Russia Invades Ukraine. Volume 4

The $60bil effectively take the US contribution to the election in December. IF Biden wins and has control of Senate/Congress then that will open the taps again. Although let’s not forget whilst Biden has supported Ukraine things like ATACMS and Abrams would both have done a lot more damage if the Ukranians got them six months earlier.

Trump ? Who knows. He’s been pulling the strings behind the scenes on this vote….there was a renegotiated bill which I think got presented to Congress in Jan or Feb which took a couple of months to negotiate….Trump killed it stone dead in 24 hours. He’s given this $60 bil package the green light…who knows they he changed his mind.

I don’t mention massive expenditure at all, just that I read Russia production is on a war footing and they can churn out lots of (low quality) shells and weapons and they are receiving arms from China etc., and Ukraine are struggling with men and equipment supplies.

It was a genuine question and am hoping someone can corroborate the opposite, not sure why you responded with that attitude.

Russians are worried now
https://twitter.com/TreasChest/status/178288343554...

Thank you

(Won’t Ukraine stocks run out at a similar or quicker time?)

Their loss rate is far lower and they do have tanks coming from NATO, so probably not.


There's a few channels about russias economics issues but most are a bit breathless with the collapse guaranteed every week.

Sounds like they are getting their excuses in early for their new (and hopefully soon-to-fail) offensive near Chasiv Yar.

I think might just be me but I can't listen to his voice. There's something about it that's quite annoying. Probably just me.

PWIV on the way to ukr


https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/1783050...

Interesting.

With a max range of 30km, effective use of these would put the aircraft very much in range of Russian air defence, no?

Fly low, pull up, release bomb, roll till slightly inverted, fire chaff and flares, pull stick back hard, watch out from rapid approach of ground. Your plane would be exposed for only a few seconds which is commensurate with most SAM systems reaction times (S400 is claimed to be less than 10 seconds)

If the SAM is 15km away it will then take <15 seconds for the missile to get to you, which isn't helped by the fact that you are pulling some serious g so it's aim point gets pulled around. By that time you are likely back below the radar horizon of the tracking radar. Most if not all of the Russian SAMs are some form of semi active guidance in which case you it won't be able to track you. IR guided missiles are unlikely to have the range to chase a jet aircraft at low level when fired at that range. Something like the British Army's CAAM which has a active radar with data link would most likely still be able to follow you over the horizon.

For extra fun have a friend fire a HARM missile at them.

The best method to stop such an attack is an interceptor with a long range air to air missile which can sit outside the effective range of Ukrainian air defence and drop those missiles on to unsuspecting aircraft that are flying low and slow. Having the F16 means that those interceptor aircraft will need to be pushed back and the aircraft dropping the weapons are more likely to be aware that they are being targeted.