Russian special military operation in Ukraine

ATLASCUB wrote:They completely believe it was worth it, and I agree with them. From their POV, it is/was. Not an endorsement, just an assessment considering the way they operate. Strategic mistakes of the Americans exist in other areas, not this.

Russian VDV airport attack was a complete failure apparently.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ELINTNews/status/1496987322553876480

Shame

Shame on the old man in charge risking elite soldiers lives for this foolish operation.

This army is 10x Saddams army and that took Americans more than 1 month

Arkanghelsk wrote:Let us not forget Russia is dismantling the strongest force in Europe,

This army is 10x Saddams army and that took Americans more than 1 month

So if we weigh the operation from that POV it's not a bad performance

Americans didnt face s300 either, but s125 and s200, so Russians are doing very well, this is a good measure of the military progress and a good totem for Russia

bitcointrader70 wrote:https://mobile.twitter.com/warsmonitoring/status/1496960372372385795

Russia needs to completely destroy Ukraine’s airforce like yesterday. Wtf. Bring in the flankers and su24-34 and destroy all of their planes

Russia still has a lot to learn and is nowhere near US operational capacity during desert storm 1991.

Almost no Iraq aircraft were flying after day 1.

Backman wrote:

bitcointrader70 wrote:https://mobile.twitter.com/warsmonitoring/status/1496960372372385795

Russia needs to completely destroy Ukraine’s airforce like yesterday. Wtf. Bring in the flankers and su24-34 and destroy all of their planes

Russia still has a lot to learn and is nowhere near US operational capacity during desert storm 1991.

Almost no Iraq aircraft were flying after day 1.

That is totally untrue. The US lost a lot of aircraft in Iraq.

Anyway do you have an update for us from the ghost of Kiev in his Mig 29 ?

flamming_python wrote: Russia can't use military force liberally.

Arkanghelsk wrote:Ukr airforce jets has not shot anything down , it's been Manpads and air defense

Overall for suppressing S300 it's a great performance using Su24, su25, and helicopters

Su34 and su35 doing great job

Americans lost nearly 70 aircraft in desert storm

Russia is making history here, Ukraine is the largest army and much better then Saddam

Ukraine is not split along sunni or shia lines

It's a different animal

The occupation will be easier since Ukraine is nothing like Iraq in the sectarian sense

So after this it should be easy

Nazis are no chechens or Iraqi insurgency, they have tattoos and RPG at old grandmas, they will lie down when it's all said and done

The Ottoman wrote:But for the first time in history USA was right. And for the first time i saw Putin lying. He said 2 weeks long that Russia has no intention to start a war, Lavrov and Peskov also.

caveat emptor wrote:

Arkanghelsk wrote:Ukr airforce jets has not shot anything down , it's been Manpads and air defense

Overall for suppressing S300 it's a great performance using Su24, su25, and helicopters

Su34 and su35 doing great job

Americans lost nearly 70 aircraft in desert storm

Russia is making history here, Ukraine is the largest army and much better then Saddam

Ukraine is not split along sunni or shia lines

It's a different animal

The occupation will be easier since Ukraine is nothing like Iraq in the sectarian sense

So after this it should be easy

Nazis are no chechens or Iraqi insurgency, they have tattoos and RPG at old grandmas, they will lie down when it's all said and done

Men tone it down a bit. It's not even been 24 hours. Let's wait for 3-4 days to pass for analysis.
What i understand, but i'm not happy about is that Russia is showing a little too much restraint against Ukrainian military, especially in the east. I wouldn't like them to lose people over politics. Ukraina has, arguably, most battle hardened forces in the east. Use the air force and hit them hard.

caveat emptor wrote:What i understand, but i'm not happy about is that Russia is showing a little too much restraint against Ukrainian military, especially in the east. I wouldn't like them to lose people over politics. Ukraina has, arguably, most battle hardened forces in the east. Use the air force and hit them hard.

bitcointrader70 wrote:

Backman wrote:

bitcointrader70 wrote:https://mobile.twitter.com/warsmonitoring/status/1496960372372385795

Russia needs to completely destroy Ukraine’s airforce like yesterday. Wtf. Bring in the flankers and su24-34 and destroy all of their planes

Russia still has a lot to learn and is nowhere near US operational capacity during desert storm 1991.

Almost no Iraq aircraft were flying after day 1.

That is totally untrue. The US lost a lot of aircraft in Iraq.

Anyway do you have an update for us from the ghost of Kiev in his Mig 29 ?

They lost planes to sams. Almost no planes or anything to Iraqi Air Force. Yeah  Their soldiers were not dying from Iraqi CAS because there was almost no CAS. And the ghost of Kiev is in your ass.