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Great. Neo Nazis ambushing neo-fascists.Twitter video
The defense continues. Soldiers of Azov Regiment ambushed a Russian convoy in #Mariupol. #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWarmari
Great. Neo Nazis ambushing neo-fascists.Twitter video
The defense continues. Soldiers of Azov Regiment ambushed a Russian convoy in #Mariupol. #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWarmari
Kinda' makes your head spin.Great. Neo Nazis ambushing neo-fascists.Twitter video
The defense continues. Soldiers of Azov Regiment ambushed a Russian convoy in #Mariupol. #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWarmari
Naw, just making Russia look more like a "victim". Russia / Putin is under a time crunch. They must occupy eastern Ukraine as fast as they can, and then call for peace. They only have so much money and supply to work with.Russia alleges that Ukraine has shelled Golovicho village in Belgorod region on Russian side of the border.
3 wounded as result of shelling in Golovchino village of Belgorod region - governor Belgorod, Belgorodskaya oblast' - Ukraine Interactive map - Ukraine Latest news on live map - liveuamap.com
3 wounded as result of shelling in Golovchino village of Belgorod region - governor . Live Universal Awareness Map Liveuamap is a leading independent global news and information site dedicated to factual reporting of a variety of important topics including conflicts, human rights issues...liveuamap.com
There are also pictures of destroyed civilian houses. To me it seems there's nothing there worthy to destroy though. The main supply lines are elsewhere. Could this be a false flag to justify martial law and mobilization in Russia?
[/QUOTE]But the siloviki are ruthless in protecting their own interests, and there is one way, at least, that they might lose faith: if Russia’s economic troubles reach the point that its regional governors begin to break ranks with Putin and the economic order that has sustained Putin’s security state for more than 20 years begins to collapse, then the siloviki may well conclude that the Kremlin is losing control of the country and that their own future is threatened. In that case, they could step aside and let it happen—or even provide a hand.
Naw, he needs a lot more than the area they control at the moment... to justify all of the hardship and sacrifices the rich have had to endure.US troops to train Ukrainian forces on howitzers in coming days
The training, which will occur outside Ukraine, will teach Ukrainian forces to operate the 155mm howitzers. They will then return to the fight and train other Ukrainians to use the American cannons, the official said.www.stripes.com
so we are training Ukrainians on using our military equipment already. Granted, howitzers aren't particularly complicated to learn. And the trainees already know how to use artillery. M1A1’s may be more difficult, but someone trained with T72’s could learn it fairly quick. Although providing them with other NATO Soviet bloc weapons may make more sense.
the UK is also supplying a variety of armored vehicles and the training to go with it.
The UK Is Delivering a Menagerie of Armored Vehicles to Ukraine
Wheeled or tracked, such vehicles are useful to Ukraine as it shifts forces eastward to counter mounting Russian operations focusing on the Donbas region in Eastern Ukraine.www.19fortyfive.com
If the war lasts much longer, further supplies and training will be necessary. I wonder if Putin’s new strategy will be to simply hold on to what he has taken and not engage in offensive operations.
Since you say Navy--could you walk aboard a warship, find a target and hit it with a Harpoon? (Assume you have all required access but you're alone.) If you can, how long did it take you to learn all the systems that are involved?I don't think there is a steep learning curve on many of these systems. Especially if they are designed for US Army enlisted personnel to operate. This is a trend I watched over my 23 years in the navy; shorter training time, robust systems, minimal maintenance, ease of operation.The problem is that they would need training to use western equipment. And there's a limited amount of old Soviet and Russian stock available. Even the Slovakian (or some other country's) MiGs are unusable, because they've been fitted with NATO avionics.Ukraine does have a bleak future indeed, but they can hold on and fight these fuckers to a standstill. According to your website, they’ve repelled four attacks today.
The key is supplies, and those may be running low. The US is supplying 40,000 artillery shells. Sheeesh! That’s enough for a few days at most! Not nearly enough. The west must ensure at least 10,000 shells a day. We also need to supply them with tanks, high altitude air defense, and even more MiGs.
But shells... those should be standard enough. They need a steady supply.
I was wondering about the same thing. Both Ukraine and Russia teased with a beginning of a major battle in Donbas... and then nothing happened? Except shelling and missiles all over the place. I think Russians are afraid to try really large maneuvers because they failed so spectacularly in the beginning, the troops morale is in the gutter, and their equipment needs fixing. So they're playing it safe and relying on artillery.US troops to train Ukrainian forces on howitzers in coming days
The training, which will occur outside Ukraine, will teach Ukrainian forces to operate the 155mm howitzers. They will then return to the fight and train other Ukrainians to use the American cannons, the official said.www.stripes.com
so we are training Ukrainians on using our military equipment already. Granted, howitzers aren't particularly complicated to learn. And the trainees already know how to use artillery. M1A1’s may be more difficult, but someone trained with T72’s could learn it fairly quick. Although providing them with other NATO Soviet bloc weapons may make more sense.
the UK is also supplying a variety of armored vehicles and the training to go with it.
The UK Is Delivering a Menagerie of Armored Vehicles to Ukraine
Wheeled or tracked, such vehicles are useful to Ukraine as it shifts forces eastward to counter mounting Russian operations focusing on the Donbas region in Eastern Ukraine.www.19fortyfive.com
If the war lasts much longer, further supplies and training will be necessary. I wonder if Putin’s new strategy will be to simply hold on to what he has taken and not engage in offensive operations. He will use artillery to shell Ukrainian positions, but not actually engage in much advancing towards other objectives. Then the war reverts somewhat to how it was before the invasion, just with him in control of more territory, and maybe more activity along the front. That could de-escalate the situation further, and allow him to minimize further losses and sort of claim victory. He liberated Donbas!
We'll see.But I think it would be clear to many that he failed and the operation was a waste. And while everyone will say he won’t be overthrown, the failure can’t be papered over for too long. At some point he is gone. Maybe ten years from now. But in the meantime, he’s setting the stage for a massive catastrophe for Russia, and eventually he loses. I just wish it would happen soon. And it might.
Cannon became the general term for large ordnance. A gun was a cannon designed to fire in a flat trajectory, a howitzer was a shorter piece designed to throw exploding shells in an arcing trajectory, and a mortar was a very short piece for firing at elevations of more than 45°.
Leaked US training plan for Ukrainian troops:
Cannon became the general term for large ordnance. A gun was a cannon designed to fire in a flat trajectory, a howitzer was a shorter piece designed to throw exploding shells in an arcing trajectory, and a mortar was a very short piece for firing at elevations of more than 45°.
Whom is having trouble with the word "Howitzer". I suspect it would be the US troops rather than the Ukrainians.Leaked US training plan for Ukrainian troops:
Cannon became the general term for large ordnance. A gun was a cannon designed to fire in a flat trajectory, a howitzer was a shorter piece designed to throw exploding shells in an arcing trajectory, and a mortar was a very short piece for firing at elevations of more than 45°.
Day 1: What the hell is a "Howitzer"?
Day 2: How to pronounce "Howitzer".
Day 3: Recap of day 2.
Day 4: How to use it.
155mm is considerably larger than five inches. Indeed, it is more than six inches.Let's not forget that the U.S. inventory once included an 8 inch "gun." The 8 inch "gun" fired tactical nukes. Is that beast still around? Your standard destroyer only carried 5 inch guns so an 8 inch piece of artillery was a beast.
155 howitzers are a piece of cake. The Ukrainians will take about 60 seconds to master the instrument.
Since they will be using them in a battle situation they need to be pretty good at breaking down the guns quickly. That will take considerably more than 60 seconds of practice. While I'm sure the Russian counterbattery fire will be as inept as everything else we have seen in this war that doesn't mean you can just sit there and expect to survive.Let's not forget that the U.S. inventory once included an 8 inch "gun." The 8 inch "gun" fired tactical nukes. Is that beast still around? Your standard destroyer only carried 5 inch guns so an 8 inch piece of artillery was a beast.
155 howitzers are a piece of cake. The Ukrainians will take about 60 seconds to master the instrument.
155 mm... 6 in.... *American brain imploding*155mm is considerably larger than five inches. Indeed, it is more than six inches.Let's not forget that the U.S. inventory once included an 8 inch "gun." The 8 inch "gun" fired tactical nukes. Is that beast still around? Your standard destroyer only carried 5 inch guns so an 8 inch piece of artillery was a beast.
155 howitzers are a piece of cake. The Ukrainians will take about 60 seconds to master the instrument.
Agreed. There is one country fighting to stop WW3, and that's Ukraine. If Russia imperialism stops in Ukraine, war probably won't spread to the rest of Europe. But that's why we should do everything we can to help Ukraine. And to be frank, we aren't doing enough. They are running out of supplies. They need the ability to strike at Russian artillery that are just leveling Ukraine. If Ukraine is wiped out it will because of the inability of the west to sufficiently send them aid.The horror that was WWII apparently is far enough in the collective memory of the globe, that we are steering ourselves into another global catastrophe.