It can be launched by the fighter jet from outside enemy airspace. This system will capitalize on a slower speed, fuel efficient air vehicle for ingress, while retaining highly energetic air-to-air missiles for end-game target engagements. Basically it will perform the same role as that of a F-22 Raptor.
So if it has amazing range and performance and accuracy wouldn't a ground launched version be cheaper and more effective because it wont lead to Ukrainian aircraft further away from the front line to be shot down just in case?
Raptor does not have missiles with enough flight range to operate outside Russian AD forces and still hit Russian aircraft...
AI algorithms take care of controlling the missile, pilot has no role to play.
So it is a slow missile and not a drone... I am sure the self defence equipment on the fighters and helicopters designed to deal with optically guided IR missiles will work just as well on this drone too.
Strategically speaking I suspect russians just don't destroy enemy stuff as soon as it is detected because then it lets them think they have a chance to win since their hardware still works and they keep sending reinforcement. Russians wants the frobt to be a meatgrinder and let ukrinians keep attacking all day long. If they are to destructive on their rears, ukros will go on defensive which would complicate russians war since they would need to attack defended positions.
Another factor is if you spot something and keep watching it you will see where they hide it each time something Russian gets close... destroying the building they house it in has the chance of killing the engineers that keep it working as well as extra missiles stored for it and other vehicles that are important for the system to work.
Ironically if you can defeat the support vehicle that can often reduce the performance of the system and make it useless over time.
South Ossetians definitely want Russia to expand its presence there too, and probably join Russia together with their bros, the Russian republic North Ossetia, which has a say in the Duma and is doing quite well. South Ossetia never had a say in Tbilisi (and never wanted anything to do with Tbilisi anyway). Might happen soonish, because it's a f**k it situation, all concessions and goodwill Moscow's been engaged for ages in has returned nil.
The thing about the carrot and the stick method is that if you over use the stick and they never see the carrot they start thinking pulling this wagon for you all day is probably not worth the effort.
As the war is going on, you are notoriously disbelieving things proven right.
What's more, all of them are just logical.
Proving the great effectiveness and flexibility of the Russian supply chain, and what's more - the fact that they have proven allies.
What is the point of denying that?
If Russia chooses to say that is what they are doing then that is fine, but with the only sources of such claims being western or pro western then I choose not to believe them.
on top I'd add that extra russia russia russia shipments could enable Russia to free up production capacities for manufacturing more complex products
Not sure getting 122mm and 152mm shells from other places is going to let Russian producers of 122mm and 152mm shells start making drones instead, or thermal imagers, or ballistic missiles.
It just means they build up their stocks faster and will have more available if they need them.
They seem to be improving their tactics and using shells rather more efficiently anyway so over time they might need less to get a specific job done.
Beloved Russia can't buy weapons, as it is the world champion in weaponry production.
Not at all... but highly likely is not a high enough bar for anything but the court of the western media.
Even if they aren't using the ammo and just removing it from the market to prevent the US and its third parties from buying up using fake companies so it can be sent to Kiev it is not a bad idea, but let Russia state that...
buying stuff for a margin of the localized cost because of the PPP leverage, and making your own enterprises free to produce more advanced stuff - is only a win.
It is pretty unlikely they will shut down ammo production in Russia because they are outsourcing to other countries... they have large inventories to restock... put the home made stuff there and test this foreign stuff and decide whether it is good enough to continue buying in the future... perhaps they should set up ammo production factories in India and make some ammo for themselves and for India... that would generate more income for Russia and also help them spend their excess Indian currency....
The explosion starts on the left side. Can be seen in the video. It's 5s after firing. I think a mine is rather unlikely. How long does the car charger take? 7-8 seconds? Possibly a loading error with interior detonation? A frontal penetration of the tower is also rather unlikely. At least we haven't seen such destruction yet. Especially not with a T90SM.
With ammo located in an underfloor autoloader the risk of an ammo explosion is obvious and difficult to deal with... other than fitting every vehicle with a set of mine rollers... which limits their speed too much.
And let's be real, these places shouldn't be rebuilt anyway, let it be a natural preserve and move tf on
Such places could be bypassed and let them come out when they run out of food and water and ammo...
It looks like a catastrophic internal explosion of the ammo load. There is no sign of mine detonation, yet missile or something.
It was firing at enemy positions yet the commander had his entire upper body out of his hatch and was not looking in the direction they were firing...
I would say it was a land mine that set off the tanks ammo in the underfloor autoloader... one big boom.
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from midday 6 Oct 2023. Still quite a bit of firepower in port.
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