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Foreign Affairs › Re: UK Military Chief Hails Russia's Land Warfare Strategy by Appleyard(op): 11:12pm On Jul 04, 2022
Mattswaggz:
Who are the experts?

where do they come from?

why should we rate their opinion/analysis above that of others?
Of course, he is saying that we should take the opinion of a select few analysts above realities on the ground.

Reality: The US have NEVER won a single war on its own. The ones he tried, they ended up being a nightmare for them.

The US is only number one in terms of NUMBERS of armaments stacked up.
Foreign Affairs › Re: UK Military Chief Hails Russia's Land Warfare Strategy by Appleyard(op):
BritishNaija:
You are funny, You are much learned and Military know how by the Experts that Ranked US on number spot.

A lot of funny persons on this NL. You see me, I don't rate things based on sentiments, If i see Where Anyone be it US or Russian is better than eachother, I state it the way it is, I don't go along the sentimental part, that is believing your own lies.
At the bolded, this coming from you just shows you're a white, livered liar. grin You never give any credit to Russia. Stop the pretence. You and know that you're one of the most biased, unrepentant Russian nay-sayers on this platform. cool
Foreign Affairs › Re: UK Military Chief Hails Russia's Land Warfare Strategy by Appleyard(op): 11:01pm On Jul 04, 2022
ChangedMan1999:
The question isnt hard; it is simple.

The answer is Russia

If you ask "why", I will tell you that USA wouldnt need the coalition called NATO if it is stronger.
Fatality. cool
Foreign Affairs › Re: UK Military Chief Hails Russia's Land Warfare Strategy by Appleyard(op): 10:58pm On Jul 04, 2022
Drenimarcus:
Honestly no matter where you pin your narrative. One gotta give it to the russkies.

What amazes me is that, with all NATO weapons and intelligence of pentagon, the guys are making their grounds day by day albeit taking it slow.

Now imagine a full-fledged war?
This was exactly the point some unbiased western military analyst and formal soldiers were saying during the early stage of the conflict.

Despite the real-time Intel NATO AWACS and satellites were providing Ukraine, together with new weapons and even foreign US and NATO too brass leading the Ukrainians whom they have trained and prepared for 8 years, and have laid down heavy fortifications across the contact points in the east, the Russian forces still manage to round them up in cauldrons and effectively segmented them into tiny concentrated groups to have only one option: surrender or die. No one fights like this anymore, not since the dawn of the 21st century, which is amazing. It's even more jaw dropping when you consider that it's just 150,000 troops against 500,000 forces. Hence, the UK military chief was unable to hold back his confession on the fact that the Russians are way better than they were being credited or debased by the west, and that the west need to up their game if they stand a chance of ever getting over the Russians in real combat. Just imagine what would happen if Russia is to mobilize fully for war.
Foreign Affairs › Re: UK Military Chief Hails Russia's Land Warfare Strategy by Appleyard(op): 10:44pm On Jul 04, 2022
BritishNaija:
You are Very funny Dude I swear. You go ahead to pick Any News that Suit your narrative.

I have one question for, Who is the number or is currently the Strongest Military in the World? US and Russia who tops? I never mentioned UK with Russia Fighting But US. Now answer my question above.
Strongest military in what terms? You think military might is something you measured with rulers and pencils? cool

The news is the UK military top brass just made an open confession. What do you have to say about that? Don't deviate with kid-like questions. cool
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-ukraine War: Zelenskyy Pledges To Retake Lysychansk by Appleyard(m): 10:33pm On Jul 04, 2022
"A day without Ukraine losing a territory and hundreds of soldiers is a day wasted".

Zelensky.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Shooting At July 4 Parade In Highland Park, US. 6 Dead, Suspect Not In Custody by Appleyard(m): 10:29pm On Jul 04, 2022
The US and white dominated mass shootings and violence are like five and six.
Foreign Affairs › Re: UK Military Chief Hails Russia's Land Warfare Strategy by Appleyard(op): 5:19pm On Jul 04, 2022
pacino26:
There’s this YouTube channel that to videos; the Marine or so. In one of his reviews of the American military recruitment advert and that of the Russians he said; The Russian military stick to what warfare and combat is all about. Which is destroying things and killing people. Now how do you pit this well Russian dude to the girl with two moms in warfare?. Maybe I didn’t quote him correctly but the message was simple. The Russians are determined to win, even when they face defeat, they will always come back to achieve their aim. Imagine shipping testesterone and other hormonal shots to soldiers in the battlefield instead of munitions. cool cool cool
The truth of the matter is, Russia is way advance in thought processes and and battlefield strategies than anything the west have up their sleeves. No modern army fights the way the Russians are fighting in Ukraine. These are fact.
Foreign Affairs › Re: UK Military Chief Hails Russia's Land Warfare Strategy by Appleyard(op): 5:15pm On Jul 04, 2022
VeryWickedMan:
I taught them.
I will soon publish a book on wickedness.
You're in deed, a very wicked man. grin grin grin
Foreign Affairs › Re: UK Military Chief Hails Russia's Land Warfare Strategy by Appleyard(op): 5:13pm On Jul 04, 2022
Now, sit back and let's analyze the bolded in summary of the UK Military Chief's confessions. cool

1. Western military planners were stunned by the Russian war strategy in Ukraine. This strategy was pointed out previously by some unbiased western retired army personnel like Colonel McGregor of the U.S army, but they were dismissed as being Putin asss-lickers until now that the real people that matters are admitting the truth. cheesy

2. Air power, cyber warfare and new capabilities remain crucial in modern warfare,but Land domination remains profound and whomever has the best land based strategy will emerge the victor.

3. The best of Western military shining assets are not enough to wage a successful war against a major Land power like Russia. cool (No wonder they need like a hundred countries in NATO to wage war against Russia). grin

4. If UK forces should come in contact with Russian forces in the battlefield, they would be outnumbered, outgunned, and beating black and blue all the way back to Bolton where Bolton Wanderers are still wandering in relegation. grin

5. The coastal lines of Ukraine were of a truth mined by the Ukronazis which is why civilian ships cannot access the ports to export grain, thereby causing the food shortage for which Russia has be wrongly accused of blockade.

6. Confirmed the narrative that Russia have not even used 1/10th of its sheer military might on Ukraine, and as such, the tag "Special Military Operation" is appropriate.

7. There is a different between "Tactical warfare" and "Strategic Warfare". and Russia is the grandfather of the latter. cheesy

8. Russia's strategic warfare and capability is ALIEN to western military planners. grin

9. Stealth, cyber capabilities, tactics or whatever platforms the west currently have in their arsenal CANNOT unlock, overrun, or defeat this rare Russian strategy unless by an equal or superior strategy. cool

No be me talk am o... cool Na UK military Chief made these confessions. I hope jingoists like BritishNaija, Igbofam, Joyandfaith and the rest of the gangs doing life in the western prison of zombification in Langley are reading this. wink

As for my lady, Missy89, it's time you relocate back to Nigeria before the Russians completes the deployment of the Avanguard hypersonic glide vehicle and Poseidon torpedo. I don't want to lose you since Kamala Harris is set to take over power, which will then usher in the countdown to the fulfillment of Alois Irlmaier's, William Braham's and A.A Allen's prophecy on the destruction of America and the collective west in WW3. cool

Come out of mystery Babylon, oh my lady, for Zoharariel awaits you at the 163rd Siberian Submarine Brigade in the city of Warri where both of you are destined to be and have Kain and Abel. cool

See you. wink
Foreign Affairs › UK Military Chief Hails Russia's Land Warfare Strategy by Appleyard(op):
For the many simpletons we have on this section of Nairaland, reality is the only rude awakening that removes the scales of western zombification from thy clouded jingoistic and self-denying purview. When we told you guys that Russia's war tactics is purely strategic and methodical, you love to chorus the narrative of the lamestream media that Russia is being bogged down; could not take Kiev (when it never intended to); it's running out of ammo, and stalled. cool

Below is the recent confession of the UK Military Chief regarding Russia's war strategy, admitting that such strategy remains the dominant mode of waging warfare even in the 21st century. smiley

Enjoy the read. cool


UK Military Chief ‘Heaps Praises’ On Russia; Calls ‘Land Warfare The Real Domain’ As Moscow Cripples Ukraine
EUROPEEXPERT REVIEWS

By Parth Satam

July 4, 2022

The war in Ukraine has left some profound lessons for the Western world, particularly Great Britain (UK), whose Chief of General Staff General Patrick Sanders called for “mobilizing” against Russia.


But what stood out in his speech was quoting Britain’s wartime Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery’s exhortation in 1937, two years before World War 2.

“There is no need to continue doing a thing merely because it has been done in the Army for the last thirty or forty years – if this is the only reason for doing it, then it is high time we changed and did something else,” Monty had said.

While slamming a “revanchist” Russia for its war in Ukraine, Sanders went on to call “land” the “decisive domain,” putting it before “standoff, air, maritime or cyber” capability, which “alone cannot” win a war – or at least one against Russia in Europe.

Sanders spoke at the Royal United Services Institute’s (RUSI) Land Warfare Conference on June 28. In attendance were Defense Secretary Ben Wallace; United States Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth; Germany’s Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Alfons Mais; and Oleksandr Danylyuk, former secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

Russia’s military intervention has heavily used long-range cruise missile strikes on Ukrainian formations, military bases, and defense industrial infrastructure to degrade its fighting and resupply capability.

It paid off when Ukrainian military brass admitted they ran out of artillery ammunition while losing most of their Soviet-era artillery guns.

It was followed by a ground attack with nearly 150,000 troops – less than half the size of the 500,000 that would have been required to permanently hold and occupy the country – in combined arms Battle Tactical Groups (BTG) from the north, east, and south.

They were supported by limited air cover by ground-attack aircraft like Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot, Su-34 fighter-bombers, and Close Air Support (CAS) by helicopter gunships like the Kamov Ka-52 Alligator and Mi-28 Havoc.

There was little to no air action, primarily owing to the small size of Ukraine’s Air Force of merely 127 fixed-wing planes: three dozen Su-27 interceptors and roughly 50 older generation MiG-29 jets.

Moreover, they are armed with older generation R-27ET and ER missiles that don’t have active radar seekers. The launching pilot must keep his plane in line with his missile and guide it toward the target. He can’t ‘shoot and scoot,’ and because of having to keep his radar switched on, he becomes detectable.

Russia has not undertaken an amphibious invasion, as was expected in Mariupol or Odesa. Russians correctly assumed the Ukrainians to have heavily mined the coast and the landing areas, as was evident in the subsequent de-mining operation in Mariupol.

Russia did not bring its full military force to bear for a quick, decisive victory as it preferred slow incremental progress, not push Ukraine and its President Vladimir Zelensky to the wall and preserve a diplomatic track.

In an earlier analysis, the EurAsian Times had touched upon this ‘Long War’ doctrine.

Indeed, it busts some conventional wisdom of warfare established by Western strategists, but it also can be explained by the fact that it was not fighting a Great Power. Ukraine and its military were far from the reforms envisaged and were poorly organized ground forces that, while tactically nevertheless brilliant, did not even have tank armor.

So, while a war with NATO will be different and need the full capabilities of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) as air power cannot be undermined, Sanders thinks otherwise is still possibly not an overstatement.

He provided an unintended explanation with a grudging appreciation of Russia’s way of war. “Because Russia wages war at the strategic, not the tactical level, its depth and resilience means it can suffer any number of campaigns, battles, and engagements lost, regenerate, and still ultimately prevail,” he said.

“The war in Ukraine reminds us of the utility of Land Power: it takes an army to hold and regain territory and defend the people. It takes an Army to deter. If this battle came, we would likely be outnumbered at the point of attack and fighting like hell.

Standoff air, maritime or cyber fires are unlikely to dominate on their own – Land will still be the strong domain,” he emphasized.

But what he said next was the punchline: “You can’t cyber your way across a river. No single platform, capability, or tactic will unlock the problem (sic).”

UK-Future Soldier

The UK is set to deliver the “most radical transformation” to its Army in 20 years. (British MoD)
UK’s Future Soldier Program
This new thinking has manifested in the British Army’s ongoing reforms. Its ‘Future Soldier’ program envisages educating, ameliorating, and making the lowly Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) more tech-savvy to make up for its small size of a little under 150,000 troops.

Maj Gen Paul Griffiths, its Director of Personnel, touched upon it in his interview with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). Griffiths talked about the NCO Academy, which meant “to enhance their competence for better leadership and train each NCO to be able to do more.”

“Think widely about using technology because a smaller army does not have mass. We are going to increase our mass by using machines. So, the young Corporal has to think not only about his section but probably the weapons systems that are with him in the fight bringing people and machines together as a team,” Griffiths added.



The importance of Professional Military Education (PME), which approaches war academically by grooming ‘soldier scholars,’ as the term goes, can serve as a lesson for India.

It faces vehement protests against a short 4-year stint ‘Agnipath‘ scheme and a disgruntled Veteran community following a series of letdowns on pension and pay demands over the last seven years can take a leaf out of its former colonial masters.

Griffiths himself admitted a need to “unshackle” the British Army from “Victorian” mindsets when he talked about “empowerment and education” as one of the primary goals of the Future Soldier program.

“It’s the thinking soldier that’s going to win, and the point is to help them through education and training, shared experience, coaching (and) mentoring,” he said.

https://eurasiantimes.com/british-military-chief-calls-land-the-new-domain-air-maritime-cyber-power-pass/
Foreign Affairs › Re: US Hypersonic Missile Test Fails Again by Appleyard(m): 3:10pm On Jul 04, 2022
Kingsnairaland:
Nothing you tell this guy that will make him to understand that Russia military hardware is more powerful than USA own

When it comes to missiles or nukes Russia range and how deadly it is it beats USA own no need to convince him when time comes we all alive will witness it.
He is just in self deniability mode.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russian Liberators Finally Crosses The Siverskyi Donesk River by Appleyard(m): 3:02pm On Jul 04, 2022
It's about to happen. The liberation of the Donetsk region is underway and it's going to be one hell of confrontation.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia Now Demands Rubles For Grain As World's Largest Wheat Exporter by Appleyard(m): 2:57pm On Jul 04, 2022
seunny4lif:
I don’t want EU economy to fall and even Russia don’t want it to happen.
Many EU companies have already open back operation in Russia.
Their eyes go neat. When you chose to bite the hand that feeds you, expect hunger, cold and stagnation.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia Now Demands Rubles For Grain As World's Largest Wheat Exporter by Appleyard(m): 6:40pm On Jul 03, 2022
Shascky33:
India alone consumes more grain than the Eurozone. The plan is to block the Ukrainian grain going 2 europe, deny europe of russian grain then cause a food price inflation in europe. New and existing friendly partners will end up buying very available russian grains at a cheaper cost. Putin na winch.
Finishing!!! grin Call it brutality.

If Russia should imposed a complete gas embargo to the EU now, the massive riots that would hit most European capitals will make George Floyd's Black Live Matter protest look like a primary school gathering.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia Now Demands Rubles For Grain As World's Largest Wheat Exporter by Appleyard(m): 6:37pm On Jul 03, 2022
mamaafrik:
America go get sense by force
The way the people will turn against the Demorats in the coming midterm election will look like a horror movie to many of the politicians who aided and support the US war effort in Ukraine and the sanctions against Russia. They have backfired spectacularly.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia Captures all of the luhansk region in it's biggest win of the war so far by Appleyard(m): 6:31pm On Jul 03, 2022
dangermouse:
Murdering innocent and defenceless Ukranians so as to expand a territory almost as big as a continent.
Greed and insatiable yearnings for more powerl is satanic and gross.

Power is indeed nothing without control!!
Sheer ignorance.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Putin Unveils The State Of The Heart Deployment Of S-500 Air Defense Systems. by Appleyard(m): 6:28pm On Jul 03, 2022
BritishNaija:
Who is talking about drone? We are talking about f-35, F-22, and B-2, you are here talking about drone. Those are the Aircraft designed to infiltrate Heavily defended Airspace like Russia.
Stealth is only invisible to third-world nations. Ask Serbia.
Foreign Affairs › Re: US Hypersonic Missile Fails In Test Yet Again by Appleyard(m): 6:14pm On Jul 03, 2022
klarry79:
USA failing to build ke? You may want to research the SR-71 Blackbird. It was built in the 50s 60s operated over 30 years and retired in 1999. Hypersonic speed is not a technology unachievable to USA. All their space rockets reach hypersonic speeds and beyond. They may require specific functionalities that may fail under those extreme conditions and won't stop till it's right. While Russia and China were still marveling at aircraft's the SR-71 had attained and still is the fastest aircraft ever flown.
All their space rocket engines reach Hypersonic speed? grin

Heck, even all those space rockets engines were produced by the Russians without which the US can't even go to space, until Elon Musk came to their rescue in three years ago.

The truth is, the US military will catch up soon in the hypersonic missile race, they have the money to do it. But right now, they have nothing compared to what the Russkies and Chingos have.
Foreign Affairs › Re: US Hypersonic Missile Fails In Test Yet Again by Appleyard(m): 6:09pm On Jul 03, 2022
joyandfaith:
Russia should have finished Ukraine by now. Why are they wasting their men and resources in Ukraine for over 4 months now?
The Russians are taking their time and moving methodically with the result coming in. Lysichansk just fell thereby securing the whole of the Luhansk Oblast. 70 percent of the mission is already achieved. Next port of call is the full liberation of the Donetsk region. cool

As for the time, the US couldn't have faired anything better.

The US fought in Vietnam for 122 months and lost. They fought in Afghan for 140 months only for the same Taliban they first ousted from political power to rolled back into power while the US was busy running away from the country at the airport, sacrificing ten of their soldiers to terror attack as a send-off party gift to Biden. cool

War is not yam and stew.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Putin Unveils The State Of The Heart Deployment Of S-500 Air Defense Systems. by Appleyard(m): 5:48pm On Jul 03, 2022
BritishNaija:
Bro,Shealth makes it easy to infiltrate the Airspace of Advisory like Russia that have layers of defence with their S-systems, and don't you for a second think that when a Shealth Aircraft decides to take out S systems, that it will go alone.
Infiltrate Russian airspace? grin They couldn't even infiltrate the Iranian or Korean airspace successfully let alone Russian airspace. Guy, take a break. cheesy

See what Iran did to another US expensive state of the art drone. cool

Foreign Affairs › Re: US Hypersonic Missile Test Fails Again by Appleyard(m): 5:43pm On Jul 03, 2022
BritishNaija:
It's False,never happened.
So from where did it strike the plane? In Ukraine of from Poland? cheesy

Just like Lysichansk falling in two days never happened. cool
Foreign Affairs › Re: US Hypersonic Missile Test Fails Again by Appleyard(m): 5:40pm On Jul 03, 2022
BritishNaija:
Yea. I Guess the French journalist is now the Pilot.
There is one thing you fail to understand, Aircraft like F-35, if it was successfully hit by a missile, you can never hid the fact and it will leak out No matter what, and US will ground it and check for the defficiency that caused the problem. You know and saw how two F-35 crashed Into the Sea and saw how it was leaked? That is to tell you the kind if awareness being given to the plane.

So the News is false.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/israels-f-35s-saw-combat-in-syrian-air-war-that-hit-russian-defenses-2018-5%3famp
Shallow excuses.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia Destroys Five Ukrainian Army Command by Appleyard(m): 3:04pm On Jul 03, 2022
This is pure propaganda. Russia no longer has precision-guided munitions. It's a big phat lie from Siberia. cry
Foreign Affairs › Re: The Luhansk People's Republic Is Now Totally Liberated by Appleyard(m): 2:57pm On Jul 03, 2022
DannyFX2638:
Bro , Nigeria , Senegal and Mali military if put together with lots of weapon equipment like Ukraine will defeat NATO
grin
Foreign Affairs › Re: The Luhansk People's Republic Is Now Totally Liberated by Appleyard(m): 2:53pm On Jul 03, 2022
Drenimarcus:
In major Russian cities the war in Ukraine has blended into the background, Russians support Putin, not the protests" - The Wall Street Journal

"Bars are full, concerts are more popular than ever, people are traveling en masse to resorts. The police are not busy suppressing protests... ... but arresting drunken people," the American journalists bitterly stated.

Instead of pacifist demonstrations and rallies, Russians support their president and go on with their lives.

That's the disappointing conclusion American journalists drew.
So disappointing that some EU leaders are now calling for an end to the war.

What happened to "We will continue to pour in support to the last Ukrainian standing?"

Pathetic losers.
Foreign Affairs › Re: The Luhansk People's Republic Is Now Totally Liberated by Appleyard(m): 2:47pm On Jul 03, 2022
paafin:
The Allied forces of the Russian federation and LPR liberated the city of Lisichansk from the Ukrainian military, thereby freeing the last city in the region of the Luhansk people's republic.

New battle fronts opens at the Severks-Soledar line.
That leaves the Donetsk region next in line for liberation. The way Lysichansk fell entails the speed at which this operations is going, mainly due to the fact that the Ukraine army no longer has much fight left in its ranks.

Igbofam will not like this news. cool You guys should give him a link to a dead Russian general so he can be happy and stay relevant. cool
Foreign Affairs › Re: The Possible 5 Ways The War In Ukraine Might End by Appleyard(m): 2:42pm On Jul 03, 2022
Russia is achieving its objectives in Ukraine. The way the city of Lysychansk fell to the Russians shows that Ukraine have no more fighting left in its armed forces.
Foreign Affairs › Re: US Hypersonic Missile Test Fails Again by Appleyard(m): 1:50pm On Jul 03, 2022
BritishNaija:
With this your long epistle, you still failed to make sense or clerify things. Instead your expose your lack of knowledge.

First, The News that Syria hit F35 is false, you also do not know anything about Bird strike, because if you do, you should know it has been bringing down planes no matter the cost of the plane and should be avoided at all cost.

Again, No one know told you that Shealth means total invisibility of the Aircraft.. For example, If S-400 can detect and engage f-16 from 400km, it can't detect Shealth plane until tens of kilometers, which makes it too late. B-2 Bomber is the most dangerous, as it has radar cross section the size of a bee, even if the S-400 manages to detect it at that size, it can't engage it.

Please when did US rebuffed China from buying S-400? You have Come again, What business does US have with China acquiring S-400?


And stop posting false news, Israel F-35s Started flying sorties Into Syria in 2018 and was never combat ready in 2017, talkless of being hit.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/22/613259802/israel-says-f-35s-see-first-ever-combat-with-idf-over-syria
French Intelligence report made published by a French journalist, Thomas Newdick, in Airforces Monthly, reaffirmed irmed Israel rushed the F-35 into action against Syrian missile batteries and shipment to Hezbollah one month after receiving them from the US.

No matter how they tried to twist it, is obvious they used the plane in 2017. Stop making excuses for them.

Foreign Affairs › Re: US Hypersonic Missile Test Fails Again by Appleyard(m): 1:10pm On Jul 03, 2022
BritishNaija:
That is a False. Russia have never engaged Ukraine forces or lunched Missile attacks from Belarus until days ago, Which was Well published. And was done by it bombers. Do not swallow everything you read, verify first.


Any attack done by Russia from Belarus will be Well detected and published
It's fact, not false. Many other reports carried it.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Putin Unveils The State Of The Heart Deployment Of S-500 Air Defense Systems. by Appleyard(m):
Drenimarcus:
He is on kool-aid. They sent parts of this to Russia as a gift sef.

They downed another US drone few years back, i think 2017 or so.

Today, the Chinese were showcasing their weapons and the Russian S-400 was amongst their weapons.

S-400 that everyone is rushing like hot cake, even the US low-key wants it.

Russia,China,North Korea and Iran. Any US weapons that nears them go collect wotoporously cheesy
Emotions rather than logic is what shape most of the reasoning and comments of our brothers from the other side of the geopolitical spectrum. You don't have to be pro-east or pro-west to see and deduct facts and make logical conclusions when provided with certain premises. This is how folks evade propaganda.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Putin Unveils The State Of The Heart Deployment Of S-500 Air Defense Systems. by Appleyard(m): 1:02pm On Jul 03, 2022
BritishNaija:
Bro, the drone cost around $6 million and not $100m. You like to exaggerate things a lot.
Oh, my bad. But not exaggerating things. I mistook the price of the RQ-A4 Global Hawk drone for the Sentinel. cool It will interest you to know that the A4 Global Hawk cost the US government $220 million each to build and equip. Iran shot it down in 2019. cool

The point is, you should stop glorifying stealth and your friend should stop glorifying US drones.

Drones are great for modern combat and stealth is a plus for survivability. But like every other piece of metal out there, they are not spirits to hostile environments with sophisticated A2/AD capabilities. That's the moral lesson of this argument.

And thanks for correcting my error.

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