I can't tell from the close up if these had rocket nozzles in the back, or if it is just a tailfin cap for flight control. I'm not familiar with them. You may have gotten your wish.
Posted on 04/28/2023 7:32:28 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
Russia to stop publishing stats on oil, gas output until April 2024 - Tass
The Russia government has ordered that the publication of statistics on oil, gas and condensate production be suspended until April 1, 2024, Tass news agency said on Friday.
It did not give any details. Russia’s statistics agency Rosstat omitted monthly oil production data from its latest economic report published on Wednesday.
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“It’s as if you just woke up last year and missed the events that led up to it.”
Did you notice the last twenty years of the Putin regime invading neighbors, and publicly promoting a doctrine of Russian expansion - not only to the borders of the old Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact, but all of Eurasia?
And, never mind, that Bakhmut has been a meat grinder, a trap the Russians have used to destroy tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers.
You're about as realistic as Baghdad Bob.
The time is coming where you and your fellow neocons will be forced to admit what a disaster this proxy war has been.
Just makes me think all of this could have been avoided if we had just let dolf have his “special military operation” back in the 30s and 40s /s
Works events are never our problem, till they are. Imagine Putin controlling huge amounts of natural resources and grain production
Shoot what could go wrong again /s
What Tucker doink?
I took my pension as a lump sum. I’m investing it myself now.
I rely on myself and my intellect.
“I would like to know the launch parameters of the A-10 to achieve 40NM.”
How about just outside of SHOrt Range Air Defense from the Russian front line trenches? It is a Close Air Support jet, there to bring heat to the close battle on the ground. Is there a profile where it could pop up and launch, without getting hit?
“It is never going back to Ukraine.”
That quote is not going to age well, With the Ukrainian Counterattack Corps already trained and equipped, preparing to launch.
Keep in mind that half of the territory that Russia occupied last year, has already been liberated back to Ukraine.
There is a storm coming for the Russian invaders.
“Russia to stop publishing stats on oil, gas output”
The worst of the effects on the Russian oil industry are about to start, with the production shutdowns. Long term damage, very difficult to restore - like a decade or more.
After the first 1.5 million bpd of production cut in the warmer Southern fields, any additional production shut off is likely gone for the long term, after the first Winter of not flowing.
They have already previously announced halting 500,000 bpd from the South, and it looks like the reality is already at least 750,000 bpd. Next months cuts will likely mark enduring reductions in Russian capacity.
There are still lots of variables, but a few million bpd of productive capacity (1-4) are potentially at risk by the end of the year.
Oil has always been at least double the size of natural gas revenues for Russia. It is their biggest single asset, by far.
While Russia has suffered thousands of losses in its war against Ukraine, a senior US military commander in Europe told lawmakers Wednesday that they have plenty more firepower left in their arsenal.
“[T]he Russian ground force has been degenerated somewhat by this conflict, although it is bigger today than it was at the beginning of the conflict,” Gen. Christopher Cavoli, the commander of US European Command, told the House Armed Services Committee.
“The Air Force has lost very little, they’ve lost 80 planes. They have another 1,000 fighters and fighter bombers,” he said. “The Navy has lost one ship.”
If the USAF is looking at SDBs for the A-10, I believe they should also look at carrying HARMs on the A-10.
Orbit would be 50nm behind the FEBA, 300ft AGL, waiting for target coordinates from a ground FAC.
Once target coordinates are confirmed, put the target on the nose, throttles to MIL and ingress at 100ft AGL.
At the appropriate range to target (20nm to 30nm from the target), 4G pull to 20 to 30 degrees pitch (climb angle).
Weapons computer releases the SDB.
If RWR indicates a SHORAD lock-on...release a HARM.
After weapon is released, 6g descending turn to egress heading.
Egress at 100ft AGL.
Thanks you make me smile
“The Navy has lost one ship.”
RuZZian Flagship Moskva.
Thanks for the memories!!!
“U.S. intel helped Ukraine sink Russian flagship Moskva”
“Intelligence shared by the U.S. helped Ukraine sink the Russian cruiser Moskva, U.S. officials told NBC News, confirming an American role in perhaps the most embarrassing blow to Vladimir Putin’s troubled invasion of Ukraine.
A guided missile cruiser carrying a crew of 510, the Moskva was the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. It sank on April 14 after being struck by two Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship missiles, U.S. officials said. Moscow said the vessel sank after a fire. The Moskva was the largest Russian warship sunk in combat since World War II. American officials said there were significant Russian casualties, but they don’t know how many.”
“Is there a profile where it could pop up and launch, without getting hit?”
It sounds so exciting when you lay it out... its kind of like watching Top Gun again.
““The Air Force has lost very little, they’ve lost 80 planes. They have another 1,000 fighters and fighter bombers,” he said. “The Navy has lost one ship.”
In their testimony, they did make the point that some elements of the Russian Military have been largely untouched, like cyber, anti-satellite and submarine capabilities.
Russian Aerospace Force losses have been concentrated among their Close Air Support aircraft (Su-24, Su-25), among which there has been pretty significant degradation, in percentage of the fleet terms. Russian Army Aviation (helicopters) for Close Air Support have also seen significant losses. Long range bombers and air superiority fighters have seen only relatively small marginal losses, but they stay out of Ukrainian airspace.
Russian Naval Infantry (Marine) Units (like nearly all Russian ground combat units) have been pretty thoroughly chewed up in detail, and a few other warships and landing ships have been damaged, beyond the loss of the Mosckva. Both the Russian Navy and Aerospace Force (as well as the Red Army) have very significantly depleted their stocks of long range precision weapons, like Cruise Missiles, Iskanders and Tochkas.
Future phases of the war may see Russia resort to using more of those Air and Naval assets that they have preserved so far, as other options run their course.
They may have not lost a large number, but having them and being mission capable and proficient pilots to fly them might is another
They are putting huge numbers of hours on their air frames and just a guess but imagine their maintenance is not 1st world either
“Weapons computer releases the SDB.”
Do you think that they could release 16 of them on one run, like a swarm?
It would seem like largely a software problem, with a little more hang time in the release phase, so they can all stay out of each other’s way. But 16 seems to me like a big mess to launch.
Conversely, it would be a much bigger mess for the enemy on the ground to have 16 250lb bombs precisely hitting targets in a matter of seconds. My thought was having a few sorties plow out the Russian trench line for a mile, in the space of a few minutes or an hour, before the tanks charge through.
“They are putting huge numbers of hours on their air frames”
Good point. I think that is true. Even though many types of Russian aircraft (fighters and bombers) are mostly staying out of Ukrainian airspace where they might be shot down, they are operating a lot more; patrolling, feinting and launching long range weapons.
I can't tell from the close up if these had rocket nozzles in the back, or if it is just a tailfin cap for flight control. I'm not familiar with them. You may have gotten your wish.
Poland just signed a deal with the UK for 44 CAMM launchers & “hundreds of missiles” for an upgraded air defense system
The deal with MBDA is worth USD 2.4 billion & will be complementary to the 8 batteries of the Patriot Missile Defense System that Poland is also buying.
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