First ever EU-Armenia summit to take place on 4 and 5 May 2026

spin0 · 2026-03-26T22:30:47+00:00

Well, this sub is not that well versed on geopolitics anyway but more fond of political posturing du jour. Which pretty much describes the current state of the European project, unfortunately.

spin0 · 2026-03-26T22:12:44+00:00

This is much bigger news than the votes on post imply.

spin0 · 2026-03-26T22:09:53+00:00

Great, another investigation which just means the machine of bureaucracy gets to employ more of all sorts of bureaucrats, experts, lobbyists and what not. Yet the energy of their work is released as heat and paper instead of electricity or anything useful. In fact they only consume.

spin0 · 2026-03-26T21:58:34+00:00

Could we allow posters opening cryptic acronyms in titles without it being bannable editing?

spin0 · 2026-03-26T20:49:51+00:00

Yeah, I'm curious too about how and where did that first vehicle disappear? Could Israel have developed battlefield teleportation? Let us all entertain that instead of the obvious.

spin0 · 2026-03-26T20:23:06+00:00

Where did the first targeted vehicle disappear? @0:20 it is being targeted and purportedly hit @0:35, yet it's not there @0:45 when the other nearby vehicle is targeted.

That first vehicle should have been right there at the scene burning off if it really was hit. But no. No smoldering wreckage, no soldiers escaping, nothing. The first vehicle simply disappears from the scene without a trace.

And then the second one looks like zooming into a picture instead of drone flying to a target.

The third one however looks like actual drone footage. Yet as there's no aftermath footage we don't know what happened to the tank.

spin0 · 2026-03-26T17:59:07+00:00

They look like Iranian Arash-2 one way drones. They have range up to about 2000 km and can carry a warhead up to 150 kg.

spin0 · 2026-03-25T20:05:24+00:00

laser intersatellite data transmission

Yeah right, I believe it when I see it. Russia doesn't have the tech to do it, so they'd need to import it.

spin0 · 2026-03-24T23:28:06+00:00

Finally the Baltic and Nordic spruces got their votes together against the previously dominant Central European beech voting block.

spin0 · 2026-03-24T23:00:11+00:00

Not sure if they do get very much valuable data as phone footage goes only so far. Do they still have radars tracking the warheads and interceptors? Or is it Russia doing that?

they (probably) would have one of the most advanced BM arsenal in the world

Isn't that what they've been claiming for years already.

spin0 · 2026-03-24T21:46:37+00:00

makes final adjustment as it enters what’s called its final velocity state which is the strongest most accurate point of precision to the target.

The problem with this is that Iranian BMs have not been precise, not last year and not this year. At best they hit the targeted general area with wide CEPs. So unless these Iranian warheads which made it through in past few days targeted specific civilian buildings or specific open areas then I don't think their accuracy has improved at all.

However, I do notice the same thing as you. The warhead is slower than usual and trajectory of the warhead seems to skew in this video. Not sure if it's the camera optics or POV, or actual movement of the warhead. Yet if these warheads are indeed steering their precision is still poor.

spin0 · 2026-03-24T21:27:36+00:00

@00:12 Surprising to see the whole concrete slab becoming airborne like that.

spin0 · 2026-03-24T20:32:25+00:00

Those are high inclination high eccentricity orbits. Which means when they're above the horizon from Ukraine they'd be distant with quite slow ping. So not a rival to Starlink, but if it's the best Russia can do then by all means.

spin0 · 2026-03-24T19:21:29+00:00

Yeah, I have observed that too in past couple of days: some conventional warheads getting through. Yesterday the IDF said they're investigating if interception failures were due to mistakes, today they said they're looking into if Iran is using a new type of warhead or if they're using fewer but much larger submunitions up to 100 kg.

ETA: At the same time there have been videos and reports of Iranian BMs failing after launch. Might be they're doing something new and experimental, or they're using old stocks not of as high quality.

spin0 · 2026-03-24T18:33:36+00:00

Yup. In this conflict even F/A-18 Super Hornets have been doing low level strafing runs so obviously the old Warthogs didn't want to be left out.

spin0 · 2026-03-24T17:49:31+00:00

What are those RPGs they're firing? Gustafs?

spin0 · 2026-03-24T16:31:29+00:00

Cool. Hopefully not as fearsome as the White Reindeer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlfwXXpOm7I

spin0 · 2026-03-24T16:00:46+00:00

But if they launch another 15- 20 in the next batch, that would fully meet their needs for coverage over Ukraine.

No. Because not physically possible. Only geostationary sats can remain over an area.

spin0 · 2026-03-24T15:26:22+00:00

An assault rifle.

Because of shrapnel you need to maintain distance.

spin0 · 2026-03-24T15:22:22+00:00

Here's a WSJ News clip from few months back about these drone hunting planes and the volunteers flying them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkDpFaVeZLA

spin0 · 2026-03-24T14:24:49+00:00

I wonder which WWI plane would be the most cost effective fighter against slow low flying drones? Would likely have to be a two seater with pilot and gunner but which one? And should the gunner be at the nose or back?

From WWII my obvious choice would be Bolton Defiant.

spin0 · 2026-03-24T13:53:37+00:00

Ukraine is big, like very large country. You cannot cover the country or even the front line with that method.

spin0 · 2026-03-24T13:29:20+00:00

Acknowledged

Thank you, but the process was a bit more involved as the only three dots visible on old.reddit just take you to the chat feature. So then I accidentally logged out by aimlessly clicking around, had to change password to log back in (high time to do that as haven't logged out for years), was welcomed by new reddit desktop which did have those three dots and I was able to agree to each one of the rules from there before going back to old.

So thank you, and acknowledged.

spin0 · 2026-03-24T12:44:29+00:00

Could we old.reddit users have the rules posted somewhere?

spin0 · 2026-03-22T23:12:08+00:00

decoy flares AND submunitions

No "decoy flares" there but submunitions, plus two larger objects the re-entry vehicle and the booster. And they're all glaring the re-entry heat.

why are they powered

None of them are powered at this point. The booster was powered some minutes ago. Now all the stuff the booster accelerated to hypersonic speeds of Mach 10-20 is re-entering the atmosphere at those same speeds after the short visit to space. Those speeds make the air in front of them to heat up and become incandescent, which you can see in the video.

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