Ukraine

Or blown up by an NLAW.

 

I get the impression that the army is not performing as expected, which could be why such high ranking officers are on the front line and getting their heads blown off.

 

Putin was so arrogant - he thought that he would be able to take Ukraine as easy as he took Crimea. Ignoring the simple fact that the Ukrainian military had 7 years to prepare. I suspect that his advisers were too scared to tell him the truth. Putin didn't expect a unified response from the West either. Something for China to think about before they go into Taiwan.

NLAWs have played a fairly large part in defending Ukraine as we had time to provide training and to distribute the kit though out the military. We now have to train to use Starstreak - which takes precious time.

 

Just reading up about NLAW, at £20,000 a go its not cheap, but I think even I could fire one of them, might not hit anything but after 3 seconds of locking onto the target it does the rest itself.

 

Bargain NLAW £20K, Armoured tank £2.5M

 

Yeah, none of this stuff is cheap, only lives.

 

I like this bit,
“We can see how our food, our energy, our defence are all issues of sovereignty,” he said. “We want to be open to the world but we want to choose our partners and not depend on anybody.”

Ring any bells?

Have they woken up or is it just talk.

 

EU is about to bash Putin with a 4th lot of sanctions.

What does Putin think he will gain from announcing that he has 'control' of Kyiv? Urban combat - much more costly to the aggressor than sending in missiles.

Coming back from B&Q today - looked over a field and saw a Ukrainian flag fluttering in the breeze - we're not talking a tiddler here - this was a massive flag that everyone for miles around could see. Flying not far from it was a Welsh and UK flag.