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i am very excited to see this news!

She was once presented as a bright young star. She's a pretty dim bulb.

Hopefully it is one isolated cause.

Oh, Staff change!?

Audaciously amazing snark!!!!

And the 2022 Tigers need to be blasted into the Sun

The 2022 Detroit Tigers Highlight video needed a title…well done!

Imagine living in a country divided by Russian misinformation and fuckery

Why don’t they start Harold Castro as the opener?

Ukraine has grievances

One of the comedic devices this guy employs is a Steven Seagal ref. I have stories...that guy is nuts.

This giant economy with nuclear weapons and a stranglehold over our supply chain is scary because we know a lot but we don't know enough

The World War II video series on youtube has been doing the battle of Kursk this last two weeks. It was the ultimate overly telegraphed punch right where the enemy expected it. And i had thought it was a metaphor for the Donbas and Luhansk battles. Now, that Russia is rushing reinforcements to Kherson it appears that the telegraphed summer offensive by Ukraine might be being met by hopefully inept Russian defenses. But, the fear is they have some trick up their sleeves.

I think this is a Jake Sullivan/Joe Biden being clever thing. If Ukraine had the ability they would be hitting Moscow. I wonder what all their nuclear rhetoric becomes if Russia has a shopping mall or a kindergarten hit by an US made ATACMS or air sortie?

Gawd this team is a mess.

I think its not quite a SH. Its some late generation regular Hornet

There was a stretch in the 80s in Germany where they were just that. We called them Jarts or lawn darts. The platform eventually became great. Ukraine would substantially benefit if they got them. I suspect they would prefer F-18s or F-15s.

Significant

Iranian drones are copies of our drones that Iran captured in Iraq and Afghanistan. We know how they work and what will slay them. Because of their DNA, probably better than Russian ones but still.

The air power thing is a real problem. F-16s and Western aircraft in general are something of a challenge. 1. Ukraine airfields are austere like all soviet era airfields. They are used to ignoring runway maintenance. FOD (Foreign Object Debris) is cleared out of the way so the ultra complex GE and Rolls Royce engines on Western fighters can operate without having stones and birds and deer sucked into the engines. So, the Ukrainian airforce wants F-18s which apparently were modified in 2009 to have improved resistance to FOD and 2. The F-18 has two engines which give the airframe better survivability. That was one of the primary considerations of the Canadians when they chose the F-18 back in the day. Long distances and arctic conditions meant they wanted their pilots to have a second motor to row the boat home in the event of in-flight emergencies. I worked in an F-16 unit at Selfridge back in the day. That plane had a very perilous situation when the engine went out. They had a back up power unit control the electric controls so it could at least control its flight surfaces. When that backup power unit was engaged it triggered an automatic checklist with the EPA because the weird substance used was highly toxic. F-16: wonderful dogfighting aircraft, not as expensive as bigger models, but i'd rather have two engines.

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Yeah, this hack needs to go work at whatever casino in Cyprus or Dubai or wherever the Russian mob wants him

I got a glimpse of some maps the last few days that are the sort of digital in-the-weeds stuff they compile from all the various inputs. Most glaring things. Russia cant' stage anything within 80km of the FLOT (forward line of own troops) without it getting creamed. Ukraine has regained a lot of territory in the extreme west of the line (Kherson area). On one day last week, the number of "explosion" OPIRs (I actually don't know actual translation but close prox is Operational intel reports) was off the chain just inside the Russian lines. I don't know if any Ukrainian offensive will happen but it sure seems like the Russians are straining under all the new heat they face.