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I'd like to hear any analysis on the differences we are seeing between Ukraine attacks on Russian ships with drones/missiles and whats going on in the Red Sea right now with the USN shooting down drones/missiles. I know there might be big tech and motivational differences between all sides. If I just look at the Black Sea engagements, I would conclude that the era of the large warship is at an end. If I look at the Red Sea, I would conclude that the era of the large warship has not reached its zenith yet and investing large amounts into antiship drone/missile warfare against large warships is a fool's investment. I'd like to see what people think the key differences are.

https://www.thedefensepost.com/2023/12/ ... _article=1

Brief, interesting speculation. I don't think they are operational with Ukraine. But who knowns. Might be disinfo to scare the Russians.

Some considerations on the use of Kh-22/32 Kitchen in Ukraine.

For months I did think on any Kitchen has been shoot-down in Ukraine.

This article gets many observation and ideas, but some are not clear or definitive. Perhaps all the Kitchen employed are those converted to Kh-32, flying at 44.000 meters (opposite to 27.000 meters the Kh-22), and are out of the flying envelope of most of the defensive missiles (less perhaps PAC-3 MSE). Other highlight in the article is probably any Kh-47 Kynzal has been shot-down.

Comments welcome:

https://www.eurasiantimes.com/deadlier- ... s-russias/

I have seen the rumblings on twitter/X in reference to this and this article seems to be the main source. Though the purge thing has been building from multiple sources for some time now.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ckout=true

US and UK strikes against the Houthis in Yemen confirmed.


https://www.reuters.com/world/us-britai ... 024-01-11/

Speculation using CMO on the take down of Russian AEW assets over the Black Sea.

https://twitter.com/chrisschmitz/status ... 5055097087

CMO has shown up in a couple news article about the shoot down of an A-50 and forced landing of an IL-22.

Reportedly the tail of the IL-22 after landing, which weapon may cause this damage?




Regarding the A-50, an antecedent was the 1969 EC-121 shootdown, Status-6 commented no other AEW-C/AWACS aircraft was shot down since then, is this true?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_EC-1 ... n_incident

The author Tom Cooper (Sarcastosaurus) has posted an ambush theory for the attack on the russian aircrafts, also commenting on their characteristics, AEW and AWACS.

He includes an anti-semitic comment, so I will not post the link.

nteresting article of an author I read few weeks ago. Sometimes slightly anti-Western comments, but interesting reads:

https://www.eurasiantimes.com/salvo-of- ... attack-us/

Very interesting considerations:
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/20 ... e-red-sea/

Also related:
http://www.hisutton.com/Iranian-Houthi-ASBM.html

Thanks for the link.

Though I would argue over lesson 7, Houthi leadership has indeed something important to lose once they are considered a terrorist group.

Long-range Strike Capabilities in the Asia-Pacific: Implications for Regional Stability
IISS 18 jan 24
https://www.iiss.org/research-paper/202 ... stability/
regards GJ

D. Patrikarakos ranting against (british) aircraft carriers and F-35, and pro drones and drone carriers.




And more by S. Bell.


https://news.sky.com/story/sean-bell-ra ... y-13056847

Also here:
https://www.navylookout.com/examining-t ... apability/

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/w ... -in-jordan


The captain of the Eisenhower is posting a lot of interesting pics and videos, just a pair of examples.






Helos loading cargo.


https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/17 ... vR83sY.mp4

Ukrainian sources posted a video, Russian corvette “Ivanovets” (Project 12411), hit and sunk by USVs drones in the Western Crimean coast, lake Donuzlav.


Graphic by H I Sutton with pics extracted from the video.

Map by Ian Ellis.

Interesting ship descriptions traversing the Red Sea.

Another Ropucha-class landing ship, Caesar Kunikov, hit and sunk by Ukrainian naval drones. There is a video showing the attack in the southern Crimean coast.

A new paper has been released by the Mitchell Institute (https://mitchellaerospacepower.org/) analysing what types of CCA could be useful against the PRC in a Taiwan type scenario.