Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

[bingham67]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1564684341376057345

 

[Freddie1980]

If I were Ali Khamenei and got a call from Putin complaining about faulty drones I would tell him "if I throw a dog a bone I don't want to know if tastes good or not".

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Ukraine seem to have far more equipment in play and in range now.

 

[bingham67]

Ukraine seem to have far more equipment in play and in range now.

Should have 100 HIMARS by now and rain hell

 

[Gregvivi0401]

Ukraine seem to have far more equipment in play and in range now.

Looks like it and better using of this gears.

 

[Gregvivi0401]

Should have 100 HIMARS by now and rain hell

yep

 

[Minusorange]

Lolz "Russia receives faulty combat drones from Iran - US military"

A first batch of Iranian-made combat drones has been received by Russia from Tehran but many of them are faulty, the US military has said.

"It's likely part of Russia's plans to import hundreds of Iranian UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] of various types," Pentagon spokesman Brig-Gen Patrick Ryder was quoted as saying by AFP.

However, Ryder says the available intelligence suggests the equipment has "already experienced numerous failures". He offered no evidence for this. AFP said.

In the war both Ukraine and Russia are using large numbers of drones both for attack and surveillance.

Could be worse, could have paid billions for a faulty aircraft carrier

 

[Dazl1212]

Russia is claiming:

* It's killed all Ukranian partisans/spies/saboteurs in shoot outs today in Kherson and there is nothing to worry about.
* It's killed over 1200 Ukranian soldiers around Kherson region and pushed back all Ukranian offences
* It intercepted 53 HIMARS rockets, 4 Hurricane missiles and 3 Tochka-U missiles

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Should have 100 HIMARS by now and rain hell

Let’s hope they have a good stock of ammo.

 

[Gregvivi0401]

Let’s hope they have a good stock of ammo.

Each HIMARS rocket costs around $150,000, and the wheeled chassis/launcher costs $5.6 million. Thus, the entire system (six rockets and the wheeled launcher) comes to $6.5 million, and a dozen HIMARS launchers would come at $78 million.
Lots of cash

 

[Freddie1980]

******* Russian ********. I've just found out from my other half that her uncle has been killed on the front lines.

When the war started he rejoined the military as an officer (not sure what rank), he complained that his men didn't have right body armour and lacked equipment to fight at night (I believe he was job involved doing night patrols). To help we ended up buying him a high end night vision monocular which he was very happy with. He's the second person in her family to have killed in this war, she lost a cousin in 2014 as well.

Just found out from the mother in law he's probably in captivity after seeing he's photo of captured prisoners. I'm glad he's alive but I dread to think how those 8a2tard'2 have been treating him.

 

[Andrew_McP]

Lots of cash

Slavery's cheap. Freedom's a bit spendier.

 

[Gregvivi0401]

Slavery's cheap. Freedom's a bit spendier.

yes correct

 

[Freddie1980]

Let’s hope they have a good stock of ammo.

Production is being ramped up

 

[Grim5]

Each HIMARS rocket costs around $150,000, and the wheeled chassis/launcher costs $5.6 million. Thus, the entire system (six rockets and the wheeled launcher) comes to $6.5 million, and a dozen HIMARS launchers would come at $78 million.
Lots of cash

Us announced a $3billion package a few days ago, enough to theoretically buy 470 HIMARS launchers and ammunition. Or you could buy 200 HIMARS launchers and a shipment of 14 thousand rockets or even better 100 launchers and 17 thousand rockets which gives each launcher 170 rockets to shoot off

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Production is being ramped up

Good to see some longer term defence tech on the way too. Ukraine will become a fortress down the line.

 

[Minstadave]

Us announced a $3billion package a few days ago, enough to theoretically buy 470 HIMARS launchers and ammunition. Or you could buy 200 HIMARS launchers and a shipment of 14 thousand rockets or even better 100 launchers and 17 thousand rockets which gives each launcher 170 rockets to shoot off

If it's like previous funding packages a lot of the money is allocated to funding US intelligence operations.

 

[Gregvivi0401]

Good to see some longer term defence tech on the way too. Ukraine will become a fortress down the line.

after war they shoud be part of NATO

 

[CaneyJ]

So Gorbachev is dead eh? Pity. Would have been pretty funny to see him live through seeing his country shatter a second time.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

after war they shoud be part on NATO

And they’ll already have the equipment and training to join.