Mortar shells are better for drones as are RPG warheads, high bang to weight factor. My question then is how do you make them safe for handing on the drone and are they recoverable, or is it worth making them recoverable?
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Gotta be some misreporting here. A colonel as acting CO of a Combined Arms Army? No way.Another very not good day for the Russians.
‘Dead Carried Out in Batches’: Storm Shadow Missiles Allegedly Hit Russia’s 8th Army HQ in Donetsk
Drone and missile strikes overnight caused damage and casualties in Russian-held Donetsk and Luhansk. Russian forces reported intercepting dozens of drones over Crimea and southern Russia.
This makes 3 destroyed and 2 damaged Su-34's just in the past week.
Right? US already said no to a 30B arms package Ukraine wanted to buy. The fact this was aid already promised, and I've heard some of it was already in Poland waiting to cross into Ukraine too!
Nooooooot a good look - more on that via Politico:
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Well, it did not take two weeks for this nonsense to be exposed—just two days. It turns out that the US Department of Defense, at that very moment, was working to turn off as much of the remaining aid taps for Ukraine as they could—including the exact air-defense equipment that Trump mentioned. Last night the White House confirmed that the US was stopping some/all of the remaining (Biden-era) shipments of aid to Ukraine including crucial Patriot air defense systems (and other vital material).
This is a shopping list of much of the most important aid that Ukraine desperately needs to fight and without which many more Ukrainians will die. The nightly bombardment of Ukrainian cities will now be more effective for Russia, and the Ukrainian ability to strike back on the Russians will be lessened.
Just as a clarification—not only are the Patriots a crucial part of the Ukrainian air defense network, AIM-7 (Sparrow) missiles and Stingers are further key parts of the Ukrainian air defense network.
If Putin could write a wish list of the weapons he would want Trump to keep from Ukraine—this would be it.
The idea that the US needs these now is also a sham. Many of these weapons would be of dubious value in a war to protect Taiwan (and btw, the US is hardly planning for one I was recently told).
More on Trump appearing to do Vladdy Daddy’s bidding. Or at least trying to appease him.
"Daddy" Just Accelerated The Killing Of Ukrainians
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I have to day, I didn't have panzerturm and flaktowers on my 2025 bingo card.
As I recall from my readings , as originally designed the OV 10 was to use 4.2 inch mortar rounds as droppable ordinance.
I hope he’s right, with my fingers crossed, but either, 1) the Patriots are still flowing (contrary to US Gov’t reports), the 2) UKR guy hasn’t gotten the memo yet, or 3) the UKR guy is being glass-is-half-full by saying “hey, I just saw a patriot missle being dropped off here moments ago, so they must still be coming.” We’ll see …
Sounds like the Politico report was inaccurate, unless these are two separate issues…
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