11/17/23
These weapons will be quite cheap and will be produced on powerful 3D printing machines.
Ukraine has begun designing small surface-to-air missiles that will “hunt” enemy drones.
The manufacturer of the Dovbush UAV, Vladimir Yatsenko, spoke about this on air at 1+1.
“There are very different missiles and, of course, not everything can be produced just like that, just at the snap of a finger. But we opened the project and are now at the beginning of the design stage. These are small surface-to-air missiles,” he said.
According to Vladimir Yatsenko, the main targets of such missiles will be enemy Shaheds, as well as Lancets and Orlans at the front, directly on the line of contact.
“These missiles should exist and they will be quite cheap. They can be produced on our equipment – these are powerful machines for 3D printing,” he assured.
The entrepreneur noted that in Ukraine there are several professional teams that can design rockets from scratch, have the necessary experience and will be involved in their creation.
He believes that the private sector is the only opportunity to quickly produce high-quality weapons.
Let us remind you that Ukraine plans to spend $1.5 billion on the production of weapons and equipment in 2024 . First of all, we are talking about drones and long-range missiles.
Although the German-produced Gepard anti-aircraft system is very effective at destroying drones, and this fairly cheaply, there are not nearly enough of them. Ukraine needs something else to increase the destruction of the terrorist drones, in particular over the frontlines and in the rear. Such small missiles could be the answer. A bonus is that Ukraine can produce these themselves, thus not having to rely on wobbly, rubbery, reluctant, incapable friends for its needs.
Whatever Ukraine come up with, it will be cheap and effective. When it comes to innovation, Ukraine are streets ahead of the neanderthals.
Spot on!
@OFP
the 3D printer was provided by the “wobbly allies”,
wipe your eyes and your drool! don’t become an old hater, you’re better than that! 🙂 even if you have work to do on the arrogance side 😉
If the allies weren’t so wobbly, then Ukraine wouldn’t need to use 3D printers to print missiles in the first place. If the allies weren’t so wobbly, this war could already be over. Do you understand what I’m saying, Mr. lorangebleue?
Amen Sir OFP…AMEN!
@OFP
1 – in the event of high intensity we will all go to the same solutions, that’s the future. low mass cost.
2 – democracies know their weaknesses and have greater inertia to change their form, it is a handicap when it is necessary to move to a war economy and it is an advantage when it comes to seeing fascism coming to them. the democracies are currently paying for the Ukrainian state to function normally, that deserves better than a spit.
3 – the subject of the war, the end of the war, in Ukraine as in Israel, is what does the war lead to? If with a wave of your magic wand you drive the Russians back to the border, what do you think will happen? the Russians will no longer produce missiles, will no longer set fires everywhere, (don’t democraties need to keep deterrent elements?), they will no longer raise their children to become soldiers?
the question is: how to make the best happen, without triggering chaos that will take us all away.
apart from all the technical problems there is probably also a “good speed of this conflict resolution” and the one who knows it is very smart… 😉
on the one hand the artificialization of Russia’s economy should have significant effects within about two or three years on the other hand their army seems to be strengthening, and their army is learning somewhat…
either you can go to Moscow and directly change the regime and judge everyone or you can’t and you have to take another path… a side road.
whatever happens, the military without a policy behind it doesn’t solve anything.
Alas, Mr. lorangebleue, your fear of creating chaos with a mafia defeat is indeed making chaos more likely.
A quick and decisive defeat would’ve not only prevented unnecessary bloodshed and destruction, but would most likely have prevented the fascists in moscow from reacting too radically. Shock and awe, so-too-speak. It would also have shown mafia land (and iran, north korea and so on) how determined, strong, and quickly the West can react to such brutal attacks to an innocent country.
But, this drawn-out war has shown the mafiosi that they can achieve a lot by merely rattling the nuclear saber, putting great fear into the bones of our collective leaders and hampering their actions to a great extent.
And, in the meantime, China is learning many valuable lessons.
Our democracies have to learn that there is a time when they can allow themselves to discuss and make decisions on a leisurely basis … and when there is a time when quick and decisive action is vital. I thought that we learned all of this already back in the 1930s, when the West had to deal with another fascist monster. But, it seems that we are blind to past mistakes and are damned to repeat them once again. We already have…
@OFP
if you are in charge, with a threatening nuclear power you don’t act like it’s nothing either.
I also specify that I am not saying that the “speed of the conflict” is constant and given once and for all.
China would not have allowed Russia to collapse suddenly without getting involved.
it was before that we had to show ourselves stronger first in Syria, second in 2014.
as for chaos there are degrees there is a scale of chaos,
trying to circumscribe it is necessary. we are already in a multi-speed chaos which has several theaters. it could be even worse. We are trying to be between the explosion and the general conflagration (militarily – because there are other essential struggles in other areas to also be carried out at the same time)
but it is because democracies start slowly that they must necessarily/absolutely succeed the ending of the conflict)
if not for democracies: yes unfortunately “experience is a lantern which illuminates the path traveled”. and we deal with what exists, with hybrid war, with disinformation, with division, with confusion, with fear, with beliefs, with lack of vision, with greed, with the irrational with cowardice …
the human brain is a fragile little thing that is just waiting to go off the rails…
for me with what made the invasion possible there was no longer any possible equation without victims and without destruction… it is a question of doing the best now with all the parameters to try to have a world which is not worse in a first time and perhaps better afterwards…
(we can also assume that Iran will soon have the atomic bomb thanks to Trump)
The basic problem with the West has been our unnatural patience with mafia land. We should’ve shown much more reluctance to accept moscow’s aggression in the past 20 odd years. Its wars in Chechnya, Georgia, and Syria, its occupation of Transnistria, Crimea, and portions of Donbas were simply accepted with the only consequences being a few weak sanctions. This was never enough to discourage moscow from continuing its intrusive course.
Of course, mafia land is a nuclear power, but does this mean that we are powerless to counter it? No, it does not. We also have nukes. And, I doubt that even in mafia land they would commit suicide for small fry like Chechnya, Georgia, and even Crimea by starting a nuclear war. The powers to be in mafia land love their luxurious lives too much to exchange them for a life in a bunker, never to see the sunlight again. People who think otherwise just don’t think clearly enough. They simply succumb to fear and dread. For such people (Biden, Macron, Scholz, et al) nuclear extortion works. Mafia land knows this.
Instead of increasing trade and improving political relationships with russia, we should have made the costs match its aggression and this immediately. We didn’t. We made it possible for mafia land to earn hundreds of billions with our greed, and even to improve its military equipment. Look up the topic French night vision devices in russia, as a small example. I could go on, but I think that you’re intelligent enough to also see the huge mistakes that the West has made in regard to mafia land. The mistakes are continuing. A look at the many Western companies still helping to finance the russian war by doing business there, and our lackluster performance to help Ukraine shows this clearly.