Angry Birds.

 A minute of military aviation porn. 

With UMPK items (FAB--500s) 

Good Ol' Rooks (Grachi) SU-25 SMs doing what Rooks do. 

Close Air Support. 

Always Learning ...

 ... the wrong lessons. That is not learning at all.

 

Nima and Me ...

 ... live in 10 minutes. 

T-72B3 That Could.

15 (Fifteen strikes) by 404 drones, next day--did start just fine and rolled back to the repair base in the rear. 

I want to remind people that this kind of news is nothing new, really. 

MOSCOW, September 8. /TASS/. The crew of one of the T-90M "Breakthrough" tanks in the special operation zone survived after 26 enemy attack drones hit the turret of the vehicle. This was announced by a representative of Uralvagonzavod, who takes part in the restoration of tanks.

On one occasion recently T-90M Proryv took 47 hits. Stopped only after hitting anti-tank mine. Later was pulled back to the rear repair base. So, don't be surprised with increasing pile of BS being generated in the Western media. They need to cope hard 24/7. 

They Are Waking Up.

Many have been awake (and not in a "woke" kind of way) for a long time now. 

The messages on the wing of the airplane have not been accidental. The guys know. 

Meanwhile, scumbags and war criminals from British media now try to figure out this: Four ways Russia could hit back at Britain. They are delusional.  

When Vladimir Putin launched his onslaught against Ukraine in February 2022, he threatened any country daring to “stand in our way” with “consequences [that] will be such as you have never seen in your entire history”. Even before he uttered those words, Britain had stood in his path by openly supplying Ukraine with 2,000 anti-tank missiles. Once the invasion began, most of Europe was soon defying Putin by arming and funding Ukraine’s struggle. Britain led the way in providing steadily more advanced weaponry, progressing from AS90 self-propelled artillery to Challenger 2 tanks and Storm Shadow cruise missiles – and allowing Ukraine to use this firepower against targets in Russian territory. Now Britain is supplying many of the drones that Ukraine is launching at vital installations deep within Russia.

Well, without the US (and even with it) UK is a military and economic chihuahua capable of "supplying" some of the obsolete weaponry such as Challengers and Storm Shadows and then lie that they somehow have some impact. Yes, they do--they confirm that UK military is a backward obsolete joke. I am not using hyperbole here, we are looking at a collection of pompous morons capable only of terrorism and now facing some interesting dynamics with Lavrov stating that UK may become a direct party to the war. And while the two clowns from The Telegraph try to rationalize "four ways", they forget some critical things--Russia likely will choke off UK's shipping in Asia and if the UK would want to escalate (whatever that means--more terrorism I guess) here is what these cretins do not understand when they mention this "option":  Attack British facilities in Ukraine. 

Russia IS attacking "British facilities in Ukraine" and will continue to do so as well as hunting down British "advisers" and kill them. That's the reality of SMO to which UK as a nation is not prepared and fairy tales British propaganda tells its population cannot hide the fact that this is a peep-squeak of a country nowadays which desperately tries to relive halcyon days of its imperial grandeur. Well, judging by the latest events with Cambridge "professor" who was universally admired but turned out to be a fraud and then suicided himself--that's in a nutshell what British elites are. 

In related news. Russian Navy takes the latest project 09851 Khabarovsk nuclear sub, the carrier of Poseidon, to sea trials. 

To those who still cannot wrap their brains around it--Russia simultaneously builds several types of submarines: pr. 955A (Borei-class) SSBN, pr. 885M (Yasen-class) SSGN, pr. 09851 nuclear Poseidon carriers, pr. 677 Lada-class SSK. Plus modernization of other subs. And, the start by 2030 of the new class of advanced Laika (Husky) subs. Now ask yourself a question: can the US do this? Right. Meanwhile, Royal Navy cannot put to sea a single Astute-class sub. But yes, let them delude themselves. 

Garland and Yours Truly ...

 ... live in 30 minutes. 

If Anyone Wonders ...

 ... about consequences of arrival of Russian stand-off weapons to ArcerolMittal foundry in Krivoy Rog. Here are some "insights". 

You can see in the second video the portion of damaged furnace assembly (or however it is called--I am not a metallurgist).  

Something tells me that the arrivals will continue until the whole damn thing ceases to operate in any possible way. This is by far the largest steel production facility in 404 and it is not 404's, it is really a Soviet one. Communists built it and maintained. So, decommunization is in order. As you might understand, you cannot wage war without steel. Steel is in the foundation of modern civilization--this is the fact that boys from Palantir don't get. But then again, they, as well as Pentagon or CIA reside in the virtual world of computer code, gizmos and gadgets whose utility is at best questionable. Just look at the US armed forces with all those concepts in SMO and Iran.   

Scott Ritter penned a good piece today on this AI fad. Strongly recommend you to read it. 

AI represents the greatest danger to the practitioner of modern warfare. It makes the user intellectually weak, as it encourages mental subordination to an algorithm, and as such a lack of flexibility when it comes to dropping existing mental models in favor of newly developed models. The OODA loop is most effective when wielded by a well-trained human mind capable of discerning patterns based upon adequate orientation to the task at hand. While one might believe that AI would be able to perform a similar function, this simply is not the case.

Elimination of the enemy's manufacturing base and personnel of its armed forces is the stepping stone in achieving political objectives of the war. Simple as ...