The Brink of War?

[cdnmatt]

I'm just curious as to whether it was Ukraine or the US who carried out those strikes in Russia?

Russia has excellent radar and air defense systems, so an air base being struck 400km within their territory and nobody knows who did it raises an eyebrow for me. Not to mention, Ukraine isn't known to possess this type of technology / weaponary. Who knows, maybe the US is testing out their new B21 stealth bomber.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uLrGT-gfOI

Only problem with that though is if it was the US, they wouldn't have managed to just get a couple planes, and instead there wouldn't be an airbase there anymore.

[Dodger]

I'm just curious as to whether it was Ukraine or the US who carried out those strikes in Russia?

Russia has excellent radar and air defense systems......

If Russian air defense systems are being managed by the same military officers who are running the ground-game in Ukraine it doesn't matter how "excellent" the systems are.

Why do you think Putin ordered his military to put the brakes on his offensive immediately after this happened? Then, 24 hours later, he's back to saber rattling again - tossing the word "nuclear" out there - all because he's back to pooping in his pants again knowing how vulnerable Russia actually is to air attacks.

He better have a good supply of pampers.

[Moses]

Why do you think Putin ordered his military to put the brakes on his offensive immediately after this happened? .

Who said what anybody "put brakes". Russia makes hits every Monday. then week waits for Ukrainians to fix damage and to install new equipment, and after week destroys that again. No need to make hits every day, hits once a week make more damage... EU soon will have empty warehouses for spare parts for power stations.

[Dodger]

Putin, who is known to be an extremely paranoid person, is now being devoured by his own fears.

What does a paranoid narcisist do when he's failed and has no where to turn? Answer: He becomes bloodthirsty for revenge in his final moments of desperation and turns to fear mongering as a last resort. That's exactly what we're seeing now.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/09/e...ntl/index.html

The willingness of NATO nations to continue providing any/all support needed to defeat Putin is simply unshakable...regardless of all the desperate fear mongering tactics Putin tries to use. It's simply too late for that. The World can see through him.

[cdnmatt]

It'll be nice once those Patriot missile systems get deployed to Ukraine. Then maybe they'll get some permanent electricity and water again.

Oh, and I almost forgot. Fuck Putin.

[Moses]

It'll be nice once those Patriot missile systems get deployed to Ukraine. Then maybe they'll get some permanent electricity and water again.

Oh, and I almost forgot. Fuck Putin.

Zero chance: "Patriot" can't intercept even "Iskander" (2100 m/sec), speaking about "Kinzhal" - don't think about: 4000 m/sec. And cherry on the top of the tort - "Avangard" just arrived to army, there is no any way to intercept it - up to 27Mah (33000 km/hour or 9000 m/sec).

"Patriot" is too old - up to 1600 m/sec. By the way: every launch costs 1.5-3 mln USD, and you will pay for it.

[cdnmatt]

Zero chance: "Patriot" can't intercept even "Iskander", speaking about "Kinzhal" - don't think about. And cherry on the top of the tort - "Avangard" just arrived to army - there is no any way to intercept it - up to 27Mah (33000 km/hour).

"Patriot" is too old.

Considering the amount of propaganda coming out from the Kremlin, I would beg to differ.

I think during this war, it's been very well proven that Western technology beats Russian technology. There's kind of no other conclusion you can come to.

[Moses]

Considering the amount of propaganda coming out from the Kremlin, I would beg to differ.

I think during this war, it's been very well proven that Western technology beats Russian technology. There's kind of no other conclusion you can come to.

Yeah, that why Turkey prefers C-400 and C-500 from Russia... Sure-sure...

USA loose hypersonic rally to Russia and China... still testing and get faults...

By the way: under the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, a US inspection group was shown the Avangard missile system with the hypersonic boost-glide vehicle on the territory of Russia on November 24-26, 2019

[cdnmatt]

You betcha, you little dreamer you.

The Patriot missile systems being deployed into Ukraine quite obviously spooks the Kremlin, so they're hardly out of date.

[Moses]

You betcha, you little dreamer you.

The Patriot missile systems being deployed into Ukraine quite obviously spooks the Kremlin, so they're hardly out of date.

Matty, don't be stupid. This paper has been presented to US Congress just 5 days ago: https://sgp.fas.org/crs/weapons/R45811.pdf

It is overview of current situation with hypersonic weapon. Only two nations have hypersonic weapons in army: Russia and China. Doesn't exists any missile what may intercept it.

Qouta:
Former Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USD[R&E]) Michael Griffin has testified to Congress that the United States does not “have systems which can hold [China and Russia] at risk in a corresponding manner, and we don’t have defenses against [their] systems".