Posted on 04/22/2022 4:22:47 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
Much attention has been justifiably directed at the remarkable performance of both military and consumer UAVs in assisting Ukraine’s efforts to rebuff invading Russian forces. But soon, news may also be generated by drone boats similarly turning the tides for Ukraine defenses in coastal waters of the Black Sea.
As part of its additional $800 million military aid package the US announced last week, the Department of Defense said it will be providing Ukraine with drone boats – better known as uncrewed surface vessels (USV) – for use against attacking Russian Navy craft in the Black Sea. The US Navy has tended to discuss its USVs as primarily defensive assets designed to intercept, dissuade, and rebuff intruders. But they are also capable of being equipped and deployed for the kind of offensive missions Ukraine may need to stop Russia from continuing brutal offshore rocket attacks on inland cities, or landing ground reinforcements and supplies.
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I wonder what China has to protect their coast.
In small jagged pieces.
Take your isolationism and head in the sand, Putin Puffer and move to Venezuela. You don’t deserve to live here.
Almost like a Lend/Lease deal with Britain. All that did was suck the US into a world war twice. If suppliers of war materials to a combatant country are attacked, it is the supplier who got themselves involved. May God have mercy on the arrogant assholes running the US and us peons who always pay in blood.
Yes, the Russians are the "abused wife." And here all along I thought that it was the Russians who attacked a neighboring country.
We earned our keep, Soros puffer.
Far more likely that some of the "made in USA" drone boats we provide Ukraine will get 'diverted' to parts unknown. In a year or two, they'll show up in some place like the Persian Gulf, and be used to attack US Navy ships & kill American sailors...
And here all along I thought that it was the Russians who attacked a neighboring country.
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I suppose the US has had a polygamous marriage then. Two abused wives as of late...Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course the latter ended up being Lorena Bobbit.
Damned right. Let ‘em bleed.
You sound like a school administrator.
The schoolyard gang of neocons, EU thugs and NATO tools pushed and pushed and pushed the Russians - and they took a swing.
All you saw was the swing, so you suspended the Russians, leaving the bullies to laugh up their sleeves at getting away with it.
Exactly.
Did you see that video of the abandoned arms cache in Mariupol? It's like that all over eastern Ukraine.
Putin: Don’t drone me bro!
If anything it is Russia who is the schoolyard bully. They have repeatedly invaded former Soviet countries. They previously invaded Ukraine twice in Crimea and Donbas, despite agreeing to respect Ukraine’s borders in exchange for the latter giving up their nukes. Who can blame Ukraine for seeking to join a defensive pact to prevent further attacks? Nor was Russia’s complaint only about NATO. They also wanted to prevent Ukraine from joining the EU, seeking to keep it in its own sphere of influence against its will. No, Russia is not justified in its actions.
What does joe owe Ukraine?
He seems to be paying off a debt to them.
My guess is that the effects of the economic measures will be very apparent in about nine months.
Make that about five months. Around September.
Not as good as the Trump video on my home page that ScrewBloob deleted a couple of years ago.
I'm going to have to look around for that.
Like candy in the street after a parade.
I wouldn't want to fly the friendly skies of Europe for a decade or two...
Maybe even sooner, if the neocons talk Oaf Doltz in Deutschland into cutting off his natgas nose to spite his country's face.
Remember, Russia has not yet begun to sanction.
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