[Roosta]

I hear that russia is sending their T-54 Tanks into action.

Looks like a massive turkey shoot is about to begin.

[Guns N' Coffee]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

1. ""Gerasimov and Shoigu are moral freaks and cretins" - terrorist Girkin-Strelkov."

2. "Terrorist Girkin-Strelkov is very gloomy in his evaluation of the Russian army, just like Prigozhin."

3. "Prigozhin made another public address to Shoigu and Gerasimov, blaming the Russian army for withdrawing north of Bakhmut and uncovering the flanks.

He begs them not to abandon flanks, complaining that his letters receive no reaction."

These guys must be be immune to SRDS (Sudden Russian Death Syndrome)

[WonderMomma]

Originally Posted by Guns N' Coffee ↗

These guys must be be immune to SRDS (Sudden Russian Death Syndrome)

No one is immune. We should start a "Window of Death" pool. Who's next?

[WonderMomma]

"Mykhailo Dianov, a soldier of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade and the defender of Mariupol, shares a moving story of how he was exchanged for russian POWs.

Mykhailo was wounded at the Azovstal plant. When he returned to Ukraine, the world was shocked by how malnourished, exhausted and tortured he looked after being held captive."

[Roosta]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

"Mykhailo Dianov, a soldier of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade and the defender of Mariupol, shares a moving story of how he was exchanged for russian POWs.

Mykhailo was wounded at the Azovstal plant. When he returned to Ukraine, the world was shocked by how malnourished, exhausted and tortured he looked after being held captive."

I'm sure that after a week of rest he will gear up & head back out with his unit.

Slava Ukraini !

[Rikbikboo]

Originally Posted by Roosta ↗

Let's all just hope that he's man enough to accept defeat & call it a day rather than nuking everything because of his greed & personal pride issues.

I refer to this. It may well
Be a question of pride. And whether or not he would lose gracefully. Which I doubt. My feeling is he’s getting old. What does it matter to him if he nukes half the world if he’s going to die anyway. There’s a possibility he’ll take the devil may care attitude.

It’s. A question of if ordered, would the person being told to
Press the button actually go ahead and press it.

An interesting article has been published today, in which Professor Dmitry Adamsky - an expert on nuclear strategy and Russian security policy - offers his thoughts on the significance of the Kremlin's repeated dire warnings and threats.
In the analysis for Foreign Affairs, he argues that the shift in mentality among Russian leaders in recent years and the changing language they tend to use when alluding to the country's arsenal has worrying implications.
"Russia's approach to nuclear weapons has evolved since the invasion began—and not in comforting ways," he writes.
"The war further nuclearised the Russian establishment's strategic thought and normalised nuclear weapons in the public's consciousness. These mutually reinforcing trends have implications for Russia’s prospective behaviour. Evidence from primary sources indicate that over the last year and a half Russia's military has doubled down on its conceptualisation of deterrence strategy, and that it is starting to rely even more on the country's nuclear arsenal in strategic planning."
While frequent nuclear threats issued by Vladimir Putin and his allies since the invasion of Ukraine have been widely dismissed by Western officials and commentators, Prof Adamsky suggests these threats have helped change perspectives so much in Russia that, for many, a nuclear attack is no longer "an unthinkable option".
"This recurring belligerent nuclear rhetoric—official and unofficial alike—has somewhat eroded the nuclear taboo, even if unintentionally," he says.
Commenting on the influence of popular opinion on the actions of leaders, he said "the tail might now be wagging the dog".
"Several Russian defence intellectuals and nuclear experts have been shocked by the unbearable nuclear lightness among the Russian public," he writes.
"These experts have said that public sentiment inaccurately represents the Kremlin's position, and that it is irresponsible because of its dangerous implications."
Prof Adamsky concludes that these changing attitudes may have a crucial bearing on the actions of the officials and operators who it would otherwise be hoped would refuse to carry out orders if they were instructed by leaders to launch a nuclear attack.
"The new nuclear normal in Russia is likely to increase the obedience of operators in response to escalatory nuclear orders from Russia's leadership," he concludes.
"And if Russia experiences civilian-military instability, the chances of unsanctioned use could go up."

It really does leave you wondering what if?.

[WonderMomma]

Originally Posted by Rikbikboo ↗

The Kremlin says that three scientists who worked on the hyper velocity missile program will be arrested and charged with treason.

It seems that because those missiles were shot down these poor blokes are gonna pay the price for it.

Good old Poo Tin

Hypersonic missile scientists facing 'very serious' treason accusations from Russia
Three academics who have worked on Russian hypersonic missile technology face "very serious" treason accusations, the Kremlin has said.
Anatoly Maslov, Alexander Shiplyuk and Valery Zvegintsev have worked on the weapons for years, publishing a book chapter entitled "Hypersonic Short-Duration Facilities for Aerodynamic Research at ITAM, Russia" in 2016.
We don't have details on exactly what the three have are alleged to have done.
Vladimir Putin has boasted that Russia is the global leader in hypersonic missiles, capable of travelling at speeds of up to 12,250 kph to evade enemy air defences. He called them "undefeatable".
But, earlier this week, Ukraine said it had managed to destroy six of the weapons in a single night - a claim Russia has disputed.
In a letter, Siberian colleagues of the trio protested their innocence and said the prosecutions threatened to inflict grave damage on Russian science.
"We know each of them as a patriot and a decent person who is not capable of doing what the investigating authorities suspect them of," they said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he was aware of the letter but that the case was a matter for the security services.
"We have indeed seen this appeal, but Russian special services are working on this. They are doing their job. These are very serious accusations," he said.

Edit. Fixed the autocorrect typos again

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

Three scientists from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Novosibirsk, were arrested one after another by law enforcement officers under an article that now carries a maximum penalty of a life sentence, which came into effect this year. They were involved in the development of hypersonic aircraft.

On Tuesday, May 16, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics employees published an open letter in which they announced the arrest on suspicion of treason of Valery Zvyagintsev, a doctor of technical sciences and chief researcher who founded the high-speed aerodynamics laboratory at the institute.

Zvyagintsev has been under house arrest on 7 April. His supervisor, Alexandr Shiplyuk, the chief of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, was placed in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center in August of last year, a few days after the arrest of Anatoly Maslov, the chief researcher.

Both were charged under the same Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, high treason. Maslov was suspected of transferring data related to hypersonic technologies to China.

Shiplyuk and Maslov worked on hypersonic missiles for more than 10 years.

They presented the experimental design of such a weapon back in 2012 at a scientific seminar in France. Four years later, a work jointly authored by two scientists appeared on aerodynamic research at hypersonic speeds.

In recent years, Shiplyuk has also been involved in the protective coating of hypersonic missiles – his works are devoted to this topic.

Suspicion of scientists
In total, 16 people were prosecuted in the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, known for its strong potential in physics and mathematics, including Aleksandr Aseev, the former head and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

One of the scientists, 54-year-old Dmitry Kolker, the head of the laboratory of quantum optical technologies at the Novosibirsk State University, died in the Moscow pre-trial detention center shortly after his arrest by FSS officers.

More scapegoats. I might be adding a couple of these names to my SRDS post.

"16 scientists have already been arrested in Moscow for missile articles. And that's without the "dagger".

Bunkerny found someone to take revenge on for military tyranny: the case of traitorous scientists is in full swing. The FSB throws everyone involved in rocket science into the basement - from academics to senior scientists. Soon they will come for the younger ones.

✴️You could already hear that three rocket scientists were thrown behind bars. They are being prosecuted under the article "treason". To be honest, they were imprisoned for visualizing bunker fantasies.

✴️It is about a science fiction cartoon, which Putin on March 1, 2018 passed in the State Duma as reality. In the video, the Zircon anti-ship missile and the Avangard intercontinental ballistic missile are launched over the US territory. "There is no analogue," said "grandfather". The world laughed at science fiction, but not its main creator. He believed that the "characters" of the cartoon are real.

✴️"Zircon" and "Avangard" do exist, but they are so invisible that they can be seen only in the closed articles of the military budget of Muscovy. It is logical to assume: hyperspace budgets allocated for imaginary weapons were added to the expected hypersonic speed of the rockets. With such funds, Musk would colonize Mars, teach the people who arrived there to do without oxygen, and in return create a time machine.

✴️In reality, scientists will be tried for inflated expectations of the leader. Since there is no such article in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation yet, treason is added.

✴️The trinity of traitors is Valery Zvehintsev, a doctor of technical sciences, his supervisor Oleksandr Shiplyuk and scientist Anatoliy Maslov. The last two were thrown into the bunks last year in August. The funniest thing is that Maslov is being "sewn" to transfer secret technologies... to Russia's closest friend and partner China - he just spoke at a scientific conference. Others "squatted" on bunks for writing scientific papers.

✴️In total, 16 people in the Siberian branch of the Academy of Sciences fell under the hot hand of the FSB, including an academician, the heads of laboratories, and some scientists managed to give the bunker a shower in the bullpen and are now watching the events from the other world with interest.

✴️This schmon is only because of one "Zircon", and there are a lot of such tricks in advanced Russian science. Bunkerny, for example, played a cartoon in the State Duma about the Kinzhal hypersonic complex, which "guaranteedly overcomes" not only existing, but also future air defense and missile defense systems. He said that even the Martians would not be able to knock him down.

✴️The Martians did not, but the Ukrainians succeeded, and also with the help of the Patriot system created in the 70s of the last century (although let's be honest, it was a Ukrainian modification of 1999). And there are other "analagaf nets" that "grandfather" used to brag about: "Satan II" missiles, other "Sarmatians": Their developers must also answer for the failure of Mordor's combat capability...

✴️How can we not mention the famous Stalinist "case of scientists": back then, there were also enemies and traitors around, whose place is only under the supervision of the penitentiary system. Under Stalin, entire scientific institutes worked in prisons. After all, the founder of the rocket industry Serhiy Korolev made his most important discoveries precisely under the reliable protection of prison walls.

✴️For us, the indicator here is very simple: the more internal enemies, traitors and foreign agents the Putin regime discovers, the less confident it is in its stability. By all indications, it is not yet the 37th year, but the country is steadily sliding towards it, and will be increasingly forced to pay for the fantasies and illusions of its leader.

All the more so because Russian science has become disorganized, and in such a difficult time it must atone for its sins before the scoundrels, before Putin."

[WonderMomma]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

"US can train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 in four months - Yahoo News, citing an internal US Air Force document

The document contains a detailed assessment of two Ukrainian pilots who were tested in late February at an air base in Arizona.

According to the assessment, the Ukrainian pilots were able to perform a number of "relatively technical" maneuvers in simulated conditions.

The main problem with the training, according to U.S. instructors, is that the Ukrainian pilots have not gotten used to the F-16's avionics. They also pointed to a general language barrier.

Nevertheless, the US Air Force report concludes that "given the current level of skills demonstrated by the Ukrainian Air Force pilots, four months is a realistic training period.""
Attachment 1181017

They could have been doing this 4 months ago when they first started talking about it.

"President Joe Biden informed G7 leaders today that the United States supports joint efforts with allies and partners to train Ukrainian pilots for the F-16 , a high-ranking representative of the administration told CNN.

According to the official, training will take place in Europe .

"As the training takes place over the coming months, our coalition of countries participating in this effort will decide exactly when to provide aircraft, how many we will provide and who will provide them," the official added."


Tweet from British PM Sunak:

[WonderMomma]

Russian hacked a Ukrainian company called "New Mail" (Nova Poshta) which they assumed was the company responsible for delivery of western weapons and ammo to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Apparently they got it wrong and the "courier" company that delivers the Leopards, Bradleys, Stingers, etc to the AFU is a company called "Glovo".

SOURCE QUOTE:
"The Podors hacked the website of Nova Poshta in revenge for what they believed to be the company's delivery of ammunition and equipment for the Armed Forces.

Almost a year and a half of the active phase of the war, and these dovb@obs still do not know that deliveries of Leopard tanks, M2 Bradley BMP, FIM-92 Stinger and others to the front are carried out by couriers of the Glovo company. "


Screenshot is a pro-Russian source.

[WonderMomma]

"At one of the Italian railway stations, an echelon with Italian "wheeled tanks" "Centauro B1" and "Iveco VM 90" cars was spotted moving through the territory of Italy.

As time shows, all the military that goes by rail in Europe then ends up in Ukraine."