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But if we're talking about portable drones for recon, using truck-sized countermeasures seem very unwieldy.
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But if we're talking about portable drones for recon, using truck-sized countermeasures seem very unwieldy.
And now one episode wich will go in the history books ase one of the greatist military clashes of all times this.
Chechen special forces v.s the traffic light (if it wasn't the video you could not believe this)
Chechen special forces v.s the traffic light (if it wasn't the video you could not believe this)
All these talks about slow war of attrition whether its good for their military objectives, that I wonder what benefit and cost this slow war has politically and economically for both EU, Russia and their allies. The disruption in the pricing market for commodities and energy seems to have given many countries that are allied with Russia some leverages in negotiation, like Venezuela and Iran, and I read that some people here thinks that if Russia cuts natural gas and oil export to EU, then the Arab states would follow soon after in order to maximize their pressure for negotiations between EU and US. How important is Ukraine's export to the functioning of the world's economy, because I'm sure most of their industries got disrupted by the war.
If the war was settled quickly, I wonder how different is the negotiation position every country would be. As I think the EU could just pull some excuse to normalize trade with Russia again, and return to their old strategy of playing both sides for maximum benefit.
Yes, good points. It is difficult to see how the EU can make the transition away from Russian energy without a very messy and prolonged process. During this time, the Russians can always screw with the EU by terminating their energy export. EU would face some pretty stark options at that point. More industries will flow out of the EU. The Russians can even selectively target certain EU countries like Germany and France.
On the other hand, I wonder how much self determination the EU really has on this matter?
now THAT is a true salesman.
First sell one thing, then sell the other thing as a 'necessity' to neutralize the first thing.
Swatting down a few drones isn't the bigger problem. The real problem is saturation attacks (which by the way, we have not seen in this Russia-Ukraine war.) And you can't counter saturating swarms with these lasers or SHORADs. If I spend X on my drones, you'll have to spend X*100 to defend. So the math is on my side.
The only 'defense' against a saturation attack (of any type, drones/CMs/BMs etc.) is to attack first and neutralize the launch. If a swarm is launched against you, then at some level, you've already failed and will inevitably take damage.
do you have any recent example that show more effective application of airpower? sortie rates vs area captured.
.by now 1500 cruise / billistic missiles are fired and without any failure at platform releasing them. whether sub or corvette etc. its quality and reliability of engineering behind it. North and South is understood. Its near the Azov sea and East that have many axis but those are more localized policing conflicts rather than armour battles.
there is no fuel tanks in these choppers. it shows they are putting priority on armament rather than loitering with fuel tanks.
Temperature likely to be 15 degrees below average across much of Europe (including Ukraine) for first half of April due to polar vortex. Not sure what implication there would be for the actual combat but I imagine it wouldn't help on the demand for gas.
That's assuming the battery banks and the control room don't already take up the interior of the truck to power that 30kW laser, while a standalone diesel generator charges those batteries up like you would with a fuel truck.
So you'd effectively be swapping one model of system with another of like footprint.
No more unwieldy than a truck/tank sized mobile SAM to be honest.
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