Shucks.
Questy
For me it takes on a slightly different tint. God I'm a wanker (wish to change), but I'm also a lazy shit and won't change (acceptance).
Targets like this are unlikely to ever be serviced by drones like Baba Yaga. This looks like multiple 1000lbs glide bomb hits, the Baba Yaga can carry 33lbs. By the time you have built the capacity to deliver powerful explosive force like this remotely you've already crossed from cheap drones to ballistic and cruise missiles. Most of the long range drones in use by Ukraine are carrying 40kg warheads. Cheap solutions just don't have the hitting power, and by the time they are scaled up, they're just the old expensive solutions.
*Hopefully
That is actually a very meaningful order. I had to check, did they mean launchers or batteries. Looks like 17 batteries. That's pretty big, IRIS-T is very modern kit.
I mean, if they work that's already one star.
I really can't wait for this marketing fad to sputter out like NFTs etc.
I think this is pretty accurate. It would also be understandable if the US wantt a very active partner in the very obvious crimes against humanity. The overall colonial land appropriation that Israel is built on, and the general apartheid system Palestinians are subjected to is one thing. The emergency transfer of munitions which will be used to commit war crimes within days is way more acute. It's tough to watch.
Basically the story is that the CEO of the company that built it, before the investigation has been done, blames the crew. It couldn't have been a structural or design failure, again, according to the CEO of the builder. This is an interesting case, maybe it will be on What's Going on With Shipping one of these days.
Based on the other bridges taking bomb strikes, perhaps we can say... soon?
It's a tremendous idea for Ukraine to deploy Gripen. It is much better suited to the logistics and distributed operations model being used currently. It also has integration with Stormshadow and Meteor missiles, which the F-16 doesn't. Obviously Stormshadow is already in the Ukraine inventory and Meteor would be a very powerful addition to extend out past the reach given by F-16 and AMRAAM.