by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:
Today’s blog is unusual in that I am blogging about two distinct stories which, taken alone, might not indicate much. Indeed, as will be seen, one of those stories is one of those “I heard it from a friend, who heard it from another” that something happened, to paraphrase the REO Speedwagon lyrics. ON it’s own it may be complete gossip and fabrication, but in the wider context, maybe not so much. The first article was shared by V.T. and many others, and the second again by V.T. and others (with again, our thanks to all of you who sent these along):
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Strike On Russian Strategic Early Warning Radar Site Is A Big Deal
The first story is clear enough: there has been a strike against a Russian early warning -over-the-horizon radar system:
Satellite imagery confirms a Russian strategic early warning radar site in the southwestern end of the country was substantially damaged in a reported Ukrainian drone attack earlier this week. This looks to be a first-of-its-kind attack on a site linked to Russia’s general strategic defense. As such, it points to a new and worrisome dimension to the conflict, especially when it comes to the potential use of nuclear weapons.
A satellite image taken on May 23 that The War Zone obtained from Planet Labs of the Armavir Radar Station in Russia’s southwestern Krasnodar Krai shows significant debris around one of the site’s two Voronezh-DM radar buildings. These are ultra-high-frequency (UHF) over-the-horizon (OTH) radars that are part of Russia’s nuclear ballistic missile early warning system.
The article points out via the convenience of a map where the early warning radar is located, in the city of Aramvir, in southeastern Russia close to the trans-Caucasus region. It is, in other words, a key component in Russia’s air defense warning system of any potential attack from the South; Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Armenia, the Black Sea, and so on.
In other words, the strike could potentially represent a severe crippling of Russia’s early warning system, and therefore could represent a first effort to “blind” Russian defenses. Why “potentially”? and why only a “first effort”? For two reasons: the article gives no good estimate of the amount of damage done to the facility, nor if it remains operational, and if so, how degraded its operability may be. As for the strike being a “first effort”, we can safely say that the hit does not represent an blinding strike, because such a strike would have to hit more than merely one such installation. The Russians did not build their air defense system without redundancy.
The article also states that the Ukraine was behind the strike, which was made with a drone. That may very well be true, as the desperate regime of Zelensky & Assoc. attempts to drag the west into an actual “hot” role in its proxy war with Russia. But this very fact raises the possibility that someone else may be attempting to do the same thing by striking key Russian installations to provoke an escalation on the part of Russia.
For the moment, table that story, and consider the second story which, again, I hasten to point out is the REO Speedwagon story (…I heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who…):
