| The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 23:28 - Mar 11 with 5975 views | Churchman |
I don’t think there’s much to stop these given they travel at 5x the speed of sound. Russia is certainly throwing all it can at Ukraine and it’s hard to know who time benefits the most.
There’s an interesting guardian article Russia’s satellites or allies if you wish to take Putin’s line, that suggest time might not be on his side.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/11/russia-has-lost-its-soft-power-how |  | |  |
| The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 23:34 - Mar 11 with 5950 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 23:28 - Mar 11 by Churchman |
I don’t think there’s much to stop these given they travel at 5x the speed of sound. Russia is certainly throwing all it can at Ukraine and it’s hard to know who time benefits the most.
There’s an interesting guardian article Russia’s satellites or allies if you wish to take Putin’s line, that suggest time might not be on his side.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/11/russia-has-lost-its-soft-power-how |
Ultimately I guess it would be about preventing them being fired and whether there is a system that can detect them, identify their flightpath, send a signal and generate a response rapidly enough to deal with them. The longer the flightpath the more likely the possibility.
In this context it is likely Ukraine can do little about them. |  |
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| The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 22:46 - Mar 13 with 5817 views | Eireannach_gorm |
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| The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 17:51 - Mar 14 with 5588 views | Kievthegreat |
Seems that Russia have taken down a US drone and the US does not sound happy.
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| The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 07:37 - Mar 15 with 5329 views | Churchman |
It seems the Russians are just pushing the US to see what they will do or more importantly not do. Knocking down a drone is low risk to Russia, other than to the Russian pilots, since all they’ll get from Biden is a few angry words, given escalation fears.
The Black Sea is considered by Russia Russian. International waters etc? Nope. Russia is ignoring all that just as they are just about everything else. Is it a sensible game to play? Clearing out the US is, but whether they succeed or Biden responds is another matter.
I suspect the US will ignore the incident and rethink how it’s keeping an eye on things. | | | |
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| The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 18:15 - Mar 15 with 5182 views | Eireannach_gorm |
| The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 07:37 - Mar 15 by Churchman |
It seems the Russians are just pushing the US to see what they will do or more importantly not do. Knocking down a drone is low risk to Russia, other than to the Russian pilots, since all they’ll get from Biden is a few angry words, given escalation fears.
The Black Sea is considered by Russia Russian. International waters etc? Nope. Russia is ignoring all that just as they are just about everything else. Is it a sensible game to play? Clearing out the US is, but whether they succeed or Biden responds is another matter.
I suspect the US will ignore the incident and rethink how it’s keeping an eye on things. |
They are pushing everyone.
Georgia
Moldova
Germany
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| The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 11:05 - Mar 16 with 5004 views | Churchman |
| The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 07:37 - Mar 15 by Churchman |
It seems the Russians are just pushing the US to see what they will do or more importantly not do. Knocking down a drone is low risk to Russia, other than to the Russian pilots, since all they’ll get from Biden is a few angry words, given escalation fears.
The Black Sea is considered by Russia Russian. International waters etc? Nope. Russia is ignoring all that just as they are just about everything else. Is it a sensible game to play? Clearing out the US is, but whether they succeed or Biden responds is another matter.
I suspect the US will ignore the incident and rethink how it’s keeping an eye on things. |
Just seen the footage of the Su27 coming in on that drone. As a piece of flying, that’s one of the stupidest things you will ever see. Looks to me like he was trying to to knock it down with the jet wash and indeed that’s what happened by the look of it. But given the speed etc he could very easily have brought down his own aircraft. Nuts. | | | |
| The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 12:31 - Mar 16 with 4939 views | Kievthegreat |
One key advantage that Ukraine still appear to have is unity. There has always been briefing and counter-briefing amongst Russian MoD, Wagner and other PMCs, but latest outputs from ISW and UK MoD (very cautious sources) suggesting the Russian MoD might be deliberately hamstringing them for political reasons.
There is also suggestions that Wagner might not be able to complete their encirclement and capture of Bahkmut.
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| The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 18:11 - Mar 16 with 4847 views | StokieBlue |
Footage of the Russian's colliding with the drone has been released. Crazy stuff, another time they could have taken themselves out.
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| The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 16:21 - Mar 17 with 4731 views | giant_stow |
Just thought I'd add a post here - apparently Poland is sending 4 MiG-29s and Slovakia is sending all of its 13 Migs.
Unless I have this wrong (possible) this seems like fairly massive news. |  |
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| The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 18:06 - Mar 17 with 4677 views | Churchman |
| The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 16:21 - Mar 17 by giant_stow |
Just thought I'd add a post here - apparently Poland is sending 4 MiG-29s and Slovakia is sending all of its 13 Migs.
Unless I have this wrong (possible) this seems like fairly massive news. |
Well, MIG 29s are old and of limited value, but the Ukrainians should be able to service and operate them. I think their value is more political than military.
The problem with supplying western aircraft is training and logistics of supporting them. If say F16 Falcons were supplied (in themselves old tech, but good), the time it’d take to train pilots to use them and the people needed to support them, the right munitions etc, I’m not sure how viable they would be let alone when they’d be operational.
It’s always been my view that the real answer was a no fly zone on the eve of the invasion a year ago, invited by Ukraine. There’s nothing Russia could have done. Too late now. | | | |
| The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 23:25 - Mar 24 with 3805 views | You_Bloo_Right |
Didn't another dictator only travel through a bomb-ravaged city at night in order that the extent of the devastation might be hidden from them?
I'm sure someone on here will know. |  |
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| The 'special military operation' continues to reach new lows. on 12:21 - Mar 27 with 3640 views | Eireannach_gorm |
The imminent Bakhmut fall to Russian control has been postponed.
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