Posted on 01/13/2024 5:29:23 AM PST by canuck_conservative
Ukrainian forces destroyed 26 Russian helicopters in a single day using an unknown long-range weapon supplied by Kyiv's allies, Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed.
During a press conference with journalists in Latvia on Thursday, the Ukrainian president remained light on details when discussing the use of the mystery weapon, not disclosing which country had provided the system, how long it had been in operation or when it had been used against the helicopters.
"Partners have provided us with some long-range weapons," he said, according to a translation by Ukrainian news outlet RBC. "I won't say what, but our partners will understand.
"With it, we destroyed 26 helicopters in a day, and 12 planes that took off and attacked with missiles, against which these systems were working. We destroyed 12 at once."
The Ukrainian president went on to stress that the weapons system he was referring to was part of the nation's air defense systems, rather than being used to attack Russian targets, according to a translation by news agency Interfax. Ukraine has been accused by Russia of carrying out attacks within Russian territory...
In mid-October, Ukraine used ATACMS missiles to destroy nine helicopters in a nighttime raid on two military airfields in eastern and southern Ukraine.
Some of its aerial loses have seemingly been at its own hands, as analysts and military bloggers paint the Russian military as disorganized and prone to tactical mistakes.
In May, Russian air defenses were thought to be responsible for shooting down three helicopters and two fighter jets near the Ukrainian border. At the time, Russian officials told state media that engine malfunctions had been to blame....
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Plus, the gross incompetence of Russia's military helps Ukraine a lot ... 7 year war!
Yes, and there was one American, journalist Gonzalo Lira, who died in a Ukrainian prison, abandoned by what pathetically passes for his government.
And Russia is holding an American hostage on bogus drug charges
What’s that got to do with Ukraine shooting down 26 Russian helicopters in one day?
Meanwhile, at home, in many locations including Moscow, Russians are freezing because they have no heat. ( and all the line troops are in worse situation because of the cold)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5PIc67hwdE&t=1344s&ab_channel=JakeBroe
We? Canada supplied these supposedly super weapons?
All three events are America not protecting Americans.
If true(and that “if” is always relevant for any information coming from there) I don’t think it should have been announced. Let the Russians worry about it more. I do wonder how fast the Israelis get their new laser weapon manufactured and in action. Surely we have one, too. If so then flying machines and devices like rockets and artillery shells are becoming obsolete.
Difference is the person with the non bogus drug charges did not die under their watch. Ukraine treats prisoners like North Korea.
And, if Zelensky said it, it probably is a lie because he spends his time begging for bucks.
Sounds like an EMP or some sort of microwave weapon that fries avionics in aircraft, causing them to drop out of the air.
to what end? mine is bigger than yours? WHEN will you war sycophants admit that sacrificing American Blood,Sweat,Tears,Time and Money to help the Biden’s launder money through the THIRD most corrupt nation on the planet in their conflict with the SECOND most corrupt nation on the planet isn’t helping the FIRST most corrupt nation on the planet?
And then Z played a ring of golf and scored 17 holes in one and a birdie
There was a Sci-fi novel that had a very similar theme. I for get the title.
The novel is set in a future USA where the country has been split into two main factions, East and West, and some minor regional factions.
The East and West are constantly at war, with periods of ceasefires that don’t last more than a few months. Situation similar to the two Koreas.
One side, the weaker West, has developed a secret weapon that scares the hell out of the East. It has only been tested in a limited small battle and proved to be a game changer.
The East sets about to capture or destroy the weapon but doesn’t know where it is.
They forcibly recruit a former famous stage actor, Harry (I can’t remember his name) who is alcoholic and living his life as an itinerant farm worker harvesting produce in rural East America. At first he refuses but they threaten his family he has abandoned and he finally agrees to become their spy in the West.
They supply him with a travelling bus and mobile stage and a cast and crew of actors and a technician who all portray a gypsy-like group of actors that travel from place to place putting on plays for rural towns that have no access to urban entertainment. There is no Television or radio because of the war, and there are other groups who do the same thing, so they do not stand out as suspicious.
Harry eventually discovers that the other actors are just that, actors, who have no other jobs and are oblivious to the real reason they are there. The ‘technician’ is the East’s situation control commander who directs Harry and controls his actions to find out the location of this weapon when he’s mixing with the locals in between performances. He has a secret transmitter in the equipment van to communicate with the East’s HQ.
They travel from town to town putting on shows and Harry eventually hits on a lead to where the weapon is located, so they head there.
After a lot of skulduggery and various situations the weapon is finally located in an old church.
Harry falls in love (of course) with a local woman and he is convinced that the West are the good guys and the East are the bad guys.
There’s a big finale fight and Harry kills the technician /commander as the East’s military forces are on their way to bomb the town into oblivion.
It runs out that the secret weapon is a type of EMP device that works like a combination Radar/Laser beam.
Aircraft, tanks, vehicles, machines, anything with electronics will just stop working when hit by the beam’s energy.
Harry and his band of actors figure out how to use the weapon and use it to destroy the East’s advancing military armada.
Hundreds of Aircraft just fall out of the sky, vehicles just stop in their tracks dead. Munitions and targeting computers are dead. Nothing works.
This sounds like Zelenskyy’s source.........................
A very popular belief in the US prior to WWII. Oddly, the war came to get us anyway.
Do you think that allowing Russia to invade a sovereign country shouldn't be resisted? Do you imagine that if Russia was allowed to get away with this, we wouldn't be in greater danger?
Yes, and as the idiot Bush would say, if we don’t stop them there they will invade San Francisco. Well, it looks like they already invaded San Francisco, although if Russians were running it, you wouldn’t have the bums on the street, constant shoplifting in stores and a very dangerous city.
“That doofus Putin created a situation where we can finally test our latest weapons against real, live targets, not just practice.”
If this is true, that doofus Biden is creating a situation where the Russians can finally test whether their old nuclear missiles on submarines will work satisfactorily.
I know, we have better ones, and we can win this.
Next headline:
We Won The War: 3 Times!
If the Russians were running it, you also wouldn’t have any personal freedom, AND you’d be conscripted to fight & die in one of Putin’s endless wars
Do you think that the prior to WWII and a few decades on would passively allow an American to rot in a foreign prison?
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