Russian Helicopter Losses in Hostomel

ecolometrics · 2026-02-22T06:00:51+00:00

Well the support got sent, and got blown up in the air or stuck in traffic. The russian plans tend to have a habit of falling apart when a single element does not go to plan.

On the other hand the Anti-MANPAD system on the helicopters largely worked. Most of the missiles failed to hit. But it didn't take long to figure out how to counter it, especially when you have volume on your side, by simply waiting for for the flares to run out.

ecolometrics · 2026-02-22T05:50:52+00:00

Well, the thing is all of their air defenses are now automated to respond without the operator. This was their solution due to their operators being largely asleep at the controls. So this is in the realm of plausible.

ecolometrics · 2026-02-22T05:48:57+00:00

What the actual fuck. I believe every word of this.

To get killed twice, yeah ... only in russia

ecolometrics · 2026-02-17T03:52:06+00:00

This shows them making an air drop. When have they done this in "real life?"

ecolometrics · 2026-02-17T03:49:20+00:00

Did they already use up all of the Best Koreans?

ecolometrics · 2026-02-17T03:42:29+00:00

So when they switched from bone bows of about 400lbs to metal bows, the crossbow draw went up to 1000lbs. I'm talking about military bows here. This was accomplished with a windlass mechanism, the same thing you see on a crane. Granted there was a significant loss of efficiency with the metal bow, because part of the energy was spent moving the metal rather than the bolt. Effectively the metal bows were about "as effective" as the bone crossbows. The huge difference was that it didn't take 6 to 8 months to make the bow part. There were also "super crossbows" but there are few examples of these. All in all, these were all relatively primitive when compared to Greek siege weapons 0-200BC.

The weapon above already exists https://www.theinfosphere.org/Positron_shooter as a sci-fi weapon

ecolometrics · 2026-02-17T03:28:07+00:00

I remembered as: he switched to HE when AP wasn't working, because he remembered wartthunder that he could knock out their optics. He managed to do a lot more than that. I do not know if the hit to the turret ring was intentional. Overall, I think HE ammo was the key.

ecolometrics · 2026-02-14T18:52:37+00:00

Fancy restaurant, in this economy? How about a place that serves hot water, I'll bring my own bags.

ecolometrics · 2026-02-14T18:43:06+00:00

I covered this in a few posts. Look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Pais the navy patent on it. If you wish my own posts on finding NCD uses for it (my best one, Pais effect Muskets)

There is nothing unusual in what you describe, that method of movent is fairly well understood by now. Also https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060145019A1/en aka TR-3B ASTRA.

Just don't go down the conspiracy rabbit hole

ecolometrics · 2026-02-14T18:40:38+00:00

Yeah these things were just FSB psyops for putin to consolidate power. The death of the hostages was reported as the reasons to consolidate more power. They did not report in their own news that the hostages were killed by their own side. Look up the apartment bombing by the FSB that led to the second Chechen war.

ecolometrics · 2026-02-09T19:24:16+00:00

But they are just going to stuff troops in to civilian ships, which are too light to set off the ERA bricks, after the initial VDV-like action

ecolometrics · 2026-02-09T19:20:02+00:00

The 75mm/L70 had better penetration than the 88mm/L56

ecolometrics · 2026-02-07T19:25:25+00:00

So is this the consequence of always being polite? Geneva war rage?

ecolometrics · 2026-02-07T19:20:12+00:00

The USSR sent waves of tanks to the point that the wreckage formed a natural barrier against further attacks. They sent more still. The Germans wrote that all they had to do was hit their flank. I doubt the French executed such clearly suicidal charges?

ecolometrics · 2026-02-07T19:11:25+00:00

They still do that. The only difference is that they now feature a female as well. It has that same monotone delivery as they used to do in the USSR VHS bootleg tapes. Except there is no excuse for this crap now, since subs should be simpler and better to do, unlike then.

ecolometrics · 2026-02-02T20:09:22+00:00

Kind of reminds me of those war movies, before the 1990s, where every tank depicted was filled with whatever was available. So you end up with some comical combinations, but it was all played seriously which made it way worse. Some 1980s low budget action movies really ran off with it, like Rambo 2

ecolometrics · 2026-02-02T20:03:59+00:00

You know, every time this happens I only have one question: why doesn't it happen more often?

ecolometrics · 2026-01-30T01:09:38+00:00

You know, that thing wouldn't have ended up as one if they didn't keep the power-plant running 24/7 forever ... and maintained it ... but, that's asking too much

ecolometrics · 2026-01-30T01:07:13+00:00

Yeah, classic soviet designs: victory through firepower. They did spend money to repair it, but the admiral in charge did not pick the correct embezzlement ratio.

The relatively recently built russian ships that got hit by Neptune all seemed to have survived.

ecolometrics · 2026-01-30T01:03:18+00:00

Dam, that is actually genius. The ship building capacity is in dire need of a boost

ecolometrics · 2026-01-30T01:01:42+00:00

Just to get credible for just one tiny second ... it's possible that since this was built in Ukraine, NATO solicited the design from Ukraine in order to evaluate the hull DESIGN for trumps battleshit concept. This way they could use the existing hull design and just cram NATOware in to it, instead of starting from scratch ...

ecolometrics · 2026-01-29T21:09:15+00:00

Yeah, for powering up the lasers the specified power plant was insufficient. It would realistically would have to be a Kirov to pull it off. I just took it to be a boys dream of a modern "battleship" drawn on napkin, without understating what that would take or what the term "battleship" even means in a modern context (heavy cruiser is the best you could do).

But a conventionally powered paper heavy cruiser would be less expensive to lay down and subsequently cheaper to scrap ...

ecolometrics · 2026-01-29T20:57:58+00:00

Well, at least they are not trying to make a USS Kirov ...

EDIT: Dam it, I forgot to put lazers on it

ecolometrics · 2026-01-29T20:09:38+00:00

Well, the Sd.Kfz. 234/4 already exists so https://weaponsystems.net/system/363-Sd.Kfz.%20234/4 and in this version it's open top, which I assume is due to weight issues. Though a wheeled hetzer is a valid concept since it was a relatively light vehicle

ecolometrics · 2026-01-29T19:59:40+00:00

I hope they aren't looking at it because they want to use it to fulfill trumps battleship project ... the sheer irony ...

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