Right now, Russia is only at war with Ukraine. They are not under threat anywhere else. No one is threatening to invade. They have brought in Army divisions from Siberia to fight in Ukraine. This war is being fought with what is on hand, what the Ukrainians can use & what we can quickly get to them that they can use.NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 1:38 amThat's the fun part. They do have to defend it all.old salt wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 12:40 amCalm down. I read your entire post.
I was not arguing with you (although I don't know the practicality of your idea).
Russia has a lot of territory but they don't need to defend it all. Right now, they just need to control Ukraine's airspace. They can bring in as many mobile S-400's as they need from around the country to ring Ukraine. We don't have a bunch of low cost drones to give Ukraine to use as clay pigeons to get Russia to expend all their S-400 rounds.
Finland, Estonia, Lativa, Königsberg, Lithuania, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Turkey, Syria, the Stans, Mongolia, China, Japan, USA, Canada, and, well, anyone who wants to test things via the Arctic.
Drones are cheap and fast to produce, everything on up from cheap chinese crap to multi-million (& more) fun stuff is in the air on many sides. Easy to make a relatively cheap drone look expensive to a radar system.
You're still thinking slow and old vs. fast and agile production-wise. Literally a few days of modifications means hundreds of thousands of dollars to more in a missile lost to relatively nothing.
People are literally sweeping aside anti-tank mines. It's a whole new ball-game in non-guerilla warfare. Russia is getting pantsed.
NATO is structured to defend against an attack from Russia, not to defend Ukraine or to invade Russia.