Russian invasion of Ukraine | Fewer tweets, more discussion

Agreed, yet they do all sit there and lap it up don't they.

Yeah I mean I probably would if I was there for self preservation purposes :lol:

But it's so weird hearing a rant translated live - the poor bloke on the BBC translating sounded confused talking between historic injustices of pre-20th century geo politics, flipping to the state shouldn't intervene in peoples private lives which was then immediately followed by "have you see what the Anglican church is doing? bloody gone gender neutral! crazy right!?". Definitely did Putin no favours in terms of delivery, I'm sure.

Anyway, he's pulled out of the nuclear arms treaty. Can't believe the West has forced him to do that, he literally has no choice.

Honestly such a nuts country lead by a mad man.
 
Right...and now everyone knows it.

That's the entire point. To thwart the Russian plan by making it public. Just as the US did when Russians were amassing along the Ukrainian border in early Feb of last year - it ended up disrupting and delaying Putin's plot for a full on invasion, and in the process, bought the Ukrainians critical time to prepare.
 
"The US government estimates that the Wagner group has suffered more than 30,000 causalities, including roughly 9,000 dead in the battle for the city of Bakhmut. About half of those 9,000 have been killed since mid-December, US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said last week. And about 90% of those killed in December were recruited from Russian prisons, he said." - CNN

"Elsewhere, UK intelligence officials have estimated that Russian regular forces and Wagner troops may have suffered between 175,000-200,000 casualties - including 40,000-60,000 deaths." - BBC
 
"The US government estimates that the Wagner group has suffered more than 30,000 causalities, including roughly 9,000 dead in the battle for the city of Bakhmut. About half of those 9,000 have been killed since mid-December, US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said last week. And about 90% of those killed in December were recruited from Russian prisons, he said." - CNN

"Elsewhere, UK intelligence officials have estimated that Russian regular forces and Wagner troops may have suffered between 175,000-200,000 casualties - including 40,000-60,000 deaths." - BBC
Vietnam-esque KIA numbers in 1 year?
 
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Looks like Ukraine is finally applying those 150km range GLSDB in the direction of Mariupol / of course it could still be remaining Tochkas, multiple explosions are reported. Not many options there really.
 
How effective Russian air defense is against HIMARS?

Depends on the munition, but its crap against what has been used up to now. These GLSDB now being delivered however, glide to their targets at slower speeds, so the Russians may have more success against them.
 
Depends on the munition, but its crap against what has been used up to now. These GLSDB now being delivered however, glide to their targets at slower speeds, so the Russians may have more success against them.
But if you fire them at night they have no chance...surveillance during the day and then hit russian positions when they settle in for the night
 
But if you fire them at night they have no chance...surveillance during the day and then hit russian positions when they settle in for the night
Does daylight make any difference though - surely they are picking up an incoming missile on radar and the computer estimates the interception point? I thought issue for Russia is they've run out of the better missiles, I've seen a few articles saying one issue is many of their munitions aren't fast enough, or they're just a bit inept.
 
Does daylight make any difference though - surely they are picking up an incoming missile on radar and the computer estimates the interception point? I thought issue for Russia is they've run out of the better missiles, I've seen a few articles saying one issue is many of their munitions aren't fast enough, or they're just a bit inept.
The GLSDB has terrain avoidance so it can fly low and avoid typical ground to air radar detection. They are a cheaper alternative to a cruise missile and can be used as such. Also they can be co-ordinated to have multiple targets hit at the same time, swamping a particular area and making it difficult to pick up one target
 
The GLSDB has terrain avoidance so it can fly low and avoid typical ground to air radar detection. They are a cheaper alternative to a cruise missile and can be used as such. Also they can be co-ordinated to have multiple targets hit at the same time, swamping a particular area and making it difficult to pick up one target
But what about daylight vs night, isn't that what you asked?
 
The GLSDB has terrain avoidance so it can fly low and avoid typical ground to air radar detection. They are a cheaper alternative to a cruise missile and can be used as such. Also they can be co-ordinated to have multiple targets hit at the same time, swamping a particular area and making it difficult to pick up one target
Are you sure about this? The Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb is just a GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb with an added rocket engine from the old M26 rockets that will fire it to a high altitude from where it will glide to it's target. It has no other propulsion system beyond that and I would assume very limited range gliding at low altitude.