Three and a half years into the battle in Ukraine, the Russian army trade’s capability is making the distinction.
NATO Secretary Common Mark Rutte has just lately said that Moscow is producing in three months, a number of occasions the quantity of ammunition that the entire Atlantic alliance nations mixed.
The identical goes for extra superior programs, with Russians now able to producing and deploying a whole bunch of long-range drones and dozens of missiles day by day.
That creates an unlimited want for air protection programs, most particularly the Patriots.
However these programs and air protection missiles are very costly and uncommon. Only for an instance, the batch of army assist for Ukraine that was stopped reportedly contained 8,500 155-mm artillery shells, greater than 250 GMLRS missiles and 142 Hellfire air-to-ground missiles – however solely 30 Patriot missiles.
Slavyangrad reported just a few days in the past:
“The evening raid on Ukraine from July 8 to 9, throughout which about 300 drones of varied varieties and several other dozen missiles of various courses had been used, was a telling demonstration of how scaling and competent mixture of weapons type a brand new high quality of strike operations.
The primary level of those assaults isn’t particular person hits, however the truth that Ukraine’s air protection construction is beneath systemic stress that it’s unable to deal with. As apply has proven, such a quantity of targets can’t be intercepted in full: detection, steerage, and interception channels are overloaded in any respect ranges.”
The battle of attrition tactic is to burn out Ukrainian assets, forcing them to overexert themselves.
“Ukraine’s air protection will be unable to cowl key instructions even within the deep rear, together with Dnepropetrovsk, Kropivnitskiy, Lvov, Poltava, Khmelnytskiy, and Lutsk. There are issues with this now, however with the scaling of drone use, it can change into unimaginable to resolve this challenge.”
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in Malaysia for the ASEAN summit, the place he met with Russian Overseas Minister Sergei Lavrov.
He was requested yesterday (10) in regards to the supply of Patriot programs and missiles to Ukraine – and he had sobering phrases about it:
The U.S. is holding again on giving Patriots to Ukraine — they need a European nation handy over theirs as an alternative.
Rubio harassed that the Patriot system gained’t save Ukraine from Russian drones:
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“There are specific issues Ukraine wants, like Patriot batteries. They’re out there. There are a number of nations in Europe which have them and will share with Ukraine. We’re actively engaged on this, negotiating with these nations.
– Any particular nations?
Properly, the Spanish have one. They’re fairly removed from Ukraine, however they do have a battery. The Germans have one. There are others as nicely. I’m not singling them out — simply noting these are two I learn about. There are additionally nations which have ordered Patriot programs and are about to obtain supply. It will be nice if certainly one of them agreed to delay theirs and ship it to Ukraine as an alternative. We’re exploring inventive methods to get Ukraine the defensive weapons it wants.
That mentioned, this gained’t assist with drone assaults — these require totally totally different instruments to shoot down. Nevertheless it might assist towards among the missile strikes we’re seeing now.”
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