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GD_American posted:I love bringing people to the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, because there's a giant bag of "wait, what the gently caress?" right outside the door. No arrestor? Doesn’t count.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I feel like I comment in this thread too much, but I wanted to make to tell our recent GBS 'Refugees' thanks. I'm always surprised that the only real gatekeeping vets do are for people who are way too enthusiastic about saying they were in the service
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# ? Mar 1, 2023 04:34 |
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mlmp08 posted:Arrived where? Looked like they arrived on an ARC vessel and were taken by train to training grounds in Germany or Poland. That would probably make it either Bremerhaven or Antwerp. Those are the most recent arrivals like a week or two ago so I'm assuming that's what they are for but they probably have at least 4 weeks training before anything happens no?
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# ? Mar 1, 2023 04:41 |
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lightpole posted:Looked like they arrived on an ARC vessel and were taken by train to training grounds in Germany or Poland. That would probably make it either Bremerhaven or Antwerp. Those are the most recent arrivals like a week or two ago so I'm assuming that's what they are for but they probably have at least 4 weeks training before anything happens no? Yeah, that seems most likely. The US already said they wouldn't announce their arrival inside Ukraine before Ukraine announced it, but I'd be pretty surprised if the brads were already there given the stated shipment and training timeline.
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Pine Cone Jones posted:https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1630757251127418882?t=AZq1kKMHmpxVAqjJqXc-fw&s=19 The “strategic decision” isn’t necessarily to hold the city and could be that this is an excellent opportunity to attrit the enemy. If the Russian forces have been told that they have to take Bahkmut now to give Putin a victory for his anniversary then they may be exposing forces/depleting reserves now that they shouldn’t. Like, they’ve had weeks to see that the tactical situation was deteriorating there (with several weeks of credible reports of careful withdrawals) so deciding to reinforce now makes me think holding the city isn’t the primary ‘strategic’ reason. Edit: ^^^ shoving your new toy into a lost cause hoping that magic happens doesn’t sound like any kind of a rational plan. Edit2: the classic method of relief for a besieged city/fortress is to make such a ruckus somewhere else that the opponent has to end the siege to use those forces elsewhere that’s more critical. You can’t be strong everywhere. Murgos fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Mar 1, 2023 |
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I remember this from Jane’s Fighters Anthology.
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# ? Mar 1, 2023 06:28 |
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Murgos posted:Brewster Buffalo says hi. If it says it in Finnish, it might actually survive to land again.
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GD_American posted:I love bringing people to the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, because there's a giant bag of "wait, what the gently caress?" right outside the door. Neat. Looked up NAWDC since it's a... uh... suggestive acronym for someone who was born and raised near the good ol' NAWCWD. Turns out NAWDC is another inland Navy base that flies over a different patch of desert, but NAWDC seems to be about training rather than weapons development and test. They must have flown some F-16s for dissimilar, I'm guessing.
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Murgos posted:No arrestor? Doesn’t count. I was curious so I consulted Wikipedia, keeper of every variation of every weapon ever. Apparently the Navy used F16s specifically as adversarial aircraft for training their pilots.
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Taerkar posted:I had that F-19 model. I was not very good at putting it together. If memory serves, Testors models weren't very good at being put together so don't be too hard on yourself.
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:That's kind of funny, because he's a serial fraudster. that's not funny at all! He's something of a superstar in my neck of Facebook and there is so many donations funneled through him to various projects.
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BobHoward posted:They must have flown some F-16s for dissimilar, I'm guessing. yeah the F-16Ns were specifically bought to be Falconskis And just for extra brain-meltiness:
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# ? Mar 1, 2023 09:25 |
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I'm late to barbed wire chat, in addition to the visible concertina wire I was taught to string up wire at ankle height that's hidden in the grass further out in front. People focus on the visible obstacle and get caught up in the wire they can't see. Helpfully the US puts a lot of their manuals online, some good examples in here: https://www.trngcmd.marines.mil/Por...2-10-083915-573 e: that is so pretty
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Autocannon and MG work on the trench and the guy still shoots back https://twitter.com/The3Swamp/status/1630799321443467266 Demining operations progress at great speed https://twitter.com/TradersAbacus/status/1630744856090890240 Elon understands how the war works https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1630474250569105411?s=20
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Potrzebie posted:that's not funny at all! He's something of a superstar in my neck of Facebook and there is so many donations funneled through him to various projects. Uh, you might want to spread the word. People can change of course, but I wouldn't send this guy money.
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BobHoward posted:Neat. Looked up NAWDC since it's a... uh... suggestive acronym for someone who was born and raised near the good ol' NAWCWD. Turns out NAWDC is another inland Navy base that flies over a different patch of desert, but NAWDC seems to be about training rather than weapons development and test. They must have flown some F-16s for dissimilar, I'm guessing. the word between the canopy and vertical stabilizer is : "NAVY" hoo yah!
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Every time one of these drops, I first think they're the same one, but actually they're all different https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1630867019590430720 I guess they're the "If only the Führer knew" genre, but ofc it's all by design
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U3FkXdDOi8 Two new phone interceptions. First one makes note of how much harder it is to find new recruits for the army. Second is a guy complaining about friendly fire doing for all the drones Russia has on the front lines and saying that if it keeps up, there'll be no drones left for reconnaissance purposes.
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Power Khan posted:Autocannon and MG work on the trench and the guy still shoots back Holy poo poo that's brutal. He called fire on his own position because an artillery strike wouldn't make things materially worse and might help.
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For the record: in the Finnish army I was a medic NCO, so I guess I'm what you'd call "the best of the best". I don't like to brag about it, though.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:For the record: in the Finnish army I was a medic NCO, so I guess I'm what you'd call "the best of the best". I don't like to brag about it, though. So you gave out ibuprofen on request AND IV fluids for hangovers?
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bird food bathtub posted:So you gave out ibuprofen on request AND IV fluids for hangovers? They said they were an NCO so they told someone else to do it and continued napping.
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https://mil.in.ua/en/news/russian-soldiers-are-being-transferred-from-belarus-to-the-territory-of-the-luhansk-region/quote:Russian military personnel who have undergone training on the territory of Belarus are being transferred to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
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Power Khan posted:Every time one of these drops, I first think they're the same one, but actually they're all different "Long live Stalin!", I shout, as my death warrant with Stalin's personal signature on it is carried out.
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The losses Russia took in capturing Vuhledar are being tallied and they lost more than 130 armored vehicles and an entire brigade of Marines. These losses are completely unsustainable. Just an absolutely enormous amount of armor lost to capture a strategically insignificant town and they haven't even taken Bakhmut. And if/when they do take Bakhmut, the Ukrainians have dug another series of defensive structures to the west and Russia will have to do it all over again.
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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1630972129247129600 Vladlen Tatarsky of "we will kill and rob whoever we want" fame came to a temporary realization that mobiks don't want to die for nothing. Then later he said that all the traitors at home should be given criminal cases for daring to speak against this war.
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Did they even capture Vuhledar? Thought it was just a failure all around.
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sexy tiger boobs posted:Did they even capture Vuhledar? Thought it was just a failure all around. They did not. Battles in and around the town are still ongoing and still failing.
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HonorableTB posted:The losses Russia took in capturing Vuhledar are being tallied and they lost more than 130 armored vehicles and an entire brigade of Marines. How many of those abandoned vehicles are subsequently destroyed/captured versus being recovered by Russia though?
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Taerkar posted:How many of those abandoned vehicles are subsequently destroyed/captured versus being recovered by Russia though? There's been at least a few occasions where attempts to recover damaged but abandoned vehicles by Russia failed, leading to further abandonments or loss of the vehicles, but I don't think we'll really know exactly how much because recovering anything from an active minefield is challenging at best
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HonorableTB posted:The losses Russia took in capturing Vuhledar are being tallied and they lost more than 130 armored vehicles and an entire brigade of Marines. Google suggests a brigade is around 3000 men, accurate?
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I imagine most abandoned vehicles at this point are left as target reference points/pre-sighted for fires. Unless they are abandoned close to a friendly position, or there is a specific reason- like a command vehicle, I would imagine there is limited returns in recovering a lot of it. I don't know for sure, but I can't imagine there is any value in risking sending 4 dudes out in a minefield to get a clapped out BMP. I'm genuinely curious as to how many of those abandoned vehicles were still combat capable, and how many would be deemed worthy of recovery operations in the US military. Weird Q- does anyone have a similar breakdown for the US invasion of Iraq? Like lost, destroyed, abandoned equipment.
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Wartranslated has a lot of good stuff on his Twitter today. I'd like to highlight this interview though: https://wartranslated.com/pravda-com-ua-interview-ukrainian-colonel-oleh-shevchuk/ It's with the colonel that was commanding artillery around Kyiv during the early invasion including Gostomel. Really interesting on his thoughts about people in occupied territories, people born in Russia (like himself) and people who think the USSR was better. quote:Another example: we know the enemy is coming to a certain village, but we don’t know where exactly. We open a Google map, see a store, see its phone number, and dial it: “Good evening, we are from Ukraine! “Do you have any Katsaps in the village?” “Yes.” “Where?” “Behind Grandma Hanna’s house.” “What house does Grandma Hanna have?” “Well, everyone knows her!” So you talk to people a little bit and realize where everything is.
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sexy tiger boobs posted:Did they even capture Vuhledar? Thought it was just a failure all around. They didn't even get into the town, which is a helluva job, considering the stats that HonorableTB posted https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1630902118331699202
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bulletsponge13 posted:I imagine most abandoned vehicles at this point are left as target reference points/pre-sighted for fires. Most of the vehicles abandoned were registered as damaged + abandoned, it would be tough to tell if they could be salvageable unless you directly took a look at them especially if they ran over a mine or two. The stuff that was abandoned intact was usually crews panicking and running away when they saw other elements of their attack force sustaining losses. e: Spotting drones nearby has also led to tank/IFV crews abandoning their vehicles and running too, forgot to mention that As far as i'm aware, Oryx hasn't done anything wrt Iraq war. What articles he does have are mainly related to what ISIS has been getting up to in there. He does have one article about the famous Abu Hajaar though. zone fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Mar 1, 2023 |
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Edit: So I just wanted to warn people, that it turned out that a known serial fraudster by the name of Kenneth Grägg (also known as Gregg) is interviewed in this article, casting a shadow of doubt over the rest of the article as well. I will leave the translation here for future reference, and so the following discussion makes sense. On a personal note I am very disappointed in that Yle managed to let that slip through. Yesterday Yle released an interview with a unnamed Finnish officer who had gone to Ukraine to train Ukrainian troops. Considering this interview almost immediately lead to a rebuttal interview, also released on Yle, from the earlier mentioned Major General Toveri, as well as a docent in military sciences, it seems to have made some waves in certain circles. To summarize his opinions, Russia will most likely win because Ukrainian military leadership lacks initiative and do not understand mobile warfare. I am not sure how much of the stuff he presents is fact, and how much of it is just opinion from one officer, because he does seem to say some really stupid stuff as well. The larger article also contains a interview with another Finnish trainer in Ukraine, who corraborates some of the earlier opinions but is a lot more positive in the general, as well as an interview with a Finnish soldier who claims he has been fighting on the frontlines and shares the first officers opinions. I think this is just the right forum to get opinions on how much bullshit there is in here, and if there is any actual interesting nuggets of fact in there. I have seen parts of similar opinions pop up here and there before, but I don't think I've seen it all together coming from a individual who perhaps has a rather unique perspective on the situation. Also there is a lot of "the Finnish army training is the best in the world" which should be pretty funny for anyone who has experienced it first hand. Author: Mika Mäkeläinen Release date: 28.02.23 Link to untranslated article: https://yle.fi/a/74-20019659 quote:According to a Finnish officer, Ukraine lacks the skill to attack and that is why the war will end with a bitter surprise - "Russia will not lose this war" Set fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Mar 1, 2023 |
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Power Khan posted:They didn't even get into the town, which is a helluva job, considering the stats that HonorableTB posted That guy has a torniquet on his leg
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HonorableTB posted:The losses Russia took in capturing Vuhledar are being tallied and they lost more than 130 armored vehicles and an entire brigade of Marines. If those were BTGs, that's three of them wrecked and needing to be rebuilt, probably 4-600 casualties from just those units. They're not getting any of the abandoned vehicles back any time soon.
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