Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Involve China positively by purchasing batteries and solar recharging kits to flood Ukraine with ???

Probably not sufficient for heating but enough for lighting & communications.

Foil blankets too, will save many lives.

Aviation News..

This is new. This is the first visible operation of RAF Eurofighter Typhoons on CAP in support of their accompanying RC-135 over the Black Sea.

Interestingly, and demonstrates why it's good to compare data, they are visible on FR24 and invisible on ADSB.

The infrastructure attacks will cause huge disruption to Ukraine's military cohesiveness and ability to function. It's a relatively cheap and effective way to corrode the enemy's ability to fight. The optics look horrendous, but they don't matter to Russia at this stage of the conflict (they've never really mattered) and Moscow doesn't have to keep up any pretense with it's original propaganda about liberating Ukraine from Nazi's or whatever nonsense they were previously peddling.

The Ukrainians could use long range HIMARS and other weapons to cause chaos on the Russian side, wrecking logistics, but they can't do that because Putin would use it as a pretext to claim Russia is "under attack" and use nuclear weapons.

No matter what successes the Ukrainians gain, everything is stacked against them.

Russia destroyed 30% of Ukraine's power stations in a week: Zelensky

MO-Kill the power just in time for winter

Logistics heavily.

For example when power is knocked out, it doesn't just impact civilians, it also impacts the Ukrainian military who are relying on that same power infrastructure for everything from communication to storing troop food supplies.

Power outages alone can paralyse an entire country. People can't work, offices go dark, factories halt, farming gets impacted, payment terminals and systems stop working, food starts to rot, supply chains get impacted, etc, etc. It's very serious and will absolutely hamper a national war effort.

Yes it is desperation and barbaric from the Russians, but it's also highly effective in the medium and long term.

We'll likely see an additional rush of anti-missile and anti-drone systems to Ukraine.

Russian government are such cnuts

I'm expecting to see a lot of "disruption" of services in Russia now.

The Shaheds seem to be the 'game-changer' the ukrainian bots have been talking about on twitter for the last few months.

Absolute carnage - the Crimean bridge attack was a step too far.

I think what Ukraine need are those Laser based anti aircraft systems: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-10682693

But better still would be if the US just drop a fuel-air warhead on the factory in Iran.

Hardly surprising people are interested.

A single Shahed 136 is supposed to cost $20k. Ukraine claim that Russia bought 2,400 of them. That's a total cost of $48M which is a fraction of the cost of the damage they've already done.

I was looking for a comparison of what other things would cost. A single F35 fighter plane with all-in costs included is $110M 😮 https://armscontrolcenter.org/f-35-joint-strike-fighter-costs-challenges/

Imagine a world without either Russia or Iran, two perpetual open sewers and thorns in the side of civilised nations. Iran are building a case to take care of two of the worlds terrorist nations in one go.

First recorded use was September 25th. 24 days have passed, if we assume they have used 50 a day, that is 1,200 in total launched. Ukraine claim they originally purchased 2,400. If all the above assumptions are true, they're half was through the current batch.

I imagine given their success and low cost, they will be looking to purchase more. The only constraint I can think of is whether Iran is capable of producing 50 of these things a day? As I outlined above, the cost for a 2 month supply looks to be able $24m, a sum the Russians can easily afford.