So the Boogaloo Boys moved to the Ukraine?
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Aside from drones and the conventional use of artillery and armor, it's interesting to seen how this war will influence airpower.
COMUSAFE/COMAFAFRICA, Gen. James Hecker is on record saying, "Ukrainians almost never take off from an airfield and land at the same airfield…and we need to make sure we’re primed to do that as well."
This presumably includes the Ukrainian use of highways as well. How will this shape U.S. training and operations going forward.
It all harkens back to Cold War strategies.
COMUSAFE/COMAFAFRICA, Gen. James Hecker is on record saying, "Ukrainians almost never take off from an airfield and land at the same airfield…and we need to make sure we’re primed to do that as well."
This presumably includes the Ukrainian use of highways as well. How will this shape U.S. training and operations going forward.
It all harkens back to Cold War strategies.
I'll have to do some digging to find the article, but a few months back, the USMC was training to do just that in California. Old beat up highway. Not used for traffic anymore. Take offs and landings. Refueling and re-arming.
Basically, training to run air ops in an area with crap roads and no airfields. Pot holes included.
I remember the article, because at the same time a crazy German dude I know was criss crossing the US on foot, and tried to walk through that area, and he got picked up by the MPs. I want to say it was on Camp Pendleton.
Safe to say it's not a new idea. Huge support footprints and the need for pristine airfields have long been a weakness of the US brand of air power. A long enough section of road is easy enough to find but it's not as simple as all that. Fuel, munitions and maintenance are hard enough on a MiG made with that kind of support in mind. F-16s? They're good birds but they're not exactly made for such austere support setups. Still, it will be interesting to see how the Ukrainians handle this. We get hide-bound in our AFIs and the quest for perfection in everything. What will the Ukrainians throw out the window? What proves to be a necessity? A lot to learn about our own abilities in the coming months.
Bit late, but seems the Black Sea fleet is not catching a break.
Ukrainians struck another Ropucha-class armed landing ship. This time the "Minsk" and with Storm Shadows, at Sevastopol drydock. But even worse for the Russians, one of their only 6 Improved Kilo-class submarines of the BSF stationed there, was hit as well. Russia officialy confirmed this. However they claim only damaged, but nah, that thing is super gone. Some +$200-300 million. Its the most expensive loss after the Moskva.
Ukrainians struck another Ropucha-class armed landing ship. This time the "Minsk" and with Storm Shadows, at Sevastopol drydock. But even worse for the Russians, one of their only 6 Improved Kilo-class submarines of the BSF stationed there, was hit as well. Russia officialy confirmed this. However they claim only damaged, but nah, that thing is super gone. Some +$200-300 million. Its the most expensive loss after the Moskva.
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Interesting developement.
Ukrainian special services were likely behind a series of drone strikes and a ground operation directed against a Wagner-backed militia near Sudan’s capital, a CNN investigation has found, raising the prospect that the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spread far from the frontlines.
Speaking to CNN, a Ukrainian military source described the operation as the work of a “non-Sudanese military.” Pressed on whether Kyiv was behind the attacks, the source would only say that “Ukrainian special services were likely responsible.” The operation involved a series of attacks on the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which is believed to be receiving assistance from Wagner, the Russian mercenary group, in its fight against the Sudanese army for control of the country.
CNN was unable to independently confirm Ukraine’s involvement in the series of strikes. But video footage obtained by CNN revealed the hallmarks of Ukrainian-style drone attacks. Covert strikes by Ukraine in Sudan would mark a dramatic and provocative expansion of Kyiv’s theater of war against Moscow. Aside from a string of Ukrainian drone attacks that hit deep inside Russian territory, Ukraine’s ongoing counter-offensive has been focused on the country’s occupied east and south.
Ukraine has not officially claimed responsibility for the attacks, which were captured in the drone footage. After this report was published, Andrii Yusov, representative of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, told CNN: “We can neither confirm nor deny this.”
Full Article: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/19/africa/ukraine-military-sudan-wagner-cmd-intl/index.html
Ukrainian special services were likely behind a series of drone strikes and a ground operation directed against a Wagner-backed militia near Sudan’s capital, a CNN investigation has found, raising the prospect that the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spread far from the frontlines.
Speaking to CNN, a Ukrainian military source described the operation as the work of a “non-Sudanese military.” Pressed on whether Kyiv was behind the attacks, the source would only say that “Ukrainian special services were likely responsible.” The operation involved a series of attacks on the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which is believed to be receiving assistance from Wagner, the Russian mercenary group, in its fight against the Sudanese army for control of the country.
CNN was unable to independently confirm Ukraine’s involvement in the series of strikes. But video footage obtained by CNN revealed the hallmarks of Ukrainian-style drone attacks. Covert strikes by Ukraine in Sudan would mark a dramatic and provocative expansion of Kyiv’s theater of war against Moscow. Aside from a string of Ukrainian drone attacks that hit deep inside Russian territory, Ukraine’s ongoing counter-offensive has been focused on the country’s occupied east and south.
Ukraine has not officially claimed responsibility for the attacks, which were captured in the drone footage. After this report was published, Andrii Yusov, representative of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, told CNN: “We can neither confirm nor deny this.”
Full Article: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/19/africa/ukraine-military-sudan-wagner-cmd-intl/index.html
Wait, we should learn about history? Are you fucking mad? Research? Pshaw.
It's all good, our Deputy Prime Minister/Finance Minister is Ukrainian descent. Her grandfather just happened to be the editor of a Nazi rag.
Chrystia Freeland's Grandfather's Nazi Past
14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) - Wikipedia
14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) - Wikipedia
Mind blowing:
What a world in which we live wherein a Communist and his parliament honor a Nazi.
1986, back in the long, long ago, the pre-woke days, a fucking JUDGE declared an SS unit didn't commit war crimes. The first indication it committed war crimes was IT WAS A FUCKING SS DIVISION!!!!!!!!!
I can only imagine what your countrymen who fought around Caen and the 12th SS thought when they saw that...
I can only imagine what your countrymen who fought around Caen and the 12th SS thought when they saw that...
That wide-eyed, deep breath pause is perfect.
"Oh fuck...that's a long, round about way to not say Nazi..."
I’m going out on a limb, but if the guy was a genuine war criminal, he’d be toast. As we know, Israel is relentless in finding perpetrators & if he had form it’s likely he wouldn’t be out n proud. Historically not all Waffen SS were villains, but they do get a bad rap.
