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Posted on 09/29/2025 5:11:39 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Vladimir Putin is set to make a "major speech" in what the Kremlin is promising to be an "interesting week". The announcement comes following remarks by the US Vice President J D Vance on Friday, in which he said Donald Trump was considering a request to supply Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dropped the cryptic message in an interview on Sunday with the Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin. "The President will deliver a fairly major speech next week," he said. "We will announce what it will be about, as well as exactly when and where. But the week will be interesting."
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“shared border with NATO member state”
There’s the Kaliningrad[?] enclave sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania.
lol... okay.
The Great Pumpkin is coming too - it's that time of year.
WIKI [FP-1 drone]
Conceived in mid-2022 by a team of former aerospace engineers and defence analysts, the FP-1 programme aimed to produce a low-cost, high-performance kamikaze UAV. Initial operational prototypes of the FP-1 drone flew in early 2024, demonstrating a loitering munition delivery system. Full-scale production commenced in October 2024 at covert facilities near Kyiv.
The FP-1 features a slender fuselage with a two-cylinder engine driving a propeller, a solid rocket booster for launching, and fixed straight wings. It carries a modular warhead weighing between 60 kg and 120 kg, selectable for fragmentation or shaped-charge effects. The airframe employs radar-absorbent materials to reduce detectability. Navigation relies on inertial systems augmented by satellite guidance, with electronic counter-countermeasure capabilities to resist jamming.
By mid-2025, Fire Point had scaled production from 30 to over 100 FP-1 units per day, reporting total manufacture of more than 5,000 drones. The UAV has been credited with striking ammunition depots, command posts, and air defence batteries at ranges exceeding 1,200 km. Analysts attribute Ukraine’s ability to disrupt rear-area logistics to the FP-1’s cost-effectiveness — estimated at US$55,000 per unit versus US$200,000 for comparable systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-1_(unmanned_aerial_vehicle)
“With a payload of explosives weighing 60 kilograms (132 pounds), it[the FP-1] is responsible for 60% of strikes deep inside Russian territory, including hits on oil refineries and weapons depots, according to Terekh. These strikes have helped to slow Russia’s advance along the 1,000 kilometer-long (620 mile-long) front line in eastern Ukraine, where army units have reported a sharp decline in artillery fire.”
“Because defense companies are high-value targets for Russia, many operate underground or hidden within civilian centers to evade detection. Although they are guarded by air defenses, the strategy has the disadvantage of putting civilians at risk. Many Ukrainians have died in imprecise Russian attacks that were likely targeting weapons facilities.”
“On the day AP reporters visited the Fire Point factory, there were dozens of drones awaiting delivery. They would all be gone within 72 hours, shipped to the battlefield in inconspicuous cargo trucks.”
“Tomahawks”
The Ukrainians make and use weapons better than the Tomahawk:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-5_Flamingo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-1_(unmanned_aerial_vehicle)
Old news... like 20 pounds old.
Reopen the missile bases in Cuba?
What will Putin do?
He is limited in what he can do-—He can not just pull back from Ukraine and survive the negative wave of public opinion.
What could he do?
1. Blow the lid off of Chernoble and flood Kiev with nuke dust. Turn Ukraine into cancerville.
2. Demand that the USA pay for Blowing up the Northsea pipeline.
3. Send a major naval force with nukes to Venezuela to protect the nation from USA.
4. Give Ukraine an ultimatum- stop fighting or Russia will declare war and use nukes. Ukraine is a threat to Russia and needs to be liquidated with nuke bombs. Go Stalin on them.
“Ukrainian will only be spoken in Hell.”
Yip! Yip! Yip! Ukraine! Yap! Yap! Ukraine! Yip! Yap! Yip! Yip! Yip! Zelensky! Yip! Yap! Yip! Ukraine! Yip! Yip! Yip! Ukraine! Yap! Yap! Yap! Yap! Yap! Ukraine!
Well, how is Ukraine successfully targeting drones to hit things like distillation towers over 1000 km into Russia?
It is one thing to use GPS, old school espionage, and other technologies to hit parked planes at a known position inside Russia.
It is another thing to take long-range American technology with sophisticated targeting, terrain mapping, and other technology, and by yourself (without the US helping) using that technology to hit a target.
I’ve sailed boats since my early twenties. I’d say I am more than OK.
It doesn’t mean I can navigate a Virginia class SSN.
Sorry - I thought my sarcasm would shine thru in my own comment. Of course, Vlad's stated rationale for the invasion of Ukraine was just another lie. Next time, I'll surely add the [/sarcasm] tag.
Carry on.
Ah, but (see Post 14) Tomahawks can navigate by, essentially, “all or any of the above”. Just because new block Tomahawks have the latest and greatest (well, almost, but that’s another story), that doesn’t mean they can’t hit targets by means of your 1st paragraph.
Then again, I have to assume that any buyer of US guided munitions gets at least some of the advanced targeting tech and assistance with the munition. Why buy Tomahawks if you don’t get at least 2/3 of the targeting package (including data?) Purchasing pricey Tomahawks only to fling them around unguided or with easily defeated guidance* makes no sense at all.
*The Ukie Flamingos have jam resistant GPS guidance, and I’d assume the US has at least the equal. What we don’t have is economical assembly, with production quantities readily ramped up quickly.
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