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

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Rroff said:
Sadly I knew exactly where to click on the map to check hah.

I like the way the Global Hawk is now "AAAAAAA"
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I haven't looked but is it actually a US Globalhawk or in fact the NATO AGS RQ-4D? It matters because the sensor fits are completely different of course.
 
steve45 said:
:cry: Somebody trolling!
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Seems weird

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It seems typical of recent Global Hawk activity in the area, its just the Callsign/transponder code shenanigans thats a bit weird.
 
RoboCod said:
I haven't looked but is it actually a US Globalhawk or in fact the NATO AGS RQ-4D? It matters because the sensor fits are completely different of course.
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No idea - other than from the general flight pattern it appears to be an unmanned aircraft. The Squawk codes are typically American ones for uncontrolled flight.
 
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Why do some military craft have their transponders switched on? Is it to send a message to say, for example, that they're submarine hunting in a certain area because their intelligence is on point and knows there's something there?

I guess for the recon above Ukraine, they know Russia knows they'll be there so it's not so much a matter of secrecy.
 
Soviet said:
Why do some military craft have their transponders switched on? Is it to send a message to say, for example, that they're submarine hunting in a certain area because their intelligence is on point and knows there's something there?

I guess for the recon above Ukraine, they know Russia knows they'll be there so it's not so much a matter of secrecy.
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Mostly it is because they are operating in controlled/civil airspace with other users, etc. those maritime patrol aircraft will often disappear once away from normal traffic only reappearing on ADSB when returning home. I'm only guessing but with the drones they probably leave them on during non-combat operations as they are autonomous/remote controlled in case something goes wrong so other air traffic can avoid collisions.

EDIT: Also a lot of Russian military aircraft don't appear on flight radar unlike Western militaries, only their government planes tend to and some military police groups, etc. when they send probing bombers towards the UK you rarely see the Russian aircraft on flight radar but can see the responding aircraft often and/or other aircraft re-routing.
 
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NickK said:
I suspect that the Ukraine military will feed the initial brunt, then once the US and allies have taken stock of the situation they will respond. The US is never first to a fight, it prefers to be sitting in the wings observing and planning the use of their toys.

The Russians are doing precisely what they did in WW2, the US too - China will be the interesting variable.
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Obviously not counting the gulf wars, Vietnam, Korea, Kosovo etc etc etc.

Nice theory though, did you go with ww1&2 and stop?
 
alchal said:
Obviously not counting the gulf wars, Vietnam, Korea, Kosovo etc etc etc.

Nice theory though, did you go with ww1&2 and stop?
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Not sure if I'm misunderstanding you or NickK but most of those the US got involved in after they'd been ongoing for some time and/or initially only sent advisors and supplies. Vietnam for instance things kicked off around 54/55 but the US didn't go in hard until 64 - before that their contributions were mostly advisors and supplies.
 
Doobedoo said:
Without Russia Germany would’ve conquered Europe. I’m not cheerleading for anyone but these parts of the war were and are conveniently left out. The Russians had more casualties than all other allied nations combined, including the Jews.
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You also forgot that they helped build the Nazi war machine up in the first place and helped kick it all off by holding hands with the Nazis in thier invasion of Poland.
Then let's not forget the atrocities they committed as well, we may have won ww2 in the west but the eastern nations just replaced one dictator with another and got zero Freedom.

History huh
 
Rroff said:
Not sure if I'm misunderstanding you or NickK but most of those the US got involved in after they'd been ongoing for some time and/or initially only sent advisors and supplies. Vietnam for instance things kicked off around 54/55 but the US didn't go in hard until 64 - before that their contributions were mostly advisors and supplies.
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The US start at the top with financing, then work their way down the engagement list. Softening the target with sanctions, before committing overpowering forces at great cost.
 
SAM422 - Gulfstream - on the way over the UK I'm guessing someone else from the US on the way to Munich. (ADSB puts it as out of Washington).
 
Soviet said:
Why do some military craft have their transponders switched on? Is it to send a message to say, for example, that they're submarine hunting in a certain area because their intelligence is on point and knows there's something there?

I guess for the recon above Ukraine, they know Russia knows they'll be there so it's not so much a matter of secrecy.
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For submarine warfare where your standard number one priority is stealth, it's like both (a) saying hello we can track you and (b) a track location also acts to block or mark out an area of avoidance. Submarines have a maximum speed, that aircraft can use to simply nullify the stealth of the threat.
The bases in the north are particularly good at this.. which annoys the Russians. They probably know the mantainance state of the submarine by the sonic signature better than the Russian military know from their reports and paperwork.
 
Minusorange said:
FZ1716 says hold my beer, interesting the Russian/Ukraine border is devoid of any aircraft though
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They've probably marked out a no-fly zone to (a) prevent any oops daddy I started the war early, (b) allow immediate military response with drones etc, and (c) not provide any easy targets from ground-to-air at the start of any action.
 
alchal said:
You also forgot that they helped build the Nazi war machine up in the first place and helped kick it all off by holding hands with the Nazis in thier invasion of Poland.
Then let's not forget the atrocities they committed as well, we may have won ww2 in the west but the eastern nations just replaced one dictator with another and got zero Freedom.

History huh
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Did we the west or shall I say the US do that in Iraq?….

US intelligence helped Saddam's Ba`ath Party seize power for the first time in 1963. Evidence suggests that Saddam was on the CIA payroll as early as 1959, when he participated in a failed assassination attempt against Iraqi strongman Abd al-Karim Qassem. In the 1980s, the US and Britain backed Saddam in the war against Iran, giving Iraq arms, money, satellite intelligence, and even chemical & bio-weapon precursors. As many as 90 US military advisors supported Iraqi forces and helped pick targets for Iraqi air and missile attacks.
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I think they did. I think they have a long history of supporting and funding dictatorships.

But we like to forget or ignore everything we do and only focus on everything everyone else does.

https://archive.globalpolicy.org/ir...-/us-and-british-support-for-huss-regime.html
 
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