We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (9 October 2023)
▫️ In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces in cooperation with aviation and artillery repelled 3 attacks by AFU near Kurdyumovka and Vodyanoye (DPR).
▫️ In addition, strikes were delivered at clusters of enemy manpower and hardware near Kleshcheyevka and Andreyevka (DPR).
▫️ The enemy lost up to 140 servicemen killed or wounded, 3 AFVs, and 2 motor vehicles.
▫️ In Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery neutralised manpower and hardware of the AFU 65th Mechanised Brigade near Rabotino (Zaporozhye).
▫️ Also, during the day, actions of a sabotage and reconnaissance group were foiled close to Verbovoye (Zaporozhye).
▫️ Up to 15 servicemen, 2 AFVs, 2 motor vehicles, and a D-30 howitzer were wiped out.
▫️ In Kupyansk direction, the Zapad Group of Forces units supported by aviation and artillery repelled 5 enemy attacks of the AFU 32th, 115th mechanised brigades, and 4th Tank Brigade near Sinkovka, Orlyanskoye (Kharkov) and Makeyevka (LPR).
▫️ The enemy losses amounted to up to 170 servicemen, 4 pick-up trucks, and an Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system during the day.
▫️ In Krasny Liman direction, well-coordinated actions of the Tsentr Group of Forces, helicopter strikes, and artillery fire repelled 2 attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 63rd and 67th mechanised brigades near Chervonaya Dibrova (LPR).
▫️ In addition, strikes were delivered at clusters of enemy manpower and hardware near Torskoye, Grigorovka (DPR) and Kuzmino (LPR).
▫️ Up to 45 servicemen, 2 AFVs, 2 motor vehicles were neutralised.
▫️ In the course of counter-battery warfare, an Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, as well as D-20 and D-30 howitzers, were destroyed.
▫️ In South Donetsk direction, the Vostok Group of Forces supported by helicopters and artillery repelled an attack of the AFU 128th Territorial Defence Brigade near Priyutnoye (Zaporozhye) and delivered strikes at Ukrainian units near Staromayorskoye (DPR).
▫️ Total losses of the enemy in the past 24 hours in this direction have amounted to over 200 servicemen killed and wounded, 1IFV, 2 AFVs, 2 motor vehicles, and a D-20 howitzer.
▫️ In Kherson direction, up to 60 servicemen, 3 motor vehicles, and a D-30 howitzer have been neutralised by fire.
▫️ Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, UAVs, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 105 areas during the day.
▫️ An AFU depot of missile and artillery weapory has been destroyed near Priluki (Chernigov).
▫️ Russian air defence units have intercepted one HIMARS MLRS projectile during the day.
▫️ 14 UAVs have been destroyed close to Kremenets, Kurdyumovka (DPR), Proletarka, Kazachi, Genichensk (Zaporozhye), and Olshana, Berestovoye (Kherson).
Russian Defence Ministry
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Yanis Varoufakis (former Greek Minister of Finance) describes AI as a new form of capital that produces not goods, but behavioral modification. This is achieved by engineering perceptions.
The answers provided by ChatGPT, or the images rendered by StableDiffusion — as these increasingly inform our perceptions, they in turn define the reality we experience.
This is what makes AI so powerful — he who controls the AI, defines the reality of tomorrow.
⚡️🇺🇸 Some more things coming out for the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Under the preliminary drafts of the bill, the USAF is requesting a release of $57,000,000 USD ($57.0 Million) to retire all remaining 162 A-10 Thunderbolt IIs in current service. Apart of the 2023 NDAA, there was a clause for a few million dollars to be released every so often to gradually retire the (then) 250 airframes by 2034; however due to the push by the Dept of Defense to ‘shed’ obsolete or obsolescent airframes that cannot be overhauled or upgraded further without a whole new airframe, it appears the USAF wants to retire all 162 remaining A-10s by the end of 2026.
The USAF plans to fully divest the 340-total remaining A-10s entirely, including those that currently serve in a handful of Air National Guard units in some states; which will be replaced by F-15EX Eagle IIs (like what is already happening with the Michigan State Air National Guard’s A-10s), or F-35A/Bs.
Included ...
My older sister lives in the country in between Velma Oklahoma and Duncan Oklahoma near the Fuqua Lake area, this story was told by a rural mail delivery woman who delivers the mail in the country.
The incident happened while she was on her route, when she came upon to the mailbox a male Chinese nation came out brandishing a, AK-47 rifle being very hostile,
I don't know if he pointed it at her since it is against the law to do so but she was terrified and said she was never going back and that the location that had a guard tower. Was the sheriff department notified, I don't know, did she notify her supervisor, don't know. But word is from the country folk who live in the area they have seen the guard tower at the pot place;
I refuse to call it a farm because it is an insult to farmers.
And yes she was traumatized by that ordeal
