Posted on 03/11/2025 8:53:05 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The Kremlin said the number of drones shot down over the Moscow region last night is evidence its air defence system "worked well". But not everyone we spoke to in Vidnoye shared that optimism.
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This was just one of nearly 100 drones shot down over the Moscow region, which the Kremlin said was evidence that Moscow's air defence system "worked well". But not everyone we spoke to in Vidnoye shared that optimism.
"The very fact that it was missed is unpleasant," said Oganes, 30, suggesting the scale of Ukraine's overall attack, which saw Russia shoot down 337 drones in total, should have been detected long before it was launched.
"I understand that it's impossible to react to every single small attack and so on, but I'm sorry, this is 300 drones," he said.
Moscow has cast the attacks as terrorism, accusing Ukraine of deliberately targeting civilians. Kyiv denies the accusations, saying it only aims to hit war-related infrastructure, and that the attacks are in response to Russia's bombing of Ukraine.
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All’s fair.
There were no air raid warnings in Moscow last night.
When the ground war is over and Russia takes the territory it wants, London-Brussels neo-marxist globohomo will establish a long-term, low-intensity guerrilla war in border or contested areas, based from Western Ukraine.
Remember, their ultimate goal has always to destabilize Russia. They now have the added goal that a never-ending Ukraine war will embarrass and hamstring Trump
Every last slav in Ukraine will be sacrificed in that goal, if necessary. In fact, in their eyes - its desirable.
I see America withdrawing from NATO soon and a lot of destabilization of the EU forthcoming. The EUSSR is our main enemy.
I imagine small footprint suicide drones would be very difficult to spot and target. I am no expert but I guess you need very sensitive radar, heat signatures, and a predicable vector to target. Maybe some spray and pray defenses? Our anti suicide drone suicide drones.
I am thinking all the chemical labs there will somehow be involved.
The message is: come kick our asses some more please.
The message is “We got nothing”.
Hmm, looks like the question I posed in this post was meant tor you:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4303482/posts?page=18#18
PS: No, I didn’t change my tagline just for you. I’ve been using this one forever.
The message is: “Ha ha, stupid Americans! We can waste your tax dollars on striking stupid targets with no military value! Just for the lulz!”
Isn’t that how the Houthis stopped the world’s shipping industry? When it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to shoot down a single drone and a drone can fly for almost nothing, it’s a game-changer. I’m not very knowledgeable about any of this, but I don’t think the nations’ defense systems have caught up with the new threats yet.
Yep, virtually all show with little “go”. Just like Ukraine’s Kursk disaster which is in its death throes now, and I do mean death throes.
In the meantime, the Ukies Kursk “ offensive” has turned disastrous. Collapsing, casualties horrendous, many Ukies surrendering, en masse….
Sure it did!
All it told Russia to do is pound the Ukraine much more harder before the negotiations are completed.
Great job Zelenskyy!
Were you there?
No he wasn’t.
But me and his Momz was.😂
The Odd thing about air defense is that what goes up must come down in uncontrolled places.
It was obvious a week ago to anyone watching closely that the Ukrainians’ days in Kursk were numbered — as in you could count them on your fingers, no toes needed. The pause in military aid and intelligence sharing had nothing to do with the Russian successes. It was already in the pipeline (grin). But that won’t stop the usual suspects from blaming it all on Trump.
We all succumb to wanting to play armchair general at times, and the armchair general in me has been pondering Kursk since the beginning.
My first thought was “big whoop, they got a tiny slice of the backend of nowhere” and my second thought was “the flies have captured the flypaper.”
So, I thought, if I were a Russian general, I’d let the flies sit on their sticky paper while picking them off, and meanwhile they’re tied up guarding the backend of nowhere instead of fighting at the front. Win win. The only downside is giving them time to dig in, which will make them harder to dislodge when the time comes.
And, I thought, if I were a Ukrainian general and had been foolish enough to go there in the first place, I’d retreat from Kursk after seeing that it was not accomplishing any concrete objectives and just say “Yay, that was fun! We proved we could invade Russia! Now back to our regularly scheduled war on the frontlines.”
Supposedly, the Kursk incursion was aimed at drawing Russian troops away from the frontlines, but that didn’t happen. Some speculated they were aiming the Kursk nuclear plant but didn’t manage to make it that far. All that was left was PR and “morale boost” — neither worth Ukraine’s best soldiers and best Western equipment.
Yet, they kept feeding their best military units into Kursk to replace all the losses — over and over and over again. To be shot like fish in a barrel. All the while, the Ukrainians were suffering severe manpower shortages along the front, allowing gaps to form in crucial lines, and sending in untrained conscripts. It was insane, in my eyes.
There have been persistent rumors the Kursk thing was a British Idea. The longer it went on, the more I came to think the rumors might be true. A numpty Brit idea. Tragic for all the families of the soldiers lost there, who died for what? A PR stunt that is now spectacularly failing?
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