Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

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Ryuu96 said:

BFR said:

Russia is reportedly postponing the delivery of two S-400 air defense systems to India, citing the need to utilize them for protecting its own cities and strategic assets from potential strikes by Ukrainian drones. This delay means that out of the five S-400 systems India was… pic.twitter.com/xNUBlhyrrn

— NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) March 24, 2024

Lol. India should have picked a more reliable partner. If I'm India, I would ask for a discount on S-400s considering how they've performed in Ukraine. Plus so far almost every western equivalent of Russian equipment has performed better.

That's not so easy to do. India had for decades relied on Russian military hardware, almost since it's inception. Since the only other potential partner that supplies military products by the old WP standard is China and India being in conflict with them, that's not an option either.

In the end, India will probably have to switch to NATO standard or make some franken-vehicles with NATO-based chassis being able to fire Warsaw Pact munitions.

Ryuu96 said:

❗ Informujemy, że 24 marca br. o godz. 4.23 doszÅ‚o do naruszenia polskiej przestrzeni powietrznej przez jednÄ… z rakiet manewrujÄ…cych wystrzelonych dzisiejszej nocy przez lotnictwo dalekiego zasiÄ™gu Federacji Rosyjskiej. Celem wykonywanych uderzeÅ„ byÅ‚y miejscowoÅ›ci znajdujÄ…ce siÄ™… pic.twitter.com/FQbGqs2KEw

— Dowództwo Operacyjne (@DowOperSZ) March 24, 2024

We would like to inform you that on March 24 this year at. 4.23, there was a violation of Polish airspace by one of the cruise missiles launched this night by long-range aviation of the Russian Federation. The targets of the strikes were towns in western Ukraine.

The object entered Polish space near the town of Oserdów (Lublin Voivodeship) and stayed there for 39 seconds. During the entire flight, he was observed by military radar systems.

Tonight all necessary procedures to ensure the safety of Polish airspace were launched. Among other things, Polish and allied aviation was activated.

#WojskoPolskie monitors the situation on the territory of Ukraine on an ongoing basis and remains on constant readiness to ensure the safety of Polish airspace.

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This is getting dumb now, Russia has violated NATO airspace multiple times, they do it because they know we won't do anything about it and it makes it harder for Ukraine to intercept, it's time to start blowing these missiles out the sky the second they enter NATO airspace. Poland would be fully justified in doing so.

The Polish army as it is right now could probably steamroll the Russian troops out of Königsberg (Kaliningrad) and then decisively support the Ukrainian forces in liberating their territories all on it's own without any further NATO support. And that's just now, in a couple years when Poland will have finished their very substantive military equipment expansion (see spoiler for what they're buying right now), they could probably steamroll Russia proper, too, if they didn't have nukes.

Spoiler!

1000 South Korean K2 tanks, 360+ M1 Abrams SEPv3, 800+ K9 155mm Self-Propelled Artillery, 300+ Krab 155mm SPA, 280 Korean Multiple Rocket launchers, 500 HIMARS, 1000 Borsuk IFVs, and the list goes on and on...