Well, there was a attack on a Russian. Does that count?
that is magnificent!
It seems strategically important that Russia didn’t give a FU to Ukraine on Independence Day. Especially after the Moscow car bomb. I was fully expecting to see a city wiped out.
The HIMARS and other attacks must be effective. Russia will spon restock and reset. I wish Ukraine had the weapons to counterstrike before that happens.
Anyone found good non-paywalled links with an inventory of the latest package?
So, NASAMS (which are ground-based, short- to medium-range, air-defense rocket systems) and Hydra rockets (which are launched from helicopters, typically).
Just reading between the lines, here, but that sounds like munitions one would need if one were, say, planning a broad counteroffensive and wanted to help establish air superiority over the battlefield while simultaneously providing support to ground troops.
Its definitely time to shit or get off the pot.
Russia is reeling from the HIMARS attacks on their munitions depots. There’s a short window to counterattack before winter.
Hopefully this new weapons package will make it possible.
It sounds like NASAMS aren’t so much an offensive weapon as a ground-based air defense system used to protect airspace around valuable installations or cities. The Hydra rockets could certainly be used in an offensive capacity, but I find the air to ground rocket pods a curious choice, as they’re typically mounted on attack helicopters. Last I heard, Ukraine had barely a handful of attack helicopters before the war started.
It’s speculated that they will be used in a land-based configuration.
Belarusian President Lukashenko wished the Ukrainians “peaceful skies, tolerance, courage, strength and success in restoring a decent life” on their independence day. The Ukrainians aren’t buying it.
Well, that’s sort of what I meant about the NASAMS. As the Russians learned, you really need to establish air superiority in a given area before launching an offensive. NASAMS would help considerably with that by keeping Russian jets and helicopters away.
But you’re right; it’s also feasible they’d be using these to protect cities or other areas from Russian rockets.
Curious why Russia didn’t try to arm Iraq in 2003 the way we’re arming Ukraine now.
My guess is that doing so might have worked to the detriment of one of their biggest clients - Assad.
They did find a way to get aggressive, though.
Bush and Putin were buddies. He even called him pooty-poo.
Now we know Putin was playing a long game strategy. He fooled a lot of people.
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This is not good.
Don’t the Russians at the power plant understand they’ll get radiation contamination first?
I don’t know how much time they’ll have to evacuate? Needless to say the soldiers won’t make any effort to save the locals.
Cite Nuclear plant came close to ‘radiation disaster’, says Zelenskiy, amid calls for urgent UN visit | Ukraine | The Guardian
Seeing as the Russians (formerly) around Chernobyl dug foxholes in the contaminated soil, I’m going to say the answer is “no”.