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To: hcmama

I guess we weren’t prepared for a land war against Russia after all.


5 posted on 02/22/2023 2:07:58 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

You spelled China wrong.


33 posted on 02/22/2023 3:19:57 PM PST by Romulus
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To: SpaceBar

Javelins were never intended to be a primary antitank system. In a normal war, as planned anyway, these infantry ATGMs were there to protect the infantry should any enemy tanks get through all the other antitank systems, starting with air interdiction, artillery, tanks.

In Ukraine the lack of, or inadequacy of, all the other such systems made Javelin relatively more important and much more frequently used, contrary to US doctrine, but necessary due to these different circumstances.

The effect of that use of Javelins (and Stugna, NLAW, etc) was to effectively exterminate all the Russian active armored units in the first few months. The Russians have since proven incapable of resuming mobile warfare.


34 posted on 02/22/2023 3:26:15 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: SpaceBar

That is Foreign Military contract production line years. That does not count what the US and other countries already have in stock.

We probably buy and field the latest configurations of these missiles. That is probably not that same configurations the Ukrainians are getting.


36 posted on 02/22/2023 3:33:49 PM PST by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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