Russo-Ukrainian War - 2022 Edition - Part3

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NarrowBandFtw said:
you mean the navy day I watched the livestream of that was not cancelled?

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Where did you watch it?

www.newsweek.com

Crimean City Scraps Navy Event After Drone Attack on Black Sea HQ: Official

Russian President Vladimir Putin attended separate Navy Day celebrations in St. Petersburg, despite the attack in occupied Crimea.
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com

www.forces.net

Drone explosion hits Russia's Black Sea Fleet HQ, cancelling Navy Day holiday

The explosion in the city of Sevastopol caused the cancellation of observances of Russia's Navy Day holiday.
www.forces.net www.forces.net
 
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Solarion said:
Hold a candle in the dark and the curtain is yellow. Turn the lights on and the curtain is white. Some people insist that the candle shows the true color of the curtain no matter what you tell them. All scientific reasoning about light spectrum and frequency falls on deaf ears. They will begin to question the science and claim that the physics text books backing these calculations are funded by those with agendas and global control ambitions.

They will not understand the mathematics behind nanometres, electromagnetic frequencies, wavelengths etc and because the average person they are debating with does not have a physics degree and also lacks information needed, so they will simply claim that you don't know either so therefore my viewpoint about the curtains being yellow is fact until you are able to prove otherwise.

You cannot debate with someone over encumbered by belief perseverance. You may try. You will not be successful in changing their minds.
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Off topic I know, but nice post.
 
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vaakseun said:
There was an Angolan ship even bigger than Arendsee that was also sunk during that operation, forgot what her name was. I think Arendsee was the one that got the home-made dummy mine that was supposed to implicate UNITA.

Would have been real interresting if Tuffy Joubert had decided to go ahead with mining the kilo class...

I actaully talked to RAdm(retd) Söderlund about that mission about ten years ago aboard the Johanna van der Merwe. She was decommissioned but still in the water at the time. I think he wanted to raise money in order to put her in the ST navy museum. I recall he was also in the process of updating and revising that book you posted.
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Correct. It was an Angolan registered vessel. She and the East German Arendsee were sunk. It's amazing how the SA Navy managed to keep their operations secret with nobody speaking out until that book was published about 20 years after the end of the war. And the navy guys took a lot of flak from the army for not being involved in the Angolan war and still remained quiet. If only the army guys had a clue...
 
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NarrowBandFtw said:
pop quiz ... how do you know NATO is losing the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine?

easy, when they desperately try to open up a new front in a conflict they themselves created decades ago to punish one of Russia's closest allies now:
sputniknews.com

LIVE UPDATES: UN Monitors Situation in Kosovo ‘Very Closely’

Authorities in the breakaway territory announced this week that documents issued by the Serbian state would no longer be valid for crossing into Kosovo starting August 1, and that their holders would be issued special 'entry-exit...
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Cosmik Debris said:
Correct. It was an Angolan registered vessel. She and the East German Arendsee were sunk. It's amazing how the SA Navy managed to keep their operations secret with nobody speaking out until that book was published about 20 years after the end of the war. And the navy guys took a lot of flak from the army for not being involved in the Angolan war and still remained quiet. If only the army guys had a clue...
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I remember when Capt. Wynand du Toit got captured. I thought that was it. The cat's out of the bag now.

But he managed to hold together under interrogation and told his interrogators that they were dropped off by a Japanese fishing or research vessel. The Russian advisors swallowed that hook, line and sinker, because it was the Russians who came up with that crackpot theory in the first place. And the Russians are of course never wrong.

And then there was also the Soviet spy Cdr. Dieter Gerhardt who was in charge of the Simon's Town naval dockyard...
 
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Cosmik Debris said:
Where did you watch it?

www.newsweek.com

Crimean City Scraps Navy Event After Drone Attack on Black Sea HQ: Official

Russian President Vladimir Putin attended separate Navy Day celebrations in St. Petersburg, despite the attack in occupied Crimea.
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com

www.forces.net

Drone explosion hits Russia's Black Sea Fleet HQ, cancelling Navy Day holiday

The explosion in the city of Sevastopol caused the cancellation of observances of Russia's Navy Day holiday.
www.forces.net www.forces.net
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He probably watched the St. Petersburg navy festival that Tsar Vlad the Mad was attending.
 
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Cosmik Debris said:
Where did you watch it?

www.newsweek.com

Crimean City Scraps Navy Event After Drone Attack on Black Sea HQ: Official

Russian President Vladimir Putin attended separate Navy Day celebrations in St. Petersburg, despite the attack in occupied Crimea.
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com

www.forces.net

Drone explosion hits Russia's Black Sea Fleet HQ, cancelling Navy Day holiday

The explosion in the city of Sevastopol caused the cancellation of observances of Russia's Navy Day holiday.
www.forces.net www.forces.net
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errr ... you do know navy day for Russia is held in St Petersburg right?

any other locations may just be celebrating in unison or take a day off or whatever, but it is not and never was the official navy day celebration in Crimea
 
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NarrowBandFtw said:
errr ... you do know navy day for Russia is held in St Petersburg right?

any other locations may just be celebrating in unison or take a day off or whatever, but it is not and never was the official navy day celebration in Crimea
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Septic tank leakage alert!

From the Tass link:

According to the press service of the Black Sea Fleet, on the Day of the Navy, which is celebrated on the last Sunday of July (this year - July 31), a bypass of ships in Sevastopol Bay by the commander of the fleet, as well as a concert and fireworks were planned in Sevastopol.
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Or it it that with your Russkie tinted glasses like how Christmas Day is only applicable in Bethlehem and "any other locations may just be celebrating in unison or take a day off or whatever, but it is not and never was the official Christmas Day celebration anywhere else"?
 
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Thugscub said:
How you you guys put up with these fekked russian twats I have no idea!
I would have PK'd the little twats a long time ago.
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I'm just glad some of us could share the love. We've known this menace for hundreds of years, you guys are just waking up to it. People like CD, obviously excluded, as they risked their lives to fight the Russian imperialism off.
 
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Aeroflot trying to raise money
www.flightglobal.com

Aeroflot invites investors to participate in share offering

Russian flag-carrier Aeroflot is formally inviting interest in acquiring shares in the company, following the earlier approval of a hike in its authorised capital. The airline states that 5.42 billion ordinary shares are being placed under the capital increase, through an open subscription...
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I just drew a line and this building caught my eye. It has part of it's roof missing. It seems like the "perfect spot" to shoot a rocket launcher from, and to be able to quickly hide afterwards. Think I should just go to sleep.

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Paulsie said:
So which one is it?

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With Russia's tally, in the failed bridge crossing alone, how many combatants do you think were lost there.
 
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