Recent content by Thumpalumpacus

A properly-placed and -supported offensive can reduce Russian supply-lines down to the Crimea from the landward side. Coordinate the ground offensive and the air/missile interdiction of the bridge and this could change the picture. It would all have to be combined-arms ops and scheduled...

The bomber's advocate would point out that that blockade was itself greatly aided by B-29 mining operations. I do agree with your point, and think the submarine's contribution to our victory is always overshadowed by the Bombs being dropped.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Ukrainian air assets deployed for such an important target.

Pencil-whipping safety paperwork is a sure way to ratchet up the scrutiny past what it is already. How stupid are they?

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top military and political figures, Ukraine’s state security service said Tuesday. Two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine, which protects top...

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I'm not sure why Ukraine cannot send USVs to moor against the pilings of the bridge and blow up. It'd take skill, to be sure.

Even autocracies must pay attention to public opinion, in the end.

I hope y'all are doing well all the same. Been through two twisters, neither as hot as that'un, but britches got cleaned anyway.

Just stay away from the underslung wine-bar, you're probably good.

The French will be suing you for copyright infringement.

I'd knock these two off the list right away. Love the Lysander all the same, built a model of it as a kid. Is that a prop on the front, or a Windows "wait" dial in particularly slow motion?

At about 28:20 in this video it shows the P-35's wing root. It appears to my untrained eyes to have five spars. https://youtu.be/xVZLZFFDM40?t=1693

The article indicates that they will be deployed close to the front in Donetsk.

Yeah, I think Beezy's question was more about pre-war. Shirer makes a good case that aside from the Rhineland, there were a couple of other moments when Allied firmness might have put paid to Hitlerian ambitions.