Posted on 07/14/2022 8:34:15 AM PDT by JonPreston
Russia is being hit hard by Ukraine‘s Javelin anti-tank missiles. What makes this weapon so powerful? The U.S.-made FGM-148 Javelin is one of the premier portable anti-tank missile systems in the world. It’s also an expensive piece of kit, with each missile typically costing more than the targets it eliminates. However, corruption is the main problem that every country has to fight with and the Ukrainians are no different! The expensive javelins have allegedly found their way into the black market on the Internet. Telegram channels have repeatedly reported that military equipment is being sold by the Ukrainians. The sales market is often the Middle East or North Africa. The information already has more than one confirmation. For example, you can inquire about this ad on the Internet, where you can buy the expensive weapon for a discounted price. This information surfaced after a local Turkish station reported that The anti-tank weapons and assault rifles that Western countries sent to Ukraine came out of Syria. The arms dealer, who stated that he bought from Ukrainian commanders and brought the weapons to Syria’s Idlib region, quoted a price of 15 thousand dollars for anti-tank weapons, including the US-made Javelin. The station reports that an arms dealer living in the Idlib region, which is under the control of the jihadist Hayat-Tahrir Al-Sham organization in Syria, offered the weapons he procured from Ukraine for sale via Telegram. The cost of a Javelin is 178,000 dollars with its ammunition and smart missile launcher system that can lock on the target.
M777 Targeting shared with China? My bet it is in China NOW as well as Iran and maybe North Korea. How soon will it be reproduced and shooting at us? The Nazis picked up our bazookas in North Africa after the disaster at Kisering Pass, improved them and were shooting them at us in a year.
I believe the Chinese are planning a new “Pearl Harbor” for us. EMP attack? or maybe a small nuke on Dubai Naval base (from Iran) or something that will wreck us economically, like blow up Wall Street? Just call in our loans would do it. Putin Thanks you for the gift. Why spend money on Rand D when you can steal it? Old Russian way of doing things.
Enough blame for all in this Ukraine debacle—Dems, Rino Neo-cons, Progs, etc... No clean hands. We were sold a bill of goods—Propaganda worked to get people to even volunteers to fight for “Brave Ukraine” against Hitler-Putin and his Ork
army of bloodthirsty Barbarians who live to kill children and rape grandma. Old European saying. “If you shake hands with a a Ukrainian, count your fingers to see how many he stolid.”
Do you expect the non-Russian media to report it?:)
The targeting system on m777 is nothing special and a security hazard. It is good against goat-herders but for the Russians it is good for laughs and to fire counter-battery on yer emissions.
Posting a 2014 picture from Wikipedia and writing some fiction to go with it isn't a "report" from anywhere.
I have zero I see with regard to CNN. They are not even on my radar. But keep up with your myth making about others. It will really serve you well - NOT.
My understanding from the article is that this is a new targeting which is supposed to greatly improve the accuracy. How true this is I don’t know.
DFCS is a networked system allowing to acquire targets from other platforms, to make weather and other corrections. In theory it is good for accuracy, except the Russians decide where it hits and then they are bored they simply fire their artillery on DFCS. That is the primary reason why “three axes” and they’re rbcrews don’t last more than one sortie.
got you — thank you!
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