MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
good start, pity they need at least that many per week
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good start, pity they need at least that many per weekFrance to donate 3,000 155mm rounds monthly for Ukraine's artillery | Defense News January 2024 Global Security army industry | Defense Security global news industry army year 2024 | Archive News year
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French book keeping is " different " i have worked with some companies. I tell you it can go 3 ways:
- good start, pity they need at least that many per week
And then somegood start, pity they need at least that many per week
The man speaks from experience I can attest to…sighFrench book keeping is " different " i have worked with some companies. I tell you it can go 3 ways:
Notice i said 3 ways. Now... the ones in the know, will acknowledge i have worked with the French.
- No shells will ever never be sent.
- Shells were made, paid for, but lost in translation.
- Some shells will be made and probably sent. After Pierre gets his ass in gear in the magazine room. Ask nicely. Trust me
- Just a slight minor mistake, or better let me say an oversight ( yes Pierre left his glasses home when reading the order) 30.000 shells will be sent every month.
- Being French management they can not accept a fault on their part so 30.000 will be sent no questions allowed.
I would add the followingFrench book keeping is " different " i have worked with some companies. I tell you it can go 3 ways:
Notice i said 3 ways. Now... the ones in the know, will acknowledge i have worked with the French.
- No shells will ever never be sent.
- Shells were made, paid for, but lost in translation.
- Some shells will be made and probably sent. After Pierre gets his ass in gear in the magazine room. Ask nicely. Trust me
- Just a slight minor mistake, or better let me say an oversight ( yes Pierre left his glasses home when reading the order) 30.000 shells will be sent every month.
- Being French management they can not accept a fault on their part so 30.000 will be sent no questions allowed.
My data is certainly not current.US/NATO intel believes most of the Russian combat aircraft cannot detect the modern low observable S&T/TWS phased array radars - for whatever reason (it is presumed due to expense) most their systems have not been updated. Most of their combat aircraft can detect high power search and/or SAR/CW/PD lock-ons depending on the aircraft type and purpose. Unfortunately for most of today's Russian combat aircrew, systems like the Patriot use low observable phased array radars to search for and track their target, and to indicate the target. When you combine this with the ability to launch some variants of the missile without lock on before launch and use mid-course guidance to send the missile into the terminal basket - whereupon at longer ranges the targeting radar will 'blip' at high power to indicate the target, allowing the missile to lock on to the selected target with its onboard active terminal homing radar. At short to medium ranges the 'blip' may not even be needed, only a mid-course signal, and the first thing the target aircraft's pilot or REO will know of an incoming missile is the RWR signal from the missile's onboard active radar lock-on. The time from when the RWR goes off to impact when this is done well can be less than 2 seconds.
Where will the fault line break....?Another aspect where the war is hurting. Both Russia and the world, but specially Russia.
News in depth: Russian researchers disappear from academic conferences as isolation bites
Since leaving the USSR in 1990, the Moscow-born oncologist Andrei Gudkov has acted as something of a bridge between US and Russian science. A professor at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in New York state, he has for three decades carried out joint research projects with Russian...sciencebusiness.net
I would add a couple of things to my earlier comment. If NATO proper were to go head-to-head with the Russians, some advantages they would have that the Ukrainians do not are:It's not so easy in reality. Unless using the likes of F-35s, then the reality is that the air defence environment in Ukraine (and arguable elsewhere if this were to escalate) is extremely challenging. It isn't just the case of using some new countermeasure systems either. If it were the case then the west could easily have said to the Ukrainians ages ago "here, go bolt this onto your Su-24s, Su-25s and MiG-29s and go use your airpower to end this thing". This is also something that worries me about the F-16s that many seem to think will be some sort of silver bullet.
I am thinking the driver's underwear is a total write-off after this...
Ukrainian FPV drone stuck in Russian military truck’s windshield
A unique incident occurred when one of the First-Person View (FPV) drones attempted to target a Russian military truck and was stuck in the windshield of a vehicle. A tiny Ukrainian kamikaze drone hit the Kamaz truck's cabin but became stuck in the windshield without detonating. FPV drones have...defence-blog.com
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I agree.I highly doubt they produce 100 tanks per month (complete new-built). At least half of this is refurbishing/reactivating older tanks (if not more).