The War in the Ukraine
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plawolf
Lieutenant General
Who would have thought western economic inflation would spread to their war reporting like this. Just add a zero at the end, like they are doing with supermarket prices and energy bills, it’s become so normal no one would even question it!
Imagine a day when the second greatest and most comprehensive layered air defence of Europe is inadequate and needs to be "strengthened" with wonder weapons. What happend to all the other stuff? Russians were supposed to not know about SEAD according to pro Ukrainians and pro Russians alike.
Oh come on. Please dont try and gaslight us as if Ukraine on Feb 24th wasn't the #2 mechanized military in all of Europe. With 8 years of best in the world NATO training, battle hardened experience, and management by NATO.
All they had was NLAWS Java and stingers. Lol this audience is not the Twitter or reddit bot audience
Not trying to be rude, I'm just so sick and tired of psyops and propaganda that when it reaches a forum I enjoy that's at the back corner of the internet, I have to point it out
More importantly they inherited give or take 30% of what the USSR had ready to run over NATO which even US realized they would need nukes to deter them because conventional wouldn't go well.
I mean, in Feb 24 if the AFU were to invade Poland and Germany, assuming no one helps on either side, I would not be certain it would go well for the latter at all. Obviously, Ukraine didn't grow since the end of the USSR and gradually weakened, while Germany kept advancing in tech. Likewise, Russia also weakened gradually as well.
Since losing the bulk of its original equipment, the AFU is still not close to its starting combat power despite whatever NATO claims is "best in the world" training. The failures to repeat any major counteroffensive like the Kiev one is a testament to that.
Many of the missiles and drones appear to hit air defense sites throughout the country dead on. Col. Macgregor here mentioned that 80% of the air defenses were wiped out, hence why Zelensky is begging desperately for SAMs.
It's ironic that during the drone and missile raids, Buks and S-300s that have missed their targets are falling on civilian areas, adding to the damage already taken.
How is it a few new SAM there and there will change the equation when you're facing massed Shahed-136?
In the (at about 8:30), Xi Yazhou let it slip that he's heard rumors that a certain Chinese company has received an order for a part that he implies looks like it's intended for Shahed-136. That order was for five digit number of that part.
If true I think it would be very difficult for anyone's AD to stop UAVs in that kind of number, even China's own AD would probably struggle never mind a hodge podge system put together in the middle of a war.
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Now I know your average Russian squaddie likes a litre or 3 of vodka now and then, but this is ridiculous!
Drone swarm... if they continue to be able to pass trough, all soft static targets will be destroyed more or less. Russian still need to recon these and have good coordinate to be able to use the Shahed-136 efficiently. Laser will be a nice thing for sure to kill that kind of attack in future war.
cn_habs
Junior Member
The driver must have panicked and didn't even look in front through the mirror.