Yeah, that does seem odd. Maybe Iran doesn’t have enough lift capacity for either the volume or size of the satellites?

All of Russia’s numbers are getting increasingly poor. They certainly aren’t out of the fight yet, but it is clear they are getting ground down to a nub of their former selves.

Damn, those hits just keep coming, and the loaded trucks are quite visceral, too.

Best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, and today. We need to surge weapons to them and we need to allow them to fully use the weapons we are sending. The US still blocks Ukraine from using things like ATACMS in Russia.

For all that bluster about red lines, when stuff at a Russian airbase is hit by western weapons, it’s radio silence from the Kremlin. I’m hoping to hell after the elections in a month that Biden will authorize use of US and European missiles against military targets in Russia.

Yeah, supposedly it is stealth, but looking at that perfectly round exhaust… Round being a major, major impediment to stealth.

Have a look at the F-22, the exhaust is all angels. The F-35 is a bit less stealthy, and it’s exhaust is also all angles. The B2 hides it’s exhaust on the top of the aircraft…and is still all angles.

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The CEP on these ballistic missiles must be insane. Reminds me how the first SCUD missiles had a CEP of 3,000m. They just kinda chucked them in the general direction of something.

The best resource for that type of info is Oryx’s visually confirmed list. They have one for both Russian losses and Ukrainian losses. Every link is to a picture or video of the loss; click a few. Then just scroll and scroll and scroll.

Did someone just defect?

war is always the worst possible option

I’m currently living in a country that was freed from British colonialism via war. I’m damn happy that war happened, I’m damn happy we have our own country.

The fun problem with isolationism is it just allows problems to fester; then you have something much worse to deal with later. You may want to ignore the world, but the world won’t ignore you.

Edit: An Iranian proxy has been shooting civilian shipping and civilian crews from all countries for the last year. There are problems one cannot simply ignore.

Their ability to make nukes has been delayed several times in the past, another delaying action is likely better than letting them get nukes.

Go for it man!

https://data.bls.gov/cew/apps/data_views/data_views.htm#tab=Tables

https://data.bls.gov/cew/apps/bls_naics/bls_naics_app.htm

https://www.bls.gov/data/apps.htm

I wonder why

The US isn’t in a war with hundreds of thousands of casualties, the entire economy re-geared to produce wartime materials, huge needs to on-shore production as foreign partners cut ties, oil and ammo depots exploding all over the country cutting the two major sources of export revenue, central bank interest rates at 19% putting even the safest of loans at credit-card levels of interest, demographic decline that makes Europe’s problems look downright peachy, and persistent double-digit inflation wiping out the real value of everyone’s savings and making it even harder to afford imports.

In short, the US has a healthy economy and Russia has a wartime economy that is doing it’s best to win the war before an economic collapse.

Russia faces a shortage of engineers, turners, and CNC machine operators. The Russian job portal Avito in September received 2,000 resumes for turners, in comparison to 60,000 position openings. For CNC operators, there were only 600 resumes for 18,600 vacancies, despite the alluring salaries.

Those are some awful numbers. You know a large percentage of those few resumes are going to be junk applicants. But with those huge disparity rates, they are probably going to get hired anyway and the businesses are just going to attempt to do their best to get the junk applicants to be somewhat useful.

On further thought the glow could be from reentry and not from burning rocket motors. So, no I’m not sure.

Currently waiting to see the level of damage and more detailed reports.

From watching the videos, it looks like a ton of low-level missile intercepts. The rocket motors are still active, which isn’t what you see for ballistic missiles in their terminal phase.

Probably will be lots of damage due to debris though.

Yeah, missile intercepts always look cool. Though, it is unfortunate that it’s due to what is assuredly an escalation. Israel took the first Iranian missile salvo two months ago without direct retaliation; I don’t see that happening again here.

It’s the tip of a shaped charge warhead, though that particular one does look awfully like a barrel.