War in Ukraine

[USF grad in TN]

A couple American fast attack subs would make short work of China’s brown water navy.

What's a brown water navy?
NM. I looked it up. You're saying they need to stay close to shore.

 

[Pepe_Silvia]

Good thx. I haven’t even fired one of my pistols since the start of the end of the world. And I remember seeing empty pistol ammo shelves at Cabela’s then.

You need some range time or else you'll be no good to us when the Russians are storming myrtle beach.

 

[NorthDallas40]

You need some range time or else you'll be no good to us when the Russians are storming myrtle beach.

Eh Myrtle Beach is over rated. If they start closing in on Destin I’ll hit the range.

You’re not wrong I do need to go send some lead down range but more importantly get the wife and MIL there so they don’t shoot them selves.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

What's a brown water navy?

Rivers and inland/continental rivers vs a blue water navy that patrols the open seas... British, Spanish and Americans had blue water navies historically.

 

[evillawyer]

Never realized Solovyov was such a munchkin.

 

[evillawyer]

 

[FLVOL_79]

This is hilarious. Dudes in a country where one of their biggest industries is literally being global scam artists, and they laugh in his face at his bullsh!t.

 

[FLVOL_79]

If they have lost over a 1/2 million soldiers they couldn’t sustain a fight. Those number have to BS or the Russians are worse than we thought.

They have well over 100,000 casualties. I think a lot of folks think that means dead and are unaware its dead and injured.

 

[LouderVol]

if he is exiled I don't know how much i would buy his word.

 

[LouderVol]

They have well over 100,000 casualties. I think a lot of folks think that means dead and are unaware its dead and injured.

they make a distinction between dead and wounded. but they use "people", so they are including civilians too.

Despite Ras's protests I am willing to bet there have been more civilian losses than military losses.

 

[WoodsmanVol]

During a shared video chat (surprised you can still do that), a young Moscow gal made an interesting comment. She said the "Z" symbol is supposed to mean patriotic support for the Russian military. But the funny thing is, if you marry two Zs to each other, their wedding night makes them a swastika. I thought, ummm. Perhaps Putin didn't mean his special operation was to remove Nazis from Ukraine, but to install them there. I'm just as surprised she had the guts to say that, given how the Putin regime severely punish anyone daring to speak contrary to official doctrine/propaganda.

 

[WBO]

They have well over 100,000 casualties. I think a lot of folks think that means dead and are unaware its dead and injured.

From what I'm reading, battlefield medical support is non-existent for the Russians right now, especially with Wagner and the Chechens. Some of their people saying if you're shot you just lay there unless you can crawl back to your lines. Would love to see an analysis of survivability of a wounded US soldier in Iraq/ Afghannistan versus that of a Russian soldier in Ukraine. Guessing those numbers are pretty grim for the Russians.

Had a family member wounded in the bad early days in Iraq. His Humvee was taken out by a RPG. His father was a medical officer back in the US and could follow every minute of his son's medical treatment on his computer sitting in his office at Bethesda. Could see every IV, initial screening reports, everything as it happened. Within 36 hours his son was on a medivac C-141 to Ramstein Army Hospital. Without a doubt the best combat wound care in the world. Not perfect, but still the best.

It's why the VA was so overwhelmed and failed the wounded vets so badly. Cheney and the chickenhawks were not ready for a level of survival from severe wounds not seen before. Didn't believe the generals' projections for manpower requirements or casualties.

 

[Burhead]

 

[Pepe_Silvia]

During a shared video chat (surprised you can still do that), a young Moscow gal made an interesting comment. She said the "Z" symbol is supposed to mean patriotic support for the Russian military. But the funny thing is, if you marry two Zs to each other, their wedding night makes them a swastika. I thought, ummm. Perhaps Putin didn't mean his special operation was to remove Nazis from Ukraine, but to install them there. I'm just as surprised she had the guts to say that, given how the Putin regime severely punish anyone daring to speak contrary to official doctrine/propaganda.

Looks like you've cracked the case.

 

[Rocky_Top_Vol13]

 

[evillawyer]

New Russian army theme song:

 

[tvolsfan]

Apparently the bald dwarf thought invading Ukraine and the fallout from that would break NATO.

 

[BeardedVol]

New Russian army theme song:

Really looking forward to the first videos of the Leopards facing off against T62s.

 

[NorthDallas40]

Really looking forward to the first videos of the Leopards facing off against T62s.

It will likely be very boring videos. The T62’s plodding along merrily thinking about the next group of civilians they’re going to terrorize not even realizing they’ve already been targeted by the Leo’s much better sights. Then blammo the sabot round hits as they are completely unaware they were already dead.

 

[BeardedVol]

It will likely be very boring videos. The T62’s plodding along merrily thinking about the next group of civilians they’re going to terrorize not even realizing they’ve already been targeted by the Leo’s much better sights. Then blammo the sabot round hits as they are completely unaware they were already dead.

Heresy; Russian turret-tossing is never boring.

 

[NorthDallas40]

Heresy; Russian turret-tossing is never boring.

On second thought.

 

[FLVOL_79]

From what I'm reading, battlefield medical support is non-existent for the Russians right now, especially with Wagner and the Chechens. Some of their people saying if you're shot you just lay there unless you can crawl back to your lines. Would love to see an analysis of survivability of a wounded US soldier in Iraq/ Afghannistan versus that of a Russian soldier in Ukraine. Guessing those numbers are pretty grim for the Russians.

Had a family member wounded in the bad early days in Iraq. His Humvee was taken out by a RPG. His father was a medical officer back in the US and could follow every minute of his son's medical treatment on his computer sitting in his office at Bethesda. Could see every IV, initial screening reports, everything as it happened. Within 36 hours his son was on a medivac C-141 to Ramstein Army Hospital. Without a doubt the best combat wound care in the world. Not perfect, but still the best.

It's why the VA was so overwhelmed and failed the wounded vets so badly. Cheney and the chickenhawks were not ready for a level of survival from severe wounds not seen before. Didn't believe the generals' projections for manpower requirements or casualties.

Russia has shown that for all intents and purposes their military is absolutely not capable of waging modern warfare and are woefully under prepared, trained, equipped, and led.

I keep seeing Russian troops firing from a position then rotating out with another person who then fires from the same position. Wtf? It's like they got their combat strategies from an old copy of MAD Magazine.

 

[NorthDallas40]

Russia has shown that for all intents and purposes their military is absolutely not capable of waging modern warfare and are woefully under prepared, trained, equipped, and led.

But the peon horde overwhelming attack has worked so well for them before. And it leverages their most bountiful natural resource, a bunch of stupid mindless Russians

 

[Vol737]

Russia has shown that for all intents and purposes their military is absolutely not capable of waging modern warfare and are woefully under prepared, trained, equipped, and led.

I keep seeing Russian troops firing from a position then rotating out with another person who then fires from the same position. Wtf? It's like they got their combat strategies from an old copy of MAD Magazine.

Before long, Russia might just try this strategy. They would probably fare about as well.

 

[Paper_Towel]

Russia has shown that for all intents and purposes their military is absolutely not capable of waging modern warfare and are woefully under prepared, trained, equipped, and led.

I keep seeing Russian troops firing from a position then rotating out with another person who then fires from the same position. Wtf? It's like they got their combat strategies from an old copy of MAD Magazine.

They also literally aim at the sky when they fire over their heads.

Gotta shoot down those government spy systems aka birds.