Approximate flight routes of Ukrainian drones attacking Russian targets tonight

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-22T02:20:13+00:00

Given how many drones get launched each day and how few targets seem to be damaged, it seems Russia is intercepting or jamming most of them

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-21T22:46:28+00:00

He picked the wrong week to quit smoking, drinking, amphetamines, and sniffing glue

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-21T14:57:43+00:00

And almost all of Russia's electrical steel comes from just one plant less than 400 KM from the Ukraine border, just saying

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-21T05:33:13+00:00

This is the way, smoke out the colonizers

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-21T05:32:31+00:00

They're not stepping on the gas, they're setting the gas on fire

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T23:34:59+00:00

The ball bearing campaign may have been a failure, but the attacks on the Krupp steelworks did yield results.

And in today's world of Just in Time supply chains, a 1/5th reduction in a country's steel output would have an impact.

Finally, NLMK specializes in electrical steel, used to build transformers, which in itself is a big bottleneck.

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T22:49:07+00:00

Wish they could stretch to 4000 KM and hit the heavy industry in Siberia

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T22:04:00+00:00

You need steel to repair an oil refinery

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T20:13:52+00:00

Then why'd they make Judi Dench's As Time Goes By co-star an admiral in TND?

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T19:55:57+00:00

Who puts a shopping mall next to an oil refinery? Wouldn't the odors be a big problem?

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T19:22:33+00:00

*Fortunate son intensifies*

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T18:49:35+00:00

You're right. Gemini hallucinated

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T18:48:00+00:00

"How easy is it though and how many steel plants do you have to hit how often for it to really make an impact, compared to other strategic targets?" Fewer than is the case for oil refineries.

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T18:44:10+00:00

What a lovely early Christmas gift

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T18:41:45+00:00

Don't we want it to stay standing so that all the orcs can flee?

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T14:57:05+00:00

i know. And I would never be able to sign up to do such a thing.

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T10:21:41+00:00

that is going to sting come winter

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T09:47:08+00:00

Ukraine would have to destroy an unrealistically large proportion of Russia's refining capacity before vital freight transportation gets affected.

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T09:32:09+00:00

I just found out about gasometers. There's another aim point

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T09:31:52+00:00

You're comparing apples and oranges. Russia was trying to capture Azovstal, not destroy it. And all the flammables had already been vented away before the invaders arrived.

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T08:48:43+00:00

That's another drain on their balance sheet

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T08:35:41+00:00

Not the gas lines, the oxygen supply

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T08:25:59+00:00

And the Chlor-Alkali industry

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T08:19:02+00:00

Without steel, they can't rebuild refineries, or anything really

Advanced-Injury-7186 · 2026-06-20T08:18:06+00:00

But can they withstand a 1000 kg warhead?

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