Storm Shadow deets:

• 250km (160 miles)
• aircraft-launched
• relies on U.S. navigators/contractors to configure the targeting—the missile follows a low flight path guided by GPS and terrain mapping
• U.S. approval & data is necessary for the Storm Shadows to operate @ peak performance

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Oct 22 2025 17:12 utc | 3

The remnant Ukraine and Sweden signed a contract for Ukraine to purchase 150 (!) JAS-Grippen fighters.
By 2040?
https://x.com/BowesChay/status/1981020319134478346

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 22 2025 17:28 utc | 5

Never mind I’m sure those evil b&stards the EU bigwigs – will steal billions more from the public purse to keep the nasty Neo-Nazi dictatorship in Ukraine afloat – when will EU citizens wake the f*ck up and drag these b&stards out of office.
 
“The Ukrainian government is rapidly running out of money amid the conflict with Russia and currently only has enough funds to last until April, Spanish newspaper El Pais has reported.
In recent weeks, the EU has been considering giving Ukraine a so-called ‘reparations loan’ of up to €140 billion ($163 billion), using frozen Russian assets as collateral to back the bloc-issued bonds. The move would effectively amount to the seizure of the Russian funds, given that Ukraine would be obliged to repay the loan only once Moscow compensates it for damages inflicted during the conflict.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 22 2025 17:35 utc | 7

They’ll be a kick-up from the Ukrainians who are loving in Canada over this – Chrystia Freeland will be pulling her hair out over this one.
 
“Canada has officially acknowledged that its plan to refurbish and deliver decommissioned armored personnel carriers to Ukraine has been abandoned, after months of silence over the unfulfilled pledge.
The 25 vehicles were handed over to Ontario-based defense contractor Armatec Survivability nearly two years ago under a deal estimated at 250 million Canadian dollars (US$178 million).
“There is a decision that’s been taken to nullify the contract with that company presently,” McGuinty told the House of Commons defense committee on Tuesday. “I can’t go any further in terms of discussing the merits. We’ll see how that evolves in relation to the department and the contractor.”
The acknowledgement follows a CBC News report last week that noted the project had quietly disappeared from the government’s list of active defense contracts earlier this year. The outlet said officials declined to comment citing confidentiality clauses, and cited industry insiders who claimed the refurbishment effort was “dead.”
While declining to elaborate on the reasons behind the cancellation, McGuinty instead emphasized Canada’s broader record of providing weapons and equipment to Ukraine to fight Russia. Ethnic Ukrainians – including descendants of nationalists who fled to Canada after failing to secure statehood for Ukraine with the help of Nazi Germany during World War II – form a notable voting bloc in the country.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Oct 22 2025 17:41 utc | 9

“Hungary & Romania Burn, Not from Russia Attack”
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01udspB0e_c   (length: 38 minutes)
 
Daniel Davis (“Daniel Davis Deep Dive”) reports that there were attacks on refineries in Hungary & Romania. Was this done by the SBU ? and ordered by the CIA ? This will only infuriate Hungary and Romania (even more).

Posted by: WMG | Oct 22 2025 18:08 utc | 11

🔘 A fire has broken out at the MOL-owned oil refinery in Bratislava, Hungary, which processes Russian oil delivered via the Druzhba pipeline.
Recently, there were also fires at Hungary’s largest refinery processing Russian oil and at a Lukoil-owned refinery in Romania.

https://t.me/ukraine_watch/49676 

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 22 2025 18:31 utc | 13

@12 Norwegian
Bratislava is the head of Slovakia. Yeah, I know Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, … all speak uncomprehenshible languages, still they are not the same.

Posted by: Ali | Oct 22 2025 18:39 utc | 15

• Sweden government is really good throwing money on bullshit!
• First it was disaster Northwolt, after it was STEGRA-Greenstel in Boden, and now they want to throw more money on the Nazistic Clown Zelenskyj and his disaster-regim! Really bad dissicion! 🇷🇺🇷🇺💥💥💪💪🇷🇺🇷🇺

Posted by: Peter | Oct 22 2025 19:13 utc | 17

EU’s Leaders & Zelensky:
 
In an ironically perverse way, it is fitting that the fate of most of EU’s leaders, is directly tied to Zelensky’s fate.
 
I think this correlation is one of the main reasons Zelensky has not been replaced, despite much talk of doing so.
 
The entire western war narrative is tied to Zelensky.
 
The EU’s current leaders need to support Ukraine, just to keep themselves in power!
 
Their shoe laces are tied together!
 
Once Ukraine goes, they too go!
 

Posted by: Blind Bridge Troll | Oct 22 2025 19:24 utc | 19

trump has allegedly lifted restrictions on long range missiles of other countries for ukraine.

Posted by: J | Oct 22 2025 19:39 utc | 21

The top-down Oligarch controlled nation state system is the problem.. There is no bottom up counter to that top down force. 
 
 
 
Posted by: snake | Oct 22 2025 19:28 utc | 19
 
Riiiiight. If only someone could let the Chinese know about state control, then the problem would be solved. Go, go, for the good of the city.

Posted by: They Call Me Mister | Oct 22 2025 19:43 utc | 23

Some small minded people in this forum called me a troll or worse an AI bot.
But  I am not a troll. I rather take pride in being like the old court jester, the only one in the palace who could tell the ruler the plain truth without losing his head for it.For four long years I have been repeating that your precious Russia not only cannot win against the part of the world that actually matters (the rest, or ROW as you like to call it, barely counts at all), but is heading straight towards being destroeyd and paritioned into smaller entities.  Divide et impera, as history kindly reminds us.Yet you still go on, stiff necked as ever, chasing your dreams while the world moves in the opposite direction.Reality is not your enemy, it just stopped waiting for you.

Posted by: Louis | Oct 22 2025 19:53 utc | 25

GPS precision navigation is accessed by a top secret (US military) “key”.  The key is distributed to highly classified machines, which provide the long range fires the key to access navigation.
 
These keys are restricted to appropriately screen citizens.
 
USis go no go on strikes against Russia.

Posted by: paddy | Oct 22 2025 19:56 utc | 27

James Carden, ex US state department advisor tells Sky News his sources say RUAF:AFU casualty ratio is 1:36.
 
https://x.com/ricwe123/status/1981089623322362093

Posted by: unimperator | Oct 22 2025 20:15 utc | 29

Typo
,  secound line 4th word ‘off’ not ‘of’
 
But you new tat right ?

Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 22 2025 20:17 utc | 31

DJT hates Volo and his buddies the Vindman Brothers with a passion……….Volo is not going get those Tomahawks….bank on it……..
 
Posted by: tobias cole | Oct 22 2025 20:16 utc | 29
 
I’d love to see those 5th column Vindmans on the front line in Ukiestan.  Put their money where there shitty mouths are.  

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 22 2025 20:22 utc | 33

Louis@24
The West dominance was a fluke and it is over now.

Posted by: ArmChairGeneral | Oct 22 2025 20:26 utc | 35

Z says the now not given but have to be purchased Gripen arrivals start next year, but Sweden says delivery commences in 3 years as factory is being set up. But how is z going to pay…we know an Ukraine insider has said cannot pay back loans for 35 years…next year Ukraine has a shortfall of 60b , half their proposed budget….it’s like UK loaned 19.5 billion couple months ago to the bloodsucker parasite. IMF is trying to work out figures for past and future loans????

Posted by: Jo | Oct 22 2025 20:40 utc | 37

🇺🇦🇸🇪Zelensky and the Prime Minister of Sweden signed an agreement to purchase up to 150 Swedish Gripen fighter jets, which Kiev previously wanted to receive for free.– This was announced by the Prime Minister of Sweden, Ulf Kristersson, at their joint press conference. Specific delivery dates are not indicated.- “This agreement is not aimed at any specific new deliveries at this moment, it is about long-term cooperation and the possibility of reaching a large agreement between our countries. Something around 100–150 Gripen E fighters. This will allow building very serious air forces in Ukraine,” Kristersson noted.- Zelensky stated that these aircraft will begin to be used next year.In reality the first jets of this type are not available because thay are still in development. They can be received by Ukraine in no less than three years priced at a whooping 120mil eu per jet. But what’s important is to sign a mumbojumbo contract and send payment😁.@Slavyangrad

Posted by: Jo | Oct 22 2025 20:41 utc | 39

Ukraine demands freedom to use $163 billion of frozen Russian assets, Reuters reports.According to the agency, Kiev insists that the EU loan funds of $163 billion, formed based on frozen Russian assets, should not be restricted and used only for European weapons.The money, the publication notes, is needed to purchase weapons from any countries, to restore damages from Russian attacks, and to pay compensation to victims.Part of the loan will be directed to cooperation with European defense companies, but Ukraine demands autonomy in spending the funds.The majority of the loan will also go to restoring critical infrastructure, and a smaller part to compensating citizens.Earlier, the Spanish El Pais already wrote that Ukraine will have enough funds to exist only until April 2026.@Slavyangrad

Posted by: Jo | Oct 22 2025 20:43 utc | 41

EU leaders are expected to approve the 19th package of sanctions tomorrow, which moves the ban on imports of Russian LNG one year earlier – from January 2027, Bloomberg reports.Austria, Hungary, and Slovakia have already withdrawn their objections and promised not to block the sanctions. Recall, Vienna tried to ease current sanctions so that its Raiffeisen Bank could unfreeze its 2 billion euros in Russia, but abandoned this demand after failing to gain EU support.The new restrictions also target Russian banks; creditors in Central Asia; several cryptocurrency exchanges; Chinese and Indian companies that helped Russia circumvent sanctions; impose a ban on the export of goods worth more than 40 billion euros used in Moscow’s military industry, including minerals, ceramics, and rubber; and blacklist more than 100 additional oil tankers.More EU sanctions… oh no 😂@Slavyangrad

Posted by: Jo | Oct 22 2025 20:44 utc | 43

That needs to be more widely known.
 
IN 2014 THE UNITED STATES CONDUCTED THE 2014 COUP IN UKRAINE
 
In 2014 the United States (aligned with a faction in the Ukrainian government) conducted a coup in Kiev (to replace the democratically elected Yanukovich government which was considered insufficiently pro-Europe).
 
Many in Eastern Ukraine rebelled against this coup-government.
 
A civil war began.
 
The coup-government claimed authority over all of Ukraine
 
and called itself “the Ukrainian government”.
 
The coup-government sent in the military to deal with the eastern rebels.
 
The media claimed, and still claims, that the U.S. backed coup-government had a “right” to all of Ukraine and they champion (vigorously support) a march to the Russian border.
 
WHAT IF THE RUSSIANS HAD CONDUCTED THE COUP IN 2014?
 
Imagine that in 2014 Russia (aligned with a faction in the Ukrainian government) conducted a coup in Kiev (to replace the Yanukovich government which was considered too pro-Europe).
 
Many in Western Ukraine rebelled against this coup-government.
 
A civil war began.
 
The coup-government claimed authority over all of Ukraine
 
and called itself “the Ukrainian government”.
 
The coup-government called in the Russian military to deal with the western rebels.
 
Of course, to be consistent, the media would have to claim that the Russian backed coup-government had a “right” to all of Ukraine and that they championed a march of the Russian military to the Polish border.
 
The important point is that statements such as “Ukraine will not give up any of its land,” and “Zelenski Rejects Giving Land” make no sense.
 
This is because the coup-government, and its successors, never established authority over all of Ukraine.
 
ANOTHER SCENARIO
 
What if the Chinese (aligned with a leftist/communist faction in the Ukrainian government) had conducted a coup in Kiev. Would this give them authority over all of Ukraine?
 
What is the legal situation?

Posted by: UNI | Oct 22 2025 20:44 utc | 45

Even if Trump was Putin’s best friend ever, he cannot deliver the long-term security that Russia requires.
 
That will have to be done the old-fashioned way, with blood and steel. There is no legal document that will restrain the West from attacking Russia again.
 
I hope Putin learned that lesson from the Minsk Agreements.
 
America needs two trillion dollars per year in tribute from the rest of the world. This tribute comes in the form of (1) cheap resources from plantation economies;
(2) looting energy resources(e.g. Syria);
(3) usury on the debt imposed on foreign countries by bribing their leaders to take high-interest loans (eg via the Angola Variant); and
(4) the demand that all trade is done in US dollars.
Europe/Canada has to a lesser extent applied the same approaches 
 
These sources of tribute are coming to an end for the US and Europe leading to “economic hardship” among its entitled populations. The trade wars are an approach to claw back some of this tribute. 
As for pirate country England , The City of London still has “financial relevance” but all the stolen wealth they launder and store away means nothing in the face of material reality – as Victor Gao said, the UK should not overestimate its importance on the global scene. If they stop acting like a rabid chihuahua they will be treated with respect but they are not a competitor in any current industry or industry of the future.

Posted by: sam | Oct 22 2025 20:49 utc | 47

Dec 2024
Even in the Carlson Interview Putin still calls the west partners – because they are for him – The Jewish-Neoliberal Trojan Horse he is… <= circumstantial evidence is accumulating to support a thesis that Putin is sleeping with the deep state?Russia never had brain to stop gas and oil supply to England which has plotted and run this Ukraine war from behind. Easy target is Austria which is not even anti russian state.Stu-id Putin as always .

Posted by: sam | Oct 22 2025 20:52 utc | 49

The Neocons really ramped up their propaganda campaign over the last few days.  It seems hydraulic.  The worse things are on the front lines, the more they double down on asymmetric strategies.  Bombing Hungary’s oil refineries really shows a level of desperation I did not foresee.  

Posted by: Northern Observer | Oct 22 2025 20:59 utc | 51

Ukraine apparently attacked another refinery in Hungary. Ukrainian media is celebrating.
Why doesn’t Hungary invoke NATO Article 5 against Ukraine? (my sarcasm, I guess)

Posted by: Call it what u will | Oct 22 2025 21:11 utc | 53

Yup, really worth the wait…considering the rate of inflation in never never land
About payments for the deceased: The promised THREE years EIGHT years wait…Very interesting information related to Ukraine’s budget problems was revealed by Verkhovna Rada deputy Sofiya Fedyna:

“Payments to families of deceased Ukrainian soldiers will be stretched over years— instead of 3, now in some places they will have to wait up to 8 years for the money.”

That means NEVER. Moreover, this only concerns those officially recognized as deceased. And in Ukraine, that is an absolute minority of the fallen soldiers. So, it is precisely they who (maybe) will receive something… in EIGHT years (if Ukraine still exists by then and has the money).The rest can even forget about it.@Slavyangrad

Posted by: Jo | Oct 22 2025 21:14 utc | 55

No regime change in Kieve, no ceasefire and no summit either.
Posted by: tobias cole | Oct 22 2025 17:19 utc | 4

No summit in Budapest? Hungary’s foreign minister Szijjarto calls it an act of disinformation instigated by those (Europeens) who fear nothing more than peace in Ukraine. 

Posted by: grunzt | Oct 22 2025 21:23 utc | 57

There is no summit get over it.

Posted by: Ok | Oct 22 2025 21:25 utc | 59

@ Posted by: snake | Oct 22 2025 19:28 utc | 19
 
Korean, Iranian, Chinese, Sahel Africans and other SCO strategic partners are all learning a lot from this SMO – it’s like the Spanish civil as the precursor to the big one!
 
This time they are ready for the fascists.
In all their shapeshifter guises.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 22 2025 21:49 utc | 61

The remnant Ukraine and Sweden signed a contract for Ukraine to purchase 150 (!) JAS-Grippen fighters.By 2040?https://x.com/BowesChay/status/1981020319134478346
Posted by: unimperator | Oct 22 2025 17:28 utc | 5

———-
It is not a contract, it is a Letter of Intent. Big difference.
A contract would involve some sort of financial security deposit and penalty clauses for cancellation for either side. It is another useless PR gesture that will be forgotten in 6 days.

Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Oct 22 2025 21:54 utc | 63

@ Posted by: S Brennan | Oct 22 2025 16:24 utc | 259
From previous thread but replying here about the newish ‘M’ of MI6  
“.. Her ascension by the English was a deliberate insult to the Russ “
 
 
The establishment of England by its ‘purchase’ by the ousted Khazarians was the beginning of the never ending story of that insult.
 
In all its ‘European’ nation states and imperialism and endless permutations of  Grand Armees.

Miss Spooky Great Gamer ‘Modesty’ Blaise, (a ww2 newspaper cartoon heroine who couldn’t keep her clothes on) is just another in a long line of the Collective waster, deadlier than the male, shapeshifter fascists.

Like Nudelmann and many a Freeklands and any number of shrieking ziofascist harridans that have clicked their fingers as dynastic shapeshifter Queens. Like the current Lynne de Rothschild and ‘stand up Miriam’ who calls the potus when she likes …
 
Nah, there is zero surprise in the Russian Federation high council about who and what the stinking carcass dead empire bastards plans have always been.
 
They came oh so close, thrice last century!
 
Stalin ruined it first time by stuffing Lenin in a glass box and the second time by burning Hitler in his bunker and putting most of Europe in a box.
 
 
Kruschev and the remaining Bolshevik puppets steered back towards their shapeshifter goals; including Gorbachev/Yeltsin handing it on a silver platter – but vvp and the real patriots upset it out of the blue or to be precise the white, blue and red! The neo Stalin saviours. Without the need to maintain the illusion of the fake religion of Leninism.
 
 
The twenty five years trying to snatch the victory with all the 007’s and M’s and BHL’s – including the latest ‘M’ Blaise ain’t enough.
 
 
The DS Dynasts can only threaten to blow up the whole fucking world if they can’t get their prize after so so many generations. They really don’t like it and are trying to say ‘enough for now’ without saying ‘we give up’.  ‘We’ll be BACK’ we demand you let us have another go!

Yup that’s it’s their enduring delusion and they are sticking to it!
Proving the definition of madness.

Unfortunately for them the other 85% of humanity – a super majority – The dragon bear, SCO, Global South and their new POLYCENTRIC, world order says NO!

Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 22 2025 21:55 utc | 65

Btw for the trolly bus full of stinking socks that has rolled into the bar I left you a bone to chew and gag on in the previous thread.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 22 2025 20:34 utc | 272
 

Posted by: DunGroanin | Oct 22 2025 22:03 utc | 67

Posted by: Mike R | Oct 22 2025 22:00 utc | 65
Sam Altman will fly them with his chatbots?
 
maybe any of these particular things are unlikely to happen, like AU getting US nukular underwater thingies, but don’t think actions and discussions indicate intent? and the plan to milk this conflict for all its worth, incl Moldova, Romania, etc.? to try to use war with Russia and China to shape the future of the world? 

Posted by: duck n cover | Oct 22 2025 22:13 utc | 69

Imigration   ?
 
A mere deliberate distraction to  bloody the pack of hounds.  So they dont attack the upper classes. But will attack the quorry  in this case  that will be Russia.
 
I hear the hounds baying for blood on the open thread poor fools.

Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 22 2025 22:18 utc | 71

Today Brjansk…Tomorrow whatever. It is really astonishing to see how the people of the Russian Federation allow the Jewish Neoliberal Trojan horse to destroy their country bit by bit until nothing is left…Then the final Nuclear strike will come. I don’t know what to say at this point any more…Maybe the Russians are really that fucking dumb not to see the obvious that their country is ruined by a little bunch of traitors of a specific origin…Then they deserve not better…But if even very loyal workhorses like that woman on youtube are starting to wake up there are not many excuses left no?
Now they will mobilize “experience” citizens to protect critical infrastracture…You can’t make this fuck up even if you tried…It is so sad to see the Russian Federation going down in history.

Posted by: Brigitte Mohnhaupt | Oct 22 2025 22:23 utc | 73

Grunzt  @  71
Liked, and much respect.

Posted by: Mark2 | Oct 22 2025 22:24 utc | 75

‼️🇺🇦😂 The promised production of 3000 cruise missiles by Zelensky a year ago did not happen, – stated in the Rada➖”I doubted it even then, making statements is easier than fulfilling them. We will not have 3000 cruise missiles, and in fact, they do not exist. I think we need to count how many there are and ask the president. Why was this task not completed and who is to blame. But it was unrealistic from the very beginning – you just need to calculate how much good missiles cost,” said MP Kostenko.@Slavyangrad

Posted by: Jo | Oct 22 2025 22:26 utc | 77

*** Dreaming the impossible dream.
Posted by: Mike R | Oct 22 2025 22:00 utc | 65
 
Grippins, F-16’s, Tomahawks, all dreams from a long ago battlefield none of which solve the FPV drone problem. If you think of a tank or other land mv as a ship, the tech righ now is as developed as the bofours was for WWII AA defense. Something like the CWIS and other guided FPV drone AA will yet emerge. 

Posted by: frithguild | Oct 22 2025 22:32 utc | 79

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Oct 22 2025 22:15 utc | 69
 
RE:  ultimately we had to acknowledge that DJT was not a mediator, per se in Project Ukraine;  he represented & represents a deeply pro-proxy side which has had decades to prepare Ukraine for this ultimate showdown against Russia
 
<<
 
It has been heady to contemplate a possible rapprochement between the U.S. and Russia in so many productive directions—the Arctic-!—but such a thing cannot manifest right now.   The U.S.-led NATO has been prepping Ukraine as a weapon against the Russian Federation since at least 2008.   No Secret Sauce on earth can hide this fact.    Neither is it possible for the current U.S. president to steer matters in a different direction.
 
What’s important is that Russia never put their eggs in the DJT basket:  military momentum has functioned apart from whatever phone calls happened or whatever high-level meetings might have transpired.  The LOC results have been notable.
 
Russia does not need the U.S. in order to attain & obtain its SMO objectives.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Oct 22 2025 22:52 utc | 81

 
Posted by: Ray | Oct 22 2025 22:31 utc | 77
 I can’t see ..{the USA}.. coming in to a 100% nuclear war with Russia for sticking up for England after it has already been attacked. They would have to put up with it to survive.
 
 
 <=only If the Russian action comes before midterm elections in the USA, and only if that action were highly successful, could I agree the USA might stand by and watch.  Except as elections are approaching those in charge at the USA don’t answer to the Americans they govern.
 
 
IMO, After the midterms the HAWKS in the USA would not pass up any opportunity to smash Russia and discredit Trump. They will go around Trump and unleash everything they have especially if going after Russia can be justified as helping the UK .  
 
 
 
These are dangerous times. The problem is the top-down nature of the Nation State System.. There is no bottom-up oversight to keep things rational. Those who run things at the USA keep a tight leash on those they allow to govern America. 

Posted by: snake | Oct 22 2025 23:48 utc | 83

@Fool Me Twice 62
Yes, “letter of intent” between sweden and ukraine. BUT also an assurance from the swedish government to Saab AB: We agree to give you, Saab AB, all the money we can get the next few years. As long as as it take.
 

Posted by: rumpelpumbel | Oct 23 2025 0:16 utc | 85

Putin and the RF Duma have frequently stated that they want:
 
All US/NATO missiles back to 1991 positions.
 
A whole new European Security Framework written, taking RF interests into account.
 
Denazification of Ukraine. This will require dissolution and reorganization of a new Ukrainian Constitution to outlaw Banderism, hence full regime change in Kiev and regional governance.
 
Demilitarization of Ukraine, which means either no army, navy, air force, or one restricted purely to defense.
 
Removal of sanctions and return of foreign monies stolen under them.
 
Re-constitution or compensation for Nordstream 2 sabotage.
 
Trials of all Ukrainian war criminals.
 
How much of all that they eventually get is the moot point.
 
Putin/Medvedev/Lavrov have clearly stated that RF is not gunna quit till they attain their goals by complete Western capitulation, either at a table or via the battlefield.
Posted by: SCCC | Sep 1 2023 7:23 utc | 129
——————————————————————-
Putin is still going for all the marbles and seems to have found a way to calm the Orange Julius down temporarily. 
 
Too soon to speculate what is next other than the Russians taking all the land to the border. The list above does not recognize a ‘cease fire’  so I am expecting some changes in Kellog’s 12-point plan. We could speculate some other time what being cold during the Winter will du for Ukraine.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Oct 23 2025 1:13 utc | 87

‘Hence israel is running the british running the ukraine conflict againat Russia.’

https://tinyurl.com/4r4376u4

Posted by: Dan Kelly | Oct 23 2025 1:29 utc | 89

Posted by: frithguild | Oct 22 2025 21:52 utc | 61
Interesting report. The PBY was a highly effective ASW platform but the B-24 (naval version PB4Y-1) VLR’s were also real game changers, as they closed the ‘black pit’ of the Mid-Atlantic Gap using ever more advanced passive and active sensor suites. Same with the drones, they are increasingly being equipped with dedicated anti-drone technologies that allow them to close down the previously ‘safe’ spaces drone operators used. 
 
Another template to explain the current ‘life-cycle’ of the drone is the scout planes in WW1, who started the war as vulnerable aircraft mounting jury-rigged side arms, who occasionally fought each other, and ended the war as multi-role fighters, mounting synchronised MG’s, who battled each other for air supremacy. As a result, their effectiveness increased considerably, but so did their opponent’s limiting the impact those improvements had. So it will be with the drone, whose ‘happy time’ is swiftly drawing to a close, as ever more active and passive measures are deployed against them, due to their initial success in exploiting their unique characteristics. So we’re back to the Battle of the Atlantic again, as a comparison. 

Posted by: Milites | Oct 23 2025 2:20 utc | 91

Re: Posted by: UNI | Oct 22 2025 20:44 utc | 44
 

Of course, to be consistent, the media would have to claim that the Russian backed coup-government had a “right” to all of Ukraine and that they championed a march of the Russian military to the Polish border. The important point is that statements such as “Ukraine will not give up any of its land,” and “Zelenski Rejects Giving Land” make no sense. This is because the coup-government, and its successors, never established authority over all of Ukraine.

No, you have this wrong – the media would do no such thing.
 
 
 To be consistent – the media would support the Pro-Western side.
 
 

ANOTHER SCENARIO What if the Chinese (aligned with a leftist/communist faction in the Ukrainian government) had conducted a coup in Kiev. Would this give them authority over all of Ukraine? What is the legal situation?

 
 
Who cares about the legal situation?!?
 
 
If the Chinese did that it would be in contravention of the rules based international order.
 
 
ie – it would be an illegal coup.

Posted by: Julian | Oct 23 2025 2:40 utc | 93

GPS precision navigation is accessed by a top secret (US military) “key”. The key is distributed to highly classified machines, which provide the long range fires the key to access navigation.
Posted by: paddy | Oct 22 2025 19:56 utc | 26
Well, this has not been true for 25 years now.  Selective Availability was removed on May 2, 2000 enabling about 3m accuracy.
Nowadays you can easily buy GPS receivers with 10cm accuracy (using WAAS and DGPS or similar systems in other regions). Example: https://www.amazon.com/Guidance-Accuracy-precisionAG-Software-Included/dp/B09SCTYRQ8

Posted by: averros | Oct 23 2025 3:26 utc | 95

*** So we’re back to the Battle of the Atlantic again, as a comparison.
Posted by: Milites | Oct 23 2025 2:20 utc | 90
 
It’s been some time since I looked closely at wireless architecture, but basically I would think the FPV would need uplink layer, a MAC layer and downlink layer. I would also think the simple act of powering up the base station would establish the links. The question is whether this is bright enough to be detected by at least two surveillance platforms and triangulated to find the operator location. A spectrum hopper would make signals collection more of a challenge for sure. Regardless the established FPV rf link would have a unique squawk. The trick would be signals collection by the loitering platform – the longer it loiters the more data you have to check against noise vs the FPV operator opening his fly. The signals collection would likewise need to be stealthy. If I recall the article, collection was part AI, so probably an unlinked mode that has no rf link until it hears the fly opening squawk. Then ET phones home. 
 
So it’s an interesting comparison to the PBY – U-Boat crews really learned to hate them.

Posted by: frithguild | Oct 23 2025 3:45 utc | 97

Perché mai la sconfitta di un avversario più debole e indebolito dovrebbe essere un obiettivo russo?
 
Pubblicato da: Julian | 23 ott 2025 2:25 UTC | 91
 
Perché l’avversario indebolito ha delle roccaforti ben congegnate e ben rifornite che causano la morte di civili e soldati russi,
Solo depotenziando simili strutture permetterebbe di salvare vite umane e evitare la distruzione di intere citta

Posted by: Cagliostro | Oct 23 2025 4:08 utc | 99