Don't think of a yellow horse.
Looks like UK are giving Sea King helicopters to Ukraine. Sky News believes they will be used to hunt and destroy Russian subs in the Black Sea. So, what would happen if a Russian sub was sunk by Ukraine piloting a UK helicopter?
It will sink just the same. Why would it matter who made the helicopter?
I would image the Sea Kings are used as spotters in anti submarine warfare rather than actually sinking the submarines themselves...?
Edit - I see they can actually carry anti submarine weapons, interesting!
Iranian drones are cheap as chips compared to the missiles required to shoot them down
Until an inexpensive AA missile for those drones is introduced, the russians/iranians are burning western money by sending those drones in the air. Financial as well as physical terrorism.
People have been speculating about the exhaustion of russian precision missile capabilities since spring of this year - every 2nd month a new prediction comes out from some talking head about how they have effectively run out of precision munitions and cannot launch any more long range strikes on desired targets. Then a few weeks later the russians do another wave of precision missiles against Ukrainian infrastructure.
The reality is nobody actually knows how much they have in reserve - they have been paranoid about "the west" for decades, and likely stockpiling all sorts in preparation for the war with NATO that never comes. The invasion of Ukraine was likely planned for some time, so no doubt in the interim they have ramped up production and stockpiled essential parts for their missile industry also.
Which has a longer range, land based AA or the sea king's anti-sub weapons?
Even without Russia at the top table of any new body, the US, China, the larger European economies are going to dominate it, and they'll set it up so that there's always some kind of get-out clause that suits them, or else they won't participate at all. It's not possible to have some kind of independent and impartial authority above all nations equally, unless we get in contact with some aliens that are willing to do the job.
2 things on this.
1.The Kirsk - Putins first major political crisis as president - he let his own Sailors die a slow and painful death at the bottom of the ocean while refusing international help and sedating complaining mothers, Oh and he finished off his holiday before returning to address the situation.
2.Russia were very clear to go to lengths to point out that those missiles that landed in Poland were not fired from Russia - because Russia wants nothing to do with a conflict involving a Nato state because he knows it will either end in a Nuclear **** show or ultimately complete de-militarization of the russian army.
It would be a case of Ukrainan helicopter with Ukrainian crew attacking a legitimate military target ,
Case closed
I'd agree thats its highly unlikely that Ukraine will adapt such a strategy, especially as they've promised NATO (back in the Summer) that they won't use donated weapons systems on Russian soil. Ukrainian morale has (thankfully) not collapsed under such brutal tactics. Would Russian civilian morale collapse if it was done to them in return? Hard to know in all honesty.
Clare Daly and Ireland South MEP Mick Wallace rejected the resolution.
https://www.change.org/p/call-for-the-resignation-of-irish-meps-clare-daly-and-mick-wallace
So they have **** all Iskander missiles left which is the ones that appear to be used mostly when destroying infrastructure
Trasneft: Oil transport to Hungary will be suspended for a week. Transport to the Czech Republic and Slovakia continues
Hungary rebuked
So you're more or less for the status quo then, keep supplying Ukraine enough in order to hold the Russian military at bay and bleed them of personnel and equipment. But don't poke the bear too hard. Is that how you see it?
Heard that - that pair are a disgrace to the electorates that voted for them.
Speaking of which, I've just spotted a Russian Airforce AN-148 returning from a round trip to Tehran and back, no doubt packed with a dubious cargo.
Also, slightly off-topic, over Isreal, is a rare appearance of it's converted Boeing 707 air-refueling platform, using the basket-and-drogue system that's also used by HC-130J's and RAF/French AF Airbus's.
These rabid zealots have lost their moral compass.
NASA night light satellite photo from today
Same from Januarary 2022
If they're cheap as chips, why didn't the Russians make them/aren't making them now?
More or less yes.
If Russia collapses internally as a consequence and regime change occurs, wouldn't that be great?
Do you think the current strategy is working? If not, whats your plan? (request: keep it within the framework of Ukraines logistical capabilities).
Not to mention 26000 war crimes in Ukraine
Why shouldnt there be?Russia invaded Ukraine?
Shouldnt Ukraine be allowed to do same to Russia as Russia is doing to Ukraine?
It would look strange in ww2 if only the nazis was allowed to bomb Europe,and Europe and US not bombing Germany.
Maybe Iranians get paid less, I dont know. They must have whole factories tooled up to make them at this stage.
Russians are supposedly tooling up factories to make their own kamikaze UAVs too, the Lancet for one. No word on how expensive that is yet
I don't know about Daly, but Wallace never had a moral compass to lose. He's just a self-centered, narcissistic tax dodger who robbed his own workers' pensions and then aligned himself politically with those he reckoned were stupid enough to vote for him.
Or how imaginary
? There are loads of videos of the lancet kamikaze drone in use. Its the one with 1 UAV to video from above and guide it, which the drone itself flies kamikaze style straight into the target. Plenty of them have been posted in this very thread.
Russia supposedly has a million-strong army with tens of thousands of missiles in reserve.
We all know that Russian tech is from yesteryear and mostly crap compared to the West.
Ill repeat, Russia has lost this war. It just depends now if there is a stalemate or if Ukraine can win it.
Translation: Russian jet shot down with a German Iris-T missile
F: Total war
Posted yesterday already and it's footage from back in March of this year.
Like many others, you need stop with the knee jerk credulousness and verify your sources before posting. It's not hard.
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