500 Wagner convicts killed in the last two months.
Presumably many of them killed in the suicidal attacks on Bakhmut.
And those two are in the vanguard.
Ukrainian soldier sneaks up on a tank-
I'm not sure that retreating and fleeing Kherson are the same thing.
No, this was Trump's doing.
The original reference was to the possibility of destruction of concrete pillboxes by use of a type of ammunition I mistakenly did not believe to have been in service.
I know the theory, but until (apparently) recently, the US Army position was to take the discretion away from the troop and simply not issue ammunition which might be legal against some targets but not against others. Note that this round was developed by the Navy, hence the "Mark 211" designation, they don't shoot at troops very often. As a result, whatever weapon or ammo you had to hand that the Army gave you, you could shoot it at whatever enemy target was in front of you. Two cases from the Iraq war which brought this principle to more public awareness were the use of white phosphorous ammunition against troops (ugly, but lawful), and the temporary banning by an army lawyer of the use of open-point ammunition (mistakenly confusing it for hollow-point ammunition).
Oh my.
thank you for your service, service member
are You or have you been in the military….USA even…or are you merely an arm chair 🪑 military buff obsessed with weaponry and war? In any case you have just confused me further with your expertise/knowledge …..it’s way above what the average ‘joe soap’ would have
Ah the old WW2 Stalingrad “Advance or we’ll shoot you” doctrine of Stalin’s Russia. Must be great fun being an RU troop in that town. I’m wondering if they’ll go all in on that theme and only equip half of them with a rifle (with one unarmed troop following behind to grab that gun when the first one dies.)
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In case he is offline, Manic is a currently serving officer in the US army.
Anti material is used mostly against lightly armoured troop carriers, trucks and APC. Now I do not think AM rifles and bullets will be issued to troops. The reason they have much more effective solutions against pillboxes in anti tank projectiles.
However it would not be illegal as per the GC to use AM against a pillbox. In essence it would have much the same effect as an AT weapon when it penetrated the concrete. The troops inside would be killed and injured by sharpnel from the actions of the AM on the pill box.
However it could take maybe 10-30 minutes to take out a concrete defensive position like that an AT weapon would do it in 30 seconds.
Even ordinary bullets fired into a position like that would creat havoc with there ricocheting around in a small. concrete box like that.
in that case, I want a piece made out of blown up orck Kamaz in which at least 30 nazi pigs died. I'll give extra $$$ if the remains of washing machine was found in that kamaz too.
It must be still somewhat surreal for the Ukrainian soldiers.
There must come a point where they realise they are about to run out and blow up a tank with an RPG.
That takes some big fuckin balls.
I'm not sure where he is located nowadays, but at one stage his "armchair" was in Afghanistan. He's an officer, so what he says can be taken as being from a very knowledgeable source.
I get it right on military (particularly Army) matters more often than not, as a US Lieutenant Colonel, but even I am not infallible, as evidenced above.
My current armchair is in Texas.
Thats the money shot right there.......
Like me so Manic, Afghanistan fast becoming memories, and even unforgettable ones..... even if sometimes for the wrong reasons.
So, maybe you can answer the REALLY big question.
When a major is a higher rank than a Lieutenant - why is a Lieutenant General a higher rank than a Major General 🤯
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Can Biden not offer refuge to these Afghan special forces instead of Russia offering them protection?
They can’t be allowed onto the battlefield in Ukraine.
It’ll be worth keeping an eye on the repairs or lack thereof in the coming weeks and months. If Putin thinks he’ll lose Crimea he’s not going to make costly repairs to his pet project.
And because he's a walking, talking POS:
Ukraine suffered a comms outage when 1,300 SpaceX satellite units went offline over funding issues
Fri November 4, 2022
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/spacex-ukraine-elon-musk-starlink-internet-outage/index.html
If you say you will do something, do it. I think this is the third or fourth back flip, though he's done it without a tweet, just pulled the plug. It looks like he's pulled the plug to hurry up the Pentagon in paying for it because despite saying he'll pay for it, he's actually never stopped negotiations trying to get the Pentagon to pay for it, as mentioned in the article.
So Elon must inform the world via twitter when he's about to do something?
I'd imagine he might have phoned some relevant people before he flipped the switch. I'd agree with him too. US gov is spending billions on training and munitions. Doubt any of the military providers are charities. Elon is just asking to be paid for providing communication.
Is it not more of a case of Starlikn being a loss making operation and Musk using any leverage to increase prices. Starlink are already being paid the contracted price.
Pentagon should be paying for it. Odd that they are not.
I might be wrong, but i thought Ukrainians are paying for the starlink service.
Why exactly should they pay for a private enterprise's loss making entity?
They didn't ask anyone to provide starlink, but Musk is getting a lot of advertising for his space junk for free. He offered something, asked for more funding, was refused and then decided he would provide it for "free" like some sort of martyr. Then he reneged and pulled the plug without warning. He is acting like an attention seeking child.
This exchange with MM seems to be getting a bit weird. MM isn't a moderator.
If it’s seen as junk then he should turn it off.
Ah another newly registered guru. Welcome!
As an astronomer, I see it as junk. Much like I see putinbots as junk.
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