Posted on 03/25/2022 7:18:47 AM PDT by tomd2
Vodka.........................
Like our torpedo problems at the start of WWII against the Japanese.
Russia isn’t using their top equipment in Ukraine. They are saving it in case NATO gets involved. Also this is information warfare. The actual assessment means nothing.
Reuters article does not include the twitter links
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/exclusive-us-assesses-up-60-failure-rate-some-russian-missiles-officials-say-2022-03-24/
We tell all this but we can’t count votes, hmmmm???
Yes we all know they sent the JV team to Ukraine and the varsity is back training in Moscow. /s
Anonymous sources: a MSM tactic to peddle junk.
Their “not-top” equipment has a 60% failure rate?!?
We can trust the same U.S. intelligence agencies who said the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
So, three “officials” leaked classified info to Reuters. Isn’t that, like, a crime or something?
More likely that satellite imagery is their source. The performance of Russian military tech against a first world adversary would be a strong reason to direct our NRO resources to observing 24/7. Also different satellites can track Tussian comms . Now maybe the sources of this story are BSing the reporters but our tech is such that a report such as this is more than possible.
Looks like a lotta duds are doing a lot of damage.
“as high as”
“for some of”
“what most could consider”
“up to”
“could help explain”
“who spoke on condition of anonymity”
“did not provide evidence”
“possibly”
I remember a story I read in National Review about thirty-five years ago.
The author of the story had succeeded in being sneaked into a Soviet air base in Afghanistan. He told some interesting stories about what he'd seen.
One of them was about the strong smell of jet fuel he experienced as he was being driven into the base; the road cut through what appeared to be a swamp.
He asked one of the crew members about this, and they explained it as follows: the aircraft at that base used pure ethanol as a coolant for their radars. They consumed coolant at the rate of one-half ton of ethanol for each twelve tons of fuel burned. Therefore, Soviet accountants checked the fuel and alcohol shipments very closely to ensure that this ratio was maintained, in order to detect any "unauthorized use" of the alcohol coolant.
This meant that for each gallon of alcohol consumed for recreational purposes, about 24 gallons of fuel must disappear. Simply burning it would create a lot of smoke that would be easily spotted, draw too much attention. So the crew members had taken to dumping the fuel out in the woods.
There were several thousand crew members at the base, which by then had been in operation for almost ten years.
Being able to track cruise missiles in real time from satellites might contribute to their failure rate...
Russia would be a much stronger and probably free-er nation if they would learn not to drink themselves into oblivion at every opportunity.
A close friend was working in Russia a couple of decades ago.
A Russian accomplice and he were able to get on base. He used a fake KGB card to bluff his way in.
It does not mean much, but it is a data point.
Do tell, I’m dying to hear about the great Russian equipment being held back.
Sometime or somewhere, US intelligence officials leaked a classified assessment about the current thing.
The United States assesses that the thing is bad, three U.S. officials with knowledge of the intelligence told Reuters.
The disclosure could help explain past things, current things, or future things.
The U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the information, did not provide evidence to support the assessment of the thing and did not disclose details of the thing.
One of the staples on social media accounts has been the thing.
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