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Neutralize that? >> well, they are probably using long range standoff weapons which they're, but at least when those missiles come close, those air defense systems will pick up on them. shoot the bombers down. whether you have a sight range of 100 miles it picks up missiles inbound and it hits the missiles as they are inbound to the target it doesn't make a difference they shoot the missiles 500 or 600, or 700 miles away. engage them as they get closer to the target. that's what the value of those systems are. it's sort of like our patriot air defense system which is the same way. and i think ...

Situation on the ground. they say that the ukrainian air force and air defense forces are continuing to, effectively, defend ukrainian airspace. russia has failed to gain control of the air and is largely relying on standoff weapons, launch from the relative safety of russian airspace to strike targets within ukraine. gaining control of the air, was one of the principal objectives for the opening days of the conflict, and there continued failure to do so has significantly blunted their operational progress. now, millions of refugees have been fleeing the fighting and heading to poland. for som...

Soldiers are interested in self-preservation, sabotaging their own equipment. you have senior generals now being flown in from moscow and getting killed, doing the work, the work that captains and majors should be doing. and what do you what do you make of the u.s. intel saying these russian that we saw in the convoy, these russian soldiers would be could be encircling ukraine sometime in the next 72 hours if that is in fact going to happen? do you believe they will fire missiles in there trying to force a surrender or do you believe that go in for for a ground fight? well, i believe it when t...

Ukraine. there are not a lot of fixed wing aircraft in the air over ukraine, and it's still dangerous over that air. the russians are flying somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 or 200 sorties or flights every day, but the vast majority of them are over russia, and sometimes they come into the ukrainian airspace and will conduct a strike or two, and the things we are seeing in the devastating photos and video out of mariupol and kharkiv, the majority is from cruise missiles, standoff weapons or artillery fire, and that's because the russians are simply not replying. many of the nato partners a...

Cover air space if it's done in normal ways but there are a lot of things that happen using standoff weapons. for example, when the russians attacked the facility, training facility near lvi virv near the polish border, they were using aircraft flying out of an area from the black sea right here. those areas are outside of normal ukrainian air space and if the no fly zone or whatever we're calling it does not cover that, then it won't impact those kinds of events and the russians have been doing this quite a bit. they've been using stand off weapons and flying aircraft up to the limits of ukra...