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To: FtrPilot
According to RU air defense, 24 missiles were fired, 5 made it to the target.

Feeding that into my Russian to Truth translator/decoder, I get "6 missiles were fired, 5 of them struck their target".

The first MoD claim was that all missiles were shot down, and there was no damage. Then someone near the airfield posted the video of a missile striking Belbek, in a straight line with 2 other impacts, and heavy smoke rising from the area.

Sadly, France and UK don't have large enough inventories of these missiles to properly supply Ukraine. They should have thousands of them, not a few hundred. Same with Germany and the Taurus. ATACMS would help fill in the gap, at least for a while. But Europe needs to increase production of long range strike weapons, or they will have none for a larger conflict.

148 posted on 01/31/2024 2:17:11 PM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: ETCM
But Europe needs to increase production of long range strike weapons, or they will have none for a larger conflict.

IMHO, that is lesson 1 from this war.

149 posted on 01/31/2024 2:43:13 PM PST by FtrPilot
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To: ETCM

Though I agree, what is missing is overall air superiority, if Ukraine or moskava had it, missiles would not be as important


151 posted on 01/31/2024 5:30:50 PM PST by blitz128
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To: ETCM; FtrPilot; marcusmaximus; PIF

The Telegraph (UK) reports: Ukraine launches massive Storm Shadow missile attack on Crimea.

“Ukraine launched a massive missile barrage against four Russian military positions in occupied Crimea on Wednesday (31 Jan)...

...The Ukrainian air force’s involvement indicated that British Storm Shadow missiles fired from Kyiv’s jets were used in the raid.

It came a day after Ukrainian forces struck a radar station used by air defence systems (near the village of Rozdolne) in north-western Crimea.

Explosions and active surface-to-air interceptors were reported in the major port city of Sevastopol and the nearby military airfield of Belbek...

...“Some time in the early spring, Russia’s offensive will be completely exhausted,” Kyrylo Budanov, head of the HUR military intelligence agency, said on Ukrainian television.

“We make a move, the enemy makes a move. Now is the enemy’s turn. It will end, and then ours will start,” he added.”


156 posted on 01/31/2024 6:21:52 PM PST by BeauBo
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