Business Insider: Russia is quickly depleting its fleet of warplanes through overuse, and Ukraine deploying F-16s could worsen the situation: expert
* An engineering expert says the Russian air force is being depleted through overuse in Ukraine.
* The arrival of Ukraine's F-16s could worsen the problem, wrote Rand's Michael Bohnert.
* Ukraine says it urgently needs F-16s to reduce Russia's air dominance.
Russia's fighter planes are malfunctioning because of overuse, handing Ukraine a potential advantage in its air battles against the Russian air force, an engineering expert said.
In an article for Defense News, Michael Bohnert, an engineer at the Rand Corporation think tank, said that Russia's warplanes were running out of "aircraft life".
"Overuse of these aircraft is also costing Russia as the war drags on," he wrote, adding that by his calculations as many as 57 Russian planes, many repurposed Soviet-era machines, might have been lost because they broke down since the start of the war.
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WNU Editor: This reminds me of the media narrative last year that Russia was on the verge of running out of missiles.
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Warplane production has a totally different cycle time (longer) and product complexity (greater).
Out of ammo out of planes out of tanks and a collapsing currency, any day now, any day.
One ruble equals 1 cent.
Small countries in Latin America do better.
Pure copium. How sweet it is.
You need this kind of stuff to keep the NPCs sated between each victory party (shutting down the kerch bridge for 24 hours).
the country with the most resources on Earth is running out of xyz.. yup, sure
Personally, I like the old term of Personnel not Human Resources. I find the term Human Resources dehumanizing.
If you go with the idea or subjugative language, there is only one resource, the human resource. In that vein sand is just sand until human intellect turns it into glass, computer chips, green sand for molds or concrete.
Russia is running out of that resource.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=RU
The Russian aviation industry rather looks like the American naval ship industry. MIG is no long with us, is it?
You do have some population growth and it caused Движение против нелегальной иммиграции to be born.
I like how the percentage of ethnic population has gone down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Russia
Maybe you should consider Marx. I have read criticism of Marx in that the first half of his work was accurate. A lot of people across the board said the same thing. One of his points was that the elite peel off or separate from the masses although they are from the same ethnic group. I believe this to be true. It is one of the reasons you have 15% unemployment while at the same time you have many non-Russian migrants seeking work in Moscow while at the same time the mayor saying they are needed.
Ethnic Russian population decreased form 77% to 71% in 10 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Russia
Wow, you are seriously being shafted by your elites.
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Shafted by the elites??
Sounds like the US
So you read Marx and read the words, but they were just words. You did not understand them when take together.
This RAND engineer is the perfect example of the West's brain deficit:
"as many as 57 Russian planes, many repurposed Soviet-era machines"
The Russian Air Force has about 1,000 planes, Even if this were true, if 57 of the oldest ones were getting worn out, who could have ever seen that one coming? The Russian AIr Force were caught totally by surprise by this, until RAND made them aware of the problem. Sure.
This is a distraction to divert attention away from US disasters like the F-35.
Saw a headline the other day "F-15D Withdrawn from Japan After 44 Years On Station"
A country flying 44 year old fighters is now retiring them, to be replace with....F-35s, or nothing. Certainly seems impressive. On paper.Maybe Canada should buy those used F-15Ds, much better value, and probably more useful than the F-35.
Agreed @ Human Resources term - funny thing: Most HR managers do not see anything wrong with the term, but then again, HR is not known to be full of thinkers ;)
^^^
sounds like HR nailed you for the incompetent you are, a guy who make only shit comments about others instead of addressing the issue at hand.
^^^ They should put a chain link fence around the village, so it does not keep losing its idiot.
7:11 is a sht thinker. What sane person wants to be put in the same category as oil, lumber, iron ore etc?
Wait, I know. It is the same type mimeographed personality that believes foetuses are unviable tissue masses and believes in abortion right up to the moment of birth. They believe in euthanasia for the sick and the old (except for themselves of course). They are positively NAZI-like in that regard. Sieg Heil baby! Won't be long before a TPM is sent out that pink slipped people are to be sent to the Soylent Green factory (U3 solved!) and this will be a new article of faith for 711.
Irony: The guy, who reads off of a TPM sent daily, calls other people for shit comments.
MOTHER FUCKER!
So that is how we got the OLD Fraud!
“When I was in another State they would slip and say ‘now I want to introduce the Senator from DuPont–I mean Delaware’”, Joe Biden had joked at a Senate Subcommittee on Crime session.
There’s a certain truth to the joke. DuPont is the corporation that defines Biden’s career. His first Senate bid was staffed with DuPont employees, including future chief-of-staff and senator Ted Kaufman, who was conveniently allowed to take a “leave of absence” from DuPont to help elect Biden. Biden celebrated his victory at the Hotel DuPont and bought a former DuPont mansion.
Senator Dupont
Now, Resident Select of the US
So McAfeee used to work for Fanny Willis who is prosecuting Trump.
Incest is best!
The judge in Georgia’s most high-profile trial of a former president is a 34-year-old kid who was supervised by the prosecutor who will be bringing the case before him. The media will keep emphasizing that he was appointed by Gov. Brian Kemp, much as it emphasized that the Hunter Biden special counsel was appointed by Trump, but such things are often meaningless in an industry where professional connections matter more.
Judge McAfee, 34, rose quickly in Georgia’s legal world after graduating from law school a decade ago, and one of his first jobs was in the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office. There, he handled early stages of felony cases before being promoted to the complex trial division. The division was led at the time by Fani T. Willis, the prosecutor overseeing the Trump case,
Well there you go. Senator Dupont. It fits, and do not forget "senator credit card" and add "senator usury" .
How do you think cc rates were allowed to expand the last 40 years? It used to be illegal.
But on another note. WHo was it? Milley or Brown or Austin, one of them said the Russians have over 4000 aircraft. But he did not do the break down.
Now under normal circumstances this article would have some Traction
But we KNOW., categorically!!! And without doubt, from: Fazman, Chris , Mr fair and balanced and the rest of the gs4 crew that the Russian airforce has been out of the fight, flown hardly any missions and the pilots are all cowards.
Therefore, since the Russian airforce has not been flying, It has not racked up a lot of use/service hours and must still be in fine shape and the article is BS.
We simply have to thank Fazman, Chris , Mr fair and balanced, and the rest of the gs4 crew......................................................................
for making this updated analysis of logical conclusion possible!!
ALL THE JOKES IN THE WORLD DOES NOT DETRACT FROM THE SIMPLE FACT THAT THE HEAD OF THE PARTY YOU FAVOR, THE LEAD GUY YOU SUPPORT IS HEADING TO JAIL FOR 4 DIFFERENT PLACES WHERE HE IS TO BE PUT ON TRIAL FOR SUBVERTING AN AMERICAN ELECTION AND TO SERVE TIME UNDER THE RICO RACKETEERING ACT.
and that criminal enterprise mob head is the guy you adore and vote for and piss all over these pages for.
Stalin put a lot of people in jail.
Xi and his faction are putting a lot of people in jail.
Putting people in jail does not mean you are good and they are bad. It means you have power.
Which is all you care about. You hope they give you a crumb to gum.
Like I have written elsewhere. I believe you might be cut form the same cloth as b Poster. you are playing an embellishment of the good cop, bad cop routine.
Look on the bright side. It would mean you are not the VILLAGE IDIOT but an apparatchik player.
So Senator Dupont did the same thing as Slick Willy (Loral Space) did.
Transfer dual use technology to China.
What is it with the Fckercrat party and selling out to the Chinese?
blah blah blah
TRUMP IS A MOB BOSS AND HE IS GOING TO JAIL. AND YOU KISS HIS BUTT
"Biden’s own defense secretary warned that the sale would put technology that could be used for advanced explosives in China’s hands. Those concerns were not unreasonable. DuPont had been born as a gunpowder firm that came to dominate the American defense industry in the 19th century. "
Have you seen those farm tractors with a pivot in between the front and rear axles? City Slicker hasn't.
So I asked my old man one of my stupid questions. I asked him why it had not been done before. he answered that they probably though of t before as early as 1900, but they lacked the materials.
That is how important materials are and material science is.
And President Dupont and the Dupont C-Suite just sold us out for some money.
8:37 it really looks like B Poster territory.
majority of Americans say they will "definitely not" support former President Donald Trump if he becomes the Republican presidential nominee, according to a new poll out Wednesday.
Overall, 53% of respondents in the Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll said they would definitely not support the former president if he is the GOP nominee, while another 11% said they would "probably not" support him.
Those numbers come as just 63% of Republicans respondents said they wanted Trump to run for another term.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach, Fla., on April 4, 2023.
"Those numbers come as just 63% of Republicans respondents said they wanted Trump to run for another term."
Some of that is because Democrats leaders and Democrats in the press (MSM) have them cowed. the number will wanting Trump will go up after June.
I voted against Trump in the primaries, because I believed that he could not win and the lie that he would destroy the Republican party. It was a lie, but I bought into it.
The people who destroyed the Republican Party are Boehner, Cantor, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, etc. not Trump.
So with the Republican Party dead what happens? Peace? No, the Democrat party fissions and they fight amongst themselves ad infinitum. You can pat yourself on the back knowing you were partisan hack of small intelligence and little knowledge.
again, calling a commenting person a batch of names is the adult response to what was said. Now the fault (above) is that the MSM is responsible for Trump's falling numbers. Yes. they are responsible because they told readers about the indictments and criminal charges against Trump. Trump's number will go down further when trials get underway and the evidence presented gets to the public via the news and tv. hint: Trump could keep his entire base but he still needs more than that to win the election, ie the independent voter makes the difference.
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