political decision, they are just making the encirclement and attrition even worse.
The War in the Ukraine
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They need more AEW and patrol yes. But Tu-141 actually does come with some stealth features. and the airframe itself is simple without many protuberances or even transparent radome. It can attain 0.38 sqm RCS in S-band.
and the A-50 in tweet appears to be the early "A"'s it may struggle due to older technology being employed. However seeing the "A"'s still flying i'm curious how many they actually can fly. The 144th AEW base have like 9x A-50 parked but seems in unserviceable condition.
NYT Article of how the promises of flooding Ukraine with Leopards have become a trickle
Apparently some countries have even had opposition from their own Defense Ministers over delivering the tanks and others that were screaming for German permission to send theirs have had second thoughts
One of these countries is Sweden. Politicians want to send tanks but the military doesn't
As for the Leopard 1, they have had to pull instructors out of retirement as most of the people active right now aren't familiar with them anymore.
Also there is a stand-off between the governments and european weapons manufacturers. Politicians want the industry to increase production but the industry wants the money first before attempting to increase production.
Apparently some countries have even had opposition from their own Defense Ministers over delivering the tanks and others that were screaming for German permission to send theirs have had second thoughts
One of these countries is Sweden. Politicians want to send tanks but the military doesn't
As for the Leopard 1, they have had to pull instructors out of retirement as most of the people active right now aren't familiar with them anymore.
Also there is a stand-off between the governments and european weapons manufacturers. Politicians want the industry to increase production but the industry wants the money first before attempting to increase production.
It's a city of 80 000 partially in rubble. I don't think anyone have a definite answer.
We have some footages of Bakhmut and usually we don't see any troops at all... and no armored vehicules or just one moving. Maybe they don't show them to not give positions or they are all well hidden in firing position in building waiting.
Would take any numbers with a big part of doubt. Number of dead + number of troop fighting is probably quite big in 30-50k.
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So the "psychological barrier" still exist despite Poles already throwing the initial hardware.
It's a classic case display of hubris and the idiom: "The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing; the head doesn't know what the tail is doing."