“Of particular interest is their thermobaric developments, down to thermobaric grenades……NATO had better get busy, Ivan appears to be way ahead of the curve”
ABSOLUTELY - which was why I opposed the war from the outset. It was TOTALLY OBVIOUS to us people with a military background that we NEVER took Russia (or China, for that matter) seriously, and instead chose to simply IGNORE all of the advances made by them, and they weren’t even secrets.
Beyond that, we had Weinies in DOD (probably some of the bunch here, LOL) who almost certainly figured that if GPS worked in their car, then GPS would work on the battlefield.
...while the term ‘jamming’ was never part of their Annapolis syllabus.
while the term ‘jamming’ was never part of their Annapolis syllabus.
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Either was “ Thermobarics”, or supersonic cruise missiles…both of which Vlad has an endless supply. I will say back in my days ( 70’s) with the 82nd, we were aware of Ivan’s widespread use of Thermobaric grenades, RPG’s etc…the US chose to disregard developing that weapon, which as we see now are the “ ticket” for bunkers, trenches, enclosed areas….their latest grenade has a 12 meter kill radius inside buildings, trenches, etc….these beauties literally suck the air out of your lungs, if you are breathing air, you are done- unlike frags and our offensive grenades ( I think we ditched those a few years back)….
…..with that said, our military decided to put a third safety on our M67 frags a few years ago…..THREE safeties??? They cited todays troops “ lacked confidence “….