Cthulu Carl posted:

Not sure what gonna be worse - those dudes' backs, or the sanity of everyone around them hearing "I am Heavy Weapons Guy. And THIS is my weapon." over and over and over.

HonorableTB posted:

Lol I looked up this air base where it happened. They have loving civilian houses within 100m of the base, which AREN'T ON THE BASE LMAO





I can totally see this being some pissed off mobik that just got papers to report or something. But if I see any other sources I'll drop them here for sure

Victis posted:

Victis posted:

tiaz posted:

Yeah, I was mixing my quotes - it's the first guy with the antipersonnel mine who exposes the primer? blasting cap?- and says "you have to not push this part in" and then taps it with the metal tool he's been using to disassemble it.
Maybe he knows something I don't like the metal case around said primer or whatever is pretty inert and you have to drive the nail into the center portion hard to do anything, but my OSHA senses were tingling in that one.

Power Khan posted:

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1634304986854092800

That's pretty cool. The 240 is heavy though and all that ammo....

HonorableTB posted:

I'm slightly surprised that cyberwarfare hasn't been a bigger deal than it has been so far. There was a big burst of cyberattacks at the beginning of the war but that seemed to stop pretty quickly and the last I remember hearing about the advanced persistent threats it was a news article about Ukraine tracking a hacker team back to their actual office and then launched a hellfire missile through the window and smoked them all

enigma74 posted:

I need the name of this song! Anybody know what it is?

Flavahbeast posted:

The WWF has been designated a foreign agent by the Russian government

https://www.rbc.ru/politics/10/03/2023/640b711d9a7947b72123165b

Victis posted:

HonorableTB posted:

Bakhmut offensive has stalled out and sputtered to a halt

shadow puppet of a posted:

How would you fuckup a fighter plane simply and fast?

ninjoatse.cx posted:

War footage in the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR1o-f0sn_w

shadow puppet of a posted:

How would you best take out a fighter jet with the supplies you can source in a rural area and carry in say two or three trips from a wheelbarrow?

Mistle posted:

The whole plate pushes the pin, it's about a distributed weight adding up on a single point. Even the antipersonnel mines have a threshold. It's like a few pounds, but that's a few pounds focused on something the size of a pencil-diameter rod.

HonorableTB posted:

Lmao there's a fire sale down at big cyka sukhoi

https://youtu.be/gne7beWy8fU

shadow puppet of a posted:

How would you fuckup a fighter plane simply and fast?

pro starcraft loser posted:

If Russia takes Bakhmut, what at the chances the Russian military try to take credit for it which would infuriate Wagner?

The_Franz posted:

Nikolai Volkoff (Josip Peruzović) was actually Croatian.

Radio Bayraktar posted:

During the heroic struggle of Ukrainians against the Russian-fascist tyranny, many war songs were born in Ukraine. Strong, powerful, uncompromising. Songs that became part of our powerful weapon and resistance to the racist onslaught.

We collected and continue to collect the militant creativity of our courageous people, and united them into a completely new radio station.

Radio BAYRAKTAR is a radio station of unprecedented Ukrainian resistance. This is a radio for every Ukrainian who fights, stands at checkpoints, treats, rescues, cooks, cleans, drives, wears, puts out fires, sings, speaks, writes, prays, or just quietly believes in the Armed Forces and Ukraine.

Music on Radio BAYRAKTAR - patriotic and militant Ukrainian songs.

On the air of Radio BAYRAKTAR, we do not say unnecessary words, only the most important and necessary ones. Our strength is the song of the historical war of liberation.

Radio BAYRAKTAR - the music of Ukrainian victory!

HonorableTB posted:

I'm slightly surprised that cyberwarfare hasn't been a bigger deal than it has been so far. There was a big burst of cyberattacks at the beginning of the war but that seemed to stop pretty quickly and the last I remember hearing about the advanced persistent threats it was a news article about Ukraine tracking a hacker team back to their actual office and then launched a hellfire missile through the window and smoked them all

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/1634216133824839680
Honestly Pakistan has stepped up bigtime to the plate in terms of assistance, both in terms of ammo and now equipment.

Deki posted:

IIRC some of the groups working with Russia the past few years were based out of Ukraine, and I imagine most of those are pissed about the invasion or don't want to get raided for sedition.

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1634046984741945346
Finally realized that you're nothing but figures of fun to the west, comrades? Everyone mocks your weak, pathetic army because it's just that, weak and pathetic. The same for your delusional claims of conquering both Ukraine and all of Europe if you wanted to.

HonorableTB posted:

Also, remember this about Solovyov, always:

Coquito Ergo Sum posted:

Been finally diving into my books on the T-64, T-72, and T-80, and boy, Soviet tank development got really fucky.

Famously, the T-64 was really ahead of its time with a lot of its tech, armor, and firepower. The problem was that its engine was temperamental and had a short life span and the suspension wasn't great. While the Kharkiv plant was trying to fix the T-64's problems into what would become the T-64A variant, other factories were trying to outpace Kharkiv with their own designs that would eventually become the T-72 and T-80. Each of these tanks were sort of like T-64s (I know, with their own alterations to the design) with their own modifications beyond simple internals and it would require paragraphs' worth of dorking out to describe the differences. The T-80U came about when the Kharkiv plant was ordered to make turrets for Leningrad plant's to make the T-80U, then later Kharkiv plant developed a new diesel that was put into the same version of said tank to make the T-80UD (which has been further built upon to make the T-84).

HonorableTB posted:

By the way if anyone here hasn't checked it out yet, go give Radio Bayraktar a listen:

https://www.radiobayraktar.com.ua/

quote:

For the last 3 days, we have been watching how on the left bank of the Bakhmutka the Russians begin to collect civilians and take them out of the city. Their further fate is unknown. The best things they have are backpacks. From 3 to 10 people walk in columns, behind them a Rusak with a machine gun. We counted more than 30 people.

Karma Comedian posted:

https://twitter.com/slovyanskasil/status/1634130524007481344?t=J0MIfL0te5sBPpegJkIrOw&s=19

Karma Comedian posted:

https://twitter.com/slovyanskasil/status/1634130524007481344?t=J0MIfL0te5sBPpegJkIrOw&s=19

Thread posted:

Over the past 3 days, we have been observing how the Russians have been rounding up civilians on the left bank of the river and taking them out of the city. Their further fate is unknown. At best, they are carrying backpacks. They are walking in columns of 3 to 10 people, with a Russian with an assault rifle behind them. We counted more than 30 people.

This is nonsense, because a local Vasyl could ride a bicycle from the Russian to us and back. We did not drive people out of their basements and homes, but it did not save their lives. Now those who did not leave because they "loved their city too much" are being forcibly deported by the Russians. This is the irony of life.

Kyiv Independent posted:

Ukraine's Defense Ministry acknowledged on March 10 that the battle for Bakhmut is becoming more difficult as Russia keeps up its offensive and continues trying to "break through the defenses of our troops."

The Ukrainian military said that 57 attacks were recorded on the Bakhmut sector in the northern Donetsk Oblast over the past day.

Recent satellite images of Bakhmut – a city nearly emptied of its 70,000 residents – captured by American private satellite company Maxar Technologies published on March 10 showed an apocalyptic-looking city with damaged buildings and a railroad bridge.

Eight-month-long battle for Bakhmut has reduced once a cozy small city into rubble.

Ukraine's reports of tough battles in the Bakhmut area come a day after the military leadership warned that "every move and decision can radically change" the situation, and the battle remains "very difficult."

Russia has been intensifying its offensive on the Bakhmut front since mid-January, slowly capturing settlement after settlement to encircle the city.

Capturing Bakhmut would mark Russia's biggest victory since early summer when it seized the last Ukrainian strongholds of Luhansk Oblast.

On March 10, Kostyantynivka, a city some 25 kilometers southeast of Bakhmut, underwent a heavy Russian attack. At least eight were wounded after residential areas were struck by Russian S-300 missiles and Uragan multiple rocket launchers, the regional prosecutor's office reported.

As Russia's offensive rages on near Bakhmut, more nearby settlements – like Kostyantynivka – are coming under frequent attacks.

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a D.C.-based think-tank analyzing the war in Ukraine, said that it confirms the Wagner mercenary boss' March 9 report of Russian forces advancing northwest of Bakhmut.

"Russian forces likely advanced northwest of Bakhmut on March 9 amidst a likely increased tempo of Russian offensive operations in the area," the ISW said.

However, the report also said that Wagner's offensive has likely entered a "temporary tactical pause" in eastern Bakhmut after conducting "highly attritional frontal assaults" there.

It added that the Russian forces have seized all of eastern Bakhmut located east of the Bakhmutka River as of March 7, and "it remains unclear if Wagner fighters retain their operational preponderance in future Russian offensives in the city."

Mourning the fallen hero

More than 600 kilometers west of Bakhmut, thousands of Ukrainians gathered in central Kyiv to say their last goodbyes to the fallen soldier Dmytro Kotsiubailo, killed in action near Bakhmut on March 7.

The 27-year-old battalion commander, better known as "Da Vinci," was from the 67th Separate Mechanized Brigade and had been fighting in the war for nine years.

Kotsiubailo was severely wounded by a Russian tank in Donetsk Oblast back in 2014 but immediately returned to the front line after three months of recovery. He has fought Russia ever since.

Kotsiubailo was among the most decorated Ukrainian soldiers, being awarded the Hero of Ukraine national title in 2021.

President Volodymyr Zelensky, Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi, and Military Intelligence Chief Kyrylo Budanov were among the funeral attendees.
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who was visiting Kyiv on March 10 and met with Zelensky, also attended the funeral.

"Every day we lose Ukrainian sons and daughters in a war that Ukraine did not start," Zelensky said later during a virtual speech at the American Enterprise Institute World Forum on March 10.

Zelensky said that Kotsiubailo had dreamt of becoming an artist and thus went by a call sign after the well-known Italian artist.

"People who could be artists or politicians, entrepreneurs or journalists, scientists or diplomats. Anyone who would be alive if not for Russia."

Foreign military aid

Besides the funeral, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin met with Zelensky and visited a hospital where wounded soldiers receive treatment on March 10.

In an interview with the Finnish state-owned broadcaster YLE, Marin said on March 10 that she said that the possibility of Finland transferring its retired F/A-18 hornet fighter jets could be discussed.

"I think we can have a discussion regarding the Hornets as well, whether it would be possible to hand them over to Ukraine and what kind of training it would require," Marin said.

The Finish official's comment comes amid Ukraine's months-long plea for Western fighter jets. NATO allies have so far given Ukraine mixed signs, with most of them saying that it's a hard no for now.

However, during Zelensky's trip to the U.K. in February, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirmed that his country is ready to begin training Ukrainian troops on Western-style fighter jets.

In an exclusive interview with the Kyiv Independent, the British Minister of State for the Armed Forces, James Heappey, said "the decision on the jets was for another day."

"I think the reality is that jets are very complicated to hand over. Pilot training is a significant task," Heappey told the Kyiv Independent.

Meanwhile, Norway on March 10 announced that it would provide Ukraine with two National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) in cooperation with the U.S., bringing the total number of systems at Ukraine's disposal to 10.

British Armed Forces Minister: 'Each iteration of aid we have given is a consequence of Putin's escalation'


Vuhledar front

The situation near Vuhledar, in the southern Donetsk Oblast, remains difficult, Colonel Oleksii Dmytrashkivskyi, a spokesman for the Ukrainian forces in the area, said on March 10.

Speaking on television, Dmytrashkivskyi said that the Russians continue to conduct shelling and ground assaults.

Dmytrashkivskyi predicted that Russia had to reduce its pace of offensive near Vuhledar because its logistics – including equipment and manpower – have been disrupted by Ukraine in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

The military official claimed that on the Vuhledar front, Russian forces were unable to keep up their offensive due to heavy losses. He suggested that Russia was restoring its forces after two battalions – each usually up to 1,000 soldiers – were depleted.

However, the ISW said in its March 9 report that Russia could be planning to resume its offensive around the town of Vuhledar, but its logistics problems would make it hard for them to progress.

"Persistent personnel and ammunition issues will likely continue to constrain Russian forces from advancing," the ISW said.