What he said. When the Patriot system started killing Khinzels, it was hit by debris. Russian trolls on the internet immediately claimed a “dead Patriot” for what turned out to be like an hours work when they realized the system was behaving oddly…
That being said, if they really did kill an S400, I guess that means it wasn’t an S400 that allegedly shot down a HIMARS rocket the other day.
Don’t think that value includes “items in the ship” (like aircraft) as part of the weight. This article seems to lay out what some of the differences are. Seems to boil down to “not evey Navy counts every canoe that they own”.
I suppose a few trillion dollars per year will do that though
Yep, American Un-Healthcare at its finest 😁
Depends on how you count “size”. US Navy is 4th in ship count, 1st in tonnage at 3.5m tons.
Russia is second at 800,000 tons
China is third at 700,000 tons
Japan is fourth at 400,000 tons
Please show me where any country is “shitting themselves over Russia” after the master stroke in self destruction Russia has displayed in Ukraine?
How did they justify this statement? A press release from Putin.
Effectively, yes.
The consortium just linked to the original story from Indian Punchline (the author’s personal blog) where the author quoted the statement from a TASS article.
It’s not hard hitting, factual news. It’s an OpEd piece from a blogger.
If we wrapped Robert Parry’s corpse with copper wire and surrounded his casket with magnets, we could probably power a small city with the electricity from him turning over in his grave at how far Consortium News has fallen in publishing articles like this.
You’re correct, it was the truck
The B52s that started Gulf War came from Louisiana. They flew nonstop to the Middle East then returned to their base in the U.S. 35 hours of flight time with no stopovers…
Guam to Korea is a short stroll.
I’m sure they say they are. I’ll still doubt their capability
Not talking artillery here. Talking small arms ammo. I’m pretty sure Russia doesnt come close to producing 2m artillery rounds per year. Saw an article the other day about them running out of artillary barrels. If they couldn’t manufacture enough barrels to keep up with shooting, I doubt their general manufacturing capacity.
Outside of that, that’s two million non-NATO small arms rounds being donated by the private sector. Pretty sure the government would send M4s and SAWs with 5.56.
You have to wonder if Putin’s ass is jealous of the shit his mouth spews.
Russians and their fan-bois need to chest beat over whatever they can find at this point.
7% of just the one type… Not of all tanks. That being said, I get where you’re coming from. 14 Challengers, 31 Abrams… Guess it’s going to boil down to if the countries can/will replace the losses.
Yeah, that’s what I wasn’t following. MBTs are going to need repairs, no matter how heavily armored, when you run them over a minefield, hit them with anti tank missles or drones. APVs aren’t designed to survive that, just to keep the occupants alive from something that would have turned them into a thick red mist.
Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article.
The complaint about armor (tanks) being destroyed seems odd. Last report I saw had them losing five of the 70 Leopards and a single Challenger so far.
I wonder if the complaint is directed at the amount of maintenance/depot work that needs to be done to keep them running. That would kind of make sense. Countries that donated them have significantly more of them than donated, so cycling them through depot repair would barely be a cause for concern.
Don’t recall anyone saying it would be a few weeks. Don’t doubt some people said it would only be a few weeks, just don’t remember it.
From the start of the invasion, it was two months one week and three days to topple the Taliban government.
Unfortunately, then next 19 years were apparently a waste since the regime that replaced the Taliban didn’t actually want to fight for themselves.
Guess it depends on the definition of “lasts”. With Iraq, Coalition forces rolled through the third largest military in under two months.
Germany need 35 days to take Poland and six weeks for Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France in WWII.
Russia figured they were on par with other modern militaries for their special smoothbrain operation. Why wouldn’t it be fast? 🙄
There’s oil there, Alaska isn’t going anywhere.