WARS & MILITARY

P. GREANVILLE—COMBAT APPROVED
In this episode of Combat Approved, we’ll tell you about a Russian weapon that NATO countries consider no less dangerous than nuclear weapons: the Iskander-M missile system. Thanks to its unique aeroballistic missile, it is capable of penetrating any missile defense system of any Western country. The thing is that in flight this missile reaches hypersonic mode (speed over 6 Mach) and the extreme 35G overloads! And what is important, such flight is following a completely unpredictable trajectory, which is why it is impossible to intercept such a missile with modern defense means. To prove this, together with the brigade of the Iskander complexes, Combat Approved will visit the exercises and take part in the preparation of complexes for firing. Viewers of the program will see exclusive footage of missile launches in combat, see how the races across the frozen steppe on Iskander look like, learn what a missile hotel on wheels looks like and understand why the NATO tried to deprive Russia of this unique weapon.

PETER KOENIG—In some European countries, covid-unrest already clearly visible, i.e., Slovenia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Spain – and of course, in the very Germany. Civil and societal unrest is also boiling hot in France, currently one of the most repressive regimes in the western world.

PATRICE GREANVILLE—The shameful role of the media whores who totally underreported or actively supported this war cannot be emphasized often enough. As a result most Americans still have a dense fog of confusion in their minds about the empire’s adventures in Indochina: how it started, what purposes it served, and what lessons it should have taught us, but didn’t. I’m talking here about moral lessons. Today after almost half a century since the end of this atrocity, the same ruling elites are actively involved not just in pursuing several more criminal wars with no end in sight, but eagerly plotting and provoking not just more conventional wars, but possibly the biggest chestnut of them all, the chestnut that will kill us all: a nuclear war with China or Russia or probably both.

PATRICK ARMSTRONG—One cannot avoid asking when did the USA last win a war. You can argue about what “win” looks like but there’s no argument about a surrender ceremony in the enemy’s capital, whether Tokyo Bay or Berlin. That is victory. Helicopters off the Embassy roof is not, pool parties in a U.S. Embassy is not, “Black Hawk down” is not. Doubling the USSR’s record in Afghanistan is not. Restoring the status quo ante in Korea is not defeat exactly, but it’s pretty far from what MacArthur expected when he moved on the Yalu. When did the USA last win a war? And none of the post-1945 wars have been against first-class opponents.

TAMIR ESHEL—In recent months the Syrian Army, supported by Iranian-backed Hezbollah and Russian air and ground forces, regained a significant foothold in areas previously dominated by Syrian opposition and ISIS. The loss rate of its armor has also diminished, not because of a shortage of rebel weapons. The Syrians claim that the deployment of new countermeasures locally developed by the Syrian Scientific Research Center (SSRC) dramatically reduced the vulnerability of their armor to rebel guided missiles attacks. This article tracks the evolution of these systems and outlines the progress, based on combat experience gained by the Syrians.