Russian scientist jailed for treason as Putin's 'spy mania' escalates....

a reply to: AwakeNotWoke

And further to my previous point, I hear people every single day talk about how they wish to find solutions to world problems today. But these same people lie (straight-up lie). They say these things with absolutely no intention of putting anything on the proverbial negotiating table; their idea of a solution is 'their way, or no way, 100% of the time'. This is not reality, and this is not how the World works.

This isn't a one sided affair though; this knife cuts both ways. This is one of the reasons for my extreme distaste for politicians. All they do is talk fancy words, with no intention of actually making a commitment, and even less intention of keeping any promise they make. To quote an old Native American saying...They speak with forked tongue.

a reply to: Oldcarpy2

I was just kidding around, man!

I wonder if we could have two of them? Putin represents Gog and Magog I believe. Maybe Klaus Schab is the King of the North? There seems to be plenty of evil going around. In defense of it IS Vlad that is the King of the North, Klaus seems to be an agent of the Israeli Ashkenazi Jews.

originally posted by: randomuser2034

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
The more I study Putin, the more I realize he's not living in the modern era. Almost every initiative he undertakes is like he's living in the days of the Roman Empire with a Stalinist mentality. Paranoia of the highest order, conquest for the sake of conquest, without regard to reality, and the list goes on. If you examine his actions in the modern technological world they make little sense, but if you rewind the world timeline 100 years they begin to make some sense, and rewind 1,500 years his actions begin to make even more sense.

An interesting deduction. Bible prophecy referring to both the kings of the "north" and "south" say that they would be sitting at one table speaking lies to each other. And that there would be a pushing and shoving between the two all throughout the time in which we are now living.

If you get a hankering check out these threads about the subject:

Russia and its Allies - The King of the North

What the Future Holds for Russia and its Allies

Putin showing all the hallmarks of losing the plot recently. People should be concerned. Seems he’s sliding towards complete madness.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Me too, mate.

a reply to: Kurokage
What's it like living with crippling Russia-phobia?

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

No speako American?

Moron says what...

They have ALL been spying on each other for ever.
look at the spying they have told us about in the US!
that is far from the truth.

America will have a great deal of spys in USSR !
then china and others.

a reply to: JAY1980

Whom are you referring to as the 'moron' here?

originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: Kurokage

Putin wasn't pleased when it turned out his untouchable hypersonic missiles weren't as untouchable as he thought , this could be revenge for that , I remember when the 3 of them were arrested in 2022.

I've seen it reported all 3 of them face the same charge.

I think a lot of the scientists that worked for Mad Vlad ended up becoming 'Yes men' out of fear, but then I also hear that some of the new Russian Tanks are suffering from 'discohead'....
www.dailymail.co.uk...

In footage of the humiliating incident, the turret was seen rotating in a frenzy without any end in sight until the gun barrel ultimately slammed into a tree which stopped the spinning. Unable to return any fire to the Ukrainian's, the tank's crew fled on foot before the tank was demolished by a Ukrainian first-person view attack drone.

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
The more I study Putin, the more I realize he's not living in the modern era. Almost every initiative he undertakes is like he's living in the days of the Roman Empire with a Stalinist mentality. Paranoia of the highest order, conquest for the sake of conquest, without regard to reality, and the list goes on. If you examine his actions in the modern technological world they make little sense, but if you rewind the world timeline 100 years they begin to make some sense, and rewind 1,500 years his actions begin to make even more sense.

I agree, I also think Putin is seeing his past before the wall fell as the 'good old days'. I think he looks at that as a time when Russia was 'powerful' and feared by the west, and thinks only he can bring that back.

originally posted by: JAY1980
a reply to: Kurokage
What's it like living with crippling Russia-phobia?

Having seen your attempts at responses in the threads, I see you're doing your usual defence of Putin, calling people Russophobic.

Could you please post a link in any of my posts where I attack the Russian People? Maybe I should ask you, what's it like with in crippling denial?

Do you have any comments to make about the arrest and imprisonment of these Russia scientists? Do you think it's fair that Putin seems to be arresting anyone thats seen as failing in Putins war against Ukraine?

a reply to: Kurokage

To one of my earlier points about Putin being out of touch with the modern world, his fascination with tanks (and ground armor) is yet another example. The battle tank really only serves one purpose in warfare, to occupy and defend seized ground with hostile territory in front of it, and seized territory behind it. It is the modern day equivalent of a fortress on wheels. The problem is, in modern, often asymmetrical, warfare the use of battle tanks is an antiquated strategy. And, we see this strategy failing time and again for Putin in the Ukraine conflict.

Ground armor requires deep and wide lines of support to stay in the fight, it can not continue to operate without this support. And, this means those lines of support must be maintained, uninterrupted, all the way back to the core of the aggressor using them, in this case Russia. Fuel, ammunition, maintenance and troops are but just a few examples.

In the modern world (today) there are far easier methods to control large swaths of ground and these method, such as air power, don't require unbroken lines of support back to the homeland. But there's one big difference between these two strategies, and this is the will of the people where modern armor seizes and occupies ground. This lays bare the antiquated strategies of Putin in Ukraine. He is taking the 'brute force' approach, almost as if this is a siege during the Roman Empire, conquest by brute force. The problem is, this same approach requires similar tactics to defend, and all of this leads to greater loss of life and misery for all involved.

Each time we hear about supply lines being broken, and miles of armor stranded somewhere without fuel and without ammunition, I keep waiting for gladiators on horseback to show up, or warriors in chariots with swords and shields...or straight lines of soldiers with bayoneted muskets to appear, marching over the hilltop into the gunfire on the command of "CHARGE!!" It's like scenes from the 2nd Century A.D, in Europe, or the 19th Century in North America.

I don't know, just all seems very strange to me.

America learned our lesson about these strategies back in the early 1990's. Thousands of armored vehicles advancing through the Kuwaiti and Iraqi desert during Desert Storm. Brute force, and for what? In the end what mattered wasn't who had the most "stuff", or who broke more of the other guy's "stuff", but rather the will of the people being occupied. They would be the ones who would determine the final outcome, not a column of tanks. I sincerely doubt the World will ever see American armor like that ever again in the future. It is an artifact of a past era, a closed chapter of an old book. But Putin somehow thinks he will prevail with this strategy. He underestimates the will of the people.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

I don't think tanks are done yet, but the true occupier of turf is, as always, the infantry. Aircraft and drones can make life hazardous for those on the ground, but they can't occupy the land below them.

I expect the current threat posed by drones will be at least somewhat mitigated by anti-drone tech in the next 10 years or so. You know how the tech cycle goes; something becomes effective and then is countered by other developments.

Cheers

a reply to: F2d5thCavv2

I don't disagree with what you are saying from a purely technical standpoint, but my point is armor will never be stronger than the will of the people surrounding it. Inevitably, the people will prevail. This is Putin's weakness in Ukraine. But again, from just a purely technical standpoint, your statement is correct. It's just not a lasting effect because the power of a ground force goes away the very second it is no longer supported. Right now Putin doesn't have 1/100th of the boots he needs on the ground to truly 'occupy' Ukraine. And this is my point.

On a technical note, I do agree about the drones though. They are certainly an interesting dynamic in the Ukraine conflict. It's really surprising to see how effective they really are. But again, drones are just another example of modern asymmetrical warfare. Drones specifically will likely be defeated in the coming years, but something else will replace them, and this cycle will repeat.

edit - Putin is throwing assets at a conflict which he can't support, and he's attempting to conquer a land he can't occupy. His strategy is doomed from the start.

edit II - But to your point about infantry, in this context armor is just a force-muliplier; you still need the boots on the ground to 'occupy' a territory, armor or no armor. So I agree with you completely here.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

To one of my earlier points about Putin being out of touch with the modern world, his fascination with tanks (and ground armor) is yet another example. The battle tank really only serves one purpose in warfare, to occupy and defend seized ground with hostile territory in front of it, and seized territory behind it. It is the modern day equivalent of a fortress on wheels.

Some of the Russia tactic used in Ukraine do seem to have a tang of World War 1 about them, when Tanks were first used en masse, they mostly just drove straight at the enemy. Putin's use of tanks does appear to be an antiquated strategy which is why so many appeared to have been destroyed.

a reply to: F2d5thCavv2

I want to 2nd this.

"We can't call it ours until a flag is set and a set of legs are on the ground with it."

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Your comment regarding Putin's force strength and his apparent objective is telling. It makes one wonder how this conflict will progress, and how it will end.

I think the Russian state counts upon enough Ukrainians tiring of a war in which they are at a numerical disadvantage, such that Zelensky will be forced to sue for peace on Russian terms, which means Russia getting to steal huge areas of Ukraine as a reward for launching an aggressive war. Kyiv would like to see them gone from all Ukrainian territory, but that goal is a long way off, as well as carrying the risk that it might ignite a much larger war.

Kyiv's best chance may be that internal unrest in Russia will force Moscow to reorient its priorities. At this point, I doubt the death of Putin would result in a Russian withdrawal; the oligarchs there are of a kind and they are too committed now to simply look at the Russian people and say, "well, Vladimir miscalculated, now we pull back and return to normal relations with the rest of the world". It will take a full-on Russian revolution for things to be dynamic enough for Kyiv to regain all of the stolen territory.

Cheers

Anatoly Maslov "is a Russian physicist and a professor at the Aerohydrodynamic Department at the Novosibirsk State Technical University, specialist in the field of laminar-turbulent transition". Even if he was not part of the military program, he probably was familiar with the programs, and their personnel.

Physicists in general see their profession as an international one. Divining the secrets of the Universe requires more smarts that any one nation boasts. It's been this way for a long time, and hopefully will remain this way. Consider how many nobel prizes in hard sciences are split between recipients of different nationalities.

To the leader of a nation in a existential war, particularly one weaned on Soviet citizen, and information control paranoia any original work in Maslov's field involving high flow rates(speed) should be a state secret. Maslov's specialty laminar-turbulent transition is particularly critical in the design of hypersonic ram jet engines than must slow incoming air, and make it highly turbulent to allow burning to take place inside the combustion section of the engine.

Besides that, lift on the wings, lifting body, and control surfaces will involve transition from laminar flow at the metal surface, to turbulent flow in air away from that surface. Less inherent drag, and more lift for less induced drag could dramatically increase range and speed of any vehicle, flying or not.

I think that modern digital simulation of hypersonic aerodynamics is not as good as most people would imagine. Otherwise, research on transonic vehicles would progress much more quickly than it has. An improvement of hypersonic simulation, whether superior theoretical understanding, or just a better way to do calculations could make design of vehicles much easier.