Ukraine Open Thread 2022-174
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Posted by b on October 15, 2022 at 16:54 UTC | Permalink
next page »For f-cks sake!
Oil depot, customs office shelled in Russia – governor
The attack caused a fire at the oil storage facility, Belgorod Region’s head Vyacheslav Gladkov said
https://swentr.site/russia/564725-belgorod-oil-depot-shelled/
Russia obviously do not understand that this wont stop until they make a great response to it for these attacks by Ukraine to stop.
Posted by: Zanon | Oct 15 2022 17:21 utc | 2
The Empire of Chaos and lies at some point soon will find their contributions to the war effort will be ineffective. I know there will most likely be NO effort at negotiations so they have but a couple of options moving forward. Tactical nuke/chemical false flag or a call to war. Look for much more terrorism of all Russian assets anywhere in the world.
Posted by: Shocked | Oct 15 2022 17:23 utc | 3
It seems Ukrainians are trying to provoke Russia into making a mistake.
Posted by: Passerby | Oct 15 2022 17:27 utc | 4
"Whitehall’s major problem with Moscow is that it “is seeking its own independent sphere of influence separate to any American-backed global order or rule book”, the then head of the British army, General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, said last year."
Posted by: Kali El | Oct 15 2022 17:28 utc | 5
Any confirmation on the supposedly 60K Ukrainian force in the southern conflict area.
Posted by: jpc | Oct 15 2022 18:03 utc | 6
@Shocked 3
When you constrain legal recourse, you promote ad hoc reciprocity. Having engaged extensively in the former, the West has vulnerable assets of one sort or another across the globe, most of which would be impossible to protect economically. Which is why Western acts of sabotage are self-defeating. The only thing which has limited the cost to the West to date is the fact that most of their victims have been relatively powerless against Western threats, and the opponents who could reciprocate have considered themselves bound by law and their own ethics to pursue legal redress before resorting to violence with the potential to end most life on earth. Every Western attack weakens these self-imposed constraints and increases the likelihood of extreme asymmetric actions with a very high cost to the collective West, and the soaring probability of an anthropic extinction event.
Russia and China know this and it appears to inform their responses. All the available evidence suggests that Western leaders know nothing, understand less and do not care a damn for any lives. Including their own.
Posted by: Hermit | Oct 15 2022 18:08 utc | 7
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Any confirmation on the supposedly 60K Ukrainian force in the southern conflict area.
Posted by: jpc | Oct 15 2022 18:03 utc | 6
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Satellite recon sees all. If they are there, they are known.
You would require weeks of clouds to hide that big a force.
This is how warfare has changed. There will never again be mass surprise on a battlefield.
Posted by: I Know Things | Oct 15 2022 18:19 utc | 8
People keep saying we are in World War 3, as if it's a done deal. It isn't a done deal, if you live in a city that's not being bombed you should appreciate the difference between the conflict in Ukraine, and actual full-out war between Russia and NATO.
Besides which, the conflict is more World War 2.1, where this time the Western Supremacists have all their ducks all in a row (om the same side) to go against the two super-states of the East. We should all cross our fingers and hope this thing doesn't get bigger though, I appreciate the careful legalism of the Russians, ultimately they are looking to win Peace, where as the Armed Gang called NATO and the Neocon Death-Cult that runs the seeks only eternal war.
Let the sane prevail, and do so sanely. God speed RF.
Posted by: Lonkal | Oct 15 2022 18:21 utc | 9
And while here with nothing better to do, a few words about nav and guidance. An awful lot of folks get this wrong.
Piloted drones require bidirectional links. Video going back to the pilot facility and his flying commands going back to the drone. It is the latter which are easiest jammed.
Most munitions that are guided are autonomous. These use a combination of INS and GPS -- or for Russians INS and Glonass (their GPS constellation). INS is a package of 3 axis Ring Laser Gyros that detect rotation of the vehicle, and 3 axis linear accelerometers, which measure acceleration along the axis in question (post rotation) (your airbag in your car is deployed in response to a linear accelerometer signal). An application specific chip or computer will have a Kalman filter software package that takes these accelerations, integrates them to velocity and then position and blends the resultant navigation solution with the GPS input.
You specify a latitude / longitude at launch and the vehicle flies there and blows up. If the target moves during flight time, you miss. Some sophisticated vehicles may have pattern recognition in terminal guidance so a moving target could be re-acquired in terminal phase, but this is very rare.
Overall point, this navigation is largely jamming immune. The GPS signal/Glonass signal needs to have a jammer (or spoofer) in the receive antenna's receive pattern and it points upward. So your jammer has to be far above. GPS signals are also Spread Spectrum so the task is harder. Regardless of all this, a Kalman filter will be designed to detect GPS signal drop out or spoofed to an absurd solution and its coefficients will ignore GPS. The INS package will then be the total nav solution and RLGs drift very very little over flight times of 20 minutes or whatever. Meaning, jamming of autonomous munitions is somewhat silly.
Finally, a laser designator on the ground could follow a moving target and terminal phase guidance could transition from INS to laser. The laser pulse repetition frequency will be coded so . . . if there is a busy battlefield, you don't home in on the wrong laser.
The End
Posted by: I Know Things | Oct 15 2022 18:31 utc | 10
You would require weeks of clouds to hide that big a force.
@ I Know Things | Oct 15 2022 18:19 utc | 8
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Long wave infrared penetrate clouds and smoke. Cloud and smoke scattering depends upon suspended water droplets. Cooled LWIR (14um) see through clouds and other suspended particles quite well.
https://www.flir.com/discover/rd-science/can-thermal-imaging-see-through-fog-and-rain/
Posted by: too scents | Oct 15 2022 18:37 utc | 11
Piloted drones require bidirectional links.
@I Know Things | Oct 15 2022 18:31 utc | 10
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Less that you might think. Previously it was necessary to pre-train a detection algorithm. Now the target can matched be selected "on the way" by a remote "trainer". The trainer is not a pilot, just a target selector.
Posted by: too scents | Oct 15 2022 18:43 utc | 12
Terrorists opened fire on soldiers at a military training ground in the Belgorod region
According to reports, as a result of the incident there are dead and wounded.
Posted by: rk | Oct 15 2022 19:11 utc | 13
Roman LAGUNIN, Deputy Commander of the 107th Battalion:"Today's methods of warfare differ significantly from those of previous wars. This is directly linked to a huge leap in the creation of satellites for communications and reconnaissance. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), both long-range (strike or reconnaissance type) and short-range conventional quadcopters, have become indispensable and vital in the modern army.
Such things as anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), anti-tank grenade launchers (ATGMs), which require only a couple of people to operate, or hand-held flame throwers "Shmel" were not even dreamed of by our Great Patriotic War forefathers.
Artillery became much more long-range and accurate. And rocket artillery can not be compared with the first "Katyusha", from which the enemy was already in terror. Now Grads and Hurricanes are instead of "hello". And all this is mostly guided by satellites and GPS or corrected by UAVs.
As a rule, our armed forces have about two thousand personnel in a unit with one company of UAVs and a small number of UAVs, often without thermal imaging and not designed to operate in the dark.
The absence of large-scale handheld thermal imaging cameras in the army makes it much more difficult to counteract the enemy's subversive reconnaissance groups (SIGs). Enemy armed formations today are approaching NATO standards and are receiving such equipment as standard, down to the squad level.
The satellites of Elon Musk work for the Ukrainian army.
Our army, on the other hand, is more adapted to positional warfare or attacks by large units, from a company upwards. With the means of reconnaissance and defeat listed, this is effective, but also extremely dangerous. Large concentrations of troops are very difficult to camouflage but easy to detect and easier to hit from long range.In light of the above, it is necessary to revise the norms of troops' allowance and the order of their provisioning. It might even be possible to change the staffing structure within the units, with a focus on increasing the effectiveness of small formations, from a squad that consists of no more than 10 men.
The experience of the previous eight years of war in Donbass and the experience gained in six months of special operations simply scream for this. And it needs to be put into practice."https://zavtra.ru/blogs/vojna_novogo_tipa_o_material_no-tehnicheskom_obespechenii_svo
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/14563
Posted by: Down South | Oct 15 2022 19:25 utc | 14
At the training ground of the Western Military District in the Belgorod region, two citizens of one of the CIS countries committed a terrorist act.
11 people lost their lives, 15 were injured.
Posted by: rk | Oct 15 2022 19:27 utc | 15
After Erdogan began taking positions contrary to NATO, things started to happen in Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey, a skyscraper is on fire.
https://t.me/ZandVchannel/34776
Let's see if it collapses in its own footprint /s
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 15 2022 19:35 utc | 16
World War 3 or 4?
People keep saying we are in World War 3, as if it's a done deal. It isn't a done deal, if you live in a city that's not being bombed you should appreciate the difference between the conflict in Ukraine, and actual full-out war between Russia and NATO.Posted by: Lonkal | Oct 15 2022 18:21 utc | 9
I keep saying that we are in World War 4, a war fought using 4th generation warfare techniques.
The war can easily degrade into a World War 3.
Posted by: Petri Krohn | Oct 15 2022 19:45 utc | 17
Erdogan walked right into that one, he will always have to wonder if it's the west or the Russians trying to make the west look bad.
It could also be a random third party trickster with no bone in the fight.
Posted by: OohCanada | Oct 15 2022 19:55 utc | 18
Looks like Musk just had a visitor:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1581345747777179651The hell with it … even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 15 2022 20:01 utc | 19
Norwegian | Oct 15 2022 19:35 utc | 17
The fire looks, in spite of extending over the full height of the building, too small and too localized (to one corner only, probably an elevator shaft) for a sufficient number of vertical beams to bend progressively outwards towards the top (fire facing inner side hot, street side cooler, ground end fixed, must bend outwards like a tulip due to unsymmetric linear expansion, top floors fall off their ledges, causing an avalance). I'd also expect the ledges for the floor joists to be larger. After all, Ankara is in an earthquake zone. Why you use /s escapes my understanding. a) The underlying physics (my attempt in parenthesis above) are obvious. b) The event was a great tragedy.
Posted by: OttoE | Oct 15 2022 20:09 utc | 20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R8zC_8r7Ts
Dima says that Russians are tired of war and want to negotiate, but the west doesn't.
It is clear that that Russian government doesn't understand the collective West.
There shell be no end of war until Russia us reduced to the level of Nigeria.
I guess, Russian liberals won't object to this.
Posted by: marko | Oct 15 2022 20:16 utc | 21
"Ukraine is conquering Cherson and defeats the russians there..
500 russian soldiers killed, 3500 of them caught, ten-thousands of supporters left behind to be tortured/killed.."
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You wish Joe!
Posted by: Preki | Oct 15 2022 20:17 utc | 22
Norwegian #17
No self respecting Turkish citizen would be gullible enough to believe a multistory building could accidentally collapse into its own footprint ;)
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 15 2022 20:20 utc | 23
Light rocket "Angara-1.2 " with a spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.
Mission
EMKA-3Type: Government/Top Secret
Launch Cost: $31,000,000Russian military reconnaissance satellite.
https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/launch/angara-1-2-emka-3/
Posted by: too scents | Oct 15 2022 20:23 utc | 24
@ Marko #23
Dima is also "condemning any violence in Ukraine", funny guy!
Posted by: Preki | Oct 15 2022 20:30 utc | 25
@uncle tungsten | Oct 15 2022 20:20 utc | 25
Indeed, why others are sufficiently gullible is beyond me. But most people will believe anything if logic and reason rocks their world view. This is a strong effect also with the situation in Ukraine.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 15 2022 20:34 utc | 26
The west and the Ukrainian regime do have a clear idea about what they want?
What does Russia want to achieve with this war?
Posted by: Marko | Oct 15 2022 20:44 utc | 27
@26;
Good. They need at least 50 more to approach NATO capabilities.
Posted by: Moaobserver | Oct 15 2022 20:54 utc | 28
Kali El #5
Thank you for the delightful Pam Ho.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 15 2022 21:59 utc | 30
Elon musk doing a truss u turn:
Elon Musk on Saturday announced that his company would continue to pay for Starlink satellite internet in war-torn Ukraine, a day after suggesting he could not keep funding the project.
“The hell with it,” the world’s richest man wrote on Twitter. “Even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free.”
(Guardian)
Posted by: ThusspakeZarathustra | Oct 15 2022 22:00 utc | 31
Marko #30
What does Russia want to achieve with this war?
Even ten percent of what they have already achieved would be a bonus.
See the Pam Ho reports at medium and you may get an inkling of the context.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 15 2022 22:02 utc | 32
Norwegian no. 20
Apologies. Didn't see your post before i posted.
But yes. Who twisted his arm?
Posted by: ThusspakeZarathustra | Oct 15 2022 22:04 utc | 33
Norwegian #20
Musk complaining of lots of other companies getting $millions of taxpayer $$$.
That's a bit rich coming from an oligarch in the U$$A.
Musk the menace blathers BS yet again.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 15 2022 22:11 utc | 34
A troll was cheering the defeat of Russians at Kherson.
Here's the report from that front.
🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Attempt to attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region. What is known
Since the evening of October 14, the Ukrainian army has been trying to break through the positions of the Russian Armed Forces from the area of Davydov Brod, Kostromka and Dudchan in the Kherson region. After a nighttime artillery strike, the Armed Forces of Ukraine went on the attack early in the morning on October 15, but were driven back.
The 140th Regiment of Special Operations of Ukraine suffered heavy losses when trying to reconnoiter the positions of the RF Armed Forces. Also, three motorized rifle brigades, reinforced by a tank battalion, were sent to break through by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The infantry and tanks of Ukraine tried to attack under the fire of the Hyacinth-B guns and the Smerch MLRS. At the same time, the air defense positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ZelenyGay, Novogrednevo and Murakhovka were hit by Geran-2 and Lancet drones in the morning.
The attack cost the Ukrainian army at least 120 people killed. Approximately 15 YPR-765PRI and BMP-2 armored vehicles were destroyed, as well as at least four T-64BV tanks.
By the middle of the day on October 15, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine got bogged down in the attack and are trying to retreat to their original positions, on which the Su-25 and Su-34 attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces began to work.
🔗 Milinfolive
Posted by: Surferket | Oct 15 2022 22:11 utc | 35
I keep saying that we are in World War 4, a war fought using 4th generation warfare techniques.
The war can easily degrade into a World War 3.
Posted by: Petri Krohn | Oct 15 2022 19:45 utc | 18
Well, one side is using 4th gen tactics/techniques/procedures and one side is using 3rd gen TTP. It looks a lot like Vietnam where the US fought a 3rd gen war against a 4th gen opponent.
4th gen warfare prioritizes a defeat mechanism that is mental or moral in nature, vice one that is physical (3rd gen). Physical destruction can contribute to defeat; however, shattering the enemy in the cognitive domain is how one can best and most decisively win. To achieve this, a belligerent conducts actions that the enemy does not expect (Kerch Bridge) and presents him with sudden and unexpected challenges (counter-offensives) with which he must contend. As an enemy attempts to respond to surprising situations, discord and confusion are sowed, and his ability and willingness to deal with complex, confounding situations is broken.
I will leave it to others to figure out which side is which.
Posted by: Muthaucker | Oct 15 2022 22:16 utc | 36
Starlink is the key strategic communications service for the Ukrainian nazi forces.
See here: https://t.me/Slavyangrad/14450
From the musk minotaur himself.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 15 2022 22:22 utc | 37
@ Posted by: Joe9211 | Oct 15 2022 20:12 utc | 22
@ Posted by: marko | Oct 15 2022 20:16 utc | 23
Interesting times.
As the Russian MOD has shown on the daily morning briefings. The Kherson front has been static since the first day of Country 404 military futile battle of the bulge offense. As the Arty boys would say. Bravely the 404 troopers charge into our big guns/sunburn! Driving "Toyota Technicals". Just as quickly, ten minutes later they run away. Leaving the battlefield littered with "Krasonopoled one-hit wrecks". Behind them!
@ joe declines to name any sources of his musings. Thus one cannot assess the reliability of this time-wasting fairy dust information. Perhaps Joe still believes in the imaginary dead thirteen fairies on Snake Island way back when.
@ Marko. Clearly, you did not listen very carefully! The author provides a cut-out excuse @ 4.28 with a simple "I Can't Tell" blah, blah blah. Oops, a big miss.
Interestingly, on the other hand. The fresh recruits have reached both the Western front on an as-need basis. In addition between seven to ten diverse heavy divisions have arrived in Belorussia. That alone has had all of the states on the Western border into full-on panic mode.
The troop replacement is on the first in first out.
The troops when returning home to their original homes are receiving a very warm "welcome home package". Last seen in Russia after VE day!
Nice try guys. :)
As Nelson would say "Ha Ha!"..........
Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Oct 15 2022 22:36 utc | 38
Expectations via telegram:
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/14512
Retired US Army Colonel General Daniel Davis: "Military action in Ukraine in winter can only mean trouble: Although the AFU says it hopes to reach Kherson by winter, Russia continues to prepare for a massive counter-offensive that could begin as early as next month. The results of this battle are likely to be bloody and devastating, but unlikely to resolve the military conflict one way or another.
✔️After reclaiming thousands of square kilometers of territory, the Ukrainian offensive is now running out of steam. And Russia is preparing for the next offensive round. To date, Ukraine has continued to try to advance in both the north and south, seeking to seize as much territory as possible before a significant number of Russian troops arrive. But these efforts have just become much more difficult.
✔️ In retaliation for Ukraine's attack on the Kerch Bridge, Putin has launched hundreds of missiles and drone strikes into dozens of Ukrainian cities, dealing a significant blow to the country's energy and transport infrastructure. The loss of power will not just make life miserable for Ukrainian civilians, but it will hamper Zelensky's efforts to move troops around the battlefield and provide the fuel and electricity needed to sustain the war effort. Meanwhile, Russia appears to be preparing for a major invasion of Ukraine as early as November.
✔️ Throughout the Ukrainian offensive since August, the Russian strategy has been a "bend but doesn't break" tactic: withdrawing troops from numerous cities while inflicting as many losses as possible on the attackers. The aim appears to be to buy time for large reinforcements to arrive after Putin's mobilization decree. Since September, however, Russian troops have been quietly accumulating the huge amounts of fuel and other supplies needed to launch and sustain a major offensive; the largest build-up since the start of hostilities.
✔️ The Russian army is growing. No one can predict the outcome of the coming offensive, but the trends are not in Ukraine's favor. It lost much of the initial momentum of its counter-offensive and suffered significant losses just as Russia began attacking critical infrastructure across the country at levels not seen since the start of hostilities while preparing to introduce potentially another hundred thousand or more troops for the next phase of hostilities. Temperatures in Ukraine have already started to drop to near zero degrees Celsius and normally we can expect snow with sub-zero temperatures from November to January.
✔️ While Ukraine's energy and industrial infrastructure continue to suffer from the fighting, Russia's energy reserves are virtually unlimited and its military-industrial capacity is also mobilized. By this winter, Russia will be producing a steady stream of military equipment and ammunition, while Ukraine will be almost entirely dependent on supplies from the West, which may or may not arrive on time and in the quantities needed. No one can accurately predict how this next phase of the conflict will unfold, but it is clear that the death toll and destruction will soon increase significantly."
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 15 2022 23:05 utc | 39
Posted by Uncle tungsten on a previous thread
Thanks for the link to aliexpress. They didn't have exactly what I wanted but they did point out the correct spelling of the Russian military headgear, "ushanka", c'mon spellcheck, I hope you still don't want to co opt my thinking for me, it is USHANKA.
The good news is I have found a better site and ordered a Russian Navy ushanka and some T shirts. The site is Russian Military Shop .com -- https://russianmilitaryshop.com
I always appreciate your presence at the bar. Don't worry about the riff raff, all bars have 'em.
It looks like a world wide problem with Musk's Star link, I just had a number of attempts at an international call thwarted. The recorded voice blamed "Star link".
Posted by: Paul GV | Oct 15 2022 23:05 utc | 40
Posted by: Surferket | Oct 15 2022 22:11 utc | 38
Thank you Surferket.. You really do have to wade through a lot of quite evidently intoxicated / high troll posts on MofA these days...They are easy to spot though, there are about 4 or 5 usual suspects and they consistently post utter bullshit... Yawn
Posted by: Gabriel in Ireland | Oct 15 2022 23:06 utc | 41
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/10/13/caitlin-johnstone-us-rejects-moscows-offer-to-talk/
Lavrov was begging for negotiations, but US refused.
Posted by: marko | Oct 15 2022 23:10 utc | 42
Musk is a troll, propped up to become another president cowboy/actor some day (maybe if Trump doesn't make it). If you believe he is not a pentagon front from the very beginning (for Starlink, or pick your deep state department more generally), I also have a bridge to sell to you (or pipeline)..
Posted by: C | Oct 15 2022 23:11 utc | 43
I do recall some renowned economists discussing the following:
A Profitable Protracted WarIt sounds like an oxymoron only at the first glance.
When Putin says that so far there has been no need for massive infrastructure strikes or that "everything is going according to plan" (while the AFU successfully counter-attacks), he may well be telling a half-truth.
Because the conflict affects fundamental processes in the global financial system.
The day before yesterday US Treasury Secretary Yellen said she was concerned about the loss of adequate liquidity in the US government bond market.
Under normal circumstances, US government debt is purchased by:
🇪🇺 the EU at the expense of a surplus trade balance - need to put revenue somewhere;
🇯🇵 Japan - therefore dependent on the States;
🇸🇦 Gulf monarchies - for the sake of arms and protection of the US.
However, with the outbreak of war, Europe's economy became unprofitable, Japan is selling treasures to save the yen, the [Gulf] monarchies and China because of their alliance with Moscow and fear of their assets being frozen, are slowly withdrawing from US government bonds.
Suddenly it turns out that there are simply no people left in the world who have free money and the desire to invest in U.S. government debt☝🏻
Washington faces the same problem as London did last week. Government bond rates are below inflation and therefore not profitable to buy.
The UK started buying debt by way of issuance, and the US asked the big banks for help.
Neither the former nor the latter will bail out for long. The longer Europe is unprofitable, the harder it will be for the US to finance its unprofitable national budget.
Russia will not rush into war for the sake of it. The targets are big, a kind of crusade. That's what Borrell was talking about this week.
Source: @ZeRada1
I found this translated/quoted at: https://t.me/Slavyangrad/14534
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 15 2022 23:16 utc | 45
Paul GV #44
Thank you for your words of support and links to the russian military store.
Your post could trigger an export boom;))
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 15 2022 23:19 utc | 46
You wouldn't be able to tell based on battlefield actions and results. The Generals and Colonels etc are fighting as hard as they can. That doesn't mean 'the bosses' don't benefit on all sides. Just a thought.Posted by: Grant | Oct 15 2022 22:50 utc | 42
The possibility that Russia is "in on it" would need to be reconciled with the following: (1) Russia's reportedly having conducted the first 7+ months of the Ukraine operation so as to minimize harm or even disruption to civilians in Ukraine (despite numerous attempts at provocation by the West), and (2) the many published speeches of Putin and his colleagues that seem to sincerely and strongly project commitment to preserving Russian society, its people, and its culture.
But even if Russia were totally sincere and had the best intentions in deploying the technology you've mentioned in various posts, I would expect some future Russian leadership to abuse one or more of them. This isn't intended as a criticism of Russia: if anything, I would expect this abuse to take longer to materialize than it would in most countries.
Posted by: David Levin | Oct 15 2022 23:22 utc | 47
This is sounding like WW2 where the japs wanted to surrender but the US did not allow them.
The anglo demons smelled blood and won't let go.
God bless Rossiya!
Posted by: Smith | Oct 15 2022 23:23 utc | 48
C #47
Not sure I need a bridge right now but a pipeline like this might be ideal;)
But only if you think it is affordable/profitable and is free from any taxpayers dollars.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 15 2022 23:25 utc | 49
Posted by: I Know Things | Oct 15 2022 18:31 utc | 10
I know things, Can you please elaborate on the following in layman’s terms? Much appreciated , advance.
“The GPS signal/Glonass signal needs to have a jammer (or spoofer) in the receive antenna's receive pattern and it points upward. So your jammer has to be far above.”
What is a “receive pattern” ? Where is the antenna facing up? Antenna on the drone? At drone -operator’s end?
“GPS signals are also Spread Spectrum so the task is harder. “
What is spread spectrum?
“ Regardless of all this, a Kalman filter will be designed to detect GPS signal drop out or spoofed to an absurd solution and its coefficients will ignore GPS. “
….Spoofed to absurd solution?
So drone knows Gps has dropped out , or it computes purposefully absurd location info, so the drone then knows to just use its gyrometer navigation?
Posted by: Brother Ma | Oct 15 2022 23:33 utc | 50
Tungsten, wow, I am jealous, tunnel used with car or bus inside, geniusses at work! We just switched from gas to water in our pipeline lately. Much more economical. Therefore we call it underwater pipeline. BTW, we can also make it a loop, but that will cost extra.
Posted by: C | Oct 15 2022 23:46 utc | 51
@38
Those poor bastards riding in the Ukie YPR-765PRIs, I'd rather be out in the open. Maybe they are a bit more upgraded since the original U.S. M113 but an aluminum hull isn't much for armor...
Posted by: DakotaRog | Oct 15 2022 23:58 utc | 52
From https://t.me/zola_of_renovation/3307
October 11: " Well, let's be attentive to the incoming news as the Ukrainians either have experienced something that has gone totally wrong, or they have a mysterious cunning plan, though almost all their actions since September 7 were quite predictable, and I have proved it with quotations."
October 15: "Ukrainian army moves everything it has to the border with Belarus, including cadets."
I don't know where they have placed their reserve forces. Perhaps they are in the final stages of deployment and are about to attack. I don't really know.
But cerainly they have reached the point where they have to defend their capital Kiev with cadets.
Now something strange is happening. Ukraine provoked a mobilization in Russia with its Izyum-Kupyansk operation, then advanced a little more, took Liman at the exhaustion of it's offensive abilities. Then it could advance a little in the Kherson region.
But suddenly now it is up. And the clock is ticking, our echelons are approaching. Soon the things will turn very painful [for Ukraine].
Then in the remaining interval (another ten days or so) Ukrainians do NOTHING. No, they're trying to hit here and there, Krakenswine is claiming a victory in Kiselyovka in the Kharkiv region. But this is somewhat different from what the AFU should be doing.
Every moment there is more and more reason to suspect that their striking units have been drastically worn down. I see no other explanation for the delay.
My analysis of Ukie attrition is ~ 1,000 killed / day or ~ 4,000 casualties, including wounded / day.
4 weeks since partial mobilization started... ~ 30 days....
30,000 KIA....
90, 000 Wounded...
120,000 casualties....
This outcome was inevitable....
Now???
INDY
Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | Oct 16 2022 0:02 utc | 53
I’m kinda worried about reports of China saying all Chinese leave the Ukraine immediately.
Anyone else got a squeaky bottom feeling?
Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 16 2022 0:02 utc | 54
marko@23
So Dima is off his meds again. Wash,rinse, repeat.
Posted by: aristodemos | Oct 16 2022 0:21 utc | 55
Fox News: The US will be forced to drastically reduce arms supplies to Ukraine.
The reason will be the depletion of the country's reserves, said Mark Kanchian, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
According to Kanchian, there are fewer and fewer HIMARS installations, M777 howitzers and Javelin complexes in the United States. American military warehouses are empty. This situation may lead to the fact that the United States will begin to supply Ukraine with lower-quality weapons or the export process will slow down.
“We will continue to support Ukraine, but we will have to do it in other ways. For example, we can provide analogues, buy equipment from third countries, or slow down the supply process,” the senior adviser said.
I have reports that they are flying T-55s from Uganda...
Uganda has a handful of soviet tanks... T-55s... to T- 90s..
But... only a few of each...
They are scraping the bottom of the barrel...
INDY
Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | Oct 16 2022 0:23 utc | 56
Thus@34
I'm quite confident that Jacob Rottenchild is quite happy to see Musk described as the"world's richest man."
Posted by: aristodemos | Oct 16 2022 0:25 utc | 57
Re Chinese leaving Ukraine. This week is big week for Xi, Party Congress where he gets a near unprecedented 3rd term (been lots of internal politicking ahead of this). Given Putin allegedly tipped him off about SMO and waited until after Winter Olympics, presume CCP giving its guys one week notice?
Posted by: MarkT | Oct 16 2022 0:32 utc | 58
Everybody complains about rich boy Musk. Wonder what he owns? It would be nice to go anywhere and anytime with exotic women. NOT! Musk is bought and paid for. When your friends are mafia what freedoms do you have? Musk is owned by the US Military and three letter agencies. Should he step out of line maybe he will get to meet some of the USA riffraff, Seal Team 101 squared.
Private businessman Musk owns and runs star link satellites right? Maybe not. What if Star Link was just a good old boy network of pentagon geeks who are Space Patrol want to bes acting like Guardians of the Galaxy.
The Starlink-1095 satellite had been travelling stably in
orbit at an average altitude of around 555 km. Between 16 May and 24 June 2021, the
Starlink-1095 satellite manoeuvred continuously to an orbit of around 382 km, and A/AC.105/1262
V.21-091672/2
then stayed in that orbit. A close encounter occurred between the Starlink -1095
satellite and the China Space Station on 1 July 2021. For safety reasons, the China
Space Station took the initiative to conduct an evasive manoeuvre in the evening of
that day to avoid a potential collision between the two spacecraft.The second collision avoidance
On 21 October 2021, the Starlink-2305 satellite had a subsequent close
encounter with the China Space Station. As the satellite was continuously
manoeuvring, the manoeuvre strategy was unknown and orbital errors were hard to
be assessed, there was thus a collision risk between the Starlink-2305 satellite and the
China Space Station. To ensure the safety and lives of in-orbit astronauts, the China
Space Station performed an evasive manoeuvre again on the same day to avoid a
potential collision between the two spacecraft.
In view of the foregoing, China wishes to request the Secretary-General of the
United Nations to circulate the above-mentioned information to all States parties to
the Outer Space Treaty and bring to their attention that, in accordance with article VI
of the Treaty, “States Parties to the Treaty shall bear international responsibility for
national activities in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies,
whether such activities are carried on by governmental agencies or by
non-governmental entities, and for assuring that national activities are carried out in
conformity with the provisions set forth in the present Treaty.382
Certainly a threat if not act of War! There is a mad country lose in the world. We need to identify it and restrain it or eliminate it.
Posted by: Dodgy Bodger | Oct 16 2022 0:35 utc | 59
Another week of Russia gradually being pushed back.
Posted by: James Grip | Oct 16 2022 0:41 utc | 60
From telegram channel....https://t.me/+b4tb6xdSguZiNDYy
Two hours ago, the 60,000th group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine went on the attack! There are fierce battles. A blow was struck by the "Solntsepekom" on the Ukrainian group.
The entire 34th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which posed a danger to Kherson , was destroyed
. More than 2,000 soldiers of the 200s and many 300s. A bunch of charred bodies and NATO equipment. There are also those who surrendered. Frames are not for the faint of heart!
I report on Kherson:
At the end of the day, the enemy did not manage to break through the defense in the direction of Dudchany - Mylovoe.
The enemy got into a fire bag, approximately two battalions with tank support were dispersed with the active work of artillery and aviation.
About 15 tanks and 20 other AFVs were destroyed, the loss of personnel is being specified.
Excellent well-coordinated work of the infantry, artillery and units of the Special Forces of the Russian Federation
United States announced the supply of 105 mm caliber shells to Ukraine. Thus, it will be the ninth caliber in the ammunition system of the Ukrainian army. Prior to this, the APU used installations of eight calibers: 85, 100, 105, 122, 130, 152, 155 and 203 mm.
The ammunition supplied to the Ground Forces of Ukraine differs significantly in terms of combat capabilities and requires different approaches to training gunners, logistics services, and even tractor drivers.
The supply and control of troops with the use of so many different shells becomes a serious problem. Cases have become more frequent when shells of a different caliber were brought to the positions of artillerymen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which cannot be used.
In the Kupyansk area, 152 mm ammunition was brought to the positions of 130-mm M-46 guns (they were transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Croatia).
An additional complication lies in the fact that even shells of the same caliber do not always fit all systems. Thus, the ammunition from the US-British FH70 gun does not fit the American 155 mm M777 howitzers.
It was these overlays that provoked the withdrawal of the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (and after it the Ukrainian army as a whole) from Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, made it impossible for Ukraine to quickly advance near Torskoye and in Sukhoi Stavka.
In addition, the difficult situation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bakhmut (Artemovsk) is largely due to the insufficient efficiency of providing artillery with ammunition of the required caliber
Gomel, Republic of Belarus.
Local TG channels report that troops are beginning to arrive in the city en masse, incl the Russian grouping of forces.
it would seem that the upcoming events before the end of the month are already obvious, I note that this is not the whole surprise. A little later I will publish information on the "second act"
Some Iranian sources report that the Russian army has ordered new Arash-2 kamikaze drones from Iran .
"Arash-2" is literally a cruise missile, as they say, "at minimum wages", but with a lower flight speed, allowing the drone to patrol over the target.
As with other Iranian UAVs, there is not much information about the Arash-2, but it is known that it is capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 2000 kilometers and has a significantly larger warhead than the Shahed-136.
Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | Oct 16 2022 0:43 utc | 61
One of the most elegant memoirs I’ve ever read:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tungsten
Thanks UT: your comments are worthy of your handle.
Much respect.
Posted by: Cortes | Oct 16 2022 0:53 utc | 62
Posted by: Dodgy Bodger | Oct 16 2022 0:35 utc | 64
yes agree about Musk, I was aware of the near collisions and at the time I thought Starlink is just US military.
Posted by: K | Oct 16 2022 0:53 utc | 63
Russia will tear Ukraine apart. The west have them no other choice.This mobilization is not just about Ukraine but the entire west.
All Russian talk about peace talks is just for the global south. It's to show the rest of the world; we tried our best with these white/Jewish racists.
After G20 and CCP the gloves come off. If they go nuclear,all of us are dead. Russia china and most of the global south will left standing.
If they go non nuclear China will defend Russia and the west will become worst than third world.
When saner minds calculate and capitulate, the west will become third world status.
The west never understood that their evil has been studied for decades, and Russia & china ready for them. Let us see who is right.
Ah he’s a catastrophic Russian defeat on the battlefield that isn’t being blared by every western news agency and source in existence. Sounds realistic.
Does anyone else remember the days and weeks after 9/11 and the complete meltdown of American society? Ladies calling CSPAN from Kansas afraid to leave their homes because terror could kill them at any moment. Everything shut down. Fear ran rampant: the politicians, the media, the public. I assume that 90% of the current troll set are Americans because they freak out over everything.
I’m sure Putin and everyone else is frustrated by Belgorod being regularly shelled, but it is a “war” after all and these things happen. The battlefield will ebb and flow. Americans can’t handle that. It’s why Gen. Franks nearly got fired in Iraq and all the embedded journalists got their access cut off. Things didn’t go smoothly for the US in Iraq. The timeline was way off plans and they ended up ignoring the Iraqi army in the field to make the timeline (got a massive insurgency for it too). I’m sure it was because if there was any hint of set back, the American people would have a collective freak out.
Russia could still lose. But that’s not what our trolls are seeing. They’re just being Americans. Cowardly, panicked, and generally fearful of everything.
Posted by: Lex | Oct 16 2022 0:58 utc | 65
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I know things, Can you please elaborate on the following in layman’s terms? Much appreciated , advance.
“The GPS signal/Glonass signal needs to have a jammer (or spoofer) in the receive antenna's receive pattern and it points upward. So your jammer has to be far above.”
What is a “receive pattern” ? Where is the antenna facing up? Antenna on the drone? At drone -operator’s end?
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We're talking about a vehicle, be it artillery shell, drone, anything. Antennae for GPS or Glonass frequency will have a hemispheric receive pattern. Visualize it as an upside down bowl. There is no receive ability in the direction of the table the bowl is on. But the bowl itself is the receive pattern. When the bowl's bottom points upward, you can hear GPS signals from any of the angles upward of the bowl. When it points down (the vehicle may have rolled in flight), it does not hear GPS signals because the signals are coming from above, not down.
To jam, your jammer must be in the receive pattern. If the bowl faces downward, the jammer can be heard, but the GPS signal is not heard in that geometry so the jammer is not jamming anything.
The bowl describes the pattern. NOT the antenna. A bowl shaped antenna is called a "dish" and it has gain, meaning it amplifies signal by virtue of having a very narrow receive (or transmit) pattern. Hemispheric antennae are not amplifying things. They are just excluding the reverse direction.
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“GPS signals are also Spread Spectrum so the task is harder. “
What is spread spectrum?
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Spread Spectrum is a modulation method that spreads the information in a signal over a wider frequency range than . . . Shannon Theorem stuff regarding information as a function of bandwidth . . . would otherwise define. Hmmm a description. You turn on your car radio and you hear music. The range of frequencies will be what the human ear can hear, embedded in the carrier of the radio. Whatever that is maybe 30 Khz. Spread Spectrum would intentionally spread that modulation wider than 30 KHz.
Hop over to the wiki for Spread Spectrum. It has obvious use in anti-jam work from the fact that a jammer has to spread its signal, and power behind it, wide over broader bandwidth to cover up all of the spread spectrum signal. The power at any one place in the range of frequencies is thus lower. The receiver can hear past the jammer.
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….Spoofed to absurd solution?
So drone knows Gps has dropped out , or it computes purposefully absurd location info, so the drone then knows to just use its gyrometer navigation?
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Spoofing is, rather than jamming, emulating the signal but corrupting it. A receiver may pay attention to that signal and have its positioning solution corrupted. It is said to have been spoofed. The Navigation solution from the GPS receiver, when it is spoofed, will likely be hugely different from accurate. Crude spoofers would declare Antarctica. That's an easy detection for the Kalman filter, which would then ignore it and compute its total nav solution to be INS (Inertial Navigation System).
Posted by: Brother Ma | Oct 15 2022 23:33 utc | 54
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There.
Posted by: I Know Things | Oct 16 2022 1:10 utc | 66
Posted by: K | Oct 16 2022 0:53 utc | 68
Musk is the the front for Star Link. Like Zelensky is in Ukraine. Maybe he is a better piano player?
Posted by: Dodgy Bodger | Oct 16 2022 1:12 utc | 67
Anyone know what this nonsense about Iranian troops fighting for Russia? All over Brit tabloids.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 16 2022 1:12 utc | 68
Musk is a Zionist Jew just like all the rest of them and he will be kicked out of china when the time is right.
Oh, come now, Tom Collins. If it’s in a British tabloid, you can ignore it except for its humo(u)r value.
Posted by: malenkov | Oct 16 2022 1:19 utc | 70
Posted by: Karl luck | Oct 16 2022 1:18 utc | 74
Nope. Not according to the research I did on the internet. He just has a rare- Hebrew first name like many other people. Basically an Afrikaaner.
I also thought he was Jewish because of his name, looks, occupation and personality but found out otherwise. However, I am happy to be corrected by anyone who knows more or better.
Posted by: Brother Ma | Oct 16 2022 1:25 utc | 71
Karl Luck: I haven’t seen any evidence that Musk is Jewish, and he might not even a Zionist except when that’s convenient. What’s certain is that he’s a huckster who appropriates the work of his engineers as his own, and that he’s the ultimate welfare queen, sucking mercilessly at Uncle Sam’s withered and unproductive teat.
Posted by: malenkov | Oct 16 2022 1:26 utc | 72
Posted by: I Know Things | Oct 16 2022 1:10 utc | 71
I know things, thank -you. I understood all that very easily. Much appreciated and see you next-time .
Posted by: Brother Ma | Oct 16 2022 1:29 utc | 73
Brother Ma: Musk has, as b can attest, a Backpfeifengesicht: a face that cries out to be slapped. Such faces are hardly exclusive to
Eastern European Jews.
Posted by: malenkov | Oct 16 2022 1:30 utc | 74
@Brother Ma #54,
I'm not I Know Things but I know a few things...
What is a “receive pattern” ? Where is the antenna facing up? Antenna on the drone? At drone -operator’s end?
The antenna on the drone or missile. An anti-jam GPS antenna is actually an array of antennae. That lets you play with the phase of signal and do things like null out the signal coming from some direction (try directions until you lose the interference) or do beamforming/beamsteering to create constructive interference and amplify the signal from a known direction where a satellite is.
What is spread spectrum?
Broadcasting over a wide frequency range
….Spoofed to absurd solution?So drone knows Gps has dropped out , or it computes purposefully absurd location info, so the drone then knows to just use its gyrometer navigation?
A navigation Kalman filter has a model of vehicle dynamics and keeps track of the history of sensor readings. It runs on a loop where each iteration, it calculates where the vehicle probably is based on last estimate + dynamics + noise. Then it uses that to figure out how much to trust/weight each of its sensor inputs and generates a new estimate. So if the GPS signal suddenly says we're 10 meters to the left, it won't influence the estimate much (smoothing). But the history means that if the GPS is consistently reading to the left of the estimate, it will gradually "pull" the estimate left (correcting for INS drift). But a spoofed signal showing coordinates jumping all over the place or saying the missile is sitting in Krakow will just be ignored
Posted by: Yenwoda | Oct 16 2022 1:32 utc | 75
Hooray! Yenwoda is back. Maybe (s)he can tell us all about the Kherson front. You know, like joe0000 tells us.
Apologies in order to b, I guess. Here I was, thinking he’d banned me, while it seems instead that a Typepad “upgrade” just doesn’t accept postings from UNIX-based sources. My laptop uses Linux Mint, whereas my crll phone (which I’m using now) is an iPhone and uses iOS. The war against freeware continues…
Posted by: malenkov | Oct 16 2022 1:41 utc | 76
Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | Oct 16 2022 0:43 utc | 66
United States announced the supply of 105 mm caliber shells to Ukraine. Thus, it will be the ninth caliber in the ammunition system of the Ukrainian army. Prior to this, the APU used installations of eight calibers: 85, 100, 105, 122, 130, 152, 155 and 203 mm.
I wonder if, in addition to adapting to a salad of equipment variants, the AFU also has to adapt between imperial and Metric systems of measurement?
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 16 2022 1:43 utc | 77
aristodemos | Oct 16 2022 0:25 utc | 61
I'm quite confident that you are a fraud.
Posted by: Maxx | Oct 16 2022 1:49 utc | 78
Posted by: malenkov | Oct 16 2022 1:41 utc | 81
> it seems instead that a Typepad “upgrade” just doesn’t accept postings from UNIX-based sources.
This is from Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
Posted by: hopehely | Oct 16 2022 1:50 utc | 79
On savait que les petits satellites Starlink, financés par le Pentagone, mais gérés par les sociétés d'Elon Musk, la Russie a détruite partie juste avant ou juste après la destruction des NS1 & NS2
C'es clair, Musk cherche la paix parce qu’il a bien senti le dernier avertissement Laser Peresvet sur satellites qui sont actuellement l'1 branche du pentagone donc une bête noire de poutine, sa matrice d'espionnage sera probablement détruite par putput s'il n'y aurai pas de bonne réponse de sa part.
Les armes secrètes de poutin commencent a sortir en secret.
Attendez la sortie de "la technologie Magrav" (nom de code occidental "Khibiny") le jour "J" contre l'otan s'il y a lieu.
Des armes que vous n'avez jamais vu avant (Poutin).
Poutin aurait pu éliminé l'Ukraine en 24h, mais c’était pas son but, il a dit "opération militaro-technique" cad pas guerre,
c'est des bataille psycho-Economique pour ramener l'empire du mensonge a la table de négociation sur tout les points stratégiques.
L'empire du mensonge a compris l’opération militaro-technique et l'a rendu en une guerre,
Poutin Réussira t il ou non son plan, ça c'est une autre question qui sans doute nous mènera a la paix ou la ww3
On sait des le debut que Musk, trump, biden, pentagone WH......, tous commandés et vivent dans la toile d'araignée de l’antéchrist, en liberté provisoire, tous surveilles par satan, celui qui veut sortir de la toile sera éliminé dernier ex: giorgia meloni, forcée de baisser le rideau.
D’apres moi Trump va être bientôt arrêté mais sous forme de false flag, la cabale de satan tant qu'elle a le pouvoir ne va pas le laisser libre maigres qu'il fait parti de la mafia (argument :vax-sionisme), laissant les s’entre-tuer on est spectateurs.
Les arme secrètes de la Russie vont contribuer beaucoup a sauver l’humanité de l’empire du mensonge.
Posted by: Ahmed | Oct 16 2022 2:03 utc | 81
One can only be sickened by the MIC and its grand strategy...
NATO Has 10-Year Plan to Rebuild Ukraine’s Military
Now that Russia has taken care of all that old soviet equipment we have a new market. I estimate something in the area a little short of a couple of trillion dollars.
Forever war. Their dream come true.
Posted by: circumspect | Oct 16 2022 2:06 utc | 82
Cortes #67
Thank you :)) Do read the book and others by Sachs.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 16 2022 2:07 utc | 83
Reply to 60
I haven't seen anyone discuss Ukr. tanks. Mercouris expresses skepticism that they have even 400 as claimed. Reports talk about T-55's, T-64's ?? So, they must be fixing up some half century old tanks?
If Russia can use drones in particular to destroy tanks, I would think it would end any offensive Ukr action, regardless of how many troops they build up.
Posted by: Eighthman | Oct 16 2022 2:10 utc | 84
Tom_Q_Collins #73
"All over Brit tabloids."
Tom, the tabloids are there for your rs NOT your eyes.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 16 2022 2:11 utc | 85
circumspect:
You nailed it. It’s all about the Bennies. Victory might be desired but is optional. As long as the Bennies keep flowing…
Posted by: malenkov | Oct 16 2022 2:14 utc | 86
Eighthman | Oct 16 2022 2:10 utc | 89
“……Reports talk about T-55's, T-64's ?? So, they must be fixing up some half century old tanks?”
Brian Berletic at New Atlas yt covered this in one of his pieces a week or more back.
Brian is N0 1 for clear *analysis* of what’s happening.
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheNewAtlas
Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 16 2022 2:18 utc | 87
@ malenkov | 77
... What’s certain is that he’s a huckster who appropriates the work of his engineers as his own, and that he’s the ultimate welfare queen,...
___________
Yes. Absolutely, engineers are the ones doing the real work while not getting the credit.
Also, the american public seems to have an unlimited ability to lap up 1900's Popular Science and Popular Mechanics futurist ideas as if they are new, totes amazeballs, and certain evidence of a genius mind.
Posted by: JEN | Oct 16 2022 2:26 utc | 88
Posted by: Yenwoda | Oct 16 2022 1:32 utc | 80
Thank you for your clarification ,Yenwoda. I appreciate it.
Posted by: Brother Ma | Oct 16 2022 2:27 utc | 89
Ahmed
Do I detect Canadian French? We get wonderful lectures by a Canadian Imam here in Birmingham , England who utterly condemns the ignorance of political Islam.
A case in point, the massacre of tourists and Christian worshippers in Sri Lanka.
We're they polytheists, yes, but did they offer you any harm? The verses of the Qur'an which political Islam used to praise these attacks by Islanic State have been raken completely out of context. They were revealed to Muslims who were facing an attack from Roman Christians. Not visitors and worshippers.
The evil of Midinterpretation of the Qur'an by taking it out of context has made Islam a very hot potatoes. The heat no doubt being fully understood by our MI5, which is currently having a festival of violence in Leicester between paid trouble maker Imams and local Hindus.
If any serious rioting breaks out over " cost if living" problems. These ignorant "imams " will have a wonderful time , blackening the good name of Islam.
Posted by: Giyane | Oct 16 2022 2:30 utc | 90
Posted by: I Know Things | Oct 16 2022 1:10 utc | 71
You may know things, but you don't know s**t about GPS or GLONASS.
The receiver uses two small fractal antennae, printed in a circuit board, which can have ANY arbitrary
3D orientation. It's on a plastic dome, so microwaves can get in.
To compute a 3D coordinate, the receiver need to get no less than FOUR DIFFERENT signals from four satellites, in TWO DIFFERENT frequencies. In this way it generates a 3D position for precision applications,
with 1 meter resolution. If needed, with THREE FREQUENCIES AND FIVE SATELLITES, you get 1 cm precision
(which is used in civilian and military applications, like making a large bridge, etc.).
The transmitter uses a technique called CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), which allow that MANY satellites use the SAME frequency BUT different Code ID. Signals received are very weak and can be jammed
(simpler) or spoofed (complex) by transmitters located anywhere (above, below, same level).
What COUNTS is the SIGNAL LEVEL at the receiver, so to jam or spoof you just need POWERFUL transmitters
operating in the single frequency channels allocated for GPS.
At the input of the receiver, every signal share THE SAME BANDWIDTH (a couple of Mhz). Due to the DIGITAL
decoding, every individual signal for a given satellite is decoded by matching the STORED ID SIGNATURE with
what is received. In this way, the receiver SELECT the MOST POWERFUL SIGNALS to compute coordinates.
The CDMA scheme allows sharing the bandwidth with MANY transmitters. It was used in 2G telephony by some
US operators 20 years ago, but the European scheme GSM dominated the market, so CDMA was dropped after a
couple of years (around 2005, it was extinct). CDMA allows decoding individual signals EVEN IF their level
is lower than noise, and is a rock solid technique.
In GPS/GLONASS, the world is divided in 6 orbital paths, each one separated 60°. There are 6 satellites per
orbital path, orbiting every 12 hours at about 20,000 Km height. It allows that each satellite may provide
no less than 2 hours of valid data (60" antennae covertures on ground or up to 10 Km height).
To prevent jamming, military channels uses more powerful transmitters. And to prevent spoofing, additional
encryption is added to the signals. BUT, as the receiver don't know which signal IS VALID, it will select
the FOUR OR FIVE strongest signals. Each receiver has stored the ID data for EVERY satellite, as well as
TIMING of orbital path. It maintains a universal TIMER (like UTC), which is updated by EVERY SINGLE satellite. The timing data is transmitted frequently, and is synchronized with Earth stations spread all
over the world, to obtain an error of 10 nanoseconds for the entire constellation.
Spoofing requires that a bogus transmitter, located around the target area, send FALSE SIGNALS cloning
REAL satellites, only that MUCH STRONGER. To make spoofing successful, it's required that the CLONE transmitter may compute a CLONE of the actual signals, but WITH ERRORS. It requires breaking the encryption
system, which can be VERY COMPLEX but not impossible.
In the case of jamming, a MONOPOLE antenna on Earth transmit wide-spectrum signals with 1 KWatt at 1, 2 and
5 Ghz. It's a crude method, but it works. Also, PARTIAL SPOOFING can be added, containing satellite ID plus
JUNK DATA. The receiver will stop working.
The problem with any technique is that such powerful interference can be easily detected and neutralized
from the battlefield (missiles), and that also RUINS the operations of every receiver (friend or foe).
To prevent this, microwave dish antennae are used from far away of the battlefield (100's Km), but still
they disrupt the operations of EVERY RECEIVER (friend or foe), in the path of the microwave beam.
To use these techniques, a COORDINATION of the use of friendly GPS/GLONASS systems has to be implemented. And this problem, maybe, is the most difficult in order to create a suppression working 24x7.
Also, it affects operations on surrounding countries, which can be taken as "an act of war", as it
completely disrupt the logistic chain supply. One thing is applying it in Syria. A different story is applying it on Ukraine.
But, if needed, it can be done.
Posted by: Ryck | Oct 16 2022 3:02 utc | 91
The long and winding road that has delivered the EU states to the cold edge of the glacier of doom:
The EU states have been lured down this treacherous trail for many years and their EC has been absolutely up to its neck in the game.
Contrary to the expectations of security, stability and socio-economic development that many associated with increased integration under the EU umbrella, Western interference on Russia’s doorsteps brought war, poverty, depopulation, brain drain and instability.Hardly surprising when you think about the real purpose of the EaP: supporting US geopolitical goals in the region by dangling a few carrots in front of the EU’s Eastern neighbours and hitting them with a stick if they swerved from the prescribed anti-Russian path.
Prior to the creation of the EaP, the US had already orchestrated and funded two colour revolutions that led to regime change in two strategically significant countries on the Eurasian chessboard, the Rose Revolution in Georgia and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, but the cost of maintaining control over the post-Soviet space was growing exponentially and draining a lot of resources. The US had no choice but outsource some of the tasks and functions to its vassal, the EU. The EaP provided the normative framework to slowly erode the sovereignty and autonomy of member states, thus increasing their dependence on the EU.
Instead of acknowledging Russia’s legitimate security concerns and seeking a peaceful resolution of disputes, the EU has stoked tensions and conflicts in EaP countries. So much for its promises of peace and stability in the region. Five out of six original members of the EaP have now territorial disputes; Ukraine experienced a second US-led coup in 2014 and has been at war ever since thanks to US-NATO-EU all-round support; Belarus, the only country wihout territorial disputes, was the target of a colour revolution in 2020, managed to prevent a a coup and wisely left the partnership. In case one still harbours any doubts as to who supported and partially funded the coup, the EU still lists Belarus as an EaP member recognizing Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and “Belarus’ civil society” as representatives.
While the EaP is virtually unknown among European citizens, for over a decade EU emissaries and their local clients have been promising EaP members various perks and further integration into the EU, in return for severing all ties with Russia and ramping up Russophobia.
So here we have a war in Ukraine at the cost of its people and future and simultaneously it is the garbage tip for obsolete and crappy weapons.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 16 2022 3:24 utc | 92
@ 95
By ' paid ' imams, I do not mean the imams you see leading the mob, or leading the prayers in the mosques. I mean the imams who have worked for CIA MI6 Mossad operations, who know all the twists of the scriptures by which USUKIS violence is propagated around the world. There are no doubt kept proponents of every divisive cause, from Ukranian Wodenism to Scottish
Wokism.
They do not talk in public , but they indoctrinate behind the scenes. Influencers. Instructors in Divide and Rule.
Posted by: Giyane | Oct 16 2022 3:26 utc | 93
Warning - insanity escalation event scheduled for 2023:
❗️ Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko has become head of the board of governors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund for 2023. This happened for the first time since Ukraine joined these organizations - in 30 yearsI already see some very affordable credits from IMF to UA. Which also never happened before...
from here:- https://t.me/Slavyangrad/14543
So I guess my grizzling about Elon Musk has been totally eclipsed :/
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 16 2022 3:44 utc | 94
Joseph Biden said; “The United States is never going to recognize this. And quite frankly, the world's not going to recognize it either,” Biden said, adding that Putin “can’t seize his neighbor’s territory and get away with it.”
Joseph Biden seems to think that the Jew Zelensky and his buddies once controlled all of Ukraine.
That Zelensky, and his bunch of thieves, whose government came to power in the 2014 coup, should get Crimea, Donbass,... everything,... the lot.
The East-Ukrainians did not want this.
They fought a civil war to prevent this.
For sure, East-Ukraine should never ever go to the Zelensky and his buddies.
The Jew Zelensky seems to think that because his buddies conducted a coup in 2014 he and his bunch of thieves should get Crimea, Donbass,... everything,... the lot.
To understand the Ukraine-Russia war you have to understand the second world war.
To understand the second world war you need to read this article:
pre earth.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1174
You need to know that Hitler was a double agent.
There is also an informative article on the COVID SCAM on the same page.
Posted by: censored | Oct 16 2022 3:50 utc | 95
Joseph Biden said; “The United States is never going to recognize this. And quite frankly, the world's not going to recognize it either,” Biden said, adding that Putin “can’t seize his neighbor’s territory and get away with it.”
Joseph Biden seems to think that the Jew Zelensky and his buddies once controlled all of Ukraine.
That Zelensky, and his bunch of thieves, whose government came to power in the 2014 coup, should get Crimea, Donbass,... everything,... the lot.
The East-Ukrainians did not want this.
They fought a civil war to prevent this.
For sure, East-Ukraine should never ever go to the Zelensky and his buddies.
The Jew Zelensky seems to think that because his buddies conducted a coup in 2014 he and his bunch of thieves should get Crimea, Donbass,... everything,... the lot.
To understand the Ukraine-Russia war you have to understand the second world war.
To understand the second world war you need to read this article:
pre earth.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1174
Seems I accidently left a space in the url.
You need to know that Hitler was a double agent.
There is also an informative article on the COVID SCAM on the same page.
Posted by: censored | Oct 16 2022 3:52 utc | 96
Maxx@83
I'm quite confident that you are a multigenerational wounded-weenie
Posted by: aristodemos | Oct 16 2022 3:59 utc | 97
Eighthman@89
Precisely the point I made earlier in the process. It appears that the Ukies are scraping the bottom of the barrel with those T-55's and 64's. Even though somewhat modernized, they are basically relics. Seems as if the pipeline from the West is a bit chary about sending them upgrades, even in minuscule quantities.
Posted by: aristodemos | Oct 16 2022 4:04 utc | 98
@ censored | Oct 16 2022 3:52 utc | 101
OMG! Here comes that WWII shit again! Some illiterate idiots change their names, but never give up.
Posted by: SCan | Oct 16 2022 4:06 utc | 99
Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 16 2022 1:12 utc | 73
>Brit tabloids
>nonsense
Yep.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 16 2022 4:13 utc | 100
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Like other folks I'm increasingly concerned by NATO's inexorable escalation tactics (sabotaje/weapons deliveries/sanctions/PR/terrorism), the EU's blind allegiance to the US and where all this is going, with the risk factor becoming exponential as the SMO drags on.
To deal with this I reckon the RF should maintain and even step-up the widespread bombing campaign, thereby forcing NATO to act, ideally by supplying their best air defence systems, hopefully AEGIS, and perhaps some F35s.
A visit by a few Kinzhals and up against the S400 would show the world the kind of gangsters the US really are, running a mafia-style protection racket with no real muscle behind them to back them up.
Elon Musk has shut down his Starlink in Ukraine in order to protect his business interests while I'd bet the US are absolutely petrified of everyone finding out their defence systems being totally outmatched, so it's extremely doubtful they would even pony up their latest and greatest weapons, even with the punditry screaming at them 24/7 to do something.
The French are rightly "outraged" by the exorbitant price they pay for freedom gas and at some point the build-up of all this "outrage" has to translate into action.
The point is something needs to give soon and before a big blunder is made, and it needs to be the RF on the front foot if we're going to find a good way out.
Posted by: Patagonia North | Oct 15 2022 17:04 utc | 1