A Shrunken Arsenal: The Alarming Decline of U.S. Munitions

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Western hostile aggression towards Russia will keep this war going, and the red nuclear button is ever closer to be pushed
I don't see any western nation invading Russia. If by "hostile aggression", you mean sanctions for hostile aggression by Russia against another nation, then we've located the problem. As I said, Putin isn't very wise, but he's not stupid. He wants to be remembered as a conquering Tsar, not the man who destroyed Russia as a nation.
 
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Can't help noticing that as Russian losses get higher and higher, and Russian living standards continue to drop, Russian propaganda gets more and more shrill.
So it does. Second AWACS plane downed, economy now in a state where Russia can't afford to either lose OR win the war because the economy is currently propped up by military spending, they've got a lot of issues piling up.
 
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So it does. Second AWACS plane downed
Huh, what? (Barbarian checks)
Apparently, Russian sources say that the Russians accidentally did it themselves.

Hard to say which is more embarrassing for the Russians.
 
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Ukrainian Air Force seems to be having an unusually successful month. Claims are for 10 aircraft in February (1 A-50, 7 Su-34s and 2 Su-25s).

I wonder why certain posters here aren't frantically hand waving about the shrunken arsenal and alarming decline of Russian munitions? It's not like the US has lost 25 warships, 300 combat aircraft or 12,000 fighting vehicles in the last two years.
 
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If your nukes work as well as your aircraft carrier, I'm not real concerned about a retaliatory strike.
Russian missile delivery technology surpasses that of the US and western world, the Kinzahl delivery system is just one example flying at Mach 10

Russia has the fastest delivery missile system's and the most nuclear warheads, with the (Tsar Bomb) being its largest
 
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Russian missile delivery technology surpasses that of the US and western world, the Kinzahl delivery system is just one example flying at Mach 10
Kinzahl has been taken out with a Patriot interceptor.
Russia has the fastest delivery missile system's and the most nuclear warheads, with the (Tsar Bomb) being its largest
Does that make you feel bigger?
 
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Russian missile delivery technology surpasses that of the US and western world, the Kinzahl delivery system is just one example flying at Mach 10
And yet, it's been unable to turn the tide in Ukraine. Pretty good at hitting hospitals and shopping centers; not so good for military targets. And then there is this:
Russia’s Kinzhal air-launched hypersonic missile had proven capable of penetrating Ukraine’s generally formidable air defenses without a single one reportedly downed while streaking toward targets across Ukraine for over a year.

But on May 4, the weapon’s hot streak apparently ran out, as testified by fragments of a missile nose-cone that reportedly fell on a stadium in Kyiv at 2:40 AM.

Multiple sources identified the nose cone as likely coming from a Kinzhal missile, which officially goes by the unwieldy designation 9-S-7760, and is codenamed the ‘Killjoy’ by NATO.

And several suggested the kill was achieved by one of Ukraine’s newly active Patriot air defense batteries. If that’s true, it’s a remarkable debut for the system’s operational career in Ukraine.
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Some sources allege Ukraine’s military initially cast doubt on the kill because it didn't want Russia to know it could down Kinzhal missiles or that a Patriot battery was active in Kyiv, and was frustrated when the news leaked. However, the widespread dissemination of the image of the downed nose cone perhaps caused a change in media strategy.


So a SAM system first deployed in 1984 is effective against the Kinzhal? Well, that's a bit of a let-down, um?


Russia has the fastest delivery missile system's
Didn't seem to matter to the Patriot, did it? Хорошая попытка, товарищ.
 
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So a SAM system first deployed in 1984 is effective against the Kinzhal? Well, that's a bit of a let-down, um?


Didn't seem to matter to the Patriot, did it? Хорошая попытка, товарищ.
Keep those big question marks up in your postings, because in my opinion the claims presented are Ukranian and Western MSM propaganda

The Kinzahl is flying Mach 10 and is the most sophisticated warhead delivery system known today, and it's in Russia's arsenal under the control of Putin

Kinzahl fly's at 2 miles a "Second" and has a range of 1200 miles, it could hit London in 8 minutes if deployed from Belarus that's 900 miles away
 
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Keep those big question marks up in your postings, because in my opinion the claims presented are Ukranian and Western MSM propaganda
I don't think denial will help you much, here. Looks another Admiral Kutznetsov disaster.

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Kind of a seagoing Kinzhal.
 
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Kinzahl fly's at 2 miles a "Second" and has a range of 1200 miles, it could hit London in 8 minutes if deployed from Belarus that's 900 miles away
Assuming no Patriot missile systems are about, of course. ;)
 
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We're you there?
More to the point, a 1980s-era SAM system was there. Has to be frustrating; spending all those billions of rubles only to see it knocked out of the air by old-school tech.
 
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I don't think denial will help you much, here. Looks another Admiral Kutznetsov disaster.

Russia's Aircraft Carrier Nightmare Just Won't End

Russia’s only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, is perhaps best known for the myriad misfortunes and problems to have befallen the Soviet behemoth, leading some to call it a sort of cursed ship — and for good reason.
Admiral Kuznetsov: A Troubled History

Kind of a seagoing Kinzhal.
"Complete diversion" from the fact, Kinsahl is flying at Mach 10 and has a distance of 1200 miles, the most sophisticated missile in the world presently
 
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More to the point, a 1980s-era SAM system was there. Has to be frustrating; spending all those billions of rubles only to see it knocked out of the air by old-school tech.
Your claim and opinion, you weren't there to witness anything

It's my opinion the claims made are Ukrainian and Western MSM propaganda
 
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Next you're going to tell me the Big Bang didn't happen because I wasn't there.
My Holy Bible states in the beginning "God Created" the "Big Bang" happens when Jesus returns on the last day in fire and final judgment (The End)

Genesis 1:1KJV
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
 
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