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That seems like it could also be an effort to cut off supply to UA purchasers, or a preparation to divert those drones to Russia. I'm not sure Russia could use them effectively but they might be glad to have them!
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M_Gargantua posted:How? AliExpress is so easy to do stuff via VPN? To me it sounds like the listings are just coming down in general A VPN doesn't hide your shipping address, though.
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Computer viking posted:A VPN doesn't hide your shipping address, though. They're using the emirates to ship sensible / sanctioned stuff to russia
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spankmeister posted:Incidentally that's where the infosec usage of the term is borrowed from. More terms are borrowed from military terminology like C2 for example. My favorite ridiculous term infosec stole from the military is the cyber killchain.
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That's the name of my shadowrun character
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Also your FetLife profile
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https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1631379082234437650 One of them always plays the punchingbag, it cuts here before we see what happens. It does sound very serious though. Something else: A little bavovna happened https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/1631394478211604506 https://twitter.com/igornovikov/status/1631392124074590209 A couple of bmp's run headlong into the tanks of the 53rd mechanized, seen at the bottom left at the start of the video https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1631365078170624027 While we're at it, check out the irony https://twitter.com/TheScrubmaster/status/1631064752423071746
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Power Khan posted:
i thought they were supposed to be de-nazifying ukraine not adding more E: for the unenlightened, dude's flag patch represents a hardline white ethnonationalist group/monarchist empire type group, they want to reinstate the Tsar of Russia and expand to old Russian Empire borders. orange juche fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Mar 2, 2023 |
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orange juche posted:i thought they were supposed to be de-nazifying ukraine not adding more due to a manufacturing error at Uralvagonzavod this is the limited-run Oops! All Nazis brand invasion
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tiaz posted:due to a manufacturing error at Uralvagonzavod this is the limited-run Oops! All Nazis brand invasion If we always have enough nazis to denazify, we have a conveniently manufactured ongoing casus belli. Putin remains a master strategist.
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Power Khan posted:
The punchingbag is often there to put up what the media thinks is the centre of gravity of opposition thought so that it can be attacked by the majority panel. What they say reflects the worry over where bits of Russian public opinion might be going.
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Power Khan posted:
I wonder if the drone that crashed a few km north of Kolomna some days ago was part of this.
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https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1631407222898020352 New aid package to be announced. Just the usual stuff this time.
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knox_harrington posted:Well, there's a load of them getting pretty thorough training up in various unpleasant parts of the UK. I guess maybe not 100% but 10,000 every 120 days seems significant, and that's just one country. It's possible that, although significant numbers of troops are being trained, Ukraine has those troops earmarked for an offensive later in the spring. In the meantime, however, someone has to occupy the trenches to hold the line against the Russian offensive. Since there's only so much training capacity, and because troops are needed now rather than in a few months, some troops are being thrown into the lines now without much preparation.
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Sir John Falstaff posted:It's possible that, although significant numbers of troops are being trained, Ukraine has those troops earmarked for an offensive later in the spring. In the meantime, however, someone has to occupy the trenches to hold the line against the Russian offensive. Since there's only so much training capacity, and because troops are needed now rather than in a few months, some troops are being thrown into the lines now without much preparation. That's basically it. In an interview done about a month or so ago, General Zaluzhny said that there were plenty of reserves, equipment etc. but it had to be accumulated over a long period of time and husbanded as carefully as possible. He asked those soldiers (mainly TDF units) who were holding the line at the hotspots to forgive him for not being able to do as much for them as he wanted to. 
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Yeah it's pretty much raw calculus. The territorial defense forces are inflicting maximum casualties on the Russians while absorbing the attacks that would deplete the better trained and equipped forces being held in reserve for a counter offensive.
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psydude posted:Yeah it's pretty much raw calculus. The territorial defense forces are inflicting maximum casualties on the Russians while absorbing the attacks that would deplete the better trained and equipped forces being held in reserve for a counter offensive. I heard it said somewhere that veteran troops can actually be worse on an offensive campaign, because they learn risk avoiding habits in battle. That's good for staying alive, but not good for your army's offensive campaign. He's saving the freshly trained people as much as possible for later so they may produce a Kharkiv 2.0 hopefully in the future. The TDF on the other hand are mostly only good for defensive, static postures. That they are inflicting maximum damage on the Russians (but also taking high casualties) is probably the best-case scenario given the choices available.
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A lot more than just TDF are fighting in Bakhmut. On a mostly unrelated note, Russia has had more T-90M documented destroyed in the last 6 weeks than in the rest of the war combined. Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Mar 3, 2023 |
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Sounds like the GBS Ukraine thread is opening back up. There is going to be a single post here notifying folks and asking for feedback. As a rule, none of the IKs or Mod have any issues with other sub forums. We just aren’t them and have our own rules and cultural norms. Please don’t derail this thread with comparisons between us and GBS. Feel free to hang out here. Or there. Or both places. Everyone is welcome here. We just expect you to not poo poo up our little corner of the forums. Hekk fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Mar 3, 2023 |
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(Hekk has OK'd this post just FYI) Gonna go meta for a second - If the Ukraine thread in GBS is re-opened, 1. Are there any additional rules that the old one didn't have and are not in the old thread that you'd like to see implemented and 2. Do you have any links to godawful horrible posts that you would use as examples of what NOT to post? If so, please DM me. Please do not respond to this here. Thank you, goodbye.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:A lot more than just TDF are fighting in Bakhmut. Of course, but it seems like the trend for the past month or two has been Ukraine reinforcing the front with TDF. psydude fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Mar 3, 2023 |
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Herstory Begins Now posted:A lot more than just TDF are fighting in Bakhmut. What's so special about the T-90M? Just the latest and greatest or is it really super?
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For those leaving: it was fun having a bunch of new faces around, i appreciate the effort of all the folks posting updates, even though it was quite a bit of a change in pace at times. Come visit again  For those staying: the Buldak chicken carbonara noodles in the cupboard clearly had my name on them, please don't take them without asking next time, you don't even like the chicken carbonara, Mark 
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:What's so special about the T-90M? Just the latest and greatest or is it really super? It can pop it's top like a T-72 but in a more expensive manner.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:What's so special about the T-90M? Just the latest and greatest or is it really super? It’s probably their best tank. First debut was 2017, and there can’t be that many of them (compared to the other tanks Russia has/had).
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Herstory Begins Now posted:On a mostly unrelated note, Russia has had more T-90M documented destroyed in the last 6 weeks than in the rest of the war combined. ISW reports Terminator supported T-90M tanks operating around Kreminna.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:What's so special about the T-90M? Just the latest and greatest or is it really super? It's the most advanced tank the Russians have actually managed to produce in numbers. The fact that they're losing a lot there means that the Russians threw their best equipped (and one would hope best trained) men into this battle and still got wrecked.
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Now teabagging is simply bad form but ill make an exception for this one: https://twitter.com/igornovikov/status/1631297968648192000?s=20
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Turrurrurrurrrrrrr posted:ISW reports Terminator supported T-90M tanks operating around Kreminna. 
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IFV with autocannons and ATGMs, modernized optics. 
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:What's so special about the T-90M? Just the latest and greatest or is it really super? It's the best they have, and they don't have that many of them. T-90M losses imply the most elite units they have getting chewed up.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:What's so special about the T-90M? Just the latest and greatest or is it really super? T-90M is a completely modernized T-72. It’s got better fire control system, better gun, better sights, better armor, better ERA, better engine etc… But, it’s still a T-72 underneath it all so it still has that platforms issues and limitations. Slow reverse speed, cramped and uncomfortable crew positions, lack of crew awareness, an ammo rack that seems to be particularly vulnerable to cooking off, lack of gun depression and I’m sure a dozen other things. Also, given that it’s Russia how many of them really have all the bits and bobs like advanced thermal imagers that they are supposed to?
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GD_American posted:I'm honestly shocked at this point they haven't thrown a T-14 prototype out there. I'm sure they would if they were actually mobile. I'm a bit agog at that A-50 teabagging. I mean I guess it was in Russia and the US has had its share of base security embarrassments especially behind the lines, but that was also the A-50 that had been redeployed forward and very few of them exist so I kind of expected it to be under somewhat tighter scrutiny
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mlmp08 posted:IFV with autocannons and ATGMs, modernized optics. I don’t know if you can even call it an IFV since it doesn’t carry infantry. It’s just a T-72 chassis with 2x 30mm auto cannons, 4x ATGMs, 2x 30mm AGLs and 1 7.62 coax. It’s a GI Joe vehicle kill me now fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Mar 3, 2023 |
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/02/09/the-ukrainian-army-just-blew-up-one-of-russias-10-terminator-fighting-vehicles
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