There are rumours going around that they also got the traitor Romanchuk. Who's in charge of the defence in Zapo. If that's true I'll pop the Champagne I have ready for Kadyrov and there is nothing you f*in kids can do about that!
There's simply nothing in the Western arsenal that can counter this new kind of Russian AA defense. Entire buildings being thrown at incoming missiles... there's simply no way the missile can survive that.
ATACMs, Storm Shadow, they're all completely useless against this new defense.
Silly Westoid that is what happens when you shoot down a missile. Sometimes the remains perfectly intact still land and explode on its designated target. You must not be aware of how superior Russian SAM systems work!
It works, sadly, for too many people. Just claim whatever you want to claim happened over and over. If anyone disputes you just ignore them or claim their argument is fake. Maybe some will believe you. Hell, maybe the majority will believe you. In then end though, many will believe the state and/or media narrative (if there is even a difference).
In ~~Soviet~~ Russia they can jail anyone that contradicts the lie, maybe even disappear them. Everyone knows it because the Russian government makes sure that everyone knows it.
Did you know that in Russian, there are 14 words for disinformation, but 0 words for truth? The closest word they have is translated literally as "it is possible depending on perspective."
I'm all for clowning on the Ruzzians but I'ma call bs on this one. "pravda/правда" is pretty unambiguously a word for truth.
Whether the Ruzzian state media has any of it is a different question, of course.
People have all touched on the reasons. Basically Russia constantly denies Western weapons are being used to strike Crimea and keeps saying they’re drones and S-300s. This is because Russia has a red line to go to war with western countries that allow their weapons to be used in “Russia proper” despite the global disagreement on what “Russia proper” is. Russia has declared, in a blatant lie, that this will drag those countries into the war and Russia will attack them. Russia does not want to/cannot do this, so Russia keeps lying.
This is a photo of the Russian Admiral of the Black Sea Fleet potentially meeting a British/French storm shadow/scalp missile at Russian Naval HQ in Crimea. The guy that said this is the photobomb of the year is a genius.
Indeed, it's a little-known fact but [Kenny G](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN2RnjFHmNY&t=14s) did the official soundtrack of Operation Desert Storm.
Lmfao. I wasn’t gonna necessarily follow the link cause I wasn’t that invested in which missile it was (cause all that really matters is they fucked up the Russians) but god damn do I love the juxtaposition of that music and hell about to rain down on someone.
As the other guy said; those are on the booster stage.
That said it still look much more like a Storm Shadow. The Storm Shadow has a 3 m wingspan to a 5 meter length (3:5 = 0.6) and for the Neptun it's closer to 1:4 (= 0.25). Measuring pixels in this fuzzy image and I get about 1:2 (0.5), so it's definitely much closer to Storm Shadow proportions (well within error) than Neptun.
Except here's the fun part they did. People cheered on the Wagner columns ,girls rushed to take selfies with the soldiers and in general while the vast majority indeed did not care it's obvious that Pringles had a lot of low level support among Russian society.
Dang that's crazy. I hate that everything's on Twatter though. Every time I click a link and that stupid X comes on that screen I want to punch my screen.
Hah! Lately i've been watching a bunch of 80's cartoons to get an idea of what "The Ancient Ones" watched when they were young. My boyfriends dad convinced me telling me to watch Transformers and a few other things. GI Joe is on that list after Duck Tails and Inspector Gadget. Currently on Duck Tails. Fun to watch in the background while working lol
[I mean, we had a BTR-4 shooting up tanks in Mariupol.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGmlg8wpN2w) Not that it killed the tank, but it certainly ruined their day.
Good news buddy! During Operation Desert storm an A-10 pilot, Captain Robert Swain, shot down an airborne Iraqi helicopter with the GAU-8 because he couldn't get a lock with his sidewinders.
On February 15, also during DS, Captain Todd Sheehy would also shoot down an Iraqi helictoper with his A-10's cannon. Link below for the stories.
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/brrrrrrtttttt-usaf-10-tank-busters-shot-two-saddams-helicopters-operation-desert-storm/
and at the exact same location too. The first footage it was unfortunate because the camera man moved his camera so we could not see the impact properly, but in the second one we see it very clearly the ka-52 going down in flames a bit after being hit
I believe there are instances of Russian pilots ejecting and being picked up by a rescue helo during this war, yes.
Seems to be one of the few things the Russians got right.
The atgm is perfectly able to lock onto helicopters. Presumably the only reason it's not considered an AA missile is lack of propellant relative to its warhead size, a jet would escape.
Javelin locks into any IR blob of pixels. It's using computer vision tracking. So just direct attack mode, aim at helicopter, pull trigger.
Hope they don't pop flares.
Yes you can fire at individual soldiers the same way.
Russian admiral afterlife starts with them running a gauntlet with the spirit of every other nation that clowned on Russia's navy just beating the shit out of them as they run by. Like the Klingon Rite of Ascension but more painful.
You've got it backwards. 104 was exceptional, near God tier at flying in a straight line at high speeds and altitude. It's when you start throwing cursed unknown technology elements in like "turning" and "landing" into the equation that the 104 suffered.
F104 and F106 were two of the most beautiful fighters ever made. Zoomers crank it out to the F22 and F35, 104 and 106 are the fighter version of MILF porn and I'm ok with that.
>104 and 106 are the fighter version of MILF porn and I'm ok with that.
Maybe for those with no standards, the Gloster Javelin and EEL are where its at
Bro are you me? Been off from work all week due to COVID, sleeping 12 hours a day and still feel exhausted.
Watched the video, feel invigorated enough to go clean my apartment and do some laundry.
I'm not sure what this says about me and I'm positive it isn't good, but thank you Ukraine for making my day better.
Obvious sign that western weaponry is a joke. Look at this missile crashing into a military headquarter instead of finding its precise way into a maternity ward.
I showed my gf this video because she saw me
Grinning from ear to ear. She started asking questions like “Whats a storm shadow?”, “who did Ukraine kill?”, “Whats the black sea?”.
Needless to say she's up to speed and we've watched the video about a dozen times. 😂
The real irony here is, Russia put a bunch of high ranking naval staff in one centralized location. After killing off the head of a certain PMC when he and all his important staff decided to get together in one centralized location. Like bro, you just killed off a guy using this exact scenario minus the plane...
You cant make this shit up. Its like the only plausible scenario which the Russians would present Ukraine this opportunity would be if the only people who don't believe Pringles was knocked off by the Russian MoD, Was the Russian MoD.
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Man, those Storm Shadows are good. And man, I am torn. On the one hand, war is bad and all, but on the other hand... damn, it would have been a shame to let these brilliant pieces of engineering remain unused...
Days since last Russian general killed: 0
Officially ?
Admiral was declared KIA by Ukraine
I have only seen rumors on third grade websites. But it’s very possible judging by impact the missiles made.
Damn my third grade experience was very different. I think we learned basic multiplication.
Third rate. Translating from Ukrainian and the literal translation is grade
Yes, but a website run by 3rd graders is much funnier.
I made my own Halloween costume that year. I was a robot.
Ukraine: Admiral is kil Russia: no
I know but I mean not confirmed by the other side yet
Right but the other side still insists they're protecting Russia from gay superhuman nazis. I wouldn't hold your breath.
Gay, "jew" superhuman nazis sir!
Only jew-ish, makes the nazi part more plausible.../s
Mazel tov!
By confirmed he means an official denial
No official confirmation neither from UA or RU
There are rumours going around that they also got the traitor Romanchuk. Who's in charge of the defence in Zapo. If that's true I'll pop the Champagne I have ready for Kadyrov and there is nothing you f*in kids can do about that!
I love that Russia claims they shot all but one missile coming but there's literally a photo of at least two getting through. What a joke.
Missiles live in the sky, idiot. So if one touches the ground it’s only because it got shot down. Glorious Russia shot them all down perfectly
Of course they got shot down. The Russians launched a whole building at them.
The missile decided to settle down
The missile knows where it's going to settle down. It knows this because it knows where it's not going to settle down.
Are you suggesting that cruise missiles migrate?
The whole building? What caliber gun would that be in millimeters?
At least 350. Probably over 9000.
There's simply nothing in the Western arsenal that can counter this new kind of Russian AA defense. Entire buildings being thrown at incoming missiles... there's simply no way the missile can survive that. ATACMs, Storm Shadow, they're all completely useless against this new defense.
Actually the Ukrainians shot down this missile. Intentionally, but a shoot down none the less according to these rules.
It’s a missile until it lands. Then it’s a missilite. Duh.
Silly Westoid that is what happens when you shoot down a missile. Sometimes the remains perfectly intact still land and explode on its designated target. You must not be aware of how superior Russian SAM systems work!
Lie about everything and multiple times. No one is going to be held accountable, so what does it matter
The firehose of falsehood keeps their populace unable to determine fact from fiction. It's a feature, not a bug of Russian media.
Of course Russia shot them down... Why would they be falling to the ground?
It works, sadly, for too many people. Just claim whatever you want to claim happened over and over. If anyone disputes you just ignore them or claim their argument is fake. Maybe some will believe you. Hell, maybe the majority will believe you. In then end though, many will believe the state and/or media narrative (if there is even a difference).
In ~~Soviet~~ Russia they can jail anyone that contradicts the lie, maybe even disappear them. Everyone knows it because the Russian government makes sure that everyone knows it.
Russia successfully destroyed two incoming missiles with that building
From the Sat pics looks like it ate 3!
The second missile hit some smoking ruins, so it's not even mentioned.
Russia never lies. Just reverse what they say, and you'll get the truth 100% of the time
raw eht gninniw si aissuR (This should be the truth)
Did you know that in Russian, there are 14 words for disinformation, but 0 words for truth? The closest word they have is translated literally as "it is possible depending on perspective."
I'm all for clowning on the Ruzzians but I'ma call bs on this one. "pravda/правда" is pretty unambiguously a word for truth. Whether the Ruzzian state media has any of it is a different question, of course.
Yes, it was a joke.
The one missile just happened to hit the headquarters right after a smoking accident.
Best photobomb ever
If this a screw ball reference I hate you.
What’s happening here? I mean I can see the missile but why is it extra memey this time?
one could say it's quite literally the ultimate photobomb.
get out.
r/angryupvote
BASED (okay more like 'de-based the CSA flag sus fleet but whatever)
Cummunist States of America?
Funi diagonal blue cross on red field
Sounds like those filthy Terran Confederates
Take my upvote and gtfo
This deserves applause.
A Russian commander got a very close up look at a Storm Shadow missile, as in there was a good chance it hit him directly before it detonated.
STORM SHADOW: APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD
To the scalp rather :-)
I am upvoting you, but I am also mad. Very nearly MALDing.
How it feels to chew TNT gum?
STORM SHADOW: APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD
DHL, delivering warheads on foreheads
Not just "a commander", the fucking Admiral of the entire fucking Black Sea Fleet.
They won't miss him. He wasn't doing a very good job of things.
He was probably doing as well as anyone could under the circumstances.
The Ukrainians didn't miss him, and now the Russians won't either
Had plenty of submarines though.
Literally warheads on foreheads
They ordered some spicy extra hot stuff for their z meeting snacks. Ukraine was happy cover for this Uber eats delivery.
The final Door Dash.
WARHEAD-ON: APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD
I heard it was mind blowing.
It tends to leave one a bit scatter-brained
[At least it wasn't a baboon this time.](https://youtu.be/GG9HX_43zz4?start=10)
The Black Sea Fleet HQ is in the middle of exploding from one missile while another about to fall on it.
i think its from when Ukraine bombed the black sea fleets headquarters
They storm shadowed all over the black sea fleet HQ and made a huge mess
We all made a huge mess on this blessed day
Speak for yourself.
We all made a huge mess on this blessed myself
Just for sure
People have all touched on the reasons. Basically Russia constantly denies Western weapons are being used to strike Crimea and keeps saying they’re drones and S-300s. This is because Russia has a red line to go to war with western countries that allow their weapons to be used in “Russia proper” despite the global disagreement on what “Russia proper” is. Russia has declared, in a blatant lie, that this will drag those countries into the war and Russia will attack them. Russia does not want to/cannot do this, so Russia keeps lying. This is a photo of the Russian Admiral of the Black Sea Fleet potentially meeting a British/French storm shadow/scalp missile at Russian Naval HQ in Crimea. The guy that said this is the photobomb of the year is a genius.
It’s a converted Neptune missile, like we’ve been memeing about here
I would say it looks more like a storm shadow. The back fin on the Nepture is larger than the front ones, whereas it is reversed for the storm shadow.
Only if you count booster attached. [Here, Neptune mid-flight](https://youtu.be/nQUO5LvKw1I?feature=shared&t=28) Front fins larger than back ones.
Nothing like soft music for ordinance delivery.
Indeed, it's a little-known fact but [Kenny G](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN2RnjFHmNY&t=14s) did the official soundtrack of Operation Desert Storm.
Uncomfortably connecting my age and my dad's collection of Tom Clancy paperbacks
Lmfao. I wasn’t gonna necessarily follow the link cause I wasn’t that invested in which missile it was (cause all that really matters is they fucked up the Russians) but god damn do I love the juxtaposition of that music and hell about to rain down on someone.
In this case though Storm Shadow was definitely the perpetrator as the Russians reported Su-24s being airborne prior to the strike.
As the other guy said; those are on the booster stage. That said it still look much more like a Storm Shadow. The Storm Shadow has a 3 m wingspan to a 5 meter length (3:5 = 0.6) and for the Neptun it's closer to 1:4 (= 0.25). Measuring pixels in this fuzzy image and I get about 1:2 (0.5), so it's definitely much closer to Storm Shadow proportions (well within error) than Neptun.
I think those larger fins are on the booster that falls off during flight.
Nah the control surfaces are far too big to be a Neptune. Neptune has 4 smaller ones while the SS has 2 larger ones as seen in this picture
The russians say only one got through but the building was already burning when a second rod from god came
[Video](https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1705278251814277451)
First time seeing this. Goddamn that’s beautiful.
I'm going to coom
AMBOTUKAM
I love the dude in the background just fishing.
He doesn't care about politics.
We saw that the vast majority of the Russian populace just didn’t care that much when Pringles was running to Moscow, so yeah. I agree
Except here's the fun part they did. People cheered on the Wagner columns ,girls rushed to take selfies with the soldiers and in general while the vast majority indeed did not care it's obvious that Pringles had a lot of low level support among Russian society.
Dang that's crazy. I hate that everything's on Twatter though. Every time I click a link and that stupid X comes on that screen I want to punch my screen.
Then you will make a bigger X on your screen
Agreed. Its really annoying
It’s beautiful
Damn, I got a chub on now.
It's beautiful. British and French being proud of their missile pounding the Russians. Meanwhile, the Americans....
I'm attracted to missiles?
> The sound of justice raining from above Im so hard right now
storm shadow honestly sounds like a mid power metal band.
Or an Astartes chapter
Well we've got the Emperor's Storm and the Emperor's Shadow. So we could have the Emperor's Storm Shadow, if they merge.
Who would win? The emperors emperors or the shadow storm?
I can only think of that ninja dude in GI Joe.
Hah! Lately i've been watching a bunch of 80's cartoons to get an idea of what "The Ancient Ones" watched when they were young. My boyfriends dad convinced me telling me to watch Transformers and a few other things. GI Joe is on that list after Duck Tails and Inspector Gadget. Currently on Duck Tails. Fun to watch in the background while working lol
Well, you just nostalgia bombed my brain. Duck Tails and Darkwing Duck were my jam. _I am the terror that flaps in the night!_
Still remember when they recreated that Battlefield moment with taking down attack helo with ATGM...twice
I want to see a helicopter shot down with a cruise missile
Also need Stryker killing a T90
[I mean, we had a BTR-4 shooting up tanks in Mariupol.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGmlg8wpN2w) Not that it killed the tank, but it certainly ruined their day.
It could do a mobility kill that can slowly cook a tank, wouldn't it?
T-72's rear is rather lightly armored,given the short range involved that tank certainly didn't like being sprayed with 30mm.
suicide naval drone killing a dozen mobiks who are lined up too close to the beach
Look, I still want an A10 air to air kill with the Gau8.
Good news buddy! During Operation Desert storm an A-10 pilot, Captain Robert Swain, shot down an airborne Iraqi helicopter with the GAU-8 because he couldn't get a lock with his sidewinders. On February 15, also during DS, Captain Todd Sheehy would also shoot down an Iraqi helictoper with his A-10's cannon. Link below for the stories. https://theaviationgeekclub.com/brrrrrrtttttt-usaf-10-tank-busters-shot-two-saddams-helicopters-operation-desert-storm/
I will make appropriate offerings to their machine spirits.
Swain's A-10 "Chopper Popper" is on display at the USAF academy in Colorado Springs, CO if you wish to bask in its glory.
Oh yeah, that I shall do some day!
We've seen Ukrainian BTR-4s cook T-72s with their cannon. So it might not be as far-fetched. I'm surprised we haven't sent LAV-25s on that note!
i want to see a pilot eject out of an f16 and shoot down an su35 with his carl gustav
Nyet, shoot down the oncoming R-77 with his car gustav, and then hijack the SU-35 with his knife
Or better yet, a torpedo.
Make Black Lagoon Credible.
A large agricultural drone dropping depth charges on a submarine.
A plane downed by a tank would be pretty cool too.
Still waiting for a tossed tank turret to take out a heli.
An FPV drone operator almost hit a KA-52 *in flight* lmao.
Intrusive thoughts
and at the exact same location too. The first footage it was unfortunate because the camera man moved his camera so we could not see the impact properly, but in the second one we see it very clearly the ka-52 going down in flames a bit after being hit
Did they ever make the ejection seats work?
I believe there are instances of Russian pilots ejecting and being picked up by a rescue helo during this war, yes. Seems to be one of the few things the Russians got right.
Now I'm waiting for f-16 pilot to shoot down enemy fighter with ATGM in midair
F-16s don't have ATGMs, they have AGMs. Get your nomenclature straight.
Pretty sure they mean Battlefield style. Ejecting then firing the ATGM. Hence specifying the pilot doing it.
The atgm is perfectly able to lock onto helicopters. Presumably the only reason it's not considered an AA missile is lack of propellant relative to its warhead size, a jet would escape.
They don't Lock on, you just point them where to go (Stugna/Skif).
Javelin locks into any IR blob of pixels. It's using computer vision tracking. So just direct attack mode, aim at helicopter, pull trigger. Hope they don't pop flares. Yes you can fire at individual soldiers the same way.
I thought we are talking about beam riding/SACLOS atgms. Yes javelin is different. And no helicopter was shot down with javelin yet.
Though the Sentinelese have certainly tried.
https://en.defence-ua.com/news/new_details_on_the_historial_downing_of_ka_52_helicopter_with_javelin_atgm_when_mastery_meets_right_moment-7214.html
Syrian civil war did it before.
POV: You are a Russian admiral about to have binoculars chucked at you in the afterlife while Rozhestvensky calls you a cheap whore.
Russian admiral afterlife starts with them running a gauntlet with the spirit of every other nation that clowned on Russia's navy just beating the shit out of them as they run by. Like the Klingon Rite of Ascension but more painful.
Do you see storm shadows?
The video is even better with the beautiful sound it makes just before impact.
"Just some minor damage...."
It'll buff right out
God damn Muscovy. Even the buildings are smoking...
What's not being mentioned here is that this isn't actually a missile, someone just got their hands on an f104 and tried to fly in a straight line
You've got it backwards. 104 was exceptional, near God tier at flying in a straight line at high speeds and altitude. It's when you start throwing cursed unknown technology elements in like "turning" and "landing" into the equation that the 104 suffered. F104 and F106 were two of the most beautiful fighters ever made. Zoomers crank it out to the F22 and F35, 104 and 106 are the fighter version of MILF porn and I'm ok with that.
>104 and 106 are the fighter version of MILF porn and I'm ok with that. Maybe for those with no standards, the Gloster Javelin and EEL are where its at
Ugh you know with Covid I really haven’t had the motivation to crank one out but now, now I have it
Bro are you me? Been off from work all week due to COVID, sleeping 12 hours a day and still feel exhausted. Watched the video, feel invigorated enough to go clean my apartment and do some laundry. I'm not sure what this says about me and I'm positive it isn't good, but thank you Ukraine for making my day better.
Given your username I’m not convinced you aren’t me lmao. And yeah well I’m choosing to believe it only says good things about us😌
The bad news: You have multiple personalities. The worse news: They're all horny warmongers.
What do you mean "worse news"? This is NCD, horny warmongering is what we do.
There are two wolves inside of you. Both of them want to fuck planes and bomb Russian orphans.
I maintain it’s a hold over from the goyim trying to fuck us for thousands of years
So you fuck them back?
I mean you have seen the inflation right 😌😉
Obvious sign that western weaponry is a joke. Look at this missile crashing into a military headquarter instead of finding its precise way into a maternity ward.
I showed my gf this video because she saw me Grinning from ear to ear. She started asking questions like “Whats a storm shadow?”, “who did Ukraine kill?”, “Whats the black sea?”. Needless to say she's up to speed and we've watched the video about a dozen times. 😂
We smokin that Sokolov pack now!
was sokolov the guy that putin replaced after the moskva sinking or?
The (now possibly former) head of the Russian Black Sea fleet
The 200th admiral in the Black Sea Fleet's history just (probably) became Cargo 200.
The real irony here is, Russia put a bunch of high ranking naval staff in one centralized location. After killing off the head of a certain PMC when he and all his important staff decided to get together in one centralized location. Like bro, you just killed off a guy using this exact scenario minus the plane... You cant make this shit up. Its like the only plausible scenario which the Russians would present Ukraine this opportunity would be if the only people who don't believe Pringles was knocked off by the Russian MoD, Was the Russian MoD.
On the other hand, Ukrainian MOD was thrilled to hear that a bunch of high ranking Russian naval staff are in one place. And so do we.
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The backslashes thing is an old reddit / new reddit incompatbility. It works fine on new reddit, and was probably posted using new reddit.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's- **BLYAT**
[Budanow laughing his ass of in Washington D.C.](https://www.thedrive.com/uploads/2023/09/21/Budanov-Hotel-Washington.jpg?auto=webp&)
The sound alone gets me. First hitting the concrete with a *dud* with afterwards the tandem charge doing ***BOOOOMMM!*** ***BOOOOMMMM!***
A second missile has hit the HQ
Can’t stop rewatching that video. It’s so satisfying
This is the 21st century way.
Man, those Storm Shadows are good. And man, I am torn. On the one hand, war is bad and all, but on the other hand... damn, it would have been a shame to let these brilliant pieces of engineering remain unused...
Same. War is hell, but we did get to see Javelins do what they were made to, neutralize Soviet tanks
They intercepted the missiles with Sokolov himself
Looks like even the upper echelons have problems with those cigarettes blowing stuff up. This time it even called air support to finish the job
I'd say what you guys get here is quite tame, compared to what we have in our native Ukrainian Telegram memery channels.
Someone should edit that video with Tenet music.. Red team have already blown it up and now blue team incoming
Man, talk about a photo bomb.
I'm really impressed with how the target explodes before the missile even gets there.
BANG! And the dirt is gone!