I guess they’re relaxing the policy, since they’ve hinted previously that they viewed attacks on Russian territory to be a threat to the existence of Russia and would use nukes in response. But they didn’t.

I guess they’re relaxing the policy, since they’ve hinted previously that they viewed attacks on Russian territory to be a threat to the existence of Russia and would use nukes in response. But they didn’t.

So nice of Russia to offer support to Ukraine in their fight against Russia.

To hedge his bets. He can’t let the future of Ukraine be entirely decided by a US election that’s out of his control.

Is this plan the ‘let’s let Russia have all the things it’s stolen’ plan?

And we could ridicule them pretty bad for getting a jet shot down by wandering into the wrong neighborhood.

I hope a Russian jet comes too close so they can shoot it down.

Maneuvering kill?

Op Sec was fantastic from Ukraine. With that and Russia ignoring what info on troop buildup they did have, they managed operational surprise.

It’s an instance mostly based around authoritarian communism. They got banished from Reddit quite a bit before the black out.

Impressive they caught up with it, I would have thought fixed wing drones would be faster than quad copters.

They don’t have any non nuclear retaliation options they’re not already using, and nuclear is a profoundly bad idea.

Bayraktar TB2! Haven’t seen these prominently for a while. I guess that means this area doesn’t have air defenses yet?

Edit: oh I guess this is the Ukraine indigenous version instead?

More likely they’ll reposition troops to retake it, allowing for counter pushes elsewhere.

Yeah, but the biggest push was around WWII in response to persecution. But anyway, the circumstances are very very different.

That background you’re referring to is what’s different. The middle east was never part of the Soviet Union, nor was Ukraine claimed by zionist Holocaust displaced Jews.

Yeah I suspect that’s what will happen. They’ll launch these satellites on their non-reusable long matches until they eventually have a cheaper reusable capability. I guess we’ll see how long that will be.

I and a lot of people here support Ukraine and reject Israels actions in Palestine. But those two cases are also entirely different in a lot of ways, not just the ethnicity of the relevant people.

Yeah those tests are why I put them at the falcon 1 test flight stage generously. It was 10 years from the last flight of falcon 1 to the first flight of falcon 9 block 5, which is where reusability really started to kick in.

Sure there is a follower advantage, but I don’t know if they can make full use of it since they won’t be able to head hunt talent as much as a US company. Itar might also make it more difficult to use the same suppliers and methodology for a more direct copy.

I’m sure they’ll come up with something pretty cheap eventually, but I think it’ll still take a while for economic rapid reuse.