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The switchblades being sent sound like they work..
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<div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVironment_Switchblade">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVironment_Switchblade</a></div>
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<div><a href="https://eurasiantimes.com/us-switchblade-drones-to-ukraine-to-crack-open-russian-defense/?amp">https://eurasiantimes.com/us-switchblade-drones-to-ukraine-to-crack-open-russian-defense/?amp</a><br>
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<div dir="ltr">and perhaps the Ukrainians do have some skill with the S-300s..</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://kyivindependent.com/national/ukraines-old-air-defense-proves-unexpectedly-effective-in-combat/">https://kyivindependent.com/national/ukraines-old-air-defense-proves-unexpectedly-effective-in-combat/</a></div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Mar 16, 2022, at 2:20 PM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">FYI, their low cost UAVs and drones use Raspberrry Pi processors on their own PCBs.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 1:59 AM Marcus Daniels <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Advanced tracking technology! Lol, in Russia that means it has an 80386? <br>
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Ha! Could be fake, but:<br>
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Ukrainian S-300s Gain First Ever Kills: Shoot Down Two NATO Aircraft Accidentally Over Romania - Reports
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https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/ukrainian-s-300s-gain-first-ever-confirmed-kill-shoot-down-two-nato-aircraft-accidentally-over-romania</a><br>
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It's one thing to smuggle in weapons. It's another thing to have people there who know how to operate those weapons.<br>
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On 3/16/22 12:16, Marcus Daniels wrote:<br>
> Glen writes:<br>
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> < NATO rejects the no-fly zone. But my guess is it's not because of <br>
> some Utilitarian sense of suffering. It's because war is only <br>
> profitable to a small slice of the industrial world. In some ways, <br>
> that's a good thing, I guess. It signals that we've moved away from <br>
> bombs and fire, toward money and "cyber"/info. To Alphabet, Meta, and <br>
> even Musk Enterprises, people are not only the means of production, <br>
> but also the product. It's stupid to destroy your merchandise. It's <br>
> smarter to keep them enslaved. It's akin to our move from broad <br>
> spectrum [pest|herb]icides toward *targeted* "management". Bombs and <br>
> fire are too coarse to preserve the status quo. Oligarchs like Musk <br>
> need the analog for GMOs and viruses ... hearts and minds of the <br>
> Metaverse denizens. ><br>
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> If Russia wants to make claims to administer Ukrainian territory, then NATO can certainly do the same, especially since they are being begged to do so. A no-fly zone keeps being treated as a term of art.<br>
> It could just be a claim by NATO over some subset of the territory. Responses to this proposal -- one I heard this morning from Richard Haas -- are dismissive without explanation. He claimed that Russia's radar systems would have to be taken out. I
don't see why that would be necessary. It would take the courage to put pilots and vehicles at risk: Invite Russia to shoot at NATO aircraft. Then as soon as the Russians attack a NATO security escort or shoot down a plane, punishment can be proportional.
After all, war is politics by other means -- appealing the folks in Russia and in Putin's orbit that the military operation has become too dangerous. Meanwhile, once there is a territory that is relatively safe, then NATO can move more freely to relocate
refugees and to deploy defensive and offensive weapons systems. In a grinding war, it could make sense to start training Ukrainians on US weapons systems.<br>
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> As an extreme example to show the absurdity of these norms, the smuggling-in of weapons could include nuclear warheads. So, in comparison, some planes flying around are not nearly as escalatory.<br>
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> And the media coverage of the military side of this isn't very penetrating. This morning McFaul said that S-300s were now available to the Ukrainians. Ok, that's somewhat significant. No one is asking about surface-to-surface missiles. Perhaps the administration
and the Pentagon (and Zelensky's government) are just keeping the messaging light with the no-fly zone talk so that they have cover to deploy more diverse weapons? I suspect it is not so Machiavellian, and the plea for a no-fly zone is simply desperation.<br>
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