Comments on: Night Watch’s new Lima jammer is partly responsible for the recent degradation of Russian glide bombing

By: T. Beholder

T. Beholder — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 21:49:58 +0000

Michael van der Riet says:

Ukraine stopped the first Russian blitzkrieg…

Um, what «first Russian blitzkrieg»?

with anti tank missiles that struck from above. It didn’t take very long for the Russians to copy that.

Aren’t top-attack ATGM produced from 1985 (Bofors RBS 56 BILL)?

By: Michael van der Riet

Michael van der Riet — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:20:10 +0000

Ukraine stopped the first Russian blitzkrieg with anti tank missiles that struck from above. It didn’t take very long for the Russians to copy that. As Bob Sykes said, military technology is evolving very fast there. Ukraine with the full military resources of the West maintains a lead, but the advantages don’t last.

By: T. Beholder

T. Beholder — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 05:40:00 +0000

Ozornik says:

These days, anything with “told by Forbes” (substitute any old media name) should be the reason to stop wasting time reading.

Why? It’s there for a reason.

Bob Sykes says:

The Ukrainian war has caused an extremely rapid evolution in weaponry and tactics,

Yes, but not all groundbreaking. UAV continue what started in the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War.

https://www.isegoria.net/2024/10/the-armenians-basked-in-the-glories-of-their-past-victories-and-prepared-for-a-repeat-of-the-first-war/

For strike missiles, that’s the first opportunity to seriously field-test the last decades of development.

…and America’s military is decidedly obsolete.

America’s military is not as much obsolete, as in its current form not made for a serious war at all.

Presumably because those who decided it figured there will be nothing as big as Vietnam again, and (after the fall of USSR) no Final Showdown in sight. So the only capabilities not atrophied are those useful for a low-intensity safari vs. goat herders with rusty AKs, IEDs and bigger balls than brains. Enough troops with passable to good morale for this, too. And the rest could be done via local proxies, economic means (strangling and bribery) or good old proselytism. For a while this doctrine actually worked well enough. Now this time ended, it’s Big Bloc kriegstanz all over again, except one bloc enters it with the pants down.

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:45:56 +0000

The Ukrainian war has caused an extremely rapid evolution in weaponry and tactics, and America’s military is decidedly obsolete. By now Russia probably has a three or four generation lead in all weapons categories. We still have successfully tested a hypersonic weapon, while Russia and China, and possibly Iran, have.

Our MIC is simply too corrupt, too incompetent, and too disloyal to be of any use.

By: Ozornik

Ozornik — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:18:21 +0000

These days, anything with “told by Forbes” (substitute any old media name) should be the reason to stop wasting time reading.

By: T. Beholder

T. Beholder — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:36:38 +0000

…largely failed to accomplish with its expensive, vulnerable S-300, Patriot and SAMP/T surface-to-air missile batteries, which can hit Russian jets from scores of miles away but were always too few in number to fully protect the front line and safeguard Ukrainian cities

And now are fewer due to being indeed vulnerable to missile strikes and/or not having the right ammunition.

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-mim-104-patriot-destruction

Speaking of which, those direct hit AA missiles (PAC-3) obviously could work well against slow tough targets (ground attack planes, helicopters), but were they ever useful against anything else?