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I'm not familiar with the Brimstone missile but it sure has a descriptive name.
I've seen this idiot's FB page - the crap she posts is beyond the fringe of reality.
And there's actually people who beleive her fantasy-trippin' bullshit.
Penny Giorgalis Stafyla
Alright. I had to look this b*tch up. Hope she chokes on a "bent carrot".Information!
The bacon is for Patron.A senior U.S. defense official says the Pentagon is seeing "limited offensive operations" by Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, which the U.S. views as a "prelude" for larger Russian attacks still to come.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia's offensive in eastern Ukraine has begun, and Russian officials have made similar comments.
The U.S. official stressed he was not attempting to contradict these statements.
Rather, he says, the U.S. sees Russia doing two things: building up its forces in the east and conducting limited attacks in preparation for larger ones to come.
Russian forces are stepping up troop movements and artillery fire outside two eastern towns, Donetsk and Izium.
The U.S. believes Russia is trying to avoid the mistakes it made during its initial invasion, when it didn't have enough food, fuel and other supplies needed for an extended fight.
And in a related article:
Since the weekend, Ukraine's second-biggest city, Kharkiv, has been shelled incessantly by Russian forces. Officials say three civilians were killed on Tuesday.
The governor says that the shelling has intensified in the past few days and that residents should stay underground as much as possible.
Previous strikes on Kharkiv had been concentrated in the northern suburbs. But Russian troops are now lobbing shells and missiles closer to the center of the city.
Denis Parkhomenko, a 22-year-old programmer now living in a metro station near the center of the city, says that more than 50 days into this war, he can no longer tell whether things are getting better or worse.
"We just adapted," he says. "We just know what we must do."
Residents just know that when they hear the whizzing of the missiles and the pounding of the shells, they go underground.
Both may be read here.
Interesting article, seen similar posted on other outlets. What I find funny is this;I found this interesting in the NYT:
"The Pentagon has urged manufacturers to ramp up production. So far, some 7,000 Javelins have been given to Ukraine, about a third of the total American inventory, which will probably take three or four years to replace, wrote Mark F. Cancian of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington."
Will the United States Run Out of Javelins Before Russia Runs Out of Tanks?
The United States has supplied Ukraine with thousands of Javelins, but U.S. inventory is dwindling. Will Javelins inflict enough Russian combat losses to produce a battlefield stalemate before Ukraine runs out of its most effective anti-tank weapons?www.csis.org
However, the one thing that's not being mentioned, is how much Russia has used so far versus their inventory numbers.
They have been pounding Ukraine cities and other targets for nearly two months with missiles, rockets and artillery - how is their inventory holding up?
Russian math - take the total number, divide by three.
Then take that number and divide by half.
That is the "rounded up number" that *may* be close to factual.
Finally Canada.... sheesh...
Fair point. It's just the artillery could have been loaded onto a pair of CC-177s a month ago. What are those two C-130Js doing? They're short ranged transports.I'm not proud of our numbers and, like you, wish we could do more and hope that we will. My concern here is that, though Canada already has a deserved reputation for being a laggard when it comes to military spending, we don't need to further undermine this perception by inferring that we've been sitting on our hands and doing nothing in this fight.
Let's applaud the commitment to send the artillery and keep our fingers crossed that our red tape doesn't prevent it from being loaded on to our C-17s starting today.
This point is very important and is what many including myself have been wondering about for a while.However, the one thing that's not being mentioned, is how much Russia has used so far versus their inventory numbers.
They have been pounding Ukraine cities and other targets for nearly two months with missiles, rockets and artillery - how is their inventory holding up?
The expenditure in ammunition sounds like it is high and can it be sustained given the Russian lack of ability to fund it.