Russian invasion of Ukraine

[budmiester1]

4 hours ago, TxRover said:

I was addressing the comment about risk of pollution, by pointing out they tried to avoid damaging the oil tanks. A sunken oil tanker is still an environmental timebomb, but if the tanks are intact, you can drain them.

That’s a very good point TxRover, something I hadn’t considered

[TxRover]

3 hours ago, budmiester1 said:

That’s a very good point TxRover, something I hadn’t considered

Those drones aren’t really optimised to sink ships due to exploding above the waterline…although the USS Cole proved with enough explosives, that’s still effective. What they do well is create a mission capability loss…that tanker is down for a good time.

[welshbairn]

6 minutes ago, TxRover said:

mission capability loss

Erectile disfunction?

[Cosmic Joe]

Is there a Ukrainian equivalent of Methil? 

Where the Russians, like the Romans, will go "f**k this for a game of soldiers" and turn around.. 

[LongTimeLurker]

Irpin and Brovary (closest they got to surrounding Kyiv) or Voznesensk (closest they got to Odesa) can maybe already claim to have been the turning point back when Vlad was still going after all of Ukraine before he scaled his war goals back to the Donbas and Crimean land bridge.

[ICTChris]

Russia launched significant missile attack overnight, aimed at critical infrastructure and the air bases where Ukrainian fighter jets load up storm shadows. Seems like they were unsuccessful as the Henichesk bridge in Crimea was just hit with SSs.

[Boo Khaki]

1 hour ago, Cosmic Joe said:

Is there a Ukrainian equivalent of Methil? 

Where the Russians, like the Romans, will go "f**k this for a game of soldiers" and turn around.. 

Made a similar point months ago. Every Ukranian village looks like a slightly tarted-up version of Bellshill. Surely there must come a point where even Ukranians are like 'aye, f**k this, I'm no dying for this tip"

[Cosmic Joe]

4 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said:

Made a similar point months ago. Every Ukranian village looks like a slightly tarted-up version of Bellshill. Surely there must come a point where even Ukranians are like 'aye, f**k this, I'm no dying for this tip"

Oh, I would be on the front line defending Methil. I bloody love the place. But I can' t understand why anyone would want to invade it. 

[Boo Khaki]

19 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said:

Oh, I would be on the front line defending Methil. I bloody love the place. But I can' t understand why anyone would want to invade it. 

You know how you get folk travelling from Norway to watch Stenhousemuir and stuff?

Maybe Russia just has an extraordinarily high preponderance of Morton supporters. It would explain a lot.

[TxRover]

4 hours ago, welshbairn said:

Erectile disfunction?

In this particular case, lack of lube(rication).

[LongTimeLurker]

5 hours ago, Boo Khaki said:

Made a similar point months ago. Every Ukranian village looks like a slightly tarted-up version of Bellshill...

Guess what's happening right now is about stopping the fighting ever reaching the south coast of Crimea. The Russians need to defend various Viewpark lookalikes on Vlad's Crimean land bridge to be able to keep Yalta:

[Boo Khaki]

Meh, Bellshill-on-sea. 

Is that Greenock?

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

23 hours ago, Cosmic Joe said:

Oh, I would be on the front line defending Methil. I bloody love the place. But I can' t understand why anyone would want to invade it. 

That would be folk from Leven wanting to impose their culture, such as the Shell House, amusement arcades and sit in chip shops.

[LongTimeLurker]

If the Germans send these missiles the Ukrainians will probably be able to take out the Kerch railway bridge:

Tweet is from a pro-Russian poster hence the dodgy set of borders shown in the graphic but at the same time it shows why this would be significant if it happens. The range would provide what the Americans have been unwilling to send where ATACMS is concerned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurus_KEPD_350

 

[ICTChris]

 

Reports of Ukraine attacking across the Dnipro in numbers higher than previously.

[Musketeer Gripweed]

 

[TxRover]

3 hours ago, Musketeer Gripweed said:

 

The regional governor has confirmed that the plant has been producing “mainly pyrotechnics” for some time.

The fire at the site of the explosion in Sergiev Posad is localized, the city administration reports. Due to damage to the boiler house, the supply of hot water to consumers was stopped. The Zagorsk Optical and Mechanical Plant in Sergiev Posad, despite its name, produces mainly pyrotechnics. This was stated by the governor of the Moscow region Andrey Vorobyov after the explosion, which, according to the company, occurred in the adjacent territory. “We are located on the territory of an optical-mechanical plant, but this plant has nothing to do with optics and mechanics for a long time, they mainly produce pyrotechnics here,” Vorobyov said. He specified that the epicenter of the explosion was "located exactly at the pyrotechnics assembly site."

[TommyDickFingers]

18 minutes ago, TxRover said:

The regional governor has confirmed that the plant has been producing “mainly pyrotechnics” for some time.

Lots of "mainly pyrotechnics" landing in the surrounding area

That blast wave tho. 

 

[beefybake]

31 minutes ago, TommyDickFingers said:

Lots of "mainly pyrotechnics" landing in the surrounding area

That blast wave tho. 

 

Must have been quite a big banger...... 

[TommyDickFingers]

1 minute ago, beefybake said:

Must have been quite a big banger...... 

Star bombs, pack of 3 imo.