That would be a very handy capability to employ at a time like this, if it works. I wonder if it's been kept under wraps, or, if my skepticism was well founded. Have heard little to nothing about it since. (I was very skeptical of that program, at the time). Some decades ago, the USAF was going a bit nuts about ' boost phase intercept' (large airliner sized aircraft zapping missiles with as they took off) as the approach to defending against North Korean ballistic missiles of a similar class to the ones being provided by Iran. I am not sure what the TBMD posture of Ukraine is, but I doubt that it is very robust. So what is Russia paying to Iran, or providing to them, in return for this non-trivial shipment of modern weapons? capable of striking targets at distances of 300 and 700 would be the first delivery of such missiles to Russia since the start of the war. That sounds like good news for Ukraine and a diplomatic wet fish slap from Israel to Vlad.įateh-110 and Zolfaghar missiles. Israel may be a small country, but the ability for Israel to defend it's interests, are well above their weight bracket. Given Vlad's racist tendencies, I would expect Israel to be concerned about targeting of jews for conscription by Russia in retaliation to Israeli support on what sounds like moral objections to the actions of Russia. Migration started back in 1880, and 1908 where Russia was hostile to jews. Family relationships and migration has continued since WW2, even during the Cold War.

Israel has maintained an odd mutually beneficial relationship with Russia, in part due to the diaspora. The time has come for Ukraine to receive military aid as the USA and NATO countries do.I would suggest that is a watershed moment in Russian-Israeli relationship. There is no room for self-righteousness anymore. The sufficiency of where Israel should stand in this bloody conflict will end.

This morning it was reported that Iran is transferring ballistic missiles to Russia. Pity.ĭunno what significance the 'Israel's Minister of Diaspora Affairs' has in the grand scheme of things but he said Guess the Russians won't be big on handing over the logs for any planes that get donated to Ukraine. They are only 150K US-250K US for clean ones with books. Heck, the Ukrainians can always invite the Russian student pilots to bring their rides along, with/without hot seats, and add some mini-guns under them and go plinking Iranian drone. 50's in the nose, which is a bit more than desirable for drone plinking). (there are lots of SO2Gs sitting in Belgrade awaiting buyers. Air to Air doesn't result in a high risk to the citizens on the ground, after the round has done its bit with converting kinetic energy to distance, the potential energy on its descent to the planet (blue one, not red, red is Elon's paradise). Tracking radar is critical, but, Ukraine is pretty smart on putting systems together. AH-6 etc are a bit not he slow side to be able to intercept. This won't survive in the front line, but away from he front lines SAMs, that would seem to be an option.

Interdiction would seem to benefit from the use of a lower speed and agile aircraft, like a PC-7/9/21, Tucano or similar with a mini-gun. The drones from Iran, are an irritant or worse.

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