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    4 months ago

    Tthe tochka-u is a ballistic missile Ukraine has (although perhaps all of them are used up) but the article clarifies that this would be the first domestic-made Ukrainian ballistic missile.

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        4 months ago

        They can’t use it inside internationally recognized Russian borders without a case by case exemption.

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    184 months ago

    The great thing about fighting a petrostate is all the infrastructure critical to their economy is very big, very easy to find, and very flammable.

    • RubberDuck
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      44 months ago

      Dont forget labor intensive to repair, if it can be repaired at all under the current sanctions.

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    44 months ago

    If they get these things going and they have a good range then Russia will have even more supply problems. I know the public reason is to attack the airfields with the bombers but the real gain is in pushing Russian logistics even further back.

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      4 months ago

      Sure, but it’s not as if they are short on legitimate targets to select from. And Russia needs to protect them all. Oil infra, steel production, weapons manufacturing, rail control nodes, and probably a long list of critical supply companies to these sectors. If you can choke off supplies before they become supplies… you are playing a longer game, but a more costly and devastating one at that.

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        04 months ago

        The thing about hitting the factories is you need to be able to hit most or all of the factories for a specific item. And Russia moved a lot of industry out of the Western area in world war 2. I don’t know how much is still out that way but it’s probably enough to limp along. And annihilating supplies in the supply dump forces a greater strain on the whole system simply because they need more trucks. By blowing up trucks and supply depots you can freeze entire divisions in place.

        • RubberDuck
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          14 months ago

          Or key bottlenecks, like with the refinery crackers

          • @Maggoty
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            14 months ago

            Oh don’t say that, it makes me so excited. Almost as excited as I would be to hear they got Putin.