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mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010
Supposed secondary explosions at the dam. I have no idea how accurate this video is.

Link of video.

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mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010
Might have been a deliberate attack.

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1666130934373003279

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010
If blowing up 12 Ukrainian tanks and IFVs mean that Ukraine has lost the war what does blowing up thousands of Russian tanks mean?

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010

Cpt_Obvious posted:

Can assault rifle rounds even reach an airplane/helicopter with any penetrative power left?

Helicopters in Vietnam got shot up pretty good with AKs.

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010
E: never mind.

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010

FMguru posted:

No doubt, no doubt...but where does Russia fit in with all this? That's the question we need to be asking.

Even this part is false considering one part of the Russian milatary staged a coup against the other part of the military last week.

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010

Chalks posted:

Some of these duds may be incapable of detonating, and they're certainly not designed to detonate when interacted with (although they very well could)

They are extremely unstable and have been shown time and again to maim people. It doesn't help that they are brightly coloured so kids in Iraq and Afghanistan pick them up thinking they are toys.

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010

Morrow posted:

Russia is so centralized in Moscow that you won't see a civil war. There will be a power struggle in the capital, but whoever controls it will control the country. They may have less authority over regional governments than Putin did but at the end of the day no one is going to try to make a break for it.

What about Georgia and Chechnya?

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010

Cpt_Obvious posted:

Hasn't foreign support for Ukraine effectively dried up tho? There is a severe scarcity of weapons and equipment, not to mention vehicles. Ukraine has no air force to speak of and is down to the last shells that the US has dug out of the basement. Meanwhile, their manpower supply is far, far smaller than Russias to begin with. What is the point at which they negotiate peace?

This entire post is wrong. A great poster in this thread posts weekly updates of all the equipment that is being sent and planned to be sent to Ukraine.

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010
Remember when that American pilot dropped a bomb on a bunch of Canadians in Afghanistan because he was hopped up on US airforce supplied amphetamines? Because I do.

Soldiers and amphetamines have been a thing since the Nazis. Producing a drug that has been around for 80 years is not the same as creating a vaccine for an entirely new disease that showed up 3 years ago.

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010

Ynglaur posted:



For context, during the Russian Donbass offensive last summer, Russia was often firing over 30,000 shells each day. If the rest of Europe is like this, Europe is not ready for a war with Russia, even with air superiority. Don't forget: air superiority takes time, and Russia has changed its air defense command and control doctrine since 1991.

The thing with not having air superioty is that it hard to fire 30000 shells a day when all of your artillery pieces have been blown up. Russia wouldn't even be able to lob that much artillery because its hard to hide giant cannons from planes.

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010

LifeSunDeath posted:

these guys?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rAHrHd2lcw
Yeah lol, they kept dropping them in with zero support and they kept getting wiped out. After a while you didn't hear anything about VDV, just wagner.

Does anyone have the version of this video where they subtitle it with him talking about being annihilated at Hostemel airport? That's always good for a laugh.

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010

Thank you.

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010
Why is the lack of immediate success for the Ukrainian offensive seen as a massive failure. In kherson they spent months slowly grinding down the Russian front line and rear supply lines until the Russians had to pull out.

They are doing the same thing here as well. There are credible reports that the Russians aren't rotating their front line companys. Every day we see supply depots and logistic locations being blown up far behind the line.

This slow and methodical push has already been shown to work retaking the largest city that Russia had controlled. I don't think it's insane to think it could work again.

The kharkiv push was an outlier in this war but also proved that the Ukrainians can exploit holes when they find them.

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010
Have we talked about how the pilots and flight crew of hot dog man's private jet were basically sent on a suicide mission over Moscow? They were unwitting drivers over the air bridge between st Petersburg and Moscow and this certainly constitutes a war crime. I think we should debate the intricacies of using civilians in these types of operations for the next few pages. Furthermore...

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mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010
While I believe that Russia fires more artillery rounds a day there have been reports of Ukraine being more accurate with counter battery fire and destroying more guns. It's part of the reason they have had a break through in robotyne.

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010

socialsecurity posted:

Where's that proven at?

They are hitting military airports. It's not the same as terror bombing civilians like the Russians have been doing in Ukraine this whole time.

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010
Does anyone have any poems from Caesar's invasion of Gaul and how that applies to Ukrainians giving up in this war? Thanks.

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010
I didn't see this posted in this thread but it appears that Russia is sinking ships beside the Kerch bridge as a makeshift defensive line.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-sinks-line-ships-protect-001937549.html

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010
Looks like Russia has withdrawn from robotyne.

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010

Mr. Apollo posted:

Remember the video clips and photos from the spring of Ukrainian sea drones washed up along the Crimean coast?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html

Doesn't that dick head still have national security access due to spacex contracts with the US military? I think that should be revoked now.

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010
I really don't think that Russia has the economy to switch over to full war time production. It barely functions now as it is.

They have lost most of the skills needed to build new hardware as well. They haven't been able to build any new T14s or SU-57s.

mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010
I've seen multiple videos of Russians on quads and motorcycles being hit by regular vertical drop shell drones let alone fpv ones.

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mustard_tiger
Nov 8, 2010
Wasn't one if the biggest problems being that ex soviet and the Ukranian armed forces don't really have NCOs like American and western armies?

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