December 26, 20223 yr 3 hours ago, Abracadabra said: That’s one long ass arm you photo shopped there. Not quite as long as the drones hitting Russian air bases though.
December 26, 20223 yr 5 hours ago, JohnSnowsHair said: Easily replaceable. 2 week training program. One thing too is that Russia is facing a shortage of skilled pilots as a lot of them are dead or are POWs. 5 hours ago, Mlodj said: Jeez it's almost as if HIMARS allowed Ukraine to shape the battlefield or something. I think it was ISW that noted that if they didn't take Bakhmut by Dec 15th that they were unlikely to take it at all. I think the forces they have there are exhausted to the point of being combat ineffective and given the rapid rate they have been shooting arty rounds/having depots blown up has depleted their stocks. 15 minutes ago, Talkingbirds said: That’s one long ass arm you photo shopped there. Not quite as long as the drones hitting Russian air bases though. Not only that but they hit the same base twice.
December 26, 20223 yr 28 minutes ago, Talkingbirds said: That’s one long ass arm you photo shopped there. Not quite as long as the drones hitting Russian air bases though. An occasional drone making it's way into Russia isn't going to change the outcome of the SMO. On the battlefield, where drones are having an enormous affect, the Russian's electronic warfare capabilities are decimating the Ukrainian air force and drone fleet. Quote The Ukrainian air force’s fighter pilots were the first to feel the effects of escalating Russian jamming. "As Russian E.W. complexes began to be deployed systematically, Ukrainian pilots found that they often had their air-to-ground and air-to-air communications jammed, their navigation equipment suppressed and their radar knocked out,” Zabrodskyi, Watling, Danylyuk and Reynolds wrote. Russian jammers soon were thick on the ground in the east. "With the concentration of effort on Donbas, Russia set up E.W. complexes with up to 10 complexes per [13 miles] of frontage,” the RUSI analysts noted. "Collectively, these complexes effectively disrupted navigation along the front and conducted direction finding to direct artillery and electronic attack against Ukrainian aircraft and UAVs.” Ukrainian brigades and batteries depended on two broad drone types to find Russian forces and walk in artillery: small, hovering quadcopters and octocopters; and larger, fixed-wing UAVs such as the Turkish-made Bayraktar TB-2. As Russian jamming confused GPS and severed radio links, these drones started dropping like flies. Forbes
December 26, 20223 yr 12 minutes ago, Abracadabra said: An occasional drone making it's way into Russia isn't going to change the outcome of the SMO. On the battlefield, where drones are having an enormous affect, the Russian's electronic warfare capabilities are decimating the Ukrainian air force and drone fleet. Forbes
December 27, 20223 yr 5 hours ago, Abracadabra said: Fun how much is taken out of context. He indeed confirms that there have been Ukrainian units committing atrocities. I don't believe anyone here has denied that. Certainly not in the way you've denied any wrongdoing on the part of Russia. He also says, in the broader interview here, that he's pulled Mozart's support from these units, and that most units are NOT committing these disqualifying (from support from his mercenary group) actions. 3 hours ago, lynched1 said: Yet again I'm not wrong. Not sorry it hurts Uh, yeah you're wrong. But you'll never admit it and walk through life blissfully ignorant believe you were right. Keep going edge lord.
December 27, 20223 yr 13 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: Uh, yeah you're wrong. But you'll never admit it and walk through life blissfully ignorant believe you were right. Keep going edge lord. By all means tell the class where I'm wrong. Should be fun.
December 27, 20223 yr If you are a Russian oligarch I would advise you to stay out of buildings higher than one story.
December 27, 20223 yr 26 minutes ago, Mlodj said: If you are a Russian oligarch I would advise you to stay out of buildings higher than one story. Russia's worst enemy is gravity.
December 28, 20223 yr 16 minutes ago, Prime said: Time to threaten the motherland. FRIGHTEN THEM AT HOME. F THIS COCKAMAIMIE BS!!! crap OR GET OFF THE POT!! NUKE US OR DON'T, AND BTW, GO F YOURSELF! I'M SICK OF THIS BS "WAITING" DO IT! DO IT PUTIN! DO ITTT!! F YOU! DIE! IN THE FIRE YOU FING CREATE! DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE, F YOU, JUST FING DIE! GO FALL DOWN YOUR STAIRS, crap YOUR PANTS, ANG FING DIE! There's no money to be made that way. It's more profitable to bleed off public wealth for personal gain.
December 28, 20223 yr I wonder if a window was involved? Quote Another sudden death of a top official in Russia’s military supply chain has been reported following a series unexplained deaths in the past week. Alexei Fedorovich Maslov, former commander in chief of Russia’s ground forces turned special representative for the military corporation Uralvagonzavod — which specializes in battle tanks — was reported to have unexpectedly died at a military hospital on Christmas Day at the age of 70. The company took to Telegram to announce his death and said he "remained faithful" to Russia "until his last day." Maslov’s death also followed the unexpected passing of 67-year-old Alexander Buzakov, the General Director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, Admiralty Shipyards, which produces carriers for Kalibr cruise missiles, among others, on Saturday.
December 29, 20223 yr 4 hours ago, Mlodj said: I wonder what the congressional IPO was on this little piece of sweetness
December 29, 20223 yr Russia claiming that a Ukranian robot hits somewhere in Belarus today. Mistake or pure fabrication, this story will no doubt be used by Putin to pull Belarus into active participation.
December 29, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, DrPhilly said: Russia claiming that a Ukranian robot hits somewhere in Belarus today. Mistake or pure fabrication, this story will no doubt be used by Putin to pull Belarus into active participation. It appears to be the same as what happened in Poland, a Ukranian SAM that went astray.
December 29, 20223 yr LINK Quote It seems that Russian mercenary firm The Wagner Group is operating Russia’s best tank, the T-90M. That would be yet another wrinkle in the increasingly befuddling story of The Wagner Group, an entity that legally doesn’t even exist, but which for six months has been fighting one of the most brutal battles of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine. The Wagner Group, which made its first appearance in a war zone in eastern Ukraine in 2014, is a useful tool of Russia’s foreign policy. In reality a network of closely related companies rather than a single firm, The Wagner Group fronted Russia’s intervention in the Libyan and Syrian civil wars and, under the guise of "peacekeeping,” also represents Russian mining interests in insurgency-riven Central African Republic. Wagner offers the Kremlin plausible deniability—both at broad and at home. "This blurring of the lines between civil, military and peacekeeping operations during the hostilities creates confusion about the legitimate targets and increases the risks for widespread human rights and humanitarian law abuses,” United Nations experts warned. In Ukraine, Wagner fights as a conventional force. Its best contractors—some 10,000 ex-servicemembers—lead battalions made up mostly of minimally-trained former convicts who Wagner recruited from Russia’s prisons. There are as many as 40,000 ex-prisoners on Wagner’s payroll. That’s a fifth of the Russian force in Ukraine. Wagner since early summer has focused its efforts in Ukraine on a single town in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. Bakhmut is a ruined ghost town. It lacks major industry or transportation infrastructure. It doesn’t seem to possess much military value. But that hasn’t stopped Wagner from dedicating almost all its forces in Ukraine to the Bakhmut sector—and losing many of them in repeated, failed human-wave assaults on the town’s entrenched Ukrainian garrison. Analysts have surmised that Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former sausage-vendor and close associate of Russian president Vladimir Putin who now is Wagner’s chief financier, views the Bakhmut battle as an opportunity to prove Wagner’s warfighting mettle and position the firm as an alternative to regular Russian forces in the Kremlin’s military establishment. It’s apparent that Prigozhin and Russian generals are bitter rivals. When Wagner artillery batteries around Bakhmut ran out of ammunition, they blamed Gen. Valery Gerasimov, chief of the Russian general staff. What’s weird is that the Russian military and The Wagner Group clearly have close ties. Wagner pilots fly Sukhoi Su-24 and Su-25 attack jets that technically belong to the Russian air force and evidently benefit from air force logistical support. The presence of T-90M tanks in the Wagner arsenal around Bakhmut, first reported by pro-Russia war correspondent Alexander Simonov, deepens the weirdness. The 45-ton, three-person T-90 with its 125-millimter gun and steel-composite armor is Russia’s newest and best tank. Before the current war, the Russians on paper had more than 600 T-90s. But 200 were in storage—and in cold, wet Russia, modern tanks with their delicate optics and electronics tend to degrade fast while not in routine use. So in fact, the Russian army had just 400 T-90s before attacking Ukraine in late February. And after February, it lost at least 36 of the tanks in combat with Ukrainian forces. That brings the total T-90 inventory down to around 360, of which at least 50 belong to Russian army battalions defending a key road around Svatove, 50 miles north of Bakhmut. The T-90s are highly valuable and in short supply. So why would the Kremlin give, or sell, any of them to Wagner while Wagner directly competes with the Russian army for influence in Moscow? No one outside of the Kremlin and The Wagner Group’s Saint Petersburg headquarters can explain the odd and seemingly paradoxical relationship between the mercenary company and the army. Those who do understand, aren’t saying anything.
December 29, 20223 yr you put "fabricated" in quotes... are you implying it wasn't fabricated? BURN! LOL HOIST BY YOUR OWN PICARD, ****!
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