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Real shame about the steel plant. Azov regiment could have hunkered down there and launched guerilla attacks for years to come if it was properly stocked to the brim with ammo and provisions.
They could go for Crimea and call it special military operation to get rid of Nazis.in partnership with Russia.21-May-2022 11:32:22 - *Biden Signs Ukraine Funding Bill — White House
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/legislation/2022/05/21/bills-signed-h-r-7691-and-h-r-7791/
21-May-2022 09:27:06 - *Russian Military: We Destroyed Western Arms Consignment in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr Region — Interfax
21-May-2022 13:15:54 - *Russia Publishes Full List of 963 Americans Banned From Entering Country Including Biden, Blinken, CIA Chief Burn
Yikes, this could be quite an escalation, US potentially supplying Harpoon missiles or similar to Ukraine:
Hate how people on twitter loosely use the words 'BREAKING' when the news is literally from hours prior.
Hate how people on twitter loosely use the words 'BREAKING' when the news is literally from hours prior.
All Russia has to do now is hunker down till the winter when everyone will be begging for gas again.
Still at the Wimbledon has done the right thing.
All Russia has to do now is hunker down till the winter when everyone will be begging for gas again.
Still at the Wimbledon has done the right thing.
The arsenals of Europe are being depleted by the military aid to Ukraine, and replacing those will increase cost.
There are a couple of people who've done videos on that aspect though I've not watched them but while it does reduce what would have been available in a total war situation much of the gear is stuff which was coming up on being cycled out, replaced or coming up on its use by date so NATO arsenals aren't being depleted to any significant degree. We do need to cut through some of the usual tape though when it comes to replacing stuff IMO so as not to be in a wrong footed position if there is an escalation - some of this stuff might take months and a lot of cost to produce in peace time but there is no reason for it to be that in a war time situation - there isn't a physical barrier which prevents some of these missiles from being put together in large numbers in days rather than months for instance.
Costs I can't see doing anything but spiral for a long time but it is a new reality we will have to embrace and find solutions for.
Probably Stinger missiles. They've not been made in years and many would be approaching the end of their shelf life as well. Raytheon I think it was were looking into restarting production of them, but the components used are long since obsolete, so they need to basically re-desing the missiles.The economist had a feature on this- last week, I think. They said roughly one third of the US stocks of one missile type (I forget the name) have already been deployed to Ukraine.
That's a significant amount of kit. I think they said replacement time was years, rather than months.