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mik wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:13 pm

IanF wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:01 pm That looks accidental.. and aircraft have nudged drones/cruise mussels since WW2. Still a dumb move and the pilot is probably fertiliser by now..

I'm not sure I even believe in cruise mussels - seems a bit fishy to me....

They're pretty fast and difficult to catch, but the explosion of flavour in your mouth is worth the effort.

Swervin_Mervin wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:40 pm

mik wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:13 pm

IanF wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:01 pm That looks accidental.. and aircraft have nudged drones/cruise mussels since WW2. Still a dumb move and the pilot is probably fertiliser by now..

I'm not sure I even believe in cruise mussels - seems a bit fishy to me....

They're pretty fast and difficult to catch, but the explosion of flavour in your mouth is worth the effort.

Lol..

Not sure I’ve ever had a muscle explode in my mouth, what’s it like Merv?

IanF wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:01 pm That looks accidental.. and aircraft have nudged drones/cruise mussels since WW2. Still a dumb move and the pilot is probably fertiliser by now..

I won't disagree with Ian for obvious reasons. Trying to dump fuel on it again and fucked it up Shirley?

IanF wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 3:45 pm

Swervin_Mervin wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:40 pm

mik wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:13 pm

I'm not sure I even believe in cruise mussels - seems a bit fishy to me....

They're pretty fast and difficult to catch, but the explosion of flavour in your mouth is worth the effort.

Lol..

Not sure I’ve ever had a muscle explode in my mouth, what’s it like Merv?

Touche

Giving 'the enemy' a bit of a close flyby in international waters is a long, stupid tradition between nation states. Close enough to flip the other pilot the bird, but not close enough to be considered an explicit act of aggression big enough to 'whoopsy' your nation into a war.

This RF pilot, however, wasn't competent enough to do the fuel dump, didn't stop to think that the drones cameras might catch him in the act by being wide angle and quite adjustable (I guess their shitty drones only point down), and was flat out dumb enough to not realise that if he snapped off a couple of pitot tubes from his big, heavy, designed-to-be-unstable-for-movements-sake aircraft, the computer control that reduces that instability might not be much good.

He then topped this off by being incompetent enough to prang the thing, because he couldn't fly the plane slowly enough to maintain control in close quarters. The stall speed of an Su27 is probably higher than the top cruising speed of a prop driven drone.

Frankly, given the state of the rest of the RF armed forces, they probably have fewer SU27s capable of flying than they'd like to admit to, too, so risking one on an unarmed drone is a stupid fucking move. Dumb cunt is probably in a prison cell by now.

That certainly seems to be the way the US has interpreted it. Dumb pilot rear ended their drone, no-one hurt, roll your eyes and move on.

Beany wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 6:07 pm Dumb cunt is probably in a prison cell by now.

Would be, but I doubt Russia can do without a fast jet pilot right now.

Also, nobody goes to prison in Russia anymore do they? Worst case is give them a gun and send them to the front.

Dumb cunt is in the meat grinder now

Actually, they give them sticks and send them to the front line.

Mito Man wrote: Thu Mar 16, 2023 8:10 pm Actually, they give them sticks and send them to the front line.

He was ordered to do it, the Russians want the drone. It's clear as anything - this was no accident or a badly behaved pilot. Listen to the words from the Pentagon.

Slightly long watch - MOD mini-documentary on training Ukrainian crews on Challenger 2:

Trains of 1940s T-54/55 tanks been spotted heading towards Ukraine.

Master strategist.

integrale_evo wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 11:59 am Trains of 1940s T-54/55 tanks been spotted heading towards Ukraine.

Master strategist.

Fill them with cannon fodder from the prisons and then in one hit (both literally and figuratively) you're saving money on prison spots and saving on the cost of decommissioning the old tank as well.

Getting to the point where the Ukrainian rockets cost more than the Russian tanks..

Absolutely splendid intel work here:

Saudi reducing their oil production, almost certainly pushing prices up.

https://nypost.com/2023/04/02/oil-price ... els-daily/

Yes I told my dad late last evening to immediately order oil to refill his tank as it's very unlikely for prices to continue falling.

The Biden administration really fucked this one up.

"Somehow passed the man on a watch duty" like anyone was going to say "no" to him

nuttinnew wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 10:03 pm "Somehow passed the man on a watch duty" like anyone was going to say "no" to him

Never forget: