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Provience said:
Belarus votes to give up non-nuclear status Belarusians voted to allow the country to host nuclear weapons and Russian forces permanently, results have showed, part of a package of constitutional reforms that also extended the rule of leader Alexander Lukashenko. The agencies cited the Belarus central elections commission as saying 65.2 percent of those who took part voted in favour, while 10.07 percent voted against. The new constitution could see nuclear weapons on Belarusian soil for the first time since the country gave them up after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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So Ukraine having a missile defense system as part of NATO = Bad and NATO agression.
Russia having nuclear missiles sited in Belarus = Good.
Or so says Comrade Putler :shaking:

Aaron Z
 
aczlan said:
So Ukraine having a missile defense system as part of NATO = Bad and NATO agression.
Russia having nuclear missiles sited in Belarus = Good.
Or so says Comrade Putler :shaking:

Aaron Z
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Exactly! This is a pretty big deal in the great age of nuclear non proliferation , such that the doomsday clock had to be relabeled for global warming even
 
This is my take. Putin is getting his ass kicked in the Ukrain. Putin's ego is eating him alive! Putin may dam well launch a nuke! IMHO: Ukrain should let him have Chernobyl for shits and giggles. Ukrain's can fuck with the Chernobyl "microwave thingy" for ever and a night!
 
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bdkw1 said:
Who has more build threads going, you or Grendel?:flipoff2:

Actually, does anyone have more build threads than Grendel?
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WTF is a build thread? And why is it important to have lots of them?:flipoff2:

Let's see how Ukraine fares tonight, actually more like their day. I think the longer they make Russia take to conquer them the better off they will be when the dust settles.
 
Pocahontas said:
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This is just another thing that makes this invasion seem like a bad movie. The russians run out of gas, steal a tractor to pull their equipment away, the farmer comes and steals his tractor back with the russian equipment still attached. How is that series of events even possible? I get that they'll run out of gas occasionally, I'm saying how did this random farmer come steal his shit back without getting shot? Seems like either bullshit, or the russians are completely incompetent.
 
SomeGuy said:
Both technically...the cruisers (aka Ticonderoga class) are conventionally powered and as far as anyone is aware, they do not carry nuclear ordinance regularly.
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I wouldn't go betting my life on that premise...When you walk through the VLS rooms, all you see is what looks like long slender con-ex boxes that contain the missiles. There are symbols and writing on each box saying which missile is in that container and while I am no Oppenheimer, I know what a nuclear symbol looks like. Our CG's and DDG's are very capable ships at this point. Most DDG's have been converted to BMD's and are stationed by host country request, in foreign ports as NATO support ballistic missile attacks. CG's are now capable of knocking down satellites.

I am no expert but did get stuck on a DDG for a week off the coast of PAK and the ship and crew were surprisingly open. I had previously only been on CVN's and LHD's and I was amazed that the doors to CC were wide open and we were permitted to walk right in. Apparently they were tracking the space shuttle as well as providing red/green crown for Afghanistan.
 
Tin Roof said:
This is just another thing that makes this invasion seem like a bad movie. The russians run out of gas, steal a tractor to pull their equipment away, the farmer comes and steals his tractor back with the russian equipment still attached. How is that series of events even possible? I get that they'll run out of gas occasionally, I'm saying how did this random farmer come steal his shit back without getting shot? Seems like either bullshit, or the russians are completely incompetent.
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I agree with you it doesn't make a lot of sense. I know the Russians keep a ton of old equipment on the books to bolster their numbers so maybe a different piece of equipment broke down. They went to go figure out why it was broken and farmer stole back his tractor? It could also be propaganda but I want to believe a farmer now has a tank.

I forgot where I read it but basically it was to the gist of the saying was 'it may brake down a lot but its easy to fix when it does.' So with engineering mind set like that I don't find it really suprising that a lot of equipment is breaking down, especially with activating older machines that have been in storage for years.

On the mig 29 they close the main intakes to the engines for take off so they don't have to worry about foreign objects getting sucked into the engines. Usually you would just make sure that you didn't have foreign objects that could be sucked in on the runway.
 
I was the first person to mention merging the threads... but I'm not going to start a new thread.

Mega!!:flipoff2:
 
Pocahontas said:
On the mig 29 they close the main intakes to the engines for take off so they don't have to worry about foreign objects getting sucked into the engines. Usually you would just make sure that you didn't have foreign objects that could be sucked in on the runway.
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They do that because they take off from snowy/icy runways and closing off the main intake prevents ice balls from being sucked into the turbines. We don't do that because we actually plow and maintain our runways and ensure they are FOD free.
 
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