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Mar 10 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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…
"three NATO countries—Bulgaria, Greece & Slovakia—have the [S-300] in their inventories...A European diplomat said that Soviet-made systems like the S-300 would be easiest for the Ukrainians to integrate into their arsenal and employ quickly & effectively" wsj.com/articles/u-s-a…
"The U.K. this week announced it is planning to send Starstreak high-velocity, portable air-defense missiles to Ukraine to help Kyiv combat Russia’s airstrikes." wsj.com/articles/u-s-a…
I'm going to go ahead and guess that "S-300s to Ukraine" stands a good chance of ending up like "MiGs to Ukraine" (hope I am mistaken)

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Russia striking convoys on Nato soil is serious escalation pathway, but major depots probably covered by air defences & Russia would need good intelligence to identify a specific convoy to strike with missiles. Use of aircraft with stand-off weapons possible but seems less likely
“SAMbush”: luring enemy planes into a place where they can be struck by surface-to-air missiles. Would not underestimate challenges and risks to Russia in trying to interdict arms convoys.
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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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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…
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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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