Ain’t that convenient. Here’s a little story of how a Zippo can take out an occupying force...
“First, you approach a German sentry with your little pistol hidden in your coat pocket and, with Academy-award sincerity, ask him for a light for your cigarette (or the time the train leaves for Paris, or if he wants to buy some non-army-issue food or a half- hour with your “sister”). When he smiles and casts a nervous glance down the street to see where his Sergeant is at, you blow his brains out with your first and only shot, then take his rifle and ammunition. Your next few minutes are occupied with “getting out of Dodge,” for such critters generally go around in packs. After that you keep the rifle and hand your little pistol to a fellow Resistance fighter so they can go get their own rifle.
Or maybe you then use your rifle to get a submachine gun from the Sergeant when he comes running. Perhaps you get very lucky and pickup a light machine gun, two boxes of ammunition and a haversack of hand grenades. With two of the grenades and the expenditure of a half-a-box of ammunition at a hasty roadblock the next night, you and your friends get a truck full of arms and ammunition. Pretty soon you’ve got the best armed little maquis unit in your part of France, all from that cheap little pistol and the guts to use it.”
He started Shift4.
It’s stable. That’s all I can say about his software.
Ukraine doesn't have a government but a crime syndicate. They should have been spending their Biden payoff money on defense.
Maybe they are saving the MIGs for after the war, when the Ukrainian Air Force will need to be re-built.
Expensive business.
They should use the frozen accounts for reparations.
Yes
After reading through the article, I:
1) Fail to see any explanation of how the Russians would take out what I would expect to be widely dispersed MIGs in “a single shot”.
2) Fail to see any details on what electronic upgrades have been done to the Polish MIGs. (That has been mentioned as a training issue, elsewhere, so I suspect significant upgrades have been made, but, that IS only a suspicion.)
3) Fail to see any analysis of how the Ukes apparently managed to keep most of their planes not destroyed on the ground in the initial Russian strikes flying for at least a couple weeks.
4) Fail to see any analysis of whether or not NATO would quietly provide surveillance data to Uke pilots flying near NATO boundaries.
From a tactical perspective, it IS obvious the Ukes need many more SAM batteries that can take out higher altitude targets.
Amazed at how the MSM find people like this to do stories that support Biden’s inept handling of the whole matter.
Poland offered 30 MiGs. That’s 30 “tries” to strafe Russian tracked assets or to destroy city bridges.