Posted on 03/09/2024 9:17:07 AM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
Ummm... you do realize that was and is the point of a lot of *our* missile systems when combined with AWACS, right?
Let’s say you’re a fighter bomber pilot on your way in to your target. You pick up a fire control radar well ahead of you, but well beyond the range at which your HARMs or other counter radar missiles can hit. You don’t see any signs that that site is throwing missiles at you (obvious missile launch is obvious) so you continue on. All of a sudden, missiles that have already reached burnout and are coasting come screaming into your formation from a completely unexpected angle launched by a different site that can’t actually see you. Whoops, you just got ambushed by extremely long range datalinked missiles. Unfortunately, you do not have the opportunity to learn from this because you’re dead.
That’s the point. S-300 missiles do not have to use active radar seeker heads to find their targets and once they climb to altitude and burn out, just like the AIM-54 there’s nothing to tell the target aircraft that they are under attack.
Additional advantages of a 300km (now 400 with the S-400 that was developed from the S-300) range include the ability to use it to engage ballistic missile threats.
Engine failure is what I am hearing, another unit stopped and was setting up to tow it to safety. OOPS!
I See Zelenskyy was in Turkey this past week begging again. He turned down Erdogan’s offer to hold a peace summit there. Turkey is building ships for Ukraine’s Navy. Guess who’s probably paying for those ships?
“HMMT pulling it. There’s your answer.”
Dima is also saying Patriot, so you win. And he’s also saying that there were 2 of those systems destroyed in that one strike.
What Reykjavík doink?
“What Reykjavík doink?”
Love it!
With all those Patriot batteries destroyed* we should see the SU-34s back in the air any day now. That will be the proof.
“With all those Patriot batteries destroyed* we should see the SU-34s back in the air any day now. That will be the proof.”
The working theory is that the Patriots and S-300s are having to expose themselves because the Russians are using their aircraft to launch huge, precision glide-bombs, as in 1100 to 3300 lbs. So it’s more the other way around.
How soon before NATO Troops openly deploy to Ukraine? A Month? Two months? Three? When will Biden declare war and launch strikes on Russia and St. Petersburg? “We are in it to win it.”
Never....
I will argue that NATO is already fully engaged outside of the territory of Ukraine.
Since day 1 or at least day 10, NATO planes have been in the air constantly flying long elliptical courses while soaking up all the Russian military communications and even mothers calling soldier sons on cell phones. Russian officers and generals were located and killed in very significant numbers .
NATO has been training Ukranian troops in all kinds of special disciplines required to use the weapons being supplied. Those disciplines include flying F 16’s and deploying very special missiles.
There is a tendency here for neo isolationist Russian war crimes abettors who lack the width of vision to see that there are lots and lots and lots of very specialized weapons supplied by NATO nations other than the USA. You say Biden, but he is just one of several NATO allies to Ukraine.
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