Article in The Times about the drones. So far they've flown "over 60" missions. First a smaller drone identifies a target. The coordinates are sent to the bigger one (with a 2m wingspan circling at 400m) which then drops 3kg of high explosive on the target. Apparently used to destroy fuel depots. The number of drone is classified. Some come from Turkey. They cost $200000 for the 2 drones, a control unit and a trainer.

Not in the least, if you're aware of what is happening there and why there are so many Eritrean young men fleeing the country. It's been dubbed Africa's North Korea.

Another way of looking at it is that China has seen the response to the invasion of Ukraine and REALLY don't want that to happen to them, so they'll back off for a bit.

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Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

GLONASS is a Russian space-based satellite navigation system operating as part of a radio navigation-satellite service so enabling Russians to avoid the US GPS system.

However, the Russian military doctrine is to avoid using GLONASS due to concerns it could be jammed or interfered with. Instead of satellite navigation, it is expected that Russians use the otherwise obsolete Loran-C system Chayka, which means “seagull” in Russian.
It is a land-based system of radio navigation. Loran is an abbreviation of “long-range navigation”—which dates back to World War II.

The original LORAN system used unwieldy analog equipment with drawbacks like manual tuning and lane ambiguities, there were also inaccuracies caused by the effects of terrain on the Loran signals.

Little is known about the Russian military LORAN systems, presumably, they have extensively modernised the receivers.

UA army knows exactly how to solve the crisis

Will be interesting to see if the Russians attempt to spoof the GPS system in the Black Sea again...no doubt this was probably in anticipation of the current conflict:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170925...lose-to-putin/

he/she is troll on salary

The New York Times is raising the question about Putin retaliating over Nato countries supplying arms and logistics to UA.
This is escalating fast, especially when Nato arms are killing Russian soldiers. Maybe be time to start thinking about stocking up on water and cans.

Don't forget the toilet rolls, the crisis is bound to produce a gippy tummy.

Video from the crash site of the IAR 330 Puma helicopter Romanian Air Force that went down in Dobrogea, Romania (over land) while searching for a missing MiG-21 LanceR which went missing from the radar during a routine patrol mission.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AeronewsG...23331475386374

The Council of the EU said today the Russian banks removed from SWIFT are Bank Otkritie, Novikombank, Promsvyazbank, Rossiya Bank, Sovcombank, VNESHECONOMBANK (VEB), and VTB BANK, effective 12th March.

More like iodine tablets and fallout bunkers.

The powers that be have recently restricted pharmacies here from selling the iodine tablets, also my experience in France yesterday too. So those of you in the AG/ZH region seem to have received them previously due to proximity to the reactors and are lucky. The rest of us not. Although the cheery pharmacist says the canton authorities have instructed to say that while they won't sell them, that there is enough available for the CH population in case. Not sure I am so confident in that statement though.

Oooyes! Better not forget those. What would you take into your bunker when the time comes?

Ukraine war follows decades of warnings that NATO expansion into Eastern Europe could provoke Russia

https://theconversation.com/ukraine-...-russia-177999


Ronald Suny Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan

America is provoking war in Ukraine

https://www.newdelhitimes.com/americ...ar-in-ukraine/


It seems, after getting a bloody nose in Afghanistan after betraying U.S. allies by helping the Taliban take over Kabul, President Joe Biden needs a war to win in a theatre of his choosing where the terrain is not as harsh as Kandahar and where G.I. Joe could party on his days off duty.
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And then there is the business of America buying military hardware from its armament industry to keep them manufacturing armaments that enhance their bottom line and feed the stock markets.
Perhaps that is the nature of America today, a “Military-Industrial Complex” prophesized by President Dwight Eisenhower in his farewell speech on Jan. 17, 1961.

Take your shit back to Telegram.

Iodine tables are useful in the event of a nuclear power incident where radioactive iodine is released. They're not useful against any other radioisotopes. In a nuclear explosion, only 0.2% of the fallout is radioiodine.

https://www.businessinsider.com/pill...18-1?r=US&IR=T

Lukashenko published a photo from the Security Council meeting where the map of the military actions has with one of the arrows pointing at Moldova. Moldova demands explanation.

Yes, but this only worked while the Russians didn't have control over the air. Now they do and this is no longer an option.

Let me bite the bait and respond to the troll. This "Russia was provoked" seems to be at the core of all low-lifes still defending Putin.

Imagine you and me are neighbors. I have a friend with whom I like to spend time and I invite him to my place. You tell me "don't provoke me, I don't like your friend, don't invite him to your house". Nonetheless, I am a sensible person and I keep seeing him because he is an intelligent and nice fellow. One day, out of the blue, in the middle of the night, you break into my house, beat me up, set my house on fire and refuse to leave until I sign that I will never see my friend ever again because you don't like him.

Kapish?

I won't even read it because I know all this shit and it's a false justification of this invasion. If anything, everyone should see now that these countries were right all along when they joined Nato.
As you can see people die protecting their countries. R.I.P. to all the officers and troops that died protecting our country. They have my gratitude and my deepest respect. It puts everything into a different perspective...

What is so difficult to understand, that there are countries that do not want to be under Russia? Stockholm syndrome is apparently curable.

Moldova has a very pro-EU government now....of course they are a target. I haven't read their press yesterday but I check it out from time to time. They received many refugees in the last days or week and are incredibly well organised and welcoming (but this hospitality, this warmth is at the core of Moldovian soul) for such a small country.

If Putin is not stopped, then Moldova could be next. They have a breakaway republic Transnistria. Moldova is right to be extremely worried.

From Google: Transnistria is a breakaway region of Moldova in which ethnic Russians and Ukrainians together outnumber ethnic Moldovans. The territory has enjoyed de facto independence since a brief military conflict in 1992, though it is internationally recognized as a part of Moldova.
Although Transnistria declared independence in 1990, no United Nations member recognises its sovereignty and the region is considered by the UN to be part of Moldova. As of 2011, only Abkhazia, the Republic of Artsakh and South Ossetia recognise its independence, all themselves states with limited recognition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria

They were just hoping for a nice honeymoon and then this happened. So sad.

@Dandy this is coming from a quadruple-confirmed source! A friend of a friend of someone who knows sent it to me!