Ukrainian War Developments

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semiconprof

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Okay, unrelated to the drone issue.

Why haven't see seen Tu-22M, or even the Tu-95 apart from once at the start of the war? I don't mean using standoff munitions, I mean the old fashioned dumb gravity bombs onto enemy targets.
Why are they not targeting Ukrainian front lines so this war can end?
Probably they are kept in reserve in case of a direct military confrontation with NATO. But I do think the Russians are better off carpet bombing the Ukrainian front lines to bring a quicker end to the war. The Russian nukes are what's keep NATO at bay.
 

Lapin

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The sad thing is this is probably gonna be followed by retaliatory executions.
Surely, killing POWs is the best way to encourage enemy combatants to surrender. (sarcasm)

Considering the source, this could be fake news, but

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"Moment a Russian soldier 'surrenders with TANK in return for £7,500 and Ukrainian citizenship after his colleagues ran off
and his commander threatened to shoot him'"

"A Russian soldier has handed himself and his tank over to Ukrainian troops for a reward of $10,000 (£7,500) and a chance
at Ukrainian citizenship."

"Ukroboronprom said: 'To the pilots of the Russian Federation ready to participate in the programme, we guarantee the
issuance of citizenship of a free country!'

The arms manufacturer added it would give $500,000 for every combat helicopter seized from the Russians that could still be used."
 

Aegis21

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Surely, killing POWs is the best way to encourage enemy combatants to surrender. (sarcasm)

Considering the source, this could be fake news, but

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"Moment a Russian soldier 'surrenders with TANK in return for £7,500 and Ukrainian citizenship after his colleagues ran off
and his commander threatened to shoot him'"

"A Russian soldier has handed himself and his tank over to Ukrainian troops for a reward of $10,000 (£7,500) and a chance
at Ukrainian citizenship."

"Ukroboronprom said: 'To the pilots of the Russian Federation ready to participate in the programme, we guarantee the
issuance of citizenship of a free country!'

The arms manufacturer added it would give $500,000 for every combat helicopter seized from the Russians that could still be used."
Don’t know if anyone’s going to take up that offer after the Ukrainian war crimes.
 

supersnoop

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I believe that's one of the areas USSR invested in heavily in the Cold War. China bought S400 some years ago. I wouldn't be surprised if they already know how to reverse engineer it.

Why do people still talk about “reverse engineering” so much? You think this is the 1960’s or 70’s where things are mechanically controlled? What a joke.

You think that China (or US, Japan, any technologically advanced country) can’t make an equivalent to S400 or S500 if they really wanted? They don’t do it because it doesn’t fit their doctrine.

USSR did not expect to have air superiority against NATO which is why they invested so heavily into SAMS.

China is also moving away from the land based ADS because the future conflicts China envisions will be away from the mainland. A bunch of S300/HQ-9 or S400, even proverbial S500 stuck in Fujian would be less useful than a flying J20/J35
 

Bill Blazo

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There are now increasing reports and videos of Russian armored columns moving through Donetsk and Luhansk. Today a large tank armada crossed from Russia proper into Luhansk, likely getting into position for the northern pincer around Izium. It now seems to be everyone's opinion, from the Pentagon to the Twitterati, that Russia is building up forces for a major push across the eastern front. And I also agree with the Twitterati on this one, not that anyone cares. Anyway, the plan seems to be a coordinated and near-simultaneous double envelopment starting from Izium to the north and Velyka Novosilka to the south, with LPR and DPR forces pinning a large part of the Ukrainian army along the eastern front. It's hard to say what kinds of numbers the Russians are putting into this effort, but it looks to be considerable. These next two weeks are going to be the most decisive juncture of the war's conventional phase. If the Russians can pull off what they've struggled to do so far, launching a massive and coordinated combined arms operation, then they're going to win.

A lot of people, including myself, have given the Russians a ton of crap about their performance in the war thus far. But now the Russians deserve some credit for learning from their past mistakes and coming up with a sound war plan. It's what they should've done from the very beginning, but better late than never I guess.
 
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