Russia will take years to replace nuclear-capable bomber planes that were hit in Ukrainian drone strikes last weekend, according to Western military aviation experts, straining a modernisation programme that is already delayed.
Satellite photos of airfields in Siberia and Russia’s far north show extensive damage from the attacks, with several aircraft completely burnt out, although there are conflicting versions of the total number destroyed or damaged.
The United States assesses that up to 20 warplanes were hit - around half the number estimated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy - and around 10 were destroyed, two U.S. officials told Reuters.
Dear Russia and Putin, I wish to extend a few words of sympathy to you in these trying times:
LOL! Get fucked, you deserve everything you are getting.
Wish we could see the person that downvoted this
Posts are public on Lemmy. I can’t speak to specific instances and apps, but in the basic web interface, “View Votes” can be found under the three dot menu of each post.
I’ve heard about that but I haven’t seen it yet. I just get options for moderation history which is a really cool feature on its own.
I believe they can see it because they’re an admin of their own instance vs a standard user (I also cannot see who voted, and I think the API keeps that data private for everyone except admins)
Totally fine with that
Agreed, there was a massive discussion about it on github where that sort of was the general outcome at the end of the day as well
My guess is that it’s someone feeling sympathy for the people of Russia. Which I kinda get. There are a lot of people there that oppose the invasion. The rest aren’t necessarily bad people either. They’ve just been fed lots of propaganda and lies.
Wouldn’t it be funny if all these various nations just did a reverse uno and like 20 different nations started invading Russia and slicing it up for territorial gain?
Russia is so weak right now.
My dream is a united EU assault on Moscow to dethrone Putin and the Oligarchs and, hopefully, return the nation to a less corrupt state.
At this point, it could easily be done, except that Putin would nuke Europe (and probably everybody else) before going down. That is literally the ONLY reason it hasn’t been done.
Immediately upon his death they need to strike.
My dream is for wars to end, not to make new ones, but you do you I guess
I was so naive once too, but I grew out of it.
You said “my dream is”. So if dreams are comming true, I’m not dreaming of an assault on Russia, I’m dreaming of an end to all wars and sufferring.
That’s a fantasy, not reality. We live in reality.
Reality is there won’t be a unified assault on Moscow either, unless they do something really stupid. And they have done plenty of stupid things already and that hasn’t made anyone do much. People haven’t learned and are trying to appease all over again.
You should share your dream with Pootang.
1 million saiga antelopes is already invading russia, to eat thier crops.
I’m in ur base, eating ur crops.
All your crops are belong to us
If I learned anything playing Risk, is that you are fucked if you are in the lead… And especially fucked if you go on an offensive.
Nuked.
Yes, with all those old soviet nukes that sre surely still around and not rusting away in old bunkers. I’m sure they fly just fine.
If only a handful deploy successfully, it’s a major problem.
I do hope a few blow up in the silos, and render vast swathes of Russia uninhabitable for centuries.
If only a handful get deployed successfully they’ll get shot down by missile defenses.
Hopefully, but not guaranteed. The rockets aren’t all coming out of silos in Russian territory. A launch from a sub off a coastal target like DC, NYC, LA, SF, etc. might reach its target long before a missile defense weapon could target the threat.
Fly, yes. Detonate, ???
You only need a few to work.
“A few” is the amount that get shot down by missile defense systems in such a scenario
Meant as you only need a few to get through. You seriously gonna tempt fate relying on a missile defence system? Only tens of millions dead on the line. Bunch of 14 year old very badasses on this site.
How? Vlad gonna throw them…?
Wouldn’t be funny at all.
It may be the safest bet at dismantling this constant threat for good. Oftentimes the only way the bully learns is when they’re pushed back twice as hard.
Other than that, an Eastern European country really has no business having as much territory in Central and East Asia as Russia does. It’s like if Britain never lost its colonial empire; the whole thing should be torn down so woke shit like the right to self-determination can come to Russia.
There are 20+ visual confirmations, so 40 might be close to the real number.
Slava Ukraine!
Oh no…anyways.
May Russia continue to suffer every struggle imaginable
You mean continue as it has been for the last few hundreds of years, got it.
Really, looking at world history I can’t really find a time of which I think: oh, it would’ve been nice to be Russian back then!
Being Russia(n) is just one giant cluster fuck and has been for a very long time. Or maybe not one giant, but several very big ones with small breaks of a few years in between.
So I’m happy I live in NL.
Oh gee that sure is unfortunate. /S
everyone liked that
The US says it’s 20, and in their new capacity as an official mouthpiece for the government of Russia, you can be sure that means it’s 40. Maybe more.
“Rapist struggles to maintain an erection after victim shoots him in the dick.”
Meanwhile in Afghanistan:
Come in Donkey 1! Donkey 1 kanoby?
Soldier: Sir, Donkey 1 released! But the target is moving!
Did the carrot targeting system get installed on the target?
Soldier: Installed? I mean I put the carrots in the back of the trunk sir, as you told me!
Well done! Our work here is…bang!!!..shit, what did you do with the other carrots?
Soldier:…
At this point they might as well buy them from China.
Although it’s arguable whether it’s worth having strategic bombers anymore. If they only need a platform to launch cruise missiles there are over platforms that can do it.
is the ccp even willingly to give them this much tech. also ccp might already got what they want out of the deal with russia some time ago. inroads into sibera for natural resources, buying thier oil at low prices.
I mean they’d just be replacing decades old planes anyways. When was the last time anyone came out with a new strategic bomber anyways? I guess stealth bombers but China doesn’t even have one.
Rad.
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