or if the election wasn't rigged.....
Agreed. I've never seen more people who voted for someone who still don't like him as they are controlled by their feelings and now we are being destroyed at record pace. Guess feewins ruined the USA as people can't separate feewins from policy. Wonder how they like a depression and 3M people pouring over the border so far this year and a total frontal assault on capitalism. Communism won't be good foe these people's feewins. lol
wonder if Putin gets that technology if they win? Is this one of those "extra" weapon systems we have just lying around?
I'm assuming the drone(s) send the GPS coordinates to the HIMARS for a strike?
Take a breath. It is 1990's technology. I used it extensively and pretty decisively during the First Gulf War. The area warhead then was DPICM bomblets - 640 per warhead. This leaves no unexploded munitions and is just as lethal.
Good. With Belarus threatening to enter the fray, I hope they serve the same response. Putin's strategy is uncivilized.
Thanks to Starlink and their home grown command and control software, they can have rounds on the way within about three or four minutes of target acquisition (notice how quickly they killed the launcher and ammunition truck that had moved out and stopped.) It takes the Russians at least a half hour to accomplish the same thing if it ever gets fired at all. The Russians have top down fire planning. Someone with rank provides a list of targets for the unit to fire, and they begin working the list. And of course they would be trying to accomplish the same thing with area fire weapons rather than precision strike. Such situational and opportunity driven decision making is pretty unique to the Western way of war.
then how could Russia have nothing so lethal?
Because they are corrupt from top to bottom, because they are not nearly so innovative as we are, and because they have an economy the size of Texas with which to try and create modern capabilities. That said, we have always credited them with peer weapon systems. We can' afford to find out on the battlefield that we underestimated them in some way. But a lot is getting exposed - which is a major reason China seems to be distancing itself a bit more every day.
good to hear. That's odd since I was told above they are a huge threat and we need to fight a proxy war with them.
You would certainly know better than I, but from my study of military history, what has made nation states and militaries which formed out of the Peace of Westphalia so effective at war fighting is they have to one degree or another placed heavy emphasis on decentralizing a lot of decision making, at least when compared to Asian armies, and I include the Russians as part of that inferior model. This decentralization common in western militaries encourages the growth of leadership qualities all the way down to junior NCOs.
ANY choice except leftists (distinct from liberals) will be nice!
With regard to conventional warfare it seems like both their models have been typified by waves of Chinese soldiers in Korea, or waves of every-other-man-armed soldiers in the battle for Stalingrad thus depending on masses of uninformed, obedient cannon fodder for success. Now they are having refusals from certain quarters to be said cannon fodder. Interesting.
