There are claims that Russia started to use radar reflective balloons to trigger Ukrainian air defenses
AGM-88 intercepted over Makiivka
AGM-88 intercepted over Makiivka
The War in the Ukraine
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With the balloon news buzz in the US, that's hilarious.
They are putting Luneburg lens on balloon ? Strange because they will be slow and doppler system will have hard time to track them... but longer they are on tracking better it is for SEAD.
Putting mp3 jukebox on these playing russian national anthem non stop would be trolling bigtime.
Judging by the picture, it seems to be several square cutouts glued together to form as many 90° angles as possible covered in aluminium foil
Some sources also indicate that they are reconnaissance UAVs, others claiming to be balloons, as well as all objects sighted in the regions of Zhytomyr, Kyiv and Chernigov.
Article pointing out that increasing production of artillery shells within NATO for use in Ukraine is complicated, in part because weapons manufacturers have reduced their capacity since the end of the Cold War as making ammunition isn't particularly profitable and because there is a multitude of artillery systems being used by the Ukranians which makes manufacturing of rounds with proper quality control hard
Then they try to paint an image that Russia's advantage is related to being on a war footing and not having to care about quality control, but since they never fully privatized their inherited MIC from the Soviet Union, they could "afford", to some extent, keeping their artillery manufacturing capacity. Or if they lost it, they might have been able to restore it after they saw the writing on the wall since 2014-2015
Then they try to paint an image that Russia's advantage is related to being on a war footing and not having to care about quality control, but since they never fully privatized their inherited MIC from the Soviet Union, they could "afford", to some extent, keeping their artillery manufacturing capacity. Or if they lost it, they might have been able to restore it after they saw the writing on the wall since 2014-2015
i am sure Iran and north korea can also manufacture 122mm and 152mm shells, which they then can export to russia. China of course has the most to offer though i am not sure if China is actually helping here or in what capacity.
the issue here is not being able to withdraw, but not being able to properly supply the units in and around the city. given how fierce the battle is going i imagine they need a lot of ammo, food and medicine, if those are scarce then the whole front in that sector could collapse.
The 320,000 is the total number ever in Vietnam which spread over many years, not the number at a given time. The peak number within a year was about 200,000 which is also more commonly quoted. If you look at the figures on Wiki (not far from truth IMO), the north had a disadvantage of man power compared to the south. The US alone had much more troops (543,000 in 1969) in Vietnam than China's less than 200,000 at any given time.
China was filling that short-fall. Ukraine on the other hand is much larger than Vietnam relatively, they don't need NATO troops to fill the number, they just need the weapons. So I think Vietnam and Ukraine is the closest comparison one can get. If NATO sends in 200,000 troops to free the Ukrainian to move more to the front-line, we would be talking about a Korean scaled war.
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Let me break it down to you simply:
- Russia invaded entire Ukraine with a land force + aerial campaign.
- US and South Vietnam did not invade North Vietnam with a land force, only aerial bombardment.
- ....
- Russia invaded Ukraine despite risk of NATO intervention
- US refused to invade North Vietnam because of risk of Chinese intervention.
- ....
- Not comparable