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Remaining Number of Missiles in Russia's Possession. From KOS Diary today. [1]
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Date: 2022-10-14
I really did not want to write a diary regarding something KOS covered so well this morning. His entry is full of important information on Russian staff, supplies, the EU response to a potential nuclear strike by Putin/Russia, etc. The comments after the diary are excellent and most come from persons with military experience. Full disclosure, I never served in the military, my draft number was 56 in the last year of the Vietnam Draft, no one from the 1954 draft was called up.
The point of writing this diary is to discuss the number of missiles that Putin/Russia have left in their arsenal. I asked this question in a comment to either a @anneili @marksumners or @KOS piece the other day. I had heard earlier on DailyKOS that the number of strategic missiles in Russia’s possession was limited. After reading on KOS that the Russians had fired 29 rockets of which 20 were shot down by anti-missile sites (I think a very impressive number of hits 2/3). I wondered. HOW MANY RUSSIN MISSILES ARE LEFT?
Today in Kos’ column he included this graph. with credit to @Euan_Mcdonald on Twitter.
This is the best piece of military info, I have seen in recent time. It illustrates whether the Russians will chose to blow up the Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant or save their missiles to protect their homeland. It also gives us the a hard number to initiate a count down as to how many missiles Russia has left.
Since most of the world can see the future is not bright for the current Russian invasion force, they are using untrained, underfed and underequipped troops, the mid-range missiles are potentially Putin’s last chance to save himself.
Final point — How many of the remaining 609 missiles are in working order?
How many actually blew-up on firing? We have witnessed several missiles unable to achieve flight or they exploded after takeoff.
We also know that much of the maintenance on Russian equipment has not been properly kept up. How many missiles are inoperable or have been cannibalized to make other missiles that have already been fired operable? Cannibalization of military equipment is very common, it allows tanks, jets and missiles to be used when they would have had to for parts.
Again thanks to the brilliant military and science writers at Daily KOS. I am in agreement that this team deserves recognition. Through personal knowledge of Ukraine, military experience and unending research, I feel that Daily KOS team has kept me better informed that any anyone I know. I send KOS links to my friends to read the articles that I am reading, this gives them up-to-date information.
Case in Point — the destruction of the bridge in Crimea.
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