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Europe under extreme duress

Notanaviator

Well-Known Member
Contributor
Also, attribution for the undersea comms cables severance has not yet been established per that news article.

Some interesting nuggets in this thread relative to ownership and crew of the vessel, and also inclination and ability of the involved countries to ‘pull over’ and detain the foreign vessel suspected.
 

ChuckMK23

FERS and TSP contributor!
pilot
So it looks like RUS launched an ICBM last night, as part of capability demonstration or show a force.

I can't imagine what happened within various duty locations/watch officer desks at STRATCOM.

The payload were inert MIRVs.

But still holy crap!

I'm sure there was some sort of communication to US on intention.

Thoughts?
 

Griz882

Frightening children with the Griz-O-Copter!
pilot
Contributor
So it looks like RUS launched an ICBM last night, as part of capability demonstration or show a force.

I can't imagine what happened within various duty locations/watch officer desks at STRATCOM.

The payload were inert MIRVs.

But still holy crap!

I'm sure there was some sort of communication to US on intention.

Thoughts?
It could be a provocation or a sign that Russia is running short on the various components required to build less expensive guided rockets at scale. The former would be an Indic that some trade restrictions are starting to have an effect. It could also be any number NPS I haven’t considered but I guess this is why they have the “red telephone” in a handy location.
 

Flash

SEVAL/ECMO
None
Super Moderator
Contributor
So it looks like RUS launched an ICBM last night, as part of capability demonstration or show a force.

The payload were inert MIRVs.

Thoughts?

What makes you think the RV’s were inert?

That’s quite the light show, unfortunately.


I think Russia is at the ‘if we’ve got it we might as well use it’ stage.
 
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