At a recent speech Ukraine’s former Commander-in-Chief Valeri Zaluzhny made a stunning admission.
He stated that over the course of the Ukrainain conflict, Russia has managed to turn every single Western wunderwaffen or “superweapon” into useless junk:
His actual words in detail:
“By the time of 2026, Ukraine had already deployed every single type of weaponry—except perhaps for Tomahawk missiles, nuclear weapons, aircraft carriers, and F-35s, as well as applied all of NATO’s highly complex operational doctrines…
And all the available resources have now been completely exhausted. Russia has managed to find a specific countermeasure to every one of them.”
He goes on to give an example, where the HIMARS system was initially a surprise success that, according to him, single-handedly enabled Ukraine to liberate the Kherson region in the fall of 2022. But only a single month later, he says, the HIMARS was rendered completely useless.
His words:
“Exactly a month later, [the HIMARS] were turned into a completely pointless thing, that’s simply impossible to use.”
Note in particular the part of the statement which flies most under the radar. Not only the weaponry was entirely nullified by Russia, but NATO’s “highly complex operational doctrines”.
In recent weeks, Russian tanks have finally been spotted shipping from Uralvagonzavod, as well as on the front, with the mythical Arena-M system, in development for a long time. Russian news had been reporting that the upgraded new versions of the Arena system, called Arena-M, would begin being installed on various tanks from as far back as 2023.
The system works by having a small millimeter-wave doppler radar which detects incoming projectiles and then launches a hard-kill countermeasure that is timed and fused to explode near the tank which showers the incoming projectile with shrapnel.
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Something tells me a century of overt and covert spying by our greatest ally (spit) contributes greatly to the countermeasures that are/in development. Never ends until it is 110.
A hundred and ten what?
Seriously???
Seriously. On re-reading, my best guess is domestic political, social and physical conditions of brutality and tragedy worth a hundred and ten on a scale of 100?
This wouldn’t be the first time I’ve made an asshole of myself on the internet.
Thanks for your patience.
109 is referencing the number of countries the jews have been expelled from, historically speaking. Their expulsion from the USA would be 110, although Malaysia announced plans to expel jews in July of this year, so if the US managed to do so next, it would now be 111, by the generally accepted count.
Some people count up to 117.. I saw a link the other day that had links going for 1000 instances.
Even if only half of them are true… name another single group of people in the history of this planet that have been so universally hated? This anti-semetism isn’t anything new. Throughout all of history… everyone’s hated them.
But it’s not them, it’s everyone else. For thousands of years. across cultures and societies, it’s everyone else. They’re the victim.
Baffling….
Thank you, gentlemen. I try to keep up.
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I seem to recall reading in a ’70s Science-Fiction Novel (totally don’t remember the Author) of a very nearly Identical concept for Defense of Armored Vehicles, using multiple sets of Laser, Shrapnel Charges, and Reactive (Explosive) Boxes. This allowed for True Superheavy Tanks, like the German “Ratte” 1,500-Ton Concept. Nuclear Propulsion solved the Energy Requirements for Laser and Railgun Weapons.