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Its.propaganda. The guy speaking is a former F-14 RIO and mostly does fighter aircraft fiction.
Awe man... you mean the legend of the ghost is not real... Damn you Scooby Doo
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“It’s one of the worst airplanes we’ve ever designed for a lot of reasons. But the most important reason is because it was compromised by having to three different jobs. You can never make a good airplane if you don’t focus on a single job, single mission.”

– Pierre Sprey"

I've read a lot about him, watched his interviews and admire him for what he and the fighter mafia did after the lessons in the Vietnam conflict.

He was both right and wrong, for back in the 1970's. He was right that at that time when it was highly probable to get into a knife fight. That probability is very low these days based on stealth and computerized situational awareness. He had no idea of how things would evolve, no one did.

Both fighters he praised and heavily criticized because of changes later made by the "Brass", the final versions of the F16 and F15, turned to be superb fighters, ANYWAYS.

The F-15 in particular will probably go down as the best fighter the world has ever know for its service life. So far it has never been shot down in air to air combat, with many kills in its record. This all despite Pierre's criticisms that the "Brass" made it much heavier and assigned multiple roles to the airframe. He believed in pure fighters, which could not be afforded and had very limited range. That mindset goes all the way back to the Korean conflict.

Second best I will give to the F-18, which prototype lost to the F-16. It was the better fighter but with two engines and limited flight by wire it was passed by, Luckily not by by the Navy. It's superb capability comes from the wing leading edge extensions, allowing higher angles of attack.

Interestingly, the F-35 includes bigger still leading edge extensions.
 
“It’s one of the worst airplanes we’ve ever designed for a lot of reasons. But the most important reason is because it was compromised by having to three different jobs. You can never make a good airplane if you don’t focus on a single job, single mission.”

– Pierre Sprey"

I've read a lot about him, watched his interviews and admire him for what he and the fighter mafia did after the lessons of the Vietnam conflict.

He was both right and wrong, for back in the 1970's. He was right that at that time when it was highly probable to get into a knife fight. That probability is very low these days based on stealth and computerized situational awareness. He had no idea of how things would evolve, no one did.

Both fighters he praised and heavily criticized because of changes later made by the "Brass", the final versions of the F16 and F15, turned to be superb fighters, ANYWAYS.

The F-15 in particular will probably go down as the best fighter the world has ever know for its service life. So far it has never been shot down in air to air combat, with many kills in its record. This all despite Pierre's criticisms that the "Brass" made it much heavier and assigned multiple roles to the airframe. He believed in pure fighters, which could not be afforded and had very limited range. That mindset goes all the way back to the Korean conflict.

Second best I will give to the F-18, which prototype lost to the F-16. It was the better fighter but with two engines and limited flight by wire it was passed by, Luckily not by by the Navy. It's superb capability comes from the wing leading edge extensions, allowing higher angles of attack.

Interestingly, the F-35 includes bigger still leading edge extensions.

There's a good "debate" video between Sprey and an F35 F22pilot.

The pilot was extremely kind but ran circles around Sprey.

Also his contributions seem to be greatly exaggerated.

 
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Ok, things are making more sense as of a little while ago.

Unconfirmed, but Ukrainian officials state the Russian losses are at 2800 casualties, 80 tanks and almost 300 vehicles. This is more in line with where the Russians have ended up from their initial assault.

So a few things I notice right out of the gate:

- Russians do not understand the tactic of 'defeat in detail' and have chosen to attempt to overwhelm Ukraine with a 3 front assault instead. This is turning into a key blunder from the start.

- I'm not sure of the Ukrainians ever thought of this, but a defensive line just west of Kiev running N/S would have been an absolutely perfect fall back position as long as you would continue to harass and sabotage any Russian attempts at taking the Kiev airfield and denying them any sort of air operation in/out of it. You would then frustrate the Russians and have them mass in certain areas to only expose themselves in other areas. This would perfectly fall into a von Mannstein tactic of then assaulting the new weaker positions and constantly having the enemy maneuver and redeploy assets causing a large amount of friction while you then seek out and find where they are currently thin again, due to them constantly chasing their own tail.

- Plan A for Russia was some kind of 'shock and awe' to show Ukrainian forces that they are here and this is real as well as to put fear into the Ukrainian citizens in hopes of just a complete collapse/desertion/lack of a will to fight. When this didn't occur, the first point is made even worse.

- Either they were under the impression that they would have at least 1 breakthrough which would then pivot to encircle the forces in-front of one of the other assault forces or again, they planned on light fighting turning into a complete collapse.

- The large, multiple front incursion proves that they have a time line in which this is a go/no go and the conflict isn't 'until its done'. They are on the clock, as well as saw/see themselves as the team that should have mopped up the other guys. Soon, this frustration and pressure will work against them in an exponentiation manner making for more bad decisions.

- Attempting to push a defensive force into the center of their territory which is where their key tactical location is centered in, as well as you needing the same location to establish a logistical foothold in said AO, is really fucking stupid.

- I'm hoping that the lack of infrastructure sabotage by Ukraine turns into a 'nows you can't leave' situation for retreating pockets of Russians. It's what I would do in that scenario, but honestly, I would have blown all of the bridges to the north and east of Kiev when the assaulting forces were on them on their way in.

- As of right now, Russia's air support is all 'sortie' based from outside of Ukraine and they have absolutely no logistical line within Ukraine. This does not seem to be changing anytime soon and will be what ends up forcing the retreat.
 
Where did you read that?

I mean, the Russian's timetable was absolutely fucked after Day 1, but I wouldn't think Plan A not working would have them thinking ceasefire at all because...why?

The real mission fail as far as planning for the Russians would be where it got to a point that they could not take and hold the air fields/air ports they need (especially Kiev) to then extend their logistical chain and not have to 'long ball' resupply from Belarus or Russia as well as have in theatre CAS instead of having them fly sorties from out of country. That leads to a whole other issue with guarding over 200 miles of logistical supply route from Russia and 250 miles from Belarus. But that's a whole other thing.

Also a few things that have made no sense to me so far unless they magically became available today and I didn't see them:

- There are nowhere near enough videos and people live streaming things, pictures, etc. We saw 10x the amount posted and streamed from just bullshit like BLM riots. Extremely odd. Everything they show is the same fucking 8 clips. There are now more fake videos from video games than there are real ones at this point.

- Extremely low impact of infrastructure either through combat or sabotage. I think they've blown ONE whole bridge? Cars still driving around Kiev like every ones going to work on a Friday? You had 1+ years of preparation for an enemy who you knew where they would advance from and there's been basically nothing you've prepared to sabotage?

- As of yesterday there was around 130 casualties noted. What? So either the Russians are seeing heavy resistance and taking casualties and/or the Ukrainians are in heavy fighting successfully slowing the Russian advance down; yet, 130 casualties? Are we actually fighting a war or is this like 5 tanks and some random guys in the woods with rifles shouting Wolverines? Makes absolutely no sense.

- Every report of a downed/blown up vehicle has had 0 casualties. Even the helo's that went down. Is this live action GIJoe where everyone is shooting lasers and shit at each other, blows shit up and no one ever dies?

There's a few things so far that just make zero sense.
It also feels like the news cycle is delayed quite a bit too. Like just an hour ago I was seeing articles published saying “Ukrainian president says Russians could storm Kiev tonight” when they are already into morning over there.

Maybe they are more concerned about having people read the news in the evening than have up to date information but it seems like someone would have close to live reporting.

My cousin married a Ukrainian last summer (no pics so don’t ask) and her father has been called up again (last time was 2014). He confirmed fighting is still happening but said some Russians are “leaving their weapons and giving up” (whatever that means) because they don’t want to die there. I find that hard to believe. He also said 3k Russians dead which would explain Russia’s quietness about everything (I’m sure this is inflated too).

Either way, I agree the reporting on this feels really off


ETA: just saw your post above. Thanks for sharing makes more sense and I like maps. I thought 3k casualties sounded high. Thought they would have succeeded on at least one front.

Also hearing some Russians (military specifically) see the attack on Ukraine as a step backwards for Russia. Think university students pulled out of school to fight (from what he said)
 
Anybody remember all the fuss about the Russians being equipped with heavy ballistic armor?

Has anyone seen them used in this conflict?
 
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If your not conquering then why live, its time in history to take property and wealth. Living in a society weakens people which creates prey for the rulers of the world.

  1. Genghis Khan -- 4,860,000 Square Miles
  2. 2 Alexander The Great -- 2,180,000 Square Miles
  3. 3 Tamerlane -- 2,145,000 Square Miles
  4. 4 Cyrus The Great -- 2,090,000 Square Miles
  5. 5 Attila the Hun -- 1,450,000 Square Miles
  6. 6 Adolf Hitler -- 1,370,000 Square Miles
 
If your not conquering then why live, its time in history to take property and wealth. Living in a society weakens people which creates prey for the rulers of the world.

  1. Genghis Khan -- 4,860,000 Square Miles
  2. 2 Alexander The Great -- 2,180,000 Square Miles
  3. 3 Tamerlane -- 2,145,000 Square Miles
  4. 4 Cyrus The Great -- 2,090,000 Square Miles
  5. 5 Attila the Hun -- 1,450,000 Square Miles
  6. 6 Adolf Hitler -- 1,370,000 Square Miles
You forgot Queen Victoria.
 
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AFP is saying that the Russians tried to attack some main Kiev road and got knocked back.

The frequency of gun fire is definitely picking up in that livestream.

Overnight Zelenski said he will stay and fight and that an assault was.expected in the morning.
 
I cant make heads or tails but they’re claiming this is a video of an Ukraine SU 27 shooting down a Ruskie IL- 76


Similar footage in this video but it actually shows the missile launch and something exploding in the sky

 
Probably the biggest clue Russia was going to invade: on Feb. 10, The Graceful left the shipyard in Germany before its refit and scheduled maintenance were complete.

 
No. ABSOLUTELY NOT. They have to take New York, Philly, Baltimore, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Ft Worth, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and a bunch of others too. We keep the rest...
Portland and Seattle first please.
 
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If you really look into the F35 it’s all about data links and tactics

The f22 or F35 is point man

F35 tell the missile trucks f-15’s what to fire long range AM-RAM and get constant target updates from f-35

The f35 also carries tech to fool air defenses by projecting fictitious aircraft and getting AAA to light up their radars…then targeting them allowing a f-15/18 to enter contested airspace.

It’s more of a platform that a fighter.

Problem with that is in modern work we don’t allow the weapons to be used until it’s 100% ID…so we have to get too close.
Drone flocks that are released and guided by the F35, it's like what Bitcoin is to currency, supposed to be game changing but still have to see it in action to believe it?
 
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I really hope this wasn’t her blowing off steam acting dumb and they don’t really think people are this stupid.

Applying a TQ but zero blood on the ground and what’s on his pants is just a random spot on front, not to mention he’s wearing his gel liner with the pin sticking out for the world to see 😆.

Morons.
 
Drone flocks that are released and guided by the F35, it's like what Bitcoin is to currency, supposed to be game changing but still have to see it in action to believe it?
Skyborg program, USAF wants ioc by mid-to-late 2020s.
 
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Shit! This is really interesting...

 


Did Russia just threaten Finland and Sweden

If they ran into unexpected resistance and losses in Ukraine, imagine their losses going up against modern AA, good subs and a very large pile of SAAB NLAWs. True, without assistance it will be over in one to two weeks, but russian losses will be significant and will include major naval losses.
 
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..in addition to 300000 well equiped, well trained and motivated Finnish soldiers..

In the 80'ies a Finnish general attending a military conference in Europe was asked by media, who thought he was from one of the the then occupied Baltic states, the following question: "How many Soviet soldiers are deployed in your country?"
Answer: "About 200000 6 feet deep along the border!"
 
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Who are the Z's again, Russians? It's like the Z's fighting the stripes. All the equipment looks the same to me. I do know some Ukranian soldiers wear some stuff that looks like Multicam.
Yes the Z's are the Russians.

Just Z's, Z's with triangles, and Z's inside boxes appear to be different elements of the same task force.

The other task forces may have different symbols.

Not likely for IFF, but more logistics and road coordination.

Circles and Triangles without "Z"'s are reported in Crimea.
Circles with and without dots, and Triangles with one or two lines, etc...
 
If your not conquering then why live, its time in history to take property and wealth. Living in a society weakens people which creates prey for the rulers of the world.

  1. Genghis Khan -- 4,860,000 Square Miles
  2. 2 Alexander The Great -- 2,180,000 Square Miles
  3. 3 Tamerlane -- 2,145,000 Square Miles
  4. 4 Cyrus The Great -- 2,090,000 Square Miles
  5. 5 Attila the Hun -- 1,450,000 Square Miles
  6. 6 Adolf Hitler -- 1,370,000 Square Miles

Interesting just about everyone of those guys had a hand in fucking Russia probably hardest of all the people they fucked.
 
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