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Thread: Ukraine
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08-09-2022, 11:10 AM #8926
Yeah, Western artillery & HIMARS have made a huge difference. Last spring Russian artillery was situated much closer to the front lines making it possible for them to shell deeper into Ukrainian controlled territory. Russia was forced to move their artillery back after more accurate Western counter batteries were brought to bear.
There were a few people here who said Ukrainians were incapable of mastering advanced equipment but as expected, experienced Ukrainian operators easily adjusted to Western-made weapons systems.
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08-09-2022, 11:29 AM #8927
When I heard some military types say "Ukies are dumb" I took it as war propaganda. Why The slow walk I don't know. OTOH, training a pilot to fly it, point and fire one off it is the easy part of deploying a weapon. Dozens more need to train to put him in the air.
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08-09-2022, 12:39 PM #8928
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08-09-2022, 01:21 PM #8929
I hope so.
Just posted up a damaged SU 24 that looks to be mostly obliterated.
Between this and the magas going full double down crazy today, it is almost too much news to absorb.
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1...Jj7Qs_DYQ&s=19
It does make you wonder what they were using. Ukrainians saying it was a made it Ukraine device...which could mean Neptune Anti Ship in land attack mode. Also evidence the Ukr is using pylon mounted US supplied anti radar missiles has people speculating we have been seeing UKR aircraft incursing into Russian controlled airspace after blinding them. Or longer range HIMARS. Or..whatever they were, damned effective.
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08-09-2022, 02:20 PM #8930
God damn! Ukraine brought the pain to Ivan today. Putin must be having a hissy fit, probably screaming at some subordinate for allowing this to happen. It will be interesting to see what Russia does in response. My guess are missile attacks on the government in Kiev, although he maybe afraid that Ukraine might then go after more government targets in Russia, and we are talking about a guy who sits at 20’ long tables to keep people away from him.
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08-09-2022, 02:48 PM #8931
which, coupled with Russia not having enough of the right drones and a shitty command structure, means Russia just lobs shells at a field hoping for a hit OR per Russian reports moves some artillery even closer to the front where it can be spotted by the shaky janky Orlan10 drones with the canon camera and pop bottle fuel tank…… and said artillery is more vulnerable
in other news, todays Hellscape Bingo entry is “Steven Seagall covers up Russian war crimes”
https://mobile.twitter.com/visegrad24
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08-09-2022, 03:09 PM #8932
Lots of reports that Russian artillery barrels are worn out and need replacements but there’s none available so they just keep firing. Eventually this results in the gun exploding. If they’re lucky it breaks near the muzzle, if they aren’t the whole thing blows up, killing or maiming the crew. This does wonders for morale as you can imagine.
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08-09-2022, 03:16 PM #8933
Ukraine
Ukraine been saving this one? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrim-2
https://www.military-today.com/missi...ic_missile.htm
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08-09-2022, 03:19 PM #8934
My guess is Putin has not been told of the strike on the Crimean base. And if he has been briefed, it will have been minimized by those doing the debriefing. It's really going to suck when Putin finds out the truth, that he's been lied to all this time. Then what? Kill some generals with a 20mm AA gun?
"We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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08-09-2022, 03:24 PM #8935
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08-09-2022, 03:25 PM #8936
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08-09-2022, 03:50 PM #8937
Steven Segal was always a bad actor.
Speaking of bad actors, two years ago today Russian puppet Lukashenko subverted Democracy and stole the election in Belarus. Millions protested and were violently repressed. Tens of thousands were arrested. Many disappeared forever.
Objectively, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya won the election and if she had become president the war in Ukraine may well have been avoided because there would be no Russian dreams of resurrecting the Soviet Union and no Bela-Russian bases to stage the invasion of Ukraine from the north.
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08-09-2022, 04:24 PM #8938
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08-09-2022, 05:45 PM #8939
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08-09-2022, 06:40 PM #8940
I saw something to the effect that when a UKR defense minister was asked about exploding Russian air force bases in Crimea, he reminded people not to smoke around munitions. That's just cold.
"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
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08-09-2022, 07:04 PM #8941
^^Russia claimed it was a fire...so...
https://mobile.twitter.com/Still_Fas...42465840009220
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08-09-2022, 08:29 PM #8942
Maybe this belongs in Kitty Stoke thread? IDK...
https://imgur.com/a/dfuzUKx"We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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08-10-2022, 08:10 AM #8943
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08-10-2022, 08:16 AM #8944
Russia to empty the jails to fight in Ukraine. This is both reprehensible and unsustainable. Russia must evacuate to their borders.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/europ...ntl/index.htmlj'ai des grands instants de lucididididididididi
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08-10-2022, 08:21 AM #8945
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08-10-2022, 08:58 AM #8946A woman came up to me and said "I'd like to poison your mind
with wrong ideas that appeal to you, though I am not unkind."
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08-10-2022, 09:16 AM #8947
I don't think we know the mechanism for how UKR blew that airport up. Claiming 9 aircraft were destroyed so incredibly successful. No incoming missiles seen on videos.
This source told WAPO it was Ukr special forces so that would presumably be an infiltration?
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1...Zmu49NiMw&s=19Last edited by uglymoney; 08-10-2022 at 09:43 AM.
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08-10-2022, 09:24 AM #8948
Specops, MLRS, cruise missiles, careless conscripts with cigs... who knows?
The Russians know... and the Ukranians know... and neither side wants to publicly admit it?Originally Posted by blurred
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08-10-2022, 09:28 AM #8949
FWIW, it's in Ukraine's interest to sow confusion in Russia over the attack. From Russia's perspective admitting Ukraine carried out a successful attack looks bad for 1) their base security if SOF operation or 2) their air defense if missile attack.
A state of emergency was declared in Russian-occupied Crimea following explosions at the Russian airbase. A Russian woman complains her vacation was cut short while stuck in a 60mile long traffic jam:
https://twitter.com/Lt_Kizhe/status/1557110513557032960
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08-10-2022, 09:37 AM #8950
Fair point. I should have said it's a Ukrainian attack, not an accident. Accidents are a lot less likely to just propogate down lines like that.
Speculation that this was another use of kamikaze drones is out there, too. Lots of options and it's encouraging that it's gone this long without specifics. Hopefully that lasts a while.
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