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    Very surprising, was he an XO at some level? GOs at command level almost always travel in C2 vehicles to maintain connectivity and SA (Armor and mech infantry usually in armor, everyone else in C2 helos). They may venture forward into a TAC for some specific missions or fights, but it’s a rarity. They are TOC creatures by and large. The system I worked for almost 20 years was a C2 package in helos, once force on force was over it became a FOB hopping taxi.
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    No, I think it’s still a fair question. An Army division might have 3 GOs depending on when promotions hit, but usually it’s 2 at most. I thought Russia only pushed like 5 divisions into Ukraine, and lots of detached brigades, which would be run by colonels. I think the bigger oddity is the number of Russian GOs that are in the shit. GOs aren’t there to execute, they are there to plan. They live in TOCs, not TACs, and are usually detached from any fighting. There’s always a magic bullet that can catch one, but 4 GOs in a couple of weeks is pretty bizarre. I don’t know that we lost 4 GOs in a decade in Afghanistan or Iraq.
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    Humans reload faster than autos. Source: dad and FIL were both tankers.
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    Maybe this will get them to overhaul AMC/CECOM and sustainment in general, because they fucking suck.
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    More likely FSB is purging failures. You could get lucky and catch one guy in transit with a lucky AT round or something, but this many high ranking guys aren’t being exposed to enemy fire. My money is on fratricide, either top down or bottom up.
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    Your family had a very different meaning to putting their foot in your ass.
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    Gonna need a link. Curious what opfor he was using, because short of China, it’s hard to imagine a player having the assets to overcome a carrier group without exposing their neck. There aren’t many choke points around China to make either of those options realistic.
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    It takes quite a bit to sink a carrier, and top down attacks aren’t ideal to sink a boat. You want waterline shots, or something bigger than a drone can carry to penetrate enough decks from the top to start it taking water. Supersonic missiles are currently the biggest carrier threat because the layered defenses aren’t designed to deal with that kind of threat. Yet.
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    You have to get the drones to the battle space, same as manned planes. Carrier is still the best game in town for putting air superiority in someone’s backyard. UCAVs are definitely being designed around carrier operation.
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    Yes, but GLONASS is Russian GPS. My guess is a lot of their gear, especially those Turkish drones, are probably running on GLONASS as well. I get not blanketing the rea with jamming for now, but once you’ve lost air power you might as well rely on your local knowledge and force them into trying to navigate with paper maps under fire.
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    So one thing I’m surprised about, but maybe it’s for the next phase of the war, but why isn’t Ukraine jamming GLONASS? My guess is since they still have functional aircraft drones, but I would think in areas where they have lost a lot of ground it would be worth saturating with cheap jammers to fuck up the visiting team even more. Once Ukraine loses all their air power, I would think we could flood Ukraine with jammers to give the home team an even bigger advantage.
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    I can, but that’s because the Fulda gap would resemble the moon because of all the arty and aerial bombing that would take place before and during the push. I agree with your sentiment wrt urban or hybrid conflict, tanks are a horrible choice. That’s not what the Fulda gap fight was ever going to be.
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    The planes would probably eat a missile before leaving the flatbed. You cant sneak those in on some firebreak through the woods like a delivery of javelins. Transit would require major roads because of the load and clearance requirements, and its not something they can haul ass with. Even this busted ass Russian army would be able to intercept something like this. If they dont fly in mission ready, they are fucked.
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    All this coverage is ignoring the elephant in the room. Ramstein AFB is in Germany. The planes would have to traverse German air space. I’m pretty sure Germany had a large part in knocking this down. If Poland had big balls they would have made the transfer to Ukraine directly and not tried to involve someone else’s airspace.
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    My concern is that those holding estimates are based on occupying functional, largely intact cities. It’s a lot easier to hold cities reduced to rubble with a population entirely dependent on the occupying force for basic needs. If they cut Kiev entirely away from external support those millions of people get a lot more pliable. It’s hard to fight when you don’t have food or water.
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    Yea, I opined earlier in the thread that history may give Xi and global warming credit for dragging this war and Putin down. Ukraine can probably fund most of their rebuilding efforts selling little jars of official Ukrainian mud with sunflower seeds.
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    Doubt that’s the move, that area stays pretty moist. It’s the world’s bread basket for a reason. Soft dirt, steady precipitation. Xi holding Putin up for the Olympics really fucked him.
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    FIFY. A lot of the issue here is Putin gets what Putin wants regardless of reality. Putin says he wants Kiev in 2 days. You either say yes, we will take it in two days, or you fall off a building and the next guy says yes, we will take it in two days.
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    Aaronson with a nice driving run and pass to set up a goal for Salzburg.
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    The visibility in a buttoned up tank is super shitty. At night it’s even shittier, even with NVGs. /csb My dad’s unit had a guy drive a tank off the edge of a depression during training at NTC. Tank commander was riding halfway out of the hatch and the tank rolled over on him pinning him. Blood trapped in the top half of his body and blew him up like a balloon before killing him.
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    That true for most modern AA systems. The only way they can deal with stealth aircraft is a lot of data correlation between multiple sensors.
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    Fucking autocorrect, thx
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    This probably deserves a neg for gaslighting or ignorance. I’m not remotely an O&G guy but even I know there’s a couple of massive steps between the Beverly hillbillies and putting gas in my car. If refining capacity doesn’t match what’s being pulled out of the ground, you aren’t energy dependent. If distribution doesn’t match refining input or output, you aren’t energy dependent. It doesn’t matter how much we drill if we can’t turn it into gas, diesel, etc, that makes it to the pump/home/factory. That’s the issue, stop with the bullshit.

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