let’s see what happens when same “blyatmobile” mobile tank sheds now have a larger surface area for shells (a million or two in this US bill) and missiles to hit and no room for reactive armor do it’s thing 😃 never mind the reduced visibility
It's helping the Russian tanks a bit against drones anyhow.
The Ukrainians have found the M2 Bradley has been legendary in its performance and keep asking for more
The tanks are not going away, notice how what the Russians are doing is adding extra “armor” in form of nets and steel sheds onto the platform, so it must be still useful for them
Trust me, the tank is not going away, neither is it going to radically transform itself. Even from the article:
What you're seeing is in effect a refresh of the 1973 state of affairs, when tanks were getting swatted by man-portable missiles. After the initial shock, those were still a threat, but a manageable one. (A related incident was the 1967 effect of anti-ship missiles). Drones are going the same way, I'm pretty well looped into the tank/counter-drone developments.
The majority of immigrants in Ireland have a brain and good work ethic. Most don't want us ending up like Sweden full of crime, Islam and free loaders. Doesn't matter if they're Indian or Eastern European they don't share your destructive ideology.
more good news
Unfortunately we're responsible for our own idiots.
Yeah, I think the rub lies in finding a way to effectively combat drones that isn't more expensive than the drones coming at you. A definite tactic has been to send a wave of cheap drones first in order to overwhelm/exhaust an enemy air defense before sending the missiles.
Meanwhile, back to the spate of Russians in top positions getting arrested, some possible explanations are appearing, linking them to Prigozhins demise:-
Then after Putin had Prigozhin killed for the rebellion, Ivanov, with Shoigu's blessing, sent a significant team (Redut PMC) from the MoD to Africa and started to systemically steal Prigozhin's assets there including gold mines and oil & gas fields.12:03 PM · Apr 26, 2024·2,058 Views
Christmas lights year round.
To match the planters.
Really though, I cant see any defense once theyre at the launch phase.
Only external intel work, and stopping radicals from entering the country as illegal immigrants in the first place might help. And thats not allowed because its mean.
It's pretty incredible and also frightening when you think about it. I know it's been said before but you do wonder how close we are to a major terrorist attack in a western capital using drones (besides the attacks on Kyiv). It's going to be very interesting to see how this is guarded against by security services going forward.
I'd be curious if people are developing defensive drones. Why send a million dollar missile to intercept a drone when an equally cheap drone would do. It would probably be hard to get a radar that powerful, small and cheap but maybe laser guided drones.
I'm sure in defense companies it's an exciting time. Obviously not for those on the receiving end though.
They were also saying that the old Russian tanks were being used to fire old shells, a cheap throw away mobile gun.
Drones may mean the end of the tank as we know it.
A great opportunity was missed after the Iranian attack on Israel to take out the drone capacity of Russian ally Iran, its main drone and missile supplier now . Much to Russian relief.
Europeans and America should have provided every assistance , encouragement to do that and more. Instead every push back against Russian friends in Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, Iran is often opposed.
Drones are the new reality and the fight in Ukraine as part of a multi faceted war is the old reliable.
Yep. Tank safety may need a whole design by all countries. We've seen the turret Olympics when it comes to Russian tanks popping off when hit.
This war has proven the age of drones is here.
It's not that amazing when you consider the price to performance ratio. You could buy a drone off of Amazon for thirty quid which would be good enough for basic recon. Spend a little more and you can get one which would be able to drop a grenade. The range and capabilities increase as you spend more. Their availability, versatility and agility even at the consumer level, never mind the heavier duty stuff which militaries have, means that they're the weapon de jure until some equally cheap and continually effective way of neutralising them emerges. Drone tech and anti-drone tech must be the most rapidly changing aspect of the Ukraine war.
That's why I think Russia are using the turtle tanks seems to be giving a bit of cover for them against drones, saw video other day of one been used and about 4 Russians apc's behind it, they managed to get into middle of the town centre and unload the Russian soldiers. I know people were laughing at the Russians having these but they do seem to be helping them.
Exactly. The defenses haven't caught up with the offensive drone development yet. In principle, a drone can be easily destroyed by an automatically targeted machine gun. But that means that you need small AA machine gun system with its own targeting radar for every several tanks or , say, 200m of trenches.
Ah yeah.
Abrams taking a beating it seems. Amazing how drone warfare has taken front and centre in this war.
https://english.nv.ua/nation/ukraine-loses-five-abrams-tanks-in-two-months-the-new-york-times-50411899.html#:~:text=Russian%20forces%20have%20taken%20out,senior%20U.S.%20official%20told%20NYT.
Someone higher up had an eloquent and concise response
ok and everything else I mentioned?
Dual citizens, custody, visas, court rulings.
Just ignore that, dig in, and refuse logic.
Double down on some pie in the sky nonsense about the Russian embassy on a European tour with UB40 as a support act. Die on this hill.
ffs.
Those planes are not coming back any time soon, and as someone with plane experience mentioned earlier in thread, that they were being repaired in uncertified manner and parts are possibly death traps now and literally worthless
What these companies will instead do is lay claims for the value of these planes against the 300bn that was seized from Russia alongside other countries and companies hurt by Russian illegal colonial war
Neither does your example require Russians to continue to maintain an embassy here, if anything we should have kicked most of them out for this theft and made these lads walk back to Russia with a little bell attached to them and a priest behind them chanting “shame, shame”
I dont particularly care if they are downsized. Dont see much benefit in doing that, but no objection either.
Probably end up with Irish people queuing just as much. Foot shooting exercise but be my guest.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hundreds-of-planes-are-stuck-in-russia-b2520091.html
Published 28/Mar/24.
Ireland is/was one of the worlds top locations for aviation leasing, and here we see billions of euros worth of aviation assets effectively held by Russias regime.
So sanctions and war aside here we see an example of the potential necessity for continued diplomatic relations with that regime, whether one particularly likes it or not.
Irish citizens live in Russia, and Russian citizens live in Ireland, dual citizens and the parents of dual citizens live in both. Who knows what personal and legal circumstances any of these innocent bystanders are in which may require interaction between the citizens and the govts, or between both govts.
Advice may be needed on legal issues related to marriage, divorce, custody, travel visas and/or restrictions, injury or deaths in the other country, legal and tax responsibilities, court cases, rulings and land ownership. Maybe even something simple like a lost passport, or bejng stranded. The two business communities in both jurisdictions will also have a similar long list of reasons for potentially needing to access a consulate/embassy.
People in need of accessing their embassy may not be in the kind of situation which would allow them to travel back and forth to another country. So this nonsense about having one embassy on a tour of Europe is just completely impractical and stupid.
You dont actually have to like Russia in any way to see the practicalities here. Also theyre not really going to give a small shyte if we evict/move them, beyond maybe doing the same back to us, potentially fcking over Irish citizens in the process.
It would be a pointless, self destructive, foolish thing to do. Petty and stupid, the geo-political equivalent of unfollowing a business on twitter.
its a suggestion which reminds me of crips not using words with the letter B, or walking near anything red. Just a dumb idea. Born out of petulence and desperation to be seen to hate the bad guys more than anyone else. Get real.
Ideally we'd strip them of citizenship with the added benefit of increasing the average IQ of Irish citizens.
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You do not even have to have uttered or otherwise indicated you are not in favour of the war, or even worse, much worse, in favour of Putin as President. They will have a nice criminal code Nr to charge you with. And you will plead "Guilty" to the charge (or charges) They have an extremely high conviction rate in Russia, guilty or not. Think back a bit to the Crocus terrorist attack, and see how quick Russian justice works….
That didn’t take long, Spain to send Patriot missiles
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