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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Military Aviation News and Discussion Thread

Ukrainian forces at Hostomel airport https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1510391122379608067 This is just an airport. It can be rebuilt. Not so much human beings or (un)civil societies. Over and over, the terror Russia's barbaric forces unleash to destroy not only bodies but also souls has bee...

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SeJoWa

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Military Aviation News and Discussion Thread

More armed drones (lots more) would seem most logical.bt Yes, absolutely this. And it's been clear for years now how essential as in decisive a tool they would be in exactly this type of asymmetric fight. But not only armed drones and target designators, but masses of small supply drones. I hope so...

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SeJoWa

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Military Aviation News and Discussion Thread

bikerthai wrote:
Listen to the podcast.

Thank you, that was excellent. I look into there occasionally, but missed out on that one.

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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Military Aviation News and Discussion Thread

And some more pics of the downed Su-34. https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet/status/1500805455131648001 Near Vasilkov, Colonel Alexander Mostovy shot down a Russian IL-76 military transport plane and two Mi-24 helicopters. What prevented the landing of enemy troops with weapons. https://twitter.com/A...

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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Military Aviation News and Discussion Thread

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1500826054377758722

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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Military Aviation News and Discussion Thread

Video of a captured bomber pilot that was shot down in Kharkiv tonight. He is Lt-Col, deputy commander of 47th regiment, made of 24 Su-34s. Now we know why Russian army was so desperate to evacuate him, sending several helicopters at night to the enemy territory. https://twitter.com/IntelArrow/statu...

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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Military Aviation News and Discussion Thread

@JonesNL Very interesting information regarding EM and the TB-2. I've been on the lookout for new videos of drone strikes and haven't found anything these last couple of days. Maybe OPSEC? Maybe adaptation on both sides? Regarding the Kremlin Crime Syndicate's Air Farce KCSAF, I have trouble accepti...

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SeJoWa

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Military Aviation News and Discussion Thread

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNIRHexXoAA ... ame=medium

From memory, a An-26 was shot down some days ago, and the votive picture of its six crew members has been found in Chelyabinsk.

SeJoWa

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Military Aviation News and Discussion Thread

https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/statu ... 2763801608

I guess there will be confirmation from the crash site later on.
I feel giddy whenever I see one of the invaders' aircraft falling out of the sky.

This is great for pilot morale.

SeJoWa

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Military Aviation News and Discussion Thread

There's geolocation by Bellingcat for the recently downed copter, making it out to be maybe 20km north of Kyiv along the river. https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1500092495979499523 The UA Dynamics Punisher drone seems like a very nifty and cheap weapon. We really should be making them by the th...

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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Military Aviation News and Discussion Thread

It seems like Ukrainian military reports of downed Russian An-26 airplane were true. People found memorial photo of the crew of that airplane in Chelyabinsk. https://twitter.com/IntelArrow/status/1500081995040411650 I've looked at the downing of the 'copter by a SAM maybe a dozen times. There's an e...

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SeJoWa

Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments - 2022

Just amazing! Their cadence is something to behold. And having the same booster land ten times over - "who woulda thunk" just ten years ago.

Next launch scheduled for... ta dah: Monday.

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Re: James Webb Space Telescope has a launch date: Dec 18 2021

Regarding inflight serviceability of JWST. Provisions have been made to refuel the spacecraft... Thank you for the link, very interesting. I was wondering what accomodations for future missions had been designed-in. I guess that with the hopefully successful development of SpaceX's Starship, the We...

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SeJoWa

Re: United Launch Alliance - Tests, Launches, News, Developments

General George Patton (of WW2 fame) had his "Household Cavalry", which roamed around with jeeps to gather intelligence - logistics problems, or what happens on the front - while fully bypassing the organizational hierarchies that filter out the bad news. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_...

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SeJoWa

Re: Final S-3 Viking Flight

Count me in as a big aficionado of the S-3 Viking. Back when flight decks and airports hosted a far greater variety of flying machines, the purposeful, modern (!) design and evident flexibility of the Viking struck a chord. Its wings' thickness is impressive, especially when seen from a fully fronta...

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SeJoWa

Re: Updated: Switzerland deciding to buy F-35A fighter jets

Just a little comment directly from Switzerland - the way I understand the matter, the F-35's systems are deemed to be the most future proof and advanced with regards to pilots' situational awareness. If it was up to me, a couple of late-model F-16s would fit the bill too.

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SeJoWa

Re: Reuters: The $15 billion jet dilemma facing Boeing's CEO

I visited the World Tour -300 and remember I hit my head on the in aisle overhead monitor (CRT), low & in the middle of the aisle :fight: . I wondered how anyone could position it that low at that spot (there were 4-5 I guess.) You're one of the "Tallest People in the World" [DutchMar...

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SeJoWa

Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments - 2020

Wow. Thank you for the link. What a strange craft it is. Did they dial up the dramatic sky?

At the end of the video, the rocket's size is quite apparent as compared to the people on the adjacent, suspended platform.

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SeJoWa

Re: What do military pilots eat aboard?

Double post.

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SeJoWa

Re: What do military pilots eat aboard?

According to the book on Apollo 8 by Jeffrey Kluger, Borman on his first (two-week) romp in space actually tried to hold it in for the duration. Ugh. Why such determination? As far as I recall, he thought the matter, er, manner of disposal was somewhat demeaning and decided a former test pilot's wi...

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SeJoWa

Re: What do military pilots eat aboard?

Max Q wrote:
I remember Apollo era Astronauts had a ‘low residue’ breakfast of steak and eggs before launching

According to the book on Apollo 8 by Jeffrey Kluger, Borman on his first (two-week) romp in space actually tried to hold it in for the duration.

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SeJoWa

Re: The SR-71 "Speed check" Anecdote

Dutchy wrote:
YES IT IS TRUE

Major Brian Shul relays the true story of a ground speed check with Los Angeles Center, while piloting the SR-71 Blackbird over Southern California.

Cool, very nice this anecdote.

Glorious! *snicker*

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SeJoWa

Re: Updated: Sir Tim Clark: Emirates next batches of A380s will be powered by RR

From primary sources, not for the first time either: "747 Creating The World's First Jumbo And Other Adventures From A Life In Aviation" [originally all caps] Joe Sutter with Jay Spenser / Smithsonian Books pg 83: "The military C-5 program was doing something extremely important for c...

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Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments

Interesting reading about the DARPA/Boeing project. One designed-in advantage of tail-landing rockets is that the the main thermal and mechanical stresses that result from de-orbit are taken up by the rocket thrusters. Just think of what happens on the ground at ignition. Those glowing grid fins com...

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Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments

Fascinating.

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Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments

I'm a little mystified why the fairings can't bring their "bouncy castle" along for the ride - a la Spirit Mars lander. Of course it introduces additional risk, but car airbags were perfected long ago. See step twelve: https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/mission/tl_entry1.html SpaceX also engineered...

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Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments

https://www.ted.com/talks/gwynne_shotwe ... 30_minutes

SeJoWa

Re: Damascus Airport completely destroyed by US,UK and France

No proof available yet to German media that there was a chemical attack. The German News carried a report which was quite unusual ... ... We don't know so best we can do is just hope that only militants were affected by the strike and not civilians. What "German News"? Angela Merkel has s...

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SeJoWa

Re: Naval refueling drones

You don't have to pair these with a pilot each, who needs to be instructed, trained, evaluated, maintained, berthed, better protected than chips, and payed a pension. Ready to fly off the factory floor into combat, join a networked swarm, and stay on station for extended times without succumbing to ...

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SeJoWa

Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments

Due to restrictions from NOAA, SpaceX is interrupting the live broadcast and will resume for Iridium sats placement. US Law (National and Commercial Space Programs Act) requires that remote sensing space systems (of which NOAA defines the second stage camera as being) requires a license and said li...

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Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments

https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/9 ... 8492683264

SeJoWa

Re: 2x Russian SU-57 PAK-FA show up in Syria

You mean the people of Medecins Sans Frontieres make it all up. Right. Syria: Extraordinary mass-casualty influxes in East Ghouta as hospitals run short of life-saving medicines | 21 February 2018 ... This comes amid an extraordinary increase in bombing and shelling over the area, with 13 hospitals ...

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Re: 2x Russian SU-57 PAK-FA show up in Syria

Jenan Moussa‏ @jenanmoussa Retweeted MSF International MSF: Doctors and nurses collapsing as medical response in East Ghouta reaches its limits. @akhbarJenan Moussa added, MSF International @MSF #URGENT “Our hospital is full, and we already got hit twice. When the patients started overflowing, we re...

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Re: Israeli's Loose an F-16

Planeflyer's question, seconded. I'd be glad to understand the somewhat cryptic message, and maybe where the information comes from?

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SeJoWa

Re: 2x Russian SU-57 PAK-FA show up in Syria

The Russian television station "Rain" [Dozhd] that was banned from cable channels for not toeing the line, carried a report by Interfax. So the following is a nested and machine-translated quote: ""Many samples of our weapons were tested in Syria, there were sent and Su-57. This ...

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SeJoWa

Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments

Following SpaceX is always interesting. First of all, more money in the kitty once again, and yes, it's nice that reused rocket launches are becoming routine. More of this, please, insurance rates will go down further! The scale of their internet-by-microsat-constellation plan is breathtaking. Once ...

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Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments

And speaking further to parapente's point, while being rather ignorant of specifics, two things I'd like to point out: - Very inconsistent decision making by politicians over time. NASA's aims and budget strings have been treated like ping-pong by Congress. It has no choice in the matter but to exec...

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Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments

Interesting ideas. I'm not up to speed on SLS, as with the coming cheaper heay lift rockets, it seems like a very expensive boondoggle. But Chris Kraft of NASA renown isn't a fan, and makes some important points [for me to copy&paste]. Sunday conversation: NASA veteran Chris Kraft upfront with c...

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Re: Israeli's Loose an F-16

Interesting to hear from the Israeli Generals. Also, a thread was created expressly for those who need to bitch about their every word. Ozair, thanks for the link to useful information. Sending an Apache is remarkable to me, I surmise that was to get visuals on the target? As an aside, I'll never fo...

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SeJoWa

Re: A400M Update

... Concurrency isn’t just for fighter programs, it can hurt transports as well… Yes, and KC-46A has around 30 frames built before any are delivered. We'll see how well that works out. See also: A380 hand re-wiring for first 20 frames, Boeing's "Terrible Teens", etc. Contrast to:: A350 &q...

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SeJoWa

Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments

https://twitter.com/linnlilu/status/961000031888297991

SeJoWa

Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments

... This is where it's possible his enthusiasm for Mars is getting in the way of commercial realities.It is the F9/FH that is making the money so that 'his' BFR can be built. Make a wrong turn with the bread winners and he's toast. His rationale for BFR is it can launch circa 4 seats in one go.But ...

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SeJoWa

Re: Israeli's Loose an F-16

It's several years back that the Israelis electronically spoofed the entire Syrian IAD network, if I remember correctly. Is this a sign of the Syrian dictator's upgraded capabilities by way of the Kremlin? Planes do get lost, and I'm not partial to the invulnerability mantra. Egypt just dodged a Rus...

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SeJoWa

Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments

Elon Musk - total investment in FH probably more than half a billion. They thought of canceling it several times. Isn't that relatively cheap for a rocket of that size ??? Absolutely. But SpaceX paid it out of company funds. Also of note, per Elon Musk, the launch costs are not much higher than for...

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SeJoWa

Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments

Came in late.
Elon Musk
- could see short hops with the spaceship part of BFR next year. [!!!]
- it's conceivable to see BFR flight to earth orbit in three to four years [and that would be capable of going to the moon too].
- all hands on deck for Crew Dragon, aiming for end of year use.

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SeJoWa

Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments

Elon Musk - total investment in FH probably more than half a billion. They thought of canceling it several times.

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Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments

Wow. 27 rocket engines burning into history. Star Man is in space, ready for his one billion year ride. And the amazing sight of two Dragon first stages landing simultaneously, looking like a busy spaceport from one thousand years in the future. What a day for the SpaceX crew and the the future of h...

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Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments

http://spacex.com/webcast

SeJoWa

Re: SpaceX - Tests, Launches, Developments

The spacesuited manikin in Elon's Roadster is a fantastic touch, but I do hope they remember to deflate those tires before launch into space.

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Re: UPS announces order for 14 747-8F and 4 767F

This aircraft was and remains unique in the World of cargo transport and it's unlikely there will be another of her kind. ....It could gently carry on being made for years. Which is both ironic, and apt, considering the 747 was originally conceived as a transporter/freighter. Once more unto the bre...

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