Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

[McBain]

Safest place to head is burnley

nothing will make that town go down

Death would be preferable

 

[Mysterae_]

I’m in an interesting position. If dropped on the centre of London, I’d be right on the edge of the outermost greyish ring on nukemap. Forget what that bit is now.

Anybody not wearing two-million sunblock is gonna have a bad day.

 

[LabR@t]

This whole situation makes me wonder again what the US was doing couple of weeks back when they pulled something out of Germany, from the airbase nuclear weapons are stored at, under heavy escort with heavy NATO AWACS/ISR missions in the region.

Link

 

[SupraWez]

Want there an upgraded system we purchased from the US but we also had to get permission to use it lol

 

[Droolinggimp]

I’m in an interesting position. If dropped on the centre of London, I’d be right on the edge of the outermost greyish ring on nukemap. Forget what that bit is now.

what bomb did you select?

 

[steve45]

I don't think we ever operated Patriot. Sky Sabre is the replacement for Rapier as far as I know, and is more of a point/local air defence system. I could be wrong but I don't think it has any ABM capabilities.

From what I've gathered it can intercept Cruise missiles. However, it dosnt have range to have any real effect against ICBM's, the war heads would be in their terminal phase when its in range of Skysabre, and would be next to impossible to intercept.
The long range strategic air defence systems like Patriot are designed to detect and intercept much earlier in the ICBM flight.

 

[Hades]

That's a trap.

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[SupraWez]

I’m in an interesting position. If dropped on the centre of London, I’d be right on the edge of the outermost greyish ring on nukemap. Forget what that bit is now.

Im in a bright light vapour zone, think the Terminator playground scene

 

[byeo]

Such a shame to hear the news about the Antonov-225. Was always a pleasure to see “Mriya” in the UK. Reports I’ve read suggested she was destroyed on the 24th but that’s not really relevant now. Unfortunately she was never in a condition where was could just be flow to a safe area as she was continually undergoing maintenance when not operational.

At the end of the day, yeah it’s just an aircraft and many people have lost their lives and will continue to do so, but it’s such a shame. Just this Tuesday gone, I watched her little brother, the 224 fly in to East Midlands airport as it passed over my house.

 

[ubersonic]

No you are trying to use your last bit as a get out.

LMAO, that's awesome xD

So to sum up: You read part of a post, claimed it was wrong, then posted the same explanation as a correction. Then when it was pointed out to you that you misread/misunderstood the point and we were arguing the same thing you read the whole thing, realised it was correct when all read together, and then decided the last sentence is just a "get out" because if you ignore/omit that part then the context changes and your original complaint is valid after all. That's just... Jesus lol xD

 

[teejay73]

Not all 6000 of them, I'm no expert - but one would probably hit. Doubt the UK would be the biggest target anyway, not that it will ever happen mind you.

I keep seeing this quoted 6000 nukes that Russia has, but having them and then the ability to use them are two very different things entirely. Russia has approx 1500 deployed nukes, the rest are a combination of waiting to be decommissioned, or are in reserve. There are also rumours that their Nuclear program fell into such a state leading up to and after the fall of the USSR, that it is even questionable how many of their 1500 nukes are actually in a good enough state to be launched. To give it some context - since the 1940's the U.S has spent over $5 Trillion on just maintenance of their stock of Nukes. The USSR, & then Russia have had severe financial hardships upkeeping their stock.

 

[Felon]

Do we think Putin would dare to use battlefield nuclear weapons?

 

[scarps]

Wouldn't there be defence systems across Europe that would be used, wherever the ICBM was heading

 

[tracertong]

Maybe Elon Musk has something top secret that will help , kinda like this guy.

 

[Mik3]

Ukraine should allow Russian soldiers free access to their mobile networks so they can tell their family's back home exactly what's happening, God knows what they're saying on Russian state TV.

 

[robfosters]

Im in a bright light vapour zone, think the Terminator playground scene

It’s not a vapour zone. I’ve used nukemap before and the outermost ring is not a vapour zone

 

[muon]

LMAO, that's awesome xD

So to sum up: You read part of a post, claimed it was wrong, then posted the same explanation as a correction. Then when it was pointed out to you that you misread/misunderstood the point and we were arguing the same thing you read the whole thing, realised it was correct when all read together, and then decided the last sentence is just a "get out" because if you ignore/omit that part then the context changes and your original complaint is valid after all. That's just... Jesus lol xD

You don't write lots of things that are wrong and then get away with a crude statement, but there might be something left. Why did you write the stuff before it?

The nuclear deterrent doesn't work on the hope of something remaining or other nations. The statement is fundamentally wrong.

The fact you are now clinging on to 4 words that don't actually explicitly mean much other than suggesting there might be something left in the ashes, misses the entire point.

 

[LOAM]

To be honest, given the state of Russian military equipment we've seen, I don't put much weight behind how many actual ready to launch nukes the Russians have. I don't buy the whole "Russia has only sent in the bad gear to save the good stuff". Given how much egg he's got on his face he would have deployed his 10 good tanks and his 3 generation 5 fighters by now.

Putting is ALL FACE as it's now been proven.

its no longer "an egg" the guys wearing an ommlete suit.

 

[Alice In Wonderland]

Do we think Putin would dare to use battlefield nuclear weapons?

I really hope not but given everything that has happened in the last few days, I genuinely have no idea.

 

[LabR@t]

I keep seeing this quoted 6000 nukes that Russia has, but having them and then the ability to use them are two very different things entirely. Russia has approx 1500 deployed nukes, the rest are a combination of waiting to be decommissioned, or are in reserve. There are also rumours that their Nuclear program fell into such a state leading up to and after the fall of the USSR, that it is even questionable how many of their 1500 nukes are actually in a good enough state to be launched. To give it some context - since the 1940's the U.S has spent over $5 Trillion on just maintenance of their stock of Nukes. The USSR, & then Russia have had severe financial hardships upkeeping their stock.

Tbh he only needs a handful