Zach
@thrustwr.bsky.social
Writer, Track fuser, Archiver.
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This is part of an unhinged map series I came up with a few months ago. The idea is to make random snapshot maps of time/unit accurate engagements/frontlines for hypothetical wars and just not expand more. How did this happen? That's all up to your imagination.
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bsky.socialYeah, I wish it would translate directly into that. But it is unlikely, like you said, it pays well. This means that out of the 74M workforce in Russia, there will be someone willing to take up the job. The overall shortage is being felt unequally in some industries. cepa.org/article/russ...
Russia Seeks Africans to Fix its Workforce Shortages
While Russian propaganda continues to thunder on about "building a new economy," it's apparent that Russia is suffering a lack of personnel.
cepa.orgSo, like, actually getting serious about this war. I'm not opposed to the idea of taking in Russians looking to flee, brain drain the Russians and all, but I don't believe this something worth pursuing because it will have an immediate effect on the war effort or something like that.
The best and easiest way to win this war is to give the Ukrainians the proper equipment and support they need and not drip-feeding them equipment and holding a sword by their neck that we would rather give them no weapons and watch them lose than allow them to attack Russian targets in Russia.
I don't mind Russians fleeing prosecution for protesting the war effort and other activists with genuine opposition to the war from being taken in by the West. But draft dodgers who still loathe and hate Ukrainians? Most nations aren't even welcoming enough to Ukrainians fleeing war!
There are a lot of Russians in Russia not doing stuff related to the war effort. I don't think "take them in or else they will support the war effort" is a serious stance. We could just not take them in and get serious about beating Russia in Ukraine instead of drip-feeding aid and restrictions.
Well, this abuse is entirely common in Russians who live abroad. A lot of what we have seen are people who just don't want to die for Putin. But they don't necessarily think what he is doing is wrong. I have seen my share of such Russians in Finland.
I remember a video of Russian nationals harrassing Ukrainians somewhere in Europe, it went viral. Regrettable behaviour, worth a visit by the police. But the lesson shouldn't be deport all Russians! In Russia, they can join the army, or work at the missile factory, it's so much worse.
Yes, as the text states, ALQ-108 could interrogate Soviet IFF, and this was why that capability was kept secret.
When it turns out that the plane that kept pinging your IFF was not an A50 but a USN E-2C
Annotated image to show the various elements of a battery. Sorry for the typo. As you can see, a Patriot only has 5 major pieces of equipment: Launcher, ECS, RS, AMG and EPP.
In the meantime, a quick look at a Taiwanese Patriot battery. Unlike their American and Japanese cousins, Taiwanese batteries have a full battery complement of 8 launchers vs 6-5 that has become common with European, Japanese and US batteries. South Koreans also have this older setup.
Before this, I had to go through a weird conversion step where I would use Excel formulas to convert the minutes and degrees into decimals, but apparently, if you do it this way, QGIS will just recognize all the same 🤷♀️. That saved me about 1 hour.
We are reaching new levels of sleep deprivation. I'm finding new ways of overcoming formatting issues with QGIS by just straight-up winging it and being lazy.
Learning this is the hard way. I really didn't know YKK zippers made all that much of a difference, but man. I'm learning the hard way now.
I have heard nothing but good things about them for as long as I can remember. I just haven't needed a quality in a long time. The current one I have is German, and the zipper pulls all gave out.
My current commute bag is dying, and I have been thinking of getting something new and have been unable to decide. I will no doubt settle with something from Timbuk2.
I know I'm being hawkish here. My more nuanced take is that these are likely demonstrative strikes because we keep insisting that allowing Ukraine to use our weapons will start a nuclear war. These strikes might be done by the Ukrainians to demonstrate that this isn't the case.
I know "war has rules" and all, but none that the Russians haven't broken, from using nuclear power plants as staging grounds to blowing multiple dams. Russia's NC3 infrastructure (including early warning radars) is fair game unless they stop this war.
Absolutely, I mean we can tell Ukraine not to hit these with our weaponry. But one reason we haven't given them a go-ahead on using our weapons is the supposed fact that Russia will use nukes if the Ukrainians are allowed to strike targets in Russia. But the Ukrainians continue to do so anyway.
Instead of you doing *wink wink, the US must punish Ukraine for this*, how about your buddies at Carnegie's former Moscow office tell Putin to stop this war instead you guys tripping over each other to find ways to punish Ukraine for this.
I know "war has rules" and all, but none that the Russians haven't broken, from using nuclear power plants as staging grounds to blowing multiple dams. Russia's NC3 infrastructure (including early warning radars) is fair game unless they stop this war.
We also have defensearchives.de for when it is news or editorial-worthy. But my goal is to work up a "technical digest" of sorts that will include graphics/maps and other bits and pieces of info in a neat presentation. The goal would be to work up several of these a year (maybe every two months)
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Current Editorials The Future of India’s Conventional Submarine Fleet September 26, 2023 8 Mins Read Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) cleared a 30-year-long pr
defensearchives.deShore-launched torpedoes would be too OP. Torpedoes are one of the most difficult systems to decoy, and their hits are almost always a mobility, if not total, kill against anything that isn't a massive amphib.
Given that the Russians are losing ships and S-400s to 30-year-old ATACMS and the PLA doesn't have a lot of BMD assets, I can barely imagine what Taiwanese ATACMS will do to Chicom assets.
Did a map on the exercise areas for these.
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yah yah PLA gotta justify its pathetic existence as again and again the PRC walks into a brickwall of the limits of coercive diplomacy and threat of violence
China's military kicks off large-scale 'punishment' drills around Taiwan
The large-scale joint military exercises come days after the self-ruled island’s new president was sworn into office.
www.japantimes.co.jpThis specific thing I'm working on is about 2,700 words now and will be about 3,000 words once done. So, not really well suited for thread format.
Sorry, I should have specified that I'm talking about multi-post threads on here or Twitter. It's just really hard to convey everything I want to get across in such a format. It's better to just take the effort and put it into a piece/booklet.
The video should be out next month, Patreon at www.patreon.com/Vrmillion
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I'm kind of done with threads, so I will be shifting to digital booklets. This one, currently in the works, will be part of a collab video with someone and will go out to Patreon supporters first. All future booklets will be available for download to all (for free) on my Patreon.
The drip feeding/silence and confusion around the recent Russian orbital ASAT activities do not calm my nerves. And it makes me feel like we are yet to be told the worst.
After almost 6 weeks, I finally removed the stupid cheap earring that they give you after you get a piercing.