Reminded me of that video where Putin said he wanted to raise the nuclear alert level and his two stooges at the end of the table looked very nervous. I didn't think they were nervous about the prospect of a nuclear war, more that they were nervous about Putin finding out they'd already sold the nuclear innards for some fancy yachts
completely depends on the size of the exchange, any is bad, but the bigger it is, the badder it is...and the bigger the warheads, the worse it is. a one megaton bomb will take out about 80 square miles, but it would take 4 or 5 125 kiloton bombs to take out the same size area. one or two weapons won't be enough to trigger a nuclear winter, but 5 or 6 might be..again, depending on their yield...
Talk me out of it table.
Yeah but it adds an off flavor.
I noticed, i don’t like dramas. There’s a saying ,,she gets on like a fly on a shit”
in US regionally (south, southwest) you’ll hear “like stink on shit” or one I like, “like ugly on an ape”.
Spain is an odd choice, they aren't conveniently located to Ukraine in any way, and where ever they drop stuff, it will have to be ferried across land a good distance.
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I would have thought they would send it by rail, dunno the logic unless they are gonna go up the Adriatic to Italy or Slovenia and across Hungary to Ukraine by train, that would make the most sense. Hungary would at least allow transit and is in deep shit with America and other NATO members over their reluctance to supply old soviet tanks. Austria is neutral, not a NATO member, but might allow the shipment of equipment by rail, they are safe inside NATO, like their neighbors the Swiss.
Russia can not win. They have already lost. They can still kill a ton of women and children, but they can not win this war. The arms we are sending is cheap for what we are getting out of them. ie, a weak and disheartened Russia.
Would that be fighting for or against the USA?
Using the nukemap simulator I dropped the smallest US device on our airport. Resulted in 30 fatalities and 190 injuries. Selected surface rather than airburst to limit the damage. If the Russians had to take out an area that they could not otherwise, like the steelworks they could get the job done without starting a nuclear war. How people would feel about it? It would be first to break the taboo of using nukes for everyday combat but it probably would not cause a nuclear power to retaliate for Ukraine.Reminded me of that video where Putin said he wanted to raise the nuclear alert level and his two stooges at the end of the table looked very nervous. I didn't think they were nervous about the prospect of a nuclear war, more that they were nervous about Putin finding out they'd already sold the nuclear innards for some fancy yachts
eta: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ Always a fun website to visit.
The tethered flyer does not have a time restraint as compared to if it ran on batteries so the system could be placed beforehand in a location that the enemy will be going by and the tethered drone can act as its periscope over the trees. That is another thing that might trip up the drones, if there is a good tree cover on the targets and the drone snagged in the tree. But he, nothing is perfect. Rather than the tracked vehicle mounting a dozen on a remote controlled quad makes a lot of sense.
It might result in the sudden destruction of the rail and road bridge at Kerch among other very painful consequences for the Russians. Precision strikes on them, even in Russia, or just give Ukraine a thousand cruise missiles to do with as it pleases and that's just for starters. Come pick up the M1 tanks and whatever else you want in western Poland, if Vlad thought he has problems now...
In eastern Ukraine, it's wide open spaces, both a problem and opportunity. It's as easy to make killer suicide drones as it is to order containerloads of foam RC planes from China, they will make them to your design, even install the flight control computers, GPS and do almost everything else, except the programming and plastic explosive warhead. Good enough for Russians apparently!