The War in the Ukraine

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Atomicfrog

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tankphobia said:
If a whole bunch of missiles are used to maybe damage a patriot battary rather than any other targets, why is that a bad thing? It seems that AD is doing its job, since the US didn't give any numbers or details on what they have given the Ukranians, it's not like the Russians can ignore the patriot after this one strike.
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They received five launchers with PAC-2s (four per launcher) and three with PAC-3s (16 per launcher), and two reloads for each launcher. They spent a fifth of all the missiles (30 of 152) during one night of operation. With 152 missiles, it's arround 10% of the US stockpile.

What will happen in one week ?

With the second battery they will receive they are able to do the same thing one more week. After that when they will receive more reloads ?

Cannot say it doesn't help, but I can say it will not help long enough.

In recent years, the U.S. Army has procured about 180 per year, and in 2023 that increased to 252 missiles for $1.037 billion.

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Virtup

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Remember what I said in my previous post about this whole radiation thing being spun by western media as nuclear genocide ? Add to it a possible use of article 5 (especially by Poland). Remember, if Russia can announce that use of depleted uranium on them will be classified as a nuclear attack, so can NATO (again, especially Poland).
 
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Virtup

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Stealthflanker said:
Are they gonna call that for Ukraine for putting DU shell there or to England who provided those munitions in the first place ?
Like technically Russia does not use nuclear weapon there.
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That's also the first thing that came to my mind. They sould blame England for supplying such things after being warned by Russia (you can't really blame Ukraine, are they going to place them closer to the front line?). But that's why I put the emphasis on Poland, they seem to hate Russia more than the doom guy hates demons.
 
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Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu commented to RIA Novosti on Kiev’s statement about allegedly shot down last night over Kiev by "Ukrainian air defense of all six flying" Kinzhals":

▪️ The Russian Federation has not launched as many "Kinzhals" as they allegedly shoot down with their statements every time.

▪️ The number of these Ukrainian interceptions is three times more than we launch.

▪️ Yes, and with the type of missiles they are always wrong. That's why they never hit something.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1658548778800930823
 
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Biscuits

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Abominable said:
Looks like the spike in radioactive depleted uranium byproducts was picked up as far as Poland:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1658532559578333184
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Was there ever any doubt?

Never trust US government, never trust their online mouthpieces, only after all the facts have been verified by neutral parties. The honesty record of America and their internet proxies have been abysmal, and continues to prove itself abysmal time and time again.
 
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sheogorath

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I'm pretty sure the one whinging about not being able to down Kinzhals were the Ukranians themselves

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And, of course, the newest threat is the Kh-47 Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missile, which is launched from a MiG-31K aircraft. The complexity of its damage is conventionally several times higher than that of the same Kh-22, due to a much higher flight speed, an even shorter response time given for equipment and people.

Until not long ago, their use was one-off, but the recent deployment of six missiles [Russia launched six Kinzhals on the night of 9 March – ed.] confirms the real danger of these weapons and the critical need for modern air defence.
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