Wasn't that more on the Russians? Kinda sucks when you sail your fleet around the world only to have it summarily sunk in a matter of hours.
anti drone weaponry in a race to catch up. hopefully some of these units can make their way to Ukraine for field testing soon. who needs a sales force, set it up, prove it works, name your price... A new anti-missile laser downed 100% of its targets while fighting multiple threats at once, UK defense officials say The UK Defense Ministry said on Sunday that it successfully tested a new air-defense system that tracks missiles midflight and jams them with a precision laser. In a statement, officials said the laser downed 100% of its targets at the Vidsel Test Range in Sweden while facing "a range of infrared heat-seeking missiles being fired simultaneously." "100% of threats were quickly defeated using a laser with pinpoint accuracy," the statement said. Officials said the system combines Thales' threat warning software, Elix-IR, which uses algorithms to detect missiles in the air, with an infrared laser built by Leonardo, called Mysis. "Threats are defeated faster than the time it takes to read this sentence," a statement by Defense Secretary John Healey read .......... This isn't the first laser weapon the UK has touted in recent years, as Western militaries look to complement expensive conventional air defense with cheaper options for bringing down missiles and drones. In March, it published footage of its DragonFire laser taking down several targets in Scotland, saying the trialed weapon can strike a coin from a kilometer away and costs $13 per shot. Four months later, the UK debuted another weapon, a ground vehicle-mounted laser that officials said can fire at $0.12 per shot, in publicly released images.
Sure, just like most of what has befallen the Russian military in this war has been on the Russians. Zero excuse for being locked down in a stalemate with Ukraine for 2.5 years, unable to achieve air superiority. That does not discount the valor or ingenuity of the Ukrainians, though. Even with staggering Russian incompetence at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels of war, Russia should have been able to achieve their objectives roughly along the timelines they had prescribed in early 2022, had the Ukrainians not fought so hard and so effectively. The same is true with the Russo-Japanese War. Russian buffoonery across the board, culminating in uprisings at home due to the terrible casualties involved. But Russia should have prevailed due to sheer numbers alone had the Japanese not fought so well.
It's funny how nobody puts the blame on Putin and Russia's unmitigated failure on this. For instance, if they had taken Kiev in two weeks as planned - and predicted by everyone in the world - we're sitting in a very different place right now, a place that looks a lot like 2014. Funny how the traitors never bring that up as they slurp Putin's . . . .
Nope, having an independent mind, I opposed that from the beginning and could have told you in 2002 how that would turn out. See, traitor, unlike you, I actually look at things on a case-by-case, individual basis and make my judgements based on that. And then there are clowns like you, with little to no intellectual agency, who take marching orders from opposition intelligence services and disparage their own country's volunteer service members (and in the most sophomoric and childish way possible). Can you show me on the doll where the US Military touched you Sunshine?
Not sure who you are talking to but the majority of people that I talk to do put the blame for Russia's failures in Ukraine on Putin.
Yeah, but for the obvious moral reasons (he attacked). I'm talking about the things that give guys like dugger a stiffy. . . the VAUNTED, toughguy Russian military. Or, as the rest of us like to call them, the Bungling Boobs of Kleptocracy.
Exactly the level of debate I expect. It does take a special kind of stupid to buy into the nonsense you do and promote on a daily basis. Along with a general lack of basic integrity. Can't forget that.
are Russian air defenses really this porous that they can't even defend their airfields? hopefully they did hit something of substance... Ukraine Drones Strike Russian Airfield Hosting Su-35 Combat Jets Ukraine struck a military air base deep inside Russia over the weekend thought to house several types of Russian jets, Kyiv's military said, in the latest strike designed to hamper Moscow's air force, a critical part of its war effort. Ukraine struck the "the infrastructure of the Lipetsk-2 military airport," which is home to Russian Su-34, Su-35 and MiG-31 jets, Kyiv's General Staff said in a statement on Sunday. Its forces had homed in on warehouses storing ammunition, fuel and aviation equipment, the Ukrainian military added. The extent of the damage is not clear. Newsweek has reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry for comment via email. ......................... A Ukrainian source also said on Sunday that Kyiv had struck the Sverdlov explosives, chemical and ammunition plant in the Russian city of Dzerzhinsk overnight, close to the regional capital in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The source described the Sverdlov plant, which is under sanctions leveled by the U.S. and the European Union, as Russia's "largest explosives factory." Nizhny Novgorod Regional Governor Gleb Nikitin said on Sunday that air defenses and electronic warfare systems had repelled a drone attack around the "industrial zone" in Dzerzhinsk. He did not specify the target of the attack, but said four people had sustained minor injuries. The Sverdlov plant is around 900 kilometers, or around 560 miles, from the Ukrainian border, the source said.
BTW, what were you calling Americans who were cheerleading the invasion of Iraq who were calling you a traitor ?
The same thing I call them now, "morons". And bad actors. And, ironically, all MAGA now. Like I've said several times, "Pentagon Coup 2024!!!!" It's the only chance we've got.
I wonder how much of an impact this would really have? Aren’t most of these drones FPV controlled rather than heat seaking?
Sounds like you need to move to Latin America, Africa, or SE Asia if that’s the kind of military you want. That sort of thing is not in our blood. Never has been. Never will be. Whichever one of these two unimpressive, too-stupid-to-realize-they’re-stupid people wins this election, you will have to live with it just like everyone else.
