CAS helicopters after a tank / artillery destruction mission
Ukrainian War Developments
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Sorry about that! Didn't mean to crimp your hustle, bro.
Russia recently captured plenty of Javelins. They can reverse engineer that and make lots of it. It should be similar to HJ-12. China could in theory return at least one squadron of Su-35 to Russia for use in Ukraine war.
Putin should have done a total review of his intelligence apparatus before commencing on this world ending mission/invasion. And the Chinese could have managed to tip the Ruskies off if their own intelligence got a wind of any internal leaks in Russia, unless of course, that Chinese intelligence is also deeply compromised from the U.S. plants within the CPC/PLA and if that's the case, then might as well hand them the keys to Beijing since there's no point in getting into pretend conflict when we already know how it ends.
Well, then Taiwan invasion here we comr
The Javelins supplied to Ukraine were AFAIK early models nearing life expiry. Javelin itself is a pretty old design (first fielded 1996), and was used extensively in Iraqi Freedom 2003.
Not sure where the next generation of ATGM will go. Perhaps replaced entirely by 'suicide drones', air and UGM based, which don't require a crew to risk themselves? Will be interesting to see Chinese developments in this field.
They'll become smaller and not require cryogenically cooled IR sensors.
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