Value of farmland $25B, cost of clearing mines and cluster bombs 28B. Please pay 3B.
I believe Kiev estimated they needed 800 billion from Russia as compensation for Crimea and this conflict (including the return of all territories including the Crimea of course), so after the US and EU and UK pay 800 billion to the fix WUTBTU (what used to be the Ukraine) they can GTFO.
Imagine Zelensky in exile after the conflict is over always wanting to talk at all major western hosted events about how the job is not done and they need more money and weapons and ammo to build up forces to retake what was theirs... the west is losing patience now... imagine in 5 years time.
Yeah. It is an insanely large order. I think its pretty obvious what the long term plan is for Ukraine.
It will be years before they get any of it and they wont get any down payments back when they cancel bits of it.
That part is insane too. Even if everything was great in Poland, the population/gdp isn't big enough for orders like this. The US is probably going to finance it
The US didn't even finance the US bases in Poland and made Poland pay for them... I can't see them footing the bill for this conflict for very much longer... the more so if Biden does not get reelected... and I think the chances of that are non existent. Trump wants to stop the Ukraine conflict to focus on an economic war with China... he would probably take the US out of HATO.
It is probably intended to neutralize the KA-52 and if they have them in numbers, it would probably work to an extent.
I really don't think they would, Kamovs have DIRCM, but they also have Vikhr... those Apaches probably have DIRCM... so the Kamovs can stop the stingers and sidewinders but the Apaches wont be able to stop the Vikhrs.
And the 30mm gun of the Apache is a very low velocity gun suited for ground targets rather than aircraft, the 30mm gun on the Ka-52 is a high velocity 30mm autocannon that is very good for ground and air targets.
So Russia really needs to get what it wants done now or before 2025+ when this Polish army is ready.
Not really. Poland can arm itself to the teeth if it likes... it is part of HATO so if there is any conflict there Russia can destroy them with no worries about civilians or collateral damage... HATO is a threat to be eliminated so everything is on the table including nukes... and using nukes early makes sense as an option to shock the west out of an escalation spiral.
Actually finding a helicopter flying very low isn't easy. Israeli were defenceless against Syrian gazelles back in the day.
Modern fighter with a look down radar and IRST should spot them easily enough and an R-77 type missile should get the kill without IR countermeasures coming in to it.
The Ka-52 would not do any better against modern western fighters... it is a speed thing... and the fact that helicopters generally don't have a good picture of the airspace around them and even if they did they don't have the long range air to air missiles to do anything about it.
Even a MiG-29 has good radar range and decent air to air missiles... launched from 5-10km altitude the helicopter wont know what has hit them most of the time.
AD is the best option here and you better have something like tor or pantsir with both radars and opticals. Even then it's not easy if the chopper has a long range missile.
The best the Apache carries can reach maybe 8km with Hellfire... TOR reaches 16km and Pantsir reaches 20km and that is not mentioning BUK or Viking.
Without that, low flying aircraft pretty much disappear in ground clutter.
Exactly... a slow flying helicopter is removed from the radar display as noise... otherwise their radar displays would be showing cars and trucks on motorways and birds flying.
I think poland is just keeping russia busy stockpiling equipment themselves to extend the war than launch any offensive and its clearly working
At the end of the first world war and the start of the second world war they managed to grab quite a bit of territory... they obviously want to be prepared this time... whether it is facing the Russians at their new border with Russia, or moving their border forward and keeping the angry natives in check to their new agreed border with Russia...
In 4 weeks the Summer is over - Ukro and NATO shills promised us Ukraine will have taken Crimea this summer - well - you are still here:
That is an old HATO trick... did you get it in writing?
If it wasn't in a treaty then it didn't happen...
How long ago was that? A helo in winter with IRST = dead MEAT.
Modern missiles are also much better at hitting low flying targets from the short range IR guided missiles to the radar homing missiles.
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Destruction of Ukrainian boats in the Black Sea
At around 4 a.m. on August 22, a boat with a landing group of Ukraine's main intelligence directorate was destroyed by a guided missile Kh-31 from the Su-30SM aircraft of the Black Sea Fleet naval aviation.
