New US-made longer-range bomb expected to arrive as soon as Wednesday in Ukrainedr Cassandra Nojdh skrev: ↑onsdag 24 januari 2024 0:27 Det strategiskt viktigaste för Ukraina är alltjämt att så långt möjligt förstöra alla ryska militärbas-faciliteter på Krim, oavsett om det rör sig om marin- eller flygbaser.
Jag hoppas att ryssarna inte läser västliga medier. Vid Dzjankoj finns en av de största militärbaserna på halvön och i närheten av orten finns även en flygbas:POLITICO skrev:The Pentagon has successfully tested a new long-range precision bomb for Ukraine that is expected to arrive on the battlefield as soon as Wednesday, according to two U.S. officials and two other people with knowledge of the talks.
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The weapon, co-developed by Boeing and Saab, is made up of a precision-guided 250-pound bomb strapped to a rocket motor and fired from various ground launchers. The U.S. military has a similar version of the bomb that is air-launched, but a ground-launched version does not yet exist in U.S. inventory.
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Ukraine will be the first country to use the bomb in combat, making it a critical test case for other countries that have been snapping up long-range munitions since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Hjälper verkligen skenmål som har blivit allmänt kända?Brady Africk skrev:As Ukrainian long-range strike capabilities have grown, so has the number of decoys at Russian air bases involved in the invasion of Ukraine.
This thread shows several of the decoys Russian forces have painted at air bases that were once beyond Kyiv’s reach. (1/8)
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Russian decoy aircraft appeared at bases in Crimea too.
These are the most important Russian ships destroyed by Ukrainedr Cassandra Nojdh skrev: ↑tisdag 30 januari 2024 18:10 "Vinna slaget om Svarta Havet" är en överdrift, mycket mer återstår att göra. Det ukrainska kustartilleriet håller ryssarna borta från västsidan av Krim vilket säkrar handelsvägen mot rumänskt territorialvatten, direkta attacker mot den ryska flottan är förstås svårare, och beroende på tillgången till långräckviddiga vapen.
Överdrift eller inte, men listan över ryska fartyg som Ukraina har likviderat är imponerande.The Kyiv Independent skrev:One of the most unexpected developments of the full-scale invasion was how many big, expensive Russian ships were taken out by Ukraine, a country that technically has no navy.
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In fact, Ukraine’s seaborne exports of agricultural and industrial goods have already returned to their pre-war level, Volodymyr Zablotskyi, a naval expert at the Defense Express think-tank, told the Kyiv Independent. This is a big deal, considering that the country's ports on the Azov Sea are held by Russia, with only those in Odesa Oblast and on the Danube River still operational.
The Black Sea Fleet had three main jobs during the full-scale invasion: amphibious assaults, blockading trade, and attacking Ukraine with missiles. Now, it can only manage the third one, and even this has become harder, according to Dmitry Gorenburg, a senior research scientist at the U.S.-based Center for Naval Analyses (CNA).
Kuwait is considering sending more than 100 T-84 tanks to Ukraine
Rysk propaganda gör gällande att Ukraina kan få stridsvagnar från Kuwait, ett annat land som räddades av väst. Tank Encyclopedia har ett uppslag om M-84.Avia.pro skrev:The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah, who died in December 2023, left behind the question of the fate of Kuwaiti M-84AV tanks. Kuwait is reportedly considering sending more than 100 of these tanks to Croatia for overhaul and modernization at the Djuro Djakovic engineering holding's facility in Slavonski Brod. The possibility of transferring modernized tanks to Ukraine is also being discussed.