Well, yes it’s disconcerting. But the key point in the article is that Ukraine is in need of better and more air defense weapons. We need to give them a lot more. NATO doesn’t need air defense weapons if Ukraine shoots down all of Russia’s planes! We just need to get them all that they need asap.
NATO doesn't have enough equivalent or better weapons. The US doctrine during cold war was air superiority; so naturally the Soviet doctrine became overwhelming air defense. After the breakup of the USSR, both Russia and Ukraine had a lot of BUKs and similar short and medium range SAM systems, maybe not technologically as advanced as those in the west, but they had a crapload of them.
So they'll just "sweep down" hundred miles through heavily fortified territory, surrounded from both flanks, with limited supply of artillery shells and no air superiority? Peace of cake.
US and NATO plans leaked:
NYT: Pentagon investigating leak of US and NATO documents on preparing Ukrainian offensive — Novaya Gazeta Europe
The Pentagon is investigating a leak of classified war documents detailing US and NATO plans “for building up the Ukrainian military ahead of a planned offensive against Russia” to social media, The New York Times reports .novayagazeta.eu
The interesting part is this:
If the leaked files are altered, it's probably because the leak came from Russian intelligence. And that means they might have more files also.
EDIT: my mistake, apparently the leaked documents are also available in the internet, and the Russian edit was done later.
How long before certain someone comes here touting these numbers (on the right hand side) as irrefutable proof that NATO "admitted" Ukraine has had 71.5k KIA?
Newsflash for you, Washington Bob, Russia has nothing to do with this leak.
US air defense weapons are F16/F15
Or we could copy the Australian model, and use boomerangs. Probably sufficient to take down the cheap Iranian shit that is all Russia can put in the air.
Or you could realise barbos' opinion is about 30 years out of date, and just use CRAMS or Avenger platforms to take out the drones. Besides, the fact that it's been over a year and Russia still hasn't achieved superiority suggests their air force has gone the way of their army. There is a distinct possibility Russia will be down to MiG-21s by December as all their other kit has "walked with Jesus", over the years.
US air defense weapons are F16/F15
Patriots are rare and extremely expensive, both systems and more importantly rockets themselves.
Compare it to Russia where we have systems with dumb dirt cheap rockets which are actually way less expensive than your GPS bombs, not to mention HIMARS.
Basically, NATO does not have economically viable air-defense.
You and your nazi puppets are screwed. You need to choose between wasting your rare and expensive air-defense rockets on these iranian drones or save them for aircrafts with 1.5 tons bombs which are coming as soon as you run out of soviet era air-defense.
Your only real option is to take russian air-defense systems and copy them, and make it cheap and do it yesterday. Good luck to your Military Industrial Complex with that.
That's not my logic, that's your governments logic. They just hide it from you.
That's not my logic, that's your governments logic. They just hide it from you.
And no, Russia does not buy ammunition from North Korea. It's US who is buying ammunition from South Korea.
Who cares? Your shitty Iran-made drones can be taken down with a glorified machine gun.
