Is Ukraine about to have a war?
Russia is now reduced to the WW2 playbook. Attempting to defeat the technologically superior, militarily competent, but numerically inferior opposing forces with overwhelming waves of cannon fodder. That worked, barely, when Russian soldiers were defending mother Russia. Those soldiers were almost entirely tough farm boys used to hardship and privation and totally insulated from any news.
I don't think this strategy has much of a chance with an "army" of young men, many of whom are social media savvy and used to a comfortable city life, fighting a war they could not care less about. Putin had better be afraid of the mothers of the Russian soldiers returned in body bags after having their life thrown away on his vanity project.
I don't think this strategy has much of a chance with an "army" of young men, many of whom are social media savvy and used to a comfortable city life, fighting a war they could not care less about. Putin had better be afraid of the mothers of the Russian soldiers returned in body bags after having their life thrown away on his vanity project.
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Neither Crimea nor Russia have been ‘officially’ attacked. We need to be clear on this. Ukraine has been scrupulous in this regard.
The reason for various fires and explosions has been kept deliberately vague, as to whether it was local resistance, infiltration teams, things launched and falling from improvised/improvised Ukrainian weapons systems, or carelessness with vodka, matches and cigaret/cigarette butts. Conditions do apply.
The reason for various fires and explosions has been kept deliberately vague, as to whether it was local resistance, infiltration teams, things launched and falling from improvised/improvised Ukrainian weapons systems, or carelessness with vodka, matches and cigaret/cigarette butts. Conditions do apply.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62821044
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ukra...crimea-3325272
Russia is now reduced to the WW2 playbook. Attempting to defeat the technologically superior, militarily competent, but numerically inferior opposing forces with overwhelming waves of cannon fodder. That worked, barely, when Russian soldiers were defending mother Russia. Those soldiers were almost entirely tough farm boys used to hardship and privation and totally insulated from any news.
I don't think this strategy has much of a chance with an "army" of young men, many of whom are social media savvy and used to a comfortable city life, fighting a war they could not care less about. Putin had better be afraid of the mothers of the Russian soldiers returned in body bags after having their life thrown away on his vanity project.
I don't think this strategy has much of a chance with an "army" of young men, many of whom are social media savvy and used to a comfortable city life, fighting a war they could not care less about. Putin had better be afraid of the mothers of the Russian soldiers returned in body bags after having their life thrown away on his vanity project.
Russia's logistics are horrible, and Ukraine has the assistance coming to keep it that way.
Mass waves of conscript POWs seems like an odd plan. But well done, red team.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
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Interesting approach to ‘inspiring’ mobilized troops from a Russian commander. This technique, also known as the ‘we’re all gonna die’ #leadership model, has generally been omitted from western doctrine.
Interesting approach to ‘inspiring’ mobilized troops from a Russian commander. This technique, also known as the ‘we’re all gonna die’ #leadership model, has generally been omitted from western doctrine.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Mobilised troops…
”What did you do in the war grandpa?”
”What did you do in the war grandpa?”
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Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Going for the record. It will be hard to beat…
From mobilization to captivity in 3 days
From mobilization to captivity in 3 days
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A frank look at the mobilised and well worth watching
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Quality of the units turning up at the front - and these are the ones with some training - those mobilised haven’t arrived in numbers yet….
Pro-Russian Vostok battalion commander Aleksandr Khodakovsky tells about the dire situation with mobiks who do crazy stuff like driving into enemy positions and placing ammo in the open; blames generals for not establishing proper teamwork.
Pro-Russian Vostok battalion commander Aleksandr Khodakovsky tells about the dire situation with mobiks who do crazy stuff like driving into enemy positions and placing ammo in the open; blames generals for not establishing proper teamwork.
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This does not make sense, it shows a British soldier in Ukraine dragging / recovering the body of a dead American to safety... Who is filming it??
https://nexth.city/ukrainewar/dramat...russian-ambush
https://nexth.city/ukrainewar/dramat...russian-ambush
This does not make sense, it shows a British soldier in Ukraine dragging / recovering the body of a dead American to safety... Who is filming it??
https://nexth.city/ukrainewar/dramat...russian-ambush
https://nexth.city/ukrainewar/dramat...russian-ambush
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To have an EMP effect the explosion has to take place in the upper atmosphere. The effect wasn't discovered until an American high altitude burst 'Starfish Prime' took place, knocking out some power in Hawaii, 900 miles from the detonation center. The altitude of the shot was about 250 miles. A tactical low altitude burst wouldn't cause a major EMP event. It certainly would cause other effects.....
He also mentions that the Euro grid is not EMP hardened, whereas the Russian grid has been hardened. The US is supposedly looking at hardening their own grid.
The Mitchell Institute's Nuclear Deterrence and Missile Defense Forum hosts Dr. Peter Pry, Executive Director of Task Force on National and Homeland Security for a discussion on evolving events in Ukraine, the performance of the Russian military, NATO, U.S. responses, and implications for the future.
It all continues to get worse. The conscripts are arriving with nothing to nothing, no support at all, no-one knows what to do, They will all starve and freeze to death within a month.
Probably worth removing them early for hygiene.
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A hit YPR765 appears to carry on burning possibly to give the rest of the column a protective smokescreen. If true that takes balls.
Does anyone have anything further on the affect of sanctions on the opertional capability of the likes of Aeroflot with their fleets of A320 etc?
Its been a while now and Flight Radar shows plenty of Aeroflot operated flights still. Or are these simply carrying large number of deficiences?
Its been a while now and Flight Radar shows plenty of Aeroflot operated flights still. Or are these simply carrying large number of deficiences?
Some Aviation Content from pasta and ORAC, originally posted at JB. This was related to "How does one know what caused the pipeline damage to Nordstreams?".
While they may have gotten some evidence pointing in a given direction, shallow water ASW is a bit tricky.
Originally Posted by pasta
There are a few states that are likely to have that capability, but I'd be amazed if Ukraine was one of them; even if it did, how would it get the appropriate asset all the way to the Baltic undetected? I saw some twitter posts suggesting the US had ASW assets in the area; I'm guessing they know exactly who's responsible.
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Too deep for scuba, no dive support vessels for deep divers in the area. Too shallow for submarines. Which leaves UUVs. The only navy in the area which possesses UUV with the capability, and practices it, is Russia. The USA and others do, but they don’t have the assets in the Baltic. The USN had ASW helicopters searching the area a couple of days ago so presumably had detected something - I doubt they were attracting attention to any of their own assets.