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I have also read that, best outsiders can judge, Russia may be slowly building up a reserve of missiles by launching fewer than they build.Some may argue Russia has exhausted much of their missile supplies. However, they may be holding back on missile strikes these days - other analysts suggest with evasion of sanctions, Russia has been black market resourcing enough chips to increase their manufacturing capacity to greater than pre-war rates. Suspect Putin is waiting for large bolus strikes on Ukraine when it gets colder to see if they can overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses and escalate his war of terror.
For Ukraine, hopefully air defenses will prove able to handle most of this. Yet they can't be everywhere and at high enough density/supplies for all scenarios.
On the plus side for Ukraine, they will be in a relatively much better position to strike Russia back, as they did in Sevastopol last night. More missiles such as ATACAMS et al are on the way, plus home grown Ukrainian drone development proceeds at a rapid clip. So it's reasonably to believe Ukraine is also planning increasing use of overwhelming drone/missile attacks on high value targets.
We should also expect to see new domestic goodies soon - Ukraine's Antonov defense company is expanding drone making of the types far more sophisticated than what has been on display most recently.
Interesting, so the storm shadow went right into the forward compartments.
I agree. MSNBC has been shameful in the way they have handled this story.Last night on CNN there was a decent piece done with Issacson regarding Starlink and Ukraine. A week or so ago MSNBC did a huge hit piece on Musk screwing the Ukrainians ( I’m an independent left leaning person) and it was sickening. They made Elon out to be a Russian agent. In this clip around the 7 min mark Issacson explains what really happened in regard to Elon geofencing Crimea.
Ukraine's coordination of multi-vector attacks on a given target is really impressive. The Ruzzians are left in complete disarray of what to expect and where. West Berliners use to send Balloon messages over the wall to East Berlin and I believe South Koreans have an annual or regular release of balloons to tell people the truth. Ukraine should set up a project to expand on the Flag balloon to tell Russians what evil their sociopathic dictator is committing. Send them photos of the pilot who flew his helicopter to Ukraine.I have also read that, best outsiders can judge, Russia may be slowly building up a reserve of missiles by launching fewer than they build.
Nevertheless, recent events make me very optimistic about Ukraine's recently shown ability to degrade Russia's strategic condition: artillery, air defense, fuel supplies, ammo supplies, and trucks all appear to be barely scraping by now, best we can judge from incomplete outside data.
I am thinking that if there is such thing as a Lanchester Square collapse specifically as regards to artillery, perhaps we are almost there? I suspect that's what the North Korea visit was largely for. Curious what our more war-educated voices here think about that, and the potentially huge implications for speed of advance?
EDIT: I want to add that I admire the apparent Ukrainian strategy of hitting them all over and unpredictably via multi-modes (raids from the ocean(!), Storm Shadows, drones, HIMARS, infiltration teams?, balloon flags(!), etc.), to keep the enemy's defenses moving around and stretched thin.
Some may argue Russia has exhausted much of their missile supplies. However, they may be holding back on missile strikes these days - other analysts suggest with evasion of sanctions, Russia has been black market resourcing enough chips to increase their manufacturing capacity to greater than pre-war rates. Suspect Putin is waiting for large bolus strikes on Ukraine when it gets colder to see if they can overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses and escalate his war of terror.
For Ukraine, hopefully air defenses will prove able to handle most of this. Yet they can't be everywhere and at high enough density/supplies for all scenarios.
On the plus side for Ukraine, they will be in a relatively much better position to strike Russia back, as they did in Sevastopol last night. More missiles such as ATACAMS et al are on the way, plus home grown Ukrainian drone development proceeds at a rapid clip. So it's reasonably to believe Ukraine is also planning increasing use of overwhelming drone/missile attacks on high value targets.
We should also expect to see new domestic goodies soon - Ukraine's Antonov defense company is expanding drone making of the types far more sophisticated than what has been on display most recently.
Interesting, so the storm shadow went right into the forward compartments.
0. The following also applies to oil. All this has been going on since the early 1990s.Has Ukraine started attacking gas infrastructure? Can Ukraine reverse some of the Polish lines to receive gas supplies from Norway this winter?
I've wondered at the Ukraines heretofore restraint in attacking russian pipelines and infrastructure and of course I know it would do wonders to the international energy markets but if you really wanted to pressure russia start taking out the pipelines east of Rostov on the Dammed or St Petersberry.
Meteor is integrated onto Gripen, but not onto F16.A quick edited Google translate of a news flash from Swedish Public Service radio. I was unable to find the written statement the news flash is referring to.
Ukrainian Air Force pilots have completed an evaluation of the Gripen
Published today at 10.53am
Ukrainian pilots have now been allowed to test fly the Gripen fighter aircraft. This according to a written statement from Swedish Minister of Defence Pål Jonson.
The pilots have undergone orientation training which includes test flights in both aircraft and simulator as well as briefings for ground personnel.
According to Minister Pål Jonsson, the this evaluation is part of a process to determine if Gripen can be sent to Ukraine.
Source in Swedish:
Jonson: Ukrainska piloter har testat Gripen - Nyheter (Ekot)
Ukrainska piloter har nu fått provflyga Gripen-stridsplan. Det skriver försvarsminister Pål Jonson (M) i ett uttalande.Piloterna har genomgått en orienteringsutbildning ...sverigesradio.se
And as stated previously: According to the SWE Government, SWE sending Gripen to UKR requires full Swedish NATO membership. So this is what Türkyie and Hungary is currently blocking
a little o/t (sorry!) but this does illustrate so clearly how much a better world this could be when reliance on fossil fuels subsides and each country becomes energy independent.2. All those countries have historically been controlled by Kremlin stooges, and a very significant part of the control mechanism is the manner in which those cheap gas supplies allow (i.e. are deliberately designed) so that the ruling groupings in those countries can harvest very large profits in those countries (and the adjacent petrochemical markets) both for personal enrichment and to use the funding stream to capture/retain political control of these countries and of other European countries. The other part of the arrangement is that the gas flows/contracts are designed so that the Russian oligarchy can essentially smuggle hard currency out of Russia in the form of physical gas, thereby enriching themselves / moving the cash out into Western banks in a pseudo-legal manner / and depriving the ordinary Russian of the financial gains. The contracts they have put in place are long term contracts which include "take or pay" clauses, which in these instances act as poison pills that benefit the Russian/etc oligarchy and deter takeover (or substitution) by non-Russian gas and owners.