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Russia’s arms sales could go to zero over Ukraine
Asia Times ^ | March 8, 2022 | Stephen Bryen

Posted on 05/03/2022 6:09:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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To: Brellium
In February, Ukraine only had 20 of the Bayraktar drones, but they've been very efficient. The main constraint has been replenishing the bombs they fire.

21 posted on 05/03/2022 6:47:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Okay, keep dreaming:)


22 posted on 05/03/2022 6:47:38 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: catnipman; Vermont Lt

lol


23 posted on 05/03/2022 6:48:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Less than your post is Russian disinformation.”

Cállate Brandonista.


24 posted on 05/03/2022 6:49:24 PM PDT by chuckb87
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To: packagingguy
It could be the days of tanks and similar vehicles are over no matter who makes them. It happened to the battleship.

Yep. Infantry is important again. Helicopters are useful for transport and surprise raids but they are vulnerable if you use them as gunships (Black Hawk Down).

25 posted on 05/03/2022 6:49:42 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: SunkenCiv
In February, Ukraine only had 20 of the Bayraktar drones, but they've been very efficient. The main constraint has been replenishing the bombs they fire.

I seem to recall a Russian MoD release indicating they had killed '49' of those 20 bayraktars, and that was maybe still 1 of those still in theater.

26 posted on 05/03/2022 6:50:45 PM PDT by Brellium (Why Z? Because someone stole the other half of the swastika.)
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To: Brellium

Which video game is it this time?


27 posted on 05/03/2022 6:50:48 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: MinorityRepublican

And now countries have exoskeleton suits that allow a soldier to run fast, farther and lift more than anyone ever could using muscle. It would be a lot harder to hit 10 soldiers individually than if they all rode in the same APC.

(If there’s no war the suits are still useful, for instance in warehouse operations. Workers could lift hundred pound packages all day without fatigue)


28 posted on 05/03/2022 6:55:35 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: NorseViking
Which video game is it this time?

It's not Call of Duty if you're asking.

In that game the Russians could actually advance more than kilometer a day.

29 posted on 05/03/2022 7:01:56 PM PDT by Brellium (Why Z? Because someone stole the other half of the swastika.)
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To: NorseViking

It’s only propaganda because you don’t like it. No other reason.

What makes it obvious is because thats the only argument people like you are able to come up with


30 posted on 05/03/2022 7:08:13 PM PDT by roving
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To: roving

ROLFMAO! Keep dreaming.


31 posted on 05/03/2022 7:18:20 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: SunkenCiv; NorseViking
It’s not the Daily Mail, but nice try.

The author seems like a self published nobody, so I'm not sure it makes a difference.

32 posted on 05/03/2022 7:40:48 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: NorseViking
It is safe to assume that more Bayraktar drones were downed than the stuff they managed to destroy in Ukraine. They weren’t decisive in the Armenian war either.

They are cheap and can therefore be very plentiful. Even if only 10% or less of them kill something, $10 billion worth of tanks squaring off against $2 billion worth of Bayraktars will end up with very few surviving tanks.

And we are not getting the whole story on what is really happening. I think the future of drone warfare is a new type of combined arms with swarms of drones. And not all the same kind of drones like a swarm of hornets, but a combined effort of a swarm of drones of many different types. Think a swarm of hornets, while simultaneously being attacked by a few eagles. Throw in a couple of wolves and you will never see the rattlesnake they herd you toward...

33 posted on 05/03/2022 9:59:16 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: SunkenCiv

Zot all Russian Trolls.

The free republic Putin fan boys have helped Adam Schiff paint Conservatives as putin supporters.


34 posted on 05/03/2022 10:46:07 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Ruling class noticed our total lack of pushback for how the election & Covid was handled.)
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To: packagingguy

It could be the days of tanks and similar vehicles are over no matter who makes them. It happened to the battleship.


I heard that back in the day. Back when the guy next to me in a pitched battle between our guys and some invading tribe, was clubbed to death and the guy behind him was chopped with a stone axe. Ever since then humans have been obsolete.


35 posted on 05/04/2022 3:42:00 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Infantry is important again. Helicopters are useful for transport and surprise raids but they are vulnerable if you use them as gunships

More to the point: when you have to launch your helicopter rockets tilted up to get the range without being manpaded.

Infantry is subject to death from sharp pointy things and so is also obsolete.

Its all in how some thing is used. The RGF and VKF are a textbook cases of how NOT to use something, unless you consider that thing expendable.


36 posted on 05/04/2022 3:50:13 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: packagingguy

And now countries have exoskeleton suits that allow a soldier to run fast,


Um, no.

Any such thing is experimental. Awkward, cumbersome, high and rapid energy drain, good for a few minutes at best. Looks great in movies, but that where they are best - in CGI of blue/green screen.

Mostly we call those suits tanks and APCs.


37 posted on 05/04/2022 3:54:37 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: NorseViking

Right back at ya.


38 posted on 05/04/2022 6:19:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: mac_truck

Right back at ya.


39 posted on 05/04/2022 6:21:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: NoLibZone

Of course.


40 posted on 05/04/2022 6:21:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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