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Mar 10 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Bizarre. Pakistan's army says: an Indian "high speed flying object" fell in Mian Channu, Khanewal district on Wednesday night. "It was a supersonic flying object, most probably a missile, but it was certainly unarmed." An unarmed missile? dawn.com/news/1679289/i…
.@OfficialDGISPR: "On March 9, at 6:43pm, a high speed flying object was picked up inside the Indian territory by Air Defence Operations Centre of the Pakistan Air Force ... the object suddenly manoeuvred towards Pakistani territory ... falling near Mian Channu at 6:50pm."
Pakistan's air force "continuously monitored the complete flying path of the object, from its point of origin near Sirsa in India to its point of impact, near Mian Channu. It initiated requisite tactical actions" dawn.com/news/1679289/i…
Alleged photos of the projectile that landed in Pakistan.
Alleged eyewitness account
“A Pakistan air force official at the press conference said the object was being analysed forensically and initial studies suggested it was a surface-to-surface supersonic missile, but was unarmed.” reuters.com/world/asia-pac…
[Indian] “Sources said that the description so far matches that of the BrahMos supersonic missile and the fact that there was no warhead means it was a test firing. However, they remained mum on whether it was actually a BrahMos or not.” theprint.in/defence/was-it…
More on the Brahmos-like projectile that landed in Pakistan. "While Sirsa does not have a BrahMos base, the missile system is operated from specialised trucks and can be moved from one location to the another" theprint.in/defence/was-it… India's silence on it is telling, I think.
Yes.
Unbelievable. India acknowledges that during routine maintenance on Wednesday a "technical malfunction led to accidental firing of a missile"—which landed in Pakistan. "The incident is deeply regrettable"
Just imagine if this had occurred during an India-Pakistan crisis.
2018: "A Eurofighter was on a NATO air patrol near the Russian border with Estonia when it accidentally fired an air-to-air missile...the missile is MIA" popularmechanics.com/military/aviat…
Other missile misfirings:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Harp…
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsiung_Fe…
Went down rabbit hole of missile accidents. "A Navy investigation has found American sailors, awakened late at night, mistook a drill for an actual attack last month when their aircraft carrier fired two missiles at a Turkish destroyer" killing 5 sailors
nytimes.com/1992/11/28/wor…

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Western officials. "Russian forces have again made minimal progress so far today...Ukrainian forces around Kiev and Mykolaiv have continued to frustrate Russian attempts to encircle those cities"
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Russia-China co-operation! "It is possible that the delivery of the Azart radios has been troubled by corruption...At least some of the radios had been manufactured in China before elements were added in Russia, the defendants claimed." rusi.org/explore-our-re…
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Mar 10
WSJ says Pentagon considering transferring longer-range air-defence systems to Ukraine including "what NATO refers to as the SA-8 and SA-10, which can target planes at much higher altitudes". Would make it harder for Russia to establish air superiority. wsj.com/articles/u-s-a…
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Mar 10
MK Narayanan, a former Indian national security advisor. "What the conflict has exposed is the irrelevance of the United Nations in dealing with situations of this kind — becoming in many ways a modern day variant of the ill-fated League of Nations" thehindu.com/opinion/lead/a…
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Mar 10
"Russian operations to continue the encirclement of and assault on Kyiv have likely begun, although on a smaller scale and in a more ad hoc manner than @TheStudyofWar expected." understandingwar.org/backgrounder/r…
"The equivalent of a Russian reinforced brigade reportedly tried to advance toward Kyiv through its western outskirts and made little progress. Smaller operations continued slowly to consolidate and gradually to extend the encirclement to the southwest" understandingwar.org/backgrounder/r…
"Russian operations in the eastern approaches to Kyiv remain in a lull, likely because the Russians are focusing on securing the long lines of communication running to those outskirts from Russian bases around Sumy and Chernihiv" understandingwar.org/backgrounder/r…
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Mar 9
"On the country’s [Poland's] highways, police vehicles are escorting military transport trucks to the border, with other convoys slipping into Ukraine via snow-covered back roads through the mountains." wsj.com/articles/nato-…
"The allied effort is buttressed by ordinary citizens in Europe and the US, who say they are buying hunting-grade gear online...and funneling it to friends headed into Ukraine. In Warsaw, a 67-year-old woman is in charge of smuggling night-vision goggles" wsj.com/articles/nato-…
"There hasn’t been a Western arms push of such speed and scale in Europe since President Harry S. Truman asked Congress to send $400 million in military and economic assistance into Greece and Turkey in the first months of the Cold War," wsj.com/articles/nato-…
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