Question: would shooting „down“ a Shahed drone in final approach keep it from exploding? Because that is what is needed, isn’t it? If the drone warhead on its way down still explodes it most likely will still do its horrible job of destruction and kill.
Pardon me, but I keep feeling that it's time for Ukraine, which has studiously avoided causing civilian deaths by targeting only military targets, to alter that practice somewhat and take their response to Putin into the cities, including Moscow and hopefully St. Petersburg.
Send them a warning that they can expect attacks on military-related targets within cities so that civilians have time to evacuate, and then blow the crap out of the high-rises in Moscow. Let's have the war really come to the Russian people, not by killing them but by creating the wreckage of what they considered off-limits.
Right now, probably for most Russians in Muscovy, the war is a distant nuisance. My feeling is that it needs to be brought to the Russian people through destroyed houses, ruined bridges, unusable airports and train stations and so forth. Start attacking the Nevsky in Putin's home city of St.Petersburg and make the war intolerable to Russian citizens.
Indiscriminate attacks against civilian targets are ineffective in the strategic sense. Look at the failures of the heavy bombing campaign against the UK originally but then against Germany. The civilian population remained largely unbroken despite the death & destruction.
And, if Ukraine follows Russia's gameplanof hitting civilian targets to cause casualties they lose the moral high ground, there are already enough Russian propagandists spreading misinformation.
Ukraine has studiously put their drone assembly plants and armored vehicles inside their cities.
This results in buildings getting hit inside cities directly, and buildings getting hit when a missile intercepts the drone or iskander on terminal approach.
Question: would shooting „down“ a Shahed drone in final approach keep it from exploding? Because that is what is needed, isn’t it? If the drone warhead on its way down still explodes it most likely will still do its horrible job of destruction and kill.
Pardon me, but I keep feeling that it's time for Ukraine, which has studiously avoided causing civilian deaths by targeting only military targets, to alter that practice somewhat and take their response to Putin into the cities, including Moscow and hopefully St. Petersburg.
Send them a warning that they can expect attacks on military-related targets within cities so that civilians have time to evacuate, and then blow the crap out of the high-rises in Moscow. Let's have the war really come to the Russian people, not by killing them but by creating the wreckage of what they considered off-limits.
Right now, probably for most Russians in Muscovy, the war is a distant nuisance. My feeling is that it needs to be brought to the Russian people through destroyed houses, ruined bridges, unusable airports and train stations and so forth. Start attacking the Nevsky in Putin's home city of St.Petersburg and make the war intolerable to Russian citizens.
Indiscriminate attacks against civilian targets are ineffective in the strategic sense. Look at the failures of the heavy bombing campaign against the UK originally but then against Germany. The civilian population remained largely unbroken despite the death & destruction.
And, if Ukraine follows Russia's gameplanof hitting civilian targets to cause casualties they lose the moral high ground, there are already enough Russian propagandists spreading misinformation.
Ukraine has studiously put their drone assembly plants and armored vehicles inside their cities.
This results in buildings getting hit inside cities directly, and buildings getting hit when a missile intercepts the drone or iskander on terminal approach.
I just hope they can get a large, reliable supply of MANPADS from somewhere.
$tingers vs Shaheed$?
[Manpads gone Wyld] 💸💰💸💰💸💰
Just print more money and pay fer’m!
No microwave or ultrasound beams weapons available, mmhh?