The real story is that the Patriot and other interceptor stockpiles Zelensky's asking for are now critically low, and tens of thousands of soft targets are hard to defend against cheap drones. This war is on course to set off a truly unprecedented global energy crisis within days, and the USA/allies don't currently appear to have any plan to fix it.
> "U.S. Central Command, meanwhile, is asking the Pentagon to send more military intelligence officers to its headquarters in Tampa, Florida, to support operations against Iran for at least 100 days but likely through September, according to a notification obtained by POLITICO"
(billion dollars a day and that's before replacing all the weapons)
Trump should stop bootlicking Putin then and give Ukraine serious long range ground to ground missiles. Time for Putin to pay higher price for being a fascist scum.
For the anti-drone drones, the factory for the non electric components is row after row of 3D printers, the drones only need to work for one mission.
I posted this earlier.
This is a really terrible setup and I still dont understand why Ukraine keeps doing it in 4th year. One injection molding machine will produce more parts than a row of 50 3D printers and Ukraine is already full of companies running plastic injection manufacturing.
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2. Interceptors will become depleted, more "squeakers" will get through as time goes on.
Some graphs: https://bsky.app/search?q=ukraine+drone+graph
https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/21/russia-ramps-up-drone-pr...
African women tricked into making Russian drones https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrzdpre058o
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/25/europe/russia-secretive-d...
Ukraine managed to hit it couple of times, but they would need tens of Tomahawks to properly deal with the place
https://english.nv.ua/russian-war/drones-hit-yelabuga-in-tat...
Ukraine war: Deepest Ukraine drone attack into Russian territory injures 12 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68712158
"I'm sorry, we must've had a bad connection there, for a second it almost sounded like you were asking me FOR HELP"
Ukraine wants more Patriot air defense missiles in exchange. A reasonable deal.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_airstrike
and they just annouced it's likely going through September (which means until end of year)
and they are now dropping 2000 pound bombs on targets next to civilians
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/04/evacuation-middle-e...
> "U.S. Central Command, meanwhile, is asking the Pentagon to send more military intelligence officers to its headquarters in Tampa, Florida, to support operations against Iran for at least 100 days but likely through September, according to a notification obtained by POLITICO"
(billion dollars a day and that's before replacing all the weapons)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208567
Can't we get back to some form of normality soon? I'm happy to take another pandemic instead of the current state of the world.