Russian invasion of Ukraine | Fewer tweets, more discussion

Real Name said:
How effective Russian air defense is against HIMARS?
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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.
 
Simbo said:
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.
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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
 
buchansleftleg said:
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
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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.
 
tomaldinho1 said:
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.
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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
 
buchansleftleg said:
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
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But what about daylight vs night, isn't that what you asked?
 
buchansleftleg said:
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
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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.
 
calodo2003 said:
Who'd of thunk it?

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Interesting stuff...

One of the accounts describes itself in English as “No woke. No BLM. No gender pronouns … Just Anti-Imperialism.” Purporting to be based in San Francisco, its profile picture shows a blond woman wearing a fur hat with a hammer and sickle badge. Another account’s biographical blurb says it is “Doing my part to stop Western support for the Ukrainian war machine, one taxpayer at a time.” It regularly tweets videos it says show Russians killing Ukrainian soldiers.
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Among the most popular is @Runews, which was around for over a decade before getting a blue check. Describing itself as a “citizen journalist,” it reaches 260,000 followers with sometimes heavy-handed propaganda, such as its repeated recent suggestions that Ohio “should really declare itself part of Ukraine in hopes of receiving aid from Biden administration.” (The statement omitted the word “the,” which is a common mistake by native Russian speakers.)
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The Firestarter said:
It already is?
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the hea said:
Germany, Denmark and Sweden are all investigating it, so far the only official conclusion has been that the leak was caused by a powerful explosions due to sabotage.
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It is just my opinion, but it is weird the secrecy and brush it under the carpet style of the few information that is out there. Pushing investigtion is good. Despite being russia piçushing it, most likely PR stunt
 
Imagine how russian propagandists and news channel would react, if Europe would host concerts with Nato flag over Kremlin lyrics. The hypocracy has no limits over there.
 
VorZakone said:
Interesting stuff...
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Similar tactic as in 2016 when Russian troll farms created fake accounts on Twitter and Facebook to promote Trump by creating ideological schisms between different factions of Republicans, as well as between Dems and Rs.
 
tomaldinho1 said:
It's just bizarre, so bizarre that this is 2023
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Putin has turned the Great Patriotic War (1941-45) into a cult so it’s not surprising that they are playing on this imagery. It’s a history without the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and the subsequent occupation and atrocities in Eastern Poland and the Baltics, and also a history where Russia (not even the USSR) won the war on its own without any help from the US or UK. The level of knowledge about WWII in Russia is abysmal.
 
“Not only is Wagner fighting [along] with the Russians, Prigozhin is forcing the Russian Defense Ministry to recognize [the group]. This is a totally new thing,” said the official, who previously dealt with the group in Mali.

“They have clearly gained militaristic strength but also political stature. We would have never thought that they would become such a huge player.

The fact that he [Putin] now recognizes crazy people basically – criminals, basically – is a change.”
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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/18/russia-wagner-group-ukraine-paramilitary-00083553
 
Russia’s economic output duly contracted by 2.1% last year, according to a preliminary estimate from the government. But the hit was more limited than forecasters initially expected. When sanctions were first imposed, some economists predicted a contraction of 10% or 15%. The International Monetary Fund still expects Russia’s economy to expand by 0.3% this year and 2.1% the next. Yet any outlook is contingent on what happens in Ukraine.
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Some information about the Russia economy in there. Basically, they are holding on even though people hope they will go down eventually, but who knows? etc.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/22/business/russia-economy-ukraine-anniversary/index.html
 
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