Wonder how Beijing sees Russia's barely functioning navy operating in the Black Sea?
Possibly flapping about how many Russian ships they have.
Wonder how Beijing sees Russia's barely functioning navy operating in the Black Sea?
I even read some years ago (I seem to recall) about torpedoes launched from/as missiles (rockets)
The two most well known are the 60's era American ASROC (6nm range) and the Russian RPK-2 Vyuga (20+nm range) both of which are still in service, although there are many others too.
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.Whilst I support Ukraines use of these in the Black Sea, the US and UK navy must be absolutely spinning themselves over the future of naval warfare. How do you protect an aircraft carrier from something as small as these things?
Ukraine might be the first with these drones, but they wont be the last.
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.
The ukraine sea drones are meant to cost around $250,000 each not 3kI must admit though a homemade sea drone worth around 3k taking out a 750 hundred million pound Russian ship is extremely good value for money
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
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
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.
Depends if Trump gets re-elected next year - hence the reason Putin is taking it slow. Winter is approaching so not much will happen for 6 months