They don’t like it now, do they? Fuck Moscow for real, life is not a game where you always win.
imagine the morale at the orc camps when oil refineries take priority over your life and your operations
Images shared online show the system with only two of the standard six launch missiles pictured on one side, suggesting there may be a shortage of interceptors.
This feels significant for something buried at the end of the article.
And now you know why the west is frantically working on laser based systems for shooting down drones. They are claiming literally “pennies per shot.”
Yeah. The Ukrainians are masterfully playing the economics of it. Shooting down drones that cost a tenth of an interceptor is ineffective. It’s downright ruinous if Ukraine sends hundreds of drones a day. If the sky around Moscow is saturated with interceptions, there will be none left for the front lines, where they actually would make a military difference.
The Iranians have been playing a similar game with Trump. So much so that, to nobody’s surprise, the leaders of the Gulf states invited Zelenskyy to offer drone interception tech instead of Hegseth.
Don’t they have gun AA systems as well though? Wouldn’t they be more effective against drones or are the radars unsuitable for the small targets.
Not sure if the Gepard required modifications or not to target drones, thought I had heard it could do a pretty good job at taking them out if it’s at range. Probably not so much if there is uneven terrain for the drones to move through.
Very little range though compared to a missile.
Also spraying thousands of large caliber bullets a minute into the air isn’t a great idea in a populated area around the capital. They might hit somebody important.
Russia withdraws air defences from front line to
protectattack MoscowFTFY
Why would Russia attack Moscow?
They recently blew up their own fuel depot in downtown because they tried to shoot down a drone and missed.
I thought they hit the drone, it just crashed into the fuel depot anyway.
I’m sensing a big offensive operation coming from the Ukrainians. Amphibious landing in Crimea anyone?
Eh they likely don’t need to. Just retake other land and let them go thirsty in Crimea for now.
Lmao
Russia actually primed to lose this entire war.
Do we expect any territory boundaries to be redrawn eastwards soon?
Keeping Putin safe is the only thing that matters.
Send people to the front line to be killed. No big deal.
Destroy the economy. So what?
None of that matters as long as Putin feels safe.
Back to 2014 borders at least
Every day it’s looking more and more like Crimea might be the first oblast to be liberated.
Ukraine is working on completely cutting off the southern front from supply routes. Eventually the troops along the southern front are going to suffer from lack of supplies. Without food, ammo etc, they will be have to retreat back or be easily overrun in their weakened state. Crimea is being cut off so that if the Russian troops retreat, they head east not south.
It’s not going to happen immediately, but if Ukraine keeps up the current pressure by this fall might be very interesting.
