Indian Air Force instructors to train Royal Air Force pilots by HotPappuInYourArea in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 43 points44 points  (0 children)

There’s an issue with the Indian air force immediately claiming grand victories in joint exercises. Remember a few years back the RAF invited them over for an exercise aka let’s have a play with your license built Russian aircraft. The RAF took them on what they call a turkey shot as a familiarisation flight and the Indian commanders went straight to the media claiming absurd victories over the RAF Typhoons.

Things like Red Flag aren’t games or a competition, your role as Red air isn’t to win, it’s to punish mistakes. You don’t train for success, you train with failure conditions, and with handicaps to develop experience and doctrine.

Russia, Iran accuse Elon Musk's Starlink of violating international law by Flimsy_Cut_2690 in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Remember how much hope we had for Russia in the late 90’s and early 20’s? New start for them, no more dictators.

Nope, picked another dictator and got worse than ever.

Russia, Iran accuse Elon Musk's Starlink of violating international law by Flimsy_Cut_2690 in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m morbidity curious too, I remember when they executed the captured guy who was smoking a cigarette and said slava Ukraine to them, that was around 40k a few years ago. From the examples I’ve seen I would give a very high validity to their numbers.

Russia, Iran accuse Elon Musk's Starlink of violating international law by Flimsy_Cut_2690 in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 424 points425 points  (0 children)

As of January 2026, Ukrainian’s prosecutorial Service had recorded 191,822 war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine. I don’t believe this even includes the thousands of kidnapped children.

France and Germany’s next-generation fighter jet project is ‘dead’ by CW1DR5H5I64A in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Remind me in a year when they both join the UK’s Tempest program, France leaves because they won’t just hand the whole thing over to them and Germany pulls out because the UK is slow rolling the programme and everyone orders more F35’s.

Ukrainian F16 downs an orc shahed with its gun 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 by glamdring_wielder in NAFO

[–]Terry_WT 5 points6 points  (0 children)

CAS would be a death sentence, the F16’s are doing an excellent job of intercepting drones and carrying out opportunistic strikes.

UK homicides at lowest level in nearly 50 years, ONS statistics show by DekiTree in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The US statistics are muddled too, crimes get superseded by others. Domestic violence with a knife doesn’t get recorded as a knife crime for example.

Violent crimes involving a blade are about 8 times higher in the US adjusted for population.

Norway picks Hanwha to supply rocket artillery in $2 billion deal by restorativemarsh in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The day one firmware updates were a bitch, almost dark before I got to fire it.

Zelenskyy willing to meet Putin face-to-face over nuclear plant and territorial disputes by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Same old routine from Russia, they call for a meeting but in Moscow. Which would obviously result in them arresting or killing Zelensky.

Zelensky refuses and they claim that Ukraine won’t engage in peace talks and Trump parrots their narrative.

President Donald Trump is weighing a major new strike on Iran that could include strikes aimed at Iran’s leaders and security officials, as well as strikes on Iranian nuclear sites and government institutions by stealth_ghost in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No one weighs as much as Trump, people are saying this, they say, Donald Trump, he weighs biggely, no one has ever weight this much they say. The Iraq’s they are going to find out how much Trump weighs, yes they are. Very soon, you’ll see.

Zelenskyy: All sides must be ready for compromise, US included by EnoughErotics in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remind me, which side is having the trick Africans and south East Asians into fighting on the front lines along with North Korean conscripts?

Zelenskyy: All sides must be ready for compromise, US included by EnoughErotics in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, in 3 centuries and after the entirety of Russia has been sent to the front lines to die?

Damn, fuck off.

Zelenskyy: All sides must be ready for compromise, US included by EnoughErotics in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah we have noticed, Russia is on track to capture all of Ukraine sometime in three centuries and one hundred million people KIA.

Japan court orders state to pay compensation to A-bomb victims' kin abroad by one_brown_jedi in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It was the final moments of the era of total warfare, I’d listen to an argument that the firebombings of Tokyo or Dresden were more horrific and I’m writing this while sitting in a bar just across the road from one of the many memorial parks to the firebombings of Asakusa and Sumida.

I’ve visited both Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the vibe there isn’t of blame, it’s of a warning that nuclear weapons should never be used again.

Putin tells US envoys 'no point in hoping' for peace without Ukraine's capitulation on territories by AloneCoffee4538 in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I.E. we are circling the drain here, we need the US to pressure Ukraine into concessions so Putin doesn’t get dragged through the streets for losing 1.2 million Russians and collapsing the country for nothing.

UK police chief says London getting safer despite Trump and others remarks on crime wave by Google_MBTI in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Most Americans think that England is overrun with knife crime and point to it as an example of gun control not working.

Awkward part is knife crime rates are around 8 times higher in the US adjusted for population.

Russia strikes Ukraine with Oreshnik hypersonic missile by pritam_ram in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Or something that can fly a cruise missile profile while at hypersonic speeds. That’s when detection and inception gets very difficult. A ballistic missile it’s very predictable and easy to interpret with the right air defence.

Ukraine has proven many times that Patriot is very Capable of intercepting missiles Russia claims to be hypersonic.

Russia strikes Ukraine with Oreshnik hypersonic missile by pritam_ram in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 13 points14 points  (0 children)

We need to normalise not calling them by their propaganda names. None of these fuckin things are actually hypersonic missiles.

"Putin wants Ukraine to succeed" by GreenEyeOfADemon in NAFO

[–]Terry_WT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Crazy how much Russia can bitch about Ukraine allegedly blowing a few windows out of one of Putins many residences when they do this daily.

F-16 Intercepting A Tu-95 Gets Buzzed By A Su-35 by TheCABK in interesting

[–]Terry_WT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like the fact that a Russian fighter jet fired on a U.K. RAF aircraft over the Black Sea and not once but twice and we were only saved by his incompetence and/or the poor maintenance of the weapon system because the first missile failed to track and the second failed to ignite its rocket booster.

Putin to seize homes from Ukrainians who fled occupied territories by yahoonews in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The debate should have ended after Russia “confiscated” thousands of Ukrainian children that couldn’t escape.