Yeah -- if anything, they should be conserving what stocks of attack Hinds they have left, given that a lot of their more high-tech/modern/non-Soviet ones have been blown up over Ukraine.
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paulobrito
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In reality, the Ka-52 has been used with great success against the Ukranian counter-offensive.
The difference is that they now have ATGMs with a 10km+ range (outside MANPAD + SPAAG range) and operate over the Russian lines against attacking forces.
So - in attacking mode, they lost a lot of these, but in defensive mode (and with long-range weapons), they are very effective and the losses are low.
The difference is that they now have ATGMs with a 10km+ range (outside MANPAD + SPAAG range) and operate over the Russian lines against attacking forces.
So - in attacking mode, they lost a lot of these, but in defensive mode (and with long-range weapons), they are very effective and the losses are low.
Are you assuming the Russians are just selling old stock, and not building more?
If they manufacture brand new ones and sell them to Iran for more than it costs to build them, they come out ahead.
IIRC they're having trouble building the more high-tech, newer gunships (such as the Ka-52's) for various reasons (supply chain issues, et cetera), so every one lost in action in the Ukrainian Theatre is one that's not easily replaced.
I have no idea if they've still got significant numbers of Soviet-era/older Hinds and gunships still working, or if they're building more, but selling those off would be stupid in their current situation.
A big chunk of the losses were on frontline airfields (which Russians aggressively use to increase loiter time of helicopters) rather than in the air, as with the famous first ATACMS strike, that took a bunch of helicopters, including a tenth of whole Ka-52 fleet with cluster warheads.
Another reason,why they should sell them to Iran instead.Result would be the same,but Moscov at least would get some money.
Russian Intelligence Services Apparently Attempted to Recruit Norwegian and other European Russian Speakers to Spy for them through a nonprofit called the Russian Geographical Society.
www.ukrinform.net
According to one individual, he was approached and asked to take pictures of Norwegian military sites in Northern Norway, and was also asked about local mosques performing 'gay marriages' with Central Asian Muslims from former Russian states. He was promised a thousand dollars a day plus the opportunity to attend academic conferences in Russia.
Recently a suspected Russian spy who was trying to pass himself off as Brazilian, was apprehended in Norway after allegedly attempting to engage in espionage.
Russian intelligence trying to recruit Europeans through Russian Geographical Society
Russian intelligence operatives posing as representatives of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS), asked a Norway national to take pictures of military facilities near the cities of Alt and Tromse. — Ukrinform.
www.ukrinform.net
According to one individual, he was approached and asked to take pictures of Norwegian military sites in Northern Norway, and was also asked about local mosques performing 'gay marriages' with Central Asian Muslims from former Russian states. He was promised a thousand dollars a day plus the opportunity to attend academic conferences in Russia.
Recently a suspected Russian spy who was trying to pass himself off as Brazilian, was apprehended in Norway after allegedly attempting to engage in espionage.
Lord Sovereign
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Russia is long dead,but it is long soviet tradition to fuck with reactors.And comrade colonel love soviet traditions.
P.S Jokes aside - they have money for that things,but since state is ruled by KGB mafia,moneys are going to more important things.Like their palaces,for example.
It is matter of time till something blown up there.
P.S Merry Christmas !
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Bassoe
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Worrying development, the American glowies are concerned about some kind of weaponized Russian satellite, either a kessler syndrome debris-spreading bomb or an anti-infrastructure EMP like a deliberately weaponized version of the starfish prime tests.
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House Intelligence Committee chair warns of a serious national security threat
The Republican head of the House Intelligence Committee is urging the Biden administration to declassify information about what he calls a serious national security threat.
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Rest in Peace Trent "Tire Guy" Telenko (2022-24)
He was caught in the aftermath of the firing of Russia's new EMP FOBS Nuclear First Strike weapon known as "Goldeneye.' 😔
He might be joking but who knows for sure. If he was I respect the commitment to the joke.
He was caught in the aftermath of the firing of Russia's new EMP FOBS Nuclear First Strike weapon known as "Goldeneye.' 😔
He might be joking but who knows for sure. If he was I respect the commitment to the joke.
No, i just think he's seeing the stuff on X/Twitter about the head of the Intel Subcommittee calling on Biden to declass some info so the American public can be made aware of a new medium to long term threat.
Russia may have decided to put some sort of EMP weapon on a recently launched space vehicle, and that is basically the plot of Goldeneye.
And it's not like this is some new break through tech, it's just open weaponization of space assets on Russia's part.
Alarm Raised Over Destabilizing New Russian Threat In Space: Reports
It is unclear exactly what space-based capabilities, if any, this pertains to, but there are some very clear and troubling possibilities.
www.twz.com
If this is actually what happened, and Russia put some sort of EMP weapon in space, then yeah, the Russian Federation has crossed that line.
High altitude EMP is a way to cause Kesseler Syndrome, and effectively deny different orbits until if comes down or is brought down. Or if it is directed at the ground, a great way to either do a 'non-kinetic' attack against an enemy, either as a warning, or as part of a first strike package.
This is very not good, if true.
If i was them i would screw with the thin and blurry line between radars and EW systems.
Kessler syndrome would imply kinetic at least in part. If it's nuke based, whatever its given designation, it breaks some serious treaties, and if it's set up to cause Van Allen pumping, using it would make everyone who (formerly) owned orbital assets very unhappy with Russia.
That kind of precision would imply a maser, and building a maser of such ability is probably beyond Russia's tech, if not everyone's.
More likely it is a maser or more conventional EW jamming system meant for use against sats, except in orbit. They already did this sort of fuckery...
Fact Check: Did Russia use lasers to target satellites over Ukraine border?
A pillar of light was spotted over a Russian town near the border with Ukraine, sparking theories it could be linked to a top-secret weapon.
www.newsweek.com
Russia Building Laser System to Blind Enemy Satellites: Report
Russia appears to be constructing an anti-satellite laser system at a space facility near Zelenchukskaya in its far southwest.
www.thedefensepost.com
Russia reports killing six Islamic State aligned militants in a shootout that took place in an apartment building in the village of Karabulak in the Russian Republic of Ingushetia near Chechyna.
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Alleged IS militants in Russia's North Caucasus were killed in a shootout with security services
Six alleged Islamic State group members have been killed in a “counterterrorism” operation in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, the country's National Anti-Terrorism Commitee (NAC) reported Sunday.
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In a move surprising to no one with a clue, within days since the election circus, Russian officials announce creation of a massive amount of new military units, which can only mean an incoming mobilization wave. For those with no idea of military terms, those units mean at least low hundreds of thousands of people.
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