Russian invasion of Ukraine

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

The Americans must be loving trying out all this technology they’ve spent billions on, actually seeing it working in the field and seeing how it measures up, they will be learning valuable lessons for the next big one against China.

I think they would be well advised to avoid this one.

 

[mosssideblue]

It should be given the costs of both training them, and how much it costs to manufacture the aircraft themselves.

Russian Pilots Snippet Valve must be in full clapping mode every time they fly in Ukraine

 

[dickie davies]

That last minute from 19 minutes. I welled up

 

[grunge]

The Americans must be loving trying out all this technology they’ve spent billions on, actually seeing it working in the field and seeing how it measures up, they will be learning valuable lessons for the next big one against China.

Thing is there’s very little new stuff being sent. It’s all tried and tested, the only new thing reported was the “ghost drone”

Even HIMARS is from the 90’s but with iterative upgrades

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Thing is there’s very little new stuff being sent. It’s all tried and tested, the only new thing reported was the “ghost drone”

Even HIMARS is from the 90’s but with iterative upgrades

Maybe from the 90s but would appear to be a game changer if they can supply enough of them.

 

[grunge]

Maybe from the 90s but would appear to be a game changer if they can supply enough of them.

Agreed. Total game changer. Units tho are not the issue, hundreds can be supplied if training has been carried out. ammo is however a big issue There has only been ever been 7K ammo pods produced and shipped world wide.

With 16 active HIMARS in Ukraine now, a few pods a day each will burn that supply very quickly. And the US / UK will have far less than that 7K pods to give.

I don’t doubt there will be more made but they are not a quick turn around.

Some new missiles are being developed however using some items that have very large stock piles. I guess they will be fitted to the HIMARS pods. Due to be ready for spring. They are dumb plane bombs fitted with GPS guidances, been around for a while and usually dropped from planes but they are fitting them to missiles.

 

[metalblue]

We even had Russians defecting to the West and telling us what was happening.

Some had worked in ‘Troll Factories’ where they would spread disinformation and spam social media with #Leave #Trump. #Leave trended on Twitter in the lead up to the Referendum by double the amount that #Remain did.

Meddling bastards!

They’d even argue with each other to create the illusion of debate for the general public to get involved in. The undeclared war, although a drama series, is worth a watch on this topic alone.

It does make you wonder how aware governments were and why we allowed monumental decisions like Brexit against this backdrop. Too afraid to admit our democracy had been undermined?

 

[metalblue]

That is some ballsy reporting.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

From my POV, rhe ruSSians will do, and are doing everything, they can to destroy the Western way of life this includes political issues and the tolerance for, not wanting to point fingers, LBGT (for example). For the west we are very tolerant and welcome other way of thinking. The ruSSians see this as a weakness that needs to be destroyed.

 

[SPIDERBOY]

"I can easily imagine Akhmat Special Forces entering Warsaw," Solovyev says.

Someone should tell the prick that during this invasion the Russians have been attacking Avdiivka for 305 days solid,and gained fuck all.
Warsaw,my arse.

Slava Ukraini.