At first glance, it might seem wasteful to use a $200,000+ missile to shoot down a $10,000 drone, but if it can save lives, it's much better than the alternative. Using a Gepard anti-aircraft cannon (literally Flak) system is more resource-efficient, but of course, these aren't everywhere.
Still curious how and why air-to-air missiles are ground-launched. Then again, the German IRIS-T is also originally an air-to-air missile, adapted for surface-to-air use as the IRIS-T SLS and IRIS-T SLM.
Thanks for at least addressing some of my points.
So all “Wagner” presence left in the world is now Russian MOD.
Then why even call it Wagner anymore? But that's a minor point.
And if the videos prove it or not is separate from the point I made.
Fine. Then provide some other evidence, please.
Doing the most damage to your enemy and keeping them off balance is the “game”. And if the MOD has to retask troops to protect their foreign holdings, Ukraine wins double.
In this case, by MOD you mean the Russian MOD? That makes some sense.
Russians can stop all of that by withdrawing to pre 2014 borders.
Undoubtedly, and in my opinion that's the only option worth discussing.
Right. Reddit has arrived. Ad-hominem attacks without addressing the actual points. Thank you.
A small group of purpose trained soldiers can be hell for the Russian military abroad
Wagner Group isn't "the Russian Military", it's a private paramilitary organisation. Mercenaries by any other name.
And how is that more efficient than fighting them in Ukraine? Where, besides creating "hell" for Wagner and/or Russian fighters, they would also directly protect Ukrainians' lives.
Also, strong reddit vibes here with all the downvotes, just because people don't like an opinion, or someone dare criticise anything Ukraine does. Or in this case, is alleged to be doing: none of the videos provides any kind of evidence. Just random people doing random war stuff.
Naja, genauer gesagt steht da "aerodynamische Forschung". (Was auch Käse ist. Die Forschung ist ja nicht aerodynamisch. Korrekt müsste es wohl "Aerodynamik-Forschung" heißen.) Aber ist schon komisch formuliert. So als wäre das eine Technologie, die - ganz neu - jetzt auch auf die Luftfahrt angewendet werden kann!
Ukraine can spare forces to fight in another country? That sounds wrong and inefficient.
Yes, it only works temporarily, or requires some additional clever means of carrying the body heat away in a less obvious way, such as ventilation. You can't fool nature (i. e. thermodynamics).
heat builds up inside until either the person in it gets cooked
That's how winter clothing works, in a nutshell. Eventually, all heat generated by the body needs to be shed; with better insulation, that equilibrium shifts towards a higher temperature on the inside.
"Advanced weapons", showing a parking lot full of AK-style submachine guns. That's about as un-advanced as it gets.
Not so much server-based, but the experimental part of "lab" is well covered: I replaced my late-2013 27" iMac's internal HDD with an SSD. It's a really delicate procedure, as the display is glued to the chassis; it needs to be cut loose and very carefully removed (it's tempered glass), and then re-glued with special adhesive strips. But the performance gain is worth it. In addition, it also now runs Ventura, even with the nVIDIA card, thanks to OpenCore Legacy Patcher. Feels like a new machine now, and is perfectly adequate even for small video editing tasks with its 32 GB RAM.
They are not "analogues" of the Leopard 2, they are actual Leopard 2 variants, comparable to the 2A5 variant, just given a Swedish designation.
So, is it just literally more missiles to restock the launchers already in Ukraine? Or more complete Patriot systems? Even after reading the article I couldn't tell.