Is Ukraine about to have a war?
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So, did those who had finished their year get sent home or kept on ?
Latest reports, today, or that home based units are now being ordered to generate a 3rd BTG.
The norm is one and most scraped the barrel for a second. a third means taking all the remains staff and instructors plus any remains recruits - and still ending up with a unit 50% manned and with hardly any equipment.
Plus, of course, it means there is absolutely no-one to train this years recruits and nothing for them to train with.
This really sounds like the last throw of the dice.
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Russia looking at sending "humanitarian aid" to Nicaragua in the form of missile systems that can hit US Cities... I would hate to think what they classify weapons aid as.
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Good to see.
Kept on - to much outrage.
Latest reports, today, or that home based units are now being ordered to generate a 3rd BTG.
The norm is one and most scraped the barrel for a second. a third means taking all the remains staff and instructors plus any remains recruits - and still ending up with a unit 50% manned and with hardly any equipment.
Plus, of course, it means there is absolutely no-one to train this years recruits and nothing for them to train with.
This really sounds like the last throw of the dice.
Latest reports, today, or that home based units are now being ordered to generate a 3rd BTG.
The norm is one and most scraped the barrel for a second. a third means taking all the remains staff and instructors plus any remains recruits - and still ending up with a unit 50% manned and with hardly any equipment.
Plus, of course, it means there is absolutely no-one to train this years recruits and nothing for them to train with.
This really sounds like the last throw of the dice.
RF is leaning heavily on its artillery which seems to be the one thing they have to their advantage. Short supply lines and so far inexhaustible inventory of shells have put UKR on its back foot.
With UKR firing at one tenth of the RF rate, NATO is falling way short in resupply.
With UKR firing at one tenth of the RF rate, NATO is falling way short in resupply.
Only half a speed-brake
I heard about a week ago it's the calibre trap. USSR 152 mm for UKR pistols are no longer in use in CEE even, and the lefomtover stocks were finite. The 'Atlantic west' could easily stone RF with 155 mm, however the defenders don't have the machienery to shoot those. Apart from the gifted sets which are very scarce given the length of the front line. And dispersed adding another logistic night mare.
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I just hope this Ukrainian hasn't just doomed himself and his friends by thanking this American, who needs enemies when the American reporter it telling the world the guys unit, current location and movement too and when............ 
I wish they would think before they report stuff like this or give it a few days... Words fail me.
His reporting of the volunteers being rushed forward is frightning though.
I wish they would think before they report stuff like this or give it a few days... Words fail me.His reporting of the volunteers being rushed forward is frightning though.
I heard about a week ago it's the calibre trap. USSR 152 mm for UKR pistols are no longer in use in CEE even, and the lefomtover stocks were finite. The 'Atlantic west' could easily stone RF with 155 mm, however the defenders don't have the machienery to shoot those. Apart from the gifted sets which are very scarce given the length of the front line. And dispersed adding another logistic night mare.
Another video also talked about the MLRS and HIMARS multi-rocket systems which have been supplied by USA, UK, maybe NL and Canada which have the range and accuracy for counter-battery fire , as well as targeting Russian ammunition depots close to the front line. The comment here was that the arrival of these systems should require the Russians to move their supply dumps further back and complicate their re-supply efforts somewhat.
EDIT: Just found the M777 video
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I just hope this Ukrainian hasn't just doomed himself and his friends by thanking this American, who needs enemies when the American reporter it telling the world the guys unit, current location and movement too and when............ I wish they would think before they report stuff like this or give it a few days... Words fail me.
https://twitter.com/MacWBishop/statu...42918955298816
His reporting of the volunteers being rushed forward is frightning though.
https://twitter.com/MacWBishop/statu...72660915707905
I wish they would think before they report stuff like this or give it a few days... Words fail me.https://twitter.com/MacWBishop/statu...42918955298816
His reporting of the volunteers being rushed forward is frightning though.
https://twitter.com/MacWBishop/statu...72660915707905
He gave it more than two weeks . Report from "late May "but published June 12th. I also didn't read any unit identification in the report and they were all using cover-names, so certainly not blabbing sensitive stuff.
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The soldier, whose uniform markings identify him as a member of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade, is in his early twenties.
But as far as I understand it was reporting events more than two weeks old. His unit identification isn't going to change, at any time but where he was two weeks ago, where's the value ............ ?
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I was assuming by the post date and his referring to tomorrow going back into the line it was current as opposed to previously posted, as I was unaware it had been, the thread reads as current if that makes sense. Mentioning a mechanised unit would possibly increase the perceived threat and hence the response, you also do not want to be giving the enemy information on your opposite units as information such as experienced or conscripts/ volunteers etc tailors your actions.
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Poland’s Defense Minister confirmed today that Poland is on track to buy 500 Himars (MLRS) with a range of 300 km & 6 Patriot Missile Defense System batteries from the US.
He also revealed that the Polish Army will get 2 new divisions, stationed by the Vistula river.
He also revealed that the Polish Army will get 2 new divisions, stationed by the Vistula river.
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Mintgomery and Zhukov were great believers in massed artillery barrages. UKR’s only chance in this scenario is to do the same to the RF, otherwise they will inevitably be ground to dust: their bravery and National pride won’t defeat massed artillery.
How quickly and efficiently their supporters can achieve this is critical. Exciting dogfights or low level rotary isn’t going to be a game-changer: that’s Tactical noise for YouTube etc. Only the thunder of the guns from UKR can swing the Strategic balance.
How quickly and efficiently their supporters can achieve this is critical. Exciting dogfights or low level rotary isn’t going to be a game-changer: that’s Tactical noise for YouTube etc. Only the thunder of the guns from UKR can swing the Strategic balance.
Do you have any counter arguments ....or time to say "mea culpa" Nutty ?
2. Russia will beat NATO and it will be sold to Russian people that "Russia already won NATO in Ukraine" (remember the rhetorics that Russia is not in war with Ukraine but in essence with the US and the west)
There are practically no Heavy NATO Weapons (except a handful of howitzers) yet involved in the battles and this little is already causing headache to Russia.
I guess they wouldn't want to fathom going against hundreds of MLRS + PzH2000, Caesar etc. with dozens of Counter Battery Radars.
Not to mention the air strikes against their Arty.
Russia must be beaten in Ukraine. Period.
Montgomery and Zhukov were great believers in massed artillery barrages. UKR’s only chance in this scenario is to do the same to the RF, otherwise they will inevitably be ground to dust: their bravery and National pride won’t defeat massed artillery. How quickly and efficiently their supporters can achieve this is critical. Exciting dogfights or low level rotary isn’t going to be a game-changer: that’s Tactical noise for YouTube etc. Only the thunder of the guns from UKR can swing the Strategic balance.
Fighting here isn’t a new experience for many of the paratroopers, and they are quick to remind me that for them the war began in 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and sent its soldiers into Donbas to support pro-Russian separatists. Most Ukrainians remain bitter about the relatively weak Western response to those actions, and it’s why they fear the West will once again buckle to Putin’s aggression.
Ukrainians from all walks of life have told me how concerned they are about a repeat of 2014, with the international community acceding to the Russian seizure of their land — despite the blood they are spilling to defend it.
The military here has more than doubled since Russia’s invasion in late February. More than 700,000 Ukrainians are now under arms, and perhaps only one-third of those have received anything resembling professional military training.
Ukrainians from all walks of life have told me how concerned they are about a repeat of 2014, with the international community acceding to the Russian seizure of their land — despite the blood they are spilling to defend it.
The military here has more than doubled since Russia’s invasion in late February. More than 700,000 Ukrainians are now under arms, and perhaps only one-third of those have received anything resembling professional military training.
Artillery, the King of Battle (well, that's how the US Army feels about it). (Of note, Infantry is the Queen of Battle in the same jargon). A few points from the article Nutty linked to at Rolling Stone. I was interested to read that one of the crusty old vets was concerned with how the Russians use drones in support of their artillery barrages.