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by baybal2 5y ago
> Both Western governments and private parties have been publicly showing extraordinary amounts of intelligence on Russia troop movements, disposition, and likely intentions, and I can only imagine that that Ukraine is getting much more
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by baybal2 5y ago
> Your last paragraph is a new topic. It's true that Si can be as efficient as SiC and GaN, despite what the marketing usually says. But there are other benefits to new materials. They already support higher voltages with planar tec
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by baybal2 5y ago
Russian first strike capability with land + sea based missiles is at most 1000 warheads. Clearly not enough.
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by baybal2 5y ago
> So Putin is so angry and feels threatend that he wants to overthrough Ukraine, and the answer is to make them a member of the EU? This screams like more aggressives answers from Putin. I personally expect a smaller nuclear warning shot
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by baybal2 5y ago
Yes, I see your nickname. That's the case if we go into details. I think he specifically means high-end, high-frequency power FETs, since all the rage today is about them. I would add that there is no real need for super-high-end switc
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by baybal2 5y ago
> Citation needed. I believe Putin enjoys a very strong approval in Russia His approval rating is as genuine as his 146% election victories https://bloknot.ru/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/rostovsakaya-1.
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by baybal2 5y ago
I am not an professional EE, but a person who professionally works on circuits from time to time. That's absolutely not the case. The higher is the switching frequency, they higher are the switching losses in a MOSFET. MOSFET is an ele
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by baybal2 5y ago
> There's nothing about electric car propulsion that requires "high end semiconductors". Yes, the article is written by a person who has no idea what he is saying
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by baybal2 5y ago
Because it's right on the border, and it's wide defensible flat area covered in asphalt in the middle of woods. Under "defensible" I mean there are concrete building in the areas, which is the reactor block.
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by baybal2 5y ago
Yes, much harder to use small detached flanking forces in a densely populated areas. They get TikToked, countered within minutes, and then hunted down with long range weapons. This is especially powerful against battaglione sized units, sin
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by baybal2 5y ago
Important point, Russia keeps attacking the Kiyv dam by missiles, shelling, and tried to mine it at least once. If Kiyv dam is destroyed, not only the Kiyv city will suffer damage, but Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station will be right in the
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by baybal2 5y ago
Indeed, it's the "real new Ottoman Empire" in its death throes. Just like the Ottomans entered WW1 for the sole reason "of keeping itself relevant," with nothing to show for it except opportunistic ideas, Russia wil
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by baybal2 5y ago
> they already were hesitant on building another AN-225 due to cost concerns. Very astutely note. EU was trying to block Ukrainian defence industry for decades. They had a cargo plane design which beaten Airbus 400 on 33 out 34 tender po
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Turkey to implement pact on access to shipping straits due to Ukraine war(reuters.com)
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by baybal2 5y ago
Russia first strike on NATO will cause at most 40m dead in the most improbable scenario of NATO just standing doing nothing. If NATO will disable the Russian nuclear C&C, they will no longer be able to launch a coordinated attack, and i
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by baybal2 5y ago
Yes, it's not US-Iraq war, but Iran Iraq war, and Putinism, and Baathism are eerely similar.
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by baybal2 5y ago
Because it isn't. Russian main force in Belarus is stuck with no fuel, and supplies. The rearguard units would likelly be even more soft, and incomplete, and they don't want to advance knowing it.
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by baybal2 5y ago
If any offensive force loses 50% of its starting firepower, a normal general would've called it a defeat, and pulled back his troops.
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by baybal2 5y ago
I would say, this is different. If we look at history, it's closer to Iran-Iraq wars. Saddam pulled a historical grudge out of the ass, wrapped it in bizarre, artificial semi-religious ideology, and tried to draw an image of "peop
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by baybal2 5y ago
That psychological aversion to genocidal murder cerainly doesn't spread to Russian general staff. They are continuing bombing the Kiyv dam.
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by baybal2 5y ago
Not in Vladivostok, but it seems that all satellite uplinks of Russian TV channels are hacked now https://twitter.com/a_latkovskis/status/1497627592677117952 . It means that all of remote Russian regions relying o
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by baybal2 5y ago
I'm seconding this, if air cover is provided, Ukraine has enough resources to trim off Russia's south, and its access to two seas. South Russians don't feel pretty much any affinity for Moscow. This can potentially launch a c
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by baybal2 5y ago
They are buying back rouble like crazy, they burn billions of dollars per day in foreign exchange
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by baybal2 5y ago
Glad for fuel thieves, and supplies embezzlers in Russian army now.
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by baybal2 5y ago
122mm ammo - WW2 stocks still there, 7.62x54R - same, 82mm mortars ammo - same, earliest KPV ammo is just few years older.
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by baybal2 5y ago
He is already doing it, just ran out of ammo. Russian ammo stockpiles are wast, but very old, and decrepit. Some literally date to WW2. In first 2 days, they used pretty much everything against city outskirts. You think Putin is afraid losi
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by baybal2 5y ago
> They seem to be doing a pretty good job of destroying invading force so far, but what's next? They either run out of steam defending, or they start to hit back at Russia, but then Russia could just unload a few nukes on them and
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by baybal2 5y ago
Wounded POWs are included as POW
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by baybal2 5y ago
> Scared Russian kids are fighting for crappy pay 1000's of km from their home against far more numerous people that are defending their families and their home country against an invader. I noticed following in POW reels: there a
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by baybal2 5y ago
Ukraine MOD. Total losses in the active phase of 2 Chechnya war were 3500 troops. The rest were due to many years of insurgency.

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