Another interesting update from ace spreadsheet-head Perun:
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The failure to protect the ships and aircraft of Russia is yet more evidence (as if any more evidence was needed) that Vladimir Putin is not fit to be Commander in Chief – this was a war of choice (his choice – a personal vanity project) and he did not even prepare for it properly – even almost four years into the war (an utterly pointless war), Russian ships and aircraft are not properly protected.
“But he will still win the war” – RUSSIA, NOT Vladimir Putin may “win the war” – not “because of his leadership” as his toadies will claim, but IN SPITE OF his leadership.
“Ivan the Terrible defeated the Tatars and gained control of the Volga river – making Russia a great power”.
Ivan the Terrible achieved NOTHING – he was a drunk and a lunatic. The ordinary Russian soldier achieved these things – not because of him, in spite of him.
Remarkable days for us Navy types. Littoral operations in particular now need to be completely rethought.
@ Old Jack Tar – how right you are. But in the US Navy, of course, this ‘rethinking’ will involve 25 years of ineffective activity, vast amounts of money and time thrown at useless or counterproductive programmes, a total mis-understanding of the new-world challenges – but, naturally, vast tranches of pork for a bevy of delighted Congressoids, and a simply delicious number of ring-knockers will get their tickets punched for Admiral for organizing all of this mostly-useless activity. Meanwhile, the Navy will find itself with an uncountable quantity of acronym-heavy ships and systems, the ships will all be scrupulously-carefully named for social-justice icons but completely-unable to avoid running into each other, none of the technology will work for its intended purpose although it passed all of its contract trials with flying colours, and the enemy will in any event have moved on to entirely-new methods of war-fighting.
The Navy does its shopping at Ingalls and Newport News and Electric Boat, using procurement processes that stretch into decades. The enemy does its shopping on Amazon, with Prime delivery.
If still in doubt, you need only consider the LCS programme, the absolute epitome of the Navy’s development ethos, or ask yourself why the latest nuclear-powered carriers continue to fly 20- and 30-year old aircraft.
Will be interestong to watch, though.
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Will be interesting to watch.
I wonder what Lord Nelson would have made of this?
Several high ranking Russian military officers have been killed by car bombs – one today.
Ronald Reagan, when he, in union politics, turned against the Communists in Hollywood (the violent Communists the education system and mainstream media pretend did not, and do not, exist) used to carry a pistol, and checked his car for explosive devices every day. As both Marxists and Communal “Anarchists” had a long history of using bombs in the United States (history that does not get into the “history” books).
Yet we get senior Russian military officers who do not bother to check their cars before getting in, just as we have all seen (in video evidence) some (some – obviously not all) Russian soldiers driving straight at obvious mines – there is a degree of fatalism here, a feeling of “I can not do anything to avoid my death – so I will not even try”.
I can understand it (I can understand it for a very bad reason) – but it is not good mental attitude.
Why are the cars of senior officers kept in secure, and guarded, garages?
Why are aircraft (including strategic bombers) just left out in the open – rather than in fortified (and protected) hangers?
Why are ships and submarines not properly protected – after all the Crimea was retaken in 2014, there has been plenty of time to restore the naval base that was carved out of the rock there in Soviet times. So why were ships left out in the open?
True none of this covers civilian ships – which, even if a convoy system was established, are always going to be vulnerable – but it does show a “could-not-care-less” attitude.
“I am going to die sometime, so I might as well die today”.
And a certain person has been Commander in Chief for 25 years – the buck stops with Mr Putin.