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For the love of Christ woman,  stop posting the same fucking thing every 20 mins just to make your neurotic self feel better.     Bring something useful to the thread other than your inane babbli

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I volunteered today. Log/Admin role to replace people for 30-60 days. The operation is in the west, or should the Orcs win will be pulled back behind the NATO wall. Either way the humanitarian effort

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Russia is a backwards society with a victim complex populated and dominated by terrible people. Those who have more liberal democratic ideals only outlet is a bottle of vodka. Those shitty men who rape and torture and commit violence against children were raised by women who grew up in that shit culture. It is no surprise they encourage those behaviors.

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

Holy fucking shit if Putin is pushing laws through to confiscate everything from those avoiding mobilization and seizing their bank accounts, they must have a serious mobilization coming up and are expecting a lot of resistance.  

Feels like they just took the pot up from simmering to boiling.  

 

uh, yes. please put all my funds in my grandmothers/mothers/sisters/female cousin's account please. 

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10 months into his 3-day war, and next week he's kicking it up a few notches for mobilization, which apparently never stopped (they're still grabbing people off of the streets and from their jobs). Can't wait to see what the next major round of mobilization looks like.  Might as well just send the soldiers to the front in track suits.

Julia Ioffe predicted a lot of what Putin was going to do, but was surprised by Ukraine's resistance.

 

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4 hours ago, MillerEP said:

^Could this just be normal Holiday traffic? Not sure if I buy it's panic.

I believe the delays at the bridge are the norm now. The vehicle inspections are allegedly more in depth before you are allowed to cross. 

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https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/01/1/7383193/

Ukrainian Air Force on unique air defence experience: barely had time to reload NASAMS

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Ukrainian Air Force on unique air defence experience: barely had time to reload NASAMS

Ukrainian air defence specialists have "perfectly" mastered use of the NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems which they skillfully used to destroy Iranian-made kamikaze drones on the night of 31 December, 2022.

Source: Yurii Ihnat, spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force, on air during the 24/7 national joint newscast

Quote: "We see that the sky has really been under reliable protection. I would also like to note the help of our partners. There should be some kind of sign or signal for them, because our servicemen barely had time to reload the NASAMS. We fired from it as if from artillery.

Probably no one has experience such as this in using this missile system, namely reloading the system and destroying air targets during combat. This suggests that we simply do not have enough of them... we have missiles, but we need more missile systems.

This is another signal to our partners as to how skillfully and effectively under such combat conditions our specialists, who had been trained only a few weeks ago, can use foreign-made military equipment."

Details: Ihnat confirmed that all of the 45 Russian kamikaze drones launched on Ukraine on New Year's Eve had been destroyed by air defence units.

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On 12/30/2022 at 4:50 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Ukrainians who believe in Ukraine as a nation, aka Ukraine nationalists, are Nazis to the Russians.  It gets lost in the translation and people think WWII Nazis, and Russia is more than happy when people conflate the two.  Russians look down on Ukrainians, Georgians, Moldovans, Belarusians, etc. who see themselves as being a part of a separate nation from Russia, and Putin has said this in the past - he really bElieves these people are all the same people, just confused about their national identities.

Reminder: the Soviets partnered up with the actual Nazis to divide Europe before a Germany turned on them.

And wasn't Stalin explicitly against trying to group those other nations together as all Russians? I believe he specifically warned against what Russia is trying to do now. 

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43 minutes ago, Viper said:

And wasn't Stalin explicitly against trying to group those other nations together as all Russians? I believe he specifically warned against what Russia is trying to do now. 

Sounds like something a Georgian would say

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6 hours ago, KYHorn said:
66 Fahrenheit. Good for reducing dependence on Russian energy.

Yeah. Russian propagandists were giddy this summer looking forward to a hard winter hurting anyone in Europe supporting Ukraine.  They could not conceive of their former clients not buying Russian gas and oil.

Someone posted how Germany is almost completely weaned from Russian oil after ending Russian coal and gas imports.  I remember reading the concerns about Germany being able to replace gas reserves and make it through the winter.

Fuck you, Russia!

 

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7 hours ago, KYHorn said:

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/01/1/7383193/

Ukrainian Air Force on unique air defence experience: barely had time to reload NASAMS

Ukrainian air defence specialists have "perfectly" mastered use of the NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems which they skillfully used to destroy Iranian-made kamikaze drones on the night of 31 December, 2022.

Quote: "We see that the sky has really been under reliable protection. I would also like to note the help of our partners. There should be some kind of sign or signal for them, because our servicemen barely had time to reload the NASAMS. We fired from it as if from artillery.

Probably no one has experience such as this in using this missile system, namely reloading the system and destroying air targets during combat. 

We joke about the defense industry making money off of all of this, but the Ukrainians are putting a whole shitload of complex weapons systems through their paces in a way that the West has (thankfully) not had to do - both Gulf Wars were over fairly quickly in terms of the heaviest fighting, and outside of aerial operations, they were not stress-testing weapons systems on the ground weeks and months the way the Ukrainians are having to do against the Russians.

And in some cases, the Ukrainians are having to jerry-rig weapons systems like nobody's business, such as those HARM missiles above, that were fired using tablets they mounted in the cockpit, with a cable running out to the missiles.

I have to believe the defense companies and various militaries have people on the ground in Ukraine, who are compiling all kinds of feedback on performance, potential improvements, etc.  I doubt we ever had to push our M777s to the point where we were wearing out barrels, etc.

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Kind of related to the above, in terms of western systems, I got to ride around in a Bradley here and there back in the 90s, and have a friend who was a gunner on one (even got an Iraqi tank in the first Gulf War with a TOW), and I hope we ship a bunch over - we have a few thousand in long-term storage (not being used, just sitting in storage) in addition to the 4,000 or so that are in active service and National Guard/Reserves.  They held up well in the first Gulf War.

There are already Ukrainian mechanics trained to work on the Bradley (thanks to the M270 MLRS's that the Ukrainians have), plus it's fairly easy to work on compared to other systems, and it's replacement (which is being rolled out as we speak) is *ta da* based on the Bradley chassis, so there are experienced personnel and active production supply chains.

Technically they are even a tank.  You wouldn't necessarily want them to square off against a T-72 in an open field, but they are mobile enough and lethal enough (thanks to the TOW as well as Javelin crews they could carry) and with the drones and recon the Ukrainians do, that would rarely happen - they'd get the drop on the Russians.

I think @RDCanecutter may have had experience with them, or the M113s.

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25 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I think @RDCanecutter may have had experience with them, or the M113s.

I was mostly in 113s, Humvees, as well as most US Army wheeled vehicles dating back to WW2.

A friend commanded Bradleys, and his biggest fear was that his guys would think they were in tanks. But at this time and place, Bradleys escorted by squads armed with Javelins would be a bad day for Russians.

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