RobStark
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So what happened to the 50k soldier Russian offensive?
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Russia/Ukraine conflict
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Ukraine launched a drone attack (air drones and boat drones) on the Russian Black Sea fleet at the port of Sevastopol. Russians claim all the drones were destroyed. They are coordinating air and sea drone attacks now.
Game Changers in the UKR:
HIMARS
Leopards
Bradley's
Storm Shadows
Cluster Munitions
Anyone seeing a trend? None of these have been or will be "game changers".
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HIMARS
Leopards
Bradley's
Storm Shadows
Cluster Munitions
Anyone seeing a trend? None of these have been or will be "game changers".
New Russian warship with hypersonic missiles joins Black Sea fleet - report
Russia's new Karakurt-class missile corvette ship the Tsiklon is reportedly armed with Zircon hypersonic missiles, in addition to its arsenal of cruise missiles.
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bkp_duke
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Game Changers in the UKR:
HIMARS
Leopards
Bradley's
Storm Shadows
Cluster Munitions
Anyone seeing a trend? None of these have been or will be "game changers".
New Russian warship with hypersonic missiles joins Black Sea fleet - report
Russia's new Karakurt-class missile corvette ship the Tsiklon is reportedly armed with Zircon hypersonic missiles, in addition to its arsenal of cruise missiles.
Right . . . not calling HIMARS "game changing" is just flat out . . . well . . .
Well, really an anagram is a different set of words (that make sense) using the same letters. Like "Master's Tool" or "or total mess". His name is simply back-to-front.
Humiliation of Putin seems to be happening more and more these days.
Russia’s State TV Hacked: Millions Told “The Hour Of Reckoning Has Come” – In Ukrainian
Russia’s State TV Hacked: Millions Told “The Hour Of Reckoning Has Come” – In Ukrainian
Russian counterattack isn't going all that well. Their demining tank blew up.
And Ukraine used a JDAM to eliminate a Ruskie command headquarters.
Putin is a cockroach and has become a master at manipulating Russian politics, but cockroaches can be killed and most political manipulators run out of luck eventually. There is more opposition to Putin now than any time in his 24 years in power. He also hasn't screwed up this badly during his reign.
In any thread there are a fair number of silent readers who are reading but not participating. These people are usually starting from a lower information point than the participants. Letting someone post something ridiculous without comment might leave the impression that the person has a point whereas at least one post debunking it helps to set the record straight.
The dud rate for Russian cluster munitions is about 30-40%, possibly higher in weapons that have been in storage a long time. US cluster munitions have about a 2% dud rate.
Russia has also made heavy use of cluster munition since the early part of the war, and as others have pointed out their use has been more on civilians than on military targets. The Ukrainians have used some of the old Soviet cluster munitions they have too, but always on military targets.
Ukraine is fighting to take back their own country and are planning to use the US cluster munitions only on Ukrainian territory. They know the risks and are willing to deal with the consequences after the war. Because Russian cluster munitions are so unreliable, Ukraine has a much more serious problem in the coming years from un-exploded Russian bomblets than they will with American bomblets, even if the US sends their entire arsenal of cluster munitions and they get used up.
Ukraine is going to be a minefield of un-exploded munitions of all kinds for the rest of our lives. On top of all the mines the Russians have sown, and the un-exploded bomblets, Ukraine has to contend with all the dud artillery shells fired off by the Russians during the war. There are probably millions of those. The dud rate for Russian artillery has been around 30% and Russia has fired tens of millions at the Ukrainians.
Sometimes I've been driving down the highway and come upon a car or trailer with a wheel that is obviously wobbling. I see that and think, that could come off at any moment and at highway speeds it could get very messy. I try to get in front of them to if the tire does come off it's behind me.
Russia is driving along at high speed with a couple of wobbling wheels. Nobody knows when the wheels are going to fly off, but the odds are high and getting higher every day.
The US has sent some weapons that were in regular use like the javalins, but the bulk of weapons have come from spare stockpiles. Both the M2 and M3 Bradleys are still in frontline use with the US Army. Around 4000 active, however there is also a massive reserve pool of about 2800 vehicles and the US has been sending those to Ukraine.
This war comes on the heels of the US ending a war and having a lot of spare vehicles it doesn't want. Among those are thousands of MRAPs which are great for crew survivability when there are a lot of mines around. The US bought 25,000 MRAPs and are only planning on keeping a few thousand.
You are correct though. The US is giving away it's surplus and a lot of other militaries are doing the same. Where there are shortages, such as in 155mm artillery ammunition, everybody who can is ramping up production. The media makes such a big deal about US production of 155mm ammunition, but the US has not been the biggest producer of that caliber for a long time. There are a number of ammunition plants in Europe that can make a fairly healthy volume, there is a brand new plant in Australia making 155mm, and South Korea is probably making more than anybody.
SK is quiet about their production volume, but they have a large number of 155mm guns. They have around 6000 in service with several thousand in reserve. I saw an estimate the SK production of ammunition might be on par with all of NATOs production or larger. SK is also retiring a lot of older 155mm guns in favor of their domestically designed and produced guns. They have been reluctant to give weapons to the Ukrainians, but if they could be convinced to break some loose it would help Ukraine a lot.
Kerch Bridge attacked again. Looks like the damage to the road bridge is more severe than the last attack. According to OSINTTechnical two spans are down. Live video
Russia is claiming it was drone boats, but it appears both explosions were on the westbound road, which would mean the boats would have had to cross under the eastbound lanes to hit the westbound.
Russia is claiming it was drone boats, but it appears both explosions were on the westbound road, which would mean the boats would have had to cross under the eastbound lanes to hit the westbound.
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Dreadnought
Member
Or, one could say that he's got it all backwards. The name says it all and, ironically, is straightforward in this respect.
Tiger
Active Member
To me, it is not right, that dictators get to brainwash their people and then oppress them, it's like having abusive parents who keep you in the basement and experiment on you. Thus even if people in Ukraine liked Russia before they got "educated", their opinnion after being educated weights more. It takes time for Stockholm syndrome to cure. Same goes for the Russian people, after they get "educated", they will revolt. Same goes for North Korea.
It is true that ignorance is a bliss, but that should end towards becoming adult. It is ofcourse philosohpical whether the meaning of life should be to serve the supreme leader or the mafia boss, corporate greed, or corrupt government, or just run the rat race, and which one is better, or should we even have the freedom to think something else. Again, if your upbringing is authoritarian you might disagree with people brought up with the thought of freedom of personal choice only influenced by others such as propagand and ads and traditions.
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Keeping this Tesla related for once, Robots might make good mine clearing machines, starting with drones, then tracked or 4-wheel vehicles, then letting 2-legged Robots do a final check.
Not saying they will get everything, but the occasional brave Optimus dying in the field of duty will not be a total waste, as there may be some useful spare parts that could be salvaged, after a suitably moving ceremony.
Surely it is just a numbers game, and a fairly systematic grid search could be done by a suitably sized fleet of robots.
Tiger
Active Member
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stopcrazypp
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There is no "did it first", because there is plenty of evidence Russia have already used cluster bombs. And the part the US would be critical of is using them in areas that knowingly would affect civilians (as Russia appears to have done already). As such it's not hypocritical. As others point out, just using the weapons are not a war crime, it's how you use them.
Use of cluster munitions in the Russian invasion of Ukraine - Wikipedia
Rather expensive way to remove mines. Some mines react to something metallic coming near. When they need to probe for mines manually, men are given wooden sticks and they crawl along the ground probe with the sticks. They use wood so they don't trigger the mines with anything metallic. A large machine made out of metal needs to be built tough enough to absorb the blasts from the mines.
Mine rollers attached to the front of a tank do this. There is a video out there of a tank mine roller in action. There are other devices for clearing mines with large machines. One used in WW II, but I haven't seen on modern tanks is a drum with a bunch of steel chains attached that whip the ground ahead of a tank.
A tank is used so if they miss a mine the chances of losing the vehicle and crew is reduced, though the tank is usually put out of action for a while.
A very expensive and very metallic robot would likely get itself blown up and would cost more than the mine that blew it up. There are also different types of mines. Vehicle mines are set to trigger when they get a force on them of something heavier than a human, about 500 pounds or more.
Vehicles with some kind of automated driving system to clear mine fields might be in order, but that's old hat in the ag business. Farmers have been using automated tractors driven with a laser system for some time.
Inter-Drain - Laser Control
Pictures of the Crimean bridge in daylight are coming out
Some video of the damage. Looks like two different videos of the the two different parts damaged
https://twitter.com/search?q="Crimean Bridge"&src=trend_click&f=live&vertical=trends
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petit_bateau
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It is possible that Russians have abandoned attempts to defend the Konka river bridge just North of Oleshky. If so this is pretty significant though apparently (as yet) Ukraine has not moved forwards so there may be more to this than is reported. I've put an X on the map-photo where the Russian SUV is departing from in the video.
That's probably the least likely type of weapon. The Russians took to scanning every vehicle entering the bridge after the first attack. Russian news said it was drone boats right after it happened, but some video that claims to be of the attack happening shows anti-aircraft trying to engage something that hit the bridge. It may have been a couple of Storm Shadows.
Tiger
Active Member
Putin doesn't give a damn about how his insane war affects the rest of the world. Pure evil.
Russia Pulls Out of the Black Sea Grain Deal
Russia Pulls Out of the Black Sea Grain Deal
