The Russians have gone in

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Looks like it's "Wild Weasel" time.

There's been a bunch of posts online today, about fragments of US made HARM missiles at the wreckage of Russians radars in Ukraine.

A US DoD official confirms our anti-radar weapons are in theatre.

"Anti-Radiation Missiles Sent To Ukraine, U.S. Confirms | The Drive" Anti-Radiation Missiles Sent To Ukraine, U.S. Confirms | The Drive


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I love it!

Loud blasts have been reported at a military base in Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula Russia annexed in 2014.

The blasts were in the western village of Novofedorivka, said Oleg Kruchkov, an adviser to the Moscow-installed regional head.

Three local witnesses told Reuters they had seen black smoke rising from the direction of the airstrip.

The cause of the blasts was not immediately known, but Russia's defence ministry said ammunition was detonated.

Footage has emerged on social media purportedly showing people on a beach watching plumes of smoke rising from the direction of Novofedorivka.

Russia-appointed Crimea head Sergei Aksyonov said he was going to the area.

Ukraine war: Explosions hit airstrip in Russia-annexed Crimea - BBC News
 
You know, the free world doesn't have to stop Russia in Ukraine. They can let him liberate at least a coupla more countries like Poland and Lithuania. Heck, they can wait til they're at the English Channel. It worked so well with Hitler. At least the Ukrainians are furnishing the man power and all they are asking for is weapons. Sorry I am in a contemplative mood and I have seen a coupla folks on the tube and the net with isolationist views lately. My apologies for my morbid thoughts...........
 
ddixie884 said:
You know, the free world doesn't have to stop Russia in Ukraine. They can let him liberate at least a coupla more countries like Poland and Lithuania. Heck, they can wait til they're at the English Channel. It worked so well with Hitler. At least the Ukrainians are furnishing the man power and all they are asking for is weapons. Sorry I am in a contemplative mood and I have seen a coupla folks on the tube and the net with isolationist views lately. My apologies for my morbid thoughts...........
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I do my fair share of contemplating on this as well.
In terms of battlefield progress, I'm not really sure what we are looking at.
What Ukraine has regained may have been Russia's concession.
The front has been very stagnant despite the raw tonnage of explosives rained liberally upon it and weapon systems pumped into it. This draws my suspicion.
Any system sent to be used, may also be disassembled and analyzed. we need to be careful here.
These things aside, we have been basically fighting non stop for twenty years. After ten, an argument could be made for us being battle hardened. But twenty ... we're battle weary.
Domestically, while the vast majority of issues cannot be discussed, the bottom line reads "Things are not okay at home"
While we take pride in making safe the lands of our fellow travelers of the cosmos, We really can't do this right now.
 
venomballistics said:
The front has been very stagnant despite the raw tonnage of explosives rained liberally upon it and weapon systems pumped into it. This draws my suspicion.
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Maybe it's static because of the stuff falling from the sky.:D

I think it is easy to have a skewed view of ground combat after the two Gulf Wars that featured so much maneuver warfare. The terrain in Ukraine is different, being criss-crossed by multiple small rivers creating choke points everywhere. Add in the the comparative absence of air support due to the effectiveness, perceived or real, of the SAM threat, and it is a style of war we haven't seen since Korea or WWII. Recall how the campaign in Normandy got bogged down because of the waterways and when air support was impossible on cloudy days. The Battle of the Bulge was only really settled when the air support could operate.

I would also add that we must remember that Ukraine never had a large army. While it is able to maul the Russians at a distance with the right weapons or in guerilla style warfare, large scale advances to take back territory are a different kettle of fish.
 
This is worth a read - MSN

Bluntly speaking, Putin's war is economic suicide. The late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) once slurred Russia as being merely a "gasoline station masquerading as a country," but it's worse than that now. Putin has driven away all the gas station's customers and employees and will be completely out of business sooner than he imagines.
 
LVSteve said:
Maybe it's static because of the stuff falling from the sky.:D

I think it is easy to have a skewed view of ground combat after the two Gulf Wars that featured so much maneuver warfare. The terrain in Ukraine is different, being criss-crossed by multiple small rivers creating choke points everywhere. Add in the the comparative absence of air support due to the effectiveness, perceived or real, of the SAM threat, and it is a style of war we haven't seen since Korea or WWII. Recall how the campaign in Normandy got bogged down because of the waterways and when air support was impossible on cloudy days. The Battle of the Bulge was only really settled when the air support could operate.

I would also add that we must remember that Ukraine never had a large army. While it is able to maul the Russians at a distance with the right weapons or in guerilla style warfare, large scale advances to take back territory are a different kettle of fish.
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It wasn't really a thing in WW2 or Korea either ... aside from some real estate in the northern front, it's looking more like the stalemate of WW1's trenches. We should see some shift, gain or loss, to the next obstacle at least until winter when the ice and snow command that none shall pass.
 
A Ukraine allied group of 50 contributing nations, led by the USA, is now operational in a German city. It coordinates procurement and logistics to Ukraine.

Britain, which has trained 22,000 Ukrainians, on British soil, in the last seven years, is running an international effort to train in Britain, a minimum of 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers every 120 days.



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Nine, count'em, nine Russian aircraft destroyed in Crimea. Poor l'il Putin.
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Excellent!!
Not his only aircraft problem. The Russians are now cannibalizing commercial aircraft because sanctions cut off supplies of spare parts.

"Russia started to dismantle Sukhoi Superjet 100, Airbus 350 and Boeing 737s for parts due to sanctions | gagadget.com" Russia started to dismantle Sukhoi Superjet 100, Airbus 350 and Boeing 737s for parts due to sanctions | gagadget.com



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LVSteve said:
That would be quite a concept for them even without a war.
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on a somewhat related note of alcohol driven antics, I'm not seeing much from the Garage 54 youtube channel in my feed since this all started.
A guy could marvel at how many ways a Russian grease monkey can find to butcher a Lada.
With the reduced income from youtube, I imagine the content has suffered as much as the cars
 
Saw this story that combines info on the strike on the Russian held airfield in Crimea with the info I just posted on US anti-radar missiles now in Ukrainian hands.

"OSINT analysts from the international intelligence community first suggested the use of long-range rockets ATACMS hours after the airfield was bombed. Experts suggested that the Armed Forces of Ukraine disarmed the air defense system with AGM missiles - 88 HARM. After that, ATACMS projectiles were launched.

The version with the use of long-range missiles returned after the publication of satellite images of the consequences of the strike on the airbase in Crimea. Analysts admit that the Armed Forces of Ukraine used two ATACMS missiles with a cluster warhead. They were launched not from HIMARS, but from M270 MLRS.

InformNapalm sources confirm that the strike destroyed eight Su-27 and four S-30SM fighters, as well as five Su-24 bombers, six Mi-8 helicopters and one Il-20 aircraft."



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biku324 said:
Until a few months ago, I'd have fired up a vintage briar bowl of Borkum Riff, but I've pretty much quit.
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I still have a little Samuel Gawith "Squadron Leader" I could rehydrate for the odd time I'd like to light up. But I can't get any decent pipe tobacco in Bellingham anymore as the two decent shops shut down a few years ago and everywhere wants gov't issued age ID now to order online "for our own protection" I suppose.
 
Russia charges journalist who protested Ukraine war live on TV

Marina Ovsyannikova has been charged with spreading false information about the Russian army after she interrupted a live broadcast to denounce the military action in Ukraine

A Russian former state TV journalist who in March interrupted a live television broadcast to denounce the military action in Ukraine, has been charged with spreading false information about the Russian army, an offence punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Article here

The charges relate to a protest last month, when Marina Ovsyannikova held up a poster that read "Putin is a murderer, his soldiers are fascists" on the Moskva river embankment opposite the Kremlin. Three "blood-soaked" toy dolls were laid on the ground in front of her.

Ovsyannikova, who was born in Ukraine, came to prominence in March when she barged on to the set of a live evening news broadcast on Russia's flagship Channel One, holding a poster reading "No War" in English.​
 
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