian aircraft will always have the technological advantage even if they refuse to use it, the dramatic increase in the efficacy and prevalence of MANPADS means, unlike what most say regarding Tank usefullness, the era of CAS is all but over, and finally, Ukraine simply does not have even close to the overwhelming amount of air forces the NATO coalition brought to bear.

As russia’s air defense attrition reaches critical levels I do expect to see a dramatic increase in Ukraine’s use and effectiveness of Air assaults on ground forces, but I will eat my hat the day a yellow and blue F16 flies over Moscow, let alone carpet bombing of russian trench lines.

I think the confusion is that the techniques employed are to tire the missile out, not dodge them. It is possible to dodge in some cases, but, this is due to limitations in missile’s radar (and/or energy) far more than the fighter outmaneuvering something that can do 20g turns at mach 7. Thus, the maneuverability metric that originally brought on this entire conversation is not nearly as beneficial as described as they don’t need to turn on a dime, just in the right direction at the right time.

“we are lucky they are so very stupid”

It helps they are getting tons of fertilizer. 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

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This is showing combat footage involving visible humans and should have been flagged [Combat] NSFW, but, I’ll give it a one-time, non-precedential exception, because the only injury was just a flesh wound.

Honestly I was thinking I’d have to delete it for being AI slop based on the thumbnail photo, but the videos are-jaw dropping

The most important takeaway from it I got was that he called it ‘Ukraine’, and not ‘the Ukraine’.

And the bot spam in the comments don’t even bother to not repeat themselves…

i use an ad blocker and didn’t know there was a problem thank you.

Most critically, the sensors and antennas (you know, the things without which the vessel is functionally useless) are all exposed.

Always have been 🔫

What’s russian for “if only losing a foot was enough”?