Russian special military operation in Ukraine #56

Question : At what point do we hit GPS satellite , instead of playing with drones ? Serious question .

At what point does a Russian cruise missile fly into the entrance of the channel tunnel and see how far down it gets before it runs in to something and explodes...

This one is said to have been destroyed by a Krasnopol.

Doesn't seem likely... that just looks like a turret bustle fire... something penetrated the few cms of steel roof protection and set the ammo on fire...

Krasnopol is 40kgs of HE... if it detonated amongst the ammo in the turret bustle the turret would be gone and the hull would likely be spread around the place a bit too.

Any move that could 'PR scare' NATO into doing something stupid will likely be avoided. Softly, softly catchee monkee, as the old saying goes.

Yes, the Russians have to understand they are dealing with children. Disabled Children. Disabled spoiled children.

On the other hand it will be difficult to put a downed plane together again.
Maybe some special forces unit will have to raid an airfield to get hold of one.

Or maybe the offer of amnesty and a future...

Any f-16's will only be trusted to the most loyal and die hard pilots, 99 percent chance of this not happening

Probably very true but the paranoid and schizoid western handlers might think the risk is too high and ground them all anyway... their feats of skill and daring written in the US state department... with all the other propaganda from this war...

Oh these silly comments are funny. Personal attacks and emotional retorts, really the best you got?. Comedy show honestly

What personal attacks?

We are speculating on something that has not happened yet so how can you say we are wrong and you are right?

The entire western civilisation is based on damn natives selling out their countries and fellow man to give us coffee beans at ridiculously low prices but we still charge $10 a cup...

Yeah it's technically in the sense possible hence why I said 99 out of 100.

In Nicaragua the Hind helicopters the government forces were using were rather effective and the Americans didn't want to give them stingers because they didn't get their stingers back from the Muj in Afghanistan, so the CIA offered a large amount of money for any Hind helicopter flown to a friendly airbase intact. AFAIK no pilot actually tried to collect on that deal but the government immediately restricted the use of the Hinds just in case effectively reducing its effect on the conflict.

Even if no pilots defect it is another thing for Kiev to worry about and be paranoid about... some fake phone calls to these pilots from Russian numbers will likely get them put into interrogation for that alone... I am sure the Russians could track cellphone numbers that have been in the western countries that trained the F-16 crews... I mean if Piers Morgan can have Royals and Celebrities phones hacked then the FSB should too...

The U.S. Air Force is buying add-on seekers designed to give Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range (JDAM-ER) precision-guided bombs supplied to Ukraine the ability to zero in on GPS jammers. In effect, this would turn one of the weapons most impacted by this countermeasure into one used to directly attack it. This follows growing reports that Russian jamming is severely degrading the effectiveness of Western-supplied GPS-guided munitions, including JDAM-ERs.

Except the GPS jammer antenna might be really cheap to make in enormous volumes so putting it out in a field to get blown up by JDAM or what ever they want to use might not be that big a problem for them.

Won't they just make sure a Pantsir is nearby?

Easier just to make disposable jamming antennas for the GPS jammer and have them all over the place and switch between them often. If a round is coming in attacking a jamming antenna and then that antenna switches off and another antenna 500m away switches on will the incoming bomb be able to manouver to hit the new target?

What happens if they switch again before it hits?

And if it hits and destroys one will it matter when the rest of them continue to do the job?

A female Russian warrior standing beside her war trophy, an Ukrainian Marder.

Wait for the Americans to say this is proof they are running out of men... they have to send their women to fight...

No chance of any womens groups picking this up and saying... maybe we are supporting the wrong side... Ha!

It looks like the NATO leadership is trying to test how their population will react to the pronouncement of certain Red lines and the possibility of intervention in case Ukraine is on the verge of Eradication.

Russia should call this a bluff and start KILLING NATO TERRORISTS the very second they enter Ukraine.

For example if Russia destroyed all Bridges on Deniper and Ukraine destroyed all Bridges to similar depth inside Russia , still Russia can use alternate land route to reach Eastern Ukraine , but Ukraine can not reach western Russia by land .

The core difference is that most of those bridges are very strongly built... if the Ukraine just wanted to destroy the Crimean bridge it would take 100 Storm Shadows and they would all have to be direct hits, but obviously their problem is that they don't have 100 Storm Shadow missiles and the defences are going to stop 90% or more of the missiles fired so to get the 100 hits you need to destroy the bridge you are going to have to fire 1,000 missiles.

We have already seen when they try to launch large numbers of ATACMS then they are going to lose a few launchers in the process, which means a sustained attack is not possible. You can't get one successful hit every year and hope to have the bridge destroyed in 100 years because one hit a year means they will fix the damage and the bridge will be working again soon enough.

If Kiev really tried to destroy the bridge Russia could simply start dropping bridges in west Ukraine... missiles like Kh-22M would be ideal with mach 3 plus flight speed with almost 1 ton HE payload...

They could probably use a few Granit missiles too if they wanted.

If Russian systems have reliable and effective guidance other than GPS and the opponent uses a lot of GPS , without which they become handicapped , then GPS can be taken out .

You can't eliminate GPS by shooting down one or two satellites. To defeat it you would probably need to shoot down more than a dozen satellites which would effect GPS around the world... and the obvious US response would be to do the same to Russian GLONASS satellites.

Literally an Eye for an Eye and we all end up blind. The debris from the destroyed satellites will be a problem.

EMP would take out Russias own recon satellites as well as any other satellites nearby at the time.

There are no Russian satellites that use clockwork mechanisms and all would be vulnerable to some degree to EMP attack.

It just makes more sense to jam the signal than shoot anything down and using cheap disposable antenna for the jamming signal is just an obvious solution if they want to attack them.

Russia should call this a bluff and start KILLING NATO TERRORISTS the very second they enter Ukraine.

They would have to, otherwise they invite HATO forces to expand their presence openly in Ukraine. Of course only Moron has suggested this and most other HATO countries retreated from the idea of openly sending troops into the Ukraine for whatever reason.

I suspect a lot of HATO countries will fear Russia blocking off the black sea to Kiev and perhaps even having a border with Moldova, but they have sent their weapons and ammo to Kiev and really probably don't have anything left to use themselves and the announcement of sending troops to defend Odessa might lead to a collapse and exit from HATO as an organisation by many countries who don't want to lose men for Americas experiment to destroy Europe.

Its becoming a family

I hope that vehicle was just headed somewhere and was not actually looking for mines because getting up close like that with the camera is like sticking your head out next to a target on an active rifle range... if it found a mine that cameraman would be killed.

Of course if you are going to put stuff on your tanks that you would put the same or more on your mine clearing vehicles too... they will be a high priority target for enemy snipers and ATGM operators and drone operators too.