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[–] Skua@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, that I'm not sure of. I misunderstood what you were asking, sorry about that

While I don't know about actual jets launching munitions over Russian airspace, Ukraine did successfully hit a Shahed drone factory over 1,000 km from the Russia-Ukraine border with what appears to have been one of these light aircraft converted to be unmanned. So Russia's air defence is definitely not impenetrable.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Well they've been flying Su-24s, and the F-16s certainly shouldn't be any less capable than those for this sort of thing

Can Ukraine use stormshadows within Russia?

The UK okayed it a couple of weeks ago, France this week

[–] Skua@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Nice gesture but why would Ukraine risk losing their new toys on adventurism where is work closer to to home to be done.

Where the frontline is close to the official border, Russia is able to keep its artillery and logistics on the Russian side of the border where Ukraine is not allowed to use half of its equipment. Russia's ongoing Kharkiv offensive is an example of this

Now if they were supplying rockets with ranges over 200km

France and Britain have been supplying the storm shadow missile, which has almost three times that range. Ukraine has been launching it from its own Su-24 aircraft, but those are very old and there aren't a lot of them left. The F-16 could be a good new platform to launch them from. As I understand it, storm shadow and F-16 are not compatible out of the box and would need some modification, but the same was true for the Su-24 and that appears to have worked out

[–] Skua@kbin.social 25 points 10 months ago

party cannon it is

[–] Skua@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

China isn't that big for domestic cobalt extraction, it's Chinese companies working in other countries. The biggest reserves are in Congo-Kinshasa and Australia, but Australia doesn't extract much

[–] Skua@kbin.social 22 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Weshesh, one of the groups Ramesses III said he defeated when the Sea Peoples attacked Egypt. As far as I know, though, they're one of the groups that we have basically no other mentions or evidence of, so we have no idea who they were

[–] Skua@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That fact that this is coming from a lemmynsfw.com account is beautiful

[–] Skua@kbin.social 19 points 10 months ago

The feature itself is fine, the fact that it's literally in between you and turning regular shuffle on and off is incredibly irritating

[–] Skua@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago

I think we have the same cat

Little scam artist is getting himself double dinners and still looks that good

[–] Skua@kbin.social 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"During WW1" is the context for this

[–] Skua@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The article says that the Ministry has suggested students use other programs, so it sounds like it's just something students often use rather than something that's actually required. I've not been in school for a long time, but I am doing a distance learning course and when I had to submit some written stuff I definitely found it more comfortable to type it up in an actual word processor than the web platform that only showed about a paragraph at a time, so I did that and then copied it to the web platform.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 41 points 10 months ago (14 children)

Existential Comics' "The Machine" feels highly relevant here

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/1

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