Posted on 03/24/2022 10:22:01 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
Ukraine Military Sources are now Claiming that the Explosions this morning at the Russian Occupied Port of Berdyans'k were caused by Missiles Fired from a Ukrainian Navy Bayraktar TB-2 Drone, these Explosions caused Fires which completely destroyed a Alligator-Class Landing Ship.
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Reports say both vessels that sailed away also suffered hits.
It’s over. Zelenskyy 15 mins of fame has 30 seconds left. Please focus on domestic issues, especially those concerning the midterms.
Time-lapse video showing the events at the port of Berdyansk this morning. Two LSTs left the port, one of them was on fire.
https://twitter.com/COUPSURE/status/1506969662789140480
But war is fascinating.
The Democrats must have been doing some really dirty business in Ukraine.
To think we have wasted all this money on F-35 and such when a model airplane will do.
When the invaders are defeated, I can go back to hating Biden.
I thought it would take a 10 year insurgency to drive the invaders out. But could be 10 months or 10 weeks.
That’s the power of such accurately guided munitions. That damage was not caused by the rather small bombs a Bayraktar drone can carry, but by secondary explosions and fires.
Swarms of those things would be incredibly dangerous even to a US fleet. Imagine one of those falling on the VLS launchers of an Arleigh Burke.
Armed drones are the future.
Turkish drone...again.
It’s over? Tell that to the Russians, who are losing ground in several areas.
I’m wondering if an unarmed drone designed to fly into the engines of a jet would work.
Probably closer to 10 weeks. Putin’s pets aren’t quite so cocksure anymore.
Turkish plane recently landed at that small airport in Poland handling military supplies to Ukraine.
More TB2’s or missiles.
Zelenskyy is over. The nation is focused on March Madness, not the Ukraine. Unless NATO does something stupid, Putin will achieve all his goals, whether Americans Neocons like it or not.
Just don’t be surprised whan the sun rises at 9pm.
I posted this response an hour or so ago on a similar topic about this event and I’m just copying and pasting it here as it still applies:
Pardon me if this looks like propaganda coming from both directions.
1. I refuse to believe that the Russians are so stupid as to let Ukrainian forces approach this facility close enough to fire at it from any direction.
2. Had the Ukrainians done this I’d expect them to have arranged to capture video of the attack as it would be a huge propaganda coup.
3. An anti-ship missile would not have been very effective with the backdrop of so much clutter at the port. Yet one lone missile supposedly hit the bullseye?
4. The video of the aftermath shows an absence of air cover for the Russian ships. Were missiles a factor here you’d expect the Russian commanders to launch their helicopters to spoof any other missiles.
5. I think this is far more likely to have been an accident that took place during replenishment or offloading of munitions. The Russians would rather let the Ukes take credit for the kill than to admit they pooched their own ship in port.
6. The two surviving ships were idling their engines and were immediately able to sortie. This tells me they were at alert and their defenses should have been active and engaging any enemy...the absence of fire or aircover would make me think the commanders didn’t see the threat as coming from the direction they were sailing towards.
7. Regardless of the cause, my compliments go to the two Russian commanders and crews that were ready to put to sea and who did so at a moment’s notice. They saved their ships and I hope to God that fool Putin recognizes them for this instead of cashiering them for not stopping what the evidence makes me believe was an imaginary Ukrainian attack.
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