"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (3 Viewers)

GTX · Sep 21, 2024

AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon To Equip Ukraine's F-16s: Report

JSOW was always the most likely standoff munition to equip Ukraine's donated F-16s and it can provide precision attack capabilities over about 70 miles.

www.twz.com

Time for payback re glide bombs!!

Jabberwocky · Sep 21, 2024

Ukraine got another major ammunition depot

View: https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1837397549424021743

Other video shows secondary explosions continuing ~12 hours later.

That's three major ammo depots hit now - two around Toropets and one at Tikhoretsky.

There are some estimates that if everything in those munitions storage areas went up, it could be equivalent to a couple months of ammunition expenditure.

Denniss · Sep 21, 2024

Ukrainians switched from attacking fuel depots to ammo depots. Russian air defense has to play catch-up with Ukrainian Ops to cover possible targets.
So what type of target is next? Airbases may need some visits to ge rid of some aircraft.

buffnut453 · Sep 21, 2024

Jabberwocky said:
Ukraine got another major ammunition depot

View: https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1837397549424021743

Other video shows secondary explosions continuing ~12 hours later.

That's three major ammo depots hit now - two around Toropets and one at Tikhoretsky.

There are some estimates that if everything in those munitions storage areas went up, it could be equivalent to a couple months of ammunition expenditure.

The impacts will likely be longer lasting because of the infrastructure that's been destroyed. A key challenge for Russia is where to put any replacement munitions so that their logistics chain can keep working at maximum capacity.

These attacks are really smart, IMHO. I just wish they'd been executed earlier in the year. Moscow now has the winter to reconstitute (although I imagine rebuilding infrastructure during the Russian winter will present some challenges).

Glider · Sep 21, 2024

Dimlee said:
Step by step...

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/first-ukrainian-pilots-complete-training-on-alphajet-jet-trainers-in-france/

I wonder if Alpha Jet with AIM-9 (if supplied to Ukraine) can become a part of air defence in future, replacing F-16s in the rear.

There was a period I think in the 1980's where RAF pilots trained using the Tornado as a 'combatant' radar control and AIM-9 equipped Hawks as low level combat fighters. The idea being that the Tornado could handle the BVR fighting and help guide the Hawk into the close range knife fighting which it was quite good at.

GrauGeist · Sep 21, 2024

With these recent fuel and ammunition depot strikes happening, it appears that we are seeing the results of Ukraine's systematic destruction of Russian air defense systems over the summer.