SourceIt appears that the strikes against Russian energy terminals such as those in Ust-Luga or Tuapse are yielding first results. Russian gasoline exports have dropped sharply by 37% in January.
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The refinery industry took another setback when Lukoil's NORSI plant and Russia's fourth largest refinery, located near Nizhny Novgorod, had to be turned off, due to an unspecified "incident". It won't be operational for the next four to six weeks, according Russian officials.
Either Beau or Zeihan had a bit on it, it *is* the least effective by a factor of like 5 behind the second most ineffective in history.Excellent - so glad to see the EU keep stepping up! At this point, I wish some sensible billionaire's would get together and start pouring money into the districts were this freaking moronic republican congressmen are holding Biden and Ukraine by the balls just to get the Orange man elected. This is one of, if not the least productive congress in history. God save us from these cowards.
Has this been done here? I can't tell with embeds instead of screenshots.
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"Ship wreck of the day!" the ministry said in a post on its social media pages. "Warriors of the special unit 'Group 13' of the [Defense Intelligence of Ukraine] destroyed the missile corvette 'Ivanovets' of the russian Black Sea Fleet."
"As a result of a number of direct hits to the hull, the corvette was damaged, rolled to the stern, and sank. The value of the ship is approximately $60–70 million," the ministry added. "Nice job, warriors!"
It published a video that purportedly shows the moment of the strike."
Russian supersonic missile-armed corvette destroyed in Crimea strikes—Video
Ukraine earlier claimed responsibility for an attack on the Belbek airfield near Russia's main naval base at Sevastopol.www.newsweek.com
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Great Russian Navy continues great success against No Navy.
You forgot Moldova .The precedent of Desert Storm when Saddam invaded Kuwait and a US led global coalition drove him back across the border comes to mind.
Ask yourself this... If we don't similarly protect Ukraine like we did Kuwait, what message does that send?
Why? They don't have oil? We're scared of Putin and will only fight down to the levels of the '91 Iraqi army?
Or has the US lost it's nerve and position of global leader and defender of democracies? We'll just turn our backs to allies and let thugs roll over them, kill them and steal their land?
We do that, where does Putin stop? Didn't stop after Georgia, didn't stop after Crimea, won't stop after Ukraine.
Weakness invites war.
No navy will survive drones.The Russian Navy continues to live up to it's sterling reputation, haha, gotta love seeing that bow point to the sky. No spinnin that. Another Cold War relic finds an embarrassing end.
No navy will survive drones unless they have an effective way to stop them. I don't know factually but i suspect while far from perfect the american navy is more effective against drone. It certainly is more effective against flying drones as we've seen in the red-sea.No navy will survive drones.
They are just insanely cost effective against their target.
Not so sure about that. Current US Navy CIWS tech should be highly effective against drones and in a cost effective manner. While it wasn't designed for dones, we lucked out as it's basically the perfect weapon against them. Ammo is cheap, rate of fire is through the roof, targeting is automatic, etc.No navy will survive drones.
They are just insanely cost effective against their target.
An underwater drone? What would that be? A proppeller attached to an explosive? Would probably have to put it in a drag reducing shell so it wouldn’t use to much energy propelling itself. Maybe cigar shaped with the propeller in back.Not so sure about that. Current US Navy CIWS tech should be highly effective against drones and in a cost effective manner. While it wasn't designed for dones, we lucked out as it's basically the perfect weapon against them. Ammo is cheap, rate of fire is through the roof, targeting is automatic, etc.
The only ones I would be concerned about are underwater drones as CIWS wouldn't be effective there. Those do not seem to be so cheap/easy to make though.
Like this?An underwater drone? What would that be? A proppeller attached to an explosive? Would probably have to put it in a drag reducing shell so it wouldn’t use to much energy propelling itself. Maybe cigar shaped with the propeller in back.
I guess it would have to have some sort of navigation capability to attack its target. Maybe both on board the drone and some way to communicate with its controllers. Radio would be ok near the surface but sucks below. Might need a long wire.
Would be crazy if someone built an underwater attack drone.
An underwater drone? What would that be? A proppeller attached to an explosive? Would probably have to put it in a drag reducing shell so it wouldn’t use to much energy propelling itself. Maybe cigar shaped with the propeller in back.
I guess it would have to have some sort of navigation capability to attack its target. Maybe both on board the drone and some way to communicate with its controllers. Radio would be ok near the surface but sucks below. Might need a long wire.
Would be crazy if someone built an underwater attack drone.
I guess my question is why you would use a laser when you could just blow them out of the sky/water with existing tech?What, you mean like a torpedo? How much havoc have they caused in years gone by?
Remote guidance would be the issue.
There has been babble about energy weapons, both laser and sound. Will they ever be able to stop drones?
Of course that's like saying we've had aerial drones for years called missiles, haha.They have had underwater attack drones for years. Called a Torpedo with active and passive sonar.
Can they shoot straight up? Images of the system suggest a rather limited pitch.Current US Navy CIWS tech should be highly effective against drones
Yes, they can basically shoot straight up (max elevation 85 degrees and most ships have multiples which should be able to cover the other 5 degrees for each other) and can fire 75 high explosive rounds a second with fully automated engagement of basically as many targets as you can come at it with. It’s basically the dream drone shredder.Can they shoot straight up? Images of the system suggest a rather limited pitch.
A ballistic angle of attack would help make flying drones vulnerable to interception, but those systems have very limited capacity. Where as the CIWS solution appears to have a glaring blind spot.
OTOH, if we're talking a fleet of ships. They could be spaced out as to provide last second protection, even from above.
Anyways, what I am thinking of is a numbers game. Fleets (sea lift capacity) will never match the cost effectiveness of the tools used to destroy them. Unless our defenses can hold.
What I see in Ukraine is that defense is limited, spotty, and prone to failure. These precision weapons can make us bleed like never before.