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What happened to Russia's Air Force? U.S. officials, experts stumped
Reuters ^ | Mar 1 2022 | Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali

Posted on 03/01/2022 5:54:02 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

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To: wildcard_redneck

More like trannies, woke pussies, and all-around faggotry now dominate our military, thanks to Milley and his fellow Pentagon asswipes.


121 posted on 03/02/2022 8:44:52 AM PST by JME_FAN
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To: Zhang Fei
Biden is too stupid to figure it out.

Biden's handlers are too stupid to figure it out. Or perhaps it is what their Chinese directors are telling them to do.

Biden himself is completely irrelevant now. He makes no decisions. He is a worn-out puppet.

122 posted on 03/02/2022 8:56:13 AM PST by flamberge (Believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear)
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To: Secret Agent Man
True, but we also stopped being an “In God We Trust” Constitutional Republic a while ago as the New World Order has risen here, so in some ways we both have a similar problem.

And for this reason, much of what Putin, who I believe is a loyal Russian who loves his country, has claimed to be fighting against has truth.

In the greater spiritual war, in many ways the West and America, especially, have become if not “the great Satan”, then perhaps the harlot of Babylon.

If that is Putin’s view from there, then, as a leader, how should he go about rescuing his ‘family’ and neighbors next door from that evil which is advancing on them and him without hurting them also?

His restraint makes sense from that view point.

In a similar way, how do we drive that same New World Order evil from us/US here without hurting our family and neighbors so we can be who we are?

123 posted on 03/02/2022 10:16:55 AM PST by GBA (Endeavor to persevere)
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To: bert; dfwgator
Europe is rising to the task of aiding Ukraine

If Europe rises to the task like they did in WWI and WWII they will maneuver the US into fighting it for them, then they will adopt the policies of the Socialists they got us to kill for them.

124 posted on 03/02/2022 10:43:14 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Mr Rogers

Pyrrhic victory looming


125 posted on 03/02/2022 12:22:37 PM PST by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives )
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To: FreedomPoster
Stingers only work on low-level stuff. One presumes the Russians could drop in smart weapons from higher altitudes.

And therein lies the rub. Russia apparently has extremely limited quantities of any kind of smart munitions, and even their stocks of rockets and unguided bombs are getting low. They don't really have the capability to do any high-altitude operations.
126 posted on 03/03/2022 8:43:54 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: Zhang Fei
And the Russian Army today is a pale shadow of the Soviet Army.

That's for sure. They don't even have tesla coils or mammoth tanks any more!
127 posted on 03/03/2022 8:45:33 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: Svartalfiar

[That’s for sure. They don’t even have tesla coils or mammoth tanks any more! ]


OMG - Command and Conquer Red Alert? Talk about a blast from the past.


128 posted on 03/03/2022 8:46:58 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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[And therein lies the rub. Russia apparently has extremely limited quantities of any kind of smart munitions, and even their stocks of rockets and unguided bombs are getting low. They don’t really have the capability to do any high-altitude operations. ]


Interesting account of what bombing with unguided munitions involves - including the fact that it brings the aircraft well within the range of Stingers which can reach 12,000 ft vs the 4,500 ft needed to drop unguided munitions accurately:

https://warontherocks.com/2017/08/taking-airpower-for-granted-a-smart-bomb-story/
[Back in the early days of bombing, before fighters had computers, dropping a bomb accurately required skill, training, and a bit of luck. Pilots had to use trigonometry to create a “bombing triangle” for every delivery. A typical Vietnam-era F-4 attack was a 45-degree dive at 4,500 feet above the target, while flying at 450 knots. The pilot had to navigate mainly using visual references on the ground and canopy angular references to be exactly 6,400 feet away from the target at release.

The pilot also had to account for how the ballistics of the bomb would change its trajectory (after release, the bomb rapidly slows down, causing it to fall short of the aircraft flight path). He accounted for this by aiming long of the target and computing a depression angle (expressed in milliradians). This was known as the sight depression from flight path and was dialed in before each pass.

The pilot also needed good reflexes. Traveling at 450 knots and aiming for the 50-yard line on an NFL football field, he had to hit the pickle, or release, button within 0.2 seconds of the planned release point to ensure the bomb hit between the two end zones.

Even with perfect reflexes, small variations in attack parameters had drastic consequences. Being just one degree shallow could result in the bomb hitting 60 feet short of the target. To score a direct hit (called a “shack”), the pilot had to aim at the right target, correctly calculate the attack parameters, hit the pickle button exactly on time, and calculate the correct sight depression.

In Vietnam, fighter pilots often released their bombs from higher altitudes to avoid an additional issue: anti-aircraft fire. This increased what is referred to as the circular error probable — a circle around a desired impact point whose radius represents the statistical distribution of the bombs that will hit within the circle. This was overcome by simply dropping multiple bombs on each pass (to increase the chance of getting a bomb or two on target). As a result, aircraft were typically assigned on a formation-per-target basis (and occasionally a jet-per-target basis). For example, to hit a half-dozen targets, aircraft packages were generally built around 16 strike aircraft (escorted by other fighters performing escort and suppression of enemy air defenses).]


This is presumably why Russian aircraft have been less than active. The real question is why the Ukrainian army hasn’t been more active in smashing Russian troop columns, assuming Russian air cover is limited for fear of taking losses from Stingers.


129 posted on 03/03/2022 9:00:21 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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