Russian special military operation in Ukraine #31

JohninMK wrote:There is a rumour out there that the French will supply Aster systems. But it ain't true. They would have been mad to submit it to real world testing, it might ruin their marketing, bit like the IRIS-T.

"OpexNews
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Oct 30
The rumor that France would send #Mamba systems to Ukraine with Italy is false.

A source from the Ministry of the Armed Forces tells us that France is NOT going to send SAMP/T Mamba systems to #Ukraine. This rumor is unfounded."



The Aster missile—named after the Greek word for “Star”—was conceived in the 1990s by Eurosam, a consortium of MBDA and Thales, to defend warships from enemy aircraft and sea-skimming cruise missiles at short range. Today, Aster missiles can be found in the launch cells of warships including the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers and France’s Horizon-class frigates.

In the 2000s, Eurosam began developing an enlarged Aster missile with four times the range to provide area air defense. This new Aster 30 not only supplements the short-range Aster 15 variant at sea, but is also deployed on a land-based launcher, the SAMP/T (French: “Surface-to-Air Medium-Range/Land-based”), replacing dated I-Hawk and Crotale SAMs

The latest Aster-30 Block 1NT model can intercept aircraft up to seventy-five miles away, and can fly fast and high enough (maximum 65,000 feet) to intercept tactical and short-range ballistic missiles, as well as low-flying drones, cruise missiles and aircraft.

https://www.mbda-systems.com/product/aster-15-30/

JohninMK wrote:In 40 seconds their lives changed

Dr.Snufflebug wrote:The Ukrainians and the happily parroting western media and commenters arereally going with the "44 out of 50 missiles shot down", while also acknowledging that at least 18 infrastructural targets in 8 regions were hit by multiple missiles each.

The level of cognitive dissonance, man.

JohninMK wrote:Might not need to. Without Russian 'protection' the grain ships might not get insurance. Result!

Airbornewolf wrote:

https://odysee.com/@airbornewolf:8/MI-8-shot-down-with-manpad-over-Donbass:4

JohninMK wrote:He states a rarely expressed truism applying round much if not all the World.

Sprinter Monitor
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Prigozhin, the curator of Wagner PMC, said that in order to participate in the SVO, it is necessary to involve the children of oligarchs - "until their children go to war, the country will not be fully mobilized." Without it, the elites are in a state of "infinite comfort"

thegopnik wrote:bily i know you are here to troll post. but just check back a couple of pages to see if same info was posted or not, thanks.