Posted on 03/26/2022 3:20:23 PM PDT by libh8er
British -made anti-aircraft missiles are about to be deployed by Ukraine in the conflict for the first time, threatening to heap further humiliation on Vladimir Putin over his disastrous invasion.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told The Mail on Sunday that the Starstreak system – a shoulder-mounted missile that travels at more than three times the speed of sound to take down low-flying enemy jets – was ready to be used imminently.
The news came as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that Putin was scaling back the invasion because he was reeling from ‘powerful blows’ and had lost more than 16,000 troops.
Mr Wallace said the first Ukrainian troops had been trained and were now deployed with Starstreak, adding that the UK was ‘doing more than pretty much anyone else’ to help the war-torn country.
Mr Wallace said: ‘One of the biggest challenges is that the more you go up in sophistication of weapons systems, the more training you require to use them, which is why the real focus of effort has to be helping the Ukrainians either refurbish or locate Russian or Soviet equipment that is already in their inventory. Just providing British tanks wouldn’t really work.’
He also warned that Putin’s generals face a Nuremberg-style reckoning for war crimes in Ukraine, with Mikhail Mizintsev, the so-called ‘Butcher of Mariupol’, at the head of the list for his bombardment of civilians in the city.
Mr Wallace said: ‘The systematic destruction of over 1,000 properties in Mariupol is against the Geneva Conventions. The type of weapons used and how they are delivered indicates deliberate targeting.’
Alluding to talk about prosecutions similar to the Nuremberg trials of Nazis after the Second World War, Mr Wallace said: ‘In the end, justice catches up with most people,
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Could be wrong, but it sounds as if the “journalists” at the Daily Mail just might possibly be taking sides a little it?
Well, let’s see it do its stuff, then. It’d be good if the UK still has game.
” a shoulder-mounted missile that travels at more than three times the speed of sound to take down low-flying enemy jets – was ready to be used imminently.”
What if the jets don’t fly low but can still strike?
Apparently they can hit a target at 23,000 feet.
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Alluding to talk about prosecutions similar to the Nuremberg trials of Nazis after the Second World War, Mr Wallace said: ‘In the end, justice catches up with most people
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Bill and Hillary are rolling in the isles
The solution for this system, and all like it is to bomb from above 30,000 feet.
If short of precision munitions, use FAE and iron bombs.
I’m sure arming criminals and neo nazis won’t end up biting any of us on the ass
Ukraine doesn’t needs a Ministry of Propaganda. UK Daily Mail is doing a great job of it.
We had a DIA brief in 2009 at our WIC (weapons intelligence course), and the Brits told us the Startreak was double the new Stinger, so 22-23k feet sounds reasonable. I bet the wartime load is closer to 30k which is a hell of a stretch to hit a fast mover.
They can hit UP TO 4 miles in a straight line from the shooter.
Yep.
The MIGs or the missiles?
Brandon, Hunter, Adam Schitt, Nanshy and a great many congress critters are, too. Ted Kennedy, however, could tell them different.
Are they heat seekers?
Are they ready to deployed immediately, or do they take down jets immediately?
They better hurry, because Kiev might last a week and the east side of the country will be cut off at the Dneiper.
Then Russia will just sit and kill off all the AZOV.
You mean, all 1500 of them, based in Mariupol?
“Kiev might last a week”
The Russian army is headed in the wrong direction. Kiev is the other way.
Ukraine official says army to retake Kherson from Russians today
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