Posted on 04/03/2023 9:17:41 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
LOL. Another post the usual suspects will avoid.
I wonder if Prigozhin is going to give Pedo Scott Ritter the old sledgehammer treatment.
Hilarious how dismissive they are of Ritter after all of his “service”. Russians really do consider themselves the master race. Third Rome yada yada yada.
“Kremlin plans Victory Parade this year”
Reality will not be invited…
Where are you seeing that?
The US Air Force sent F-35s to defend NATO. Here’s what it learned.
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2023/03/31/the-us-air-force-sent-f-35s-to-defend-nato-heres-what-it-learned/
Excellent information! Thanks for posting.
FTA: This afternoon there were radio interceptions of the enemy's communications...
Panic in the RU trenches as well?
Hopefully, there will be an air campaign with JDAMs, GLSDBs, and HIMARs before the ground campaign starts.
I read earlier that RU is running short of counter battery radars.
HARMs are doing their job!
I am currently in England...the bombing in St. Pete is big news on BBC.
At this unstoppable rate the Russian army might have made it to the Polish border by now and ww2 would still be going on
Well maybe not after all this is a pmc not the Russian army
“Hopefully, there will be an air campaign with JDAMs, GLSDBs, and HIMARs before the ground campaign starts.”
That is OPLAN 101. No way any plan could progress through development without preparing that. The only question is how much it has been resourced. It simply must be (and all indicators I’ve seen are that it will be) a noticeable increase in the rate of fire (an indicator to watch for). It should be (at a minimum) resourced to achieve Operational effects, with certain types of targets prioritized, to kick the legs out from under Russian forces.
“I read earlier that RU is running short of”…
That is one of the key effects that preparations for the Operation should achieve - short of most everything in general, and some critical things in particular. Conditions must be set for Russian collapse, before assault forces are launched.
The Air Campaign for Desert Storm had a long lead time ahead of D-Day for the assault. Backward planning from when the weather is expected to clear (assuming that supply and training are not schedule constraints), I expect preparatory and shaping fires this month, with the main assault date subject to achieving pre-conditions.
At a maxim of 7km every 6 months it would take 200 years to get to the English Channel.
The story setting takes place in Feb 2022 just before and at the start of the invasion.
Excerpts:
“Their mission: Vacuum up as much electronic data as possible from the surface-to-air missiles and aircraft dotting Eastern Europe to build a map to guide NATO operations. And, if the situation spilled into NATO countries, to add some muscle.”
“The jet didn’t always recognize objects around it, since assets like air defense systems have digital ways of evading notice.”
“For instance, Andrle said: “We’re looking at an Sa-20 [NATO’s name for the S-300 surface-to-air missile system]. I know it’s an Sa-20. Intel says there’s an Sa-20 there, but now my jet doesn’t ID it as such, because that Sa-20 is operating, potentially, in a war reserve mode that we haven’t seen before.”
For GLSDBs and HIMARs, number of missiles is key.
For JDAMs and HARMs, sortie generation rate will also be a key factor.
Hopefully, the Polish and Slovakian MiGs being delivered will include adequate supplies for an extended air campaign.
“The US Air Force sent F-35s to defend NATO. Here’s what it learned.”
Good article. Thanks for posting.
A number of NATO and other countries have their own F-35s operational, with many more on the way.
The deployment of US F-22s to Poland is much more significant.
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