With Trump is leading in polls 49% and Biden slipping to 43% and Biden's 13th-Quarter Approval Average Lowest Historically...None of the other nine presidents elected to their first term since Dwight Eisenhower had a lower 13th-quarter average than Biden. denying and not planning for such outcome is just idiotic at this point. Regardless how you feel about Trump, any politician that doesn't plan for Trumps presidency to later claim any such outcome as totally unexpected should be laughed out of politics right now. It's like some politicians acting that they just found out that Russia has 3x population to Ukraine.
Looks like Forbes also puts GLSDB range at about 150km
"One company, I won't say who they are, came up with a really cool idea of taking an air-to-ground weapon and doing a ground launch version of it, and it would be a long-range fire weapon. They raced and did it as fast as they could, we even limited the testing in this country. We said, look just test for safety... And then we sent it to Ukrainians. It didn't work," explained LaPlante.
He explained that these munitions failed to perform for several reasons, including:
・interference from electronic warfare systems,
・typical debris and ground use,
・tactical application peculiarities.
Presumably, LaPlante was referring to the recently developed GLSDB missiles from Boeing, which were based on the GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bomb (SDB). Their testing concluded in December last year, and the first confirmed use against Russians appeared in February this year.
LaPlante summarized the situation, emphasizing that "when you send something to people in fight for their lives, and it doesn't work, they'll try it three times and then they'll just throw it aside. So that's happened".
Wow what a great strategy in just 6 bullet point! But are you saying this is totally new, like really no one thought to implement such basic strategy in the previous 2+ years of fighting? Do you think that's because they're just totally incompetent or it was by design?
Firstly, I did not take you for such a short sighted one, unless you are again trying to cover up. Even 1 nuke changes the game. There is a qualitative gap between 0 nukes and even 1 nuke, I dare say, more than between 10 and 20. So yes, 1000 nukes in Europe, inclusive of Germany, are more than enough to create second thoughts on anyone trying to invade. It is simple: even if 5 nukes pass the defences and get to Moscow... well, there is no Moscow.
On Trump, well, who knows. He says he intends to end the war in 48 hours... he does not say how and he has said so many things... The gap with Biden, whatever you say, I have seen pols with just a tiny difference.
Glad to know that Ukis can send the glide bombs at around 150Km, I would not have imagined that kind of rangeeven for the smaller units, it kind of make the F16 strategy more interesting.
The deputy US Secretary of defence for Acquisition is just a pencil pusher. You can choose to give credit to his opinion or to retired generals trying to make a buck here and there. I have been looking at the front and some of the Ukrainian strikes and lead me to think that "not working" is nor really a thing.
Re the bullet points, well, if you want a full text, you can look at my previous posts. I mean, if you like heavy documents that you are not going to read nor probably understand, you have them there. it is funny because the official strategy published matches quite a bit of the points I put forward. Maybe I should take a job on this.
Again please stop with your moronic statements about nukes. Even if 1 nuke goes to Moscow that would mean that there is no more world. That's like saying what would happen if one nuke from Belarus makes it to Washington. Reshuffling nukes within NATO makes no difference. Also stop pretending that Russia is planning on attacking Germany, as if NATO didn't have article 5, and pretending that Russia and Germany weren't building more gas pipelines directly between each other to bypass Ukraine before 2014, before someone decided to blow up some of them.
Sure there are no guarantees with Trump, but at this point it's more likely than not. Basing your whole foreign policy on that not happening just means you're trying to fool your own people.
Well, when it's between top pentagon official and a forum member without citations think you know who we all believe more.
You're not explaining why such basic strategy, which even you can see hasn't been implemented yet? Incompetence or by design?
https://t.me/breakingmash/54061
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-drone-attack-oil-refinery-bashkortostan-1898844
This time it seems that not much damage was made, but only fact that drone went all this long distance unnoticed is crazy. Well, unless it was released from inside Russia.
Russia put Two Ukrainian hydroelectric power plants out of operation so this was the response. Also speculating that they just launching them from within Russia, there's definitely enough space to launch whatever you want and not be seen for kilometers.