The US military is talking 700 Coyote interceptors _A_YEAR_.
This nightmare of rapid technological change making US procurement irrelevant is what General John Murray of the U.S. Army Future Command has warned of.
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@jakeSullivan and Finer have one agenda - save Russia from itself.
Russia started this war as a colonial "Special Military Operation" to exterminate Ukrainian political/intellectual elites, which has now extended to a policy of Ukrainian genocide⬇️
Ukraine focusing on railway ferries and naval landing ships/craft to the exclusion of every other kind of towed barge or motorized barge-ferry is par for the group think that passes for "Western logistical (lack of) intelligence" we have seen over and over again in this war.
The biggest "Ah-Hah!" in the thread was the observation that the Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries and depots were less an oil campaign than a transportation campaign aimed at sucking up Russian rail capacity.
>>"Oil & Oil (Petroleum Products),
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...they did move more in August than previously. This may have been because they HAD to due to the oil depot problems.
Remember, any time they ADD or REMOVE an export ban on gasoline (or similar) it causes difficulties for Russian Railways."
At 1,300 KIA/MIA a day, the Russians lose all the ground combat elements of a Russian division a week.
The drop in Russian artillery losses from 70 to 10 a day reflects either fewer tubes being used or an unwillingness to expose tubes w/o heavy drone jamming covering them.
It appears the Ukrainian Kusk incursion has been accompanied by a new Security Service of Ukraine fixed wing FPV drone called the Gray Widow-1 that has a range of 50 km to stop Russian road & rail traffic.
The video of the Gray Widow-1 operations make clear it is now in service.
It's an easy to use munition that is logistically simpler to move and set up than a 60mm mortar and outranges a M109A6 155mm/L39 Cal gun firing an Excalibur GPS guided shell.