Posted on 12/05/2022 2:58:50 AM PST by marcusmaximus
A large explosion was reported to have taken place during the morning of December 5, 2022, at Engels-2, an air base used by Russia for deploying strategic bombers to perform cruise missile attacks on Ukraine. Around the same time, an explosion happened at Dyagilevo, another strategic bomber base in Ryazan region.
Reports published to Russian social media channels claim the explosion at Engels was a drone attack and at least two aircraft were damaged.
Telegram channel “Mobilizatsiya. Volgogradskaya Oblast,” which reports local news, posted a short video which appears to have been filmed by a CCTV camera. A large explosion can be seen in the footage.
Another Russian Telegram channel, Baza, which regularly posts insider information about the country’s government and military, reported that a flying object – presumably a drone – crashed into the base’s runway, damaging two aircraft and injuring two people.
Local news outlet Saratov24 reported that residents of the nearby towns Engels and Saratov heard a loud explosion coming from the direction of the airbase. Several videos of the explosion have been posted on social media, Saratov24 claims.
The second explosion reported at Dyagilevo was caused by a fuel truck, according to the Russian state news agency TASS. Another news agency, RIA Novosti, said two people died and six were injured in the explosion.
The reports do not indicate what caused the fuel truck to explode. However, several Russian military Telegram channels claim both attacks were synchronized acts of sabotage.
Footage claiming to show the explosion at Dyagilevo has also been published online.
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I wonder how Moscow will feel when the Dachas where they keep their girlfriends get bombed?
Or when the piers in Crimea are bombed?
Does Moscow believe that their missile attacks against indiscriminate targets are going to break the morale of the Ukes? Did the blitz break the back of Great Britain?
A few drones in Russia are not going to break Russian morale. But, a few drones hitting strategic bombers and taking out railroad bridges and piers will leave a mark.
The money spent so far on Ukraine has been from “inventory.” That inventory was created to drop on the Russians. Hardly any of the munitions used on Ukraine would be used against China—and China has their own set of problems.
So, your fear is unfounded. We are using the weapons we already built on the foe we built them for. And we are not even using “the good stuff.”
If we had sent them A-10s and F-35s, bigger kamikaze drones and longer range HiMars....this thing would have been over last March.
Russia will not need to use nuclear ICBMs against Ukraine.
They have more than enough tactical nukes if they decided to take that step.
They probably will not use nukes for multiple reasons.
Someone must ber giving them those gag blowup cigarettes we see in old cartoons
Russia is already rallied behind Putin.
My guess is the Ukrainians did this largely on their own.
The risks are high but then again their country already is devastated. They are in full war mode.
as marcus wrote Engels-2 is a strategic bomber base located in the Saratov region. There have been numerous reports of the base serving as one of the main locations for launching cruise missile attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure.
Dyagilevo is also a strategic bomber base. Located not far from Moscow, it is the main training center for Russia’s strategic bomber crews.
Were you decrying Putin for his escalation when he started bombing Ukrainian civilian infrastructure?
Furthermore, a war against China would be heavily the US navy - and the US navy has no relationship to the Russian invasion of Ukraine war which is a land war.
Like…this is going to convince Russia to surrender to Zelensky?
More like the opposite.
Imagine what we would do to a country that sent saboteurs to strategic bases in Minot and Kansas…
You should be happy that 8 Russian strategic bombers are now out of service thanks to Ukraine’s drone attack this morning.
World War 2 followed World War 1, and proved that it’s counter-productive to leave a job half done. Occupy the murderers’ country, and end their reign.
Russia is using ICBMS with the nuclear warheads taken out.
Those nuclear weapons most likely don’t work
Hear me now, believe me later. We can’t keep kicking the can down the road. We have run out of road. Like the UK before us, we will have to choose between guns and butter, and butter usually wins because it has more constituents.
It’s a new mantra for much of the national security world: “The most significant threat to our national security is our debt.”
Since the line was first spoken over two years ago, it has taken on a life of its own.
And the man behind the quote — retired Adm. Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — has not backed away from it.
Instead, he’s made the debt and the danger it poses to national security a central focus of his work since retiring last year.
ADM. MULLEN: “...[T]he reason I talk about the debt as the single biggest threat to our national security is – it’s basically not very complex math. I mean, I think the worst situation that we are in as a country fiscally, the likelihood of the resources made available for national security requirements continue to go down is very high. This is the third time I’ve been through this. We did this in the ’70s. We did it in the ’90s. And, actually, if you look at the data going back to the ’30s, our defense budget goes up and down, and it does so on a fairly regular basis. So certainly this is not unexpected, from my point of view. What I’ve seen, though – and I’ve been in the Pentagon most of the last decade – with the increasing defense budget, which is almost double, it hasn’t forced us to make the hard trades. It hasn’t forced us to prioritize. It hasn’t forced us to do the analysis.
Some thoughts:
Where were the S-400s? Why didn't they shoot the drones down? I think I know why but will save that until more information is available.
Did any air defense radar paint the drones?
The Tu-95s and TU-160s are parked on a ramp. No revetments or shelters?
Will RU deploy the bombers further east?
Which RU general gets to commit suicide?
How many of these drones are in the inventory?
Do the drones have terminal guidance or do they navigate to GPS coordinates and detonate?
Thanks for the ping!
Air launched Cruise Missiles...not ICBMs.
You are ill-informed.
The Pentagon last week announced the latest withdrawal of equipment from U.S. military inventories for Ukraine since August 2021— including millions of rounds of ammo.
The 26th draw-down authorized by the Biden Administration includes 150 heavy machine guns fitted with thermal sights to counter Russian drones, 250 vehicles, 10,000 120mm mortar rounds, and “over” 20 million rounds of small arms ammunition among other items. In all, the latest stockpile is valued at up to $400 million. Overall, this brings the total of American military assistance to Ukraine this year to more than $19 billion. By comparison, Ukraine spent just $5.9 billion on its entire military in 2021.
When it comes to the running tally of equipment transferred from U.S. stocks to Ukraine this year, more than 104 million rounds of small arms ammunition of .50 caliber or smaller have been allocated along with 198 pieces of artillery and over 1.2 million shells. Add to this over 1,600 Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems, 8,500 Javelin tank killer missiles, and 38,000 “other anti-armor systems.”
The full list, as of Nov. 23, is below:
Infrastructure is a legitimate target in mass warfare. You try to influence the civilian population to pressure the government to end the conflict as well as to destroy the logistical infrastructure that supports the war.
For example...if a civilian airfield has a runway long enough for fighter or bomber aircraft and can be used for lateral dispersal, then it would be a legitimate target.
Same thing applies to electrical infrastructure. If a military base has its own electrical plant, but it is connected to the civilian electrical network as a backup, then the civilian electrical network is a legitimate target.
The list goes on:
Communications towers
Radio and TV towers
Satellite antennae
Bridges
Road Junctions
Railroad stations
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