Another Putin Disaster by THGRRI

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Why Russia is Shrinking Fast

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Thursday, July 15, 2021 8:06 AM

Russia Warns U.K. and NATO Next Black Sea Spat Will Be Met With 'Most Severe' Response

A top Russian official has issued a warning to the U.K. and its NATO allies, saying any repeat of an action like that undertaken by the British Navy warship that sailed close to Crimea last month would be met with a "most severe" response.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-warns-u-k-and-nato-next-bl
ack-sea-spat-will-be-met-with-most-severe-response/ar-AAMbBCS?ocid=msedgntp

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Thursday, July 15, 2021 8:14 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Russia Warns U.K. and NATO Next Black Sea Spat Will Be Met With 'Most Severe' Response

A top Russian official has issued a warning to the U.K. and its NATO allies, saying any repeat of an action like that undertaken by the British Navy warship that sailed close to Crimea last month would be met with a "most severe" response.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-warns-u-k-and-nato-next-bl
ack-sea-spat-will-be-met-with-most-severe-response/ar-AAMbBCS?ocid=msedgntp

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Has this thread devolved into Tick Tock to the War that Ted So Desperately Desires?

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Thursday, July 15, 2021 10:34 AM

Poland Just Bought America's M1 Abrams Tank. That's Ironic.

Poland will purchase 250 M1A2 Abrams SEPv3 main battle tanks from the U.S., replacing older tanks dating back to the Cold War. The tanks will arm Polish Army units guarding against incursions by the Russian Army.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/poland-just-bought-america-s-m1-a
brams-tank-that-s-ironic/ar-AAMbFWY?ocid=msedgntp

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Thursday, July 15, 2021 6:44 PM

The Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator, currently exists as a bulky, ground-based demonstrator. However, the Air Force is optimistic that Self-protect High Energy Laser can be shrunk to a small pod that could be tested on an F-15 fighter by this year and eventually integrated also integrated into F-16 and F-35 single-engine fighters. Some sources suggest the system may see its first flight tests on C-17 or C-130 cargo planes.

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Monday, July 19, 2021 9:58 AM

Former acting US ambassador to Ukraine on the phone call that prompted the Biden-Putin talks.

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Monday, July 19, 2021 11:17 AM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

Lasers are like really, really long-range bullets.

If you fire a bullet in a city or a suburb AND YOU MISS YOUR TARGET, the bullet will for sure hit something or someone else. It's only when you get way out into the rural areas that a bullet might eventually run out of kinetic energy, and fall harmlessly to the ground.

A laser that misses its target could hit something unintended. Maybe a person. Maybe a building. Maybe a civilian aircraft. The only way to TRY to not hit something in the background is to always aim away from the earth, or at the very least above the horizon. I'm sure in combat people will be careful of that. But even if you are careful, of course, you might hit a satellite, or the ISS, or the moon ...

Laser weapons - what a stupid idea.

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Monday, July 19, 2021 12:43 PM

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Lasers are like really, really long-range bullets.

If you fire a bullet in a city or a suburb AND YOU MISS YOUR TARGET, the bullet will for sure hit something or someone else. It's only when you get way out into the rural areas that a bullet might eventually run out of kinetic energy, and fall harmlessly to the ground.

A laser that misses its target could hit something unintended. Maybe a person. Maybe a building. Maybe a civilian aircraft. The only way to TRY to not hit something in the background is to always aim away from the earth, or at the very least above the horizon. I'm sure in combat people will be careful of that. But even if you are careful, of course, you might hit a satellite, or the ISS, or the moon ...

Laser weapons - what a stupid idea.

Laser weapons systems are fitted with maps of the ground and location of aircraft as well as orbital parameters of spacecraft. If the beam gets too close to something that you want to avoid, the beam is automatically shut down using a system called predictive avoidance.

If it is say a shot from ground to air and its a miss, then the laser energy is lost, dispersed into the atmosphere and into space.

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Monday, July 19, 2021 1:07 PM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

Because the computer knows where absolutely everything and everybody is at all times? Is that like the drones that always hit their targets and nothing else? Because lasers disperse so easily in the atmosphere they can bounce laser light off the moon?

You're stupid.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 12:09 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Because the computer knows where absolutely everything and everybody is at all times? Is that like the drones that always hit their targets and nothing else? Because lasers disperse so easily in the atmosphere they can bounce laser light off the moon?

You're stupid.

The U.S. Army is building the world’s most powerful laser weapon, capable of vaporizing targets and interrupting adversaries’ technology signals. The weapon is over one million times more powerful than any other laser developed before, NewScientist reported.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/06/us-army-developing-worlds-mos
t-powerful-laser-weapon-for-a-future-battlefield/

Wow, your argument only works if we’re talking perfection. I am not. Am I concerned about what you post? No comrade, but you should be.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 12:31 PM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

Wow, your argument only works if we’re talking perfection. I am not.

Laser weapons systems are fitted with maps of the ground and location of aircraft as well as orbital parameters of spacecraft. If the beam gets too close to something that you want to avoid, the beam is automatically shut down using a system called predictive avoidance. If it is say a shot from ground to air and its a miss, then the laser energy is lost, dispersed into the atmosphere and into space.

Now THIS is a post dedicated to showing the new laser weapons have no imperfections! They never hit anything or anyone who's unintended! And they always dissipate harmlessly when they miss! Gee, I wonder who posted that claim to perfection, and then denied it??

Am I concerned about what you post? No comrade, but you should be.

lol

So, 'report' me to ... somebody ... for opining that the laser weapons have drawbacks. /snicker

THUGGER is an idiot. it's that simple.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 12:46 PM

You really are stupid comrade. I know this to be true after posting here for years and seeing your idiocy up close. You need to go back and reread my posts. They say nothing about lasers being fool proof dummy.

They are no more fool proof than these threads are in keeping stupid people from posting here.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 3:07 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

What's a "lazar'?

That's more than a typo, buddy!

It was properly spelled in the post just before yours.

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THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 3:11 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Poland Just Bought America's M1 Abrams Tank. That's Ironic.

Poland will purchase 250 M1A2 Abrams SEPv3 main battle tanks from the U.S., replacing older tanks dating back to the Cold War. The tanks will arm Polish Army units guarding against incursions by the Russian Army.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/poland-just-bought-america-s-m1-a
brams-tank-that-s-ironic/ar-AAMbFWY?ocid=msedgntp

. Poor sods. Spending hard earned money on junk

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THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 4:39 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

What's a "lazar'?

That's more than a typo, buddy!

It was properly spelled in the post just before yours.

THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

Oh no, I misspelled a word. What shall I do?

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 4:48 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Poland Just Bought America's M1 Abrams Tank. That's Ironic.

Poland will purchase 250 M1A2 Abrams SEPv3 main battle tanks from the U.S., replacing older tanks dating back to the Cold War. The tanks will arm Polish Army units guarding against incursions by the Russian Army.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/poland-just-bought-america-s-m1-a
brams-tank-that-s-ironic/ar-AAMbFWY?ocid=msedgntp

. Poor sods. Spending hard earned money on junk

THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

Meanwhile Putty unveils a new jet that even his own department of defense hasn't committed to buy. The jets producers claim the jet has all kinds of record breaking capabilities, except the damn thing hasn’t even flown yet.

How funny is that shit Signym? How funny is that? Even funnier Signym is they want to sell it to others. At least the Abrams tank is tried, true and ranked tops in the world.

Don't fuck with me you're too stupid.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 5:02 PM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

And you're wrong. Again.

The Su-30SM2 is starting it's service in the Russian military, with plans to upgrade all of Russia's fighters to the SM2 standard, and robust international sales.

https://eurasiantimes.com/russias-omnipotent-su-30-sm-fighter-jets-arm
ed-with-anti-ship-missiles-run-riot-in-the-black-sea/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-30

Don't you get tired of being wrong all the time?

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 5:31 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:

And you're wrong. Again.

The Su-30SM2 is starting it's service in the Russian military, with plans to upgrade all of Russia's fighters to the SM2 standard, and robust international sales.

https://eurasiantimes.com/russias-omnipotent-su-30-sm-fighter-jets-arm
ed-with-anti-ship-missiles-run-riot-in-the-black-sea/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-30

Don't you get tired of being wrong all the time?

"Its first maiden flight is expected in 2023, Russian state media reported, citing a presentation shown to the Russian President."

UAC also expects deliveries of the new single-engine fighter to begin in 2026.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-unveils-new-checkmate-figh
ter-jet/ar-AAMmY3o?ocid=uxbndlbing

Sergei Chemezov, the head of Rostec state corporation that includes Sukhoi and other aircraft makers, said the new plane is expected to cost $25-30 million. He said that the Russian air force is also expected to place an order for the new fighter.

https://www.wivb.com/news/world/russia-unveils-new-fighter-putin-hails
-countrys-air-power/

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The maiden flight of an aircraft is the first occasion on which an aircraft leaves the ground under its own power asshole. And the "Russian air force expected to place an order" means they haven't yet.

Don't you ever get tired of being full of shit comrade?

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Thursday, July 22, 2021 6:11 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Poland Just Bought America's M1 Abrams Tank. That's Ironic.

Poland will purchase 250 M1A2 Abrams SEPv3 main battle tanks from the U.S., replacing older tanks dating back to the Cold War. The tanks will arm Polish Army units guarding against incursions by the Russian Army.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/poland-just-bought-america-s-m1-a
brams-tank-that-s-ironic/ar-AAMbFWY?ocid=msedgntp

. Poor sods. Spending hard earned money on junk

THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

Meanwhile Putty unveils a new jet that even his own department of defense hasn't committed to buy. The jets producers claim the jet has all kinds of record breaking capabilities, except the damn thing hasn’t even flown yet.

How funny is that shit Signym? How funny is that? Even funnier Signym is they want to sell it to others. At least the Abrams tank is tried, true and ranked tops in the world.

Don't fuck with me you're too stupid.

T

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Thursday, July 22, 2021 6:28 PM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

Sigh. You're posting about a completely different plane, THUGGER.

Didn't you notice such an obvious fact?

And aren't you tired of being wrong all the time?

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Thursday, July 22, 2021 7:24 PM

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Sigh. You're posting about a completely different plane, THUGGER.

Didn't you notice such an obvious fact?

And aren't you tired of being wrong all the time?

I posted about Putty's new jet, provided links and quotes from the article. If anyone is a moron here it's you. Pay attention comrade.

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Thursday, July 22, 2021 8:00 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Don't fuck with me you're too stupid.

NeoCon Ted's ghost writer must have filled in for him on Tuesday.

His punctuation still sucks, but there's no way that Ted used both you're and too correctly in the same sentence.

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Thursday, July 22, 2021 8:46 PM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

Quote:
I posted about Putty's new jet, provided links and quotes from the article. If anyone is a moron here it's you. Pay attention comrade.

I see you've been taking lessons in stupid, obvious lying from your master SLOPPY, because that link you claim you posted when you brought up the topic? Ain't there.

Quote:
Meanwhile Putty unveils a new jet that even his own department of defense hasn't committed to buy. The jets producers claim the jet has all kinds of record breaking capabilities, except the damn thing hasn’t even flown yet.

How funny is that shit Signym? How funny is that? Even funnier Signym is they want to sell it to others. At least the Abrams tank is tried, true and ranked tops in the world.

Don't fuck with me you're too stupid.

THUGGER is an idiot. It's that simple.

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Friday, July 23, 2021 12:25 PM

Too funny comrade. My links go to where they are supposed too. I can't help it if you are trying to confuse things with your post refering to a different jet. Nor do I give a shit.

shoo troll

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Friday, July 23, 2021 1:00 PM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

Which link was that? The non-existent one?

Oh, and pointing to a non-existent link makes you look stupid, as well as mendacious.

THUGGER is an idiot. It's that simple.

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Saturday, July 24, 2021 9:12 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

CHECKMATE FIGHTER JET

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Saturday, July 24, 2021 9:14 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

S500 AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM

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Tuesday, July 27, 2021 7:34 PM

You two keep saying you live in America yet you always defend Russia; Hmm.

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Tuesday, July 27, 2021 7:49 PM

The F-35 has a very long range tracking system. Now, the only way the S-500 can find it to shoot it down is to turn on. Even then it can't really track it. The F-35 has the RCS of a golf ball. Because of decoys it will also look like there are a thousand of them or with radar jamming none at all. Once the S-500 does turn on it can be located, attacked and destroyed from any direction. Even several at once. That includes space.

Also comrade Signym, a jet like the F-35 can control several air to surface long range missiles at a time from a distance to far for even the S-500 to shoot down. One scenario would be for an F-15 to fire off the missiles and the F-35 guide them in. Another is for a drone to fly close, launch its missiles and again the F-35 guide them in. The ways it can happen is limited only by ones imagination. Hey, maybe the F-35 can send the location of a missile defense site to land artillery and have them take it out? What do ya think?

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The video is from 2018. A lot of updates to the F-35 since then.

Video Surfaces of F-35 Hitting Five Precision Targets at Once, Including Moving One.

https://theaviationist.com/2019/01/15/video-surfaces-of-f-35-hitting-f
ive-precision-targets-at-once-including-moving-one/

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Tuesday, July 27, 2021 8:19 PM

Surprise: America's F-35s Can Now Track Ballistic Missiles

The F-35’s Distributed Aperture Sensor (DAS) has performed airborne identification and target tracking of a ballistic missile in a test off the coast of Hawaii as part of ongoing development of the 5th-generation aircraft’s ability to conduct airborne ballistic missile defense missions.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/surprise-americas-f-35s-can-now
-track-ballistic-missiles-79426

It could do this in 2017 and has had many software updates since then.

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Tuesday, July 27, 2021 8:31 PM

The Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB II) is highly anticipated over the SDB I because of its tri-mode seeker capability. Each munition will be able to guide towards its target using laser, imaging infrared or radar homing, or a combination of these modes (embedded GPS/INS, which is how the SDB I navigated to its target, is actually a 4th mode for stationary targets). This will allow SDB IIs to hit moving targets as well as stationary ones in any weather, day or night, at standoff ranges, with incredible reliability and precision.

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Tuesday, July 27, 2021 8:55 PM

https://www.militaryaerospace.com/communications/article/16709052/new-
frontiers-in-passive-radar-and-sonar

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Quote:
In February 2015, an online affiliate of Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta announced Russia's top five most effective electronic warfare (EW) systems. Number two on that list was the Moskva-1, a passive radar system that enables Russian troops to detect and identify airborne targets as far as 240 miles away while their own position remains hidden

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Russia Tests ‘Invisible’ Radar to Dodge Enemy Detection, Developer Says
June 28, 2019
Ranger / Wikicommons

Russia has tested a new radar system that can evade detection by enemy drones or aircraft, its developer told the state-run RIA Novosti news agency on Friday.

Passive radars operate without a transmitter, instead receiving signals from other objects to track targets. Russia’s new passive radar, called Tropa (Russian for “path”), uses communication towers to locate signals without transmitting one itself, RIA Novosti reported.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/06/28/russia-tests-invisible-radar
-to-dodge-enemy-detection-developer-says-a66210

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THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

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Tuesday, July 27, 2021 9:06 PM

The F-35 won't have to fire a shot comrades Signym and kiki. I doubt Putty thought of this scenario. I'll bet he's pissed aye. All that time and money wasted. Oh well...

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F 35 WILL CUE LONG RANGE ARTILLERY TO TAKE OUT AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS !

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Tuesday, August 3, 2021 1:20 PM

Sukhoi #Su35 #crash puts focus on troubled #Russian engines!

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Wednesday, August 4, 2021 6:19 PM

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Wednesday, August 4, 2021 9:50 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

I was hoping that the videos would be more informative, but they lacked important details ... like WHAT and HOW.

For example ... Russian engine failure on the SU35... what kinds of failures were they? The video claims to know the percentage of the engines returned because of defects, but doesn't know what kinds of defects they were? These were INDIAN-purchased engines. Surely, INDIA knows what went wrong!

The audio then blathers on that the "engine is the heart of the jet".

Really?
Like nobody knows that?

Similar to the video on the "anti-radiation" missile. It makes a big deal about how it was delivered early for testing ... they repeat that at least three times! ... but doesn't go into detail about HOW it can locate a radar station even if the radar is turned off, "or [it] begins to move". The only thing I can think of is that rather than using the radar continuously as a homing beacon, it sets a GPS target and then flies to that.

Next time, could you please post videos with less advert and more info?
Thanks.

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Sunday, August 8, 2021 12:01 PM

That's funny comrade SIGNYM. If you want to know how things work hack the company building it. That's what you Bolshevists do best. All I care about is that we have these weapons and they work.

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Tuesday, August 10, 2021 9:30 AM

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Saturday, August 14, 2021 8:42 AM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Russia's state-owned news service, TASS, has published an extraordinarily defamatory article about NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor. The publication claims that Auñón-Chancellor had an emotional breakdown in space, then damaged a Russian spacecraft in order to return early. This, of course, is a complete fabrication.

The context for the article is the recent, near-disastrous docking of the Russian Nauka science module with the International Space Station. The TASS article attempts to rebut criticism in US publications (including Ars Technica) that covered the incident.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/russias-space-program-just-thr
ew-a-nasa-astronaut-under-the-bus/

Flight controllers at NASA and Roscosmos averted a disaster on Thursday (July 28, 2021) after a large Russian module docked with the International Space Station and began to "inadvertently" fire its thrusters.

The Russian "Nauka" module linked to the space station at 8:30 am CT (13:30 UTC), local time in Houston, where NASA's Mission Control is based. After that, Russian cosmonauts aboard the station began preparing to open the hatches leading to Nauka, but at 11:34 am Houston time, Nauka unexpectedly started to fire its movement thrusters.

Within minutes, the space station began to lose attitude control. This was a problem for several reasons. First of all, the station requires a certain attitude to maintain signal with geostationary satellites and talk to Mission Control on the ground. Also, solar arrays are positioned to collect power based upon this predetermined attitude.

Another concern is G forces on the station's structure. The various components of the extensive space station were assembled in microgravity and designed to operate at zero-G. So even small stresses on the vehicle can induce small cracks or other problems with the station's structure.

For all of these reasons, space station flight controllers in Houston and Moscow acted quickly after the station started to drift. Attitude control was fully lost at 11:42 am, and engines on the space station's service module were fired. This was followed by a handover to the Russian Progress vehicle attached to the station, which began to fire its thrusters. This tug-of-war offset the Nauka module thruster activity, which eventually stopped after fuel supplies were exhausted. By 12:29 pm on Thursday, attitude control was restored. It made for quite an hour on the ground and in space.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/russian-module-suddenly-fires-
thrusters-after-docking-with-space-station/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, August 31, 2021 8:33 AM

Russian cosmonauts find new cracks in ISS module

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian cosmonauts have discovered new cracks in a segment of the International Space Station that could widen, a senior space official said on Monday, the latest in a series of setbacks.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/russian-cosmonauts-find-new-
cracks-in-iss-module/ar-AANTU0U?ocid=msedgntp

Russia's collapsing...

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Thursday, September 2, 2021 12:58 PM

Kremlin: US military assistance could 'cause unpredictable actions' by Ukraine

A Kremlin spokesperson on Thursday raised concerns about the U.S. offering military assistance to Ukraine, saying such actions could make the Eastern European country behave unpredictably and "can only be a cause for regret."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kremlin-us-military-assistance
-could-cause-unpredictable-actions-by-ukraine/ar-AAO1Bw6?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

Shucks...

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Thursday, September 2, 2021 1:10 PM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

Out of curiosity, if Russia were to aid the narcos in Mexico to destabilize the Mexican government, what do you think Biden* should do about that? Do you think Russia actively intervening in a US-bordering country would concern Biden* at all?

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Thursday, September 2, 2021 2:51 PM

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Out of curiosity, if Russia were to aid the narcos in Mexico to destabilize the Mexican government, what do you think Biden* should do about that? Do you think Russia actively intervening in a US-bordering country would concern Biden* at all?

So to you comrade funding drug cartels is the same as helping fund a nation over run and anixed by russia? You're Russian so you think like a Russian; so to you of course it is. Nevermind...

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Monday, September 20, 2021 10:08 AM

Very sad

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Gunman Kills At Least 8 At Russian University, Authorities Say

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Monday, September 20, 2021 10:11 AM

Putin will kill you if you cause him concern.

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Putin's party on track to retain majority amid fraud claims

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Wednesday, September 22, 2021 4:40 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that the Russian government was responsible for the death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, sparking further questions about the Kremlin’s role in poisoning its opponents, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The court found that Russian agents Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun were assigned to assassinate Litvinenko, who died after drinking tea laced with polonium-210, a deadly radioactive isotope, at a bar in London.

The ECHR added that the Russian government had failed to provide “any other satisfactory and convincing explanation of the events.”

The Kremlin called the court’s ruling baseless and denied any involvement. Lugovoi, who is currently a lawmaker in Russia’s State Duma, said the judgment was “wrongful, unlawful and politically biased.”

The verdict opens up more questions about the death of Litvinenko, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The former Russian agent – who had fled Russia to Britain – had accused Putin of coming to power by organizing a series of apartment bombings in 1999. The attack eventually led to Russia’s invasion of Chechnya.

Meanwhile, British authorities have charged a third Russian agent for the 2018 chemical attack in Salisbury that targeted former Soviet spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, according to the Evening Standard.

Officials have already charged two men whom they allege were officers of the Russian military service.

The Kremlin, again, has denied any involvement.

https://www.reuters.com/world/european-court-rules-russia-was-behind-l
itvinenko-killing-2021-09-21/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/spotlight-again-falls-on-russia-in-litvin
enko-salisbury-poisonings-11632228794

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, September 25, 2021 9:02 AM

EU warns Russia over cyberattacks ahead of German elections

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Friday warned Russia against allowing hackers to attack data bases or spread disinformation in some of the 27 member countries just as Germans were preparing to go the polls for weekend parliamentary elections.

“Some EU member states have observed malicious cyber activities, collectively designated as Ghostwriter, and associated these with the Russian state,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a statement.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/eu-warns-russia-over-cyberattacks
-ahead-of-german-elections/ar-AAOMzzb?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

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Saturday, September 25, 2021 11:29 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Of course it's Russia! hacking into elections.

It couldn't be the people of Europe getting sick and tired of their countries being destroyed by non-elected EU officials that their elected idiots put in place.

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

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Tuesday, October 5, 2021 10:58 AM

Why Putin’s Money Eludes Offshore Investigators
The Pandora Papers’ findings suggest that Russian kleptocrats are relying less on the West as a financial haven.

Although the Pandora Papers are far from a complete or even statistically representative reflection of the global shell company industry, the relative thinness of these findings suggests that Putin and his people have drawn conclusions from previous revelations, such as the Panama Papers, which lent international prominence to Putin’s cellist friend Sergei Roldugin and his remarkably active offshore companies. It also indicates that the widespread narrative of the Russian kleptocracy’s dependence on the West as a safe haven for its capital may well be inaccurate in 2021 — or indeed, may have missed the point for years.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-10-05/pandora-papers-r
evelations-on-russia-and-putin-come-up-short

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Tuesday, October 19, 2021 6:37 PM