re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

This is how the US deals with Air Defense. We provided one of these to Ukraine.

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“Per the Pentagon papers Ukraine received an Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) Engagement Operations Center (EOC).”

Significant because this is not second or third generation equipment from storage, this is a brand new ‘hyper modern’ system. Evidently the US Army doesn’t even have these yet.

What is it? Well, from @John_A_Ridge, the “EOC (Engagement Operations Center) will be able to provide C2 [Command and Control] to any and all Western radars and SAMs that Ukraine operates, bypassing their organic C2 centers.”

The ”Integrated Fire Control Network relays, which enable individual radars and launchers to be deployed 150+ km from the EOC. This can greatly increase the geographic area a fixed number of assets can defend.”

“It should also enable Ukraine to more directly integrate with US/NATO AEW&C aircraft and other sensors. In other words, it should automate the process through which NATO is able to pass tracking and targeting data to Ukrainian AD assets.” So evidently, this system would provide state of the software air defense from all threats.

Now... let’s revisit those pontoon bridges across the Dniper.

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https://breakingdefense.com/2018/10/army-gives-northrop-289m-for-ibcs-missile-defense-network/

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This is how the US deals with Air Defense. We provided one of these to Ukraine.

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This was an article that was linked from the article you just shared. Its a good read as well

Army’s embattled missile defense network, IBCS, passed a major field test at Yuma Proving Ground in October, contractor Northrop Grumman announced today. In stark contrast to chronic software crashes early on, the command-and-control system accurately tracked everything from drones to helicopters to fighter jets, both Army aircraft and Marine ones. (It’s hit ballistic and cruise missiles in earlier tests). It drew data from Patriot and Sentinel radars that were not designed to work together. And it kept doing this for days all this despite active jamming by a live adversary

Back in 2016, IBCS crashed every six to eight hours during its Limited User Test. By contrast, in one test this summer at Fort Sill, it ran for 72 hours straight while under constant simulated attack.

Army IBCS Missile Defense System

So Germany doesn’t give a Fuch?

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Sergei Lavrov was quoted as advising that should [Government Source] provide Ukraine with Weapon X, it will be viewed as a "grave provocation" for which the West can expect an "appropriate and aggressive response."

The Kyiv Independent

Friday, June 2, 2023

Interview, Russia's war

Retired US General Petraeus: ‘Now it's inevitable – we should give the ATACMS’

Supposedly to Africa

I’ve long been the guy that has said Biden won’t do ATACMS but Britain basically made that decision for him. Petraeus, for all his faults, was/is a very good general officer. I love what he says in this interview because it’s the cold hard truth. Russia chose this war, not the U.S., NATO or Ukraine. Now that they have been exposed it’s time to give the Ukrainians the tools they need to finish the job. They are doing NATO’s job for everyone. If given the weapons they will defeat Russia and send them back to where they started. No one wants Russia wiped off the map but all they understand is force so they need to forced to their knees and then we can start the rebuilding of relations. A weak Russia with many factions vying for power does the world no good. Russia needs to be stable but that have to be taught a lesson that they can’t just invade a country when they feel like it. Taking Crimea back would be the ultimate way to teach Russia that hard lesson. None of this needed to happen but now that it has NATO can’t lose so that means Ukraine can’t be allowed to lose. Their punishment for this invasion will be a westernized Ukraine that will possibly be in NATO one day and a western army in Ukraine with western weapons. Also they now have Finland in NATO. If they hadn’t invaded they wouldn’t have 2 new countries bordering them either already in NATO or well on their way. Putin has to go and a new fresh thinking leader needs to emerge to take Russia into the future where they don’t rule by fear but by policy and working with western nations.

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IBCS is a game changer.

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A personal friend who is with the Trump campaign and also a lobbyist told me about all the new AI stuff being used in Ukraine and specifically, "It will rectum rape the Russian military" when the actual offensive begins.

Video on the Patriot system:

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