Really langley ? A hell of a lot better to get more Himars - or ATACMS if it's sufficiently highly valued - in a swap. Hugely more valuable than one more tank.

I agree,to study it is to learn it’s weak points and introduce work arounds that far outweigh the operational effect of one tank and it aids you being able to kill others of the type with your current fleet.. All I can think is they maybe captured more than one, and the other was kept quiet and whisked away to interested parties..

Very interesting point that General Hodges makes about the "weaponization of refugees" at about minute 26.
​​​​​​​See also at about minute 32 "Russia has a China problem"
TF, thank you for that link/video. :ok:

More on our winter of discontent as we burn down our forests to keep warm.

De nada. hombre. It hadn't immediately occurred to me, but there might be a direct link to the Poland/Kaliningrad fence there.

There has been a lot of posts about Russian concrete bunkers being placed in Kherson on both the left & right bank of the Dnipro river.

In this 🧵we will examine Russia's "Concrete theater" against some hard reality taken from this US Army Engineer branch technical report.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...651621377.html

It really is astonishing to witness the degree of disconnect between Russian public announcements and the hilarity that their nonsense will be met with in the West. If they could see it, would these fools cringe, or would decades of "Russia is Great " propaganda have destroyed all critical faculties ? Personally, I think the lines about " they will soon come to Russia because there will be nothing to eat in Europe " as the most humorous and insightful.

Might be difficult to get its current crew/ troop/ regiment to give it up though!

The thing with an Army Langley is oddly enough, they issue orders not requests..

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Yes, I noticed that when I was S Met O 1BR Corps.

However, military history is rich with examples of units holding non-inventory items, it certainly would not be the first time that the chain of command was kept in the dark, or turned a blind eye.
One account I recently read is of a Mountain battery, British India, with a complete "spare gun", brand new, built from indented parts, and hidden from inspection awaiting the day it was needed against Japan.

In the current case, if I were CO regiment fighting for survival, I might take a short term view The analogy is a Conqueror among Centurions and a Firefly among Shermans.
The Bde commander [or however UKR organises] needs to know about the trophy to issue what would be a very sensible order.

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What really is astonishing is the naiivety of people who swallow this guff and don't recognise its reality as pure propaganda!
Bejasus!

It's a ship burning off Sri Lanka in 2021

https://news.yahoo.com/sri-lanka-eva...124841347.html

I took the original down when it was disproved.

You know, there are plenty of people on "our side" who swallow similar nonsense. Plenty

CNN: 1,300 Starlinks in Ukraine go offline due to funding issues.

Ukraine’s fears that its military will lose access to the Starlink internet service deepened after 1,300 satellite units went offline, CNN reported, citing two anonymous sources familiar with the issue.

With all the talk previously of threat posed by hypersonic (hyper-expensive) weapons, it's interesting to think the real game changers in Ukraine have been those improvised weapons cobbled together using old moped and jetski engines...

Or the hastily cobbled together grenades and 3d printed finned drone bombs.
Here is a thought, they have captured nearly intact Iranian suicide drones, ( nicknamed Dorito’s on the web due to their shape ) either replicate them, or repair, refuel the odd ones from the parts they have then on the next raid and launch it off towards Moscow, it will cause confusion and mayhem with the Russians worrying some of their missiles are going rogue. ;)


https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....dedf86eaf.jpeg


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It does look like Brize is busy these days

Also the observation that, 30 years after GW1 (which you'd have thought they were watching) the Russians seem to think that a weapon that can travel at Mach 12 (allegedly) is better than one that can accurately hit its target.

Regarding the stand-off in Kherson, do we see another Berlin shaping up here? Would Vlad feel right at home with another split city, seeded with a fifth column on the west side? Has he found in the river a comfortable dividing line to solidify his hold on the fourth ‘Russified’ province, with a nice water trickle for Crimea? Could it be a potential generous case of: “You can have the west bank, and in exchange everything east of there is now more permanently ours mine.”(?)