Posted on 09/21/2024 3:36:57 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
In the pre-dawn hours on Tuesday, a large flock of Ukrainian drones winged north from Ukraine all the way to Toropets, a town in western Russian that hosts the 107th Arsenal, a sprawling ammunition dump feeding the Russian force fighting in Ukraine, 300 miles to the south.
The arsenal exploded with enough force to register as a small earthquake, draw the attention of NASA fire-spotting satellites and compel local authorities to order an evacuation of nearby residents. A lot of Russian munitions went up in flames.
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That so many of Russia’s best munitions were reportedly concentrated in a single location explains why Ukraine devoted such a large force to the attack. RBC-Ukraine claimed more than 100 drones were involved—potentially making the Toropets raid the biggest Ukrainian strike on a target inside Russia since Russia widened its war on Ukraine 30 months ago.
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In blowing up the Toropets arsenal, those homemade weapons may have struck their biggest blow yet—and saved potentially scores of Ukrainian lives by preventing future Russian attacks. “A very important result was achieved,” Ukrainian Pres. Volodymyr Zelensky said just hours after Toropets exploded.
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Here’s the thing: In a total war where one nation survives, the other is destroyed, Ukraine can’t defeat Russia. Russia is just too many times larger. But how in the world did Russia get itself into a situation where Russia is faced with its own destruction? How did that become the measure?
The way I see it, Russia in Ukraine lost two wars already. There was a war to save the whole of Ukraine from Russia. Russia lost that. Then there was a war to inflict such massive costs on Russia that even if she emerged with Donbas intact, she would never be so foolish as to try to invade another of her Western-facing neighbors. Can Russia really lose a war by Ukraine to reclaim Novorussia?
“Now that we know ALL of the weaknesses, Marxism will most certainly work next time.” — every grifter selling Marxism
Your premises do not necessarily hold.
100 drones with the ground speed of a WWI sailplane, maybe less, and how many got through to destroy a 4 mile wide arms depot? For hose countries watching, Russias air defense sucks. The 2nd major foot to drop is who has bought these air defenses and how long until they get dumped.
Not only will Russia lose this war, it will lose its military sales to other countries. The reason their military hardware is cheaper than Western nations is it sucks.
two things always strike me about these reports:
1. Russia is buying rockets and missiles from Iran and North Korea of all places. Why? Is russia’s industrial base so thread-bare that they’re forced to buy semi-sophisticated weaponry from third world countries?
2. Reports consistently show success of drones against russia, both strategic and tactical, which indicates that russia’s air defenses are totally pathetic ... even tiny israel fended off multiple-thousand, simultaneous drone attacks, destroying all but one or two, almost all before they even reached israel ...
Add to that - it appears that Russia doesn’t even follow the basics of ordnance storage.
Or we just can’t be bothered with those painfully annoying bunker farms, with earth mounds and blast doors.
They keep trying to do war-on-the-cheap and it doesn’t work well.
Ukraine has hit another ammunition dump of Russia’s. This one the 23rd Arsenal of the Missile & Artillery forces in Krasnodar Region.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r65yhdYOCdw
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Russia also conducting demilitarization of the US, too.
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The videos show drones expose a soft underbelly. Ground vehicles are extremely vulnerable to them, even if the air is dominated with traditional aircraft. Russia doesn’t seem to have much of a defense against them. A CHEAP drone can be launched by a single person in close proximity to bigger assets, e.g. tanks and people carriers, and leave a devastating impact.
This is the first mass-drone war.
For hose countries watching, Russias air defense sucks.
Doesn’t the side that is winning (we’ve been told that every day by the media and by more than some here) usually occupy the other’s land as a greater percentage?
Russia has 20 percent of Ukraine’s land.
Ukraine has 1000 square miles out of 1.6 Million miles in Russia.
And the tide has been turning, we are told, for about 2 years.
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Only a disgusting SOB would give a damn about the war in Ukraine when just had another assassination attempt against Trump, which, once again, the Secret Service was complicit in.
Are you voting for Trump, Timber? Time you were forced to answer that question.
“”””Only a disgusting SOB would give a damn about the war in Ukraine when just had another assassination attempt against Trump, which, once again, the Secret Service was complicit in.””””
Then why are you obsessed with the Ukraine War and posting on it constantly and with great passion and dedication, almost a religious fervor?
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