The Sea King and Merlin can both carry light to heavy air dropped torpedoes
Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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The Sea King and Merlin can both carry light to heavy air dropped torpedoes
I used to live in H.K, and our boat took a look around the Carl Vinson which was moored there at the time, and they have Gatling's everywhere, nothing would get close in. The signs say 500m, I imagine it is way beyond that.
Ultimately comes down to how well commanded and competently operated the vessel is - the close in weapons on these boats can have effective ranges 3-5km with very high probability of a kill on an incoming threat by 500m.
The ukraine sea drones are meant to cost around $250,000 each not 3k
Dated November 11, 2022
On Friday, President Volodymyr Zelensky lent support to the “United24” online campaign to solicit donations to build 100 of the naval drones that cost about $250,000 apiece.
Ukraine Launches Crowd Funding Drive for $250K Naval Drones - USNI News
Ukraine has put out an international call to crowd-fund a fleet of 100 domestically built sea drones like the ones used in a late October attack on Russian Navy ships in the Black Sea. On Friday, President Volodymyr Zelensky lent support to the “United24” online campaign to solicit donations to...news.usni.org
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One thing that is really disheartening to me is lack of fire power volume.
Ukraine keeps finding new and innovative ways to attack Russian equipment but they lack the ability to force the issue and push home the advantage.
For example attacking a the Crimea bridge by road worked ok, but it would have been even better if there were 10 truck bombs instead of just one. The feat can no longer be easily repeated because all vehicles now get inspected. Hitting the bridge with a sea drone was great but they only hit it with one causing mild damage and now the area has had an anti drone net installed and spikes so any future drones will need to swim underneath. They hit the IQ building in Moscow with one drone, caused mild damage, why not 20 drones at once. They got Russian ships in that Russian port, why not more, now the ships have moved away.
Overall it looks like Ukraine is now just fighting a guerrilla war with no ability to do anything other than trying to drag the war out in the hope the Russians decide to cut their loss and quit
The whole F16 thing is also unlikely to make too much difference because they are not going to receive F16's in the quantity needed nor do they have the quantity of pilots needed in order to be able to generate a serious air threat for Russian ground forces
Ukraine keeps finding new and innovative ways to attack Russian equipment but they lack the ability to force the issue and push home the advantage.
For example attacking a the Crimea bridge by road worked ok, but it would have been even better if there were 10 truck bombs instead of just one. The feat can no longer be easily repeated because all vehicles now get inspected. Hitting the bridge with a sea drone was great but they only hit it with one causing mild damage and now the area has had an anti drone net installed and spikes so any future drones will need to swim underneath. They hit the IQ building in Moscow with one drone, caused mild damage, why not 20 drones at once. They got Russian ships in that Russian port, why not more, now the ships have moved away.
Overall it looks like Ukraine is now just fighting a guerrilla war with no ability to do anything other than trying to drag the war out in the hope the Russians decide to cut their loss and quit
The whole F16 thing is also unlikely to make too much difference because they are not going to receive F16's in the quantity needed nor do they have the quantity of pilots needed in order to be able to generate a serious air threat for Russian ground forces
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Caporegime
Good guy Poland. Slavs together stronk.
Yes, we're making progress.
If the war grinds to a stalemate and we're still along similar lines when 2024 rolls in, you do wonder if the West might just blink first.
It's easy for politicians to say their support is unwavering, but it's just as easy for that support to dry up in practice. We were committed to helping the Afghans, until we weren't.
It's easy for politicians to say their support is unwavering, but it's just as easy for that support to dry up in practice. We were committed to helping the Afghans, until we weren't.
For their to be real progress we need to do more than dusting off old inventory, etc. sure there are constraints when it comes to training, logistics and maintenance, etc. but for Ukraine to make progress countries need to spin up production at war time pace of vehicles and ammo, etc. so as to nullify Russia's advantages with more sophisticated approaches such as modern self-propelled artillery, etc.
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Ukraine desperately needs air cover. Unfortunately the best way to provide that is NATO intervention. I see no solution to this problem.
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The west has been too short sighted even with their minimal approach they don't learn, this war has shown a lot of deficiencies with producing munitions and equipment, yet nothing has changed, still drip feeding Ukraine because it's the best they can do with too much reliance on the US
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God help Ukraine if he does. In fact, God helps the entire world, the man is an utter maniac. For some reason, the Trump voters can't see that. How things have changed. Not so long ago, Trump would have been called a commie sympathiser and quietly disappeared.
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Soldato
You couldnt make it up
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It's not that simple. If China were for example were found to be breaking international sanctions on Russia acting as a 3rd party they themselves risk further scantions. It's not worth the risk for such little reward.
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