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The Ukrainians are saying they successfully struck the reconnaissance ship Ivan Khurs and the large landing ship Kostyantyn Olshansky in the March 24th. attack. They previously claimed hits and damage on the large landing ships Yamal and Azov on the same day. I haven't seen any credible damage reports as yet.

I like subs. I've watched just about every submarine movie I could get my hands on. If anyone is in Freemantle, the guided tour through the dry docked Oberon Class submarine is well worth it.

Emmco (Electricity Meter Manufacturing Co. Ltd.) merged with New Systems Telephone Pty. Ltd. in 1934 and then became known as Electricity Meter and Allied Industries Limited. The Email acronym was adopted in 1951. They still built radios under the Emmco name until 1936.

Gene Hackman.

If IS did organise the attack, it makes sense that they would use local Russian Tajiks. It would be a lot easier than trying to do it themselves. There's a whole district in Moscow that's virtually overrun by migrants from Tajikistan to the point where Russians are in the minority. A lot survive through petty crime, drug dealing and general gangster-like activities, so it wouldn't be hard to get recruits there. With two million Muslims in Moscow, IS would be able to get some sort of a foothold there without much trouble.

Just some thoughts on the terror attack in Moscow. I don't know if we'll ever know the full story. What's been presented so far is a bit confusing and a lot of things don't make sense. Bearing in mind in Russia these days, very little makes sense at the best of times. The US government and their security agencies are still going with the IS narrative. They say they firmly believe it was Islamic State behind it. The Tajiks who were arrested seem to be giving the story that they were hired and paid to do the job. Going by the footage of them being captured, that's believable as they were crying and whimpering like a bunch of girls when they were caught. Not at all like the average gung ho, die for Allah type of IS fighter. They were tracked down and caught very quickly in comparison to the hour it took the SWAT team to arrive at the concert shooting site, despite their base being only a few minutes away. The security guards at the concert venue weren't armed. The security contract is also filled by the National Guard according to one source. The shooters were in the building for 18 minutes shooting people, then casually walked out the front door and drove way. In that 18 minutes, the police must have been flooded with calls, yet none arrived at the scene while the perpetrators were there. The speed with which they were caught could suggest that the authorities knew all about the plan, but let it happen for political benefit. It wouldn't be the first time that's happened. There's one problem with that theory. A few days before, putin was up on stage in public doing his usual bragging and boasting. Part of his speech was dedicated to heaping scorn on the US warnings about an imminent terror attack. He dismissed it as nonsense and said the Americans were trying to cause division and public unrest. Blackmail he called it. He would hardly say all that and set himself up to look like a mug if he knew the attack was going ahead and that he was going to let it happen. It looks like he's been caught with his guard down. The suspects have copped quite a bashing. Whether any of that was to coerce them into pointing the finger at Ukraine is anybody's guess. If the whole thing was a false flag of sorts to implicate Ukraine, then it failed miserably. It's all a bit fishy.

The Russians are saying that the Black Sea Fleet communications centre/command post hit in Sevastopol had more than 20 officers in it. Reports are that there was over 30 personnel killed in the strike.

With a bit of luck the Azov and Yamal are out of action in the long term. They were the last two remaining Ropucha class ships which is a relatively modern class. The remaining two Alligator class landing ships date back to 1968 and 1975.

Maybe it wasn't the FSB building. Most reports are saying the missiles hit the Black Sea Fleet communications centre. If the ships are badly damaged, it's a bad first week for the new fleet commander. putler will run out of commanders to sack at this rate. Russian media is reporting the three Su-27s damaged, so that one must be reasonably confirmed.

Also claiming three Su-27 aircraft destroyed on the ground at Belbek air base in Crimea.

Some news has surfaced that the Ukrainians destroyed the large landing ships Yamal and Azov last night in Crimea, using Storm Shadow missiles. If confirmed, that would make four out of the six Black Sea Fleet landing ships gone. They also blew up the FSB building in Sevastopol with a triple tap missile strike.

I should have gone to Specsavers. Those skinny little Tajiks they rounded up don't look anything like the shooters in the concert hall.

Another two Russian refineries have been hit by drones. This time in the Samara region, so a quite a way east.

Does anybody really think France, Britain or the US would help us to acquire nuclear weapons? In the real world I mean. We could always get them from the fairies at the bottom of the garden.

My following post explains the reality of it.

That job's assigned to Medvedev. They just give him a microphone and another vodka bottle and let him loose on the media. He fulfills the vital role of saying the things putler would like to say publicly. If any shite hits the fan over Medvedev's crazy rants, putin can distance himself from it.

Plus if we wanted to go rogue and get nukes, our nuclear allies wouldn't help as they don't want us to have them. The only way to acquire the technology would be to get it on the sly from the very state actors we would be trying to protect ourselves from. So it doesn't make sense. If we ask for nukes, no ally will give us the technology and if we try to gain them illegally, we wouldn't have a responsible ally left in the world.

We could talk about until the cows come home but the simple fact is we're not allowed to have them. https://www.nti.org/education-center/treaties-and-regimes/treaty-on-the-prohibition-of-nuclear-weapons/

The Russian national guard special forces arrived at the scene an hour after the shooting started. One thing noticeable about the phone camera footage of the shooters is that they didn't look Middle Eastern or like Afghans or other people from those border countries. They looked like Russians and carried themselves like ex (or current) military. No suicide vests or desire to die fighting apparent. It looked very professional like they wanted to get in, do the job and get out cleanly. It leaves open the possibility of an inside job or false flag despite ISIS claiming the attack. It looked like a cool headed commando operation rather than the usual Islamist style of attack.

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It must be a young photo, he's got all his hair.

Karl Malden or that other bloke that looks a bit like him.

Oh well, at least it's stopping me from going senile. Better luck next time.

I like the zipper truck.