{"id":77055,"date":"2022-03-15T10:21:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T14:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=77055"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:44","slug":"armstrong-ukraines-small-missiles-are-challenging-a-big-invader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/03\/armstrong-ukraines-small-missiles-are-challenging-a-big-invader\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: Ukraine\u2019s small missiles are challenging a big invader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Management at Brock University, had a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/ukraines-small-missiles-are-challenging-a-big-invader-178718?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20March%2014%202022&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20March%2014%202022+CID_4121bf9b97461ce70f2253093c4bac0c&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Ukraines%20small%20missiles%20are%20challenging%20a%20big%20invader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about missiles being used by Ukrainian soldiers to defend themselves during the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen Ukrainian President\u00a0Volodymyr Zelensky\u00a0told the world \u201cI need ammunition, not a ride,\u201d what he really wanted was anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Since then, countries have sent him some\u00a017,000 anti-tank missiles\u00a0and\u00a0thousands of anti-aircraft missiles.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Zelensky\u2019s request, and the international response, reflect the missiles\u2019 military suitability and political acceptability for Ukraine\u2019s defence against\u00a0more numerous Russian invaders.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Outnumbered defenders<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>When the war began, Russia had roughly\u00a0five times more tanks and\u00a0nine times more warplanes\u00a0than Ukraine did.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Russia\u2019s numerical superiority compared to Ukraine makes it impractical for Ukrainians to simply fight tank-versus-tank or plane-versus-plane. Anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles partly make up the difference.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Unlike the larger\u00a0ballistic missiles fired between countries\u00a0or\u00a0cruise missiles fired by warships, Ukraine\u2019s missiles are mostly small enough for individual soldiers to carry.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article on <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/ukraines-small-missiles-are-challenging-a-big-invader-178718?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20March%2014%202022&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20March%2014%202022+CID_4121bf9b97461ce70f2253093c4bac0c&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Ukraines%20small%20missiles%20are%20challenging%20a%20big%20invader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Conversation<\/em> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Management at Brock University, had a piece recently published in The Conversation about missiles being used by Ukrainian soldiers to defend themselves during the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,7,6],"tags":[6838,594,4395,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77055"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77058,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77055\/revisions\/77058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}