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And now then bizzare Greenland 🇬🇱 hoopla is starting to make sense
You'd have to click on the link to get a sense of why I might have posted it.
They hit the Orcs with around 200 drones and missiles, they even popped another drone into the Engels fuel depot and the fire is still blazing away like day 1, 7 days on. Anyone want to chip in for a couple bags of marshmallows to send them?
What they hit:
Gutsy, gutsy man with a grenade - link contains video:
CNN leading with major drone attack on Russia few mins ago, looks like mostly south of country
No chance, the Donald doesn't share with anyone outside of Mar a Lago
Russians want Greenland, or to at least share half with Trump.
And the wrecking ball hasn't even taken office yet. We just need another pandemic out of China to seal the deal.
It's quite likely the shadow fleet are being tracked using synthetic aperture radar satellites like ICEYE especially the far more capable US military variants.. Satellites have been used to image these meet-ups at sea, so its well within capabilities to track ships engaging in these activities and double check their cargos and paperwork when they reach port.
Nice:
Now lets try for the head.
Is this just optics? Won't Russia continue to do ship to ship oil transfers at sea to tanker owners who don't care about the origin of the oil and only care about their profits ?
https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/russia-continues-to-ship-oil-directly-to-the-eu-despite-sanctions-investigation-finds/
Realistically though, the best thing 'was' to get out of Ukraine on Day 4 of the SMO but right now the best thing for Russia is undoubtedly to win.
There will be no sympathy fir Russians if they lose and half of it will go to China anyway
Busy night…..also heard a rumor that the russian fire service has run out of foam…..
Ooh,things are getting spicy!!
Excluded from what? What exactly is it you think the Jones Act is?
It is nothing more than a protectionist measure for US commercial shipping that means freight rates to Hawaii and PR among other places who rely on intra-US maritime trade are extortionate. Whatever measure Hawaiians benefit from having a subsidised shipyard is dwarfed by the extra cost of every single good they receive from the mainland.
The Jones Act has nothing to do with US Navy ships being built in US Shipyards. That is a completely separate decision.
Lots of missiles on their way to Russia now
Actually Honolulu is one of only four state owned ship yards. After WWII I think there was 15.
Do you have link that verifies Honolulu is excluded?
There is nothing in that which indicates that the ships are not going to be built in the US, it seems to be more an intent of sharing development and design costs.
That's not unusual. The US has absolutely no compunctions against buying and building foreign designs if they're the best option. But the manufacturing, from Eurocopter aircraft to SIG pistols, happens in the US except for certain smaller orders
The Jones Act is a protectionist thing. Manic's point is that it has nothing to do with having to build US Navy ships in the US.
The Jones Act is a purely protectionist measure aimed to support the US merchant marine. It's also an appalling piece of legislation that massively discriminates against Hawaii and Peurto Rico. Given that Naval vessels are not engaged, generally, in the transporting of consumer goods it is not relevant to them.
Look these guns up. They can fire while on the move. A nice bit of kit for Ukraine. 6 delivered, 53 more to go.
The agreement was reached at NATO summit, funding allocated, and ships are to be used by Coast Guard whose ships are considered military not private
Back in your box Fico.
He suggested meeting near the border and even suggested the train to take. I would in my **** be giving away my movements to that rat if I was Z.
He'd love nothing more then a russian missile hitting his train.
In other news Chinese and Indian ports started turning away some Russian oil tankers. They're really getting squeezed now.
Bad news from the Povtrosk direction Ukraine stopped operating it's only operational coke plant.
Russia doesn't have continuous radar coverage over their territory. As far as I know, most of their air defence radars are positioned along the country's borders or surrounding key military facilities. Beyond that, there are mostly civilian air traffic control radars that are stationary and thus easy to avoid. As a result, there are large areas without any radar coverage at low level.
Then, there are the drones themselves. Most of the ones I've seen are propeller driven meaning that their sound profile is likely very similar to sports aircraft, flight training aircraft, or the numerous agricultural sprayer aircraft still in use around Russia. Thus, people on the ground wouldn't really notice anything unusual if one were to potter past overhead. Given proper mission planning, I can easily see how many of these drones could make it to their target areas.
And while such a slow drone might at first sight seem like easy pickings for air defence once it does approach its target, between the initial confusion about what that new contact is, getting a proper lock on it, and getting authorisation to fire, I can easily see a reaction time that is just slightly too long to hit the drone before it in turns hits the designated target.
Would icebreakers be classed as navy warships?
There are privately owned icebreaking ships.
The ship thing doesn’t sound right
US, Canada, Finland for example are building icebreakers with funding agreed with shipyards used in all three countries involved
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2024/7/11/us-canada-finland-sign-agreement-to-build-icebreakers
I have been of the opinion that we really need to primarily focus on the navy and air force over more conventional land forces with quality radar capabilities given we are an island. Clearly cyber and intelligence needs to be part of the equation as well given the threats the Russians in particular pose in that regard as well.
I never said it was a protectionist thing, any google of the Jones Act shows it's a security measure. But still shows how the US isn't able to sustain what it has at current domestic costs.
The Jones Act has little to do with US military shipbuilding, it's a law which involves the use of only US flagged vessels for domestic transportation to places like Hawaii or Puerto Rico.
The issue with construction is that all major defense items for the US military must be built in the US. It's not as much a protectionism thing like the Jones Act, as it is a national security thing. The US does not want its national defense capability to be at the whim of other nations, which is also why it stockpiles rare/exotic materials which are needed to make things. So if Australia suddenly decides it no longer wants to be the US's friend and supply zircon (pretty much required to manufacture turbine blades), then the US can still make its tanks and aircraft using its stockpile. Other nations like the UK have let their arms industry atrophy, it costing more than they think it's worth to keep them. The US, together with some other nations such as Japan, is willing to be inefficient in order to keep capability.
It’s not been a good year for Russian energy exports
https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/13/russian-oil-tankers-stuck-idling-off-chinese-coast-after-new-u-s-sanctions
Oh I'm not suggesting the Ukrainians achieved nothing important, only remarking on the absence of hysteria on the Russian side considering the sheer number of drones sent across the border, as that's usually a good first indicator that Ukraine hit something significant. And it coincides with a lull in Russia's missile strikes on Ukraine. They've pretty much limited themselves to Shaheds (99.999% neutralised) and "human safari" drone strikes on civilians.
I'm sure Trump would hail the US arms industry getting more orders, but his threats only urge members to increase domestic production, which would probably be more efficient and cheaper than what the US now can produce.
The US navy has recently asked Korean and Japanese ship builders to help update the fleet but the response so far is that both Japan and Korean ship builders can't deliver because the Jones Act requires they build in US shipyards where costs and labour make the contract unprofitable.
US aerospace and defense contractors have waivers from the chips act to allow them to still use Chinese simply because there isn't a better alternative yet.
There isn't public support in Europe for waging war like Trump gets with his threats against allies.
there is no such scenario where rules cannot be reviewed and changed, dropped or amended as appropriate. For example, Ireland has not a history of developing arnaments, we are a relatively new nation and once the UK withdrew we did not and still do not feel threatened by any other nation - “o wait, I completely forgot about what the Russian embassy in Orwell Road and its 40 + staff are up to , ; those cables/pipes in Irish waters”
Anyway , I would say that the UK airforce being allowed to fly through Irish airspace and similar arrangements re mare time issues has more to do with The UK widening its geographical area for surveillance to protect itself rather than protection Ireland as. The primary reason. - coincidentally , both objectives are not mutually exclusive - both can be carried out at the same time
So , Ireland could make a case that it is very strategically located and could be very useful to UK , The EU and to the Us if war ever broke out with eg Russia . And re the 2 1/2 @% contribution , Ireland could put a value on the use of its relevant assets and make its case re joining NATO if the population so decides
