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Once awake, the situation turned to the bottom of the sky. Russia's attitude is completely tough at the end of the line, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke at a press conference in Moscow, saying what "immediately ceasefire" do not think, as long as Ukraine is not down and not give up, there is no half room for discussion.

At almost the same time, the launch site in Plesetsk lit up the night sky. A "Yars" intercontinental missile penetrated the Arctic Circle and hit the Kamchatka target area 6000 kilometers away.

The official line connects the two: political toughness and military displays together constitute the current signal transmission in Moscow.

Zelensky and Swedish Prime Minister Kristersson sat at the conference table. The sound of signing was very soft, but the weight was surprisingly heavy. The number written in the letter of intent made people gasp-120 to 150 JAS-39 Gripen fighter jets. In 2026, the first 30 CD models will be delivered, and the latest EF models will be delivered in 2028, with hundreds of them at a time.

The details of the agreement are impressive ¡£The first batch of fighter jets can be rapidly deployed within 72 hours, including 30 special models with the ability to take off and land on roads.

The sky is no longer a single stage.

The arrival of the "Gripen" heralds the reshaping of Ukraine's air combat thinking. It is not only a platform, but also a node of a system. The maintenance cost of this lightweight fighter with an empty weight of only 6.5 tons is only one-third of that of the F-16, and the preparation time for re-dispatch is shortened to an astonishing 20 minutes.Behind this high efficiency is the embodiment of Western air combat philosophy.

The Ericsson Eagle Lion Eye, which it carries, has a phase-controlled radar, allegedly has a detection distance of more than 200 kilometers to the Russian Su-35, and can simultaneously lock 20 targets, from which to attack six. In addition to the Swedish pledge to provide the "Meteor" ultra-visual air-to-air missile, its range is 30 per cent farther than the Russian R-77 missile, theoretically giving the Ukrainian army the ability to launch attacks beyond the edge of the Russian S-400 air defense system fire range.

However, the showdown in the sky is never a simple performance competition. The Russian army has already set up a three-dimensional deterrence network. Not long ago, a "Yars" intercontinental ballistic missile took off from the Plesetsk launch site, dragging a long tail flame, and accurately hit the Kamchatka Peninsula shooting range 6,000 kilometers away.This is not only a display of strategic muscles, but also a public challenge to the existing anti-missile system.

On a tactical level, Russia¡¯s Kh-59MK2 cruise missiles continuously hit Ukraine¡¯s energy facilities, while the newly deployed ¡°Hunter¡± heavy-duty drone, which carries missiles with a range of up to 1,000 kilometers, poses a substantial threat to NATO bases deployed in the back.The game of the sky has long been a multi-level, multi-dimensional system confrontation.

The Eagle Lion is strong, but it is equipped with a US-made F414 engine, which means that each delivery of the fighter aircraft can not be excluded from the U.S. technology export license.The U.S. attitude forms a delicate balance between lifting the ban on Ukrainian troops using long-range weapons to attack Russia and controlling the export of key technologies.

In order to meet this challenge, Saab has taken precautions and not only opened a second production line and planned to increase annual production to 30 aircraft by 2026, but also planned to transfer part of the production line directly to Estonia to achieve true front-line maintenance.

At the same time, General Electric of the United States is not idle. They are busy installing IRST photoelectric sighting pods on the old MiG-29 in service in Ukraine. Behind this series of actions is the ambitious layout of the West¡¯s attempt to pull the Ukrainian air force completely into NATO¡¯s technical standard system through technology exports and transformations.

The Underground Front You Can't See

While the artillery fire on the ground was still roaring, another war was quietly unfolding under our feet. The traditional armor showdown is being subverted by endless asymmetric innovations.

The T-90 tanks of the Russian Army are no longer just moving artillery, they have been transformed into mobile launch platforms carrying "Lyvas" cruise missiles, realizing the reverse tactics of "tank combat drones".The T-90 of the Chechen troops is even equipped with Kornet-EM anti-tank missiles with a range of 12 kilometers, greatly expanding the border of tanks 'strike.

The Ukrainian side, on the other hand, has demonstrated amazing cross-border weapons use capabilities.They installed the "Neptune" anti-ship missile originally used to attack warships with a special delay fuze, and successfully used it to attack solid ground infrastructure such as the Crimean Bridge, so as to enhance the damage to the internal structure of the bridge body. damage effect. This "magic reform" thinking makes the battlefield full of uncertainty.

The most unexpected front, opened in the underground. Russian special forces using the abandoned network of gas pipelines during the Soviet era, God unconsciously penetrated into the back of the Ukrainian army, one move to seize the strategic Terokinska, successfully cut off an important supply line for the Ukrainian army.The surprise attack on this underground corridor once reduced the ammunition base of the Ukrainian army on the front line.

In the face of this unprecedented tactic, the reaction of the Ukrainian army was equally astonishing.They quickly mobilized the reconstructed An-12 transport aircraft, in a almost original but extremely effective way ¨C injecting large amounts of concrete into the pipeline, physically blocking the underground penetration channel.This quick tactical offensive iteration is the cruel and creative side of this war.

And when you turn your attention from the regular army to the people, you will find that a more dynamic force is emerging. In Kharkiv, engineers are using 3D printers to make simple armored vehicle parts.

More representative were the peasants of Zaporozhye, who drove tractors and dragged the ruined Russian tanks to the sidewalk, building a solid road barrier.

In Lviv, a programmer developed the "Eye of War" app, successfully integrated various sources of information such as drone reconnaissance, satellite images and civil intelligence, so that grass-roots operations units can also have unprecedented field situation sensing capabilities.Information technology is empowering every resister with unprecedented depth.

conclusion

In the end, all technological, strategic and economic games have precipitated into the destiny of ordinary people. On one side are 23 children who died due to the blast wave of aerial bombs in the ruins of the kindergarten bomb shelter.It was the casualties among medical staff after the International Red Cross convoy was attacked in Donbas. It was more than 6.2 million Ukraine refugees who poured into Europe, and the COVID-19 epidemic even broke out in German resettlement centers. This is the most naked and cruel aspect of war.

The Swedish Gripen deal is just one slice of this grand historical drama. It clearly tells the world that this war has deepened from an initial military confrontation to a universal and simultaneous battle in all fields such as the sky, the ground, the network, the economy, and society.

Both the engineers on the Sabo production line in Stockholm and the bread masters in Kiev¡¯s defensive hole are participating and shaping the conflict in their own way, either passively or actively.The wisdom and madness of mankind, the resilience and the desire for destruction, are being mocked together on this earth.Their ultimate direction will not only determine the fate of a nation, but will also redefine the global political and military pattern in the coming decades.