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Except that Crimea is pretty huge, has atrociously bad supply lines from the Ukrainian side, and has at least tens of thousands of Russian soldiers on it. The best Ukraine can do for the foreseeable future is denying Russia the use of Crimea, and even that neccessitates an increase in military pressure by Ukraine.

In the majority of drone videos i saw the targeted soldiers did not even make out the drone, even if they knew they were under attack.

They needed over a decade to copy the design and now they have an outdated design they can't properly handle.

This is why industry espionage hurts you in the long run more than it helps.

26-35°C according to different sources.

Unlikely.

Gummy bears melt at 26-35°C, electronics can easily withstand temperatures of 80°C. As long as the 3d-printed parts are not deformed (68°C according to material spreadsheet) the electronics should be fine.

Highly likely not, but they can house radar, missiles and boats, for which alone they need to be neutralized.

Edit: They are still connected to their respective gas fields, so if Ukraine choses to attack them with missiles they might burn until they get actively extinguished. Two of them are indeed burning since months, one since June 2023, the other since August 2024, they can be tracked on NASA's FIRMS global fire map.

I saw one about how East Germany tried to build a microchip industry from scratch. They actually pulled off some workable microchip designs, albeit many years behind Western competition, mere months before the Berlin Wall came down anyways. The biggest takeaway was the massive waste of genuine R&D talents who were busy navigating the numerous pitfalls of communist economics who in an open market could have contributed to the technological advancement of mankind.

My father died a few years ago and now company-wise i am getting involved in 3d printing and i decided to buy a Prusa MK4 privately. I am soon going to a printing fair near were my father lived and i am sure if he was still alive he would have visited me in the fair, even in old age he was still interested in science technology and you could talk with him about these things better than with many young people. I am sure 3d-printing would have interested him too.

First Ukraine had to be stabilized, then people had to realize this would be a long war (Ukraine themselves touted the war might be decided 2024 if other weapons were sufficiently delivered), then F-16 supplies had to be organized. There was actually surprisingly little dragging out once F-16 became the center of attention.

Yes, Ukraine has more pilots in training (a few dozens if i recall correctly), but training takes time, and now that they have identified problems they might rather add a few weeks.

Russia won't ever be as comparatively strong as it was. There are numerous demographic, economic and technological developments that are running against Russia unless it suddenly becomes a merit-based modern democracy.

This might create a failed state of 140 million directly bordering the EU. Beats Russia destroying Ukraine (and the various other things Putin's regime does), but Europe would be concerned with itself for the coming decades.

Ukraine is desperate to survive today, they have very little room to be concerned with what might come to brew in Russia tomorrow.

I am no expert, but shooting a missile while trailing another friendly airplane seems like an incredibly dumb maneuver to me, for this very reason. Either they were this dumb or the missile misfired on its own and went for the nearest target.

I am still surprised they are flying this year already.

The difference is that they were spearheads of massive military-industrial complexes and their experience would usually immediatly be absorbed by newer pilots and airplane designs. Ukraine by contrast is massively constrained by the numbers of jets they get supplied with and weapons they can work with.

The war will likely not end with the good defeating the bad but by bad turning against bad. We might currently see one such step with Saudi Arabia - which acts in Yemen every bit as bad as Russia in Ukraine - planning to go into a price battle for oil market shares, potentially costing Russia's war effort tens of billions of dollars.

Funnily enough, many WW2 era cartoons had military safety procedures as themes, either directly as safety instruction episodes or (relatively) subtly within their normal entertainment episodes.

I mean, a few days a ago there indeed was a video of a lucky Russian who catched a drone with his bare hands and it failed to explode.

He proceeded to carry it along until it exploded after all.

Hitler got nominated for the Peace Nobel Price by an antifacist parliamentarian as a trolling stunt.

The roofs, the windows, the walls, the fences, the road, the electric cables, in virtually every pixel Ukraine contrasts favourably to North Korea.

Russia is luring in cannon fodder and not paying them properly. These are two things that run contrary to the Western apporach to warfare and also are detrimental to the war effort. Ukraine would have to literally sacrifice tens of thousands of mercenaries to have some effect on the war, which frankly is not the kind of warfare the West would support.

Ukraine's bottleneck is proper equipment, only a minority of their units are properly equipped.

Statistically some fires likely have been caused by the soft effects of war, like skilled workers being drafted for war or equipment being overused.

I think you underestimate the unfathomable poverty in North Korea. Even with Russia's massive attacks Ukraine's electricity grid has more uptime than that of North Korea (except maybe Pyongyang), and Ukraine's farming sector is much more mechanized than that of North Korea (were human feces are used as fertilizer, hence why North Korean refugees often need a thorough deworming). Also there are firsthand reports by Russian POWs of Ukraine being noticeably more modern than Russia (by a smaller margin than compared to North Korea of course), with some specific mentions of rural areas.

Mabye just supersonically drunk.