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Panicking Putin deploys lethal anti-aircraft systems around Moscow as Russia fears attack
Express UK ^ | 1/18/2023 | CHARLES HARRISON

Posted on 01/19/2023 10:52:59 AM PST by marcusmaximus

Vladimir Putin has deployed air defence systems around Moscow, suggesting the despot fears an attack from Ukraine. He has deployed lethal S-400 defence missiles to two locations in the capital, designed to destroy aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles, including medium-range missiles.

Local residents say the deployments are new to the Russian capital.

The tyrant's latest move comes after two drone strikes on Russian two air bases in Saratov and Ryazan in December, both suspected to be from Ukrainian forces.

One S-400 air defence system has been deployed in fields belonging to the Russian State Agricultural University in the northwest of Moscow, while the other has been deployed to the Losiny Ostrov National Park near Sokolniki district in the northeast of the city.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


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To: marcusmaximus

Vlad is looking for a ‘Gulf of Tonkin’ moment... LBJ and the Democrats used that to justify ramping up troops, instead of advisers to Vietnam resulting in an 11 year war.


21 posted on 01/19/2023 11:30:59 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: marcusmaximus

Reminds me of the bully in grade school who picked on the smaller new kid and got his rear end kicked and now is to afraid to go out to recess.


22 posted on 01/19/2023 11:32:20 AM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: steve86

That’s what I was thinking.

Probably every capitol city in the world has anti-aircraft batteries.


23 posted on 01/19/2023 11:34:36 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: Red Badger

Yep, he needs a “Bagdad Bob” like Saddam Hussein had.


24 posted on 01/19/2023 11:34:47 AM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: marcusmaximus

Ukraine just needs to send a swarm of 1,000 drones, each armed with a little missile to Moscow.


25 posted on 01/19/2023 11:35:55 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: GrumpyOldGuy

Lol… The walls are closing in.


26 posted on 01/19/2023 11:51:28 AM PST by CapandBall
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To: marcusmaximus

But I thought they will take Kyiv in 3 days and march to the Polish border in 3-4 weeks.

What happened?


27 posted on 01/19/2023 11:55:58 AM PST by JadeEmperor ( )
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To: JadeEmperor

I thought they were on their inexorable march to the Atlantic, what happened?


28 posted on 01/19/2023 11:59:01 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: marcusmaximus
“We’ll take Kyiv in three days”
29 posted on 01/19/2023 11:59:44 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: jerod

JFK sent in 16,000 troops, that is what really got us in after 13 years of merely having advisors.


30 posted on 01/19/2023 12:04:54 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: TonyM; Red Badger

“Yep, he needs a “Bagdad Bob” like Saddam Hussein had.”

Kremlin Bob is already posting on here.


31 posted on 01/19/2023 12:06:04 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying To All.)
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To: marcusmaximus

“He has deployed lethal S-400 defence missiles”

As opposed to a non-lethal version?

I hate adjectives-for-dummys....


32 posted on 01/19/2023 12:08:38 PM PST by FreshPrince
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To: JadeEmperor

33 posted on 01/19/2023 12:10:20 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying To All.)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

Waiting for them to pour through the Fulda Gap anyday now :)


34 posted on 01/19/2023 12:12:05 PM PST by JadeEmperor ( )
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To: marcusmaximus

Silly Vlad. He should do like Biden and put troops, barbed wire and fence around the capital.


35 posted on 01/19/2023 12:15:47 PM PST by Dennis M.
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To: marcusmaximus
But I thought there already was a Moscow Air Defense District with the multi-layered and overlapping SAM networks, including nuclear-tipped ABM interceptors? One of the most heavily defended air defense zones in the world.

Apparently they don't have too much faith in the existing IADS systems, that they have to augment it with these ad-hoc point defense systems.

Maybe we shall soon see if the alledged Ukrainian 1000 km long-range drone that they allegedly have been working on will be able to pull of another Mathias Rust.
36 posted on 01/19/2023 12:18:40 PM PST by JadeEmperor ( )
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To: marcusmaximus

It’s been a long time coming.
It’s going to be a long time gone.
And it appears to be a long, long, long time before the dawn.

Escalations every day. Until there are no more. This move by Russia is a response to our escalation in sending longer range missiles.
Would that Biden cared about US citizens one tenth as much.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/360735

Russian nuclear sub with ‘doomsday weapon’ disappears in Arctic
Next gen Belgorod submarine able to trigger 1,600 foot ‘radioactive tsunami’ leaves cold water base without a trace.

Israel National News
Oct 3, 2022, 9:11 PM (GMT+3)

A high tech Russian nuclear submarine reportedly carrying a “doomsday weapon” has gone missing from an Arctic harbor where it was docked, according to media reports.

The Belgorod submarine, which allegedly can trigger a 1,600 foot ‘radioactive tsunami,’ had been stationed at a Russian base in the White Sea since July before disappearing recently.

NATO issued a warning that the Belgorod sub seemed to have vanished from the base, with officials worried that Russia may be in the process of testing its “Poseidon” weapons system, a nuclear weapon-carrying done that Russia claims has the capability to trigger a “radioactive tsunami.”

The drone when fired from the 600-foot submarine creates a 1,600-foot tidal wave that is strong enough to irradiate a coastline when it smashes into it, Russia has claimed.

I just hope to see spring again this year.


37 posted on 01/19/2023 12:18:57 PM PST by MarMema (Biden = Americans Last)
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To: Jeff Chandler

love it


38 posted on 01/19/2023 12:23:24 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: Williams

The open paper specs for the S-400 claim an ability to engage down to 5 meters off the ground, the actual practical range is probably much higher.


39 posted on 01/19/2023 12:28:35 PM PST by JadeEmperor ( )
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Do you have a link for this three day thing?

https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/xlzq9q/when_did_putin_say_he_could_take_kyiv_in_3_days/


40 posted on 01/19/2023 12:31:10 PM PST by MarMema (Biden = Americans Last)
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