Hopefully, HARPOONs will be included.
Posted on 05/18/2023 8:21:35 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
“in Bakhmut. We Could Hear News Anytime Now”
@KyivIndependent 2h
Ukraine’s military reports breakthrough in Bakhmut outskirts.
Ukraine’s Third Assault Brigade reported making a breakthrough in the western outskirts of Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, on May 18.
He’s the spiting image of the guy who does the Reporting on Ukraine videos - same guy who was wounded last month or so.
check it out.
Given that Russia does not actually have a hypersonic missile - its just an Iskander with a different motor. - Its fins are useless and it cannot glide.
The only thing hyper about the missile is the Russian hype.
Even the Chinese are reported to have a better prototype.
Free Tatarstan! Kazan finally out from under the Muscovy yoke!
The collapse of Russian influence is widening
BY JONATHAN SWEET AND MARK TOTH, 05/18/23
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4007441-the-collapse-of-russian-influence-is-widening/
“As Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” continues its downward spiral in Ukraine, the future of Russian-occupied or dominated territories is becoming a subject of interest, beginning with Kaliningrad.” (Poland and the Baltics officially reverted to using their pre-Soviet names for the area)
...”it could foreshadow the near future for several Russian-occupied territories, should the war in Ukraine end in a resounding defeat. As the weight of Russian oppression diminishes, Crimea, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistria may press for reunification with their motherlands, allowing Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova to become whole again.”
...”if you were to overlay the domino theory of U.S. Cold War policy, substituting “getting out from underneath Russian oppression” for “the spread of communism, Russia could experience another event akin to the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. That original event led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. If Russia cannot keep its occupied territories in line, what would it mean for the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization, which currently includes Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, and Tajikistan?”
(Putin did this.)
“Ukraine says Russia launched 30 missiles overnight and it intercepted all but one”
@DarthPutinKGB 12h
Day 449 of my 3 day war. Russian peace missiles accidently damaged imperialist Patriot air defense missiles whilst on their way to denazify a kindergarten.
Reckless Patriot missiles caused mid air collisions with all Russian peace missiles fired last night.
Damage caused by falling debris is fault of Kiev and its imperialist backers.
@NOELreports 36m
“The U.S. Air Force assessed that it would take only four (or five) months to train Ukrainian pilots to operate F-16 fighter jets, a far shorter time frame than what has been repeatedly cited by Pentagon officials.”
Yahoo News has obtained a U.S. Air Force assessment of two Ukrainian pilots who outperformed stated Pentagon expectations over two weeks in a flight simulator at a U.S. air base.
(Read the leaked 23 March memo here, which reports the assessment of Ukrainian pilots on F-16 simulators earlier this year):
Ben Hodges @general_ben 20m
Great thread. One of the reasons I overestimated Russian capabilities was that I failed to appreciate the depth and impact of corruption in the Russian MoD. A liberal democratic government with proper oversight and transparency will defeat an autocracy every time.
@ChrisO_wiki 2h
1/ A major corruption scandal is reported to be unfolding in the Russian Ministry of Defence that implicates several generals and ministers, concerning the hugely expensive construction of Russia’s National Defence Control Centre (NDCC) in 2014.
2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports that an embezzlement investigation concerning the installation of software for ballistic missile and cruise missile detection radars has spawned another major investigation relating to corruption in the construction of the NDCC.
3/ The lavishly designed NDCC, located in central Moscow, is the supreme command and control center of the MOD and the Russian Armed Forces. Its purpose is to provide centralised control of the armed forces and coordinate military operations.
4/ It was opened in 2014 after huge cost overruns – it reportedly cost over 40 billion rubles ($500 million), which VChK-OGPU says was spent on “beautiful sofas, armchairs, televisions and computers for fabulous money (bought at several times higher than the market value).”
5/ The sprawling case reportedly began when the Military Department of Investigation of the Strategic Missile Forces uncovered an incident of petty bribery. An employee of RTI Systems was arrested for taking a bribe to employ a person in the company’s military acceptance office.
6/ He struck a plea deal under which he agreed to talk about other crimes in exchange for a suspended sentence. As a result, he implicated Colonel Marchukov, the MOD’s military representative in RTI Systems. The company is a leading supplier of radar and communications systems.
7/ The colonel was “charged with the same episode of bribery for employment, as well as two other episodes of bribery (for general patronage and in the form of an apartment), and was also accused of machinations in installing software on radar complexes.”
8/ Marchukov was reportedly bribed with the gift of an apartment by Sergey Datsko, the head of the Dubnensky Machine-Building Plant (DMZ), which develops and produces UAVs and the Moskit, Kh-22 and Kh-55 cruise missiles.
9/ The bribe is said to have been in exchange for Marchukov overlooking corruption in the MOD. Marchukov was in turn granted leniency by investigators seeking to find out who was involved in corruption at more senior levels.
10/ He reportedly gave testimony implicating Major General Vyacheslav Lobuzko, whom VChK-OGPU describes as “one of the “fathers” of the Voronezh SPSV radar, designed to detect ballistic and cruise missiles”.
11/ Lobuzko was the former division commander of the 3rd Independent Air Defence Army. He moved to RTI in 2000 after his retirement from the armed forces and worked for the company until 2019 as a senior manager in Sistema’s defence division.
12/ While employed by RTI, he oversaw the construction of the NDCC. The Moscow garrison court has reportedly placed him under arrest. If convicted, the 68-year-old general faces a lengthy prison sentence.
13/ The case may not end there. A VChK-OGPU source “believes that Lobuzko will also be forced to make a deal with the investigation,” which could lead to the senior MOD leadership.
14/ The channel speculates that he could implicate, among others, Major General Oleg Stepanov, head of the MOD’s Department of Military Representation; and former Deputy Minister of Defence Mikhail Mizintsev, who formerly headed the NDCC.
15/ The scandal may potentially reach as far as Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu himself. He created the NDCC and is known for his lavish spending on luxury properties, such as this Asian-style dacha near Moscow. /end
Pencil whipping the accounting sheets, to send a few more boatloads of gear to the Ukraine. More change from between the sofa cushions at the Pentagon, just in time for the counteroffensive... Surprise!
“WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - The Pentagon overestimated the value of the ammunition, missiles and other equipment it sent to Ukraine by around $3 billion, a Senate aide and a defense official said on Thursday, an error that may lead the way for more weapons being sent to Kyiv for its defense against Russian forces.”
In its accounting, the Pentagon used replacement cost to value the weapons aid, instead of the weaponry’s value when it was purchased and depreciated, the senior defense officials said.
And now...
US signals to allies it won’t block their export of F-16 jets to Ukraine
The Biden administration has signaled to European allies in recent weeks that the US would allow them to export F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, sources familiar with the discussions said, as the White House comes under increasing pressure from members of Congress and allies to help Ukraine procure the planes amid intensifying Russian aerial attacks.
It was pretty obvious when the Prime Ministers of at least 3 NATO countries publicly supported F-16s for Ukraine that they didn't do so without speaking to the USA first. Particularly the UK, who tend to take diplomatic decorum quite seriously.
Hopefully, HARPOONs will be included.
Hopefully so. Or maybe Norway would donate a couple of their new Joint Strike Missiles.
Russia's front line fighter, the SU-35, was reported to be highly susceptible to jamming from Egypt's Rafales. I'm not sure what ECM capability Ukraine would get, but if they are able to blind the Sukhoi, they could have a significant advantage over what is on paper a superior fighter.
@ChuckPfarrer 4h
"BIG DAY: On 17 May the UKR Air Force launched 20x air strikes on concentrations of RU troops and military equipment. Eight Suppression of Enemy Air Defense (SEAD) strikes targeted anti-RU aircraft missile systems using NATO-supplied AGM-88 anti-radiation missiles."
Does anyone recognize this airport, is it Afghanistan?
NATO soldiers in Ukraine
https://twitter.com/UltraDane/status/1659312711338176513
“this airport, is it Afghanistan?”
It could sure pass for it, with that dust.
Looks like Bagram. Bagram has mountains like that in the background.
Typical Russian shill posing as a “conservative” posting fake crap. And look at all the idiots replying.
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Not you, ansel12! I’m speaking of the twitter account posting Kabul evacuation video as “US troops in Ukraine” and all the idiot tweets that replied to “her”.
I thought you did but I didn’t notice much in the responses there.
I don’t use Twitter except to watch Speedy’s video links but the responses didn’t seem to amount to much I thought.
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