IphtashuFitz @ IphtashuFitz @lemmy.world

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He’ll change his mind in a heartbeat if a category 5 hurricane passes over Mar-a-Lago.

But no Amuricans want to do back breaking labor for only $5 an hour, and without healthcare or three weeks vacation. Where am I supposed to find new labor to exploit so cheaply?

Well Trump did just announce that his “golden” immigration card was now available for anybody willing to pony up $5 million. So Musk (and others) can now legally bribe his way into legal US citizenship if he really wants to.

Not to mention you need to buy gas, schedule & pay for maintenance, etc.

Doesn’t sound like he’s dead (yet). DA’s require removal from the gene pool.

He’s so proud of those losers.

Exactly. Look at a current US Navy ship like the USS Beloit and it has a reported draft of 14 feet. You’re going to want to launch a ship like that into deeper water than what it drafts so that it doesn’t bottom out and damage the hull.

It’s possible they’ve still been damaged enough to be unusable. Heat and/or shrapnel from those airplanes that burned could have easily caused damage that these satellites can’t see.

Russia is reportedly moving most of their remaining bombers to eastern Siberia. How amazing would it be if Ukraine already anticipated such a move and has an attack there ready to go?

This is why they used small FPV drones and launched them just a few kilometers away. There was virtually no warning, and small low flying drones would be very difficult for any automated defensive system to detect in time.

I think the Russians also felt a false sense of security given how far these airbases are from Ukraine. They may have had defenses in place for larger drones flying all the way from Ukraine, but again, such a system would have difficulty with small drones flying at treetop level from a very short distance.

It’s not just a theory. The US military has confirmed that is what they are trying to do:

https://www.twz.com/air/russia-covering-its-aircraft-in-tires-is-about-befuddling-image-matching-seekers-u-s-military-confirms

It’s supposed to make it more difficult for autonomous targeting systems to recognize the aircraft:

https://www.twz.com/air/russia-covering-its-aircraft-in-tires-is-about-befuddling-image-matching-seekers-u-s-military-confirms

American military swarms Perl Harbor for over an hour as Japan attacks with over 350 aircraft using bombs, torpedoes, and machine guns.

Russian military hides in bunkers for the 10 minutes that 100 or so highly targeted drones blow up their aircraft.

Enough said.

They’d need to cover a lot more of the aircraft to protect against shrapnel. They’d probably have better odds playing the lottery for funding to build replacement aircraft.

Edit: US military analysts do agree it’s to confuse image recognition in munitions.

Is it just me or is there a surprising lack of Russian response in all these videos? I don’t think I’ve seen a single person in all the videos that have been posted. Given the daylight I’d expect to maybe see maintenance crews, etc. Even if the whole attack lasted just a couple minutes I’d expect to see people running to put out the fires, trying to prevent drones from hitting other aircraft, and so on.

All those poor defenseless tires…

Seriously though. Do the Russians really think that helps in any meaningful way? Even the most basic image recognition software would recognize the shapes of the aircraft under all those tires…

Dial-up BBS’s watching GIFs download at 2400 baud?

I’m cautiously optimistic that this isn’t all his cards.

Given the recent announcements that countries like Germany have given Ukraine the ok to use their long range weapons against targets inside Russia I think it’s just a matter of time before we see this happen.

Frankly I was wondering why the bridge wasn’t attacked very quickly after that announcement was made. But with this report of the underwater sabotage I think it now makes sense. This underwater explosion likely took a long time to plan and carry out, and Ukraine probably wanted to see the results of it before launching any long range strikes on the bridge.

If there are other underwater explosives that have already been planted then I’d expect to see them detonated as well. After that then Ukraine might very well launch long range missiles to target the section(s) of the bridge that have now been weakened.