Anyone care to speculate just who is manning those sophisticated weapon systems the US is sending to Ukraine? Imagine “some assembly required”, long training, expertise and experience also necessary to use them properly.
“ Anyone care to speculate just who is manning those sophisticated weapon systems the US is sending to Ukraine? Imagine “some assembly required”, long training, expertise and experience also necessary to use them properly.”
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Can you say…”CONTRACTORS”
American special ops, and, unfortunately, it's just a matter of time before some are killed or captured. All these wars begin the same way.
The US hasn’t sent anything particularly sophisticated yet. There are 20 Mi-17 helicopters, but they don’t count as the Ukrainians knew how to operate these already.
Anyone care to speculate just who is manning those sophisticated weapon systems
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no speculation needed - the troops manning those systems are ZSU troops trained on the weapons. The training took place at undisclosed locations: some in the US, some in Europe for 4-5 weeks.
Then they were overseen to make sure the weapons were being used properly. Once cleared, the next batch of trainees started class.
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Alexander Mercouris:
I just wanted to add one very very last point. It seems the total stockpile of HIMARs missiles in the United States is something like 25,000.
As I said, it's supposedly already shipped to the Ukraine around a third, and of that remaining two-thirds, some of these are older systems which use weapons - warheads - which are technically prohibited, so there's some debate about whether it's even, you know - legal - possible legally speaking for the US to supply prohibited systems.
Now, of course, I personally think they will provide legally prohibited systems and they'll deny doing it, because that's what the US always does.