Russia and its “Special Operation” in Ukraine

[Xann]

 

[sidcow]

14 minutes ago, Xann said:

 

Do people understand now? 300,000, 400,0000 or 2,000,000 of this lot aren't going to change the war in Russia's favour.   Meanwhile Ukraine are receiving a few tens of thousands of motivated troops at regular intervals who are well armed, well equipped and gone through full NATO training.

They will go through these Keystone Cops like a hot knife through butter.  Not that they will need to because it's plain as the nose on your face that those troops in that video will throw down their guns and run away or stick their arms up and surrender immediately the bullets start to fly.

Edited October 17, 2022 by sidcow

[avfc1982am]

 

[sidcow]

 

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[magnkarl]

2 hours ago, avfc1982am said:

Israel all over. The less said about that government the better tbh. 

Fully agree, but they do possess extremely useful kit, experience and tactics that will help Ukraine. 

[avfc1982am]

Wow.... for anyone wondering where Yeysk is it's on the Azov directly across from Mariupol.

 

[avfc1982am]

And here is another view with the pilot bailing out.

 

[LondonLax]

 

 

[avfc1982am]

WTF!!! Awesome.

 

[BleedClaretAndBlue]

 

[CVByrne]

The end can come if Russia just leaves Ukraine

[Amsterdam_Neil_D]

The sanctions are an interest to me,  especially the Boeing and Airbus no spare parts.

I don't the plane in the clip.  From a Pilots POV I suppose there are always a few little things that don't work,  I don't know but there is more than 1 on this plane.

Primary displays,  sounds important I don't know for sure.  At what point do they actually become unflyable ? 

 

Edited October 18, 2022 by blandy
Swearing removed

[DeadlyDirk]

6 hours ago, Amsterdam_Neil_D said:

The sanctions are an interest to me,  especially the Boeing and Airbus no spare parts.

I don't the plane in the clip.  From a Pilots POV I suppose there are always a few little things that don't work,  I don't know but there is more than 1 on this plane.

Primary display's,  sounds important I don't know for sure.  At what point do they actually become unflyable ? 

From my limited knowledge of flying (and I'm sure there's people on here with a bit more knowledge) - that thing shouldn't even be considered for flying, if the APU (Auxiliary Power Unit) and Fuel Pumps aren't working I don't actually see how it could be flown if I'm honest, theoretically it shouldn't be able to move beyond a gate.

[bickster]

@Amsterdam_Neil_D

 

[bickster]

Long thread from a Belarusian journalist (obviously an opposition journo not a Luka stooge) on why the Belarusian "Mobilisation Readiness Exercise" and the 9,000 Russian troops being sent to Belarus is nothing but a bluff

 

[avfc1982am]

 

[blandy]

6 hours ago, Amsterdam_Neil_D said:

The sanctions are an interest to me,  especially the Boeing and Airbus no spare parts.

I don't the plane in the clip.  From a Pilots POV I suppose there are always a few little things that don't work,  I don't know but there is more than 1 on this plane.

Primary displays,  sounds important I don't know for sure.  At what point do they actually become unflyable ? 

Primary display is the main screen in front of the pilot, showing all the key information. Altitude, angle of attack, climb/descent rate, heading, airspeed, and so on. Aircraft are designed with redundancy built in, so that if that display fails, then the pilot can use the secondary display (on some older aircraft this would be some traditional instruments. But they wouldn’t ordinarily take off with no PFD. APU is auxiliary power unit, a generator which allows the aircraft to self start, without having to connect an external generator, but I think it also said AP1, autopilot1. Nice to have, especially on a long flight, but not critical. Co-pilots PFD also u/s, auto-braking u/s, meaning tricky in wet or icy conditions. FMGS is flight management & guidance system, which basically tells the pilot the route to follow, frequencies to select (for ATC etc.) and makes life safe and easy. Brake fans cool brakes and minimise the risk of brake fires. Can’t remember what else there was on the list, but the upshot is “yes, it will still be flyable, but pilot/flight crew workload is much much higher, the aircraft has had the “belt” from “belt and braces” taken away, it would not be permitted to take off anywhere else and if that is representative of the state of Russia’s fleet of aircraft, there will be crashes, incidents and loss of life if they carry on in that way. That said, the designed in safety margins on aircraft (airliners) are in the order of “less than 1 (catastrophic) failure per 100 million flying hours”. So take the catastrophic to mean “causing death”, while there are a lot of things that can go wrong on an aircraft, almost none of them doing so cause death. Stuff that could, there are typically 3 or 4 systems able to do the task, so hydraulics for example, there will be 4 systems each capable of independently moving the control surfaces. The Flight control system, the thing that takes the pilots commands (from stick and pedals and throttles), again, there will be 3 or 4 independent lanes all capable of…etc.

so all the stuff faulty on that plane, it’s probably gone from a minuscule risk of serious incident, to a very small risk. The crew workload is, from the small amount of info in that clip, the biggest concern. Pilot doing so much manually that he or she is at full mental capacity and anything else happening and they are not able to respond, or respond correctly, or in a timely manner.

[bickster]

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Russian railway is on the verge of collapse
02.09.2022

The threat of a collapse in freight traffic is growing at Russian Railways due to a shortage of bearings for heavy-duty wagons, reports Railway Supply citing sprotyv.info. The so-called innovative wagons, which can carry 8 tons more than conventional ones, were left without spare parts after sanctions hit Russia over the invasion of Ukraine and foreign manufacturers began to leave the Russian market.

By the end of August, about 10,000 freight cars were taken out of service due to the lack of bearings and the impossibility of repair. In total, more than 200,000 wagons are at risk, estimates the National Transport Company (NTC), one of the largest operators of innovative wagons.

Locomotives modernization

The main manufacturers of cassette bearings for them were the Swedish SKF, as well as Timken and Amsted Rail from the USA. All three companies left Russia after the start of the war. Components were brought from abroad, and only the final assembly was carried out at Russian enterprises. Now there is nothing to assemble them from and nothing to replace imports with. They need sealants and lubricants, which are produced neither in Russia nor the CIS....

Railway Supply

And given how much the Russian military is reliant on the railways for logistics, this month old story is bigger news than it appears 

[Mandy Lifeboats]

There is a very interesting UK channel run by a guy called Ryan McBeth.  He is ex US Army where he specialised in artillery.  
 

Right from the start of this conflict he was saying the artillery pieces only have a limited time before the barrel needs total refurbishment.  If it’s not, the gun becomes increasingly inaccurate and liable to catastrophic failure.  The bigger the gun, the more catastrophic the failure.  He estimates that the majority of Russia’s artillery is now well past that point with no possibility of refurbishing more than a few at a time.  
 

Let’s hope we see more and more Russian weapons self destruct due to poor maintenance.   
 

 

Edited October 18, 2022 by Mandy Lifeboats
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