And military budgets + large programs. We are buying new F-15EXs to expand the USAF, but do we have anything that can stop a drone swarm?
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Putin/Russia calls up 160,000 conscripts
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Obligations to defense contractors, lobbyists, etc. Same old stories on budgets. Have to spend the $ to keep getting the $.
And we just burned through a large amount of expensive Patriot & THAAD interceptor missiles.
1500 wounded or dead per day! That is not sustainable.
Absurd isn't it?
Russians have always been messed up when it comes to valuing the lives of their own.
Yesterday, Ukraine hit the Russian port of St. Pete with long range drone strikes. The damage was visible for miles and Russian air defense was ineffective.
Putin has a summit going on in St. Pete the next few days.
Meanwhile, gas rationing is happening in occupied Crimea beacause of consistent Ukrainian drone strikes on fuel trucks near by. This is likely not a short term situation. Fuel trucks are not easily replaced.
This is a paradigm shift in the use of air power happening right before our eyes.
IMO, this rivals the invention of precision guided munitions (laser guided & later GPS guided bombs), and may rival the emergence of aircraft carriers in WWII.
Putin has a summit going on in St. Pete the next few days.
Meanwhile, gas rationing is happening in occupied Crimea beacause of consistent Ukrainian drone strikes on fuel trucks near by. This is likely not a short term situation. Fuel trucks are not easily replaced.
This is a paradigm shift in the use of air power happening right before our eyes.
IMO, this rivals the invention of precision guided munitions (laser guided & later GPS guided bombs), and may rival the emergence of aircraft carriers in WWII.
I saw where Ukraine has basically cut-off all the supply lines into Crimea. They have effectively created a blockade of into Crimea.
It's going to have an effect on the big Crimea vacation season.
Russia has a lot of resources, but one has to wonder just how much destruction of transportation they can endure.
In the past 6 weeks, they've been taking a epic beating. With most of the logistics being cut off from the front lines, they are being forced to retreat.
The amazing change that we see happening over there.
At first, Russia was hitting Ukraine with so many Iranian built Drones. Well now Ukraine has figured out how to shoot those down and they started inventing their own drones. Well now the Ukrainian drones are causing Russia fits because they do not know how to stop them.
Ukraine got involved in the Iranian war and now we know how to stop their drones. We found out that instead of spending millions on missiles to shoot down drones, all we needed was machine guns like those on our fighter jets. Even Machine guns on the ground could knock out the drones when they came down low.
Ukraine still has trouble when Russia launches missiles, but they are getting help from our Phalanx systems to stop those.
Apparently Ukraine is using their drones to win conflicts against the Russian troops on the ground too.
I sure hope we are investing in more and more advanced drones.
At first, Russia was hitting Ukraine with so many Iranian built Drones. Well now Ukraine has figured out how to shoot those down and they started inventing their own drones. Well now the Ukrainian drones are causing Russia fits because they do not know how to stop them.
Ukraine got involved in the Iranian war and now we know how to stop their drones. We found out that instead of spending millions on missiles to shoot down drones, all we needed was machine guns like those on our fighter jets. Even Machine guns on the ground could knock out the drones when they came down low.
Ukraine still has trouble when Russia launches missiles, but they are getting help from our Phalanx systems to stop those.
Apparently Ukraine is using their drones to win conflicts against the Russian troops on the ground too.
I sure hope we are investing in more and more advanced drones.
I sure hope the Pentagon is paying close attention.
Drone attacks for the last few days in St Petersburg. Hitting oil storage facilities and the naval base. St. Petersburg (Putin’s home town) is on the Baltic Sea, about 1000 km from Ukraine.
www.yahoo.com
Russia can’t seem to be able to stop them. At least not enough of them.
Ukraine targets St. Petersburg in what Russia calls an ‘unprecedented’ attack
Ukraine launched extensive drone attacks against Russian refineries and military facilities around the city of St Petersburg on Saturday, in what one Russian official described as an “unprecedented” a...
Russia can’t seem to be able to stop them. At least not enough of them.
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And in the south, Ukraine is causing significant fuel shortages that impacts military and civilian operations.
Russia does not have the resources to defend all of that airspace. This is only going to get worse for them.
Saint Petersburg - Wikipedia
For all the Soviet history, the city was named after the Christian Saint Peter instead of Peter the Great and renamed that by its citizens in 1991.
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Lol, as a history major, I would have bet the house on Saint Petersburg being named after Peter the Great...and apparently, I would have been wrong. Although, I guess there is a big clue with the "Saint" portion of the city name.
I love learning/correcting little pieces of information nuggets like this.
I love learning/correcting little pieces of information nuggets like this.
Yeah, the Russian Orthodox Church has been around over there for a long time and its churches have round church spires similar to Islamic ones that obviously don't include a cross at the top.
Christianity in Russia - Wikipedia
The modern Russian mafia state is what it is, but our countries have a similar Christian spiritual base, so the Cold War is a paradox in some ways.
Ukraine hits fuel supplies to Crimea, sparking a fuel crisis on the Russian-held peninsula.
Ukrainian drone strikes on refineries, depots and pipelines. Tanker trucks attacked and left ablaze along the land corridor from Russia to Crimea. Motorists waiting in long lines at gas stations.
In a new blow to the Kremlin's narrative that Moscow is winning the 4-year-old war in Ukraine, Kyiv's forces have targeted supplies to Crimea, triggering the worst fuel crisis on the Black Sea peninsula since it was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.
The persistent attacks reflect the growing intensity and efficiency of Ukraine’s drone strikes and have caught Russia off guard and struggling for a response.
As the country marks the Russia Day national holiday on Friday, signaling the start of summer vacations, the gas shortages are threatening to cause further disruptions to the tourism-dependent region with its beaches and resorts.
I have become pessimistic about the Ukraine war because neither side has what it takes to achieve total victory.
Even in our country's short history, we have never suspended elections like Ukraine has. What if Ukraine were to become a major weapons supplier for Israel?
China used to get all of the Soviet Union's hand-me-downs from a military standpoint, but now it could probably stand on its own and produce it's own weapons if Russia's supply dried up enough. I will say that I believe lack of native steel resources would be a problem, though, for China.
It's hard for me to understand how Putin has been allowed to stay in power this long despite the heavy manpower losses in the war.
Even in our country's short history, we have never suspended elections like Ukraine has. What if Ukraine were to become a major weapons supplier for Israel?
China used to get all of the Soviet Union's hand-me-downs from a military standpoint, but now it could probably stand on its own and produce it's own weapons if Russia's supply dried up enough. I will say that I believe lack of native steel resources would be a problem, though, for China.
It's hard for me to understand how Putin has been allowed to stay in power this long despite the heavy manpower losses in the war.