Yeah, missile intercepts always look cool. Though, it is unfortunate that it's due to what is assuredly an escalation. Israel took the first Iranian missile salvo two months ago without direct retaliation; I don't see that happening again here.
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Yeah, I have zero desire to give them money. Luckily, there are solid options that aren't them, notably the steam deck for portable gaming and pc/xbox/ps5 for home gaming.
The PLCAA offers basic protections against nuisance lawsuits. Much like one shouldn't sue Makita for a crazy murdering someone with a sawzall, one shouldn't sue S&W for a crazy murdering someone with a gun.
I would like to start with the chain of command that insisted a battleship turret be installed on the flight deck.
It's the tip of a shaped charge warhead, though that particular one does look awfully like a barrel.
Yeah, I think someone in Saudi Arabia looked at the expenses for The Line‡, and then put out a number that sounds nice and would help with that massive outflow; but like you said, didn't trifle with a more realistic target. Meanwhile, Russia is pumping with whatever hasn't been hit by a drone yet, as they can use every ruble they can get; depressing the price.
‡I still can't get over how, instead of building up an industry in Saudi Arabia to vary the economy, instead they went for a vanity mega-project to ... attract tourists?
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Not this specific link/story, but some of the recent sanctions specifically target things Russia has been doing to get around prior sanctions. Such as sanctioning specific dark fleet vessels, sanctioning new entities that have been created to evade prior sanctions, and putting pressure/restrictions on banks to not just rubber stamp transfers to obvious shell companies.
Yeah, I think that is going to wait till after the election. I believe Biden is worried it would give more ammo to Trump. Hopefully we see it then. These self-imposed rules are really frustrating to watch.
Europe has also been providing aid very heavily of the non-military variety given they have more spare civilian capacity than military. This includes power generation and transmission to Ukraine, parts, etc.
The recent Perun video also talked about how ~50% of power generation is still online in Ukraine, due to it coming from nuclear plants. Still not enough to fully power the country, particularly if transmission is not kept online, but that is a better picture than I previously thought it was.
From watching the videos, it looks like a ton of low-level missile intercepts. The rocket motors are still active, which isn't what you see for ballistic missiles in their terminal phase.
Probably will be lots of damage due to debris though.