Posted on 07/18/2025 10:12:20 PM PDT by ganeemead
The drone and missile onslaught against Ukraine
“The production rate of Patriot was 350 missiles per year in 2023, supposed to increase to 550 by 2027.”
I think they’re trying to get from 550 to 650 interceptors, but even that is a struggle for a country that spent 30 years hollowing out its manufacturing base.
“”””The production rate of Patriot was 350 missiles per year in 2023, supposed to increase to 550 by 2027.””””
The current rate of Patriot missile production (in the U.S.) is about 550 or slightly higher, with 650 for 2027, the new Germany plant will also start producing the missiles.
They look like they use the Boxer motor off the old Ural motorcycle. Too bad the Yooks can’t borrow some Spitfires from the British to shoot them down.
“ Ukraine shoots down all but 5% to 15% of them”
BS. I want to see reports from a verifiable, I dependent source for a claim like that. Drones are so effective in part because they are difficult to defend against in mass.
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This can’t be, western MSM has long said Russia is running out of men, arms and missiles! Washing machine chips, shovels, Ghost of Kiev, ….Fools.
Russia manufactures weapons at a 7 to 1 ratio to the West. They have $75 trillion in natural resources, in need of nothing, energy, food, commodities, and most of all manufacturing facilities…all operating 24/7.
The EU has little of value, most everything is imported….little/ none commodities, energy, metals, ….and Germany’s seven auto plants ( shut down) will takes years to build weapons.
As I was reading this thread, I was thinking about how this compared to Hitler's V1 attacks on London, then I read your post and realized I wasn't the only one thinking about that. Of course, the V1's were followed by the much more dangerous V2...
One Russian Oreshnik missile takes out all of Rheinmetal s facilities. They are fair game when they start supplying St Z long range missiles.
Vlad sent a message a few months ago by destroying the US Boeing Missile and Defense building in Kiev. No tears. The Neo cons and war mongers need to learn a good lesson.
“One Russian Oreshnik missile takes out all of Rheinmetal s facilities”
I remember when Russia used their one missile you said it destroyed everything in a one mile radius.
Turned out to be a crater a few yards wide.
“They have $75 trillion in natural resources,”
Then,
Why are they broke having sold off their state pension fund to pay for Putin’s two-week week war.
LOL, you really live in a fantasy world.
the Russian Firepower Strike Tracker serves as a powerful resource for understanding the dynamics of Russian missile operations and their impact on the Ukraine War.
The data is compiled by https://github.com/PetroIvaniuk. The dataset is available at: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/piterfm/massive-missile-attacks-on-ukraine/data. CSIS has verified that the data aligns with the official numbers published by the Ukrainian Air Force Accounts.
I was thinking something along the same lines. I have a home built ultralight airplane from the 1980s called a Skypup. Mine has a Rotax 277 which was originally designed for snowmobiles. It runs at a high RPM so it has a gearbox which reduces the speed to something suitable for a small propellor. I had so many great adventures in that little airplane.
My first thought was that the engines on the Shahed drones and the even cheaper decoys with foam airframes would likely be excellent powerplants for ultralight aircraft. With 3 gallons of gas, I could fly nearly a hundred miles with a low throttle setting.
MacGregor is a wannabe Tucker Carlson.
$75 Trillion is the most commonly quoted figure, but likely vastly understates the actual value. They are by far the most self-sufficient nation in the world. This is something that few here seem to comprehend. The European Union has long sought ways to instigate regime change in Russia to leadership that will be more advantageous to the Western based oligarchy.
Pushing the Russians into any type of conflict where the West could justify crushing the Russian economy and causing a massive amount internal turmoil has been seen as the best way to accomplish this since the end of the cold war. This helps explain Biden's “Minor Incursion” Russia Remark, where he assured the Russians that no one would do anything if there was just a “minor incursion”. It was not one of his typical gaffes. The Biden regime and Western Europe was hoping for some type of conflict to start. They had been arming their recently installed Western leaning puppet government to the teeth and were chomping at the bit to get something going.
But as we have now seen it was a huge miscalculation that has now cost all involved parties dearly. But it is amazing the extent to which modern technology and techniques use old fashioned propaganda to influence the attitudes of millions about the abject stupidity that now has gone on for nearly 4 years.
Why would anyone “wannabe” Tucker Carlson?
The violation was not pinging the people named. That’s why it was wrong.
Please! I am 10x the spammer.
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You seem to like stalking this guy. What’s your problem? Weirdo.
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