Ukraine Always Get What You Want

That description sounds like the AC-130.

 

Bring the rain.

 

Really good for COIN CAS, when there are no air defenses. Probably a flying coffin against capable air defenses.

Despite what we saw on CNN, during Desert Scrimmage they were quickly restricted to medium level bombing missions, because they were taking too many hits doing low level passes.

 

Send a couple of AC-130s beneath the protection of Growlers jamming what little AA the Russians have for a few hours in the dead of night over the Donbas and things would change in a hurry.

 

Western artillery surging into Ukraine will reshape war with Russia


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/30/ukraine-russia-artillery/

"The expanded artillery battle follows Russia’s failed effort to rapidly seize Ukraine’s major population centers, including the capital, Kyiv. It comes as the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Western benefactors brace for what is expected to be a grinding campaign in the Donbas region. The conflict there is expected to showcase the long-range cannons that are a centerpiece of Russia’s arsenal, weaponry already used to devastating effect in places such as Mariupol, a southern port city that has been pulverized by unrelenting bombardment.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, speaking alongside his Canadian counterpart at the Pentagon on Thursday, said long-range artillery will prove “decisive” in the next phase of the war. The Biden administration, which along with Canada is training small numbers of Ukrainian troops how to operate the dozens of 155 mm howitzers that both countries have pledged to provide, is expected to approve the transfer of even more artillery to Ukraine in the coming days, Austin said.

The United States alone already has promised Zelensky nearly 190,000 artillery rounds, plus 90 howitzers to fire them. As of Thursday, more than half had arrived in Ukraine, said a senior U.S. defense official who, like some others, spoke on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the administration.

A new $33 billion request to Congress for additional Ukraine aid includes proposed funding for “longer-range artillery of a heavier caliber,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told lawmakers on Capitol Hill, though he stopped short of identifying which specific systems are under consideration. Other allies, such as Britain and Sweden, also could send artillery, analysts said."

 

We’ve been sending them 155 mm guns. The next biggest is the 8-inch gun. I don’t know if the U.S. has tow-behind 8-inches. I think those are mechanized.

 

I was going to observe that this looks like one of those "We'll Be Right Back!" videos but he most certainly will not.

 

Biden's going. Just a matter of time.

 

We won’t know until he clears Ukrainian airspace on the way back.