Great notion if the airlift was still taking place with the numbers needed. Hard to build up a large stock of precision strike missiles when you don't have any to begin with. Ukraine is doing what they can with what they have.This opinion piece from USNI's Proceedings suggesting the the US Replicator program which is seeking to mass produce low cost, small UAV's like those being used extensively in Ukraine is the wrong approach.
Replicate Ordnance, Not Cheap Drones
General Prize Essay Contest—First Prize. Sponsored by Andrew and Barbara Taylor. Drones won’t offset China’s growing military, but more weapons could.www.usni.org
The author suggests that these platforms, while generating some tactical success as part of a combined arms basket of weapons are diverting funding from weapon systems that have the ability to deliver strategic success.
He focuses particularly on the Pacific theatre where he says that the types of UAVs used in Ukraine - where the average engagement range is around 7 miles - makes these types of platforms unsuitable. He does however agree that large volumes of cheap UAV's, USV's and UUV's would be useful by Taiwan should PLA forces actually reach the shorline in an invasion.
He suggests that focusing on producing a mass of higher end weapons like the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), heavier kamikaze USVs and XLUUVs equipped with advanced sea mines would be a better solution.
Extrapolating this to Ukraine it might suggest that building up large stocks of Precision Strike Missiles, ground attack cruise missiles, long range AAM's and ASM's would have a greater strategic affect on a war with Russia than masses of the small drones being used currently in Ukraine.
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Foreign troops to secure the Moldova/Ukraine border against Russians is actually a pretty decent idea. Not sure how many Ukrainians it would free up, but it would be some for sure, and it would be a significant and tangible show of Western resolve.
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If you're going to go down this path, I'd argue doing the same thing along the Ukraine/Belarus border from where it joins up with the Polish border all the way east to where highway P28 runs north into Belarus would be a greater benefit to the Ukrainians, along with a much greater risk on 'our side' in doing so.
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Germany will do whatever it can, so long as it has no effect.
www.telegraph.co.uk
FMG.
But by all means beat up on the Yankee tax payer.
It was delusional to think that Germany had changed
Recent indiscretions raise serious questions over whether its strategic relations with Britain are less important than those with Russia
www.telegraph.co.uk
FMG.
But by all means beat up on the Yankee tax payer.
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This of course is all from Russia's release of the contents of the intercepted call. Any chance that they added/modified elements of what they allege was discussed to sow mistrust between Ukraine & Germany and between Germany & NATO? It's unlikely that Germany will release their own copy of the private conversation and even if they did release one that contained important differences the damage is already done.Germany will do whatever it can, so long as it has no effect.
It was delusional to think that Germany had changed
Recent indiscretions raise serious questions over whether its strategic relations with Britain are less important than those with Russia
FMG.
True or not it's already made you (and likely many Telegraph readers) angry and distrusting of our NATO ally Germany. Who benefits?
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Ukraine military official: half of all North Korean shells are duds
North Korean artillery shells cannot be accurately aimed, South Korean military expert says.
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Ukraine claims it has sunk another Russian warship in the Black Sea using high-tech sea drones
Ukraine claimed Tuesday it has sunk another Russian warship in the Black Sea using high-tech sea drones as Kyiv’s forces take aim at targets well behind the war’s front line. Russian authorities did not confirm the claim.
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Soon the Russians will be in the opposite situation from us - too many sailors and not enough ships - maybe we can work something out with them, let the sailors immigrate to Canada and crew our ships.....Ukraine claims it has sunk another Russian warship in the Black Sea using high-tech sea drones
Ukraine claimed Tuesday it has sunk another Russian warship in the Black Sea using high-tech sea drones as Kyiv’s forces take aim at targets well behind the war’s front line. Russian authorities did not confirm the claim.www.ctvnews.ca
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I don't know about that...those guys don't seem to be doing a very good job so far!
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Western troops in south western ukraine would prevent the russian end game Medvedev recently showed a map of. Denying Russia Odessa would greatly anger putin as he wants Odessa.
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Man, when I look at the map, I can't help but see Bohemia (western part of the old Czechoslovakia) in Mar 13, 1938....
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They all want
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Anyone looking at the map also should understand that Russia has zero interest in stopping there.
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They're trying to save all those starving Russians in Kaliningrad... by ensuring a complete landbridge across Eastern Europe via Ukraine, Moldava, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and parts of Poland.
Won't someone think of
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Yes how clearly selfish of me not to think of them.
Admittedly I have a better idea.
Little green men from NATO have a coup in Kallingrad, Transnitia and Belarus.
Then we move V Corps into Belarus when asked to by the new democratic administration, and have NATO 350km from Moscow…
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There would be alot, alot, of dead Poles they'd have to walk over before they went any further west.
Most Ukrainians have only begun hating Russians over the last 10yrs, Poles have been doing it for the last 500. Its part of who they are.
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Which is why we all should understand that we are at war with Putin’s Russia like it or not.
