War in Ukraine

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LouderVol said:
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https://defence-blog.com/russia-uses-wooden-drones-to-deceive-ukrainian-air-defense-systems/?amp

Wooden drones. Although this is saying it's done to be cheap and to soak up Ukraine air defense.

Sounds like I was off base thinking you could go kow tech around the air defenses, but this was done on purpose, so maybe they did something else to increase the signature?
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It would be fairly trivial to affix a radar reflector to those drones and well within the payload limits stated in the article. And reflectors are easy and cheap to fabricate.
 
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These stories about pro-Ukrainian Russian Volunteers are stunning. Early reports have Russian military having to redirect troops up to the border area and that the Volunteers have gone a couple of miles into Russia.

I read one quote from one of their leaders saying that it was common knowledge they could go "buy" a tank at a Russian facility if they had enough money.
 
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It’s kinda weird Ukraine is sovereign country which was decided 91-93ish and was invaded twice by another country, but it seems in the US China is the number 1 enemy based only on maybe dozen countries that Taiwan is a sovereign nation.
 
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Hunerwadel said:
My war strategy aptitude is evidently near zero. I have no idea what these people are trying to do.
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Maybe they are just sick and tired of decisions coming their way from Moscow, being a roadway to Ukraine, and they've decided they are mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore. Could be simpler than you think - no strategy other than kill those other Russians.
 
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Velo Vol said:
Interesting regarding the cost of weapons.

How the Pentagon falls victim to price gouging by military contractors
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Interesting, and guess who was president, commander in chief, and had his own SecDef in 1993 ... wanna guess there was money to be made on that contraction of defense contractors?

It wasn't always like this, he said. The roots of the problem can be traced to 1993, when the Pentagon, looking to reduce costs, urged defense companies to merge and 51 major contractors consolidated to five giants.
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NorthDallas40 said:
This is spot on and frankly I think it’s worse than the article illustrates. Under the current system there is no reason to try and save costs in so many cases inefficiency is frankly rewarded. The article lays blame wholly on the contractors. The government is is just as culpable. And the two groups are frankly ridiculously inbred.
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It's also hard to hit a moving target, and the military has not been known for supplying a solid technical spec and keeping to it.
 
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AM64 said:
It's also hard to hit a moving target, and the military has not been known for supplying a solid technical spec and keeping to it.
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Back when I started a long time ago in a galaxy far far away the bid specifications were frankly pretty detailed. That’s both a good and a bad thing as it’s easy to over constrain a contractor’s response. But a good gov contract mgr could balance that.

Today at the other end of the spectrum we’ve sometimes gone to an abomination called a “performance specification” which from my experience is laughable in many cases from a content perspective. (Another gift from the azzhat I mention below)
 
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We appear headed for a larger conflict.

Weakness invites aggression. I'm not sure there was ever an avenue for negotiation prior to the first shots being fired.

The world is more dangerous today than during 2017-2020. Funny how the narrative has changed.
 
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BreatheUT said:
We appear headed for a larger conflict.

Weakness invites aggression. I'm not sure there was ever an avenue for negotiation prior to the first shots being fired.

The world is more dangerous today than during 2017-2020. Funny how the narrative has changed.
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The first shots were fired in 2014 and you can make the case as far back as 2008. There is no chance of negotiations with a man dead set on expanding his empire at any cost.
 
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