Years ago I read of drones firing Hellfire missles on Chinese tanks by Tom Clancy in his voluminous book, "The Bear and the Dragon." Now, he has repeated his uncanny ability to foresee what most of us armature political analyst missed, the incursion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine and Crimea. His last book, as he died last October, "Command Authority" is a fascinating read:
"Storm Zero Six’s automatic Arena system saw the incoming Hellfire missile, and it launched a rocket to defend itself from it. Fifty meters from impacting the tank, the Hellfire exploded, sending metallic shrapnel all through the trees.
The Arena worked once, but the second inbound Hellfire came too quickly behind, before the Arena could reset and reacquire the new target. The missile slammed into Storm Zero Six’s turret before the system could launch another defensive rocket."
From the
National Review Online, we find the following excerpt:
Golovko added, “Volodin has his eyes on the Crimea, in Southern Ukraine, and he knows once Ukraine joins NATO, that will be difficult for him to achieve. The way he sees it, he has to move soon.”
Ryan said, “He is right that there is no treaty between Ukraine and NATO. And if he does invade, getting Europe on board to fight for the Crimea is a nonstarter.”
We have at least two scenarios depicting this current conflict in the game:
Access west Sloviansk by Roman and
Flashpoint Ukraine by mkr8683 converted from the original SSI.
Command Authority - A Great Read
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