It is a big story about the hypersonic missile trying to take out the Patriot missile system.
Very important which weapon comes out on top.
I am guessing that Russia doesn't have the number of hypersonic missiles to swarm the Patriot and would need to get lucky.
Are they particularly accurate in the first place?
The Russians are still finding gaps in the Ukrainan defenses,
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its likely that Lukaschenko and his entourage got Covid - most simple explanation, given he's a fat bastard hopefully he's headed towards the ICU.
Meanwhile in Turkey
https://twitter.com/i/status/1657754198945980419
From a strike on Friday in bakhmut ?
Hopefully it's something worse
Prigozhin claiming the 4 Russian aircraft shot down by themselves and then blamed on Ukrainian forces was down to Russian friendly fire
Give them hell Ukraine.
The Belarus story keeps on giving ,
President -MIA since the 9th and now missles being moved to there western borders
And Putins doctors may have flown into to treat him
Ultimately, any exploded Russian aircraft is a good Russian aircraft.
Russia won't be able to replace the heavy equipment lost mainly because of corruption and lack of production capacity. It's burning through equipment far faster than it could ever produce it. Even without sanctions this would be the case. Sanctions seem to be having less of an effect. There's been a huge decline in exports to Russia since the sanctions were imposed, but there's plenty of evidence at this stage that Russia has found ways to circumvent sanctions for certain key product categories by using third countries to source them. The sales of dual-use product categories like pumps, compressors and internal combustion vehicles to countries like Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Kyrgyzstan have jumped by an amount equivalent to 50-90% of the drop of sales of the same categories to Russia since the sanctions were applied. Sales of computers, data processing equipment and tractors have jumped dramatically by OVER 100% of the drop in sales of these categories to Russia arising from the sanctions. There's a detailed academic study on this from the EBRD for anyone interested:
Apparently Russia mostly doesn't even bother importing these products from said third countries. Instead deliveries mostly go missing while transiting Russia enroute to their destination. See graphic from the FT showing what Lithuania say it exports to Kazakhstan vs what Kazakhstan declares it imports from Lithuania. This is blatant corruption on a massive scale in my view, with western manufacturing and logistics companies in cahoots, and it completely undermines the effectiveness of sanctions.
Very interesting. It's good that these methods of circumventing sanctions are exposed, so that western governments know where loopholes can be tightened or plugged up altogether.
There's a high level of awareness in the European Commission at the moment and the hope was to close loopholes in the forthcoming 11th round of sanctions, but building a political consensus to adequately address the issue will be difficult.
They do not have a lot of Kinzhals. They make a few per month (likely single-digit) and they might keep a small (low double-digit) stockpile for emergencies.
You can overwhelm any air-defence system with enough targets. They don't have to be Kinzhals or even viable missiles, just something which looks worth intercepting (on radar). Air-defense systems can only track so many targets - though the number is pretty big with modern systems. There's also only so many missiles loaded in a launcher, so if you send enough 'stuff' you can force the air-defense to expend all their interceptors, and then you can perhaps get some viable missiles on target before they have time to reload.
Russia appear to have dabbled with this tactic already, but only on a small scale. Hamas have used this tactic to overwhelm Israel's Iron Dome, they fired 140 missiles within a few minutes and over 60 got through.
According to who exactly.....
Randomer ?.??
I've given up trying to work out what's going on in Belarus
They seem to have a lot of iskanders missles which is exactly what the kinzhal missle is with a different guidedance system ,the same with their glide bombs wr don't know how many 500 lb + bombs they have that can be cheaply and easily adapted,
The iron dome is interesting while extremely effective compared to other systems in Operations but while it's effective it also decides which targets to intercept bases off whether they are a mass threat to life ,it the system believes a rocket or rockets will fall on open ground and away from populated areas they wouldn't be targeted,
That's something ukraine can't do ,they have numberous systems they aren't designed to work as one complete system,
Then comes the question of how many Air defense missles they have at one time
It's the story the won't turn the page to "The End "
It could be just as simple as he’s naturally sick and the Russians are worried about the fallout if he passes.
I’d wager Lukashenko is dying, in some kind of coma, or possibily already dead. That Russian jet going over to Minsk might have been an assignment to ensure that Moscow’s perferred guy (whoever that is), replaces him.
Let's hope so. And a good turn around from Scholz, finally. I remember last year some here claiming he was a Putin stooge who secretly wanted Russia to win
That's my thinking,
I'm sure we will get someone coming along and telling us it's all a non story and lushashenko is enjoying a sunny holiday somewhere
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I thought I read before he had serious back and knee problems, and he can’t take a chance on a risky operation as the experts are all in the west.
I doubt he was poisoned and then be allowed to be in such close proximity to putin.
Not a 'mass surrender' but nice to see
He probably has been.
If he could have been poisoned at any stage in Russia or on his return,
But it could be heart issues or something else .
But we'll see over the next few days,in 48 hours he's not been seen in public in a week I'm sure people will start asking why and not just on here
One of the many successful Russian strikes on military infrastructure over the past few days (discussed here of course in great detail ha) it looks like on of them, a giant explosion outside of Khmelnytsky, probably a key large ammuntion dump for Ukraine military. It's possible that this is where all the totally awesome Depleted Uranium rounds for the Brit tanks where stored due to the gamma radiation spike.
Hopefully the UK send more eh?
https://fxtwitter.com/Consortiumnews/status/1657402419406569472
Sure why not ,
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