Russia-Ukraine war has begun

[Marvin the Martian]

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Makes me think of Korea where both sides kept taking/retaking ground hoping to influence the final armistice.

 

[DANC]

Fiber optic cables make any drone attached to them tethered … this is perhaps useful to monitor the front lines but won’t support any direct attacks. They are like Civil War era observation balloons.

Fiber optic links contain the signal in the cable and cannot be intercepted with an RF antenna. Likewise, a white out jammer cannot be constructed to disrupt the communications, as the cable jacket blocks incoming light waves.

A wide band RF jammer blocking all the (sub)channels isn’t hard to build once the signals intelligence identifies the center frequency and bandwidth. Any software defined radio kit would get that job done. Frequency hopping demands a wide band approach. The trick is the antenna design to accept the desired broadcast power and provide sufficient directionality and down range personnel safety.

(A directed beam RF transmitter can be considered a weapon of mass destruction when deployed as an anti personnel weapon).

Oh, OK, so they're actually attached. Very limited range then.

 

[DANC]

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Pretty funny posts on X. A lot of the pro-Russian bots are claiming the Ukes are clearing out some Russian units so they can have a smoother withdrawal from Kursk. lol

I don't think they'd be pushing farther into Russia, if that was the case.

 

[DANC]

Makes me think of Korea where both sides kept taking/retaking ground hoping to influence the final armistice.

Very much so

 

[Aloha Hoosier]

Makes me think of Korea where both sides kept taking/retaking ground hoping to influence the final armistice.

I think that’s exactly what they’re doing.

 

[DANC]

Makes me think of Korea where both sides kept taking/retaking ground hoping to influence the final armistice.

Off topic, but my dad was a generator mechanic in Korea. He was there for about a year when they assigned him to the peace talks at Panmunjom.

He only told 2 stories about his time in Korea and both of them involved his time there. One was, they ran searchlights and his unit was in charge of them. Every so often, they had to stop shining the lights to change bulbs, because they ran so hot. When they turned them off, they turned them down, so the lights shone on the ground. Well, the guys that turned the lights down turned them on the N. Korean/Chinese units that were in the hills. He said you could hear our troops firing away at them. That got a complaint filed with the peace talks and created a big stir.

The other was, he was assigned guard duty one time and they walked the perimeter in groups around the buildings where they were having the talks. The N. Koreans did the same thing. Dad's unit had dogs and one time one of he dogs went after a N. Korean and bit him. The N. Koreans said they were going to kill the dog (and probably eat it). Dad said they told them if they killed they dog, they'd kill them. Evidently it was a big standoff and, again, complaints to the commissions.

Those peace talks were total mind games.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Off topic, but my dad was a generator mechanic in Korea. He was there for about a year when they assigned him to the peace talks at Panmunjom.

He only told 2 stories about his time in Korea and both of them involved his time there. One was, they ran searchlights and his unit was in charge of them. Every so often, they had to stop shining the lights to change bulbs, because they ran so hot. When they turned them off, they turned them down, so the lights shone on the ground. Well, the guys that turned the lights down turned them on the N. Korean/Chinese units that were in the hills. He said you could hear our troops firing away at them. That got a complaint filed with the peace talks and created a big stir.

The other was, he was assigned guard duty one time and they walked the perimeter in groups around the buildings where they were having the talks. The N. Koreans did the same thing. Dad's unit had dogs and one time one of he dogs went after a N. Korean and bit him. The N. Koreans said they were going to kill the dog (and probably eat it). Dad said they told them if they killed they dog, they'd kill them. Evidently it was a big standoff and, again, complaints to the commissions.

Those peace talks were total mind games.

I have heard the story the N Koreans broke into the main room and sawed the legs off of the American chairs so that the North Korea s were seated higher

 

[DANC]

I have heard the story the N Koreans broke into the main room and sawed the legs off of the American chairs so that the North Korea s were seated higher

Yep, I've heard that, too.

It took Americans a while to adjust to the N. Korean tactics, but eventually they learned to play the game.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Yep, I've heard that, too.

It took Americans a while to adjust to the N. Korean tactics, but eventually they learned to play the game.

It is why negotiations with them are flat out impossible.

 

[JamieDimonsBalls]

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