Your attention to this thread, please.
Also note that we’re almost out of Tomahawks and we don’t have more coming in the production pipeline for a few years. The Russians don’t have this problem.
“...according to the ministry. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said the missiles struck all 11 planned targets.”
So they say...
Trust but verify...
As for the concern about Tomahawk stores being depleted, I cannot imagine why they would, since ordinance procurement, advancement, testing is at an all time low...
I would say the stock we do have is for deployment purposes only, and that when launch platforms come back they make haste to the depots like Seal Beach, Indian Island and the East coast depots as soon as they can to offload so the other rotating ships can go there to take on those weapons...
Calls to congress-critters go ignored, regardless of your affiliations...Even to ask reasonable non-classified questions like are we even building new weapons??? No need to give numbers, or where they are going...
Anyone with kids in the service doing live fire exercises???
There’s lots of ways to see if anything is even alive and functioning in our armed services, equipment-wise...
Now, as far as the Russians and their systems go...I say, “Welcome to the party fellas!”
So they developed a VLS system...
Considering all the exhaust blast debris coming out of those canisters in the videos I saw...Looks pretty kludgy to me...But if is works, it works...
I would venture to say some cooking of the BDA data is possible...You can say all 11 planned targets were hit...
How bad???
o\Or was it a conventional strike hitting something that you assigned to a missile, and the missile took a dive on the way and you just want to claim all of them worked as planned...
My skeptism is healthy, based upon a lot of study into Soviet/Russian engineering and weapon design philosophy...I know there are folks out there with better data now than I’ll ever have, but the history doesn’t really deviate very much with Russians...Sure they try to look like us in the night launches of their stuff, kinda like what we have been doing for years...
They wanna look cool to the world as well...And that IS a big part of how Putin and his military want to look...
Yo Soy Mue Macho!!!
Just my initial take on these events...