(Thread IKs:
weg, Toxic Mental)
|
Flavahbeast posted:Yeah they left the country in protest shortly after the start of the SMO, they actually just announced a US tour for this summer More than just left. Little Big were declared as foreign agents by Putin (the same law that Georgia was rioting about) so they can't come back to Russia anymore or will be arrested/tortured as traitors.
|
#
¿
Mar 21, 2023 21:49
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 17, 2024 13:59 |
|
|
Shaman Tank Spec posted:It's almost entirely useless regardless. Calculating indirect fire for artillery is serious maths, and that's with shells that are very stable and have predictable firing arcs, with very stable platforms and aiming systems designed precisely for the job. Even then you can't get pin point accuracy unless you have shells that can self-correct in flight and artillery still relies on mass of fire to get results. At this point, I'm pretty sure they're doing it to have the pilots do something, anything. The pilots are not able to perform real missions that their planes/helis are made for due to modern AA saturation. I assume some general feels like having his pilots sit at the barracks for a year playing dice while waiting for an F16 will be demoralizing. They send them on these types of missions to keep them at least flying once in a while to keep their skills sharp. At the same time getting a good pilot takes 10+ years of training and practice, so you're not going to send them on suicide missions for no reason in case you'll need them later / get modern jets. Also if you stop flying completely, then Russian radar will know it's never you and AA will stop shooting down their own jets as they occasionally do. Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Mar 30, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Mar 30, 2023 15:44
|
|
|
The "propagandist" that was blown up is a social media war blogger (just a popular one), not a state-sponsored propagandist on TV. He was recently criticizing the army for sucking and not being brutal enough, so he's on the far-right pro-war side of the spectrum of criticizing the army. Absolutely possible he was blown up by the Shoigu faction and not internal partisans. Partisans would probably go after state-TV propagandists if they actually had the means to blow up stuff without getting caught by FSB.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 2, 2023 19:59
|
|
|
zone posted:Strange how so many useful idiots and brainless morons came out of the woodwork on social media to try pinning this on Ukraine while posting apologism for such paragons of humanity as this one If a major civil war starts inside Russia, then it will be all Ukraine's fault for defending itself.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 3, 2023 06:44
|
|
|
The blue and red shirts are the "Putin Youth" (so I assume the rest of the crowd is related). They're members of Putin's political party's youth wing, similar to how Hitler Youth functioned. So it's Putin's political party members doing a planned gathering with coordinated signs, not a bunch of random Gen Zs from Moscow deciding to do a spontaneous protest of NATO. To outdo Hitler, Putin created three youth wings of his party (that I know of). One political (this one), there is another military youth wing that's Rosgvardia adjacent that focuses on military training and reports directly to Putin as commander. Then in 2022 Putin created a third youth wing that focuses on school education (so high school-level students going to elementary schools to teach kids about Putin and make children join the political party) which is similar to the one that Stalin created. Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Apr 4, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Apr 4, 2023 21:48
|
|
|
HonorableTB posted:Lmao at getting a SAM launcher stuck because of bad clearance Might be the same brand-new S-400 system that a drunk driver crashed into a ditch earlier: https://www.newsweek.com/drunk-russia-soldier-crash-s400-air-defense-system-ditch-1795876 Guess it was being towed for repairs before that bridge attacked it in a vulnerable state. Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 20:50 on May 4, 2023 |
|
#
¿
May 4, 2023 20:47
|
|
|
Putin literally just posted a video of himself developing his strategy using a 17th-century map. Alaska is clearly marked as Russia there, therefore they can nuke it at will. Why would America care about Russian territory?
|
|
#
¿
May 24, 2023 21:16
|
|
|
William Bear posted:Putin is doing his best to prop up Russian gamer culture. Emperor declares new daily gladiator fights at the Coliseum, entrance now open to all plebians! *empire around crumbling* Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 17:00 on May 31, 2023 |
|
#
¿
May 31, 2023 16:58
|
|
|
Putin is going to learn real bad news about "the cyber" in the course of the next year since the majority of the best technology professionals have fled the country. The military is not the only area where Russia will become weaker and weaker.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 5, 2023 14:57
|
|
|
This will become a UFO conspiracy forum if Russia keeps publishing 6 pixel-wide daily videos claiming something is a leopard.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 6, 2023 16:15
|
|
|
CommieGIR posted:Lmao I thought Russia claimed they suppressed this little field trip like a week ago? So much for that. It looks like this colonel was in charge of forces there tasked with protecting the border and got no reinforcements he requested. According to the separatist statement released, he died in combat while surrounded and firing his pistol at them (which the Russian senior officers are issued as a default weapon as they're not supposed to be in close combat). Basically, the Russian command left him to fend for himself there with whatever skeleton crew he had. Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Jun 6, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Jun 6, 2023 19:16
|
|
|
His best friend Kadyrov (awarded hero of Russia) has on multiple occasions publically called for the execution of all Jews, by the way. Jews are not allowed to enter that whole part of Russia. He should ask his imaginary Jewish friends about that.
Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Jun 16, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Jun 16, 2023 15:40
|
|
|
tiaz posted:fellas, is it gay to be able to see what your CO is indicating on the map? Maps are basically art, so looking at them with other men is really gay. Planning things also involves talking about the future with men, which is sort of gay as well. Better to skip both of these activities and get deployed straight to the trench like a real man.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 21, 2023 19:02
|
|
|
zone posted:Start from reality t. man who claimed Ukraine lost nearly 250 tanks and 700 armored vehicles so far It's still not clear if he claims that knowing it's false or if it's simply what his generals tell him. They don't want to look like morons, so report to him that they're fighting NATO who is sending 10 Polish battalions a day. That way, their current situation looks somewhat understandable. Putin is a true boomer and does not use a smartphone or the internet at all. I doubt he can easily do fact-checks on poo poo that flows to him, so he operates off of that. At the beginning of his reign, he was getting amazing info from ex-KGB agencies and thus looked like a genius dictator. Over 20 years it looks like he North Korea'ed his own intelligence services and the army into a propaganda game of telephone. He probably lives in his own reality right now which he thinks is actually reality. Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Jun 22, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Jun 22, 2023 19:09
|
|
|
Jul 1st is his deadline to hand over Wagner to MoD, so people were anticipating things getting spicy as we get closer to the deadline. Although I'm sure there's a big chance he's just doing his usual exaggeration social media circus to try to paint MoD as incompetent and weasel his way out of that order.
Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Jun 23, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Jun 23, 2023 20:31
|
|
|
Russia Channel One has a newsticker that says it will air a live special newscast shortly even though it's 1am there. Not clear what for however possibly a Putin address to order Wagner soldiers to stand down and arrest Prigozhin.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 23, 2023 23:13
|
|
|
Special news programming on Channel 1 is live now: https://www.1tv.com/live EDIT: over now. No Putin address, they just did a quick update denying anything about Prigozhin claims and stated that there is an arrest warrant for Prigozhin. Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Jun 23, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Jun 23, 2023 23:33
|
|
|
HonorableTB posted:OH lmao i came in at the very end, no wonder I was so loving confused Yeah they interrupted their normal programming which at 1am is some random filler poo poo. After the news report, they went back to the regular program.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 23, 2023 23:36
|
|
|
Friday night to start this also sounds very planned from Wagner. The perfect time when most government officials are home, sleeping, or drunk and getting ready for the weekend. Everyone will be hard to reach to organize anything. Not to mention during summer everyone heads to dacha before the weekend so lots of govt officials from Moscow could already be in the middle of nowhere hours away.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 23, 2023 23:38
|
|
|
Everyone I know in Russia is sleeping so who knows what they'll wake up to. I doubt many people saw a news report at 1:30am.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 23, 2023 23:49
|
|
|
khwarezm posted:I gotta be honest I'm actually loving terrified. What is even the best case scenario here. Chaos while Ukraine takes its territory back. If this over during the weekend, I assume the war resumes. If the infighting prolongs, I don't see how Russia can keep operating any military in Ukraine while this is going on.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 24, 2023 00:05
|
|
|
Wagner just issued a statement saying they will be entering Rostov and demanding forces there to surrender. Let's see if things pop off. Russia flew in special forces into Rostov earlier.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 24, 2023 00:11
|
|
|
We need links to some Rostov live webcams
|
|
#
¿
Jun 24, 2023 00:12
|
|
|
deported to Canada posted:Putin uses Prigozhin and Wagner to take out Shoigu and blames him for the misinformation leading to the invasion of Ukraine and sues for peace. That's my hope anyway. Putin and Shoigu are best friends going back 20+ years. If they go down, they go down together. Surovkin was the wild card going into this since he is good friends with Prigozhin and they talked positively about each other before. However, he released a video telling Wagner to stand down, which lowers the chances of this doing anything. Right now it looks like Putin, Shoigu, and Surovkin are all on the same side. Outside of Shoigu and Surovkin, all other important military and security forces report directly to Putin. Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Jun 24, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Jun 24, 2023 00:15
|
|
|
Videos of firefights in Rostov are on Twitter linking from Telegram, no way to confirm if they are authentic.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 24, 2023 01:55
|
|
|
Russian army outposts outside of Ukraine are skeleton mobik crews right now, no way they're going to actively fight Wagner. The only really opposition would be special forces flown in from Moscow, Rosgvardia, and OMON. Unless MoD decides to withdraw forces out of Ukraine lol.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 24, 2023 04:21
|
|
|
Putin address is later, not right now. So who knows when, he is always late by about 1-2 hours since he needs to rerecord his "live" address 50 times to get a good take.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 24, 2023 07:04
|
|
|
Rahu posted:The biggest task they set at the beginning was regime change in kiev. Anything less than that is a clear failure of their stated objectives so they have a long way to go, imo. Not looking very promising. In 2 years, when all territory is recaptured, an election in Ukraine is actually held and Zelenskyy doesn't run, they'll declare victory as soon as the new president is sworn in. "Westoid democracy loses again, Putin lasted longer!"
|
|
#
¿
Jun 28, 2023 19:15
|
|
|
If this were a 5D chess move by Putin to do a fake rebellion, he would be awarding Prigozhin a medal on state TV right now and hanging out with him, not sending him into exile. Wagner is also reportedly falling apart, with most of the combat pilots quitting in protest of their air force friends (as Wagner with specialized training are all ex-military) being killed during the shitshow
|
|
#
¿
Jun 29, 2023 00:02
|
|
|
Burns posted:I imagine some kind of over the border excursion in an attempt to draw off UA's resources from the east. From Belarus? That whole border is fully mined now on Ukraine side - it would be impossible. With as much difficulty as Ukraine is having now moving across Russian minefields, we can assume that their own minefields on Belarus border are much better set up, maintained, and reinforced.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 21, 2023 18:40
|
|
|
War Wizard posted:Any land that I am personally not currently conquering is a gift to the people who currently hold sovereignty over it. Therefore everyone should be paying taxes to me. Ah, the Mongol Empire method. It works really well if you have an untouchable army to back up that statement.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 21, 2023 20:07
|
|
|
WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:There's an entire factional war occuring in the background at all times. Between oligarchs, divisions of government and local regions. Everyone is constantly vying for power in the higher levels and sometimes knifing an enemy is the best way to achieve goals. Sure some of these are getting killed by Putin, but others may be hits against his apparatus. And almost all of Russia's billionaires are virtual billionaires by virtue of Putin making them a vassal and giving them ownership of a specific company or industry. If they die, another one will simply be appointed to take their place (and become a billionaire overnight). Even though all the big vassals owe their whole existence to Putin, the next layer of vassals in the mafia system is harder to pinpoint with loyalty. They might be more loyal to another bigger vassal who gave them their position vs Putin directly. Basically, medieval drama plays out if there are in fact multiple factions forming. Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Aug 1, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Aug 1, 2023 02:02
|
|
|
beer_war posted:Looks like Ukraine may be getting Taurus missiles soon. But they are gimped because Scholz is worried about eScaLATiOn and doesn't trust Ukraine. I wonder if they consider the whole span of the Kerch Bridge inside Russia or not. Or they are allowed to hit the first half of it closest to Crimea.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 10, 2023 22:12
|
|
|
Before the war, Russian required army service for all men aged 18 was mostly forced hard/slave labor. Very few get to actually do any real army stuff for that year, and usually, only those that can pay bribes get posted somewhere easy to oversee border security or something like that. If you're poor, it's basically a one-year prison labor camp (+ rape/abuse included). Now at 18 you're obviously much more likely to actually get a gun and be sent to the front since there's an active war. If they need to replace the lost free labor they'll need to mobilize more people than what they're normally getting through the regular draft. Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Aug 17, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Aug 17, 2023 17:07
|
|
|
Karate Bastard posted:Out of the two alternatives where Prigozhin 1) stays alive to pillage and rape in Africa, and 2) gets blown the gently caress out of the sky by a lovely tyrant, I think option 2 is objectively better. Africa pillaging operations will be assigned to a different Putin vassal. Existing mercs will then be resigned to the new PMC. Prig being alive solidified the thought of "Putin is a bitch" among the mafia state, however, Putin offing Prig should restore some of that respect for Putin among his fellow gangsters. It's probably worse now for the long-term chance to get rid of Putin. Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Aug 24, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Aug 24, 2023 19:27
|
|
|
bob dobbs is dead posted:i have been wondering about why poland is backing the wrecking and yet lusts for russian blood Polish gov't hates the gays more than they hate Russia. EU would stop funding both governments if they could to pressure them into expanding rights, so Poland and Hungary are veto covering for each other. Conservative religious groups deciding to side with fascism over secular democracy is a tale as old as time. Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Sep 1, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Sep 1, 2023 21:45
|
|
|
WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:They're pulling AA out of Ukraine and moving it back to Russia. Aswell as taking it from. The far East and moving it towards western Russia. Evidence that a bunch of pundits saying "sending small drones into Moscow is useless" was a bad take. Putin definitely wants Moscow residents to feel like nothing is happening outside the city, so he's willing to blanket everything there with Pantsirs instead of keeping them on the frontline. Internal propaganda is more important than military capability.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 5, 2023 20:05
|
|
|
Biden is probably afraid of an "escalation" event happening before the next election, hurting his re-election chances. The only realistic event he can be thinking of is Ukraine blowing up the Kerch bridge and Russia going hog wild mad. If this is what he's afraid of, he might only go all in on the real warhead ATACMs after the election, so the end of 2024. That way Republicans won't be able to hammer him on it. However, that's a looong wait for Ukraine. I can't see any other reason to slow drip new weapons like this.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 22, 2023 17:04
|
|
|
Vampire Panties posted:95% sure its a T-55, and based on the mud, the muddy track and the car in the background, I'd guess that this is some sort of tourist trap thing where you pay to ride around someone's backyard in an ancient tank. There's a tourist place, like a 1.5-hour ride from Moscow. Not even that hard to get to, they send a limo to your hotel in Moscow to pick you up since it used to be a popular thing for tourists. Pre-war, you could rent relatively new tanks there (and shoot them if you wanted, although it was several hundred bucks per shell or so). It would be hilarious if all they had left now was a single T-55 as even the overused stripped tourist rentals they had before (T-62, T-80, and T-90) got sent to the front. Uniform you get on site for the photo opp. You can also take photos with various guns there, so he might post those too. It's similar to the Vegas places that do this, except with no safety precautions and no fucks given when letting drunk dudes drive a tank and fire shells and machine guns in it. There were also places where you could mess around with MiGs and take them for a spin (after taking an intro class), however no idea what happened to those now. Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Sep 26, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Sep 26, 2023 05:06
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 17, 2024 13:59 |
|
|
fish and chips and dip posted:Flying a MIG has been on my bucket list since the early 2000's when I read an article in some "gentleman's magazine" where they flew a a MIG 25 (I think) really far up and they could see the black of space above them. I don't remember if they flew it themselves, or if they were passangers but I remember them saying it cost $18k. $20-25K USD pre-war, depending on MiG model and if you were doing just yourself or with a trained copilot. It was a thing local rich kids would do to post on Instagram. With money in Russia (and even as a dirty NATO tourist) you could have access to any military hardware you wanted short of nuclear weapons. These were either run by a local mafia business that bribed some general to get the hardware, or the local army base general did this himself as a side hustle. The more east from Moscow you went, the more loose the rules got with what you can play with. Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Sep 26, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Sep 26, 2023 17:16
|
|