Posted on 12/20/2022 6:16:59 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
“US to send precision bomb kits and Patriot missiles in next Ukraine aid package, officials say”
“The US is expected to send Ukraine precision bomb kits that will turn existing unguided munitions, or “dumb” bombs, into precision-guided “smart” bombs known as Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or JDAMs, according to multiple US officials.
The kits add fins and a precision guidance system to the “dumb” munitions. They are expected to be included in the next security aid package to Ukraine as soon as this week, the sources said, though officials did not say how many JDAMs would be provided, or what specific type.
The precision bombs could help Ukraine attack fixed Russian defensive lines or other large targets. But they need to be dropped from fighter jets, which remains a significant challenge because of Russia’s own air defenses.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/20/politics/us-ukraine-munitions-patriot-missiles/index.html
Ukraine: military situation update with maps, Dec 19 2022
(’Orc’ is associated with the various hoards of 13th century Mongol invaders, as well as LOTR evil villains)
War in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP2QApi8G2TKc8NZmeDWSUg/videos
Artillery (key to success in this war), Fuller explanation of Orc military structure, Other Bonus articles - see previous postings in “Attack on Europe” (FR title search).
(Numbered printed material below - Some of the items below may be out of date, and not updated yet)
••Denotes Transcribed Dialogue. The entirety of the analysis is from a Ukrainian guy named War in Ukraine’s daily video - I only transcribe it. Extras are just that - from other sites, or my comments marked (Edit: .... )
-—> Current to date and past MAPS: <——
https://militaryland.net/
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Summary:
No essential changes.
Key areas:
- North Lugansk: no changes.
- North Donbass: no changes.
- Central Donbass (Donetsk West): no changes.
- Zaporizhya: no changes.
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Extras:
-—> Ukraine Situation Report: Russia Training Belarus Pilots To Fly Jets With ‘Special Warheads’ <——
Lukashenko thanked Putin for handing over nuclear-capable Iskander short-range ballistic missiles and S-400 air defense systems.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-situation-report-russia-training-belarus-pilots-to-fly-jets-with-special-warheads
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-—> Just How Radioactive Are Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons? <——
With Russia making nuclear threats with the focus on so-called ‘battlefield’ nukes, experts examine the potential effects of these weapons.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/just-how-radioactive-are-low-yield-nuclear-weapons
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••China’s Conquest of Taiwan - Skipped.
••Most Other Non-Military opinions/news - Skipped.
••Belarus & Russia:
The important news is that Putin came to visit Belarus and Belarus president: he also came with a Minister of Defense and Minister of Foreign Affairs - that’s really a heavy team. The misconception, especially on the Ukrainian side, which is really primitive interpretation of the news: ‘they are coming to force Belarus to participate in offensive, a new offensive on Kiev, which speaks a lot about the inability to think of the real reason they came there: to cement Belarus is together with Russia in all its ways.
Belarus is becoming a Russian bridgehead or salient towards West, and they need to fortify it as much as possible, because they’re expecting a large offensive from from the West, and they are delivering advanced weapons to Belarus like the S-400 that was deployed recently in Belarus, and so Builders will become a but the idea is from a rational perspective let’s make Belarus another battlefield, if there is attack from the West.
The fighting is going to happen in Belarus, keeping the fighting as far as possible from Moscow or from more deeper inland Urals of Russia. The Russian and military is going to be training Belarus pilots to carry nuclear warheads on airplanes (Edit: see link above), tactical ones. This is more about full integration of Belarus Army into the Russian Army - that’s the whole the point of all of this. Command of the Belarus Army is going to be done out of Russian Army Headquarters, it’ss going to be extension of the Russian Army, just called Belarus Army. There was no expectation that this is going to fall apart at this point because Belarus president has no other viable option.
I want to mention this disgraceful law that has been passed by Ukrainian Parliament: putting in jail Ukrainian soldiers for refusing to fulfill suicidal and criminal orders by the middle level commanders, who are for the most part incompetent, and should be put in a ‘panel squad’ and frontal storm the Wagner mercenaries; that’s the best they can be used for, but unfortunately, these people are actually trying to do the opposite with the regular soldiers.
I knew it but there was no evidence that this whole law is coming from the head of Ukrainian military which is illusionary. He had a not the Minister of Defense because that that that person is complete puppet and doesn’t even know what he’s doing, but from head of the Ukrainian Army Headquarters solution who is who is in charge of the army so this really what this really means is a that he admits that he’s personally incompetent to actually change the situation in the Army, and he resorting to forcing people or threatening people to do things and that never worked and never will work.
••Compares Ukrainian Top Military General, Butcher with Soviet General Zhukov, Butcher - Skipped.
••Ukrainian power grid:
There was attack in the morning on Ukrainian power grid; it was not powerful attack but it did a lot of damage.
••The Front:
The state border is somewhat more intense: more intense Ukrainian shelling or Ukrainian attacks on the neighboring Billoharod region in Kursk region which are primitive attempts at revenge and propaganda tools which are useless, nevertheless, Ukrainian Top tries to do that.
••North Luhansk’:
Here are more or less the same: some Russian attacks in all the same places, without so far any success.
••North Donbas:
Things here are also similar: Russian attacks, Wagner mercenaries attacks, no advances today.
••Central Donbas:
Here somewhat different because looks like Russian command, for whatever reason abandoned this Northern sector, and they focused on Marinka, because that’s the only place where they trying to achieve something; there is a strong feeling that whoever is in charge of this group of Russian troops around the Donetsk that person needs to show some progress to Mr Defense or Putin; that there is something is they’re doing, something they’re moving forward, and probably because he does not have enough, or that does not have enough skills to achieve anything, he’s pulling everything into one single narrow point which is Marinka.
Russian troops were not successful in capturing Marinka, they did made some progress, this is just like a photo show for the upper levels of the Russian command, that’s again the same Soviet system that’s in Ukraine, the same Soviet system works in Russia, except in many ways its much worse because there is more resources to be wasted to support this system.
A map showing possible air defense coverage with all the systems that Ukraine 🇺🇦 is expected to receive
8 NASAMS 🔵
6 HAWK 🔴
4 IRIS-T 🟢
1 Patriot and 1 SAMP/T 🟠
https://mobile.twitter.com/ukraine_map/status/1605212471853473793
“Hungary, Romania and Georgia signed an agreement on the supply of electricity from Azerbaijan.”
Hungary.
The writing is on the wall.
@WarMonitor3 7h
“The military in Bakhmut asked Volodymyr Zelenskyi to hand over the Ukrainian flag to the US Congress as a sign of gratitude for the supplied weapons.”
Zelensky went to Bakhmut to hand out awards - one mile from the front line.
Day 300!
@DarthPutinKGB 10h
300 days of my 3 day war. I’ve restored Soviet Union!! Economy is ruined, currency is tanking, everyone wants to escape, & were losing disastrous war we blame on USA.
@ChuckPfarrer 4h
"BAKHMUT /1520 UTC 20 DEC/ During the period 19-20 DEC, Ukrainian forces successfully engaged Wagner Group positions up and down the Forward Edge of the Battle Area (FEBA). It is assessed that RU forces, exhausted by a week of heavy combat, could not defend recent gains."
“I’ve restored Soviet Union!! Economy is ruined, currency is tanking, everyone wants to escape, & were losing disastrous war we blame on USA.”
That is good!
Only 1 patriot planned?
“It is assessed that RU forces, exhausted by a week of heavy combat, could not defend recent gains.”
RU lost the Champagne factory in Bakhmut?
For many of the RF, the champagne factory was their ultimate goal.
Its going strictly according to plan.
Wonder if the RuZZian trolls when they are done for the day posting crap, sitting around a bar drinking some vodka, discuss among themselves how Little Pukin led RuZZia into a catastrophe. Gave the ‘West’ the opportunity to destroy RuZZia’s military and taking full advantage of that opportunity...
“Russian Armed Forces equipment losses during the
First Chechen War: 767
Second Chechen War: 292
2008 Russo-Georgian War: 93
2022 Russo-Ukrainian War: 8500”
https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1605225286769209344
RuZZian air superiority. Turkey can just fly airplanes out of the country. What a war.
“Turkish Air Force A400M military transport aircraft depart from Ukraine.”
https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1605224539511742471
That’s what the tweet is saying. The tweet may be inaccurate.
“The Economist names Ukraine ‘country of the year.’
The Economist has chosen Ukraine to be the “country of the year” for 2022 due to “the heroism of its people and for standing up to a bully.””
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1605257082931912718
Could be accurate. I don’t know.
‘1 Patriot’ could also mean 1 Patriot Battery. From some quick research, a battery contains 8 launchers. Each launcher has 4 missiles.
“A typical Patriot battery is a large and complex weapons system, including eight launchers that each hold four missiles. The missiles can fly as high as 79,000 feet and, depending on the type of munition used, they have a range of up to 100 miles, substantially greater than other air defense systems, such as the NASAMS, which the U.S. has provided to Ukraine.”
Yes, it will probably be one battery. I doubt the US would send an incomplete unit.
Poland is getting 4 Patriot batteries.
Since Ukraine is larger than Poland, perhaps they should receive 5 Patriot batteries.
But one is better than none.
“Ukraine is starting to strike back against the RU power grid. Video in the thread.”
“Ukrainian drone attack on electrical substation #Trubchevsk Bryansk Oblast, Russia @Geoconfirmed 52.578139, 33.747157”
https://twitter.com/neonhandrail/status/1605251007575126016
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