With the drone/UAV threat from Ukraine, and Ukrainian infantry being on the ropes, Russia might actually have a better time in urban combat than trying to gain ground on open fields. Easier to stop Russia advancing through open fields by just drone striking all their vehicles with minimal infantry needed, much harder to to that in urban combat with all the buildings, plus Ukraine needs lots of skilled infantry to hold ground in urban warfare, which is a big issue for them.

T-95s are now past the launch sites in Saratov and are heading towards the Caspian Sea to join the Tu-160s, according to same source.

Launch manouvers apparently conducted, Odessa might be in for a very bad morning if all 20+ strategic bombers launched Kh-101s. I think it’s unlikely that such will happen, but we’ll see.

Found an article it, but apparently an Anti Ship Ballistic Missile came in on a depressed trajectory without warning and landed a few hundred metres from the aircraft carrier. The flexibility of a warhead that is a Maneuverable Re-entry Vehicle (MaRV) allows for flying skip and glide trajectories/pull up manoeuvres to avoid detection by early warning radars, and stay out of the engagement zones of ballistic missile defence systems.

https://ctc.westpoint.edu/a-draw-is-a-win-the-houthis-after-one-year-of-war/

By achieving closer shadowing of target vessels (see “Tactical Evolution” below), the Houthis appear to be reducing the time-in-flight limitation of their long-range strike systems (which can exceed 100 minutes for a drone flying 300 kilometers, during which time a ship can move by as much as 75 kilometers).Houthi missiles and drones may carry terminal guidance systems—certainly semi-active radar homing for anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCMs), also electro-optical cameras in UAVs,100 and possibly (though this is unconfirmed) some form of guidance system in some ASBMs as well. The combination of wide-area surveillance, close-in target shadowing, and terminal guidance has allowed the Houthis to achieve some impressive feats of marksmanship, such as an apparent near-miss on a U.S. aircraft carrier [ak] and a number of hits or very close misses by ASBMs on ships approximately 150-200 kilometers from launch points. [al]

[ak] By some accounts, an ASBM or other missile arrived at a very shallow trajectory, with minimal warning, without a chance for interception, and splashing down around 200 meters from the Eisenhower. Details gathered from interviews with Yemen-focused U.S. and U.K. intelligence officers for this study. Names of interviewees, and dates and places of interviews withheld at interviewees’ request. The Houthis propagandized the carrier’s departure. See “America’s withdrawal from the Red Sea confirms the fall of the myth of Washington’s great power,” Sabant – Saba Agency, May 1, 2024.

For instance: Tavvishi (June 8, hit by single ASBM); Captain Paris (June 16, two within 100m); MSC Sarah V (June 24, first and only shot within 50m); Delonix (June 28, three within 200m); Bentley 1 (July 1, four under 100m ending with a hit); Groton (August 3, four within 50m, including one hit); and Groton again (August 30, two within 100m). Maritime Spotlight data.

Most of the missiles they use are of Iranian design, or modifications of Iranian designs, so yeah. The Tankeel Anti Ship Ballistic Missile (ASBM) that Russian media reported as “Ansar Allah’s hypersonic weapon” is an anti ship version of Iran’s Raad 500/Zoheir ballistic missile, with some sort of seeker added to the MaRV to track ships. Palestine-2 is is an amalgamation of the Iranian Kheibar Shekan 1 and 2 series, along with potentially the Fattah-1.

They are the first group in history to use Anti Ship Ballistic Missiles (ASBMs) in warfare, and Ansar Allah have been experimenting with Iranian Kheibar Shekan series and Fattah-1 technology in their Palestine-2 missile. All of these missiles have Manoeuvrable Re-entry Vehicles (MaRVs) that seperate from the booster stage in the mid course phase allowing for skip and glide trajectories, and in the case of the Iranian Fattah-1 and potentially the Palestine-2, have their own sustainer rocket attached to the MaRV itself. The only missile ever made with a sustainer motor in the MaRV itself. It’s a big deal, as it means that the MaRV is not only relying on ballistic energy to fly, it has it’s own source of propulsion. It’s as close as you can get to a hypersonic weapon using traditional ballistic missile technology, it blurs the lines. You can read this PDF report by the Missile Defence Advocacy Alliance for more details.

As for a full on hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), Iran is working on that with regards to Fattah-2.

Taleghan 2 was only a single building, one that has shown no signs of activity for years now. The satellite imagery shows it was clearly destroyed, but this is just a symbolic strike, Iran is not conducting their nuclear activities at one publicly known building.

Someone tell him to pay child support

At this point it’s just facts. The ICJ is the closest thing we have to a more neutral or multipolar court, the ICC is just biased.

The collective has added the banner image back by themselves after I sent it to them. Good luck to the Bureaucracy!

I was in the process of writing a post on it, along with the Yemeni - US Navy combat exchange, and another Iranian missile test that took place yesterday. It’s pretty suspicious, especially with senior figures from Iran busy inspecting Chinese J-10 fighter jets at the air show yesterday.

There’s just so much happening that I can’t keep up in terms of writing detailed posts.

Whoever is behind the alt accounts has been doing this for days now. There’s no point in trying to talk any sense into them. It’s always the same arguments followed by threats. Extremely unoriginal, 2/10, they should go outside or play some videogames instead.

who are for some reason extremely pro Palestine for an apolitical celebrity gossip subreddit, not that I’m complaining.

Except when it came to the democratic party and Kamala Harris. Then it’s all “vote blue no matter who!”, and anyone who called Harris out for being a genocidal monster got hundreds of downvotes.

That place is poisoned by identity politics, and simply used Palestine as their flavour of the month issue to hate on any celeb or politician they disliked.

Uhh that’s not good. I hope this isn’t the start of human to human transmission.

Nah, someone decided to create over a dozen alt accounts and do it in public comments, not through DMs.

I would say it’s accurate, at least in the case of the Su-57. Russia does not really have the resources to put hundreds of planes into production and hope to address any flaws with updates (like the F-35). The first Su-57 prototyped were built in 2010, and it officially entered service in 2020, with the fully complete models with the proper engines only entering service in December of 2023.

You can read the full piece here, it’s not that long and is more of a general overview than anything else. If you want a more fleshed out thesis of sorts, I’d recommend reading “Eurocentrism”, the second edition, though that is a 300 page book.

Samir Amin’s writings on this matter continue to be correct:

Successive waves of immigration also played a role in reinforcing American ideology. The immigrants were certainly not responsible for the poverty and oppression that lay behind their departure for the United States. But their emigration led them to give up collective struggle to change the shared conditions of their classes or groups in their native countries, and adopt instead the ideology of individual success in their adopted home. Adopting such an ideology delayed the acquisition of class consciousness. Once it began to mature, this developing consciousness had to face a new wave of immigrants, resulting in renewed failure to achieve the requisite political consciousness. Simultaneously, this immigration encouraged the “communitarianization” of U.S. society. “Individual success” does not exclude inclusion in a community of origin, without which individual isolation might become insupportable. The reinforcement of this dimension of identity—which the U.S. system reclaims and encourages—is done to the detriment of class consciousness and the forming of citizens. Communitarian ideologies cannot be a substitute for the absence of a socialist ideology in the working class. This is true even of the most radical of them, that of the black community.

• Samir Amin, Revolution from North to South

Most of the assesments by Western plane nerds were made on prototypes and early versions of the Su-57, instead of the final production run. I don’t think I have to explain how foolish that is. What the plane nerds are right about, is that Russia have have only a few of these aircraft, and them entering service almost two decades after the F-22 entered service, shows that the Russian military is behind the US in comparison. That is true and an unfortunate consequence of the chaos that took place after the fall of the USSR, in many areas there was little modernisation since the cold war.

As for the capabilities of the aircraft, it has advantages and disadvantages versus the F-35 and F-22. While it’s still very stealthy, especially from the front, it’s likely not as stealthy as the F-22. There have also been issues with the new engines required for super cruise (flying above Mach 1 without the use of afterburners), which meant that the first few aircraft were shipped with Su-35 engines. One advantage the Su-57 has, is that the air launched subsonic stealth cruise missiles, in the Kh-69, fit inside it’s internal weapons bay. This allows for a stealth 1-2 punch that Russia has used quite extensively this year. The F-35 is not capable of this, the JASSM stealth cruise missiles do not fit inside it’s internal weapons bays, and integrated weapons like SPEAR are still in development. The F-22 can’t do this as it was never designed for air to ground missions, so it’s internal weapons bays aren’t large enough either.

It unfortunately appears to be a real phenomenon on social media, at least. Communitarian ideologies cannot be a substitute for the absence of a socialist ideology in the working class. This is true for all communities in the USA, even the most radical communities.