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And as if they wanted to reinforce my point about poor training, Russian Navy just took the idea of live fire exercise to the next level: Normal navies use stripped down ships up for scrapping for targets, but Russians, they use unsuspecting fishing vessels. Russian Navy has struck its ancient...

No, they aren't a game changer, you buzzword eater. They are a vibe check for classic perimeter defense for ships. Which some would fail either due to skimping on training and discipline (hint hint Russians), and no one doing much fucky-wucky special operations with speedboats, torpedoes, combat...

If you were into WW2 history, you would know that... less technologically advanced speedboats speedboats, unmanned and not so much, were used for attacking ships already. Nothing new there, and there's a reason why it got shelved for a part of history until the cost (especially in risk to life...

LMAO. Again you have no idea what you are talking about. >Russians suck at defending ships from remote controlled speedboats and jet skis just like they suck at defending them from missiles, drones and bombs Clueless people: >Oh well no one has an answer to that. Meanwhile in less corrupt...

Assuming he has both the means and the will... He's kinda stuck on not being willing to make a major move on little failed state Syria, nevermind making a proper empire. But if he does, Russian Empire 2.0 would certainly have conflicting claims with Ottoman Empire 2.0. After all the 1.0's had...

Dude, Turkey is part of NATO and has provided a lot of weapons to Ukraine: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/10/turkey-cold-war-cluster-bombs-ukraine/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-08/zelenskiy-travels-to-turkey-in-bid-to-shore-up-defense-support...

I don't think anyone in Lebanon wants Kurds with their commie bent. Especially with the potential of making them the arena for Hezbollah-PKK deathmatch. Some there already, and they aren't exactly loved.

I don't know how he would think he can get on Erdogan's good side without more impactful concessions in Syria, and in the F-35 question. They barely hammered out a deal with Sweden NATO accession, F-16's, and the Kurd question also will always hang in the background. The Biden Virtue Signalling...

So far their rate of making these kits was very unimpressive, much like with JDAMs, the kit itself is far more expensive and complex to produce than the bomb, and even richest countries can't afford nearly as many as they have bombs. Russians have used JDAM style bombs like that since some...

Again, you can't wave a magic wand to make the eco-moonbats go away either, and even if you could, it would take at minimum 20 years to build sufficient NPPs and expand drilling enough afterwards (and it would be expensive as fuck too even without the green problem), until then, still got to...

That's just a random hodgepodge of western anti-war memeoids. Are you one some kind of variant of these "just stop oil" people who think the West can just magic up enough of its own oil or replace it with something, somehow, in an economically feasible way, by just waving a magic wand? Don't...

Yup. It was done. The main problem is that, well, there's a whole lot less steel production now than then. With labor and regulatory environment being to blame for it. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/steel-production USA had almost double the steel production in 1970's, even though it...

Again, will they also get protection from labor costs and will their vital suppliers like steel makers also get it, and in the scale of civilian, rather than military shipbuilding, aka orders of magnitude bigger?

Won't help much with that, it would help with optimizing logistics a lot, but shipbuilding? For that, you would need a more Asian approach to labor and environmental regulations. Starting with getting steel industry back, if you can make reasonably priced steel then you can begin to think of...

Yeah, many people forget that Japan is a very serious player in world naval power, and is naturally forced to not favor the idea of China throwing its weight around the region much. I think US is bottlenecked by funding/staffing(also funding problem) than slips anyway(in long term also a...

Then you have wrong, and besides it would be wrong munitions, as since when do warships fight with GMLRS and 155mm artillery shells?

*may* Pure hype. Even the very countries who shill these supposed carrier killer weapons put massive efforts into making their own, shittier carriers from scratch. So much for their belief in this technology. As i said, numbers and tonnage do not matter much, tech capabilities on ship matter a...

And your attempts at crystal ball gazing are supposed to not be a delusion? Yes, China's military buildup is a concern, but if you want to discuss it, talk technology and strategy, not throw around tonnage or ship numbers, that just shows you don't understand modern naval warfare. By tonnage and...

It's not military who's watching this kind of stuff, if anyone. Russia has a lot of police and other assorted uniformed services for this kind of stuff, so getting in and out of country undetected, including getting to said boonies and back which takes days of travel by land, is always bit of a...

Still, you have to infiltrate the guys, infiltrate the hardware, exfiltrate them, and not have them caught by any sort of police in the process of any of these things lest you want a massive diplomatic scandal. Ukrainians have a lot of contacts inside, porous border, and if anyone gets caught...