Russia - threadbanned users in OP

They are very good the one on britain is an eye opener tell you that

If only id a few bob i would

Absolutely. I was shocked. Just 16 well targeted cruise missles, conventional, not nuclear, would render the UK Military useless and would cause widespread social, civilian and logistical damage that would take years to rebuild.

Yeah everybody who says ireland will be fine the raf or royal navy will help us should watch it

Apparently 45,000 Orcs are dead or injured at this point. Troop losses will have a big effect on how this war goes.

They haven't been dealing with corpes being shipped home because the Ukrainians are doing all the fighting. Bit twisted logic to think the weapons are the reason.

There are several aspects to this. A Slava class cruiser carries 64 S-300 Surface to Air missiles, which is a highly effective and long range air defense system, combined with the necessary air search and fire control radars to ensure those missiles hit their target. These radars are likely going to be more powerful than those used with the mobile S-300 batteries that both Russia and Ukraine field, simply because the generators on a ship of that size have a much higher output. The radar will have a blind spot when it comes to low flying targets at around 50-100 km out from the ship, due to the pesky fact that the Earth is a sphere, but for high altitude targets, it can easily reach out to 300 kilometers away. The ship also has shorter range missiles and gun systems, but those are mostly for self defense, so I'll ignore them here.

That's the direct weapons fit on the ship itself. However, the Slava class were designed as flag ships from the ground up. Originally, they were designed to lead task groups of frigates and destroyers in the North Atlantic and coordinate strikes with the then new Kiev class aircraft carriers and the soon to be built Project 1143.5, which ultimately became the Kuznetov class of aircraft carriers. This means that the ships have extensive command and control facilities, the Russian data link system that allows other ships and aircraft to directly feed data into a Slava's combat systems and vice versa and a suite of communications and electronic warfare system.

That means that ships like Moskva can not only engage air targets themselves, but can also direct fighter aircraft onto hostile targets, coordinate its air defense effort with other warships and land based SAM batteries and control other air assets. Granted, all of that is most valid when both the ship and any supporting forces operate at peak training and maintenance but even so, the loss of Slava is massive. It means that Russian forces in places like Kherson are more susceptible to Ukrainian air attack, that local fighter units have likely lost the "big picture" when it comes to enemy air movements and that coordinated strikes against Ukrainian assets within the former range of Moskva's sensors have just gotten a whole lot more difficult.

Your man is talking complete sensationalist scutter.

If Russia started raining down missiles on the mainland UK, the reaction would be swift and quite possibly non conventional.

Our potato eating arsés would be the least of anyone's concerns.

This update gives an interesting insight into any accusation the Ukrainians are inflating Russias losses for propaganda. Just before the Moskva was sunk, the toll was 19,900, so the updated figures look like thay are only including the losses from ground operations you'd expect at the current attrition rate.

It appears they might be waiting to confirm the losses from the Moskva before adding them, because had they just guestimated and included thm the figure might well be 350 higher than that.