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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 7:25am On Jul 12, 2025
HurricaneLanter:
✅⚡🎯 🇬🇧😂🇺🇦Ukraine and Britain have signed a "historic credit agreement" that will allow shooting down 260 "Shaheds" PER YEAR, BUT Russia launches 500-700 OF THESE DRONES PER DAY 🤷‍♂

▪️Yesterday, the British government approved funding for the production of 5,000 missiles against "Shaheds" over 19 years.
▪️That means an average of 263 missiles will be produced per year — while Russia is already regularly launching 500-700 drones per day.
▪️The agreement with Ukraine for the production of such missiles in Northern Ireland was signed yesterday in Rome.
▪️London calls this a "historic agreement" that will "promote Britain's economic growth and job creation, as well as allow Ukraine to stay in the fight."
▪️Earlier, Umerov stated that British export credit will be allocated for the purchase of these missiles by Kyiv. That is, the supply of these missiles will not be free, and Ukraine will have to pay for them.
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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by HurricaneLanter: 7:30am On Jul 12, 2025
⚡🎯✅ 📷 During the Han Kuang 41 drills, a Patriot missile system hit a roadside awning while turning in New Taipei City, and got stuck for over 2.5 hours.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by HurricaneLanter: 7:33am On Jul 12, 2025
🎯⚡✅ 🇷🇺 The Armed Forces of Ukraine may retreat beyond the Dnieper: Ukraine has almost no options left, – NZZ

▪️The Swiss edition of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung admitted that Russia has moved from the tactics of attrition to achieving a strategic turning point. The offensive of Russian troops is gaining momentum, and the Kyiv regime has only two options:
➖ An organized retreat is an attempt to preserve the remnants of the army and equipment, at the cost of surrendering territories;
➖ Retreat beyond the Dnieper is an extreme measure, meaning the loss of a significant part of the Left-Bank Ukraine.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by HurricaneLanter: 7:44am On Jul 12, 2025
⚡✅🎯 🇮🇷 🆚 🇺🇸 What important and strategic target did Iranian missiles destroy at the Al-Udeid base in Qatar?

In an unprecedented missile attack by Iran on the Al-Udeid base, one of the key targets was the AN/FPS-132 early warning radar — the "beating heart" of the US missile defense system in the region. This radar was hidden under a giant geodesic dome, but high-precision missiles with unprecedented accuracy managed to overcome this cover.

This radar, with a range of over 4800 kilometers, is the first line of detection for intercontinental ballistic missiles. Its destruction or disabling means blinding the entire air defense system in the Middle East.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by HurricaneLanter: 7:46am On Jul 12, 2025
⚡✅ 🇺🇸The US Department of Defense's Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), which oversaw the development and creation of the GBU-57 bunker-buster bombs, has not yet received final data confirming the successful destruction of Iranian nuclear program facilities as a result of US Air Force strikes on June 21-22.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by HurricaneLanter: 7:48am On Jul 12, 2025
⚡✅🎯 ‼️🇺🇦In battle in the Sumy region the commander of a group from the special operations forces center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was eliminated by the Russian army.

▪️Captain Vladislav Yakovenko from the 140th Special Operations Forces Center received a severe through-and-through gunshot wound incompatible with life in battle in the Sumy region, the Haysyn city council reported.
▪️According to available data, the entire group of the elite Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed during the battle.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by HurricaneLanter: 7:51am On Jul 12, 2025
⚡✅🎯 🇷🇺🇺🇦 Missiles and drones strikes hitting targets across Ukraine last night.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by FoolishBoy419: 7:54am On Jul 12, 2025
FPVdrone:
⚡🎯✅ 🚨 IRAN'S RETALIATION: 90% OF MISSILES HIT ISRAELI TARGETS IN FINAL STAGES OF CONFLICT

In the closing days of the 12-day conflict between Iran and Israel, over 90% of Tehran's missiles successfully hit their intended targets, it claims.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf says this marks a decisive moment in the war.
90% might be a stretch but this is the most often understated aspect of the conflict. Iran was using very few missiles to cause devastation towards the end of the conflict. They also claimed their last drone attack was the most successful since the start of the war. They had a golden opportunity to severely punish Israel for a few more days and establish stronger deterrence, but they chose to throw it away. Iran will get punished for this blunder soon
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by FoolishBoy419: 8:12am On Jul 12, 2025
Allthelight:
a quick reminder same thing happened in Syria yet nothing
Syria was facing a different kind of enemy
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 8:26am On Jul 12, 2025
FPVdrone:
⚡🇬🇧🇫🇷🇺🇦Europe is preparing troops to be sent to Ukraine: the multinational forces headquarters will be located in Paris, — Washington Post

▪️The headquarters for post-war deployment forces (Multinational Force Ukraine) will be located in Paris for the first year, then moved to London. A coordination group will be created in Kyiv.
▪️For the first time, the summit included an American delegation led by Trump's representative — General Kellogg, as well as Senators Graham and Blumenthal, authors of the bill on secondary sanctions against Russia.
▪️The contingent will assist in restoring the Armed Forces of Ukraine, providing logistics, security in airspace and the Black Sea.
▪️British Prime Minister Starmer stated that the "coalition of the willing" will be ready to deploy forces "on the day of the ceasefire" to "deter Russian aggression." Macron confirmed the existence of a ready plan and emphasized its readiness for immediate implementation.
They get to announce these in their major papers and wonder why Russia says not to "unconditional ceasefire".
The audacity of the Hegemon is something.

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by FoolishBoy419: 8:27am On Jul 12, 2025
bryght4u:
The US doesn't indulge itself in regime change!
So says our in-house Secretaries of State!
Well, USA has never come out to officially acknowledge that it has conducted a regime change so they have a point grin
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 8:41am On Jul 12, 2025
⚡Zelensky:

Russia attacked with 26 cruise missiles and 597 drones, more than half of them are “shaheeds”.

More than 20 missiles and the vast majority of strike drones were neutralized.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by bryght4u(m): 8:48am On Jul 12, 2025
FPVdrone:
🎯⚡🇩🇪 ⚔️ Berlin’s new purge: AfD members BARRED from public jobs — reports

Germany is sliding back into authoritarianism — this time targeting right-wing dissent.

According to Spiegel, several German states are moving to ban AfD members from public service jobs — including teachers, police, judges, and civil servants. Applicants must now declare party affiliations, and the AfD is officially blacklisted.

📋 No crimes. No trials. Just being in the "wrong" party can kill your career.

Some states are even running secret-service background checks on public job applicants — even when there's no suspicion of wrongdoing.

AfD officials say members are being warned to “watch their words” to avoid losing their jobs — echoing the 1970s “Berufsverbot” era, when Germany blacklisted political dissidents from state employment.

🔒 Dissent is being criminalized. Being right-wing in Germany now means living under surveillance.
Beacons and bastions of democracy and free speech!
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Kingsnairaland(m): 8:49am On Jul 12, 2025
FPVdrone:
⚡🇬🇧🇫🇷🇺🇦Europe is preparing troops to be sent to Ukraine: the multinational forces headquarters will be located in Paris, — Washington Post

▪️The headquarters for post-war deployment forces (Multinational Force Ukraine) will be located in Paris for the first year, then moved to London. A coordination group will be created in Kyiv.
▪️For the first time, the summit included an American delegation led by Trump's representative — General Kellogg, as well as Senators Graham and Blumenthal, authors of the bill on secondary sanctions against Russia.
▪️The contingent will assist in restoring the Armed Forces of Ukraine, providing logistics, security in airspace and the Black Sea.
▪️British Prime Minister Starmer stated that the "coalition of the willing" will be ready to deploy forces "on the day of the ceasefire" to "deter Russian aggression." Macron confirmed the existence of a ready plan and emphasized its readiness for immediate implementation.
They have been saying this for two years and they have sent some that have been killed

So it just to make them appear strong which they are not lol

After the war they won't open mouth again to talk
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Kingsnairaland(m): 8:56am On Jul 12, 2025
HurricaneLanter:
🎯⚡✅ 🇷🇺 The Armed Forces of Ukraine may retreat beyond the Dnieper: Ukraine has almost no options left, – NZZ

▪️The Swiss edition of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung admitted that Russia has moved from the tactics of attrition to achieving a strategic turning point. The offensive of Russian troops is gaining momentum, and the Kyiv regime has only two options:
➖ An organized retreat is an attempt to preserve the remnants of the army and equipment, at the cost of surrendering territories;
➖ Retreat beyond the Dnieper is an extreme measure, meaning the loss of a significant part of the Left-Bank Ukraine.
God bless putin God bless mother Russia

Break UK USA evil nato back

May they never be able to enslave us again like they did to our forefathers

In Jesus name we pray

AMEN
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:11am On Jul 12, 2025
LordAdam16:
It was a symbolic message.

The US was informed ahead of the attack.
They fired 30 Patriot interceptors.
Iran still took out the radome with precision.

Message delivered!

-Lord
Brother, I learned something new about Iranian missile tech.

Do you know they don't use GPS guidance?

Intel says they newer ones rely on AI guidance and Exo-atmospheric channeling to fly towards and hit their targets with deadly precision.

That makes them extremely difficult to jam.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by FoolishBoy419: 9:14am On Jul 12, 2025

Iran's intelligence have uncovered a second clandestine drone manufacturing facility in Tehran operated by Israel’s Mossad.

Authorities say several individuals have been detained, and a cache of high-tech drone components has been seized.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:21am On Jul 12, 2025
FPVdrone:
⚡🎯✅ 🚨 IRAN'S RETALIATION: 90% OF MISSILES HIT ISRAELI TARGETS IN FINAL STAGES OF CONFLICT

In the closing days of the 12-day conflict between Iran and Israel, over 90% of Tehran's missiles successfully hit their intended targets, it claims.

Iranian Parliament Speaker MohammaGhalibaf says this marks a decisive moment in the war.
This was plausible because at that point, majority of Israeli ADs were out of interceptors missiles, giving the Iranian missiles more room to impact successfully.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:23am On Jul 12, 2025
WritterNg:
And every drone strikes shatters the previous records in terms of number of drones launched.

Russia produces at least 600 drones and 20 missiles daily. So they can launch 400 and save 200.
The 600 a day thing is underreporting. They produce far beyond that quantity.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:43am On Jul 12, 2025
WritterNg:
⚡Zelensky:

Russia attacked with 26 cruise missiles and 597 drones, more than half of them are “shaheeds”.

More than 20 missiles and the vast majority of strike drones were neutralized.
Of course, they were neutralized using the targets. Clown.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 9:53am On Jul 12, 2025
⚡🇲🇱 Mali selling gold from mine seized from Canadian firm.

Authorities in Mali are selling gold from a major mine seized from Canadian firm Barrick last month, with the aim of restarting operations, official sources told AFP Thursday.

A court ruled in June that the western Loulo-Gounkoto mine, one of the world’s largest gold complexes, would be managed for six months by a government appointed official instead of the Toronto-based firm.

No mining had taken place at Loulo-Gounkoto since January when Malian authorities seized some three tonnes of gold from the mine’s reserves.

The new administrator is selling some gold stock to finance the restarting of operations, an economy ministry source told AFP.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Appleyard(m): 9:58am On Jul 12, 2025
FoolishBoy419:

Iran's intelligence have uncovered a second clandestine drone manufacturing facility in Tehran operated by Israel’s Mossad.

Authorities say several individuals have been detained, and a cache of high-tech drone components has been seized.
Iran is sooo lucky that these sleeper cells were busted on time during the war. Otherwise, the carnage they could have caused would have been unprecedented.

This was what Netanyahu was banking on when he was yapping about complete control of Iranian skies and regime change in Iran.

It failed, woefully. Thanks mostly to average Iranian citizens that saw some of the drones flying from their locations and trucks used as launchpads.

As soon as the busting began, Israel's acclaimed air scores against targets in the country started to drop sharply.

And as it got worst, they cried out for a ceasefire because, Iranian missiles strikes were doing so much damage back home while their chances of successful hits within Iran has vanished with the sleeper cells and collaborators being busted everywhere.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 9:58am On Jul 12, 2025
WriterrNg:
Dem no dey follow Russia do gra gra. Na u go tire.

Small Azerbaijan come dey feel like say dem be one thing.

Russia FSB kill 2 of their mafia leaders and their families in Russia, dem retaliate come detain and beat up Russian journalists.

Russia retaliate again by detaining more Azerbaijani top business men, still beat them to pulp.

Since then Azerbaijan don silent, but Russia still dey arrest more Azeris, dey deport them.

Lesson: Russian revenge no get end.
Hand don touch them.

Their mind don dey.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by 23jerryking(m): 10:21am On Jul 12, 2025
dermmy:
How Russia dey produce these missiles and drones sef. E no dey ever finish? It scares me how Russia keeps attacking Ukraine with hundreds of drones and missiles everyday.
They have the resources (men and materials needed to make production). Which means that it will come at a low cost, and they have good friends in North Korea and Iran to help with supplies too.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Gbadebo19(m): 10:28am On Jul 12, 2025
Just another day where the thread is filled with all sorts of rubbish and non existing so called news. Journalist don plenty pass news. O ga oooo
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by dvkot(m): 10:31am On Jul 12, 2025
I am really interested to see how long Ukraine can go for if Russia keep at 500-1k drones every other day
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 10:47am On Jul 12, 2025
Appleyard:
Iran is sooo lucky that these sleeper cells were busted on time during the war. Otherwise, the carnage they could have caused would have been unprecedented.

This was what Netanyahu was banking on when he was yapping about complete control of Iranian skies and regime change in Iran.

It failed, woefully. Thanks mostly to average Iranian citizens that saw some of the drones flying from their locations and trucks used as launchpads.

As soon as the busting began, Israel's acclaimed air scores against targets in the country started to drop sharply.

And as it got worst, they cried out for a ceasefire because, Iranian missiles strikes were doing so much damage back home while their chances of successful hits within Iran has vanished with the sleeper cells and collaborators being busted everywhere.
We shall see the impact of these selective busts in subsequent round(s).

As it is quite possible that Tel Aviv gave the order to cease or throttle attacks to conserve capabilities when it became obvious that the ambitious regime change operation was doomed to fail in the first round.

I am of the opinion that if you do not gut the upper echelon that potentially aided these saboteurs, all they're doing is rearranging musical chairs.
A double agent in counter intelligence could give up or trade these inactive factories while building new, sophisticated capabilities.
The busts of factories, safe houses, and low-value agents like illegals pacifies the leadership and population.
But it changes little strategically because the capability was already exposed in round one and would have had limited potency in subsequent rounds.

This way Iran will always be playing catch-up.
Israel with its capacity for pre-emptive strikes will retain the ability to deal spectacular blows in the first salvo.
Israel also has the capacity to end the round prematurely thanks to its nuclear arsenal and US backing.

Logically, Israel could systematically degrade Iran through short bursts of conflict.
Israel will sustain significant damage to be fair, but since it can ask for ceasefire whenever it wants, they can avoid costlier wars of attrition.
To war planners, this tradeoff is not be a deal breaker.

The only way to truncate this plan is to drastically improve counter-intelligence from an F to an A- before the next round.
A tall order for even the most capable of countries.

I must add, though, that Iran did think fast on its feet to counter the sabotage operations during the war.
Sure, they did eventually turn to asking saboteurs to turn themselves in for amnesty, which demonstrates that they were overwhelmed.
Nonetheless, it was excellent on Iran's part to significant degrade a robust capability acquired over years within a few days.
And while a nuclear scientist was assassinated in Tehran on the last day of the war, the volume of sabotage attacks dipped while the apprehension of agents and confiscation of munitions increased as the war progressed.

In agreement with you, I also think Iran scored a big win in foiling Israeli plans for an even deadlier pager-style attack.
They were prematurely gloating about their established plan(s) and how its execution would shock the world.
They even gave a timeline. Then, nothing.
Again, it could just mean they called off the operation when regime change operation looked like it was doomed, and they could preserved the plan for execution in subsequent rounds.
For now, however, Iran has enough time to dismantle it, if they haven't already done so completely.

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by shoodboi2: 11:26am On Jul 12, 2025
FoolishBoy419:
Do you know what your problem is? You expect us to treat IDF words as the gospel like you naively do. They told you that they they'd sunk the Galaxy leader but till date, you have not shown us any proof.

Israel bombed Yemen less than 24 hours after the first ship was sunk and following the second attack, they started begging USA to come to their aid as usual. Do these actions suggest those ships have no link with them? Dey use your head abeg grin
The behavior he is exhibiting there is called a defeatist mentality. The fact that he is willing to forgo reports from even pro-Israeli outlets and only focus on IDF official statements is an indicator that he is undergoing some serious levels of cope.

I feel he has realized that Israel isn’t winning this war. And he is trying to console himself by wanting to block out any other news, including pro-Israeli ones, that doesn’t conform with whatever propaganda the IDF spills out.

When we keep telling them that victory in war is determined by whether you achieved your objectives and not by killing civilians, you see him and his supporters bragging about how Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, and whatnot.

When we tell them that killing the political and military leaders of a movement has zero effect on the unit’s combat effectiveness, they will start an argument over nothing.

As I have repeatedly said, the only way to defeat Hamas is for Israel to go into those tunnels and engage Hamas in close-up combat. Subterranean warfare is what they call it.

Some of these tunnels go up to 70 meters underground, deeper than New York underground stations, which stop at 53 meters, so it won’t be easy. Israel should also be ready to take the large number of casualties that will come with such an operation. Anything short of fighting Hamas in the tunnel is pure gimmicks.

His copium is just another evidence of the larger cracks within the Zionist movement. Even hardcore Zionists are starting to speak up against Israel’s behavior in occupied Palestine. Things have gotten so bad that countries, states, and localities in the US, EU, and the UK have to pass laws to prevent people from condemning Israel.

I mean, if you have to introduce laws just to stop people from speaking up about your activities, then maybe you are the problem.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by shoodboi2: 11:34am On Jul 12, 2025
Fash20:
Ahh. He should have stayed in the occupied territory.
That one is short one for his family. He got scared and jumped out of the vehicle, not knowing a Hamas fighter was right behind him. He promptly paid the ultimate price.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Fash20: 11:54am On Jul 12, 2025
shoodboi2:
That one is short one for his family. He got scared and jumped out of the vehicle, not knowing a Hamas fighter was right behind him. He promptly paid the ultimate price.
He was a coward.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 12:07pm On Jul 12, 2025
⚡The Pentagon is pressing Japan and Australia to make clear what role they would play if the US and China went to war over Taiwan.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WritterNg: 12:42pm On Jul 12, 2025
⚡A memorandum of understanding was signed between the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) and the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic, outlining cooperation in the field of energy.

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