Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments PART 2
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Not practical or economically feasible. But there is a history of mismatched resources: a squad of US troops in Afghanistan always under the protection of a UAV, and with a FAC and pretty much round the clock patrols of fighter protection. If they came into contact with 20 taliban with nothing but AK-47s, the squad would then be supported by fighter jets, gunships, drone, plus tanker support."While fighter jets have been effective against Iranian drones, said Yurii Ignat, a Ukrainian Air Force spokesman, the approach is costly because of its use of air-to-air missiles. 'It’s frustrating that we must hit these drones with expensive missiles,' he said. 'What else can we do? This is the reality now.'"
‘We Heard It, We Saw It, Then We Opened Fire’
With an intense, hastily assembled effort, the Ukrainian military is pioneering successful techniques in the difficult art of anti-drone warfare.www.nytimes.com
Using missiles and fighter jets that together costs ten of millions of USD a piece in order to take down a drone that cost $20,000 USD is the worst trade-off economically speaking. It is also something that will not be sustainable in the long-run.
Not economical but if one country is industrially and economically mighter , it could sustain in the short-run.
I remember reading about an F-22 mission over Syria to take out a few technicals and a building run by 2 F-22s. It was more of a show of using F-22 in ground attack. But figure in 2-3 hours of flight time, tanker, and smart munitions easily reached $300K to destroy two pick-up trucks.
@Viet a request: if you are going to put a significant news report of significance in this matter (vs. blindly putting twitter links) can you pls translate? You must speak German but rest of us don't.Ukraine air defense knows the trick. It shoots down 85 percent of Iran drones.
Russians using Iran drones are a means of terror is over.
Unter anderem wegen ihrer geringen Flughöhe seien die Drohnen einfach abzuschießen, teilte das britische Verteidigungsministerium mit.
(Foto: picture alliance/dpa/AP)
London: Ukraine wehrt Großteil iranischer Drohnen ab
Als Ersatz für russische Langstreckenwaffen soll Russland vermehrt auf iranische Kamikazedrohnen zurückgreifen. Diese werden von der Ukraine jedoch immer effektiver abgefangen, teilt der britische Geheimdienst mit. Die Drohnen seien nämlich recht einfach abzuschießen.amp.n-tv.de
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Where are you getting 3x the price: gas spot prices are 126% from a year ago. So yes they are higher but not 3x. And its not uncle sam, Qatar also supplying a big portion of Gas. So pls check your facts before you make claims. It means the rest of the stuff you post may be as exagerrated and not believable.
Indeed all these free countries that have internal police forces and sensors as big s their militaries. Thats 'freedom'.... where no counter view or political opinion is allowed. Putin has 95% rating yet a million people leave. Iran is free to cover its women and beat its teenagers. And in 2006 China had a sensor army of 50,000 when internet was barely underway to keep track of its people. Very free for sure.LOL!!
Bagheri had a seriously underrated trolling game i never knew about. I like him even more now
The western hegemony has finally ran into a wall. And they are frustrated that they cant control free countries like Iran Russia and China
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Sarcasm hard to establish. For a second you seemed like you believed a water pumping station was dual use.
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Just because Europe didn't let your guy walk over a country and put Russia on a path to industrial backwardness in the next decade, they are the dumb guys? In 2 years, with all the equipment for drilling from Schlumberger and other companies will be useless and PUtin will be sitting on black stuff not able to extract it.
Another idiotic comment . More Jews live outside Israel then inside Israel. He is no more likely to go to Israel any more than a PM of Labenese origin is likely go to Lebanon or a Black European PM is going to go back to Africa or UK PM if kicked out will go to India.
Did Saddam or Qaddafi vie to go to Mecca because they were muslim. Get a grip and use intelligence argument.
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There shoudl be an award for Bashar and Bearded Khomeni to be responsible for more muslim blood on their hands than Israel could ever come close to (actually while at it, put MBS as well). All three excel at war monging and killing Arabs direclty or by propping them to fight Israel. Iran has the glorious title of having fought with Iraq. So yes only an Iranian idiot would see Assad as a hero. The rest of the muslim world sees him as an Israeli agent who after 30 years still can't re-capture Golan heights but levelled Aleppo
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Destroyed as effectively as the disruption of NATO supply lines that Putin promised. But another lie he could not deliver on
Wow you still respond to this thoughtless chatbot? I blocked him...next thing it will be trees, then population. Same rant over and over (not to mention reposting of same videos over and over)
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Warmer weather has certainly not helped Putin's plans: consumption in Oct similar to Aug/Sep levels so this year will be a save for Europe. Generally most suppliers (including Qatar) are warning that constraints will persist till 2024 so there is another winter to go after this
Europe has more natural gas than it knows what to do with. So much, in fact, that spot prices briefly went negative earlier this week.
For months, officials have warned of an energy crisis this winter as Russia — once the region’s biggest supplier of natural gas — slashed supplies in retaliation for sanctions Europe imposed over its invasion of Ukraine.
Now, EU gas storage facilities are close to full, tankers carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) are lining up at ports, unable to unload their cargoes, and prices are tumbling.
The price of benchmark European natural gas futures has dropped 20% since last Thursday, and by more than 70% since hitting a record high in late August. On Monday, Dutch gas spot prices for delivery within an hour — which reflect real time European market conditions — dipped below €0, according to data from the Intercontinental Exchange.
Prices turned negative because of an “oversupplied grid,” Tomas Marzec-Manser, head of gas analytics at the Independent Commodity Intelligence Services (ICIS), told CNN Business.
It is a hugely surprising turn of events for Europe, where households and businesses have been clobbered by eye-watering rises in the price of one of its most important energy sources over the past year.
Massimo Di Odoardo, vice president of gas and LNG research at Wood Mackenzie, says unseasonably mild weather is largely responsible for the dramatic change in fortune.
“In countries like Italy, Spain, France, we’re seeing temperatures and [gas] consumption closer to August and early September [levels],” he told CNN Business. “Even in countries in the Nordics, the UK and Germany, consumption is way below the average for this time of the year,” he added.
The European Union has also built substantial buffers against any further supply cuts by filling gas storage facilities close to capacity. Stores are now almost 94% full, according to data from Gas Infrastructure Europe. That’s well above the 80% target the bloc set countries to reach by November.
“That’s an extremely high level,” Di Odoardo said, noting that the maximum storage level averaged 87% of capacity over the past five years.
Europe’s efforts to secure as much fuel ahead of winter as possible has caused a backlog of LNG tankers at European ports, made worse by a shortage of LNG import terminals.
The bloc has ramped up imports of LNG from the United States and Qatar as natural gas imports from Russia plummeted.
Felix Booth, head of LNG at data firm Vortexa, told CNN Business that as many as 35 vessels are either floating near, or sailing very slowly towards, ports in northwestern Europe and the Iberian peninsula because of a lack of storage options.
Those ships will “likely take another month to find home for the cargoes,” he said.
Together, they’re carrying about $2 billion worth of LNG, according to Kpler, citing energy market data provider Argus Media.
Despite the recent slump, at around €100 ($100) per megawatt hour European natural gas futures are still 126% above where they were last October, when economies started to reopen from their pandemic lockdowns and demand spiked.
Prices could rise sharply again in December and January as the weather turns colder, providing an incentive for some of those tankers to wait offshore a while longer before coming into port to unload, said Booth.
And despite the fact that Russia’s share of Europe’s total gas imports has fallen from 40% to just 9%, the region could be in a difficult spot next summer as it tries to replenish its stores ahead of the following winter.
Prices are expected to hit €150 ($150) per megawatt hour by the end of 2023, said Bill Weatherburn, a commodities economist at Capital Economics.
“Filling storage ahead of next winter will require the EU to import even more LNG because there is a need to replace lost Russian gas imports for an entire year,” he told CNN Business.
Europe now has so much natural gas that prices just dipped below zero
London CNN Business —Europe has more natural gas than it knows what to do with. So much, in fact, that spot prices briefly went negative earlier this week.
For months, officials have warned of an energy crisis this winter as Russia — once the region’s biggest supplier of natural gas — slashed supplies in retaliation for sanctions Europe imposed over its invasion of Ukraine.
Now, EU gas storage facilities are close to full, tankers carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) are lining up at ports, unable to unload their cargoes, and prices are tumbling.
The price of benchmark European natural gas futures has dropped 20% since last Thursday, and by more than 70% since hitting a record high in late August. On Monday, Dutch gas spot prices for delivery within an hour — which reflect real time European market conditions — dipped below €0, according to data from the Intercontinental Exchange.
Prices turned negative because of an “oversupplied grid,” Tomas Marzec-Manser, head of gas analytics at the Independent Commodity Intelligence Services (ICIS), told CNN Business.
It is a hugely surprising turn of events for Europe, where households and businesses have been clobbered by eye-watering rises in the price of one of its most important energy sources over the past year.
Warm weather to the rescue
Massimo Di Odoardo, vice president of gas and LNG research at Wood Mackenzie, says unseasonably mild weather is largely responsible for the dramatic change in fortune.
“In countries like Italy, Spain, France, we’re seeing temperatures and [gas] consumption closer to August and early September [levels],” he told CNN Business. “Even in countries in the Nordics, the UK and Germany, consumption is way below the average for this time of the year,” he added.
The European Union has also built substantial buffers against any further supply cuts by filling gas storage facilities close to capacity. Stores are now almost 94% full, according to data from Gas Infrastructure Europe. That’s well above the 80% target the bloc set countries to reach by November.
“That’s an extremely high level,” Di Odoardo said, noting that the maximum storage level averaged 87% of capacity over the past five years.
Europe’s efforts to secure as much fuel ahead of winter as possible has caused a backlog of LNG tankers at European ports, made worse by a shortage of LNG import terminals.
The bloc has ramped up imports of LNG from the United States and Qatar as natural gas imports from Russia plummeted.
Felix Booth, head of LNG at data firm Vortexa, told CNN Business that as many as 35 vessels are either floating near, or sailing very slowly towards, ports in northwestern Europe and the Iberian peninsula because of a lack of storage options.
Those ships will “likely take another month to find home for the cargoes,” he said.
Together, they’re carrying about $2 billion worth of LNG, according to Kpler, citing energy market data provider Argus Media.
Higher prices next year
Despite the recent slump, at around €100 ($100) per megawatt hour European natural gas futures are still 126% above where they were last October, when economies started to reopen from their pandemic lockdowns and demand spiked.
Prices could rise sharply again in December and January as the weather turns colder, providing an incentive for some of those tankers to wait offshore a while longer before coming into port to unload, said Booth.
And despite the fact that Russia’s share of Europe’s total gas imports has fallen from 40% to just 9%, the region could be in a difficult spot next summer as it tries to replenish its stores ahead of the following winter.
Prices are expected to hit €150 ($150) per megawatt hour by the end of 2023, said Bill Weatherburn, a commodities economist at Capital Economics.
“Filling storage ahead of next winter will require the EU to import even more LNG because there is a need to replace lost Russian gas imports for an entire year,” he told CNN Business.
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Global warming is most beneficial to Russia. Western Europe is already pretty warm thanks to Gulf stream. Berlin for example is only -2 C low in January. Global warming means large parts of Russia will become farmable. Consequently, Russia population will double from current 150 million to 300 million over the next few decades.
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