"Venezuela's Russian air defenses not even unpacked" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 13 Jan 2026 8:52 a.m. PST |
Venezuela's advanced, Russian-made air defense systems were not even hooked up to radar when U.S. helicopters swooped in to snatch President Nicolás Maduro, American officials say, rendering Venezuelan airspace surprisingly unprotected long before the Pentagon launched its attack… New York Times: link (paywall) |
| Andrew Walters | 13 Jan 2026 9:05 a.m. PST |
They bought the materials for a project and didn't finish? Luckily we don't do that around here. |
35thOVI  | 13 Jan 2026 9:15 a.m. PST |
The instructions in Russian? 😉 |
| Grattan54 | 13 Jan 2026 10:01 a.m. PST |
Now where did I put those instructions… had them a minute ago. |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 13 Jan 2026 10:25 a.m. PST |
The local governor tried to claim the US bombed medical supplies, but the NYT notes the photo shows a burned Buq air-defense unit (apparently in storage in a warehouse when it was hit). |
| doc mcb | 13 Jan 2026 2:02 p.m. PST |
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| Zephyr1 | 13 Jan 2026 2:59 p.m. PST |
It still worked, though, as it made the US waste a bomb that could have been used on a more valuable target… ;-) |
| 35thOVI | 13 Jan 2026 3:46 p.m. PST |
"It still worked, though, as it made the US waste a bomb that could have been used on a more valuable target… " Just wanted to make sure that they couldn't use it once the instruction manual in Spanish arrived COD from ACME (Russian Division). |
 Legion 4 | 13 Jan 2026 4:45 p.m. PST |
Well even if it was unwrapped and deployed. Would the crews even be effective and/or had any real training ? |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 13 Jan 2026 8:12 p.m. PST |
Would the crews even be effective and/or had any real training ? Looks like the only thing the Venezuelans/Cubans managed to fire off were a few manpads, and counter-fire neutralized that threat. |
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