BI article with entertaining details
May. 12th, 2022 08:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitouthttps://www.businessinsider.com/russia-su34-jets-basic-gps-receivers-taped-to-dashboards-uk-2022-5
“In his Monday speech, [UK Defence Minister] Wallace said Russian vehicles "are frequently found with 1980s paper maps of Ukraine in them"”
The headline, of course, is for the ages — GPS receivers! They are using a US nav system! Wow! OK, moving on. TAPED TO FIGHTER JET DASHBOARDS! Very frugal of them. Also, further evidence for the thesis, that the layer of tech from the last two decades that we are completely familiar with and have embedded in absolutely everything is being taped into fighter jets because it is better than anything else that military has.
But, I must say, the 1980s paper maps _is_ the detail I have been looking for. There’s really only one form of evidence that would be even more powerful. _MY_ thesis for what the hell Russia were you doing sending troops to entrench in the Red Forest was that the entire original invasion plan was a Soviet Era plan _on paper_ _in binders_ you know the way everyone did everything before computers. And it dated from before the Chernobyl meltdown, and no one implementing that plan _remembered_ Chernobyl melting down, because first it was a Secret and you could be Punished for talking about it and then it was irrelevant because a whole lot of other shit was higher priority for most of Russia. The Ukrainians, having been stuck with taking care of that mess, of course have not forgotten and also have managed to peel off that ancient layer of Secrets you can be Punished for talking about.
This thing is a zombie dinosaur, with all of the horror movie tropes of fighting a zombie dinosaur. Very hard to kill, because it is unnatural, and already dead and rotting, and that nevertheless is not stopping it from doing insane amounts of harm.
“In his Monday speech, [UK Defence Minister] Wallace said Russian vehicles "are frequently found with 1980s paper maps of Ukraine in them"”
The headline, of course, is for the ages — GPS receivers! They are using a US nav system! Wow! OK, moving on. TAPED TO FIGHTER JET DASHBOARDS! Very frugal of them. Also, further evidence for the thesis, that the layer of tech from the last two decades that we are completely familiar with and have embedded in absolutely everything is being taped into fighter jets because it is better than anything else that military has.
But, I must say, the 1980s paper maps _is_ the detail I have been looking for. There’s really only one form of evidence that would be even more powerful. _MY_ thesis for what the hell Russia were you doing sending troops to entrench in the Red Forest was that the entire original invasion plan was a Soviet Era plan _on paper_ _in binders_ you know the way everyone did everything before computers. And it dated from before the Chernobyl meltdown, and no one implementing that plan _remembered_ Chernobyl melting down, because first it was a Secret and you could be Punished for talking about it and then it was irrelevant because a whole lot of other shit was higher priority for most of Russia. The Ukrainians, having been stuck with taking care of that mess, of course have not forgotten and also have managed to peel off that ancient layer of Secrets you can be Punished for talking about.
This thing is a zombie dinosaur, with all of the horror movie tropes of fighting a zombie dinosaur. Very hard to kill, because it is unnatural, and already dead and rotting, and that nevertheless is not stopping it from doing insane amounts of harm.