A much more fierce bombing campaign and eventual ground invasion was in the works had Milosevic not acceded to a plan that Russia had agreed was acceptable plus the rather reasonable terms of said agreement would have been thrown out with the aim of overrunning Belgrade.
Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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it's only 155mm2 artillery that's particularly low because the US has sent Ukraine nearly a million shells. The US has focused its budgets over the years heavily into defence and powerful projection and that means budget ends up in planes and ships and in that aspect it's over powered. The US hasn't being particularly focused on large ground war preparations over the last 30 years because it's only had to engage in relatively small offensives which were still mostly supported by air.
This latest war has shown that ground offensives in Europe still operate a lot like WW2 and that means you need lots of artillery so the US is investing again into its production. The US doesn't need extra production for its own defence or even for power projection against China; but to deter Russia it would be wise to ensure Ukraine and the Europeans in general are heavily supplied with more weapons and ammo than Russia has
And speaking of ground equipment; the first Korean tanks and artillery guns are arriving this week in Poland. And Korea will be supplying Poland with 300 MLRS launchers; Poland originally asked for 500 HIMARS but US production of the system is too slow for Poland so they decided to change it to 200 HIMARS and asked Korea to sell them 300 MLRS
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Showing a bit of inexperience there - seems they were still locked on the signature and fired a 3rd time into the ground still tracking it.
I noticed that too; it targeted the rocket as it went past the horizon and shot rounds into the ground. Is is a crew issue or system issue?
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My guess would be inexperience - possibly the crew used to feature(s) or mechanics on Soviet designs which is different or doesn't exist on other designs, etc.
On the ammunition production front I think aside from the capacity to continue supporting Ukraine, and subsequently build the stockpile of ammo back up to restore direct Western warfighting capacity this could be seen as preparation for future proxy wars. If say some Asian country was invaded by Russia or some other threatening power and that turned into an extended conflict the West needs to be able to sustain support to them too, and we've seen how vital artillery systems are.
Hope they'll be firing up production lines for new MANPADS and portable anti tank missiles too, having seen how important they are as rapidly deployable tools to help infantry defend against armoured & aerial attacks.
Ukraine has probably given planners a lot of food for thought in terms of preparation for future war scenarios, seeing how important artillery still is, how drones & loitering munitions perform in large scale wars, effectiveness of AA missiles at denying air superiority, and just how much ammunition gets used up in extended combat.
Hope they'll be firing up production lines for new MANPADS and portable anti tank missiles too, having seen how important they are as rapidly deployable tools to help infantry defend against armoured & aerial attacks.
Ukraine has probably given planners a lot of food for thought in terms of preparation for future war scenarios, seeing how important artillery still is, how drones & loitering munitions perform in large scale wars, effectiveness of AA missiles at denying air superiority, and just how much ammunition gets used up in extended combat.
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Sadly I think some of the lessons will be short lived.
Imagine getting hit by a 1970's museum piece, dosnt say much for Russian air defence what if they was to come up against modern stuff
The MoD and government has most definitely not learned anything from this.
One question is how good the air defence systems would be against western radiation missiles and f-35's etc.
Israel has shown it can penetrate those Soviet era defences with west tech.
I would say that government and the MOD, military intelligence has learned reams of stuff in the last nine months. The trick is to put it into practice and arm intelligently.
Apparently Russian tech and tactics have evolved little since the end of the cold war. In fact they may be worse. Once again we need to out spend the 'soviets' bringing down their empire through lack of currency and the people's desire to end tyranny.
Imagine getting hit by a 1970's museum piece, dosnt say much for Russian air defence what if they was to come up against modern stuff
Russia are using 1960 era tanks on the front lines
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The vaunted T-90 proved to be little improvement over the T-72 and I don’t think the Russians dare field their latest, the T-14 even if they have more than a handful of them.
Chance of seeing a T14 or SU57 is very slim. Not only doesn't Russia have money to replace any lost units, these are supposed to be drivers of arms sales, if they fail on the battlefield before any country has bout in a big order for units them the entire program becomes a failure.
Can you imagine if they field a few T14's and they all get blown up by Javelins. Then they can forget about India ever ordering any and the program will die because Russia's military doesn't have the money to keep production going without export sales
Can you imagine if they field a few T14's and they all get blown up by Javelins. Then they can forget about India ever ordering any and the program will die because Russia's military doesn't have the money to keep production going without export sales
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Really need to start lobbing some **** back over the boarder. Draw a line in the sand.
"Severe sanctions on the officers responsible" - best stay away from any windows or stairs then!New British intelligence update focusing on the airbase attack
This explains the conundrum yesterday: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...howing-attacks-similar.18582449/post-36058991
If it was a "drone" then why the missile sound on the video and if it were a missile (storm shadow etc..) isn't it a little bit too far 600km+ range to this target vs 560km for storm shadow + NATO being against long-range NATO weapons being used in attacks on Russian territory.
The Tu-141 has a turbojet engine thus the sound on the video footage and I presume that Ukraine has added GPS in addition to a warhead to turn it into a sort of ad-hoc cruise missile.
I guess this crash in March was a Ukrainian test flight of this new weapon system gone wrong:
Military Drone From War in Ukraine Crashes in Zagreb after Crossing Hungarian Airspace
A Ukrainian Tu-141 Striz military drone is believed to have crashed near Croatia’s capital Zagreb. The aircraft likely crossed over Hungary and parts of neighboring countries before hitting the ground, according to military news site War Zone. The Zagreb police station received a call at around...
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If they lose even 1 SU57, they wont sell any at all.
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"impose severe sanctions on Russian officers deemed responsible..." Just cut to the chase, there going to the Gulag.New British intelligence update focusing on the airbase attack
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