ANALYSIS & OPINION: US Nuclear Arsenal As Ineffective As Her Conventional Weaponry, US Now Ripe for Taking and Easy to Knock Out Finally For Good And Maybe It Should Be As Hardly Will Be Better Time

The U.S. Nuclear Arsenal: Ineffective, Obsolete, and Lacking Credibility

Alternative title: The US Nuclear Arsenal Is As Ineffective As Her Conventional Weaponry, the US Is Now Ripe for Taking and Easy to Knock Out Finally For Good And Maybe It Should Be As There Will Hardly Be a Better Time Than Now

On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union achieved a momentous milestone in military technology by testing the Tsar Bomb, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created. This historic detonation over a remote northern island produced a flash visible from over 1,000 kilometers away, evoking a mixture of shock and awe in distant locations such as Norway, Greenland, and Alaska. The explosion generated a towering mushroom cloud that ascended to an astonishing height of 67 kilometers. The resulting blast wave traveled around the globe three times, completing its first circuit in just 36 hours and 27 minutes. Seismic waves throughout the Earth’s crust also conveyed the enormity of the event, while the atmospheric pressure wave was detected as far away as New Zealand, also in a series of three.

This monumental test enabled Soviet scientists to validate innovative design principles for high-yield thermonuclear devices, leading to the creation of nuclear weapons with "practically unlimited power," as one report succinctly described it.

In stark contrast, though it used two early nuclear devices in 1945 to kill hundreds of thousands of people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two cities in Japan, the United States has never conducted a test that approaches the scale or potency of the Tsar Bomb, not only because domestic testing sites are scarce, but also because the U.S. has never been able to develop technology comparable to that of the Soviet Union. This technological gap is further illustrated by the consistent missile testing carried out by Russia, which regularly executes intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests from launch sites in northern Europe to targets in the far reaches of the Russian East. In these tests, missiles traverse the entire expanse of two continents—Europe and Asia—and cover more than half of the Earth's circumference at the equator.

Importantly, these missile tests in Russia do not merely serve as public relations spectacles; they result in successful strikes on land-based targets, allowing for comprehensive recovery and assessment of both warhead performance and missile precision. By comparison, the U.S. military often resorts to theatrical demonstrations, occasionally launching missiles into the ocean for show rather than conducting rigorous tests aimed at improving technological capabilities.

No other nation, including the United States, has undertaken the kind of intercontinental missile launches across vast expanses as routinely performed by Russia. The implications of this disparity are profound. If the U.S. were to engage in a similar test, it would entail launching a missile from a location slightly north of New York, New York, all the way to striking a target at the southernmost tip of Patagonia—an ambitious and unprecedented endeavor but hardly ever achievable.

 

 

"No other nation has ever tested a nuclear-capable ICBM (or IRBM) in real-life combat situations"

 

This glaring gap in nuclear capabilities reveals a troubling lack of knowledge and expertise in the U.S. arsenal, raising serious questions regarding its deterrent value. The reality is that the U.S. nuclear arsenal, far from serving as a credible deterrent, appears increasingly ineffective and disconnected from modern military realities. In light of this evidence, one might question whether such an arsenal should deter anyone at all—or if, perhaps, it has become irrelevant in an evolving geopolitical landscape.

However, there is more to consider. As impartial observers of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine should know by now, one significant lesson from this NATO-provoked war is that NATO's weaponry—especially that of the United States—is, at best, subpar and, at worst, often entirely ineffective. Frequently, these arms fail to work as intended or do not function at all, and they are relatively easy to destroy.

When we extrapolate this observation to U.S. nuclear arms, it’s worth noting that I won't even delve into the anemic and outdated nuclear arsenals of certain European nations, such as France and Britain, which lack proper means of delivery. The rationale becomes clear: it is both justified and prudent to conclude that the United States' nuclear armaments and systems, which comprise its nuclear deterrent, are unlikely to perform any better than the other poorly designed and constructed American weaponry. This is a direct consequence of their production by the same corrupt capitalist Military-Industrial Complex, which prioritizes unrestrained profits over the essential qualities of quality, reliability, sound design, and proper performance.

In fact, U.S. nuclear weaponry may function even worse than its conventional military technology does. At this point, it is highly improbable that these weapons will operate effectively at all. In addition to the issues shared with other overrated but largely ineffective American arms, the nuclear arsenal suffers from further complications. Many of its components are outdated, superannuated, and degraded, with likely deteriorated nuclear elements due to decades—or even longer—without testing or replacement.

Moreover, critical skills related to the design, production, maintenance, and operation of nuclear weapons appear to have been lost, resulting in an alarming erosion of the necessary know-how. Should the U.S. military dare to attempt the use or even test its nuclear arsenal in real-world conditions, the likely outcome would be a disaster or catastrophe at launch.

Thus, all indications suggest that the U.S. nuclear arsenal does not work effectively; it is little more than a façade—nothing but an elaborate bluff, filled with hot air and an ineffective poker face. Compounding this issue is the fact that the United States lacks a reliable anti-ICBM defense system, but relies on deterrence that thus may or may not be functional.

This scenario invites tantalizing opportunities for nations with proven nuclear capabilities, including India, Pakistan, China, Iran, and North Korea. Moreover, whether the United States possesses a functional nuclear deterrent may ultimately be irrelevant. 

Contrary to popular belief, a mass nuclear attack is not the only route to incapacitating the United States.

A creative approach could yield devastating consequences. For instance, a 2017 report from the EMP Commission concluded that North Korea could easily detonate a single EMP device—a nuclear explosion at high altitude—over the United States. Such an event could permanently disable the electrical grid, potentially resulting in the loss of up to 90% of the U.S. population within a year, according to the study.

Additionally, the Yellowstone supervolcano represents another unconventional target for a nuclear strike on the U.S., whether or not a credible nuclear deterrent exists. A single nuclear device could breach the fragile structure of the volcano, potentially triggering a supereruption that, as per current scientific understanding, could spell the end not only for the United States but also devastate Canada in the process.

For American leadership, arriving at this painful realization could not come at a worse time. As its conventional weaponry faces severe scrutiny and degradation on the battlefield in Ukraine and is abused and put to shame there, the U.S. has positioned itself squarely on Russia's shit list it may remain on for the foreseeable future and must now eke out the rest of its sorry existence in grave fear.

It will be even easier to terminate the U.S.'s chief client - Britain - and kill its entire benighted population and probably safer too seeing as it is on a tiny island which will make it easier to contain any hazards.

By I. 

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Opinion: Zelensky Puppet of Warmongering Western Elites, Danger to His Own People and Humanity at Large, Must be Removed Soon, and Kill Boris Johnson Already

Zelensky is a Puppet of Warmongering Western Elites, Danger to His Own People and Humanity at Large, Must be Removed Soon Physically (and Kill Boris Johnson Too While You are at It)

 

In February 2022 when the Ukraine conflict flared up in earnest long prepared for, provoked and stoked up by the West, Ukraine needed the modern-day equivalent of someone like Marshal Petain to steer the country through the troubled and turbulent times ahead but was unfortunately saddled with the lowlife clown and reported out-of-control dope fiend turned president Zelensky who is now being taken for a ride by warmongering British-, US- and EU elites as their carousel-riding galloping dupe, much at the expense of the long-suffering Ukrainians and to the detriment of humanity at large.

Philippe Pétain, more commonly known as Marshal Pétain, was a general then marshal who commanded the French Army both in World War I and much later in life - during the so-called Battle of France in 1940 that was quickly lost in the German Sieg im Westen (Victory in the West) campaign immortalized in the eponymous propaganda documentary. 

In the First World War, Pétain had led the French Army to victory at the nine-month-long Battle of Verdun, for which he was subsequently celebrated as “the Lion of Verdun”. He was then appointed Commander-in-Chief and remained in command for the rest of the war emerging as a French national hero. 

During the interwar period he was head of the peacetime French Army and served twice as a government minister.

However, in July 1940, after a short active-phase campaign, it became clear to Marshal Petain that the war with Hitler’s Germany had been disastrously lost and that the fighting had become meaningless.
Petain was set on armistice and subsequent surrender.

Ever hopeful of finding their patsy to do their dirty work for them, the British did everything they could to make the French engage in a costly and destructive war on their own territory – the war that would certainly have resulted in untold casualties and probably in the destruction of most French cities and towns as well as of the countryside and would have destroyed the economy of France.

The crafty British Imperial elites were real set on it too and spared no effort.

First, Churchill himself flew in and, out of the blue, put forward his idea of a “Breton redoubt” which his alcohol marinated brain must have conceived of in a state of more than his usual inebriation brought about by only knocking down two bottles of champagne and/or wine and half a bottle of whiskey or brandy daily as he drank like a fish, all day, every day, year in, year out. 

Then, with heavy alcohol fumes on his foul breath, no doubt, he ordered the French to engage in “guerilla warfare” across the entire country, to which Petain calmly replied that it would mean the destruction of the nation and he would not have that. 

Undeterred, Churchill then proceeded to demand that the French make a fortress out of Paris and defend it in street fighting to the last, going so far in his attempts at persuasion as to drunkenly quote Clemenceau's : “I will fight in front of Paris, in Paris, and behind Paris”.  

No British dupe, Marshal Petain countered that making Paris into a ruin would not affect the outcome and put a stop to further discussions with Churchill pointing him towards the door.

In this way, though at a terminal cost to his reputation, his statue and place in history and eventually himself, Marshal Petain was able to deny the British the pleasure of seeing France going up in flames and to ruin in the defense of their strategic interests against the Germans.

No doubt, the British would have done everything they could to extend the fighting in France as long as possible bleeding out both the Germans and the French so that they could triumph over both.

Had the British succeeded in their crafty designs France would have been totally destroyed; as it happened however France was able to re-appear at the end of the war relatively intact, unscathed by the war and in one piece. 

In fact, the most that France sustained both in terms of damage to the economy and the human cost of the war was due to the Western Allies’ destructive “liberation” campaign of 1944-45 preceded by the near-disastrous Normandy landings.

Also, France managed to kill two birds with one stone - thanks to De Gaulle’s French government in exile, the action of the resistance and certain goings-on in the French colonies and – more importantly – to the Soviet Leader Stalin’s principled position, France was ultimately able to cast herself as one of the victors of the Second World War, no less, whilst also preserving her economy and protecting her population due to Marshal Petain’s hard choices and surrender earlier on.

Enter the former pub circuit comedian turned president Zelensky some 80 years later now in Ukraine.
 

And who do we find as the principal cheerleaders of the war if not the very same degenerate British elites gathering round like the filthy vultures that they are to watch another bloody spectacle from the relative safety of their decaying little islands, which will not be safe for much longer though, the way things are going and especially considering how little it will take Russia to destroy their entire habitat.  
 

And it is one huffing and puffing, farting and belching, cheddar and chorizo stuffed, Boris Johnson who is now aping the fat drunkard Churchill making frequent dashes to Kiev, talking down peace and prevailing on the feeble-minded Zelensky early on to fight a war as meaningless as it is destructive.
 

Ever ready to find somebody to grab red-hot chestnuts from the fire for them, the morally repugnant British ruling elites, aka the Establishment, have managed to get from Zelensky what they had not been able to get from Petain – a bloody spectacle to satisfy their insatiable blood lust as repugnant as it is disturbing.
 

Had Ukraine had some great leader like Marshal Petain as head of state, she would surely be peaceful now and differences with Russia would have been resolved amicably -- all the more so that Russia is nothing like the Nazi Germany of the 1940s.
 

Quite the reverse in fact, it is the Zelensky-regime post-coup Ukraine that is a terror state with hundreds of thousands of the disappeared, imprisoned and executed by Gestapo-style security forces since 2014, with most basic freedoms and human rights suppressed and denied in the country and with the state dispensed terror reaching such epic proportions and such a fever pitch that Ukrainian people prefer certain death on the battlefield to life under the Zelensky regime.
 

Not that they have much choice in this matter, with males in the 25-60 age bracket being the most vulnerable group anywhere in the world denied even the freedom of movement, facing mobility restrictions and unable to leave the country (and this in Europe in the 21st century!) and even scared to venture out of their homes even to buy groceries, and subject to forceful, violent, arbitrary and instant call-up to serve in Zelensky's failing armed forces at any time of night and day whenever or wherever they happen to be caught by foraging enlistment office operatives or police and gangs on the pay of local warlords aligned with them, with no medical examinations or any such decadent niceties and with virtually no time for training or saying (last) goodbyes to the loved ones.

So where Marshal Petain managed to save the country and the people of France even as he sacrificed himself in the process, President Zelensky is sacrificing his country and his people on the altar of Western greed and bloodlust and their long nursed existential hatred of the Russians -- as the only civilization to have never been conquered or even defeated by the West and the only one that can wipe out the entire West avec plaisir, many times over, in a snap of a finger -- and is daily succeeding in destroying Ukraine over and over in the most horrible ways imaginable to the degenerate cheers of the blood-thirsty British and other Western freaks and degenerates of the corporate and political elites egging on their little evil dupe hoping for more of the same and (vainly) counting on avoiding payback for their great crimes against humanity in Ukraine.

 

Kill the fat sow, save Ukrainian people.

 

By I. 

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ANALYSIS: Lessons of Ukraine War: Western Military Might? What Might? Whatever It Was It Is Now Finished

Lessons of Ukraine War: Western Arms Are Waste and Wasted In Ukraine As a Prelude to Liberation and Pacification of the North Atlantic Axis

One result of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine that started over two years ago in February 2022, when the post-2014 coup Zelensky regime stubbornly refused to de-occupy large territories in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics even as Putin’s Russia, after much delay and vacillation, finally recognized them as independent states and was appealed to by them to assist in expelling the masses of the occupying Zelensky military and paramilitary forces long entrenched in the region, is the discovery of how inferior and substandard Western-made weaponry has turned out to be and likely has always been, though it is only now that we are beginning to find out for real thanks (if that is indeed the word) to the persisting Ukraine conflict, with a mass of pictorial and video evidence of destroyed Western origin weapon systems overwhelming and saturating the Internet, so much so that all of the Western government controlled major search engines are now obfuscating and censoring the pictures and videos in an attempt to throw the would-be impartial conflict researcher, analysist or observer or just a curious member of the public off the track with their rigged search results popping up all over the computer-, tablet- or cell phone screen to promote baseless Western propaganda.

Early on, and even for a long time before the start of the conflict, Western, and especially US-made, weapons had been held, touted and generally shamelessly proclaimed, without a shred of evidence, to be superior or even invincible and the prized game-changer capable of reversing the situation on any battlefield in any conflict on their own, by virtue of their mere appearance there as if by black magic or witchery. 

In the Ukraine conflict, however, a long succession of the so-called Western Wunderwaffen (itself a telling term whose roots are in the failed WW2 Nazi mythology from a period when Nazi Germany was likewise making grabs at imaginary straws in her desire to survive at all cost) followed after each previous one had successively failed to make a meaningful impact and been destroyed in large quantities, and now the Western entities have basically nothing left in their arsenals that has not yet been destroyed in Ukraine in great numbers.

The Humvee
 

Let’s start at the bottom of the junk heap of Western weaponry – the US-designed and made HMMWV – High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, aka the hapless Humvee.

 

Though it is merely a truck and, according to some, the worst in the world, the reason we cannot overlook it in this analysis is that the Humvee is also an armed and armor-protected battlefield vehicle platform and a carrier of weapons systems and was and continues to be a ubiquitous symbol of US military might and worldwide reach, accordingly sometimes described as “the vehicular backbone of US forces around the world”, and has also been a regular feature of every (ill-advised) foreign campaign perpetrated by the US military since at least the late 1980s and the invasion of Panama, needless to say, all of them illegal wars of aggression under international law as properly understood as they were never approved by the UN Security Council.

But the Humvee has now ultimately become a symbol of disaster, defeat and repeated military failure. 

Hundreds of destroyed Zelensky regime US-supplied Humvees are now populating the internet image searches and have been documented by various open-source intelligence enthusiasts (OSINTers) as destroyed in Ukraine - over 500 units, at the time of this writing, as the verified minimum based solely on readily and easily available photographic and videographic records, which likely resolves to the overall numbers of destroyed Zelensky regime Humvees that are in the region of over several thousand units, with scores also captured.
 

In early August 2024, the Zelensky military attempted a major brigade level inclusion into Russia’s Kursk region which resulted in a notable increase in destroyed Humvee sightings.

Although the Humvee has been long known for the poor protection that it affords to the crew and operators, even in its upgraded and extra armored-kit versions, still the nature of its total, though picturesque and often very atmospheric, destruction and the gruesome aftermath, in most cases, upon being hit, as has happened hundreds of times now in Ukraine, is a huge shock even to the seasoned observer, though not of course even nearly comparable to the shock that its occupants get when they are thus surprised.
 

Humvees also belie their grandiose appellation invoking “high mobility” by providing only rather limited mobility as their use is confined to tarmac or, at best, dry dirt-roads, and they cannot negotiate mud, plowed fields, grasslands or swampy grounds comprising the majority of the terrain in the Ukraine.
 

But lack of mobility is what every other Western weapon system suffers from too, so the Humvee is hardly alone in this and is definitely not the worst either.
 

The M113

 
Another venerable military fighting vehicle, and even some twenty years the Humvee’s senior, that has been optimistically supplied for use in the Ukraine conflict in large numbers by the United States and her clients and has now been destroyed in almost equally large numbers is the M113 tracked armored personnel carrier produced by the FMC corporation for the US military.

 

Starting as far back as in the early 1960s, the M113 APC first saw action in Vietnam and used to be the mainstay of US Army armored cavalry formations in many wars (though, in the final analysis, all eventually lost by the US military with one or two minor exceptions) starting from Vietnam and up to the US military’s lost wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the 21st century but is now likewise an embarrassment and a huge stain on the reputation of the US capitalist run military-industrial complex (what's left of it) and the American made weapons and engineering design and workmanship in general, with hundreds and maybe even thousands of US-supplied M113 APCs and derivatives spectacularly destroyed in Ukraine already, with more taken out almost every single day.

With the untold numbers of the M113, including all its many versions or variants, such as the Dutch YPR-765 and others, having been thusly destroyed by the Russian army and by groups of Ukrainian partisans by now, into hundreds if not thousands of units already, the destruction of this particular Western chariot is the biggest M113 destruction in the history of humanity since Vietnam, but the Ukrainian destruction of the M113 still continues on a near daily basis and more of the previously destroyed M113s are coming to light almost every single day.

Recently, on August 27, 2024, a rare M113 version – an M577 command post carrier was seen and destroyed in Russia’s Kursk region where Western weapons and armor assets are continuing to be destroyed at the fastest rate since the start of the hostilities as of this writing.

Pictures of destroyed M113s and variants, are very atmospheric and something to behold too – often spectacular art installations of torn and melted aluminum, pierced armor plates, huge holes in the sides, shed tracks and hollowed out boxy hulls gutted by raging fires – better not to peer inside any too closely; it likes to keel over too on the slightest of provocations being a tall, angular, square and bulky vehicle, easy to spot and hard to miss. 

The M113 has also been known to evaporate and de-atomize completely following an explosion in its cargo bay, of which at least one video exists on the Internet.

Dubbed the “RPG Operator’s Dream”, the M113 easily falls prey to the ubiquitous 1950s RPG-7s but also to nearly everything else – from concentrated small-arms and machine gun fire, to IFV gun- and tank rounds, to artillery shells, guided missiles and, maybe most frequently, to cheap appropriately modified, or weaponized, commercial drones – almost anything is good to knock out, and often destroy outright, the subpar US-made vehicle that is the M113. 

Though not yet officially retired or superannuated, the M113 is outdated of course but newer US designed- and made vehicles and US origin weapons systems have fared no better if not actually much worse, which brings us neatly to the M2 Bradley fighting vehicle.

The Bradley IFV

 
A much newer US-made weapons system and fighting vehicle, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle (BFV) is a tracked armored fighting vehicle deployed by the United States and her client states, developed by FMC Corporation and manufactured by BAE and with potential and intent for further development, upgrade and modernization. 

 

Over 300 Bradley IFVs have been supplied to the Zelensky regime in Ukraine but as of this writing most of them, certainly over 190, were destroyed very soon after daring to appear anywhere near the frontline, and, though large numbers of M2 Bradley IFVs (ca. 150) were also destroyed in the protracted 2003-11 Iraq war, it is the first time in history of warfare that this vehicle was destroyed in such large quantities and over such a relatively short period of time of just about six months after its introduction to the conflict.

Tall, square and boxy vehicles, Bradley IFVs are easy to spot, engage and to knock out or destroy using quite a range of weaponry that elements of the Russian forces or Ukrainian partisans have at their disposal for the eventuality of chancing upon a Bradley IFV.

If you search the internet for relevant Bradley IFV destruction key words other than using the truth-suppressing major Western-controlled search engines (hint: try using Yandex search for a change though it is not entirely free from Western censorship either), you will see no shortage of photographic and videographic evidence of such Bradley IFV destruction.

From the footage and photographic evidence this writer has personally seen and sifted through in the course of his research preparatory to writing this exposition and analysis, the M2 Bradley appears to be another irredeemably inferior Western origin weapons system: a poorly engineered based on the wrong assumptions and faulty concepts, worse built and very fragile US-made fighting vehicle easily knocked out with small DIY explosives attached to cheap commercial drones, also easy to knock out or disable with heavy machine gun and even concentrated rifle fire; heavier or dedicated antitank-grade munitions or tank rounds themselves leave no chance, destroy these vehicles totally, also burns well with the slightest of provocations and melts down, pops off turrets too for good measure.

Helicopter launched anti-tank missiles are especially cruel on these heaps on tracks as are dedicated anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM).

As to the combat effectiveness of the Bradley fighting vehicle, in this type of action that we are seeing in the Ukraine theater, it is very low indeed; maybe it is only suitable, and was apparently designed, for lazy colonial-style warfare in far-flung corners of the world against under-armed opponents or civilians - the only type of action the US military has seen in many decades though still was ultimately defeated in every campaign since their last minor military success which was the afore-mentioned 1989 invasion of Panama perpetrated on the orders of the late Bush Senior. 

Various other Bradley versions, derivatives or lookalikes like the German Marder, the Swedish skit CV90 or the Canadian origin Stryker IFVs have performed at least equally abysmally, with most of them likewise destroyed on their first outing to the frontline, and need hardly be specifically mentioned here. Suffice it to say that, like the Bradley IFV, they have been destroyed in numbers only slightly below those in which they were supplied, with virtually no survivors of even the shortest stint in the actual war zone.

A significant number of M1132 Stryker IFVs outfitted with LWMRs (light-weight mine rollers) were also seen and destroyed in the Zelensky regime’s latest offensive failure to date – in Russia’s Kursk Region, ca. August – September 2024.

Western tanks are the worst of the lot

After years of post-Cold War propaganda and hype regarding Western tanks, largely based on willful misrepresentation and misinterpretation of the lessons and results of the 1991 and 2003-2011 Gulf and Iraq wars, not to mention outright lies and propaganda disseminated by the United States Department of “Defense” downplaying and denying US military losses in tanks, it is safe to say that Western origin tanks have not made a good name for themselves in the Ukraine, as is now finally clear to all, even the most obtuse and unimaginative.

German Leopard series tanks have been supplied in most numbers, including advanced Swedish versions such as the Strv 122, up to 300 tanks to date; and again many if not all of them have been destroyed on their first attempt at something resembling real action when they attempted to face the opposing forces. Some made quite a splash in the news early on in the so-called and now failed Zelensky regime counteroffensive of the summer of 2023 and for the wrong reason too, from the viewpoint of their manufacturers and sellers, as they were knocked out or destroyed en mass.

Again, photographic and video graphic evidence that abounds even in Western media outlets is proof that they are very bad tanks: unreliable mastodons with insufficient or poor-quality armor, weak engines, drivetrains, suspensions and tread-track systems, barrels can be knocked off with small arms fire - they are rather prone to fires, weaponized commercial drones carrying RPG-7 grenades strike top down and knock them out and scorch the innards – and with artillery, tank rounds or anti-tank missiles there is never even a doubt as to their failure to survive anywhere near the actual battlefield.

This should come as no surprise at all as very few countries in the world have a full-cycle tank building capability and even fewer have ever managed to produce anything worthwhile. 

Germany is still one of such tank-building nations but the Germans are well known for manufacturing and using inferior tanks as they did in most of World War Two, until they finally (but very belatedly) succeeded in copying the Russian T-34 as Panther V, and it appears they are now back to square one with the Leopard which is an irredeemably inferior tank for reasons too numerous to enumerate here, suffice it to say it has many weak points making it easy to knock out even using 30 mm BMP IFV gun rounds delivered in a quick succession to the side or heavy machine gun fire or even weaponized commercial drones as happened multiple times, and in the only two tank duels the T-72 triumphed over the Leopard both times.

 

Leopard tanks are no strangers to bad press and bad BDA (battle damage assessment) -- on one previous occasion of their attempted use in something resembling real fighting, maybe the first for the type, though nothing like what we are seeing now in Ukraine, a number of them were totally destroyed in Syria ca. 2013 both by ISIS and Kurd militias wielding Russian RPG-7s and Konkurs ATGMs, so burning or torn-apart Leopard tanks is nothing new, they burned and blew up spectacularly before but it is the M1 Abrams tank that is likely the worst tank in the world and has been destroyed in greatest numbers across the entire Middle East, and in the Arab world, with scores US military admitted losses of Abrams tanks which likely means hundreds destroyed in actual fact.

Actually, the Americans have a long but checkered history when it comes to manufacturing tanks.

It is quite prudent to say they have only ever managed to produce three types of tanks: bad tanks, worse than bad tanks and worst tanks.

F-16 Fighting Falcon? “Fighting”? ... “Falcon”? How About Diseased Crow?

Last of the Wunderwaffen is the shortest lived: the F-16 is to be found out in Ukraine

Unreliable and accident-prone, the F-16 “Fighting Falcon” jet fighter plane is more like a diseased crow on its last pair of wings - a flying tin-foil fuel tank wrapped around the fat US-made turd of a single thirsty jet engine nearly scraping the ground with the soft underbelly while sat on tarmac that flies worse than a MiG-29 and is less maneuverable and is otherwise nothing special and is a soft and flimsy jet plane with a huge unprotected canopy making the pilot especially vulnerable to all kinds of impact

 

In the summer of 2024, after some two years of training pilots to fly the same, the first six F-16 Fighting Falcons fighter jets were delivered to the Zelensky regime’s heavily depleted air force with much fanfare in a ceremony held at an undisclosed location accompanied with bloodcurdling threats mouthed by Zelensky’s officials, including himself, regarding their impending use against the Russians and the things that they could do to them – nothing short of winning the war single-handedly for the Zelensky regime, albeit rather belatedly.

As per usual much was made of their “superiority”, the advanced weapons that they supposedly carried or could be equipped with, their upgraded and improved “electronic warfare suites” and what not. 

However, only two or three weeks later, on August 26, 2024, one of the F-16s either went down, or never got up, on its maiden combat mission and took the pilot along with it for company to the beyond – and coincidentally did so on a day of a massive Russian air and missile strike on Zelensky’s war making capabilities.

This may be the first kill of an F-16 in the Ukraine war but it is far from the first combat loss of the F-16.

About thirty F-16 kills have been (very reluctantly and after years and years of lies and evasion) confirmed by their operators - F-16s have been lost to date mainly to Soviet-made weapons such as: at least seven F-16s falling to Iraqi-operated SA-6 (2K12 Kub), SA-3 (S-125 Neva), shoulder-launched SA-16 (9K38 Igla) SAMs as well as anti-aircraft gun and small arms fire during the 1991 Desert Storm; one F-16 to 2K12 Kub (SA-6) SAM over Bosnia in 1995, and another one over Serbia in 1999; one F-16 to S-200 over Syria as recently as in 2018, a further five or so were lost to air-to-air missiles reportedly fired by a Mirage, various MiGs, or even other F-16s as in the case of a Turkish F-16 shoot-down by a Greek F-16.

Eight or ten crashed whilst on combat missions under unclear circumstances, including low altitude maneuvers, and could have been hit by ground fire, for a combined total of maybe 30 confirmed F-16 combat losses. 

 

Many more kills are claimed by adversaries and some with good reason, especially by the Syrians over the IAF dating back to the early 1980s and, in the case of the Syrians, continuing up to the present time.

 

Over 800 F-16s have crashed since 1975 across all operator nations in various major accidents resulting in loss of aircraft, and frequently the pilot too, not thought to be related to combat.

While there is again a myth of superiority and invincibility that is quite intentionally spread by the manufacturers, the US military and other principal operators of the F-16 about the aircraft – likely in order to discourage attacks on the same and paint the aircraft as invincible and unassailable, the US-made fighter jet will likely go the way of the other Western Wunderwaffen in Ukraine, and, if it is deployed at all in significant numbers, is in for a mass cull by Russian air-to-air- and surface-to-air systems or even missile forces and unmanned one-way drones like what likely happened on Aug 26, 2024 where a collision of the F-16 with a Shahed 136 drone or a near explosion cannot be ruled out. 

Russia has many assets that can take down the F-16 Fighting Falcon, or any other existing or even future warplane for that matter, including near-autonomous self-aiming air-to-air missiles that have a range of over 300 km, nuclear tipped anti-aircraft missiles designed to take down entire flying formations and clearing the skies and the world’s best and most numerous air defense systems.

Also, the F-16 is not that hard to kill. Not at all. 

It doesn’t require cutting-edge- or particularly advanced weapons to knock it down. Most of the known shoot-downs were achieved by Soviet designed and built SAM systems that stem back to the late 1950s and the F-16 is yet to face modern Russian, or anybody else’s, anti-aircraft weapons as it has never operated in peer- or near-peer conflicts.

In low altitude passes it can even be brought down by concentrated small arms fire or stray bullets or shrapnel and debris that will puncture and likely ignite or de-fuel the fuel tanks or pierce the canopy and kill the pilot.

Once the cobweb of lies and propaganda is torn down, the F-16 “Fighting Falcon” is more like a diseased crow on its last pair of wings – a flying aluminum () foil fuel tank wrapped around the big thirsty turd of a single jet engine, nearly scraping the ground with the soft underbelly while taxiing on the tarmac – that flies worse than a MiG-29 and is less maneuverable and is otherwise nothing special and is an ageing accident-prone, soft armor-less jet plane with a huge unprotected canopy making the pilot especially vulnerable to all kinds of impact in the event of a shoot-down, of which there will be many in Ukraine, no doubt.

By I.

Moscow, August - September, 2024

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post originally published on September 22, 2024

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