You should wake up and smell the coffee bud.
Sovs are done. Only Nastoychivy, Bystry and Ushakov are left.
Those didn't have luck, that's all.
I know the Sovs are largely gone, what I am saying is that a ship to carry a 152mm gun does not need to be an Orlan or Atlant, or Iowa class battleship... the Sovs were not huge and their new Destroyers are likely to be nuclear powered and therefore possibly twice as heavy... with plenty of space for guns and missiles and other bits and pieces.
A sad picture of a ship sunken at the pier is the fate of this class.
That could have been avoided, the Chinese giving the best example of operating all their Sovs without much issue.
Just a lack of luck.
Totally missing the point of what I was saying... the west bollocks on about swarm attacks without explaining how all these swarm drones are going to operate or get to the target quickly enough to overwhelm the defences... two 152mm naval gun turrets perhaps firing 60 rounds per minute each creates that swarm out to almost 200km... if they wanted they could develop a 203mm version with a land based equivalent to maximise the bang for buck with perhaps a 250km range with 100kg guided shells... what big ship could deal with that sort of threat? Smaller ships would be very quickly overwhelmed and destroyed.
A win-win situation from Ukro perspective.
A PR win for the nazis, but an operational loss when they are taken out. And a social cost with no way to supply their troops or civilian population.
Of course this will be good cover as to why there is no material for civilians that is paid for by foreign aid stole already...
The Russians have bombed it.
I mean, I feel sorry for them. None of this should have happened to begin with, but alas.
It seems ironic, but it is the people of the Ukraine that can stop this war at any time.... all the massive fire power of Russia or the US or HATO means nothing... if they want to continue to resist they can and if they do they will continue to suffer.
If the Ukraine had agreed to follow through with their promises at Minsk and not shelled the two regions these last 8 years they could have two autonomous regions but still be in control of their borders, but instead they claimed it was Russia invading and the donbass forces were Russians soldiers dressed up as civilians... ironic now isn't it... with Polish soldiers dressed up as Orcs being killed on the front lines, and even quite recently they could have surrendered and let just two regions join the Russian Federation... well now it is four... how many will it be by the end of Winter this year... or Winter next year... or the year after that?
Yeah, but Zelenksy's party ran on a platform of peace, that's what the people voted for.
Zelensky lied.
A lesson for people everywhere.... when you vote you have not completed your obligations as a good citizen... you need to let your politicians know if they break their promises and don't deliver...
The democracy was gone in 2014 so Russia should have gone in then. The job would have been sorted in less than a week.
I hope Russia has learned the lesson of dithering and trying to negotiate with vermin.
There is no justification for such actions.
What they should have done is what the west has done... declare the coup leaders as illegitimate... and directly supported and supplied the rebels with real weapons and equipment and let them trash the Orc army and foment and support pro Russian groups in the rest of the country to join in and turn it into a proper full scale civil war, which is exactly what it is except instead of being trapped in buildings and burned alive, they would give them guns and allow them to fight back.
Perhaps some automatic grenade launchers at each end of the street during an SS parade... thin the enemy numbers...
I already wrote few times and I STAND BEHIND IT, the future of the world is Chinese - end of story.
It is funny that many discussions I have had with people who are rooted in the west have ended with... well the west are bastards but can you imagine what the world would be like with the "Russians/Chinese" in charge?
Honestly I think neither the Russians nor the Chinese want to be in charge and that is the whole point... the US wants to be in charge, they want to be in control, they want the world to adopt their culture, the whole point of BRICS is that you have your own culture and values and don't force them on anyone else or make anyone else conform to your beliefs.
If the US cares so much for alphabet people in Qatar then let them move to the west and be free... problem solved.
Furthermore, while Russia could have occupied the country much more easily, it would have had to cope with all the insurgents and protest from the Ukrainians lamenting that they would have been deprived from bad Russia of their European dream.
Exactly... Without 8 years of asset stripping everything that is a problem will become Russias fault...
And if you think Chinese are any better ruler than US you need to seriously check them first. They are not better in any way than the US or westerners. The way they are agressively entering the african market is the same neo-colonialism europeans used to do since the independance of africa.
The western view is that they are stealing our markets using our tactics, they are no better than us so fight them and keep us in charge...
Except they are better than you, they are not colonial, they just want to trade and make money and are happy for those they trade with to make money and grow and develop too.
Chinese don't arm and don't participate to any war because they don't care about any side. They wil just make business with the winner. That's why they don't care about ukrainian war at all or syrian war or even Lybian war where they had a lot of incestements. They just keep doing business .
Which means they don't benefit from war and don't create wars or encourage them like the west does... the third world has been ravaged by continual wars separated by insurgencies of factions wanting to swing the country towards this or that colonial power or ideology.
That's why they have no military alliences. They don't care about military dominance. They will just use money as a tool and it's enough. The fucked up operation of the others will give them more clients. Iraq, Iran, Ukraine... they will all go buy chinese stuff at some point because the other either attacked them or took advantage of them...
It's a good and solid strategy.
It is a good solid strategy because they can rely on western colonial powers to **** countries up with war and those countries need trade and commerce to pay for those wars and to rebuild afterwards... they create where the west destroys.
They are the good guys.
Their trust in Nato is reducing now that they saw how they sold ukrainians to their MiC. Thry know they are at the same level as ukrainians on US racial scale, not worth a nuclear war.
But their hatred of Russia is strong so they think the Russians are moving closer to them the same way that HATO has been moving closer to Russia all these decades of peace after the end of the cold war.
I doubt they will notice the economic recovery in these new Russian regions and will stick to military solutions, which will rob their people of funds for useful things like education and health...
The Russians could not enter the Donbass war in 2014, they are neither militarily nor economically ready for that.
However Putin made a serious mistake by stopping the militias at the beginning of September by signing Minsk-1
His main mistake was accepting the results of the western funded coup in the country as legitimate.
Too many questions and obvious US takeover of the country like the US takeover of Russia in the 1990s... with the same effects and results... except they didn't have a Putin to save them... and they would never accept Putin as their Putin solution.
What has happened was inevidible... it was Ukraines problem till it became Russias problem and now Russia is sorting it all out.
A whole of western narrative is made od lies. It is one big lie. There are no values differences for centuries. Rob whoever you can, as much as you can, and as long as you can.
And tell them how lucky they have you as a robber, because other robbers wont be so kind and nice to trap you all in a third world existence of poverty.
The good combat performance of an aircraft depends on several coordinated factors... ranging from training, tactics, rear guard... and even climatological factors...
A large part of their success is knowing their strengths and weaknesses and not using them in situations where they are likely to be lost... for instance the number of MANPADS in Serbia meant no aircraft operating below 8km altitude, and no helicopters... which seriously effected their ability to ID targets on the ground, but they didn't want to risk losing large numbers of helicopters or aircraft so they flew higher and hit more friendly targets or fake targets because they couldn't ID them properly.
They are acting like Egypt after Sisi came to power and bought weapons left and right to get ride of their dependance on US.
Even the US can't afford to buy only US equipment... their new Frigates look rather nice and are made in Italy... compare with LCS from domestic suppliers...
Any F-15s and F-16s will be manned by NATO pilots and no others
Yes, because their experience against S-400 and R-37M will be pivotal...
When they don't get instructions from AWACS what will they do... more importantly if they do get managed by AWACS... what does that make that AWACS...
I thought the f35 was brought in to: 1) appease the Jews that were screaming blue murder because they were shut out from ever being allowed buy the f22 by congressional legislation and 2) to help subsidise the f22 programme which Obama said was ridiculously too high so they came up with the f35 project that would cost buyers a fortune but make the f22 cheaper. The problem however was that after every military made their requirements known the entire project became the shit show that it is today…though the ‘partners’ are still paying a shit tonne per unit - I guess that part of the project worked out.
The F-35 was the solution to the price of the F-22... it was supposed to be the cheaper F-16 to the not a pound for air to ground F-15C... they wanted a smaller lighter aircraft that could be both a fighter and a light strike/attack aircraft, and standardising it across HATO to replace all their fighters and light attack aircraft including Harriers and A-10s was going to mean they would buy 3,500 for the US alone and probably the same again for the rest of HATO and friends like Japan and Israel etc etc...
The commonality was going to make it super cheap and having a super support system that benefited from everyone using the same aircraft meant spares pools could also be shared saving even more money...
But they made it cancel proof by making it in places in the US where politicians who could cut the programme were located, who decided on funding.
Putting factories in low employment areas spreading your supply network all over the country makes it the most expensive and complex that you can possibly make it and is what made the C-17 too expensive to be useful... but it was successful because they kept making them even when the US military stopped asking for them.
The enormous cost of the F-35 comes from the corruption of the US MIC... and the more HATO buys the better.
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