NewStats: 3,261,667 , 8,174,699 topics. Date: Friday, 30 May 2025 at 03:29 AM l661y

gtim4uall:
Head to head with no backing , there will be no winner

Exactly, that's why the US are avoiding a confrontation.

Let’s start with a few assumptions

1. No nukes

2. No allies. Russia doesn’t have many military allies and the US has dozens- obviously, this tilts things.

Let’s assume (rather unrealistically) that there is a war between just the US and Russia. Who would win?

The US would win- and it would dominate.


(note these numbers are a little off- the now favor the US more than before)

Airforce:

The US boasts the strongest air force on earth. Not only is it the largest by a margin, but it is also the most technologically advanced by quite a degree.

350,000 personnel
5,800 aircraft

The Russian airforce is very large and advanced- yet its total cost is about 20% of the US airforce. Russia employs older jets and technology compared to the US


190,000 personnel
4,000 Aircraft

Navy:

The US Navy is by far the largest and most expensive fleet on earth. The US focuses on surface fleet action with combat being centered around “supercarriers” and carrier strike groups.

350,000 personnel
480 ships

2,5000 aircraft
The Russian Navy operates differently than the US Navy. The Russians cannot afford a large carrier fleet and so they utilize more submarines and missile strike craft. This strategy can work when employed correctly but doesn’t do well against large surface fleets.

150,000 personnel
350 ships
no aircraft in significant numbers

Ground forces:


The US Army is not the largest on earth but it is most expensive. US troops are some of the best equipped and best trained troops on earth. The US spends love static defense. US forces like infantry to be well ed by APCs, tanks, and air.

1 million personnel without about half being active duty
The Russian army is much smaller than the US army by a margin and is also less advanced. Russia has banked on Armored warfare and thus has a larger fleet of tanks and armored vehicles than the US.

900,000 personnel with 280,000 being active duty
Military the US and Russia have different strategies when it comes to war. The US has the best of the best in about everything while Russia employs what it can afford.

Looking at the Navy’s of these 2 nations is a great example. The US has a massive surface fleet with 12 hyper-expensive carriers. Russia cannot afford more than 2 or 3 carriers so they know they cannot compete on the surface. Thus Russia has invested in missile craft and submarines, hoping this will allow them to combat the US fleet for a cheaper cost.

In the end though the US simply has the larger military and the more technologically advanced military. That's not all either.

The US has a far larger economy than Russia- with the US economy being 13 times larger (in of GDP)

The US economy is more advanced than the Russian economy with a far higher GDP per capita. This advancement also allows the US economy to withstand shocks better.

The US has the geographical advantage. It would be nearly impossible to invade the US given it’s bordered by the 2 largest oceans. Russia meanwhile is bordered by US allies and even if we take the allies out of the equation, Russia is more exposed than the US.

Likely both nations are impossible to conquer though

The US has a lot of control over foreign markets and global trade and it could easily blockade Russia into economic ruin.

mccloud224:


I wasn't talking about the firearm... I talked about the sniper job in Nigeria. Its pointless. That's my point.

Let me put it this way...

A high profile target will be in Agarawu market to buy narcotic hard drugs and he must be taken out before leaving the vicinity. How do you go about it in a CROWDED market? No tall look out to conceal yourself. Hmm?

Another scenario....a high profile target in aso rock. The zone is off limits...like TOTALLY not within reach and most def any tall outpost would be randomly manned by our incompetent soldiers who have more talent forcing defenseless citizens to roll in filthy mud but sh*t their pants when they hear Boko Haram or ESN. The glass,doors and walls are most def bullet proof and those thieves in Aso Rock are busy thinking up ways off looting the country dry than peeking through the window hoping to get shot (you are already aware of the several billions they have earmarked for a Russia-Ukraine war that doesn't concern them).

Normally everyone knows naija na cast

Totilopussylick:
Are those are Russian soldiers

Not sure looked American to me

I'm going to have to say child soldiers are the most frightening in combat, 8-12 year olds being the worst.

These kids are usually drugged up, forced into whatever war their adults place them in, many have been sexually abused. No grown-up soldiers wants to kill children, even if they are trying to kill you. Netflix had an incredible movie called Beasts of No Nations, it was about how a young orphaned boy ends up as a child soldier.

Most of the enemies of the free world haved used child soldiers in one capacity or another. A prime example is the unarmed child waves the Iranian military used against the Iraqis during that war. The Iranians used 10-13 year old boys to run forward of the main body to clear mines and other obstacles as well as being ‘human shields' for the Iranian military during attacks.

The Palestinians have used toddlers straped with explosives and set them against Israeli Soldiers. This happened 100s of times during the Vietnam War. The VC would strap grenades to small children and send them towards the American lines. I would say child soldiers are the most frightening in combat, because even the most combat hardened soldier will end up hesitant to shoot a child soldier.

mccloud224:
This article is most def NOT related to the Nigerian military...

Snipers in Nigeria? That's a joke. The army @ best are infantry who show their fearlessness to unarmed civilians and pull off their camouflage when they hear gun shots from armed bandits/terrorists. The Navy? They have refurbished tugboats called "battle ships" that cost billions and billions to acquire (don't ask why). The air force? We are told we have an air force who couldn't locate terrorists in Sambisa Forest for over 12 years and just ed their jobs coz their bosses want to win 2023 election and want to appear like they are doing their job. Police? Handy men,thugs/assassins for hire,daylight arm robbers with uniforms,umbrella holders,car washers,laundrymen and recently...food servers.

Back to snipers....Nigeria isn't Manhattan ,Seoul or even Ukraine where tall infrastructure makes up most of the city (easiest hideout for a sniper). In the bushes, the tall trees would most def be surrounded by more trees thus you are blind sighted. The only way to take out a target is on ground level and a silenced pistol would be more effective (and concealed) than that Draganov (or whatever long range rifle) the sniper uses.

Great article though but dis na 9ja. Nothing works here. Not even jobs for snipers...lol.

So no even oka made sniper?

This type of soldier: Those carrying antenna


Any soldier seen with antenna’s sticking out of their gear or carrying a radio should strike pure terror into the hearts of their adversaries.

Snipers are pretty spooky, special operations personnel are highly skilled and can strike you anywhere anytime, and child soldiers present opposing forces with a brutal moral dilemma on the battlefield. All that pales in comparison with what this particular soldier is capable of in combat…

All he needs is your location and the all-clear, and all of hell could simultaneously be delivered precisely to your location in a matter of minutes. If you see a soldier with a big radio on his back, be very wary cause you don't wanna find out what's at the other end of the Antenna…

From an interrogation perspective:


Snipers are assholes. That's a period to the left.

Snipers have lots of Intel to include:

Enemy tactics, techniques, and procedures.
Enemy troop movements.
Communication methods.
Enemy dispositions (locations).
They are expert map readers, they know the terrain, and even worse, they know you better than most any other enemy combatant.

That being said, it's rare that you ever catch an enemy sniper alive, because like others have posted, they would rather die than be captured.

Not to mention, we don’t eff around with snipers, we generally drop multiple and very expensive bombs with the explicit purpose of blowing the shit out of them on the battlefield.

Personally, my (the op) team tracked down a single sniper for many months during combat (Intel side). He was responsible for so many deaths on my side of the court.

They killed him all the way dead. I think they made a movie about it. But whatever.

When you are lucky enough to capture a sniper for interrogation, you found a gold mine of Intel.

Cheers

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3. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

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7. Feelings that come back are feelings that never left.

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9. Even a bad day is just 24 hours.

10. It’s not your job to fix people.

qekng40:
what sort of element is the space craft made of?
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Nice one!

Research it, but they mentioned something like carbon to carbon fiber for the heat shield.

The rest of the space craft is vulnerable to the heat but the heat shield protect them from the heat and they are constantly circulated by water. To cool them.

Ogamysamo:
secret is never something to be told. what they know is their secret weapon never to be disclosed, and thats what make them different from us. unlike us where if you eventually succeed in building castle in the air every body must know how to do it

True shall but these guys are just so advance, bro I would never have believed they would carryout something like this. We really need to buckle up o.

The eight-foot-diameter heat shield will safeguard everything within its umbra, the shadow it casts on the spacecraft. At Parker Solar Probe’s closest approach to the Sun, temperatures on the heat shield will reach nearly 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit, but the spacecraft and its instruments will be kept at a relatively comfortable temperature of about 85 degrees Fahrenheit.

The heat shield is made of two s of superheated carbon-carbon composite sandwiching a lightweight 4.5-inch-thick carbon foam core. The Sun-facing side of the heat shield is also sprayed with a specially formulated white coating to reflect as much of the Sun’s energy away from the spacecraft as possible.

The heat shield itself weighs only about 160 pounds — here on Earth, the foam core is 97 percent air. Because Parker Solar Probe travels so fast — 430,000 miles per hour at its closest approach to the Sun, fast enough to travel from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., in about one second — the shield and spacecraft have to be light to achieve the needed orbit.

The reinstallation of the Thermal Protection System — which was briefly attached to the spacecraft during testing at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland, in fall 2017 — marks the first time in months that Parker Solar Probe has been fully integrated. The heat shield and spacecraft underwent testing and evaluation separately at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, before shipping out to Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, in April 2018. With the recent reunification, Parker Solar Probe inches closer to launch and toward the Sun.

Parker Solar Probe is part of NASA’s Living with a Star Program, or LWS, to explore aspects of the Sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society. LWS is managed by Goddard for the Heliophysics Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory manages the Parker Solar Probe mission for NASA. APL designed and built the spacecraft and will also operate it.

Another thing I will like to point out is how do NASA eventually get that thing close to the sun since the sun is very very far away from earth.

This NASA guys have secret there are not telling us.

Ogamysamo:
how wish dem put person inside so that he'll come back and give us testimony

Hahahaha, he no go make am at all even that spacecraft will eventually get toasted once the fuel powering it to always keep it's heat shield facing the sun is done.

KingEverest:
corruption won't allow that corruption we copied from the West now we Don carry am for head the same tin with their religion

Na WA for we shall.

KingEverest:
Africa was disrupted by colonization, Africa was civilized don't forget the great Benin empire but we abandoned all our traditions and cultures to follow West now we are starting from scratch

We Maybe others but not this country, I don't see why we have universities in this country and FG don't use them accordingly, universities are meant to be funded and fuel research.

KingEverest:
The whites always breaking boundaries

I was shocked when I saw this yesterday, we here are just shouting propagandas everytime why dont we progress so we can make our our propaganda.

That spacecraft reflects heat so it can't be burn by the sun, what more do humans want again, to inhabit sun

Finally I dedicate this frontpage to all my village people who has been tormenting me negatively inorder to take a positive step.

TheWolfen:

A god that frolic about in girls hostels and beds.
That nah god ?
Something make suppose dey inside pot or zoo for people's amusement or better still remain in the wild...

No be even boys hostel self girls hostel, hahahaha the gods are pevy

The American space agency NASA says a spacecraft has entered the sun’s outermost atmosphere for the first time.

The Parker Solar Probe traveled through the solar atmosphere’s outer edge – known as the corona – in April, scientists announced this week. They said it took them a few months to examine data from the spacecraft and to confirm the result.

Unlike Earth, the sun does not have a solid surface. Instead, it is a superheated ball of material held together by gravity and magnetic forces.

Some solar material escapes and is released into space in what is known as the solar wind. The solar wind is the flow of charged particles, known as plasma, released from the corona into space.

The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 with a main goal of studying the solar wind. Scientists say being able to study the solar wind and the corona close up can help them better understand how solar activity influences Earth.

NASA has described the spacecraft’s entry into the outermost atmosphere as successfully “touching” the sun.

Nour Raouafi is the project scientist on the mission. He is with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland. Raouafi called the finding "fascinatingly exciting.”

The spacecraft is now able to sense conditions in the magnetically-influenced corona for the very first time, Raouafi said.

He added that the evidence used to confirm the findings included data on magnetic fields and the solar wind, as well as images. “We can actually see the spacecraft flying through coronal structures that can be observed during a total solar eclipse,” Raouafi said.

Scientists announced the findings during a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Results were also published by the American Physical Society.

The scientists reported Parker was about 13 million kilometers from the center of the sun when it crossed the boundary between the solar atmosphere and the solar wind. They said the spacecraft was able to go in and out of the corona at least three times.

The Parker team said early data also suggested the spacecraft may have entered the corona during its ninth close in August. But further study is needed to make a confirmation. The scientists said Parker made its 10th close last month.

The spacecraft is expected to keep getting closer to the sun and diving deeper into the corona until its final orbit, planned for 2025.

TheWolfen:
Make dem no worry. One stranger will visit the community and kill the Python at the first slight. If he is greedy. He will butcher it and Cook it and nobody will know the whereabouts of their community snake god
Yeye people

The place close to my hometown theirs is snail, of all things congo meat, what a waste of nutrition.

richiemcgold:
I no wan to dey hear say one animal na deity. The python is lucky say e no dey my area. Many of its type wey we don kill throway. Deity ko, data ni.

People killing this things are damn good, but I think they are generally harmless when unprovoked, I a time I stood close to a poisonous snake and I didn't know, it didn't bite me, but I know it saw me. Cause it was very close to my foot, just chilling.

qekng40:
Some peoples deity.
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Kill it and see.

soundOsonic:
Actually python is harmless. It has no venom.
It can only swallow you if it is very huge.
I don't think the python in that hostel can swallow any human

But the sight of it alone will make your spirit jump out of you

Python chases Delta varsity students from hostel, school says reptile harmless

Fear gripped students of Novena University, Ogume, in the Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State, after a python invaded a female hostel in the school.

Our correspondent gathered that the python was found early Monday, creating panic among students.

A source in the university said students woke up around 5.30pm and found the snake on the bed.

“We saw a big snake that slept overnight with us on the same bed in one of the female hostels.

“The snake crawled into the hostel and found its way to the bed. One of the female students who slept in the room screamed, which drew the attention of other students. As I speak, they have vacated the hostel,” the source added.

The Public Relations Officer of the institution, Mr Emmanuel Odishika, confirmed the incident.

He said, “The community has a sacred snake and from time to time students run into it, but it does not hurt anybody.

“The university is over 16 years old, founded in 2005, and since then, the snake never hurt anybody. The snake is not harmful.

“We usually give students orientation whenever we it new students; older students don’t panic because they are aware of it. We cannot restrict the snake’s movement.”

Odishika said there was no overgrown grass on the school premises, adding that the snake did not require weed to visit the school.

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Manchester United interim manager, Ralf Rangnick, wants Nigerian striker, Victor Osimhen to replace Cristiano Ronaldo at Old Trafford.


This claim was made by respected Italian journalist, Ciro Venerato.

Reports had emerged that Ronaldo could be leaving Man United at the end of the season due to the club’s poor results, quality of the squad and problems in the dressing room so far this season.

According to Venerato, Manchester United are targeting a summer move for Osimhen as a replacement for Ronaldo.


Osimhen continues to be linked with a transfer to the Premier League ahead of the summer transfer window, with Arsenal and Newcastle United also mentioned as possible destinations for the Super Eagles attacker.

But Venerato believes that Napoli’s owner, Aurelio De Laurentiis, would be forced to do business with one of Osimhen’s suitors if the Serie A club received a bid in the region of 100 million euros.


“Manchester United focuses on the Nigerian, Rangnick wants him to replace Cristiano Ronaldo,” Venerato said on La Domenica Sportiva, according to calcioinpillole.

“The club and the player have already been probed, with President De Laurentiis valuing him 100 million.

“At the same time, Napoli asked Sassuolo for information for Scamacca, considered by Spalletti as the best possible heir of Osimhen.”

Osimhen’s current contract with Napoli will expire in the summer of 2023.

The 23-year-old ed Napoli from French Ligue 1 side Lille in 2020.

While the United States are the number 1 in the world and Russia second.

The Russian military have been more effective lately than the US, they were able to overwhelm Georgia and made progress in Syria which lead to the establishment of a permanent base there and a sure economical benefits when the Syria economy starts booming again.

Now, the US attack on Libya and Afghanistan was what some will say a failure, with the Libya own making other NATO question their actions.

The US fights and try to replace government unlike Russia and that's their problem, they always intend to place their pattern of government to other nations which they never succeeded as in the case of Libya.

The US army lack proper planning at times, in some situations they fail to create an exit plan unlike the Russia military whom are very effective.

Now to the above statement I think this is down to the fact Russia's president whom for long has been in power and we all also know he was part of the Russian force and he is definitely skilled and tactical unlike the US which have seen different Presidents with different approach.

The US might be superior to Russia in military but we all do know war has no victor only those who survived and the US will do every thing to prevent that from happen to avoid anything that will bring their economy down.

Now they is nothing like Western Propaganda, the US might not be right in their actions with some certain issue and those are mistake and the issue of CNN along with the rest we all saw their actions during the Trump impeachment and the Election, for example during the Iran and US face off, everyone was expecting retaliation from US after their base was attacked by Iranian missiles, then Trump clearly say he won't do such but increase the sanctions on Iran, after the speech a CNN reporter said Trump was going to attack Iran and that was the day I knew they can't be trusted at all.

We should never judge a country by it's leaders, they are good people so they are bad ones and most has made bad decisions and also good ones.

All am saying is we should stop insulting these countries, for example Nigeria is a great nation but our leaders are the ones bringing her to her knees.

My own opinion what's your view.

Aufbauh:
I'll always & defend my country Nigeria whatsoever.
Leaders whether bad or good come and go but Nigeria is my country.
I can't because of bad successive drivers disown my lovely car.

I stand with you.

Esseite:


You are reading too much western propaganda, Russians are going about their businesses, sponsored protests are normal when you have EU nations with embassies in russia.

You guys with western propaganda self you think if not for their propagandas the technology you are enjoying today you won't enjoy it.

People that donate money to your country.

This life is simple fight to survive at all cost, if Nigeria was that powerful Cameroon won't have dared dragging Bakasi pennisulla with us. Even the Xenocide stuff against us wouldn't have started in the first place.

GGirll:


You people will just be saying things without reasoning fully. What if they want to do what they did to saddam Hussein n Gaddafi now to Putin or you think d Putin is a fool or what. Look deeply before you believe the west.

They would do no such Putin is a big man but everyone knows the kind of leader he is very hard to crack he should at least consider his people and the Ukrainians too.

He is powerful we know for sure but he should know war is not always an option.

BKayy:

It is because you people are enslaved by the West.
That is why you don't know why you are praying for them. It is called mental slavery.
You don't know what caused the war, why Russia invaded Ukraine but choose the side of your slave master nonetheless.

Read about it.

Una with the west and western propaganda self tell me where propaganda no day even Nigeria self e day moreover Russia once mocked the US by claiming their intent of attacking Ukraine is false now what are they doing?

There is propaganda everywhere you are talking as if most of the technologies you enjoying today are not from the west, even when they is an outbreak of an kind they step forward to counter it. Same people that has been helping Africa fight malaria etc. They are not entirely good and they are not always bad so stop all this rubbish west stuff.