Posted on 01/31/2023 8:33:13 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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May not be air defense.
Could be S-300s being launched in A/G mode into a high priority target in eastern UKR.
Perhaps we will know more in the morning.
Oh yea, baby!
“U.S. readies $2 bln-plus Ukraine aid package with longer-range weapons -sources”
“The United States is readying more than $2 billion worth of military aid for Ukraine that is expected to include longer-range rockets for the first time as well as other munitions and weapons, two U.S. officials briefed on the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
The weapons aid is expected to be announced as soon as this week, the officials said. It is also expected to include support equipment for Patriot air defense systems, precision guided munitions and Javelin anti-tank weapons, they added.
One of the officials said a portion of the package, expected to be $1.725 billion, would come from a fund known as the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), which allows President Joe Biden’s administration to get weapons from industry rather than from existing U.S. weapons stocks.
The USAI funds would go toward the purchase of a new weapon, the Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB) made by Boeing Co (BA.N), which have a range of 94 miles (150 km). The United States has rebuffed Ukraine’s requests for the 185-mile (297-km) range ATACMS missile.”
Oh yea, baby.
Cheap, powerful and accurate.
I hope that the GLSDBs arrive unannounced. Let them be surprised.
So, at this point, I am happy with the term "longer-range rockets".
Ukraine will soon be able to hit northern Crimea.
I recall about 17,000 available.
How fast do they get sent to Ukraine... RuZZian mothers want to know.
hahahahhhhhhhhhhaaaahahahhah
“The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that Russia will consider the supply of long-range weapons to Ukraine “a red line”.
They don’t realize that we have stopped caring about their “red lines” a long time ago.
6:28 AM · Jan 27, 2023·322.8K Views”
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1618949102137638912
I recall about 17,000 available.
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That’s 17,000 SDBs, not GLSDBs which have yet to be manufactured.
“which have yet to be manufactured.”
I recall SAAB saying they were expected a contract back in Oct. Hopefully manufacturing has been underway.
But I wouldn’t be surprised if nothing has happened yet.
There is a war going on after all.
What is the actual military personnel KIA’s has each side had??
No more land bridge to Crimea.
Ukraine and RuZZia are guarding the numbers as a secret.
US military said Ukraine has over 100,000 casualties. Nothing more specific.
At the Ramstein meeting a week ago, US military told the attendees that RuZZia had 188,000 casualties (KIA/WIA). Of course, some of those attendees leaked the information into the press. Not clear if the US numbers include DNR, LNR, Wagner mercenaries. If not, then RuZZian casualties exceed 200k.
Will Ukraine get Reaper MQ-9 drones?
With that tease, you know I will be posting an article on it tomorrow.
As always, I am looking forward to tomorrow's update!
According to Rooters, GLSDB will be purchased from Boeing by Ukraine with USAI money. That means newly produced GBU-39s, GFE M26 rocket motors and Saab produced interface/adapter. If this was really a done deal in Oct as the President of Saab said, they could likely have a few hundred ready to go.
Also of note, some of the early tests show launches from a HIMARS/M270 6-Pod with what I would call a "HIMARS-in-a box". Essentially, if you have such a portable interface/fire control system, you can put a pod on anything. Truck, ship, barge, etc.
“Reuters: Poland aims to reduce training time for Leopard 2 tank crews to 5 weeks.
Poland will try to reduce the time it takes to train Ukrainian soldiers to use Leopard 2 battle tanks to five weeks, reported Reuters.”
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1620585467929587712
Whatever the numbers, you must know that the attacker/invader always suffers higher casualties then the defender.
And when invaders use human wave/suicide attacks, the number rises.
When the invader considers its soldier as replaceable parts like a machine, the number rises.
I spent 20+ years in the Army, and never was a member of any unit at any level that did human wave attacks, to hell with the causalities.
200 thousand KIA/WIN are a lot of maimed human beings!!
I spent 20+ years in the Army, and never was a member of any unit at any level that did human wave attacks, to hell with the causalities.
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Where you in the Russian Army because that’s what we (I) was talking about.
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