I don't think I've watched Sky news since. Weather interference to create certain conditions at short notice is just nonsense.
There is actually two versions on the terminator,one is based on t72 chassis the other is based on the t90 chassis,and i believe that t90 version comes with grenade launchers as well,except for that they are identical when it comes to armament.
They are basically ment for urban warfare,lessons learned from Afghanistan and Chechnya.
In the open they are sitting ducks to atgms like any other tank or ifv
The new version of javelin have 4,5 km range
I suggested this a while back, its been done before. The problem would be Turkey allowing Naval ships through the Bosporus
If the Russians keep to their usual form of obeying orders from the top,there may be a few Russian advances shelled out of existence.
"Forward" he cried from the rear and the front rank died.....repeat again and again and again.
Unless they are literally willing to shoot their way through the Black Sea Fleet, which I very much doubt, it will remain very much an idea only...
Interesting idea on grain transport being promoted by Lithuania.
The days of driving machines into cities are gone. A Barrett gun and a few rocket propelled grenades would make short work of the terminator, not to mention anti tank weapons.
"The Terminator 2 a tank chassis with lots of guns"
Looks like some ideas die hard...the Russians used the tank below in 1941. See the MG and gun turrets in the front? They had the same arrangement at the back, in reverse .e. gun on the right, MG on the left. Yes, this tank had no less than five(!) turrets. It didn't do very well in combat. Surprise, surprise, mechanical failure was a big problem.
(Actually the T2 looks more practical, but the Sky commentator's description made me think of the old T-35. 😀)
Very much so which is why I've been looking to find out more. It seems interest pieces and "from our correspondent" type pieces have gotten fewer recently.
They did and the Russians were raging with them - they view them as very much being in the Russian sphere of influence and someone who should be 'loyal' to them.
Didn't the Kazakhs vote against Russia as well? Could be wrong, thought I remembered that sticking out as a bit odd.
The story will all come out but we have no idea yet, maybe we never will, about how many saboteurs were in the Ukrainian ranks. I think they've confirmed at least one plot foiled against Zelensky. I'd imagine if it were the Yanks (though they do more or less seem to have gone from the assassinating leaders tactic) they'd have 3 or 4 independent plans without each actor knowing of other plans in case any didn't work. But it's Russia so they probably had one guy with a phone fresh out of the box asking silly questions in an oddly loud and stilted manner.
Thankfully Zelensky wasn't as naive as he seemed at the start, massive preparations were made and don't forget there was a battle for Kyiv, even if the Russians didn't plan for any resistance. I'm sure different levels of the Chinese government had foreknowledge but I doubt they saw much to give them a reason to doubt Russia. Former "province", already hold some land, country is almost half in favour of Russia (because speaking Russian means that apparently), military run down for a couple of decades... sounds simple enough.
Interesting snippet from Russian newspaper Kommersant that other senior officials in the Foreign Ministry have also resigned but have not gone public about their resignations in the way Bondarev has. It seems many within the department are disgusted at the way Lavrov and Zakharova are conducting themselves - openly lying and acting as cheerleaders for the slaughter in Ukraine.
Occupation authorities introduced Russian ruble in Kherson region from today
That's very, very significant potentially. Kazakhstan is basically a Russian client state. It would be remarkable for them to do something overt like this.
Any time the Kazakhs have done anything on Russia this year, the Russians (including the Putin bot public) have been absolutely seething and viewed it as a stab in the back. They're supposed to be a loyal satellite state.
Ukrainians bombing themselves again!
Kazakstan did no such thing
lyman heavy shelling
That's another big development considering Tokayev invited Russia troops there in January to maintain power.
There are old Soviet era bunkers in a lot of Ukrainian cities...
Some years ago the Russians did use a chemical (a silver compound) to disperse the clouds for the May 9th. parade.
Very different situation from Mariupol as the Ukrainian military will be within range to hammer the attacking Russians whilst the troops inside the city just ensure they don't let them progress quickly. This could be the meatgrinder to top all meat grinders as everything within 3 to 5kms of the cities edge will be shelled out of existence. I wouldn't fancy my chances of staying alive trying to capture a city in conditions like that.
Couldnt be worse than others i have seen
Well that's put them on the list
Whilst I wholly agree, that war analyst went a bit looney for me. He went off track at 11am one morning at started talking about China and Russia being able to create their own weather systems.
He blamed that for the lack of Nuclear bomber being paraded on Victory day. That the Russians has lost control of the ability to create weather.
Was the strangest sentence I've ever seen on Sky news!
Your military guy on Sky News said the UA may let them become encircled with a view to rescuing them later. If Russia is as depleted as some say, this might be possible.
Whatever about the wisdom of such a misadventure, the conventional thinking in corridors of power globally was that the Russian army would be way too strong for Ukraine. There wasn't too much disagreement with that 3 day invasion concept either.
Sky have probably the best unbiased report on the situation in Ukraine
Or possibly the Russians said it was special military operation in the disputed eastern sectors, similar to Crimean operation and said nothing about the full scale invasion.
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