Ukrainian War Developments

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Soldier30

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In the battles for the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, one of the Russian T-72B tanks withstood a hit in the upper part of the tower of the Swedish-British portable NLAW ATGM, in the attack footage, one of the nationalists of the Azov battalion shoots at a Russian T-72B tank.


The footage of the destroyed division of the S-300 air defense system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the settlement of Circuna, Kharkiv region, was published by the Russian Defense Ministry. The coordinates of the location of the S-300 air defense system of Ukraine were established with the help of electronic intelligence, after which the positions were struck by missile weapons. As a result of an accurate hit, the launchers of the S-300 air defense system and transport-loading vehicles with ammunition were destroyed.


Published footage of the calculations of the operational-tactical missile complex "Iskander-K" and the launch of the cruise missile R-500 in Ukraine. Iskander is a family of operational and tactical missile systems that has been in service with the Russian army for 15 years. Iskander is not a single missile system, but several modifications of various missiles. The basis of the Iskander-K complex is the 9K728 cruise missile, also known as the R-500, the launch of which is shown in the video. The missile has incredible accuracy, and is capable of hitting targets with an accuracy of up to two meters. Officially, the range of the R-500 missile is about 500 kilometers, but many sources believe that the actual range of the missile is 2000-2500

 

Helius

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now THAT is a true salesman.

First sell one thing, then sell the other thing as a 'necessity' to neutralize the first thing.

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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.
Which is why instead of a 1-to-1 proposition, be it lasers, SHORADs, SAMs, MANPADS etc. I suggested using good ol' ack-acks as a cost-effective alternative, maybe even an actually effective countermeasure against swarm attacks.

Employ a layered defence screen by first blanketing the sky with flaks WWII-style. That's how it used to be done anyway with large air formations. And like the old days you won't get them all, but that's all right. The difference is, the few that get through can now be dealt with either with mobile CWIS or your trusty old SAMs, or any of those fancy-schmancy AA rigs.
 

FairAndUnbiased

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Yuan RMB is pegged to the US dollar, so you are effectively saying Yuan RMB is also worthless since it's not pegged to gold, but pegged to a 'worthless' currency (US dollar).

Also, Russia doesn't have enough gold to make the ruble to be gold-backed. Russia is seeking to BUY gold at a fixed price of rubles. This makes the gold ruble-backed, not the other way around. To make the ruble gold-backed, the Russians have to SELL gold at a fixed price of rubles, but again, they don't have enough supply of gold.

At the same time, Russia is forcing 'unfriendly' countries to buy oil/gas via rubles. Effectively, Europe must buy rubles from Putin in gold, then use the rubles to buy Russian oil/gas or buy with gold directly. So effectively Russia is pegging the oil/gas to gold, using ruble as a paper proxy. This will significantly increase demand for rubles, because ruble is a paper proxy for oil/gas-backed gold. We will see if Europeans refuse to sell gold for rubles and potentially have oil/gas shutoff, or if they kowtow to the Petro-ruble.
yuan is not pegged to USD. hasn't been for almost 20 years. it would be a total economic policy failure 1000x worse than collapse of Soviet Russia if yuan was still USD pegged because USD lost all value in 2008 when they decided that adding 0's to their own accounts was good. accepting USD at any fixed exchange rate, no matter what actual exchange rate that would be, is stupidly importing inflation. the current managed float exchange rate is the correct solution and is the solution that's been chosen, to minimize both volatility and imports of inflation.

every country that actually pegged to the USD is extremely poor, like Zimbabwe, Ecuador, El Salvador, etc.
 
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