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

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The Funktopus said:
Rapid Dragon’s been tested with the likes of the C-17 and C-130, and needs the tail ramp that strategic and tactical transport aircraft have to roll the rack with the missiles off. Unless you have civilian versions of those aircraft, then you’re typical civilian airliner like a Boeing 777 or Airbus A330 can’t launch Rapid Dragon.

Cool concept though, as it turns otherwise harmless trash haulers into missile trucks that can dump dozens of low observable AGM-158’s on an enemy, which certainly won’t tickle.
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There are a bunch of civilian aircraft technically compatible, though that gets a bit murky as many of them are operated by "airlines" owned by or contacting only to the CIA or US DOD, etc.
 
Normally Russia missile waves overnight happen around 3 hours time from now - still seeing nothing which indicates that kind of activity yet. Though there are brief messages being sent out by Russian strategic command but they seem to limited for strikes of the kind of scale talked about.

EDIT: Saying that bunch of orders going out now.

EDIT2: 6 sets (I might have missed some) of probably target encoding.

EDIT3: If stuff doesn't start happening in about 20 minutes this is probably just training.
 
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Air raid alerts Odesa, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv just went active.

EDIT: More regions now.

EDIT2: I missed the reports of ships launching supposedly. Also new targetting data being sent from Russian air force strategic command.

EDIT3: If these are real launches this is going to be a big one going by the strategic bomber network activity now - some people claiming it is simulated though.
 
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Still not seen anything confirming this aside from the surge in activity on the strategic bomber network which may or may not be actual launch commands.

Aircraft returning messages probably confirmations - still not seen evidence of actual missiles in Ukrainian airspace.
 
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Boeing E-3B Sentry up over Poland - first possible indication there might be some actual activity.

EDIT: None of this makes much sense to me - Russia's overnight attacks are usually around 5-6am (local time) or so which is still another couple of hours, they don't usually have bombers up so long before attacks neither is there as much delay between commands being sent and stuff happening. Possible they are trying to draw out air-defence response before actual launches but I doubt that is what is happening.
 
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GaryTheSnail said:
Ukraine has nothing to combat this. Reports are this is maximum damage incoming.
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So far information is pretty fuzzy but if Russia just shot their load sounds like Ukraine has countered most of it successfully as so far no reports of impacts of any note and lots of air-defence activity.

If this was a big strike Russia was saving up for all the indications so far are it seems to have failed spectacularly.

EDIT: Weird night - sounds like Russia spent most of it doing dummy (not even decoy) launches finally going with only about 1/3rd of the hyped number of missiles most of which seem based on information so far to have been intercepted.
 
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Rroff said:
So far information is pretty fuzzy but if Russia just shot their load sounds like Ukraine has countered most of it successfully as so far no reports of impacts of any note and lots of air-defence activity.

If this was a big strike Russia was saving up for all the indications so far are it seems to have failed spectacularly.

EDIT: Weird night - sounds like Russia spent most of it doing dummy (not even decoy) launches finally going with only about 1/3rd of the hyped number of missiles most of which seem based on information so far to have been intercepted.
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So, they did fire some after all?
 
RxR said:
So, they did fire some after all?
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Dunno - the only things that are certain:

-Air defences working overtime in several places including Kyiv around 4-5am local time.
-Russian air force strategic command ran a strike operation with targetting information sent and launch confirmations. (From what I can tell about 70% were dummy launches as there was no sightings or impacts noted within Ukraine during the relevant time frame).
 
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