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Well, numbers do matter, but there's the economics behind the war as well. You can be as succesfull as you want, without supplies you're getting nowhere.
I think he requires a more descive explanation of the situation.Wait a second? Spanish Guerilla and English Fleet? Your meaning?I don't understand your question.
Anyway, to me it appears that for most of it's military history, Russia has used a combination of We Have Reserves and We Can Retreat to force it's invaders into overextension and collapse.
Which doesn't really matter here, because at worst this'll be a limited conflict in Ukraine itself.
I'm Belgian. Does that count?
Then again, no military history expert.
I think he requires a more descive explanation of the situation.Wait a second? Spanish Guerilla and English Fleet? Your meaning?I don't understand your question.
Anyway, to me it appears that for most of it's military history, Russia has used a combination of We Have Reserves and We Can Retreat to force it's invaders into overextension and collapse.
Which doesn't really matter here, because at worst this'll be a limited conflict in Ukraine itself.
Why do you need a french in the thread?
The real question is why the dick-measuring contest always comes back to invading Russia, where there is an obvious defensive advantage, and not on what might realistically happen. Face facts folks: No one will be invading Russia any time soon, and believing otherwise is ignorance or paranoia. Any military engagement will be limited to Ukraine, not to marching into Moscow. Power correlates solely to how military might can be projected in Ukraine, not how many SAMs protect your capital. I mean if you're making up situations with no respect to reality, why not have Russia invade Europe? Equally unlikely, and yet it's not mentioned; perhaps because we know how that would work out.
And really, Napoleon guys? North Korea could wipe out Napoleon now. The Afghani Army would be a fair match. Military technology has changed so much it's not even funny. He thought steam power was stupid, the average army has flying machines and assault weapons, come on guys.
At least pretend it isn't petty sniping.
If you ignoring numbers which is real and documented, I see a reason to ignore your big wording. Was there half millions of french + allies? Nope. You lost argument. Keep harder.
You are putting words in my mouth that directly contradict what I said:The Iberian occupation was less big but still very large and lasted for six years.
Once again, you seem to be insisting that I'm saying what I'm not, from which I conclude that you see you were ignorant and don't want to admit it.
I... uh... saw no big words in what he said there. None that are even that complicated.p.s. Good luck finding half million of french allies in Spain at once
I never once even came close to saying that and that's not remotely what we were talking about. If you are moving the goalposts, I will take it as an indication that you realize you were wrong but are too proud to admit it.
If you ignoring numbers which is real and documented, I see a reason to ignore your big wording. Was there half millions of french + allies? Nope. You lost argument. Keep harder.
p.s. Good luck finding half million of french allies in Spain at once
I never once even came close to saying that and that's not remotely what we were talking about. If you are moving the goalposts, I will take it as an indication that you realize you were wrong but are too proud to admit it.
a) modern militarizes tend to not have one against everything surface-to-air missile like S-300 tries to be. It is not practical to use huge missile for hunting UAVs , helicopters or anti-ship missiles
b) Airforce is not a treat for rich countries, their likely enemies have shitty aviation.
That S-300 is a SAM from freaking 1978, 35 years old. No modernization can make it compare to modern developments
S-400 is renamed S-300PMU-3 to pretend that it is a new SAM
S-500 is a system under development and does not exists yet.
As for numbers. Who said you that speed of the missile is that important? One can make a missile that will fly fast and far... but in straight line. What numbers tell about ability to detect target? Probability to hit it? Reliability of the missile? It's ability to change direction to neutralize evading maneuvers? It's resistance to jamming?
Let's not forget about the size of the missile. Barak 8 is a rather compact missile made mainly for Naval use. S-300 is much larger.
Here are another Israeli competitor of S-300 look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_3 Yeah it is purely anti-balistic. Because
a) modern militarizes tend to not have one against everything surface-to-air missile like S-300 tries to be. It is not practical to use huge missile for hunting UAVs , helicopters or anti-ship missiles
b) Airforce is not a treat for rich countries, their likely enemies have shitty aviation.
It is not practical to use huge missile for hunting UAVs , helicopters or anti-ship missiles
Why you asking me like I have no idea what we talking about? I provided you with a link to incredibly long and thorough documentary of Napoleon life with hundreds of numbers and details provided about everything and you keep arguing. Spanish campaign started before Russian, was not supervised directly by Napoleon most of the time and economic woes doesnt affected ability of Napoleon to field enormously huge grand army to march towards their demise in Russian wastelands. And if you don't know simple facts that there was plenty of guerilla warfare in Russian campaign including scorched earth tactics, setting Moscow ablaze, cossacs raids etc then I have no intention to discuss this topic with you. You are way ignorant to simple historical facts, it's like arguing with idiot, which never works. You was caught so many times on posting bullshits it's beyond my patience.
Deny reality all you want buddy. Simple fact is more French soldiers served in Spain then in Russia. It's not complicated, the Grande Armee was big but was only around for six months. The Iberian occupation was less big but still very large and lasted for six years.
But thank you for that documentary, I'd never had the amazing opportunity to see a documentary about Napoleon before.
Most of it's on Wikipedia. The US Navy's RIM series "Standards" are pretty neat, however they are ship-mounted, not what you'd use to defend a piece of land. Lately, it seems most of the world is focusing on "anti-ballistic" defenses, not anti-air. Lots of huge missiles designed to stop an ICBM from ruining your day, but everybody sticks to the same old guns when it comes to preventing a flock of errant fighter-bombers from doing the same. Everybody, that, is, except Russia. As usual. Maybe because the "old guns" everybody sticks to are either Patriots or russian-made.Well, the Type 3 page lacks numbers, but... Barak 8, seriously? Developed in 2009, range 70km, altitude 16km, speed Mach 2... Whereas the S-300PT, developed in 1981, has speed of over mach 4, altitude of over 20km, and juust falls short with 70km operational range that was the limitation of the detection array, rather than the missile.QuoteThere is no better SAM's though, currently.Said who? It was never tested in actual combat and there are plenty more modern developments. Like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_3_Chū-SAM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barak_8_(missile)
[sarcasm] How can Japan and Israel design something better than 1980s weapon systems? That countries have shitty defense industries comparing to what USSR had[/sarcasm]
Sorry, but no. There are likely better SAMs than ours somewhere, but these are not it.
I was ironic about his posts. He attacked me with links to systems which is HUGELY inferior to ours in any charesteristic, and he attacked it's age. Which is silly. That why I said s-300 wikipage have more writing. And I really want to read about better SAM's which is better, but I didn't find any in open internetz. "Likely" - please, provide links.
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