I think that's why people pointed out the red "x" on the photos of planes from SBU. Looked like they targeted wing tanks and things that would blow up bigly if targeted by a small warhead.
That's great, but it sorta seems like the Emancipation Proclamation of the war on Ukraine. Doesn't give them Taurus, gives them a pat on the back. Spoiler or maybe they have the Taurus and denial was a cover
Russia is fucking cooked man. If they couldn’t find juice in trumps first 3-4 months, they are just giving the EU a gift while those nations ramp up their own weapons manufacturing. hopefully by Christmas we have dassault rafaeles flying over Ukrainian skies
I'm pretty sure them having to ask dad for the keys is a big reason many things didn't go well for a long time. Not to mention it seems we pressured them to do a disastrous counteroffensive.
Unless they are hitting under water supports in multiple spots…. Who knows what kind of damage could have been done. Hopefully it collapses.
Is this the world’s strongest bridge? I feel like it’s been bombed several times yet it’s still standing.
I can’t find the account but Russia is now basically checking every 18 wheeler in the country try now and it has slowed whatever commerce they do have down to a gridlock and is taking a lot of resources to do. It’s part of why Ukraine publicized so much about how they did it. A+ shit from our boys
Yes but think of how many tax breaks we have been able to hand out to our big, beautiful billionaires.
A fan of Ukraine innovating and this big move. Not a fan of the eventual terror attacks in the US with small drones Also US needs to move at light speed to get all of our aircraft, even domestically, into some sort of shelter.
Fuck Russia and these demands. https://kyivindependent.com/russia-...oops-from-4-ukrainian-regions-media-says/amp/
I've seen it said a few times, why is it assumed that Russia can't replace its strategic bombers? Or build new ones? Not trying to make a point or argue, legit wondering
No one is building 1980’s style bombers anymore including us Russia has no modern replacement program so a replacement is a decade out
they stopped producing those jets in 1991 when the ussr collapsed. You can’t just turn on the strategic bomber factory and start producing them. Russia has been spending a fraction of the amount of money on their military industrial base compared to the height of the Soviet Union. They don’t have the infrastructure or manpower to reproduce them.
China is still making Tu-16 variants, likely with more modern avionics, so they could conceivably buy some of those (if they can come up with the scratch) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi'an_H-6#H-6K
When the USS Iowa's Turret 2 exploded in 1989 there was a lot of talk about how we couldn't repair it because we had lost the industrial means and institutional knowledge to do it in a cost-effective manner. Nobody had made big guns in 45 years, and the Russians now haven't made strategic bombers in 35.
The only bomber they are currently manufacturing is the Tu160 correct and even those orders made a while ago are delayed and over budget?
has there been any more validation of the claimed 41 hits? i saw WSJ (or NYT? can't remember) reports saying that they were only able to verify a smaller number than that from satellite footage.
I've only seen some decent evidence of 12-14 destroyed and that is the number I'm seeing most people that follow it closely use. No Tu-160s sadly. Still a major blow and things that cannot be easily replaced.
Ha I didn’t notice that. I have to go to Kirtland AFB quite often and they have a Charley’s too. Must be an Air Force thing.
Air National Guard buddy was securing bases from drone attacks in Iraq 2005/06ish. $10,000 to knock a $200 drone out of the sky. Did some time protecting Obama from drones/missiles at the WH too. Twenty years later I hope we have countermeasures at bases better than a shotgun or direct signal blocking of an individual drone.
Those fiber optic drones throw an interesting wrench into the security problem too. It's a big problem.
Yeah last year I was in a private helicopter and we flew directly over an AFB with F35s. Seemed like it was not a good procedure lol.