Posted on 12/23/2024 3:11:19 AM PST by Chode
Russia began its Feb 2022 invasion with a massive force advantage over Ukraine in the Black Sea - but over time we've seen the Russian fleet steadily pushed back by a Ukrainian strategy of sea denial driven by anti-ship missiles, reconnaissance drones and, critically, USVs (AKA naval drones)
Those drones have evolved rapidly, to the point where now we've seen them launching rockets or fighting back against helicopters.
So in this episode, I look at the Black Sea campaign since our 2023 update, and examine the evolution of Ukrainian USVs and the Russian response.
Wonder what an Oreshnik would do to a carrier battle group? What if the Ruskies used two or three Oreshniks?
gonna need a nuke, it’s not gonna hit a moving target...
It is an overkill. The lessons of this war show that even a salvo of vintage Kh-22 would do the job.
Two can play at that game. What if we deployed our own wunderwaffe in Kaliningrad and Gutuevsky Island?
If Putin attacked a battle group, that’s what would happen. St Petersburg and Moscow would be cleansed. We’d probably be at defcon 1. On the plus side, the average iq i Russia would double after the revanchist retards are turned into carbon powder, and we might end up negotiating with sane people.
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