Just a note, the A-50 was fired upon, hit, and downed all while it was inside Russian airspace (actual Russian airspace not occupied Ukrainian airspace). The US/UK/France have so far barred Ukraine from using their weapons outside of their pre-2014 borders in line with the Budapest Memorandum...
In order to retrofit the Kinzhal missile onto the MiG-31K Russia had to remove it's radar to balance it's airframe. In order to fire the missile it requires targeting data from an A-50.
The max advertised range is usually the max range at which a SAM system can be relied on to probably hit the target. If you're willing to risk a missile falling out of the sky (or worse, acquiring a civilian target) then you can fire them much further.
I.E the S-200 has a ~300KM advertised...
Now it's over I thought I'd add context to this as it actually happened. Old revolving doors have a safety mechanism in case of fire, if you depress a bar on the doors they will unlock from the main spindle and then lock in the 3 o clock position, all the doors on the spindle will lock in this...
The mods are aware of the issue, however their solution is for everyone else in the thread to put the unnamed someone on ignore. Which would be fine in say a FIFA thread but not in one like this for the reasons people have mentioned covering the spread of misinformation/false news.
The reason for this is that in a thread discussing important factual matters such as this it's always important to call out and correct misinformation when it's posted. Otherwise if people just ignore it or the posters producing it then it will stay there uncorrected and be easily findable by...
He's not confused, he just understands the subject matter so is commenting appropriately, I can understand how that may appear confusing to somebody who doesn't.
This is because Boris is a private citizen and expects to be paid for his time, especially when it will make the interviewer and...
Until now.
The reason that Ukraine are forbidden from using HIMARS, Stormshadow and SCALP against targets in Russia is because the USA/Britain/France are all nuclear powers, Germany on the other hand is not and so using Taurus wouldn't have anywhere near the potential ramifications and so won't...
Not good :(
This may be the first day ever that Ukraine lost twice as many tanks as Russia. Though having said that, one of the three Russia lost was a captured Ukrainian tank, so maybe it's because they're not sending as many in due to shortages finally, though I feel that is probably wishful...
I'm just doing some napkin math here.
Up to 100 x 1500kg = up to 150,000kg a day.
= up to 4,500,000kg a month (4.5Kt).
= up to 13,500,000kg (13.5Kt) since things really kicked off at the end of last year.
For reference the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima only had a 15,000,000kg (15Kt)...
The problem is, you can't set up defensive positions in a pile of rubble.
Russia's artillery advantage let them basically turn all the buildings into dangerous ruins or collapsed debris :(
In fairness, the vast majority of people in this country can't even be bothered to protest against (or in...
Taurus would be a game changer for Ukraine, I don't think they would need to be barred from launching them at Russian territory like HIMARS/Stormshadow but time will tell.
Problem is, their nukes were given to Russia not the west :(
Flying almost entirely on donated American aviation fuel.
Case in point the Avro Lancaster was fully capable of doing anything the B-29 (which bombed Nagasaki/Hiroshima) could. This is often forgotten as it's from the same era as...
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