Posted on 03/06/2022 6:16:53 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas
On a snowy tarmac at Amari Air Base in northern Estonia on Sunday morning, pallets of rifles, ammunition and other weapons were being loaded onto one of the largest cargo planes in the world, an Antonov AN-124, belonging to the Ukrainian air force. It is an artifact of the Cold War, built and purchased when Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union.
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In less than a week, the United States and NATO have pushed more than 17,000 antitank weapons, including Javelin missiles, over the borders of Poland and Romania, unloading them from giant military cargo planes so they can make the trip by land to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, and other major cities.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
They’ll be firing them into the air and where they land they do not care
“U.S. officials say Ukrainian leaders have told them that American and other allied weaponry is making a difference on the battlefield. Ukrainian soldiers armed with shoulder-fired Javelin anti-tank missiles have several times in the past week attacked a mileslong convoy of Russian armor and supply trucks, helping stall the Russian ground advance as it bears down on Kyiv, Pentagon officials said. Some of the vehicles are being abandoned, officials said, because Russian troops fear sitting in the convoy when fuel-supply tanks are being targeted by the Ukrainians, setting off fireballs.”
“The convoy has also come under attack several times at different places along the column from another weapon supplied by a NATO member state. Armed Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones, which the Ukrainian military used for the first time in combat against Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine last October, are now hunting Russian tanks and other vehicles, U.S. officials said.”
“Even the elements have sided with the Ukrainian military in the war’s early days. Bad weather in northern Ukraine has grounded some Russian attack planes and helicopters, a senior Pentagon official said. Many Russian vehicles that have driven off the main roads to avoid the stalled convoy have gotten stuck in the mud, making them more vulnerable to attack, officials said.”
Too bad this is the NY Slimes otherwise I might believe it.
Maybe it’s not a good idea to make information like this public? Maybe the NYT is aiding Russian? Maybe Estonian will pay a price for this?
Having never been in the military myself, that sounds like a lot.
The core limitation right now is cargo capacity. Every Polish airport along the border is clogged with Globemasters filled with supplies.
Zelinskyy emptied the prisons, and gave guns to the cons. I wonder if any weapobs will end up on the black market.
Where is the Ukrainian army? 250,000, 300 aircraft, 800 tanks?
“Two Big Four accounting firms KPMG International and PricewaterhouseCoopers to suspend operations in Russia and Belarus.
KPMG has over 4,500 partners and staff in Russia and Belarus.
PwC has 3,700 partners and staff in Russia and has operated in the country for 30 years.”
Russian economy slowly grinding down. Another 8000 unemployed.
I am no expert on the Javelin, it does appear to work well and I know it has the two methods of attack.
That being said I would think that the closer ranges that must be dealt with in urban settings would lend itself to the Panzerfaust 3.
I heard Germany sent 400, I would think they are going to need a lot more.
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“Zelinskyy emptied the prisons, and gave guns to the cons. I wonder if any weapobs will end up on the black market.”
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Unless VERY great care us taken, some may well end up on the black market and in some nations for which they were never intended.
Note to self:
Russian separatists bad.
Albanian separatists good.
Precisely what happened when mujahadeen mohommedans were the new freedom fighters on the block for the Americans. The CIA launched an unsuccesful operation to get back unused Stingers
As I understand it, the accounting firms disaffiliated with their Russian affiliates. Whether the affiliates have laid off workers is another matter.
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In a letter to Democratic colleagues, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the U.S. House of Representatives is “exploring strong legislation” to ban imports of Russian oil.
The legislation would “further isolate Russia from the global economy,” she wrote.
“Our bill would ban the import of Russian oil and energy products into the United States, repeal normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus, and take the first step to deny Russia access to the World Trade Organization. We would also empower the Executive branch to raise tariffs on Russian imports,” she said.
The House will vote on aid to Ukraine this week totaling $10 billion in humanitarian, military and economic support.
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