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2022-04-16 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia Used Long-Range Bombers To Attack Mariupol
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Posted by Fred 2022-04-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top
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#1 Twitter has video from Russia of long range bombers going somewhere.
Posted by 3dc 2022-04-16 03:51||   2022-04-16 03:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Do they have better countermeasures? Or the only aircraft still able to get off the ground?
Posted by Bobby 2022-04-16 07:54||   2022-04-16 07:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Mapping AD access routes?
Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-16 08:34||   2022-04-16 08:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Ukraine should make a deal with Israel if they want the latest in defense tech for incoming high explosives.
Posted by jpal 2022-04-16 10:27||   2022-04-16 10:27|| Front Page Top

#5 In other related hysteria, the radio guy this morning said, "Key-ehv".
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-04-16 10:49||   2022-04-16 10:49|| Front Page Top

#6 *Yawn* The US used B-2 bombers sometimes in the WOT -- gotta justify their continued existence to the bean counters
Posted by magpie 2022-04-16 11:19||   2022-04-16 11:19|| Front Page Top

#7 As I recall, the land corridor to the Crimea concept needed to remove one major urban nexus to prevent endless guerrilla ops to interdict rail/road movement and security from an urban core base of operations. Large scale artillery concentrations to effect WWII levels of destruction on such a resistance center are hard to create and protect, given how relatively close they need to be.

The Bomber Harris airpower strategy seems an apt alternative given how poorly the ground war has been going, and so far that segment of Russian military has been kept from the fray. High end ADA (Air Defense Artillery) systems are bigger and easier to find for the Russian counter-battery effort. Look for Viet Nam redux video of Bear Bombers in flames as this goes on...
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-04-16 11:58||   2022-04-16 11:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Mother Russia is running out of cruise missiles. That is all.
Posted by Slappy 2022-04-16 19:29||   2022-04-16 19:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Mother Russia The US is running out of cruise missiles. That is all.

Wrong. Completely backward.

"The American strategy is presenting Western countries with a stark choice between pouring more supplies into Ukraine or husbanding finite capabilities they may need for their own defense.

Germany has declined to transfer tanks to Ukraine on grounds that it simply cannot spare them. Canada quickly ran short on rocket launchers and other equipment that the Ukrainians desperately need.

***The U.S. has already provided one-third of its overall stockpile of Javelin anti-tank missiles. ***

The US cannot easily deliver more without leaving its own armories badly depleted — and it may take months or years to significantly ramp up production.

Before the U.S. entered World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt and his military advisers engaged in intense debates about whether the U.S. should rush weapons to a beleaguered Britain or hang onto them in case America had to defend itself. Biden’s arsenal-of-democracy strategy is reaching a similar inflection point in Ukraine.
Kyiv will require far more Western support to beat back Russian forces gathering in the east, where relatively open terrain is less favorable to the defense. It will also need more sophisticated weapons, such as tanks and aircraft, to deny Russia a decisive advantage — and perhaps take the offensive if Moscow’s eastern offensive falters. Stout Ukrainian resistance has given Kyiv a reasonable chance of winning this war, but the cost of any victory, in equipment no less than lives, will be astounding.

For the same reason, the war in Ukraine is a sobering preview of the problems the U.S. itself would face in a conflict against Russia or China. If forced to go to war in Eastern Europe or the Western Pacific, Washington would spend down its stockpiles of missiles, precision-guided munitions and other critical capabilities in days or weeks. It would probably suffer severe losses of tanks, planes, ships and other assets that are sophisticated, costly and hard to replace.
Posted by Clurt Whusort8335 2022-04-16 22:35||   2022-04-16 22:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Pulling numbers out of your ass is a common theme. 750 billion dollars a year goes a long way. Compared to Mother Russia's WW2 shit.
Posted by Slappy 2022-04-16 23:00||   2022-04-16 23:00|| Front Page Top

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