War in Ukraine

[Burhead]

Hinds are hunting in the east. Not going to lie I do love the Hind for some odd reason.

 

[Burhead]

 

[evillawyer]

What a good looking bunch of fellas you got there @Rasputin_Vol. I'm sure their good Christian values are as healthy as their teeth.

 

[Burhead]

Valery Zaluzhny, the man behind Ukraine's counter-offensive

 

[Vol737]

What a good looking bunch of fellas you got there @Rasputin_Vol. I'm sure their good Christian values are as healthy as their teeth.

That's kind of hard to watch. Some of these guys look like they got pulled out of a senior living facility to fight, not to mention malnourished.

 

[evillawyer]

That's kind of hard to watch. Some of these guys look like they got pulled out of a senior living facility to fight, not to mention malnourished.

Looks like they thrown the town drunks into the meat grinder.

 

[evillawyer]

The worst smack talk ever.

 

[Velo Vol]

 

[AM64]

Talk about double speak: we "have" them, but "lack them quantitatively "?

Prototypes that never made it to the production line; and stolen stuff Russians can't figure out how to copy.

 

[AM64]

You should read the DOD manual on how to clean and operate a paper clip. !

You know there are no paper clips being delivered to the military now. It seems like the military has yet to finalize the specs for the new Block 42 variant after 15 years of writing specs.

 

[AM64]

Glide bombs - not HIMARS - killing mobile Russian MSTA arty in the South lines. RF counterattack fail. Bigly.



Actual boom boom... of note multiple other sources confirm GLSBs not HIMARS here.

There was a popular WW2 song "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" ... with anyone but me. The Ukrainian War version would be "You Can Sit Under Ukrainian Skies" ... with anyone but me. Ukrainian drones have got to be demoralizing to Russian troops. Drones as spotters, drones as weapons, and drone mini bombers, and it seems no place to hide from them. And now targeted glide bombs.

 

[evillawyer]

@Rasputin_Vol, can you come get your boys from the bar. They're drunk and lecturing about "theft".

 

[Velo Vol]

Leaders whose countries are in great shape generally don't start wars.

 

[Velo Vol]

There was a popular WW2 song "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" ... with anyone but me.

A post that will only interest me, but our band is playing a medley of tunes that includes that one.

 

[LouderVol]

that would be pretty astonishing if true.

 

[Rocky_Top_Vol13]

 

[Vol737]

Leaders whose countries are in great shape generally don't start wars.

That FP article link at the bottom is interesting. I disagree with the premise, though, as it doesn’t seem they account for Putin’s dwindling inner circle and what those who have been expelled from it may be able to do to remove him from power. They cannot win this thing unless VP does the unthinkable. Then they lose anyway.

 

[TNVOLNAVY]

 

[LouderVol]

going to be interesting to see how armored vehicles evolve. With IEDs you had to armor the bottom, and figure out how to deal with the blast force (V shaped hulls). now with drones seems like we are going to have to see a similar but opposite approach.

 

[Septic]

That's what happens in war. Frankly, we should be thanking Ukraine for giving our military unbelievable intel on how to counter these new threats without ever having to put American sons and daughters in harms way.

Money well spent.

 

[Septic]

going to be interesting to see how armored vehicles evolve. With IEDs you had to armor the bottom, and figure out how to deal with the blast force (V shaped hulls). now with drones seems like we are going to have to see a similar but opposite approach.

"lasers" and better proactive armor.

 

[MontyPython]

That's what happens in war. Frankly, we should be thanking Ukraine for giving our military unbelievable intel on how to counter these new threats without ever having to put American sons and daughters in harms way.

Money well spent.

Precisely. @TNVOLNAVY whines all the time about our government spending, yet I'm sure he smiles all the way to the bank with his social security checks.

 

[MontyPython]

"lasers" and better proactive armor.

Lasers are in the pipeline.

Army short-range air defense laser prototypes take down drones at Yuma

April 13, 2023

Downed drones littered the battlefield at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona during a live-fire test of the Stryker-based Short-Range Air Defense system prototypes with 50-kilowatt lasers, according to the director of Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office.

“When they got out on the range, they were knocking targets out of the sky, Group 1, Group 2, Group 3 [unmanned aircraft systems],” Lt. Gen. Robert Rasch said told Defense News in an interview. “Very, very effective.”

While the lasers made short work of drones, some challenges remain in taking out rockets, artillery and mortars, he said.

 

[Hunerwadel]

That's kind of hard to watch. Some of these guys look like they got pulled out of a senior living facility to fight, not to mention malnourished.

These are Russia's finest.

 

[Hunerwadel]

@Rasputin_Vol, can you come get your boys from the bar. They're drunk and lecturing about "theft".

Russia whining about the theft of an aircraft after attempting to steal an entire country. Priceless