Russians lose a highly classified piece of equipment (event, sold, airplane)
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Now this piece of equipment is one very costly loss to Russia.
Yes, it was. Now, we're going to see the mind-set of Putin. Will he become vengeful? Likely. I see this "victory" as a possible problem. It may escalate to chemical war fare. Or, dare I say...nuke.
Yes, it was. Now, we're going to see the mind-set of Putin. Will he become vengeful? Likely. I see this "victory" as a possible problem. It may escalate to chemical war fare. Or, dare I say...nuke.
Sad to say, but this may become a problem.
We'll see just "how stable Putin really is..."
I do agree with your assessment. It could become a problem. I will say I think he is stable as far as a madman could be. How will this all play out we will see. I sincerely hope that behind the scenes that the US and one or two NATO nations have privately sent the message of where the red line is. So far we have not seen his country readying nuclear weapons (tactical and long range). It will be hard to see movement of chemical and biological weapons as they are usually carried in smaller munitions. That being said, his bluster hasn't swayed anyone out of making Finland and Sweden NATO members. We will find out in a month or so with NATO.
Yes, it was. Now, we're going to see the mind-set of Putin. Will he become vengeful? Likely. I see this "victory" as a possible problem. It may escalate to chemical war fare. Or, dare I say...nuke.
Sad to say, but this may become a problem.
We'll see just "how stable Putin really is..."
I do agree with your assessment. It could become a problem. I will say I think he is stable as far as a madman could be. How will this all play out we will see. I sincerely hope that behind the scenes that the US and one or two NATO nations have privately sent the message of where the red line is. So far we have not seen his country readying nuclear weapons (tactical and long range). It will be hard to see movement of chemical and biological weapons as they are usually carried in smaller munitions. That being said, his bluster hasn't swayed anyone out of making Finland and Sweden NATO members. We will find out in a month or so with NATO.
Now this piece of equipment is one very costly loss to Russia.
Russian media: "Ukraine did not sink the Moskva! It just caught fire and exploded because... reasons!"
Presumably, those reasons have something to do with incompetence. It's a wee bit sad when you're so desperate to spin away bad news that 'See how inept we are?' is perceived as less embarrassing than reality.
Also Russian media: "Kudos to mighty Putin for hitting Kyiv with a fresh volley of missiles! That's teach Ukraine to think twice before sinking any more of our ships!"
Russia might want to get its story straight so it's not perpetually contradicting itself. On the other hand, perhaps it's too much to expect their state media to be any less bad at its job than the Russian military is bad at theirs.
Or the US meida in digging for facts with political ramaforcations and leting the public know.
How much grog have you been drinking? You might want to slow down some. At least enough to get out a proper statement to show that you can actually write a sentence.
It was the mobile "command center" of a two system unit. They didn't leave behind the actual electronic equipment.
These were used in Syria to some effect on our GPS drones, however one wonders how effective it now, given that Russian forces were taking so many losses from drones in the Ukraine. It might be our engineers learned from it's use in Syria and already circumvented or countered the Russian jamming technology.
I remember in the 60's the USAF got ahold of an operational MIG, quite a prize. Then it became a joke - the MIG was so crude and backwards compared to American jet fighters that we really learned nothing from the technology except about it's limited capabilities when facing American jets. I mean really, still using steel for an fighter jet aircraft frame?
In 1976, Soviet pilot Victor Belenko defected to Japan in a MiG-25 FOXBAT. That might be the instance you're thinking of, because the FOXBAT was believed to be an exceedingly high-tech titanium interceptor posing a high threat even to the American SR-71.
It turned out to be surprisingly crude, with titanium only on the leading edges of the wings and vacuum tube era technology. The engines were powerful enough to pop it up to MACH 3 for a short period of time, but those engines would be trashed after that sortie.
That, and a few other things, killed the image of the "ten-foot tall Soviet soldier" in my eyes.
The US, through the Japanese, eventually returned the airplane to the Soviets in many small crates.
Or the US meida in digging for facts with political ramaforcations and leting the public know.
Such as... what?
That Russia has invaded Ukraine? Oh, wait... it's not an invasion, it's a 'special military operation'. Per Russia.
That it's a 'war'? Oh, wait... Russia has banned such a description for the 'special military operation' in Russian media.
That Ukraine sank a Russian ship? Oh, wait... Russia says it sank because of a fire of unknown causes, despite thee fact that Ukraine was claiming a missile attack before Russia had even announced anything was even wrong with the Moskva, so how could Ukraine even know about it unless they had done it?
Yeah, it's all the fault of the media boogeyman...
That, and a few other things, killed the image of the "ten-foot tall Soviet soldier" in my eyes.
The ten foot tall Soviets/Russians have always been a product of the military/industrial complex.
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