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

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Could be a great false flag by the US.
(Belarus : wtf! why are you withdrawing your population?
USA : soz cannot say.
Belarus : grrr, Putey whats up?
Russia : soz cannot say
Belarus : WTF WTF!)

So many possibilities its hard to say with anything other than guesswork whats going on.
 
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Could be a great false flag by the US.
(Belarus : wtf! why are you withdrawing your population?
USA : soz cannot say.
Belarus : grrr, Putey whats up?
Russia : soz cannot say
Belarus : WTF WTF!)

So many possibilities its hard to say with anything other than guesswork whats going on.
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A false flag is an actual operation by someone pretending to be someone. I think you mean, great psyop :).
 
XeNoN89 said:
I'm literally in minsk right now, woops
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Are you getting tutored on which cathedrals to visit when you get back comrade ?
CaptainRAVE said:
They expecting **** to go down?
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No idea from this it seems it's to do with Lithuania closing borders

Alert – U.S. Embassy Minsk, Belarus (August 21, 2023)

Location: Belarus Event: The Lithuanian government on August 18 closed two border crossings with Belarus at Tverecius / Vidzy and Sumskas / Losha. The
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That's probably why, neighbouring countries closing their border crossings. So US government suggests you leave while you can because your options for leaving are getting smalller

Poland, Lithuania and Latvia all closed or continue to close border with Belarus in retaliation for its part in the war
 
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US has approved Poland's request for Apache helicopters

Poland will pay $12 billion and in return will receive:

* Flight, engineering and maintenance training and pilot simulators

* 96 AH 64-E Apache helicopters

* 1844 Hellfire missiles

* 460 JAGM missiles

* 96 CATM missiles

* 508 92K Block I missiles

* 7650 APKWS-II rockets

* 200 Engines and other spare parts

* 97 ASQ-170 Pilot helmets and other equipment like radar kits, communications equipment etc
 
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Rilot said:
The US should donate all the F14s they've got sitting in The Boneyard. I mean, if it's good enough for Maverick.
Plus I'd love to see F14 fly again. Best plane ever.
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At some point it's becomes a liability. I wonder if there any active combat pilots in the US airforce that know how to fly and use the F14

In the last top gun movie they showed how different an F14 and F16/18 looks inside the cockpit. The F16/18 is mostly screens and a few buttons, but the F14 cockpit is covered in hundreds of buttons and knobs
 
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Rroff said:
Complete fantasy as it was never designed for the pylons but I'd be kind of tickled by something like a Cessna Citation X setup like a mini AWACS but with the ability to spit Meteors - Russians would never know what hit them.
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I may be mis-remembering something from a film, but I'm sure there was an incident once where a US navy ship almost got sank by a Dassault Falcon (kind of like a Learjet) with added radar and pylons that smashed Exocets at it. So this kind of thing is certainly within the realms of possibility.


Rilot said:
The US should donate all the F14s they've got sitting in The Boneyard. I mean, if it's good enough for Maverick.
Plus I'd love to see F14 fly again. Best plane ever.
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Seeing them in action again would be erection inducing, but if memory serves correct they only performed secondary duties during Desert Storm II (can't remember it's actual name but I'm sure it's not as cool) because they lacked something that made them ineffective against early 2000s Iraqi anti-air. And while it's fun to mock Russia, they are older and less capable than the Su-27s Ukraine is using.

Sadly they had been neglected for quite a while in the 90s after the decision was made to go with the Super Hornet over the Super Tomcat and no point investing in upgrading something that you're going to be retiring soon(ish) :(

Then again, as you say it would deter Russia from deploying Su-57 in case the US deployed Tom Cruise :p


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US has approved Poland's request for Apache helicopters
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This is highly worrying :(

If there was one single narrative that has come out of this war thus far aside from "never trust a treaty/agreement with Russia" or "NATO anti tank weapons specifically designed to wreck T-series tanks are actually quite good at wrecking T-series tanks" it would be that the day of the attack/gunship helicopter is over.

If Poland are looking at the data and thinking that buying Apaches is in anyway a smart move then they must be seeing different data to us. It means that either the KH-52, Mi-24 and Mi-28 are actually doing much better in Ukraine than the Ukrainian/Western governments are letting on, or that the Polish governments decision making is abysmal, could be a coin flip really :P
 
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You must have missed the videos where Russian ka-52 helicopters were destroying leopard tanks because infantry carried anti air systems have less than half the missile range of a ka-52 missile

So in disputed air space, helicopters can still fire missiles at enemy positions from outside of infantry anti air range

And of course if you have air superiority, then attack helicopters become armour killing machines
 
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The US have 50 ish F117. Those would put the wind up the Russians. They also have some A10’s, a few of those would have been handy in dealing with the Russian 40 mile traffic jam.
 
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US have also just approved Australia's request to buy 200 Tomahawk missiles at a cost of $6 million per missile

Not that there was any doubt given the US has already approved selling submarines to Australia and the Tomahawks are needed as ammunition for the subs

Australia becomes just the 4th country to gain access to the 1500km range U.S cruise missile, the other countries are USA, Britain and Japan
 
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jigger said:
The US have 50 ish F117. Those would put the wind up the Russians. They also have some A10’s, a few of those would have been handy in dealing with the Russian 40 mile traffic jam.
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Putting A-10's in the air without having air superiority is like sending a pack of wolves in against guys with machine guns.

F-117's are highly specialist aircraft, very few people trained to fly them, ridiculous amount of hours of maintenance required to put it in the air by specialist teams only in the USAF; completely unsuitable.

Essentially having an advanced modern air force is really expensive and really technically demanding, it's not something you want to try and piece together while fighting a war in your own country.
 
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