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Post by Woodchopper » Mon May 09, 2022 3:55 pm

Lockheed Martin aims to nearly double production for Javelin anti-tank missiles from 2,100 to 4,000 per year, but it needs the supply chain to “crank up,” according to its chief executive.

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“We’re endeavoring to take that up to 4,000 per year, and that will take a number of months, maybe even a couple of years to get there because we have to get our supply chain to also crank up,” Taiclet said. “We think we can almost double the capacity in a reasonable amount of time.”

Congress can help by passing the Bipartisan Innovation Act to invest in domestic design, manufacturing and testing of microprocessors, to reduce reliance on foreign supplies, Taiclet said. Each Javelin contains 250 microprocessors, and Lockheed more broadly is collaborating with chipmaker Intel, he added.

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On Friday, the Pentagon acknowledged it has shifted $1.45 billion to the Army and Marine Corps to restock Javelins and Stingers. The transfer sent the Army roughly $809 million for Javelins and $303 million for Stingers and sent the Marine Corps $370 million for Stingers, according to the Pentagon comptroller’s request to Congress.

The money came from the $13.6 billion Ukraine aid package Congress passed in March, which included $3.5 billion to backfill U.S. military weapons sent to Ukraine.

Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Bill LaPlante told reporters last week that although the Pentagon had been buying the F-model Javelin, its stockpiles will be refilled with the newer G-model.
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Re: The Invasion of Ukraine

Post by Cardinal Fang » Mon May 09, 2022 6:23 pm

El Pollo Diablo wrote:
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Can't listen to that at the moment but I'm imagining that's to the sound of the "badger badger badger badger" song from the 1990s or whenever.
I was getting that New Order video to be honest (again with the sound turned off)
I was thinking "he's Arnold Arnold Arnold rimmer"
Oh please can anyone good with video editing do that. It would be brilliant

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Re: The Invasion of Ukraine

Post by bob sterman » Mon May 09, 2022 6:50 pm

EACLucifer wrote:
Mon May 09, 2022 10:13 am
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So this "fighting for the future of the motherland" stuff is concerning.
Could have been a lot worse, there wasn't anything really shocking in that for anyone that's been following Russian rhetoric lately, largely more of the same. Re: nukes, we'll probably get some warning if they start digging tactical nukes out of storage and readying them, at which point western intelligence/governments will go apeshit. Strategic stuff is maintained at readiness, but they'll be exceptionally wary of touching of an ICBM, as Britain/France/America might respond in kind without waiting to see where it's heading.
Yes - I agree. As I said it was less threatening than some expected. Keeping everything on the table - without obvious escalation.
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One thing I noticed was Russian claims that the flypast had been cancelled due to the weather. The weather in footage of the parade is quite clear and pleasant, making we wonder if that was really the reason. A check of the forecast, however, suggests it could be - heavy rain is forecast for the rest of the day.
The paranoid interpretation of the cancellation of the "Doomsday" Ilyushin flypast is that it was fuelled up on standby waiting on a runway in case Putin needed to jump in.

However, Occam's razor says it's just broken down - or the cheap tires have burst.

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Re: The Invasion of Ukraine

Post by Herainestold » Mon May 09, 2022 7:01 pm

bob sterman wrote:
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Thread on the likelihood of a coup in Russia: https://twitter.com/BenHNoble/status/15 ... AU7ssIgSKQ

tl;dr not likley.
Coups are often unthinkable until the moment they happen.

If there is a coup, though, and it is successful, we won't have heard about it in advance.
I would think this possibility is a big factor in Putin's decision to delay the surgery he's supposedly due to have. Or at least have it very secretly.

And when he has it - he'd better hope he comes round from the GA quick. The slightest glitch and delay in his recovery and it could be "game on" in coup terms.
If a coup happens we will hear about it toute suite.
Not before. The revolution will not be televised. Nor announced on social media before hand. All the usual suspects will claim they saw it coming.

The more speculation there is about it, the less likely is the probability.
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Post by Woodchopper » Tue May 10, 2022 12:03 pm

Ukraine has upgraded its war aims and is now looking to push Russian forces out of the country as long as western allies rapidly deliver promised heavy weaponry, its foreign minister has said.

In a sign of the growing confidence in Kyiv after Moscow’s offensive in the eastern Donbas region appeared to have stalled, Dmytro Kuleba told the Financial Times “the picture of victory is an evolving concept”.

“In the first months of the war the victory for us looked like withdrawal of Russian forces to the positions they occupied before February 24 and payment for inflicted damage,” Kuleba said in an interview.

“Now if we are strong enough on the military front and we win the battle for Donbas, which will be crucial for the following dynamics of the war, of course the victory for us in this war will be the liberation of the rest of our territories.”
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Re: The Invasion of Ukraine

Post by EACLucifer » Tue May 10, 2022 1:07 pm

Woodchopper wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 12:03 pm
Ukraine has upgraded its war aims and is now looking to push Russian forces out of the country as long as western allies rapidly deliver promised heavy weaponry, its foreign minister has said.

In a sign of the growing confidence in Kyiv after Moscow’s offensive in the eastern Donbas region appeared to have stalled, Dmytro Kuleba told the Financial Times “the picture of victory is an evolving concept”.

“In the first months of the war the victory for us looked like withdrawal of Russian forces to the positions they occupied before February 24 and payment for inflicted damage,” Kuleba said in an interview.

“Now if we are strong enough on the military front and we win the battle for Donbas, which will be crucial for the following dynamics of the war, of course the victory for us in this war will be the liberation of the rest of our territories.”
https://www.ft.com/content/8db0d387-fb4 ... 19d36d8be0
This is a reasonable war aim, and we can't assume usual ratios of attacker/defender re strength needed and losses will apply in a war where one side has precision munitions and the other has not, which is the way this is heading.

It's also an important position for negotiations. If Russia knows that Ukraine has the will to retake those territories invaded and occupied in 2014, and the means to do so, it will focus their minds on negotiated solutions.

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Post by jimbob » Tue May 10, 2022 2:51 pm

EACLucifer wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 1:07 pm
Woodchopper wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 12:03 pm
Ukraine has upgraded its war aims and is now looking to push Russian forces out of the country as long as western allies rapidly deliver promised heavy weaponry, its foreign minister has said.

In a sign of the growing confidence in Kyiv after Moscow’s offensive in the eastern Donbas region appeared to have stalled, Dmytro Kuleba told the Financial Times “the picture of victory is an evolving concept”.

“In the first months of the war the victory for us looked like withdrawal of Russian forces to the positions they occupied before February 24 and payment for inflicted damage,” Kuleba said in an interview.

“Now if we are strong enough on the military front and we win the battle for Donbas, which will be crucial for the following dynamics of the war, of course the victory for us in this war will be the liberation of the rest of our territories.”
https://www.ft.com/content/8db0d387-fb4 ... 19d36d8be0
This is a reasonable war aim, and we can't assume usual ratios of attacker/defender re strength needed and losses will apply in a war where one side has precision munitions and the other has not, which is the way this is heading.

It's also an important position for negotiations. If Russia knows that Ukraine has the will to retake those territories invaded and occupied in 2014, and the means to do so, it will focus their minds on negotiated solutions.
The Crimea is also probably not viable without Ukrainian land due to the water supply
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Post by Gfamily » Tue May 10, 2022 3:18 pm

EACLucifer wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 1:07 pm
It's also an important position for negotiations. If Russia knows that Ukraine has the will to retake those territories invaded and occupied in 2014, and the means to do so, it will focus their minds on negotiated solutions.
The concern is that Putin would see this as an existential threat to his Russia.
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The Crimea is also probably not viable without Ukrainian land due to the water supply
I'm not sure what the situation is with regard to civilian water resources in conflicts,
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Re: The Invasion of Ukraine

Post by jimbob » Tue May 10, 2022 4:10 pm

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I'm not sure what the situation is with regard to civilian water resources in conflicts,
With Putin's Russia, it's whatever he has the ability to enforce.

There can't be many international rules governing distribution of water within a sovereign nation - after all it was just Ukraine altering the distribution within its own internationally-recognised boundaries.
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Post by TopBadger » Tue May 10, 2022 4:51 pm

The Russians will really want to avoid losing Sevastopol, that will sharpen the mind.
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Post by EACLucifer » Tue May 10, 2022 5:28 pm

Gfamily wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 3:18 pm
EACLucifer wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 1:07 pm
It's also an important position for negotiations. If Russia knows that Ukraine has the will to retake those territories invaded and occupied in 2014, and the means to do so, it will focus their minds on negotiated solutions.
The concern is that Putin would see this as an existential threat to his Russia.
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The Crimea is also probably not viable without Ukrainian land due to the water supply
I'm not sure what the situation is with regard to civilian water resources in conflicts,
Absent a treaty, I'm not sure there's much Russia can do if Ukraine decide that the water that currently flows towards Crimea would be better off used to irrigate fields in non-occupied parts of Ukraine, especially as Crimea is only part of Russia in the eyes of Putin's government, everybody else knows it is still part of Ukraine.

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Post by jimbob » Tue May 10, 2022 6:13 pm

EACLucifer wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 5:28 pm
Gfamily wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 3:18 pm
EACLucifer wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 1:07 pm
It's also an important position for negotiations. If Russia knows that Ukraine has the will to retake those territories invaded and occupied in 2014, and the means to do so, it will focus their minds on negotiated solutions.
The concern is that Putin would see this as an existential threat to his Russia.
jimbob wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 2:51 pm
The Crimea is also probably not viable without Ukrainian land due to the water supply
I'm not sure what the situation is with regard to civilian water resources in conflicts,
Absent a treaty, I'm not sure there's much Russia can do if Ukraine decide that the water that currently flows towards Crimea would be better off used to irrigate fields in non-occupied parts of Ukraine, especially as Crimea is only part of Russia in the eyes of Putin's government, everybody else knows it is still part of Ukraine.
Yes, that was my point about "Ukraine altering the distribution within its own internationally-recognised boundaries."
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Post by EACLucifer » Tue May 10, 2022 6:19 pm

jimbob wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 6:13 pm
EACLucifer wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 5:28 pm
Gfamily wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 3:18 pm

The concern is that Putin would see this as an existential threat to his Russia.

I'm not sure what the situation is with regard to civilian water resources in conflicts,
Absent a treaty, I'm not sure there's much Russia can do if Ukraine decide that the water that currently flows towards Crimea would be better off used to irrigate fields in non-occupied parts of Ukraine, especially as Crimea is only part of Russia in the eyes of Putin's government, everybody else knows it is still part of Ukraine.
Yes, that was my point about "Ukraine altering the distribution within its own internationally-recognised boundaries."
My brain's not running at full capacity today, evidently I missed where you'd said that.

In other news, I am deeply worried about Transnistria. It's not that Russian troops there pose much threat to Ukraine, and I hope there are measure in place to stop them attacking the rest of Moldova. It's that it's a frozen conflict that could well be resolved peacefully one day, and Russia trying to use Transnistria as a weapon against either Ukraine or the west in general will get a lot of people needlessly killed, and ruin chances for negotiated peace.

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Post by jimbob » Tue May 10, 2022 7:35 pm

EACLucifer wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 6:19 pm
jimbob wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 6:13 pm
EACLucifer wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 5:28 pm


Absent a treaty, I'm not sure there's much Russia can do if Ukraine decide that the water that currently flows towards Crimea would be better off used to irrigate fields in non-occupied parts of Ukraine, especially as Crimea is only part of Russia in the eyes of Putin's government, everybody else knows it is still part of Ukraine.
Yes, that was my point about "Ukraine altering the distribution within its own internationally-recognised boundaries."
My brain's not running at full capacity today, evidently I missed where you'd said that.

In other news, I am deeply worried about Transnistria. It's not that Russian troops there pose much threat to Ukraine, and I hope there are measure in place to stop them attacking the rest of Moldova. It's that it's a frozen conflict that could well be resolved peacefully one day, and Russia trying to use Transnistria as a weapon against either Ukraine or the west in general will get a lot of people needlessly killed, and ruin chances for negotiated peace.
Ha I've had days like that.

As an aside, this afternoon, the World Service interviewed a couple of young Transnistrian emigrants - one in Hungary, whose mother now lives in Moscow, and one in Romania.

It was worth a listen. One said that "everyone is grumpy in Transnistria, and the other laughed, agreed, then gave reasons for it (being stuck in a clone of the USSR of the late 1980s isn't easy or fun)

ETA: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172yg1j6hhp4r6
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Post by Gfamily » Wed May 11, 2022 11:11 am

Gfamily wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 3:18 pm
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Tue May 10, 2022 1:07 pm
It's also an important position for negotiations. If Russia knows that Ukraine has the will to retake those territories invaded and occupied in 2014, and the means to do so, it will focus their minds on negotiated solutions.
The concern is that Putin would see this as an existential threat to his Russia.
Not just me concerned about this https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... ril-haines
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The biggest threat to "Putin's Russia" is internal... no-one wants to invade Russia.
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Post by Herainestold » Wed May 11, 2022 2:05 pm

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The biggest threat to "Putin's Russia" is internal... no-one wants to invade Russia.
A weak Russia is surrounded by opportunists who have designs on bits of the country here and there, but nobody wants the whole thing, its too difficult to administer. Georgia, Kazakhstan, even Japan might like to take a nip at the Russian bear.

Putin needs to be offered a way out of his quagmire that doesn't look like defeat.
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Post by Gfamily » Wed May 11, 2022 2:11 pm

Herainestold wrote:
Wed May 11, 2022 2:05 pm
TopBadger wrote:
Wed May 11, 2022 1:19 pm
The biggest threat to "Putin's Russia" is internal... no-one wants to invade Russia.
A weak Russia is surrounded by opportunists who have designs on bits of the country here and there, but nobody wants the whole thing, its too difficult to administer. Georgia, Kazakhstan, even Japan might like to take a nip at the Russian bear.

Putin needs to be offered a way out of his quagmire that doesn't look like defeat.
Now you're just being silly.
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Post by Grumble » Wed May 11, 2022 2:19 pm

Gfamily wrote:
Wed May 11, 2022 2:11 pm
Herainestold wrote:
Wed May 11, 2022 2:05 pm
TopBadger wrote:
Wed May 11, 2022 1:19 pm
The biggest threat to "Putin's Russia" is internal... no-one wants to invade Russia.
A weak Russia is surrounded by opportunists who have designs on bits of the country here and there, but nobody wants the whole thing, its too difficult to administer. Georgia, Kazakhstan, even Japan might like to take a nip at the Russian bear.

Putin needs to be offered a way out of his quagmire that doesn't look like defeat.
Now you're just being silly.
That’s not all that silly, it’s what diplomats have been saying all along and it’s sound game theory. I do want him to be utterly crushed, but we should try to find a way to help him de-escalate.
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Post by Herainestold » Wed May 11, 2022 2:20 pm

Gfamily wrote:
Wed May 11, 2022 2:11 pm
Herainestold wrote:
Wed May 11, 2022 2:05 pm
TopBadger wrote:
Wed May 11, 2022 1:19 pm
The biggest threat to "Putin's Russia" is internal... no-one wants to invade Russia.
A weak Russia is surrounded by opportunists who have designs on bits of the country here and there, but nobody wants the whole thing, its too difficult to administer. Georgia, Kazakhstan, even Japan might like to take a nip at the Russian bear.

Putin needs to be offered a way out of his quagmire that doesn't look like defeat.
Now you're just being silly.
Russia has many neighbours that it doesn't have great relations with. When it starts to look weak those neighbours may act. One way to look strong is to use nukes.
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Post by TopBadger » Wed May 11, 2022 2:48 pm

If Russia had to resort to Nukes to deter Kazakhstan from expanding its borders then to my mind that would be a startling admission of weakness, not a projection of strength.
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Post by IvanV » Wed May 11, 2022 3:28 pm

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If Russia had to resort to Nukes to deter Kazakhstan from expanding its borders then to my mind that would be a startling admission of weakness, not a projection of strength.
There are Kazakh minorities on the Russian side of the border. But these are distinctly minorities and rather smaller than the Russian populations along the northern edge of Kazakhstan, as well as also in major towns throughout the country. The reality of the Kazakh-Russia border situation is that Kazakhstan has long been worried about Russia grabbing the north of the country, since well before Russia grabbed bits of Ukraine, rather than the other way around. The northern strip of Kazakhstan is a major grain-growing area similar to the Canadian prairies. Indeed this fear was a factor much mentioned in Nazarbayev's decision to move the capital to Aqmola (as it was called at the time of the decision, now named Nursultan after himself) in the north of the country, as a kind of telling Russia that they do in fact value the north and intend to hold it.

Though if Russia did annoy the Kazakhs a lot, then there is an issue over the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Russia's very busy rocket launch site, which is in the S of Kazakhstan. They'd have to march in a very long way to secure that.

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Post by Martin_B » Thu May 12, 2022 1:49 am

Herainestold wrote:
Wed May 11, 2022 2:05 pm
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Wed May 11, 2022 1:19 pm
The biggest threat to "Putin's Russia" is internal... no-one wants to invade Russia.
A weak Russia is surrounded by opportunists who have designs on bits of the country here and there, but nobody wants the whole thing, its too difficult to administer. Georgia, Kazakhstan, even Japan might like to take a nip at the Russian bear.

Putin needs to be offered a way out of his quagmire that doesn't look like defeat.
The Kuril Islands are disputed between Japan and Russia. From 1875 to 1945 the entire island chain was under Japanese control and after WW2 the island chain was claimed by Russia. While the islands themselves may not be of much value, they do define the Sea of Okhotsk. Sakhalin Island, which separates the Sea of Okhotsk from the Sea of Japan has significant gas deposits, and it's thought that the Sea of Okhotsk might as well (no-one's really looked recently!). Japan, which imports a lot of LNG would welcome having a claim to potential gas resources of their own.

It's not really a hot topic for Japanese politics (less than Argentinian claims to the Malvinas or Spanish claims to Gibraltar) but more an ongoing "the next-door neighbour's fence is on my land" grumble. Should Russia be beaten or distracted then Japan might look for at least some of the Kuril Islands back, but I don't think they'd risk a military conflict over them.

More of a concern would be if Japan restarted any claims on Sakhalin Island itself (they have history on there, but currently don't claim it as Japanese territory stolen after WW2). That would almost certainly lead to a military conflict.
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Re: The Invasion of Ukraine

Post by Herainestold » Thu May 12, 2022 4:21 am

Japan Toughens Anti-Russia Stand, Terms Southern Kuril Islands As 'illegally Occupied'

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