This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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You can thank Donald Trump and the GQP if and when this happens
Maybe it was a loitering oneway drone and it was use it or lose it…
Sounds very risky.
"-Mines are fixed between two boards.-The board is tied to a rope.-It is placed on the edge of the vehicle's forward direction in a way that it can move back and forth.-It is planned to be pulled in the direction and detonated just before the vehicle passes. 2/2"
"-Mines are fixed between two boards.-The board is tied to a rope.-It is placed on the edge of the vehicle's forward direction in a way that it can move back and forth.-It is planned to be pulled in the direction and detonated just before the vehicle passes. 2/2"
I saw some analysis yesterday that the Russians took a risk pushing their Mainstays so far towards the frontline because they are preparing for the arrival of F-16s. They have to use this time to extend their own coverage, and hit at every Ukrainian aircraft and base they can before the F-16s are deployed.
They cannot have many usable Mainstays, and a continuous cycle of usage will lead to errors and more shoot downs.
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I expect to start seeing this rhetoric here. Which will have the same desired effect and overall goal for the US citizens and European citizens: “give Ukraine all the weapons they need. Now. “
Not sure if reported yesterday but I did not report the Ryazan fire earlier today.
Partisans conducting a surreptitious reconnaissance of ships in Sevastopol discovered the wreckage of a border guard ship of Project 205P Tarantul, a Russian patrol ship that sank in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol several weeks ago, according to a report published by Atesh partisans on Telegram
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/26898
Send a couple NATO Stealth fighters in and shoot that next one down, too.
Then, just deny it. "Bad Luck, Ivan"
Russia is so predictable-shortly after France donates 600 missiles to Ukraine, Russia claims they've killed 60 French mercenaries.
"60 French people killed in an airstrike in Ukraine... and comments from Moscow"
"France has denied Russia’s claim that there were French mercenaries in Ukraine after Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its troops had killed “foreign fighters” earlier this week.
“France helps Ukraine with supplies of military material and military training, in full compliance with international law, in order to help Ukraine in its fight to defend its sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity,” France’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs said on Thursday."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/18/france-denies-russian-claim-of-mercenaries-in-ukraine
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It's indicative of the success the Ukrainians have had in rolling back Russian air defenses.
First destroying the SAMs placed on Snake Island.
Then the commando raid on Mayak, and finally the effort to overwhelm AD in Sevastopol.
The utilization of the A-50s were in response, and with them pushed back it makes it easier for the Ukrainians to fly deeper before launching their cruise missiles.
"Partisans of “ATESH” registered the dismantling of the supersonic missile carrier “Onyx” in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol. Oh, you want to make yourself thin. Don't you trust your own anti-aircraft defense? Embarrassing as the second best army in the world... hehe."
A comment -" Well, with the current course of the new a-50, parts of Crimea are blind... I suspect it will be relocated to an area that the a50 can still cover"
A comment -" Well, with the current course of the new a-50, parts of Crimea are blind... I suspect it will be relocated to an area that the a50 can still cover"
"The picture shows the current range of the locator of 300-400 km As you can see, now the A-50 aircraft does not fly into the waters of the Sea of Azov at all, its patrol route runs along the land part of Russia, in the Krasnodar-Rostov zone; Patrolling in this zone significantly reduces the ability of the ship to target and direct ballistic missiles at land and air targets in the south of the country;It also affects the fact that in the last few days there has not been a single launch of ballistic missiles from Crimea, at targets in the Kryvyi Rih and Kropyvnytskyi regions, because the locator simply does not reach there."
Of course I am no expert but this looks like a total loss that will take a long time to replace.
