The strongest voices, other than the President himself, have been Republican ones.I look at voting records - and constantly berate my fellow Republicans if they act like imbeciles
Look at Ukraine aid sponsorship and the Lend Lease Sponsorship bills in House and Senate - bipartisan and heavily supported.
The news seems to take Russian money to pitch divisionism these days.
Almost certainly Fox and OAN, maybe CNN, probably ABC, CBS, likely not NBC, PBS, definitely not BBC and Al Jazeera.
Just looking at this quote from the Carl G thread and wondering why no TOW for Ukraine?Tangential to the Carl G
And good news for Blackhats @TangoTwoBravo
The price of Javelins appears to be going up - Inflation?
Amid Ukraine crisis, Lockheed-Raytheon partnership gets $309M for Javelins - Breaking Defense
The US has provided more than 5,500 Javelin shoulder-mounted anti-armor systems to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden administration.breakingdefense.com
309 MUSD for 1300 missiles works out to something like $240,000 USD apiece.
FGM-148 Javelin
The FGM-148 Javelin is an American man-portable fire-and-forget anti-tank missile fielded to replace the M47 Dragon anti-tank missile in US service. It uses automatic infrared guidance that allows the user to seek cover immediately after launch, as opposed to wire-guided systems, like the...military-history.fandom.com
Weapons of Ukrainian victory: What do we know about NLAW?
Ukrainian troops are successfully using a portable NLAW short-range anti-tank guided missile provided by the United Kingdom.root-nation.com
Javelin - 240,000 USD
TOW2 - 90,000 USD
NLAW - 40,000 USD
AT4 - 1500 USD
CG84 Rd - 500-3000 USD
Hero-120 - . “The price per unit of one of our system is 60 to 80% less than that of an equivalent antitank missile,” The equivalent AT Missile wrt warhead is the Javelin - estimated cost 40 to 50,000 USD .
1 Javelin buys you three 40 km light vehicle mounted Hero-120s with video and three manportable 800 m NLAWs.
Or more then 100 Carl-G rounds.
Javelin is better?
I figured it must be better and easier to use but seems like Ukraine has been given and used everything else and TOW is available in large numbers
If you read the while thread, estimates say due to poor maintenance and corruption, only 10-15% off Russian vehicles is storage are actually usable. This means out of the thousands in stock only 3-4k actually work, if you combine that with their losses, and the need to keep some good tanks around in case of another war, they are digging out the old stuff for Ukraine.
Not surprised at all.This cant possibly be true? Can it?
This cant possibly be true? Can it?
Institute for the Study of War
Russian nationalist figures are increasingly criticizing the failures of Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine and are calling for further mobilization that the Kremlin likely remains unwilling and unable to pursue in the short term. The All-Rwww.understandingwar.org
Running civilians through minefields and shooting them its like Russia wants the US to take the gloves off and deliver Abrams and M270's and the Migs
Why would they need T-62's surely they have enough T72's?
Thanks I dont do the social media stuff. Thats still insane and sure to be a morale boost for the poor Russians that get chosen for that duty. I bet there will be a rash of tanks running out of fuel again
Really has not been any political consideration as far as I am aware but there have been many articles since the start of the war with Irish commentators and political analysts debating whether Ireland should remain neutral or join NATO. Here is the most recent article that I could find:
www.irishexaminer.com
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www.defensenews.com
@Soldier35, have you Russians run out of Generals yet? Or should we not count MajGens working a second job for Wagner Guards Aviation Regiment?
No surprise at all. Not even considered as a war crime in Russia. This fits precisely with the 2000 LA Times article on "bespredel" and the Genocide Handbook they are following. Just start assuming that unarmed Ukraninians civilian or otherwise will be brutalised and killed as part of their long term 'ethnic cleansing' like goal of eliminating Ukraine as a nation and as a people any time the Chechyns, Wagner or Russian units are not likely to be witnessed by the west as they know they can get away with it.
www.latimes.com
