Posted on 01/18/2023 8:17:43 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
“More than a quarter of Aeroflot’s planes have been grounded because they’ve been cannibalized for parts for aircraft that are still flying.”
“More than a quarter of Aeroflot’s planes have been grounded because they’ve been cannibalized for parts for aircraft that are still flying.”
It’s funny how u have reply 20-30 times to yourself to generate an appearance of any interest in your fake news.....
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Soledar mop up completed and salt mine 7 liberated....
no Salt for you today.
things must be very very bad for Z-ski given the recent amount of Zeeper propaganda!
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If the attack on Krasna Gora captures high ground, m-03 road which brings supplies from Slavansk would be within artillery range..bakmut northwest encirclement advancing...
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Wagner advancing around Klesheevaka..High ground there would bring the supply road from Constantinovka in artillery range..Bakmut southwest encirclement advancing.
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I wouldn’t want to be in Bakmut.Biden don’t care about the last Ukrainian!
Siversk Front at risk in major pincer, as Russia attacks Vasyukivka and Serebryanka... DPA update
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgRGcJ7RzcI
Makes sense. If he took the position that Donbas and Crimea were no longer part of Ukraine, he’d be hard-pressed to say Kosovo was still part of Serbia (BTW: I think it is; and I think Serbia got screwed when Kosovo was “carved out”).
“Interesting Vucic included Crimea as belonging to Ukraine.”
He’d be screwing himself vis-a-vis Kosovo if said otherwise.
These Uke threads are pretty much like Q. A whole lot of analysis and sound and fury based on false data, ultimately signifying nothing.
It appears this Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer was being tracked by a drone.
The video does not look like commercial drone video.
I would guess a military drone with sufficient range to locate artillery or any high value target well behind the FEBA.
Bad news for RU if UKR has a bunch of these drones.
RuZZian boys are my most faithful daily readers.
“U.S. Warms to Helping Ukraine Target Crimea”
“The Biden administration is considering the argument that Kyiv needs the power to strike at the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.”
“For years, the United States has insisted that Crimea is still part of Ukraine. Yet the Biden administration has held to a hard line since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, refusing to provide Kyiv with the weapons it needs to target the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia has been using as a base for launching devastating strikes.
Now that line is starting to soften.
After months of discussions with Ukrainian officials, the Biden administration is finally starting to concede that Kyiv may need the power to strike the Russian sanctuary, even if such a move increases the risk of escalation, according to several U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive debate. Crimea, between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, is home to tens of thousands of dug-in Russian troops and numerous Russian military bases.
The moderation in position has come about as the Biden administration has come to believe that if the Ukrainian military can show Russia that its control of Crimea can be threatened, that would strengthen Kyiv’s position in any future negotiations. In addition, fears that the Kremlin would retaliate using a tactical nuclear weapon have dimmed, U.S. officials and experts said — though they cautioned that the risk remained.”
“This week, top U.S. and Ukrainian commanders will hold a high-level planning meeting in Germany to game out the offensive planning, another senior U.S. official said. The drill, the official said, is meant to align Ukraine’s battle plans with the kinds of weapons and supplies NATO allies are contributing.”
“U.S. prepping major military package for Ukraine”
“Friday’s announcement is expected to include Stryker vehicles, but not tanks.”
“The U.S. is gearing up to announce a major new weapons package for Ukraine on Friday, as top military leaders from around the world gather in Germany to discuss how to help Kyiv in its fight against Russia, according to three U.S. officials and another person familiar with the discussions.
While the next tranche will include additional artillery, ammunition and armor — likely Stryker armored combat vehicles — the U.S. is not expected to sign off on American M1 Abrams tanks, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the talks ahead of an announcement.”
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“The package will likely include a number of Strykers, an eight-wheeled armored fighting vehicle built by General Dynamics Land Systems, as well as ground-launched Small Diameter Bombs, which have a range of roughly 100 miles”
>>> “The Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb has about twice the range of the HIMARS’ GMLRS and is a heavier munition, which will complicate Russian C2 and logistics.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/18/major-military-package-ukraine-russia-00078331
“The Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB) is a weapon made by Boeing and the Saab Group, who modified Boeing’s Small Diameter Bomb with the addition of a rocket motor. The weapon is launched from ground-based missile systems such as the M270 MLRS.”
https://www.saab.com/products/ground-launched-small-diameter-bomb-glsdb
ATACMS on the menu?
GLSDB advantages:
Increased range
Guided artillery
Accuracy to within one metre
All angle, all aspect attack, even targets behind launch point
Multiple rockets to act against many targets, with near-simultaneous impact
All-weather, 24/7 capability
Terrain avoidance, such as mountains
Cave-breaching capability
Launchable from hidden or protected positions to avoid detection
Programmable impact and delay fuzing for deep penetration or proximity height-of-burst
SDB Focused Lethality Munition (FLM) variant for low collateral damage
Laser SDB variant for moving target capability
NOPE.
Germany also saying NO tanks unless USA provides tanks also.
“Send the Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb to Ukraine”
“The GLSDB would allow Ukrainian forces to strike Russian military targets up to 150 km away with an accuracy of around one meter, write John Hardie and Bradley Bowman of FDD.”
“One way to do that, which is apparently now under consideration, is sending Kyiv the Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB). This system, which integrates an existing munition and rocket at a relatively low cost, would enable the Ukrainian military to strike high-value Russian targets well beyond the range of current Western-supplied munitions. That would help Ukrainian forces further degrade Russian logistics and command and control and ultimately retake more territory. For this reason, the Pentagon should move without delay to provide Kyiv with the GLSDB.
A joint project by Saab and Boeing, the GLSDB marries two affordable, combat-proven systems: the GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb, a 113 kg precision-guided munition that is relatively cheap at around $40,000 each, and the M26, a low-cost, formerly demilitarized rocket. The system could include a multi-purpose warhead tailored for fixed, hardened, low collateral damage, and moving targets.
The GLSDB would allow Ukrainian forces to strike Russian military targets up to 150 km away with an accuracy of around one meter. With integration, the GLSDB can be fired by the M142 HIMARS and M270 MLRS rocket artillery systems already supplied to Ukraine by the United States and United Kingdom, respectively.
But it can also be fired by non-traditional launchers, such as from the back of an ordinary-looking truck or from a nondescript shipping container hidden in plain sight. That would make it more difficult for Russian forces to find and destroy the system. The non-traditional launcher also makes the system a low-cost option to augment HIMARS, which US industry is currently racing to produce in order to both replace US launchers sent to Ukraine and meet demand from allies.”
GLSDB is double the range of HIMARs. But 1/2 of ATACMS.
Still doubling the range means RuZZians need to move assets back much farther from the front lines IMMEDIATELY.
My RuZZian followers: report to your FSB supervisors IMMEDIATELY.
Rats!!!
“GLSDB advantages: Increased range (150km)... Accuracy to within one metre...”
That could cover essentially all of occupied Ukraine, except Central/Southern Crimea.
If it comes in large numbers, and with effective target acquisition (like aerial drone or satellite surveillance), it could be a real game changer.
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