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Ukraine war briefing: Russia launches attacks on Kharkiv and Kyiv as Zelenskiy appeals for help
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2024
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The Baltic Sea?
Arctic ocean. I did a literal translation from Dutch.. which made sense but was wrong. Sry
Ah, okay, gotcha.
So, there are a couple issues:
I'd guess that Russia is able to prevent a surface ship from approaching Russia in any ocean unless someone can fight an offensive air and naval war to get control of that ocean.
I'm guessing (you said "container ship") that the idea might be to use a concealed civilian vessel that then unloads some kind of surprise attack. While disguised military ships have been used to conduct armed warfare before, the last time I can think of an example was British Q-ships in World War I; I'm not sure that this is still legal.
Turkey has closed the Turkish Straits to warships due to the conflict, so technically no warships are supposed to pass, from either side. I'm I believe that it violates the convention governing this to either tell Turkey that the warship isn't actually a warship or if Turkey knows but preferentially lets warships through. That being said, I guess theoretically Ukraine could assemble such an attack using a ship somewhere far away from Ukraine.
My guess is that if Ukraine had a lot of long-range cruise missiles, they'd probably be using them in their own theater of operations, as they're pretty short on them.
I don't think that Russia is using strategic bombers for the glide bombing attacks, so whatever the benefits of hitting them, I'm not sure that it would be a counter to the glide bomb attacks. kagis Yeah, this has the (much more numerous) Su-34 being used:
Strategic bombers are used to launch the hypersonics at Ukraine. They are rarer so a high value target. If they can cut of kinzal at its roots.
That's true, though IIRC there are two planes, and I think that one of them -- and the more-numerous one -- is a variant of some multirole fighter.
kagis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-47M2_Kinzhal
Looks like two confirmed, another possible, another eventually (though I can't imagine using the rare, intended-for-another-purposes Su-57 if they could use the others).