Posted on 05/19/2023 6:19:11 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
“who has the F-16s to spare?”
Lets start with the Netherlands
“UK and Netherlands agree ‘international coalition’ to help Ukraine procure F-16 jets”
UK doesn’t have F16s. Netherlands does.
“The Netherlands has 24 F-16s operational until mid-2024, when they will be replaced by F-35s.”
Purifying RuZZian Society.
“Russian soldiers who surrender in Ukraine without grave injuries can be jailed, according to the country’s supreme court. Even when completely surrounded
Should be good for morale”
https://twitter.com/rprose/status/1659539499703992320
“President Joe Biden informed G-7 leaders on Friday that the U.S. will support a joint international effort to train Ukrainian pilots on modern fighter aircraft, including F-16s, according to a senior administration official, POLITICO writes”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1659571685861867520
“OFFICIAL: NASA has selected a team led by Blue Origin to build a second Human Landing System for the Moon.
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Translation: Bez0s is all smiles; the Federal Government will do everything in its power to delay, stall and otherwise thwart SpaceX’s StarShip.
US Military Colonel Says Government Lied About Ukraine War - Colonel Douglas Macgregor
they will be replaced by F-35s.
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But not until sometime next year; most of those F-16s will be EOL airframes and will need to be refurbished/rebuilt.
So no one has F-16s to spare until next year. Let’s hope this encouraged the Europeans to supply come of their surplus JAS 39 Gipens, Panavia Tornados, etc.
Jail? Like the one they left to fight? At least they will still be alive.
Still trotting out that dead horse?
Kazan is the name of a city in RuZZia.
Is that where you live?
“Bakhmut Holds!
The situation in the western district has deteriorated every last metre is fought for.”
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But I’m reading reports that the Russians have redeployed men from the Zaporista region to the Bakhmut region.
imho that’s what the ukes wanted to happen.
I don’t think that bezos is working on the lift off rockets from earth to the space station but rather to shuttle back and forth between the space station and the moon.
No one is even close to spaceX falcon heavy in the development of the giant rocket lift from earth.
“imho that’s what the ukes wanted to happen.”
I think so.
Having drafted 300,000 men, RuZZia is still short of troops.
Patriot Radar Station and Five Missile Batteries Destroyed in Russian Hypersonic Strike on Kiev
Following a major strike on the Ukrainian capital Kiev in May 16, which involved use of multiple missile classes including deployment of Kinzhal ballistic missiles against Ukraine’s Patriot air defence systems, new information regarding the strike has continued to emerge. With Western sources having confirmed that a Patriot system was taken out of action, the Russian Defence Ministry on May 18 reported: "According to verified information, as a result of a strike by the Kinzhal hypersonic missile system in the city of Kiev a multifunctional radar station, as well as five launchers of the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system manufactured by the United States were hit and completely destroyed on May 16, 2023.” It was previously only confirmed that the radar station, which provides command and control for each Patriot unit, was destroyed. Ukraine received two units of Patriots from mid April, with the first delivered less than a month before the recent strike. The United States repeatedly proved reluctant to provide the assets or to allow its European allies to do so, not only because this would deplete the relatively limited arsenals available to the U.S. Military and its allies, but also because of their extreme cost and the significant reputational damage which their destruction in combat could cause. The system’s failure was widely predicted in light of its highly modest combat record against much simpler missiles than those in Russia’s arsenal.
Three primary factors thought to have influenced Washington to eventually approve transfers of Patriots to Ukraine included sustained pressure from European allies, the danger of Ukrainian population centres becoming unliveable due to Russian strikes on critical infrastructure, and the very serious depletion of Ukraine’s existing air defence network built around Soviet S-300 and BuK systems which the country inherited in considerable quantities in 1991. Patriots are by far the most costly military assets Ukraine has in service, and their delivered has absorbed a high portion of the funds allocated to aiding the Ukrainian war effort - an investment which it was long argued by multiple analysts would be far from cost effectively. The Patriots were assigned to protect the capital following major Russian strikes on critical infrastructure, with their much lower mobility and more limited arcs of fire than even Soviet era variants of the S-300 system limiting their suitability for use near the frontlines in Eastern Ukraine. The Patriot system targeted reportedly fired 32 interceptors at the Kinzhal ballistic missiles that targeted it, all of which failed, with this salvo alone having cost approximately $96 million.
You are so full of crap.
Go eat your borschit!
I wonder how far a Patriot launcher can be located from the radar/computer van.
Perhaps they can communicate over the internet.
In that case, one launcher can be located near the border without endangering the rest of the Patriot components.
What do you think?
U.S. and its allies plan to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, official says
"In the coming months, the U.S. and its allies “will decide when to actually provide jets, how many we will provide, and who will provide them,” the official said. The news comes as President Joe Biden on Friday informed leaders of leading industrialized nations that the U.S. will support efforts to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16s."
4 big explosions just now at the occupied Mariupol airport. Explosions look like cruise missile hits.
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