Russian invasion of Ukraine

[bluevillain]

 

[FlemishDuck]

Around 2 minutes at between 15 and 30 knots for all sizes.

2 minutes to do a 360 degree turn? Thats quite impressive. Where do you get youre info from?

 

[tregyblue61]

2 minutes to do a 360 degree turn? Thats quite impressive. Where do you get youre info from?

Old sea dogs I knew!

A Battleship, Aircraft Carrier etc can turn 2 mins at around 15 knots. Cruisers, Destroyers can take same time at 30 knots or, around 80 secs for an emergency turn. It's quite impressive and a hell of sight when they do it.

 

[FlemishDuck]

Old sea dogs I knew!

A Battleship, Aircraft Carrier etc can turn 2 mins at around 15 knots. Cruisers, Destroyers can take same time at 30 knots or, around 80 secs for an emergency turn. It's quite impressive and a hell of sight when they do it.

The ships tend to list quite a bit i immagine when doing such turns, better not have youre aircraft on deck heh, but quite cool i can immagine the sight of such a lumbering beast doing such a nimble turn. Warships afcourse always turned considerably faster than large commercial ships, a oiltanker might take 15 minutes to half an hour over it i wager. Gotto be fun to be behind the rudder of such 65K ton boat with such maneuverabillety.

Ah yes, was not to hard to find an example on youtube. Is it noticable that i like warships? ;)


Rudder shift is impressive aswell, like once you have youre rudder at the max in one direction and youre in full turn it tends to take a lot of power to be able to shift that rudder to the other side, atleast used to be so in WW2 for most ships so that if you commited to a hard turn you wern't getting out of it easily. But you can see how this carrier is doing S turns flawlessly.

 

[AlgarveBlu]

City win Arsenal loose and russians losing more ground - opening a Carlsberg

 

[roubaixtuesday]

A new leader put there by Putin. Or Russia blames Ukraine for the killing and provides “evidence” to Belarus. Either way. They join. Or try and it causes an internal coup.

Lukashenko was the one sensibly stopping it happening much to Putins annoyance.

Just my opinion, but the reason Lukashenko didn't want because he didn't want to, but because he couldn't; internal resistance in the armed forces, government and public made both impossible and an existential threat to his power.

All of that is unchanged if putin has assassinated him, or if he's died of natural causes.

Could be wrong.

 

[CTID1977]

 

[FlemishDuck]

A new leader put there by Putin. Or Russia blames Ukraine for the killing and provides “evidence” to Belarus. Either way. They join. Or try and it causes an internal coup.

Lukashenko was the one sensibly stopping it happening much to Putins annoyance.

Belarus kinda only has about enough forces to maintain order in it's own country, it's millitary is a joke ad at times even Russia had to help Luka to push revolts down afaik. I really see no point to Belarus joining the fight, they don't really have much if anything to contribute in offensive capability's and the border region of Belarus and Ukraine which is known as the Pinsk/Pirpet marches is a horrible area to try to push an offensive trough.

Opinion: Russia Will Get Bogged Down in the Pripet Marshes if it Attacks Ukraine from Belarus

A Polish book about peat bogs, stolen from Ukraine by the Nazis, illustrates the myriad of natural challenges awaiting any Russian attack via Belarus

www.kyivpost.com

 

[Iassel]

Is Lukashenko dead and his demise being stage managed?

It was claimed last week that he had a degenerative nerve problem needing ‘western’ treatment and was furious to be dragged to Moscow for their parade.

Presumably he’s now managed to pay a western surgeon enough to do the job.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Russian losses yesterday...