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HB and quality in the same sentence without a negation in between? Aaaah Irony :P/>

Joyless Grammar Nazi here: saying something has "quality" means nothing. You have to quantify and qualify "quality" before it means something. Something can have good "qualities" or bad "qualities". It's like saying outside has "temperature" or your car has "color", you don't really know anything yet.

Whenever I see the teacher's union spouting "we need more pay so the kids can get a 'quality education'", I think, yeah, right. Why don't you get yourself a HIGH quality education first.

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Joyless Grammar Nazi here: saying something has "quality" means nothing. You have to quantify and qualify "quality" before it means something. Something can have good "qualities" or bad "qualities". It's like saying outside has "temperature" or your car has "color", you don't really know anything yet.

Whenever I see the teacher's union spouting "we need more pay so the kids can get a 'quality education'", I think, yeah, right. Why don't you get yourself a HIGH quality education first.

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Joyless Grammar Nazi here: saying something has "quality" means nothing. You have to quantify and qualify "quality" before it means something. Something can have good "qualities" or bad "qualities". It's like saying outside has "temperature" or your car has "color", you don't really know anything yet.

You are actually wrong - "quality" isn't just a noun meaning a property, it is also an adjective meaning the state of being excellent and without flaws. The three dictionaries I checked all say so.

So did my school teacher.

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You are actually wrong - "quality" isn't just a noun meaning a property, it is also an adjective meaning the state of being excellent and without flaws. The three dictionaries I checked all say so.

So did my school teacher.

indeed

for example "quality time" don't have to specify "good" quality time...

and i know that this concept also apply in french language...

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You are actually wrong - "quality" isn't just a noun meaning a property, it is also an adjective meaning the state of being excellent and without flaws. The three dictionaries I checked all say so.

Okay. You're right, but it still sounds wrong to me, I'll go back to my cave now.

And to mitigate the thread-jacking: I saw something posted on FB about Russia dropping what the article described as "mini-nukes". The video showed what looked like an FAE explosion. That's some pretty good precision guided munitions right there.

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...and that article is quite a cheap piece of PRBS.

The author of that article wants to convince us that the SVP-24 is what: 'blotting out' (?) all the effects of winds in a country that is as windy as Syria (20km/h average wind speed, all the time, any time of the day, really 24/7) and when dumb bombs are released from 2,000-5,000 metres altitude - like Russians are doing most of the time:

In reality: yes, the SVP-24 is a 'major improvement' for the nav/attack system of the Su-24M. This is so because its old nav/attack system was actually designed with deployment of nukes in mind, where it didn't matter if the CEP was anywhere between 300 and 500 metres. But, even the SVP-24 is nowhere near to bringing that type's CEP down to 4-5 metres. That cannot even be described as 'science fiction'. Under ideal - read: windless - conditions and low-altitude release, the CEP of Su-24M-SVP-24 might be down to 25-50 metres (also provided the crew has a good day).

Keep in mind: USAF's F-111F-crews were concerned about effects of minimal wind while striking Q (aka 'Qaddaffi') back in 1986, with LGBs and from minimal altitude... and overall, there might be a reason why are Western air forces so much 'insisting' on PGMs, or at least 'wind-corrected' ammo. But Russo-fans want us to believe they have solved all the wind-related problems by installing a meanwhile obsolete computer into an even older nav/attack system...?

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...and that article is quite a cheap piece of PRBS.

The author of that article wants to convince us that the SVP-24 is what: 'blotting out' (?) all the effects of winds in a country that is as windy as Syria (20km/h average wind speed, all the time, any time of the day, really 24/7) and when dumb bombs are released from 2,000-5,000 metres altitude - like Russians are doing most of the time:

In reality: yes, the SVP-24 is a 'major improvement' for the nav/attack system of the Su-24M. This is so because its old nav/attack system was actually designed with deployment of nukes in mind, where it didn't matter if the CEP was anywhere between 300 and 500 metres. But, even the SVP-24 is nowhere near to bringing that type's CEP down to 4-5 metres. That cannot even be described as 'science fiction'. Under ideal - read: windless - conditions and low-altitude release, the CEP of Su-24M-SVP-24 might be down to 25-50 metres (also provided the crew has a good day).

Keep in mind: USAF's F-111F-crews were concerned about effects of minimal wind while striking Q (aka 'Qaddaffi') back in 1986, with LGBs and from minimal altitude... and overall, there might be a reason why are Western air forces so much 'insisting' on PGMs, or at least 'wind-corrected' ammo. But Russo-fans want us to believe they have solved all the wind-related problems by installing a meanwhile obsolete computer into an even older nav/attack system...?

Does wind temperature also have any effect on direction of a falling bomb?

By the way, I m no fan of Russian or American propaganda. I m just interested in science behind it and how things work. Russian and Americans have different way of doing things. Not necessarily one better than the other but different approach.

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I know too little about influence of temperatures upon winds and free-fall bombs. Can only say: warm air usually creates so called 'thermic', and thermic is warm wind that is moving uphill.

...and any wind is disturbing aiming of free-fall bombs, i.e. 'blowing them away' from their trajectory. That's a basic 'physical law' of bombing ever since that Italian lieutenat dropped a few hand-grenades on Senussi insurgents while flying a Bleriot in Libya, in... was it 1909 or 1911...

That said, and no matter what some people think of me: I don't care about propaganda, or nationalities. Like you, I only want to understand how things work. That's the very essence and core reason for all of my research. Therefore, I consider everybody equal and treat everybody the same way. For me, it doesn't matter if it's the US-, British-, Zimbabwean-, Syrian-, or military of Andora or Vanuatu that's as inprecise as Russians are in Syria.

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I'm surprised nobody posted about this, but there was another Russian incursion into Turkish airspace yesterday (01/29/16). This time an Su-34. While it didn't escalate like the last instance, there are still some very unhappy Turkish people on the ground giving Russian diplomats hell about it.

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Now one side speaks that and was, another that it wasn't at all - need 100% of the proof.

But there is other news in same time: probably 4 Su-35Ss were deployed to Syria

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I am absolutely shocked they are actually deploying Su-35S' considering the mountains of problems they have had. They literally had to complete the whole first contact (48 frames) before a single frame even was cleared to do combat patrol/QRA. Now, the frames sent to Syria are third, forth, fifth and sixth production aircraft of 2015 but even the first 2 of 2015 had to be reconfigured up to "combat" standard.

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I say "probably", will see TV news from Latakia, as soon as were deployed S-400 - wery soon were shown at all TVs all around the world.

However i didn't saw any pictires Su-27SMs from Latakia, but Russin MoD confirm its operation in Syria.

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I am absolutely shocked they are actually deploying Su-35S' considering the mountains of problems they have had. They literally had to complete the whole first contact (48 frames) before a single frame even was cleared to do combat patrol/QRA. Now, the frames sent to Syria are third, forth, fifth and sixth production aircraft of 2015 but even the first 2 of 2015 had to be reconfigured up to "combat" standard.

Maybe they did the upgrades already, no?

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What reason send all new technics to conflict zone - tests in conditions which are most approached to the fight.

Who said that Su-35s will use in combat mission from first days?

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Best place to test your combat junk is in combat.

The F-22 has been flown as well over the area - this would seem like similar overkill, considering the expected opposition.

However - if I was a military pilot or planner, I would prefer to have as much overkill as humanly possible.

Cheers,

Andre

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Maybe they said whole world looking at us, need to send new hardware, just to show... They don't have real enemy (with capabilities like Russians in Syria) there, no electronic countermeasures, so for bombing missions there you don't need full capabilities (there is video of dropping bombs from Mi-24...). Everything else is good PR. Real work there doing by Su-24 an d 25, Su-30SM is for fighter cover, and now Su-35 for same. Probably Su-35 can fire R-73 and R-27, and can drop bombs without AESA radar :-)

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