REX'S HANGAR: THE HANDLEY PAGE HEYFORD.

Spending more time on Twitter has, through getting acquainted there with aviation enthusiasts, rekindled the fascination of my youth for anything that flies. This evening's topic is the Handley Page Heyford, a curious early thirties bomber design:





Nite.



MFBB.

STALEMATE IN UKRAINE.

One year into the war, the military of supposed superpower Russia has essentially confined itself to areas which even before the conflict were no longer fully under Ukrainian control. It can safely be said that the performance of the Russian armed forces - all three branches of it - is dismal.


The following video is curious since Russian mobile targets - Msta howitzers - are taken out by Excalibur rounds. I was under the impression that the GPS-controlled Excalibur shells are only used against fixed targets, what with a mobile target starting to move after the shot has been fired and some time elapses before the shell enters the target zone?

#Ukraine: Today, three Russian 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled 152mm howitzers were damaged/destroyed by Ukrainian M982 Excalibur strikes on the left bank of the Dnipro River, #Kherson Oblast. pic.twitter.com/KsoCCIFgrH

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) February 10, 2023

Still, the sheer quantity of videos showing devastating Russian losses should not lead one to believe that only one side is taking losses:

#Ukraine: A Ukrainian 2S19 Msta-S 152mm self-propelled howitzer was destroyed by a Russian Lancet loitering munition in #Luhansk Oblast. pic.twitter.com/SCulQVdAfv

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) February 10, 2023

MFBB.