Russians in or near Ukraine: Make You Some Money

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Oct 072022
 

Are you in control of some military hardware near Ukraine? Sell it.

Ukrainian parliament signs law offering $1 million rewards to defecting Russian soldiers who hand over a fighter jet or a warship

An infographic showing the bounties you can earn for various vehicles, anything from trucks ($10,000 US) up to helicopters ($500,000) to jet fighters ($1 million) and combat vessels ($1 million). I was certain that I’d seen another one that includes subs, and offered something like $200 million for major combat vessels. but perhaps that vague recollection is simply a brain fart, possibly a lingering aftereffect of the Commie Cough.

 

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B-21 Raider to be revealed in December

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Sep 222022
 

Northrop Grumman to Unveil the B-21 Raider

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), in partnership with the U.S. Air Force, will unveil the B-21 Raider during the first week of December at the company’s Palmdale, California facility. … Six B-21 test aircraft are in various stages of final assembly in Palmdale, California. Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Air Force confirmed in May that the B-21 first flight is projected for 2023. 

I expect this to be the last US strategic bomber to be unveiled in my lifetime. The last one, the B-2, was unveiled in 1988, some 34 years ago. The bomber before that, the B-1A, was shown in 1974, or  14 years before the B-2. The bomber before *that* was the B-70 in 1964, or ten years before the B-1. The B-58 was rolled out in 1965; the B-52 in 1951. The trend line indicates that years between bombers became decades between bombers have become generations; whatever follows the B-21  probably won’t arrive until… what? 2070?

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So much for that “afraid of NATO” BS

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Sep 182022
 

It *seems* that Russia has pulled a fair amount of the air defense missile systems from St. Petersburg to transfer them to Ukraine. But wait! Wasn’t the whole point of the war that Ukraine joining NATO was a major threat to Russia? If so… St. Petersburg is not only real close to NATO member Estonia, it’s real close to *Finland,* which, thanks to the war, is now joining NATO. So… shouldn’t the Russians be kinda worried about an immanent attack on their second most important city from eeeeeeviiiiil forces of NATO?

 

Exclusive: Russia moves missiles from St Petersburg to Ukraine

Satellite images reveal that both mobile firing platforms and missiles disappeared during the summer from a base in the Zelenogorsk (Terijoki) area on the Karelian Isthmus, northwest of St Petersburg, among others.

The transfer of equipment has not previously been publicly reported in Russia or western countries.

St Petersburg—Russia’s second-most important city—has long been surrounded by a protective ring of 14 anti-aircraft missile bases. Now several of them stand empty.

Huh.

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Welcome to New York

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Sep 182022
 

High population densities with lax law enforcement and no throwing of loons into bins: not even once.

McDonald’s ax swinger had just been ‘rejected’ by woman, witness says

 

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Why would anyone need more than ten rounds?

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Sep 142022
 

A wholly remarkable shooting caught on camera by a bystander. A crazed guy was shot at point blank range by a cop *twelve* times in the chest before he went down. So, yeah, I’m keeping my standard capacity mags, thanks.

Video shows fatal shooting of man by Montgomery County sheriff’s deputy

 

 

 

 

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LazerPig explains the Moskva

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Sep 112022
 

Entertaining as always, but with a healthy dose of WTFery when he discusses the condition of the Moskva prior to being attacked. It’s… kinda astonishing. A ship that on paper was damned impressive, capable of dishing out heaps of violence, and able to defend itself from heaps of violence, turned out to be almost wholly inoperable. With an unforeseen diversion into the One True Cross, because apparently a chunk of it was on the Moskva. Whoopsie.

 Posted by at 5:55 pm

The Wish.com military

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Sep 062022
 

If this is true, it speaks volumes about the Russian military:

Russia buys North Korean weapons, says US intelligence

“IF” being an important word there. This could be true; it could be false. If it’s false, it could be:

1) Western intelligence disinformation (not clear what the point of that would be)

2)  Western intelligence misunderstanding/mistake (believable if it’s the same nitwits who plunged the world into the Biden Recession thanks to RussiaGate)

3) It’s actually Chinese weaponry, but filtered through North Korea because… reasons.

Buying North Korean weapons is a violation of UN Security Council Resolutions on North Korea. I suspect Putin doesn’t care. I guess I’d more or less trust Nork artillery shells to generally work, but I’d be leery of any missiles. Of coourse, it would be the height of jocular hijinks to sneak into the Nork shipments and tinker with the artillery shells so that every now and then they detonate immediately. A reasonable chuckle will be had by all!

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