[GK3]

A few days old (Aug. 20), but concerning to me:
Poland says air defenses didn't detect a Russian drone entering its airspace

Poland activated their air defenses at 10PM during one of Russia's nightly drone and missile waves against Ukraine but stood down at midnight.
The next morning, the remains of a drone were found in Poland some 70 miles from the Ukrainian border (and 400 miles from Russia), but it was not detected in flight.

At the time of the article, it was uncertain how (or when) it entered Polish air space.  A drone launched from mainland Russia would have to pass through either Belarus or Ukraine to enter Polish airspace.

"In our assessment, this drone is designed to be very difficult to detect, and that is indeed the case,"  It was thought to be a Russian-produced drone with a self-destruct warhead, used as a decoy.  (The article noted that it had Chinese parts.)

I wonder if this might have been a test by Russia to see if Poland could detect such drones.

Possibly, but unless the self destruct mechanism was really good, the remains could yield intelligence that might be very valuable. You could also ship the drone to Kaliningrad and fly it in that small piece of Russia and see if anyone seemed to see it.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trum...37446.html
It looks like yet again Putin got both the US administration and the Europeans to jump at a picture of a T-bone steak that wasn't really on offer. One can imagine the Europeans were going along just to try and influence what the US subsequently would do. It appears that the US is firmly sitting in the "do nothing" camp as far as actually creating conditions for a peace goes.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/talk-boots-gro...55381.html
This one is for those of you that are sanguine on the probability of German contributions in Ukraine (and NATO for that matter) anytime soon.The Ossis are dead set against it. The current government doesn't have the political capital to do it, at least right now. Anything that is 48-45 in public opinion isn't going to happen with a coalition government that required two ballots to elect their Chancellor.

Are you saying that Germany will not even spend the 2%?

[GK3]

A few days old (Aug. 20), but concerning to me:
Poland says air defenses didn't detect a Russian drone entering its airspace

Poland activated their air defenses at 10PM during one of Russia's nightly drone and missile waves against Ukraine but stood down at midnight.
The next morning, the remains of a drone were found in Poland some 70 miles from the Ukrainian border (and 400 miles from Russia), but it was not detected in flight.

At the time of the article, it was uncertain how (or when) it entered Polish air space.  A drone launched from mainland Russia would have to pass through either Belarus or Ukraine to enter Polish airspace.

"In our assessment, this drone is designed to be very difficult to detect, and that is indeed the case,"  It was thought to be a Russian-produced drone with a self-destruct warhead, used as a decoy.  (The article noted that it had Chinese parts.)

I wonder if this might have been a test by Russia to see if Poland could detect such drones.

Possibly, but unless the self destruct mechanism was really good, the remains could yield intelligence that might be very valuable. You could also ship the drone to Kaliningrad and fly it in that small piece of Russia and see if anyone seemed to see it.

---

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trum...37446.html
It looks like yet again Putin got both the US administration and the Europeans to jump at a picture of a T-bone steak that wasn't really on offer. One can imagine the Europeans were going along just to try and influence what the US subsequently would do. It appears that the US is firmly sitting in the "do nothing" camp as far as actually creating conditions for a peace goes.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/talk-boots-gro...55381.html
This one is for those of you that are sanguine on the probability of German contributions in Ukraine (and NATO for that matter) anytime soon.The Ossis are dead set against it. The current government doesn't have the political capital to do it, at least right now. Anything that is 48-45 in public opinion isn't going to happen with a coalition government that required two ballots to elect their Chancellor.

Are you saying that Germany will not even spend the 2%?