Posted on 08/31/2022 7:51:50 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
The Biden administration announced that Ukraine would receive $3 billion in military assistance — the largest amount it has sent since Russia began its invasion in February.
The Department of Defense said that it was meeting both Ukraine’s “immediate and longer-term security assistance needs.”
Among the 245,000 rounds of artillery ammunition and the laser-guided rocket systems listed in the Pentagon’s security assistance for Ukraine under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) were the VAMPIRE Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems.
VAMPIRE is an acronym for “Vehicle-Agnostic Modular Palletized ISR Rocket Equipment.” In short, the system transforms pickup trucks and other vehicles into mobile missile launchers.
The alteration of existing vehicles will allow the kits to have a more immediate impact than other forms of military aid, according to Matthew Schmidt, director of international affairs and an associate professor of national security at the University of New Haven in Connecticut.
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The kit is made up of a four-barreled rocket launcher and a ball that operates as a sensor. L3Harris, the manufacturer, said that VAMPIREs can be placed on a vehicle in two hours and applied by a single person.
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There simply isn't any defense against smaller drones except masers, and with those the problem is search and targeting, as use of radar for purposes those makes the emitter a target for artillery strikes. The emitter vehicle and the maser vehicle have to shoot & scoot fast.
It really is pretty much the cause of this war
Yes, it’s about Ukraine entering NATO. However, the reason why EU and NATO membership matter so much is because these institutions provide the political, economic, physical security assurances, as well as access to markets your global corporations seek. You have harmonization of policies and some local turd of a leader can’t just decide to nationalize your stuff, play games with the currency, etc. EU (economic, political) and NATO (physical security, political) membership are like an insurance policy for the huge global corporations and financial institutions.
So yes, behind NATO, and behind the politicians, you have hard cold economics driving the decision making process and because the oligarchs in the US and EU agree on this, there is no dissent, not politically or in the media. It’s a one sided argument because all the Western economic interests agree on this one.
Pretty cool!
...say, would those rockets work against Biden’s DOJ’s F-15s?
(asking for a friend)
On August 5, 2022 JonPreston put up the following post about me on this topic here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4083332/posts
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JonPreston to MercyFlush
Alphas like me are the real men. In contrast are you Beta males: weak, submissive, subordinate guys who are low status, eager to follow trends. This explains your attempt at stolen military valor that I’ve documented thoroughly. Please go away, and stop reporting me to the mods when I expose your neoconservativism!
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He claims to have ‘thoroughly documented’ my alleged “attempt at stolen military valor” and I have repeatedly challenged him to publicly publish this claimed documentation of his or to publicly issue a retraction.
Is JonPreston a liar? Is he a braggart? Is he a troll?
Ask him for his ‘thorough documentation’ and then you be the judge.
He’s all of the above.
A 223 in the intake and so long F15. Same same the one engine F16 especially.
Agreed.
Shush. Information that doesn’t support the desired outcome is always false.
Your english is pretty good for a Ukrainian.
“Your english is pretty good for a Ukrainian.”
And what are you that you don’t know to capitalize the word “English”?
SPJNK.
Like any other antique, there will always be fakes.
You are completely correct!
Thanks. I’ll let my friend know.
He wonders: would a .243, with its flatter ballistics, also work in that application? ;-)
Another wonder weapon after the vaunted Javelins, HIMARs, etc., etc., etc. that will change and win the war for Ukraine.
Not.
Reports say many of those drones are defective.
One of the tricks the NVA used in Vietnam was to have every soldier lie on his back and fire straight up into the air during aerial attacks by the US. It did bring down aircraft from time to time.
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