"Jamming" is not at the source. I am pretty sure US has built in geographicaly selective signal degradation at the source in GPS satellites, especially for the civilian unencrypted signals. Not doing that would have been extraordinarily stupid. Turning off all US GPS signals over Russia would be quite disruptive.
Russia & Ukraine
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There is certainly the ability to degrade accuracy on the civilian signal and this has been used (Iraq invasion I recall) but it affects a large area.
Well they have the 1m civilian and 1cm encrypted accuracy EU Galileo system also which probably has a similar issue to the US system, the majority of Russia that actually matters borders the EU so it would be hard to not foul up either party.
To me it seems more like another bully brag like the nukes, we could alarm your citizens in their daily lives if you don't play nice bla bla.
They will lose, again. I have a fond memory of kicking a Russian's ass at a beach bar in chess simply by playing in a blocking manner, avoiding many obvious advances etc. I won something like 7 of 10 games and he was furious I wasn't playing as he expected, him being all Russian and studied chess in school etc. Pride comes before a fall.
Edit: also China's BeiDou up there of course.
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Indeed. Selling bearings to Russia while applying for Nato is not a good combination. Something needed to go there.
Bloomberg was just reporting/talking about how the countries (India, I am lookin at you) who get arms from Russia are beginning to worry about how their advanced weaponry is going to get serviced, supplied, and updated from Russia. Yeh, that be something to think about.
Well yes. Russian tank factory has stopped operations ("temporarily" they claim but good luck resuming it). So did Russian modern missile production facility. Because - surprise - they need Western electronics for their missiles.
Very good overview on the artillery being sent to Ukraine. How it out-ranges Russian artillery, and be used for "shoot & scoot". Plus the artillery radar, drones and specialized rounds.
Well, as you know, my view is that I fear bigtime for the Ukrainians unless something is done about their artillery situation.
So if they are doing something about it, well then, good. Ditto for the supply and re-supply of ammo. You hear big numbers being reported, 1500 rounds for the howitzers etc, and that sounds big. It is what, like, two days worth for one gun. Late to the game with some of this stuff but no good news turned down. The russians are bringing in massive amounts of artillery, just massive.
I was reading the other day about how the Ruskies have the advantage of resupply due to the vast rail network coming into the area- so they don't have deal with the mud and convoy and all of that- as much as in the west anyway. Not sure what the plan is there, but somehow, through plane attack, missiles, local resistance on the ground or something they need to take out the rail and bridges coming into donbas. Not easy to do. Those are all offensive operations but Ukraine is still on defense. Anything in that direction will get my attention.
The russians were planning on doing more resupply by ship but- for good reasons- they are more skitterish about that now.
I was surprised we sent over some pretty “smart” munitions that can locate. I read a few days back that the Russians are working with “dumb” munitions too and I just keep thinking that Russians just cannot keep up with the quality of the weapons supplies by the west.
I understand the Russians are also trying to plan the battlefield with their artillery to make reinforcements to areas they can breakthrough difficult for the Ukrainians but here’s the thing, the Russians keep failing to break through the Ukrainian lines. I read theee Russian advances were repelled yesterday with big casualties on the Russian side.
We’ll see but all of this talk about going to Moldova after a retreat from Kyiv seems a bit ambitious right now.
THe Us is sending 40,000 rounds for the howitzers, not 1,500.
How Soviet of them...