It's embarrassing at this stage. It's like making a professional boxer fight a drunken lout with both his hands tied behind his back. Just give them the weapons to end this thing FFS
His strop may have prevented a quicker end to the murderous Russian regime.
Putin remains a master strategist
I seen a video where 3 fab 500 bombs laded close to eachother. 3 huge explosions which missed their targets but they won't always. F16’s would make it much harder for Russia to launch these strikes.
I'm tired of the excuses not to supply Ukraine with ATACMS. They have ranged from:
It's always painful hearing the latest excuse.
On the GLSDB, yeah news or announcements have gone quiet on that front also.
This war no doubt has been good to showcase American military tech, but it also shows countries (EU) should not be relying on the US for all things.
Needing US approval for arms exports etc... If the European countries had developed a long range missile like ATACMS, they wouldn't need approval from the US to send them to Ukraine. No doubt the Swiss arms industry will take a hit from this war, countries may be reluctant to buy from them in the future.
No idea if this is true or not but hopefully the bloody things are finally on the way. Never did hear more about the GLSDB either. They're supposed to be shipping by now.
Edit ah maybe it is a bit click baity but who knows:
A second official said the missiles are "on the table" and likely to be included in an upcoming security assistance package, adding that a final decision has not been made. It could be months before Ukraine receives the missiles, according to the official.
Oh no doubt, but the personnel lost will be a bigger issue I would think. Thats a horrific burn rate when you think of the training time
I'm sure Russia still have thousands of field guns, but I'm sure they will struggle with the logistics of actually replacing them on the Frontline with their logistics being hampered.
He has clearly shown a number of times that he is far more concerned about being a childish edgelord than looking after his businesses. The state of "X" for instance.
Starlink missing a massive free PR campaign by providing Ukraine with a successful high level SLA in challenging conditions.
The whole musk episode is a warning to all Tesla owners about how the megalomaniac in charge might change terms and conditions.
Ahh, thats a very different situation so. What a dope. He could end up in front of a congressional hearing if he's not careful
Musk does have a contract with the US Department of Defense although I think it is of more recent vintage signed from what I am seeing earlier this year. It seems according to the below article previously he had a contract with a US foreign aid agency.
SpaceX's Starlink wins Pentagon contract for satellite services to Ukraine | Reuters
The avg daily loses since May are staggering. 15-30 systems lost per day.....wow
Let me start by saying Musk is a muppet and he appears to be turning into a bigger muppet everytime he opens his mouth. I have no time for him at all
That being said
Certainly beyond that Musk is a contemptible person this clearly shows the dangers of having so much of the important aspects of the military in private hands.
Starlink is nothing to do with the military though. Its a private enterprise which has been retasked in a warzone by warring parties.
It would be the same if DJI disabled their drones from flying within Ukraine/Russia/Crimea to stop them being used to kill people in the same manner they prevent them from being flown close to airports.
Now, if he has a contract with the military thats a different matter, a breach of contract. Does he have one? Does the contract only cover the Ukranian landmass maybe, and not the waters? I honestly can't keep up with all the Ukraine stuff so maybe he does have a contract in which case he may be in trouble with the US military from that sense.
Regardless, I'm happy to see him getting roasted over this, he's a twat
In Gadaffi's Libya there was plenty of hangars too., but very few of them remained undamaged that I saw. But they did have them.
Musk is an odious quadruple chinned c… hopefully karma catches up with him.
Shenanigans? He protected Russian warships that fire missiles into Ukraine on a regular basis.
Most notably today Zelensky said that Russian air superiority was 'stopping' (not slowing) Ukraine's counter offensive.
That's the real issue to be fixed,
Ukraine is fighting with every arm and leg tied behind it's back. As such Zelensky has to lobby hard for the gear they need. More AA is being moved to the front, but they always need more. The F16's should, at the very least, force Russian to adopt new strategies, and they should, in theory, benefit Ukraine. It won't be some magic war winning thing, but it's just another step in the right direction.
Ukraine are going into prepared defenses, a sea of mines, kilometers of defense in depth, artillery fire zones, Alligator choppers operating at around 8km out from targets. It's a very difficult task, but incredibly they are making progress. The bar for any of this is entirely up to Ukraine, it's their strategic and tactical choice. It's their country they are liberating, it's the Russian war machine they are destroying in the process, it's the Russian military they are putting under pressure.
The only US airforce base I was ever really near was the one in Kandahar, and my God, that was something else! They even had hangers for the drones. Massive is the only way to describe it, and if you had a liking for plane spotting, you'd never leave it. It was there my love affair with the A10 warthogs began, they had two of them continually patrolling, and I still think about back at the beginning of the Russian invasion, when a very long Russian convoy was stranded for several days on the roadside. I thought WARTHOGS!! WARTHOGS!!, But sadly it was not to be. I also saw the Blackhawks in action, up close as they say. And nothing can prepare you for the noise the make when they start firing their guns.
And you know, its strange. Harking back to the communist times, Russia had to be one of the worlds greatest users of cement, Everything was made with cement, and you would think that valuable aircraft hangars would have been built as standard practice, but then again, its Russia. So no hangars as standard. And I guess the Russians have learned to cope with the extremes of temperature's they face. But for sure, I would not like to be trying to service or do any other kind of work out in the open on an aircraft. I'll always remember on an IL76 flight, there was a problem with one engine, and during a stop, I was watching the engineer as he fixed it. ( I was holding the ladder for him, and handing him up the tools as he needed them) But the part he was working on had an intact factory seal on it, means not to be opened only by the factory. Did it bother him? Not one bit. He grabbed it with a pliers, gave it a twist, and that was it. Seemed to be a pump of some sort. Anyway, what ever it was he did, it worked. But I'd always be just a little bit skeptical about the casual attitude they had to that kind of work!
As for the tires. I still think that they are not meant to be a roof as such....just a kind of drone protection. If the drone explosive hit the tire, would it just rebound? Soften the blow so to speak. But even then, as these are remotely piloted, they could be diverted to a section of the fuselage that was unprotected? Back near or on to the tail section? Would that not cause the plane to break in two?
Your mistake was trying to read it at all.
Yup I misread it
I posted this earlier, you might have missed it - Kremlin Propagandists: Ukraine Artillery is Winning, Russia Guns Getting Taken Out – a Lot (kyivpost.com)
Artillery certainly on the uptick over the past week.
More movement at Bahkmut
Last 24 hours - 23 APV, 23 Tanks, 31 Artillery
Elon Musk is a marshmallow dildo.
Not sure you read my post but anyway...
Why are you validating their posts, by responding?
Yes. Because the takeaway from all this should be that Musk's battlefield analysis is on point and not that he is a credulous moron.
This site (again, not sure how legitimate it is but it seems spot on) covers in detail how UAF destroyed an enclave of RuZZian armor.
Slava Ukrainii!
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