Posted on 04/23/2023 8:41:58 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
“Putin is considering using the Black Sea fleet to defend southern Kherson region”
He has to fight with the Military that he has.
As other forms of Russian combat power are attritted (Ground Forces), they will increasingly be tempted/forced to employ Air and Naval assets, to the degree that they can.
Since Russia has shown that they can’t be trusted with any significant capability, the more that is expended in this conflict, the safer the post-war peace. Let them burn through their ships and planes as well as tanks and artillery.
Maybe the Black Sea will join the Baltic, as South NATO Sea, while the Baltic becomes the North NATO Sea.
I believe the trench cut out, where the mobnik is sitting, is the crapper.
The mobnik is peacefully taking a dump, or as some say "Pinching a loaf".
BeauBo: He has to fight with the Military that he has.
Didn't the last list of weapons to be delivered include a cryptic "Smart weapons"?
Perhaps they were not referring to JDAMs but were referring to HARPOONs!
Decades-Old Harpoon Missile Could See Growth in Sub, Coastal Defense Missions
Coastal Defense of Odessa Oblast, Ukraine would be a great proof of concept.
Remember the trench fight video from yesterday? Your 34 second copy and then someone posted an 86 second version?
Here is a thread today about Wagner issuing a no one taken alive order because the claim is that the Ukes killed a wounded man rather than take him prisoner, the source used described the video and would not post it for viewers.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4147905/posts?page=4
I never saw him surrender on the video.
“Perhaps they were not referring to JDAMs but were referring to HARPOONs!”
Sevastopol is a target rich environment. They are all bunched up together, under an open sky.
The counter to mass, is precision.
If a couple of dozen Harpoons could get through the Air Defense there, it would be a shock effect on the Kremlin.
“ Clearly, weather conditions are not yet met.”
Petraeus is still saying late May/early June.
“ Sevastopol. Ukrainian surface drone attack tonight”
Reportedly 3 surface drones failed to get into the harbor, through the new Russian defenses - layers (6?} of booms and nets. Some barges strung together to narrow the opening.
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