Maybe you haven’t heard about the vodka problem, don’t think that potato is going far in Russia
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Russia/Ukraine conflict
- Thread starter amolina
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Good thing. A good spud gun can put out an eye.
Bet TSLA
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Maybe you missed it, but those are Putin's trusted models playing dress-up, not actual military. Not that it matters.
That was insightful. Thank you for posting.Long but very good scholarly analysis re war, history, reasons and outcomes from a Romanian diplomat via Google translate.
Războiul de 105 ani al Moscovei cu lumea şi de ce a venit timpul „aterizării” la realitate
„Pomul bun nu poate face roade rele, nici pomul rău nu poate face roade bune. Orice pom care nu face roade bune este tăiat şi aruncat în foc. Așa că, după roadele lor îi veți recunoaște” (Evanghelia după Matei, 7: 18-20) “Violența nu prosperă şi nu poate prospera de una singură; ea este...www-contributors-ro.translate.goog
Warning, it is long, maybe 20-30 min read.
T-55s? Those are antiques. Do they even have ammunition for the main gun?
Are we going to be seeing T-26s before this is over?
T-26 - Wikipedia
Russian leadership sees this as an opportunity to kill off a lot of the ethnics who are inferior creatures to the Muscovites.
For reason it only comes up in Romanian for me and manually running it through Google translate doesn't work.
BitJam
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I had that problem with Firefox but it translated just fine when I used the Chrome browser.
Well, they're already using WW2 artillery that predates the T-55, so maybe not that shocking. Might make sense if they have the munitions for them. Just use them as artillery until they're worn out.
Thanks. I usually use Firefox. It did load in Chrome.
They may use it as ersatz artillery. Pushing ancient tanks into service as artillery is a clear desperation move.
Some interesting tidbits about the T-55:
Originally designed in Kharkiv.
Built in USSR until 1981
Many updates over the years. Israel in particular made enormous improvements to the many T-55 tanks it captured from Syria, Egypt, etc.
So those tanks may not be nearly as antiquated as the name implies. But still far from modern.
SwedishAdvocate
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Tiger
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Sounds like Ukrainians should send free spirit (and the likes) to the Russians to lubricate things:
Nice thread from (retired) general Mark Hertling regarding possible near future battlefield support upgrades to Ukraine.
He notes the AMX10RC "tank killers” recently promised from France, the recent chatter of possibly delivering Bradley Fighting Vehicles from the U.S., and suspects if so that U.S./NATO would then push Germany to provide their Marder - their equivalent of these vehicles.
He notes the AMX10RC "tank killers” recently promised from France, the recent chatter of possibly delivering Bradley Fighting Vehicles from the U.S., and suspects if so that U.S./NATO would then push Germany to provide their Marder - their equivalent of these vehicles.
The advantage of all 3 is their firepower, great cross-country mobility, low maintenance, easy repair, & small logistics trail. None are tanks, which many will still scream about. But they will allow Ukraine's emerging combined arms teams to conduct high tempo maneuver….They are all deadly against RU equipment, including tanks (the Anti-tank missiles have a longer range than the RU tank cannon)
Is the US replacing basic equipment like damaged or decrepit Humvees with guns, and worn-out artillery barrels?
Nat gas prices continue to drop in Europe. Unseasonably warm weather and record wind power production in Germany and France have been a blessing. Not the leverage Putin was hoping for!
Next week winter finally arrives with temps falling to -10c in northern Ukraine and even -5 in south. That would finally freeze things if you give it 2-3 days.
Ukraine's civilians probably aren't looking forward to the colder weather, but it may be to the military's advantage if they are preparing to push forward with an offensive. Works both ways obviously, but I think the Russians may be licking their wounds after getting clobbered in Bakhmut.
I was joking the other day that the Russians were going to be equipping their troops with sharpened sticks soon. It might become reality!
The Russians sent 1/2 the mobiks to some form of training and the other half just got sent to the front to be cannon fodder. The ethnicity Moscow likes got training, the less desirable got sent to be cannon fodder. Genocide by a different means.
I was reading on wartranslated that the trained troops are beginning to be sent to the front. Though the accounts are all of people trained for artillery being sent to the front as infantry.
It's probably the troops getting trained are probably getting equipped better than the cannon fodder, but with trainloads of T-55s headed towards the front, they probably are not getting top shelf equipment. Except for a small amount completed recently, there is little modern equipment left that hasn't been committed.
