The War in the Ukraine

gelgoog said:

Iskander has 500km range. So no, the range limitation for ballistic missiles was not 300km.

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there is an expired tratry and an international agreement.

The INF restricted the range in 500 km, means Russia can't have land launched ICBM or crusie missile (drones) capability.

The other is
It is a non-binding one, but the signaturing countries restricted the technology sales up to this date by the restrictions of this agreeement.

Due to the later one the Russian missiles, including the developed in cooperation, like the BRAHMOS don't have more than 300 km range.

Iran si NOT a signatory of this agreement, but USA/Russia up to this date followed the restrictions of it.

Means if the USA ship more than 300 km range missiles to Russia then Washington effectivly breaking the rules developed on his own.

Sinnavuuty said:

A thread about the alleged bluff of the invasion of northern Ukraine

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I do find the comparisson of the Ukranian reinforcements in the north with the Maginot Line quite unfortunate...for anyone that has picked up a history book.

memfisa said:

Still don't know what that last commander was doing, beyond running a puppy and pony show for children, but this new guy seems to mean business. Better late than never I suppose

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From what I heard or what other people said. There was no previous commander for the special military operation. The frontlines were apparently being led by commanders following their own strategy since there was no overall plan. Rather shocking tbh that there was no central strategy or plan in place until Sergey got appointed less then a month ago.

So the drone we have seen lately might actually be indeed a new Lanset variant. This account claims it could be an Iranian drone, but I don't think they have a drone of similar design.

sheogorath said:

I do find the comparisson of the Ukranian reinforcements in the north with the Maginot Line quite unfortunate...for anyone that has picked up a history book.

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That wasn't even the most questionable statement on the thread.

Update:
An interesting development here. An RC-135W River Joint RRR7218 was being escorted by two Typhoons in the Black Sea, just mentioning that in context, some sources claim that Russia had sent nuclear bombers to Crimea, which I think is unlikely.

Does it work?

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Sinnavuuty said:

Does it work?

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If they are going to try to shoot down Shahed's with that thing, they'll mostly likely end up killing people in the ground around the targets. That's dumb as hell


Iran agrees to ship more drones and surface-to-surface missiles to Russia.

Drone hits an Ukranian 35D6 radar(misidentified as an AN/TPQ radar)

Is Russia using new ISR UAVs? Prior to the last month or so all we were getting were poorly stabilized footage from orlan-10s there were hard to differentiate what the strikes are even hitting. Now we're getting crisp HD stabilized footage of strikes that we weren't getting before. Perhaps the new command changed the secrecy requirements so they can win on the PR front? Or perhaps Iran asked for usage of their weaponry to be publicized and Russia is just expanding it to loitering strikes in general.

Or the use of ISR assets required bureaucratic athorization from people in Moscow, making their use pointless as whatever you wanted to spot was long gone by the time you got green-lighted?.

Just an assumption based on the news that Surovikin could use whatever he wanted without asking Shoigu or anyone else in chain of command, except nuclear weapons