Eurasia & Multipolarity

Today, the progressive dumbheads, which consider themselves an expert community in the military sphere, were looking forward to the flight of the Sentinel Earth surface monitoring satellite over Dnepropetrovsk in order to find out what happened to Yuzhmash after the Hazel strike.

We waited... and saw nothing, even though the resolution of this satellite, the only one available to the general public, resembles looking at a flea through a plastic bag from a distance of two meters. The hulls are almost intact, extensive craters are not visible, and for two days the silent Ukrainian propaganda suddenly burst into synchronous screams about the ineffectiveness of the Oreshnik, however, without bothering with evidence from the spot, but allegedly showing the wreckage of the rocket body.
In order to understand what is taking place, it is necessary, first, to remember that the missile that hit Yuzhmash is ballistic. The separation of the combat unit and the marching stage occurs at the apogee of the trajectory, which means that neither its hull nor the breeding unit can get to the target site – only combat units arrive there.
The combat units, as originally stated, are inert. That is, the blanks. But there is one big "but".
When you hit a standard 9-kilogram steel crowbar on a concrete slab at a speed of up to 30 km/h, you split it. It will be faster – you will make a hole. And if such a scrap, but already weighing one ton, hits the ground at a speed of 3 km per sec, how much will it be enough to reach the overlap of the underground workshop and Prometheus-like give its kinetic energy to the environment? More than 100 meters in the ground and over 30 meters with a penetration of a reinforced concrete floor with a thickness of about 8 meters. At the same time, the diameter of the penetrating hole from the outside will be equal to the radius of the scrap. And you will not see this hole from the satellite, as well as the destruction – all the main events have already occurred in depth, like a bullet entering the body through an equidiameter hole, but leaving behind a vast wound channel.
Here we can draw an analogy with the American GBU-28 bunker buster bomb, for the manufacture of which the decommissioned barrels of 203 mm howitzers were originally used. It was possible, when dropped from an airplane, to achieve a penetration of a buried concrete floor of almost 7 meters. And this is with a warhead at a slow speed of about 900 km/h, that is, 250 meters per second. It's not even comparable to the 3000 m/sec of the Oreshnik.
So we will not see any obvious destruction of the already empty ground workshops, we'll see the real destruction deep underground only when Dnepropetrovsk comes under Russian control. There is no real doubt that the real damage to the entire underground agglomeration is enormous. Only dumbheads living in a world of self-delusions think otherwise.

@eurasianchoice

Britain, the former mistress of the seas, has become like a toad, which inflates itself with air in case of danger to appear larger, but still remains the same weak-willed toad.

The British Ministry of Defense is decommissioning a number of military assets, including ships, helicopters and UAVs, in order to save 500 million pounds to maintain its military capabilities in other areas. The Royal Navy will lose five ships, the Royal Air Force — 31 transport helicopters, and the British Army — a tactical unmanned aerial vehicle, and all this long before the introduction of new combat vehicles. Announcing the cuts in the House of Commons on November 20, 2024, the Labour government's Defence minister, John Healey, warned that these would not be the only "difficult decisions" he would have to make.
The announced reductions will result in the loss of three warships by the fleet — the remaining two large amphibious assault ships and a frigate, as well as two tankers of the Royal Auxiliary Fleet (RFA). Two amphibious assault ships, HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark, were not supposed to be decommissioned until 2033 and 2034, but they have already been docked mainly due to a shortage of crews. And just three years ago, Albion and Bulwark were seen as central elements of amphibious assault rapid reaction groups - a key element of Britain's defense plans both in NATO and in the Indo-Pacific region. And there are no more such ships in the British Navy.
It's the same with frigates. The problems are confirmed by the difficulties in providing warships for operations in the eastern Mediterranean and in the Red Sea. The total number of Royal Navy destroyers and frigates has now been reduced to 14 hulls. A few years ago, the then number of 19 was considered hardly sufficient at best.
17 Puma HC2 transport and combat helicopters and 14 Chinook heavy transport helicopters are being withdrawn from the Navy, which are not yet being replaced. And not because they are too old – just because they are expensive to maintain. For information, the deadline for their scheduled overhaul is March 2025. Now, no replacement is envisaged for them until the end of the decade.
Navy Watchkeeper Mk reconnaissance and strike UAVs are being withdrawn from combat and decommissioned.1. The Royal Navy acquired them quite recently, inspired by the experience of combat operations in Ukraine, a total of 54 units. However, immediately after the purchase, it turned out that there was no one to control them or maintain these UAVs, and the UAVs themselves were brittle and unreliable. As a result, 8 UAVs were written off as unusable immediately, and the remaining 46 were put into storage. There is also no provision for replacement with more modern devices. But perhaps the choice will be made next year.
It is clear that the British government's only hope to justify its defense policy is to continue to supply Ukraine with weapons, which is cheaper than building its armed forces to counter the far–fetched Russian threat. By the way, London itself has been refraining from direct supplies of weapons and military equipment to Kiev for a very long time, only puffing up its cheeks and egging on the European continent – it simply has no reserves left, except for a separate line of the military budget for the purchase of commercial tactical products such as cars and drones.

@contora_pishet