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Posted on 06/22/2024 11:49:29 AM PDT by delta7
Russian forces have begun employing massive 3,000-kilogram (6,600-pound) class FAB-3000 M54 bombs turned into stand-off weapons in Ukraine it has been claimed. If true, this could present a significant new challenge for Ukrainian forces given the amount of destruction power such a weapon could deliver while also helping the launch platform stay further away from Ukrainian air defenses.
At the same time, questions have already been raised about what aircraft might be able to employ FAB-3000 M54s converted in this way and the size of the available stockpile of the bombs, all of which could limit their actual operational utility.
The Fighterbomber channel on Telegram, which has close connections to the Russian Aerospace Forces, shared a video, seen below, earlier today purporting to show the first combat employment of a FAB-3000 M54 fitted with a UMPK-series glide bomb kit. UMPK modules consist of a pop-out wing kit and a guidance package, as you can read more about here.
The FAB-3000 is one of, if not the largest conventional general-purpose high-explosive bomb in Russian service today. There is no direct U.S. military analog, with the largest of the three most common sizes of bombs American forces employ being in the 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) class, or less than a third of the size….
…. Whatever the weapon is, it clearly has significant destructive power, causing major damage to the apparent main target and completely leveling three other buildings. Other structures in the area also show signs of being damaged to varying degrees……
“Blinken said that Ukraine can strike anywhere in Russia that they want to strike, so I have to take that to include Moscow.”
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Strike anywhere in Russia — with weapons provided by NATO. That’s what was left unsaid.
“The Soviets built a glider which carried a small tank.”
Big things in the air can be targeted easily.
The Ukrainians seem to have used small drones to good advantage.
“Given how OBVIOUS their war in Ukraine has failed”
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Brought to you by the same folks who swore to us that their sanctions would bring Russia to its knees. Another epic failure.
Yet the Zeepers go along with it all.
The same goes for Europe if they had not jumped on the US bandwagon. The US purposely damaged the gas supply lines making sure that Europe in general and Germany in particular remains dependent on the US like a colony, just in case they may come to their senses and change their mind.
Those days when Russia had any ideas of expansion are long gone and over with and things of the past as Russia has more than enough and then some on its plate to take care of. All they want is a quiet neighborhood without NATO or CIA manipulation and intervention. Just like the US likes to keep their backyard free of any intruders, as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine. But the warmongers within the US government along with their associates and friends keep egging them on, knowing that a peaceful coexistence is bad for the production of war materials, especially the military industrial complex as well as the globalists, cranking out wartime supplies like there is no tomorrow and if they keep it up there may not be one. So, they keep stirring the pot until it will boil over and it isn’t too far from doing just that.
“Strike anywhere in Russia — with weapons provided by NATO. That’s what was left unsaid.”
Actually my statement was incomplete - it was clear that the context was NATO weapons, as ‘Ukrainian weapons’, beyond shovels (LOL), virtually don’t exist.
“The cost of freedom”... good one. Democracy is at stake...LOL
Ain’t nobody buying that crap anymore. Not one dollar or one drop of blood for globohomo.
“Brought to you by the same folks who swore to us that their sanctions would bring Russia to its knees. Another epic failure. Yet the Zeepers go along with it all.”
Yep, missed that one. The Neocons were CONVINCED that Russia’s economy was TINY (in fact, there is a leftover Zeeper still claiming that), and thus could be brought to its knees with by ‘sanctions’. Oh well...
“ We have essentially expended ALL of the weapons stockpiles reserved for WWIII in the European theater. ”
I’m reminded of Mohammad Ali’s “rope a dope” fight strategy, where he makes his opponent exhaust himself, and then goes in to beat him.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope-a-dope
“Russia is forced out of Ukraine”
By what means?
More advanced American weapons?
Russia has simple answers for them - stacks of Euros.
Ukrainians need to provide for the future of their families.
stack of Euros <-> advanced American weapon
Simple!
The potential for an even more epic mess/catastrophe from the Ukraine escalation rises everyday. We are dangerously close to the point where a miscalculation or error could easily trigger the unthinkable. Where are the statesmen working to avert a calamity?
“I’m reminded of Mohammad Ali’s “rope a dope” fight strategy, where he makes his opponent exhaust himself, and then goes in to beat him.”
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China is a major beneficiary of all this. Just sayin’.
“Where are the statesmen working to avert a calamity?”
Trying to get to the front of the room, but the Zeepers keep blocking them and yelling “Putin is Evil!!!, Putin is Evil!!!, Putin is Evil!!!, Putin is Evil!!!, Putin is Evil!!!, Putin is Evil!!!.
Once they, being Trump and Farage, can get past them, then these adults will put an end to this war, and the Russians can stand-down from the very-high alert that their nukes are on.
“I, like a majority of Americans, am tired of going broke to fund the expansion of
our globohomo Empire. We are ruled by perverted criminals feasting off our
blood and tax dollars.”
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#MeToo
I’m not close to ready to bend the knee to the globohomonazi drag queens...
...so thanks again, Russia.
It’s an ugly, dirty job and a damn shame that it came to this.
Oh, and please document all the gain of function bio-labs you find, to present
to the next American administration and the world, as you eliminate those labs
with extreme prejudice.
“Russia as about equivalent to Canada and Italy in economies. But, Russia has about 150 million people to support, which means that, when it come4s to economic strength per population, it’s no better than a third-world economy. And with the current war, it’s likely below a third-world economy, since about half their output is being used for their war machine.”
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/the-top-10-economies-in-the-world
“In 1944 and 1945, Maj. General Lewis Hershey, Director of the Selective Service, along with Surgeon General Dr. Thomas Porran, were among the witnesses at US Senate subcommittee hearings on a potential national school lunch/milk program. These hearings would culminate in the National School Lunch Act of 1946.
“Hershey in particular had been working for a few years to draw attention to the large number of draftees rejected due to seemingly-preventable health issues, such as poor childhood nutrition (at least as early as this Jan. 1941 NY Times article).”
The vehicle is an SU-85, which is not air transportable. The ASU-57 was the air transportable one.
>>What about Hamas? Go Hamas???<<
Aren’t thousands already saying it in America while marching behind the Palestinian flag? You live in America? Or are you blind?
“Simple-minded.”
Even a son of an American vice president appreciates money.
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