Of the dozens of aircraft destroyed/damaged by the way was one of only ten of their AWACS planes / A50s.
Heads are going to roll in Russia and maybe , I hope, this will finally lead to ☮️.
In Russia when they say axed they mean it literally.
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What was done in Russia will be done in the US. Muslims and China are watching.
Can’t be. Russia is invincible. /s
I think we are soon going to see reports of people falling out of their high apartment windows.
Russia stopped producing these destroyed planes.
Russia stopped producing the Tu-95 and the A50's in 1992. The last Tu-22M3 was produced in 1993
Saddam had similar problems despite having the 4th largest army in the world at the time.
I’ve been in corporations where there were disasters followed by massive firings. I’m trying without success to remember just one where the people who allowed the disaster were the ones fired.
Here’s why. The people at the top are responsible for setting up the structure that should prevent the disaster. They then hire people and tell them what their job is inside the structure. Those people do their job. It’s the structure that fails, not the people who are inside that structure. Who set up the structure? That’s the person responsible for the failure.
The more modern companies and the US military have feedback loops that allow for communications from the bottom.
Having said that, our air force has the same problems the Russians are having. What we don’t have yet are people exploiting that problem.
Ukraine pulled off a near Pearl Harbor level sneak attack, but will pay for their boldness. Putin will deliver a punishing revenge and chances for a cease fire or resolution of the war are now greatly diminished.
I worry that US strategic forces are vulnerable to a similar attack. Last fall drones of unknown origin invaded US military installations and were left unmolested by the Biden administration. The Chinese spy balloon that Biden allowed to traverse the country could well have been spreading biological toxins. While Trump’s golden dome anti missile defense is need to protect the homeland from missile attacks, we also should be vigilant for devastating attacks with far less sophisticated weapons.
Were I in Putin’s shoes my response would be decidedly asymmetrical, and not limited to Ukraine.
The Russian leader has been **conspicuously absent** from public view since Ukraine’s successful strikes.
What better way of China have a hannd in it to give Russia just caused to say the U.S. did it for frist strik.
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Russia has had serious intelligence failures since the beginning of the war.
The Russian intelligence is it would be a cake-walk.
Firing a bunch of intelligence leaders does not mean you will get a better bunch.
Setting that aside, can the Russians be sure the Ukrainians don't have more weapons tucked away inside Russia waiting to be launched in second or third wave?
If Putin goes harder after enemy civilians, the Ukes may go after targets in Moscow itself. The day before yesterday that seemed unlikely; now, who knows?
One less Tupolev long range bomber on the planet is a good thing.