We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
Documented Russian equipment losses since the start of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by equipment type.
Armored and Fighting Vehicles:
Tanks: 3,549
Armoured Fighting Vehicles: 1,736
Infantry Fighting Vehicles: 4,955
Armoured Personnel Carriers: 538
MRAPs (Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected): 56
Infantry Mobility Vehicles: 310
Support and Communications Equipment:
Command Posts and Communications Stations: 293
Engineering Vehicles and Equipment: 591
Unmanned Ground Vehicles: 3
Missile and Artillery Systems:
Self-Propelled Anti-Tank Missile Systems: 45
Artillery Support Vehicles and Equipment: 127
Towed Artillery: 417
Self-Propelled Artillery: 849
Multiple Rocket Launchers: 436
Anti-Aircraft and Missile Systems:
Anti-Aircraft Guns: 56
Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Guns: 27
Surface-to-Air Missile Systems: 285
Radars and Jamming Equipment:
Radars: 84
Jammers and Deception Systems: 85
Aircraft and Drones:
Aircraft: 132
Helicopters: 147
UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles): 18
UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles): 496
Naval and Ground Transport:
Naval Ships and Submarines: 28
Trucks, Vehicles, and Jeeps: 3,721
Total Counts:
Overall total: 18,984 units
Total excluding recon drones and trucks: 14,767 units
Total of tanks, armored vehicles (AFVs), infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), APCs, and MRAPs: 10,834 units
Source: Rebel44CZ / Oryx Blog
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
