World Really on Fire

btw I discovered the website radio garden recently,
its cool for listening to music from anywhere,
its made by some dutch nonprofit,
you just click on the globe and see what theyre listening to where ever,
heres a link to radio in Kazan, Tartarstan

[link to radio.garden]

FWIW
Body Language: Putin, ‘Not a Bluff’ Speech
I won't embed it, it's not everyone's 'cup of tea'.
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Thank YOU !!!!



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More Shahed drone attacks on Odessa today.

As an aviation enthusiast and one-time experimental aircraft builder, I did some research on this thing.

It is actually an ingenious design, using off-the-shelf commercially-made parts readily available from China, that doesn’t give a damn about the sanctions.

It has a very light (35lb), all aluminum, fuel-sipping (3-4 gallons an hour) 50 horsepower two-cycle engine, the Beijing DE-550, which is a copy of the German-made Limbach 550.

It is attached to a honeycombed fiberglass fuselage with plastic wings and nose cone. The flight and control systems, like the servos that move the control surfaces, are from a Radio-controlled hobby airplane kit.

Along this same line, I am guessing the electronics controls and programmable’s are based on a rasberryPI, they don’t have to be sophisticated. It is built for a one-way trip, so it doesn’t have to be robust.

There are pictures of them being launched with a large bottle-rocket, or on wheels.

Including the engines, which they obviously buy in bulk at a discount, they probably have less than $15,000 each, including labor in these things. If it were a US Defense acquisition project, they would likely be $250,000 each.

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We live in a timeline where this is actual news. "USA states that it will not retaliate with nukes against Russia in case of a nuclear detonation on Ukrainian soil."

Have we had any prophetic dream about nukes flying lately?

I hear those Shahed's can be reused and come with a parachute in case they need to land. Although I don't understand why the Russian army isn't employing the drones in an all out attack on Himars and AA systems before rolling in the big guns and planes.

What can you say about their sensor package? Supposedly the front cone is IR-translucent for an IR camera feed link back to base and the range is 2 000 kms. Not too shabby for something with a moped motor.