'Crowdfunded' Aid For Russian Jet Squadron Looks Like Someone Raided A Home Depot

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Pictures have emerged online showing almost bizarrely mundane items that Russian forces participating in the conflict in Ukraine, especially combat aviation units, have apparently received through recent crowdfunding campaigns.

The images show a motley assortment of things one might buy at a hardware store, including power tools, wrenches, extension cords, and even an axe and weed hackers, among other things. One Russian Air Force squadron equipped with Su-34 Fullback combat jets received a pair of Chinese-made Hangcha-brand commercial forklifts to help move bombs and other ordnance around for loading onto aircraft. These are hardly the kinds of things one would expect to be in high demand by elements of a major military.

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Now, it's no secret that supporters of both sides of the conflict in Ukraine have been actively using crowdsourcing as a way to raise funds to buy various items to support the respective war efforts. One recent crowdfunding campaign in Lithuania raised nearly 6 million Euros, or around $6.4 million, to buy a Turkish-made TB2 armed drone for the Ukrainian military. Manufacturer Bayraktar subsequently donated one of these unmanned aircraft to the Lithuanian government to be transferred to Ukraine's armed forces, with the understanding that 1.5 million Euros of the total that was originally fundraised go toward outfitting the drone and the rest be used to purchase humanitarian aid.

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On the Russian side, by every indication, many ground units went into the conflict horribly underprepared. Citizens in Russia have since sought to fill various gaps, sending a wide variety of relatively simple, but important items to forces in the field, ranging from radios and night vision optics to medical supplies and foodstuffs. Small drones, which are being employed to great effect on both sides for surveillance and reconnaissance, are also being regularly crowdsourced for Russian forces.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/crowdfunded-aid-for-russian-jet-squadron-looks-like-someone-raided-a-home-depot/ar-AAYbFDU

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1. Ukrainians are selling key fobs made from downed Russian jets as a fund raiser.

Russia can't compete with that. Slava Ukraini!

[ThoughtCriminal]

2. That old joke about schools getting adequate funding

and the Pentagon having to have bake sales to buy a bomber.

More proof we are living in a simulation that has gone buggy.