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Yep, its why its so important the US doesn't become isolationist, its the only power that can go toe to toe with China in their area of influence.
Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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Yep, its why its so important the US doesn't become isolationist, its the only power that can go toe to toe with China in their area of influence.
GremlinBelow is some detail from the NYT. It's worth pointing out though the source that's being quoted is a Kremlin spokesman but it does line up with what Zelensky said the other day the pace of operations was going to increase.
Main Thrust of Ukraine’s Offensive May Be Underway, U.S. Officials Say (Published 2023)
After holding back many of its units trained and armed by the West, Ukraine is now committing them, the officials said, but it remained unclear whether a full-scale assault was taking place.www.nytimes.com
Thumbs up to the first person who spots the edit I made in the above quote.
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It's typically used at very low ltitude so even longer range AA like the Buk and S300 aren't really effective. The British Stormer HVM has taken one down recently. F16s would be a big threat but vulnerable to Russian long range AA.
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The Ukrainians do have brimstone and starstreak, plus the American stinger that I know of.
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Brimstone is anti-armour I thought? They don't seem to be using it apart from the one time they launched it from a truck (test fired?). There's some recent articles on developing a ground launch platform.
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KA-52 has optics on the bottom rather than the top like some Apaches, so it might still be exposed to AA.
World Fencing Championships: Ukraine's Olga Kharlan disqualified for refusing Russian Anna Smirnov's handshake
Ukrainian fencer Olga Kharlan is disqualified from the World Fencing Championships for refusing to shake hands with Russian Anna Smirnova.www.bbc.co.uk
Couldn't make this **** up..
Apparently its a rule that you must shake hands before the bout and you can be black carded and expulsed. You would think in the current political climate certain traditions would be waved. The fact that the Russian competitor had the nerve to appeal really grinds my gears.
Surely that's an independent and not a Russian sportsperson..
All the fun of cluster bombs, minefields and all the surprises that I have no doubt have already been planned.
Interesting brimstone can easily bring a helicopter down but it's normally working intelligently unless it's been modified to detect choppers as valid targets too.
Given it's a counter rotation helicopter then anything that got a lot of fragments will do.. unbalance one blade and there's nothing to keep it balanced. It could even be large wire traces (hence I'm wondering if some the anti-tank missiles that are wire guided are of some use by entangling on a near miss..
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New Wagner recruits must agree to fight NATO countries, Ukraine claims
The mercenary group is in the process of rebasing to Belarus after its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin called off an attempted mutiny against the Russian defence ministry last month.
They’ll probably agree because they know it wouldn’t go on for very long.New Wagner recruits must agree to fight NATO countries, Ukraine claims
The mercenary group is in the process of rebasing to Belarus after its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin called off an attempted mutiny against the Russian defence ministry last month.www.dailymail.co.uk
I am more and more wondering if Putin is going to have another go at trying to get Belarus into the war, utilising Wagner, with the intention of using them as part of an attempt to blockade Ukraine from Western supplies. Whether that happens with or without Lukashenko I dunno. It is a bit complicated to figure out, both Lukashenko recently made a point of saying how Wagner would be limited to central Belarus.
Other than a mild hindrance on the Northern border I dont see what Belarus could bring to the party.
The Wagnar Belarus thing is odd...
I guess at a very simplistic level Putin keeps them as a fighting force, and after what happened with the mutiny, keeping them in Russia probably didn't sit well.
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Also not easy terrain wise for an attacker - most of the major roads are long straight sections surrounded by soft ground (and probably mined to **** by now) and further into that part of Ukraine is quite hilly/wooded favouring defenders.
It could be that Putin put them in Belarus to provide security to Lukashenko. His regime is precarious and the last thing Putin needs is any unrest in that country. Its also a way of him keeping an eye on Wagner from a safe distance. As you say its very odd but then again Russian politics is mostly premised on regime security and not border security.
Very good point to be honest. He keeps Wagner at arms length and it also provides him with a strong arm to control/manipulate Belarus.
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