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Oscar Wilde Bunch posted:One of those last tanker videos the guy went into how miserable fixing the T- series tanks are (and how much easier it to replace anything on western ones). Everything's in the worst place, anything that breaks is located behind more poo poo you have to first disassemble.
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IIRC most Soviet vehicle maintenance/repair was supposed to done at large repair depots. If your tank breaks down, grab another tank we have plenty, someone will be along later to collect that one and take it to the shop. NATO seemed to care more about 'can three guys fix this in half an hour and get back to blasting' e: PurpleXVI posted:Suitcase nukes for the GUR. Kaiser Schnitzel fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Oct 13, 2023 |
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SecDef and the CJCS (now Gen. C. Q. Brown) gave an update after latest Ukraine contact group meeting. I have heavily edited for length and to remove I/P content. https://www.defense.gov/News/Transc...-chairman-gene/ Highlights: -Air Defense and Artillery are the major items again, especially in preparation for winter, when Russia is likely to attempt to destroy critical infrastructure that provides heat and electricity in Ukraine. -Germany donating another Patriot Battery and components/munitions. -When asked, SecDef had no announcement on ATACMS quote:SecDef: ... Since Russia's unprovoked and all-out invasion last February, the United States has committed $43.9 billion to help support a free and secure Ukraine, and that includes our most recent Ukraine assistance package valued at $200 million.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:IIRC most Soviet vehicle maintenance/repair was supposed to done at large repair depots. If your tank breaks down, grab another tank we have plenty, someone will be along later to collect that one and take it to the shop. NATO seemed to care more about 'can three guys fix this in half an hour and get back to blasting' Call Omsk information, they'll give you the number.
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mlmp08 posted:SecDef and the CJCS (now Gen. C. Q. Brown) gave an update after latest Ukraine contact group meeting. I have heavily edited for length and to remove I/P content. https://lof-staff-chairman-gene/ Much appreciated!
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Subjunctive posted:What weapons does Ukraine need to reach the tank factories? A russian soldier and a cigarette.
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https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1712747812121612544quote:Sevastopol, a Russian Buyan-class corvette was spotted billowing smoke at the mouth of the bay, with casualties reported. https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1712750488800665771 quote:Small correction, appears to actually be a Bykov-class corvette. https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1712743444416737340 quote:Crimean Telegram channels reported that the Russian warship Buyan-M has allegedly exploded and is on fire in the temporarily occupied #Sevastopol. Russia continues to lose the naval war against a nation with no navy. https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1712748090585755850 quote:Russian Storm Z detachments have lost 2,000 personnel in 3 days of the Battle of Avdiivka - Ukrainian soldier citing intelligence. Also if that's even partway reliable, that's insane.
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Oct 13, 2023 09:49
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https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1712762465631555721quote:Netherlands Holds Dutch Companies & Individuals Accountable for Crimea Bridge Involvement. 4 firms & 8 individuals guilty of EU sanctions violations related to Kerch bridge; 3 entities still under investigation. I wonder what sort of legal repercussions an individual gets hit with after breaking EU sanctions. I would imagine the unfun kind. https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1712763116868481073 quote:Ukraine attacks 3 Russian Black Sea naval ships in 2 days. Dang, almost a hat-trick. I would have laughed so hard if they totalled another Russian sub.
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PurpleXVI posted:https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1712762465631555721 "Its happening again."
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CommieGIR posted:"Its happening again." C’mon Ukraine, you can do it! Give us another reason to post the meme.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:IIRC most Soviet vehicle maintenance/repair was supposed to done at large repair depots. If your tank breaks down, grab another tank we have plenty, someone will be along later to collect that one and take it to the shop. NATO seemed to care more about 'can three guys fix this in half an hour and get back to blasting' It wouldn't surprise me if it's similar to their aircraft, each type having its own dedicated ARZ...or TRZ I guess.
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Just Another Lurker posted:An unmodernised T-64 hastily adorned with ERA blocks? It looks more like a T-62 but I could be wrong. It's got that tall, flat back turret.
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Popped up on my feed, is this guy credible? https://twitter.com/IhateTrenches/status/1712764030249513333 quote:I've seen a lot of poo poo these last 18 months.
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Charlz Guybon posted:Popped up on my feed, is this guy credible? https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1713102807203463567 Even the Russian sources seem to be going "oh my god this is a shitshow" while still trying to put a positive spin on it, other sources seem to be more accurately calling it a slaughter and it's definitely been an upsurge in footage of exploding Russian armor/vehicles, as well as some gnarly thermal footage of Russian infantry making the acquaintance of cluster munitions. I don't know how generally reliable they are, but Avdiivka seems like a huge waste of Russian resources, just pissing away their reserves, and once they're done making GBS threads themselves there that's just going to mean they're short of troops/vehicles to actually cycle in where the Ukrainians are counter-attacking.
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Coquito Ergo Sum posted:It looks more like a T-62 but I could be wrong. It's got that tall, flat back turret. I don't have the knowledge for a definitive answer on that one.  Russian tank go boom.  edit: PurpleXVI posted:... Enveloping such a well built defensive position from the rear/sides is a good plan and infinitely better than frontal attacks. It just looks to have fizzled out under Ukrainian fires. Their good troops are gone/spread out piecemeal over the whole front and their technical support keeps getting blown up (every time that gets replaced it's a little bit worse overall). Just Another Lurker fucked around with this message at 11:25 on Oct 14, 2023 |
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Oct 14, 2023 11:14
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PurpleXVI posted:just pissing away their reserves, Do you have any indication this is the commitment of the commander’s reserve force, or are you referring to just any new formation coming out of refit or sunmer training cycle as “reserves?” I ask cause it feels like the reserve might have been committed long ago and this is more that Russia has been building up new formations / refitting existing formations over the last recruitment and training cycle.
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Just Another Lurker posted:I don't have the knowledge for a definitive answer on that one. I think that's what they've attempted per the sources I've seen. They just got their poo poo pushed in real badly in the south, crossing 8km of open farmland and getting smashed in the north. Still, loving yowch. Good luck hiding this one, Russian Media
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A Ukrainian take on recent Russian offensive action. It’s not a thread so should work for non-twitter users. https://twitter.com/tatarigami_ua/status/1713236442804097160?s=46&t=fppHBZSlD4AbSz5pJxjFMQ
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mlmp08 posted:Do you have any indication this is the commitment of the commander’s reserve force, or are you referring to just any new formation coming out of refit or sunmer training cycle as “reserves?” Sorry, I meant a more general meaning of reserve as in just "resources they've got and haven't expended yet." https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1713192932906320385 quote:#Ukraine: The first confirmed loss of a Russian BTR-50 APC- this one was destroyed during the ongoing offensive on Avdiivka, #Donetsk Oblast. A damaged T-64BV can be seen nearby too. That's an old piece of gear. Modedit: Blurred corpses visible in the tweet so I put it behind a spoiler tag Somebody fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Oct 15, 2023 |
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Youtube has more and more GoPro footage from Ukraine every day and I feel like the entire country, once so beautiful, has become a pockmarked burnt up desolate wasteland full of empty villages and fields scarred with trenches. How does a country ever repair damage like that after the war ends? It seems insurmountable. Is it true Russia is using prisoners for troops? Because it sure feels like it. When they’re spraying rounds willy nilly they’re surely still dangerous, but the Ukrainian fighters seem to have figured out how easy it is to get them to flee. It really doesn’t take much to completely break the moral of the Russian troops. Ukrainians yell insults and throw a few grenades, their drones drop a few charges. Then the Russians scatter so quickly, all the time throwing their helmet and gun down and running away. In one video, clearly a Russian commanding officer walked over to two Russians hiding in the burrow of a trench being seized from multiple angles by the Ukrainians, threw the butt of a gun at them, yelled at them to quit cowering and fight. The two soldiers did get back on the trench line but did not seem to know what they were doing, at all. Russia likes to artillery strike their own trenches as soon as Ukrainians take them over and my god how does anyone survive that just because they’re below ground level in a trench? I wonder about the physics of that. The over pressure and shrapnel just goes “upward” and so just ducking below ground level is enough to save yourself from it all? I cannot imagine the level of PTSD these Ukrainian soldiers will have after this war. The things some of them survive.. they’re all heroes every single one. I hope our financial support doesn’t end when the war does because if the videos on YouTube make one thing clear, the recovery will be harder than the war itself.
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Blind Rasputin posted:Youtube has more and more GoPro footage from Ukraine every day and I feel like the entire country, once so beautiful, has become a pockmarked burnt up desolate wasteland full of empty villages and fields scarred with trenches. How does a country ever repair damage like that after the war ends? It seems insurmountable. Some areas of the country may be no-go zones for decades. Parts of France are still "do not go here if you do not want to lose your legs"-territory due to World War One unexploded munitions pockmarked around the place. Humanity might not return to places like that any time soon, but nature largely will. Nature is hardy, even if the occasional sheep will probably lose a leg to a cluster munition. Blind Rasputin posted:Is it true Russia is using prisoners for troops? Because it sure feels like it. When they’re spraying rounds willy nilly they’re surely still dangerous, but the Ukrainian fighters seem to have figured out how easy it is to get them to flee. It really doesn’t take much to completely break the moral of the Russian troops. Ukrainians yell insults and throw a few grenades, their drones drop a few charges. Then the Russians scatter so quickly, all the time throwing their helmet and gun down and running away. In one video, clearly a Russian commanding officer walked over to two Russians hiding in the burrow of a trench being seized from multiple angles by the Ukrainians, threw the butt of a gun at them, yelled at them to quit cowering and fight. The two soldiers did get back on the trench line but did not seem to know what they were doing, at all. In some way or another Russia has been using prisoners since mid last year, if I remember right. At first it was Wagner recruiting from prisons, and then Russia started making "Storm-Z" groups which consisted largely of prisoners. In both cases they'd get their charges cleared after six months of fighting, as I recall it, though the "Storm-Z" units also require one-year contracts. A number of surviving Wagner prisoner troops have returned to Russian society and, predictably, since a lot of them were guilty of "jail forever" crimes, they've started right back up on stuff like violent robbery and murder.
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Blind Rasputin posted:Russia likes to artillery strike their own trenches as soon as Ukrainians take them over and my god how does anyone survive that just because they’re below ground level in a trench? I wonder about the physics of that. The over pressure and shrapnel just goes “upward” and so just ducking below ground level is enough to save yourself from it all? Hitting the dirt is just so amazingly good for your life if artillery is coming in, and over-pressure decreases extremely quickly over distance. This is part of why where Russia has time tto prepare and really build out, they instead use explosive charges that can be line or remotely detonated instead of counting on artillery to destroy their own abandoned positions. Something like 98-99% of the lives saved by "C-RAM" are really saved by sense and warn, giving people a few seconds to hit the dirt before rounds impact rather than being saved by the gun shooting down incoming RAM. The problem with it being extremely useful to hit the dirt when artillery comes in, especially if you have a trench or fighting position, is that it gives a well-trained enemy a chance to just direct-fire you to death or maneuver such that when you look up again, the enemy is on your flank or otherwise already engaging you.
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For those curious, this gets really deep into tech detail and modeling of blast/frag/etc injury. It does not include gore pictures or anything, just text descriptions of the types of injuries experienced at various ranges or phases of an event, including stuff like blast on a vehicle, movement within the vehicle, the vehicle leaving the ground, returning to ground, etc. https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/trecms/pdf/AD1192583.pdf
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mlmp08 posted:A Ukrainian take on recent Russian offensive action. A balanced overview of it all so far. ------- It's not a Pyrrhic victory if they don't care about losses and encirclement is eventually achieved. :Putin:
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Cugel the Clever posted:Russia's use of convicts is official policy. They've recruited heavily from prisons with the stated promise of commuting sentences once the soldier has served their tour. Many don't make it, as they're shoved into meat reconnaissance roles, being driven into suicidally stupid assaults to allow more skilled Russian forces to identify strong and weak points in the Ukrainian lines for later exploitation. Those that do make it through are often forced back into another tour. Those that do somehow make it home have been documented as committing heinous crimes, often against the victims of their previous crimes. This is also occurring in an environment in which Russian police forces have been hollowed out by low pay, corruption and the war. Whatever Russia is marching inexorably towards, it's not going to be pretty when it gets there.
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Fearless posted:This is also occurring in an environment in which Russian police forces have been hollowed out by low pay, corruption and the war. Whatever Russia is marching inexorably towards, it's not going to be pretty when it gets there. Although I do hope it gets there soon, the Republicans are itching to ride to their rescue.
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Blind Rasputin posted:Russia likes to artillery strike their own trenches as soon as Ukrainians take them over and my god how does anyone survive that just because they’re below ground level in a trench? I wonder about the physics of that. The over pressure and shrapnel just goes “upward” and so just ducking below ground level is enough to save yourself from it all?
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mlmp08 posted:A Ukrainian take on recent Russian offensive action. Ok, I don't really understand the significance of a regimental combat action being performed by the Russian military. So they've wrangled a thousand or so troops from different battalions into a single, self sufficient combat unit to take a city, isn't that the basic structure of an offensive operation like this?
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https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1713256166552215787 Ukraine apparently captured an entire trench worth of VDV. Unsure whether this is because the VDV is generally overrated as a fighting force, the Ukrainians are just that good or most of the veteran VDV are now the Very Dead V and these are the rookies cycled in to keep an entire section of the Russian military from imploding. Content Warning: No gore, but a few bloodied faces.
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Jesus loving christ, the seriousness of the situation contrasted with the fact that they're loving duct taped together
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The Door Frame posted:Ok, I don't really understand the significance of a regimental combat action being performed by the Russian military. So they've wrangled a thousand or so troops from different battalions into a single, self sufficient combat unit to take a city, isn't that the basic structure of an offensive operation like this? It belies the notion that they are stretched to the breaking point. Also, IIRC, this offensive had like 10 points of attack, so its not a single combat unit but rather a well coordinated combined arms assault with a number of different units that achieved initial surprise.
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:well coordinated Citation needed big time
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I get the feeling the higher ups think it’s well coordinated but the boots on the ground are the least coordinated humans ever.
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Fearless posted:This is also occurring in an environment in which Russian police forces have been hollowed out by low pay, corruption and the war. Whatever Russia is marching inexorably towards, it's not going to be pretty when it gets there. That’s actually not true. The police is part of the security forces hydra that is well supported by the current government with pay raises and improved benefits. They are part of society that’s much better off now then before the war ( the other part is MIC). For obvious reasons authoritarian government needs them on their side.
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Blind Rasputin posted:Is it true Russia is using prisoners for troops?
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iv46vi posted:That’s actually not true. The police is part of the security forces hydra that is well supported by the current government with pay raises and improved benefits. They are part of society that’s much better off now then before the war ( the other part is MIC). For obvious reasons authoritarian government needs them on their side. Maybe the secret police. According to this article the regular police are burned out and paid less than grocery store clerks.
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Just Another Lurker posted:A balanced overview of it all so far. Imagine capturing that dominant waste heap high just for the price of 45 BTR50's and T62's. Who wouldn't take a bargain like that?
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MH Knights posted:Maybe the secret police. According to this article the regular police are burned out and paid less than grocery store clerks. The police the regime needs to survive is the riot police, not the cops whose job is to prevent crimes, do admin etc
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