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Yak-38 (Forger) conducting flight ops aboard Soviet Navy's aircraft-carrying cruiser BAKU (Kiev-class) in 1989.
Interestingly, Baku was later renamed as Admiral Gorshkov and extensively refurbished in sevmash Shipyard before entering Indian Navy service as Vikramaditya in 2013.
En los Balcanes y Chechenia la gente se las apaño para sobrevivir sin electricidad y gas, pero es difícil hacer predicciones. Otra posibilidad es evacuar población vulnerable y/o no productiva
I honestly think we might see an unprecedented mass exodus of civilians from Kyiv and other regions to the western regions of Ukraine this winter, as the energy situation becomes catastrophic for ordinary people.
Keep in mind, all these mass power outages are happening 43 days before winter even STARTS. Energy consumption is nowhere near its highest yet, and some parts of Kyiv are already seeing only a few hours of electricity per day.
Also, not only will this affect the Ukrainian economy and ordinary people, it will also affect enterprises of Ukraine's military-industrial complex, which can't exactly be evacuated to western Ukraine for a single winter.
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A ver cómo puede ser que la central nuclear que controla Rusia se quede sin electricidad por un ataque de... Rusia. ¿Cómo puede ser esto?
La central nuclear de Zaporiyia se queda sin conexión eléctrica externa tras un nuevo ataque de Rusia elmundo.es/internacional/202…
Me pregunto si a medio plazo se mantendrán los AK-74 y derivados, porque con la guerra y la asistencia europea cada vez se ve menos.
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You are seeing the Rarest archival footage of Soviet Aviation. First Flight of Tu-144 (t/n CCCP-68001) also known as world's 1st Supersonic airliner.
31 dec 1968 at ZhukovskyAB. A MiG-21 is also seen accompanying it during its historic maiden flight, 67 days ahead of Concorde.
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He visitado una JOYA arqueológica bastante desconocida para el gran público: el yacimiento de la Villa Romana de Noheda, a 18 kms de Cuenca. Se empezó a excavar en 2005 y solo está al descubierto el 5 % de lo que hay. Estoy impactada con la calidad de lo descubierto.
Los planes iniciales eran poco realistas. No se puede aumentar la producción, modernizar la fábrica y sustituir algunos componentes a la vez.
Business Online reports that Russia's Kazan Aircraft Plant plans to produce just five Tu-214 passenger jets in 2027, according to a draft Tatarstan government plan.
The target has been repeatedly reduced. In 2022, officials promised annual production of 20 aircraft by 2027, but that figure was subsequently cut to 12, then eight, and now five.
The Tu-214 is one of the aircraft Russia is relying on to replace Western-built Boeing and Airbus jets following sanctions imposed in 2022.
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Rear view of the B8V10-UV launcher for unguided S-8 rockets, alongside the newer guided S-8VTs with a radar seeker for engaging aerial targets, and the S-8KL equipped with cluster munitions for engaging ground and surface targets.
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Un poco de estadística real sobre los game-changers ucranianos...
entre estos 3, 57 ataques exitosos en 22 meses
El Neptun 30 ataques en 22 meses, 1,3 ataques al mes
El Flamingo 13 en 16 meses, 0,81 ataques al mes
El Storm Shadow 14 en 22 meses, 0,63 ataques al mes
For comparison: the frequency of successful strikes using Neptune, Flamingo and Storm Shadow missiles in 2025–2026.
🔴 Neptune – 30 strikes over 22 months; 🟢 Flamingo – 13 strikes over 16 months; 🟠 Storm Shadow (SS) – 14 strikes over 22 months.
Storm Shadow is included for illustrative purposes. The only factor at issue here is the batches of missiles supplied by the UK and France.
I tried to preserve the actual dimensions of the missiles in the image.
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Undated photo posted on the "South_Avia" Telegram channel in late August showing a MiG-31BM two-seat, twin-engine interceptor parked on the flight line at a Russian air base. Visible next to it is an APA-5 series (presumably APA-5D) mobile ground power unit (GPU). The MiG is seen armed with four R-37M long-range and two R-77-1 medium-range air-to-air missiles. Such a loadout is known to have been regularly used during earlier stages of Russia's war against Ukraine. Unclear if that is still the case as next to nothing is known about Foxhound operations nowadays (and I suspect that this photo may not be recent).
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Mi marido falleció en enero y donó sus órganos. Recibir la carta de sanidad en la que me informaban de que los receptores de sus órganos estaban bien es de las cosas más bonitas que puedo recordar. Algunas personas viven gracias a él 💚😊
#Generosohastaelfinal
#Haztedonante
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José María Lidón Corbi, Gerona 1951, Algorta 2001, fue catedrático de Derecho Penal en la Universidad de Deusto y Magistrado de la Audiencia Provincial de Vizcaya por el cuarto turno (juristas de reconocido prestigio)
ETA le mató en su garaje.
La pistola utilizada apareció tiempo después junto a los restos carbonizados de dos hijos de puta a los que les reventó la bomba que manipulaban.
Es uno de los mejores profesores que he tenido.
Dios le tenga en Su Gloria tan alto como está en mi memoria.
👤 El hijo del magistrado Lidón asesinado por ETA hace 25 años pide que no caiga en el olvido
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Britain has preemptively banned Putin from next year's G20 and Western European ministers won't even pose for a photograph with Lavrov, but the head of Ukraine's governing parliamentary faction says there's little point attending unless the Russians are there.
There's a rather delicious irony in the fact that the country actually fighting Russia (and suffering the direct consequences) appears more interested in talking to Moscow than some of the countries insisting they are defending it.
Ukraine's senior peace negotiator David Arakhamia says Kiev sees little point in attending the G20 summit in Miami unless Russia is also present.
“Simply attending a G20 meeting without the Russians, what would be the point? I think it's important for Russia to be present,” said Arakhamia, who also heads Zelensky's ruling Servant of the People parliamentary faction.
Un dato poco conocido: El Mitsubishi F-2 fue el primer caza con un radar AESA, aunque tuvo muchos problemas de juventud.
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Using variable-sweep technology on the MiG-23 proved to be the a good decision. A non-variable-sweep design would not have been more successful under the circumstances.
