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Arguably they were past their sell-by date years ago anyway. Technologies like GMTI radar which could see vehicle movement from a hundred miles away are so old now that the earlier generations like JSTARS have already been retired from US service. For visual observation, yes, the Kiowa scout helicopters have been replaced with drones, but the function they performed isn't new. In the case of what started this sub-thread, flying around with helicopters near the front line has been known for about an equal amount of time to be dangerous, and in Ukraine you will have noticed helicopters from both sides trying to avoid doing it (Loft rocket attacks etc), even before a roaming FPV drone showed up to show it could add to the level of danger. SEAD now just has to add a few more frequencies to the band it operates on in order to keep air movement safe.
The changes which the proliferation of cheap drones have provided are strongest at the tactical level, particularly when it comes to the lives of front-line troops, requiring changes in TTPs and equipment to counter them though not actually changing the fact that 'at or near the front line, you can be seen and killed by a lot of things', but at the strategic/operational level, drones don't provide anything new in terms of concept. What they provide is a poor man's level of capability to a nation whose military couldn't afford to do it properly in the first place. They're not totally useless to a rich country, even the US has budget constraints, but you'll note that the US isn't rushing to equip its companies with hundreds of FPV drones each. Just a couple.
Well this is scary, obviously all bluster, but still.
Russian TV shows Ireland being wiped out by nuclear ‘superweapon’ in sinister graphic
https://www.sundayworld.com/news/world-news/russian-tv-shows-ireland-being-wiped-out-by-nuclear-superweapon-in-sinister-graphic/a1577690512.html
For Ukraine, perhaps, but that's not how US or UK forces fight and we have seen no reason to change that. We have a suite of capabilities which Ukraine lacks.
You can even see the shadow of the copter on one of the Russian drones just before it hits at 0:28.
Putin knows we are not in NATO. We need to join asap. As for the tsunami - not going to happen.
Careful now, you be accused of Russophobia (as happened in parallel thread) if you point out this Russian lot can’t spend a day without threatening Armageddon when they not busy employing an army of useful idiots to spread muck
And like the hydra rockets, they have a bolt on laser seeker available if one wanted to convert it from a dumb rocket to a seeker one.
Jerry rig it to a drone with a laser designator and it could be a dirt cheap weapons platform
Vovchansk city of nearly 20k. Thanks Russia.
Thermite drones
At one stage I was in Afghanistan, up in a mountain village, having a discussion with some villagers, and the subject got around to the time when the Russians were there. It seems that under Russia government, any woman who had 20 children was awarded the medal Hero of the Soviet Union. Maybe Putin will re-instate it now….
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3896787/biden-administration-announces-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine/ $250 mil aid package announced by the US today.
They may very well run out of time before they run out of funds! Guess depending on the US election result, there could be massive packages announced to use up the funds before/if Trump is re-elected.
It's disappointing that funds could go unused because they weren't used in time. Especially when the US has so many Bradley's etc just sitting in storage never to be used again.
One month to the day of the Kursk special military operation and still the UAF are gaining ground :)
https://united24media.com/latest-news/zelenskyy-around-6000-russian-casualties-in-russias-kursk-region-2156
I'm surprised the Russian losses are that high, as they haven't really mounted a counteroffensive. Or to be accurate Ukraine decimated columns of troops and armor multiple times that were staging around Kursk.
Crazy it's been a month though.
Speaking of counter offensive,
Ukrainians are still pushing back
I think they have moved some of their better forces who initially took part in the kursk incursion back to fight in the donbass direction.
They make it look easy
Would they not be afraid shrapnel from the missile would hit the plane?
And the gloating seen around these parts was premature
The fish has been hooked
60,000 Russians redeployed to Kursk
Recapture Kursk by 1st of October (year not mentioned) was the other decree of his
They better get on cracking at it
That's what I thought. Maybe the F16 has a tough skin.
Its not really, cos its nonsense. Russia is highly unlikely to have any 100mt warheads in their inventory and arent making any new ones. The largest ever blast radius was 35km. Water is nearly 1000x denser than air so can resist/absorb the overpressure. The heat will boil the water and force the explosion upwards as much as across. A tsunami effect would require an explosion 100,000 times the size of the energy released by a 100mt theoretical bomb, assuming optimal conditions.
The poseidon was not intended for this purpose - its designed to irradiate an area around a carrier fleet causing death to crew and metal fatigue to sink the ships. The city destroying tsunami bomb is utter fantasy.
They should just stick to their ICBMs, which are already potent enough.
I think it's just video game footage.
The US and the West promised a response if Iran supplied missiles to Russia, so I expect a strongly worded letter of condemnation.
Probably similar to NK supplying Russian with long range missiles, SFA happened.
It is DCS - https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/
Nate
Interview with a British volunteer drone pilot.
He has a show and tell of some of his equipment, talks about being stationed in Kherson, how it’s important to hit equipment and not so much personal, etc.
lindeybeiges interviews are good source of what life is like over there.
They're actually quite lightly armoured,
Designed for an era when pretty much all armour could be defeated by RPGs, which had become commonplace, so they decided to go a lighter faster tank , so then armour improved significantly, but there's a limit to how much these can be up armoured because they were designed to be light and fast,
Anti-drone they're probably same as any other tank , but vulnerable to atgms
Thought that’s a good summary of last few days and the ring of highly paid shills being exposed
Another 250m after 350 couple days ago, I suspect these be daily until the 7bn allocated is used up in next few weeks
Few reporting this now,
Seems to be a continuation of what we have seen last two days
Had to be done. I'm just glad they redeployed them back to the donbass region to stem the Russians there. They just have to stop them.as much as they can until the heavy rains start.
Ammo dump in russia burns after a drone strike.
NK weapons apparently.
