Estonia becomes the latest country to buy HImars systems,they are only buying 6 ,but add that to the 20 going to Poland with another 200 MLR 270s along with Apache gunships and Abrams tanks and redback IFVs Poland Will be a military powerhouse in Europe
Purrty lady that B21 Raider
I think it comes down to logistics train , and size .. an Abrams is 70 ton ,
If it's too heavy for Soviet era bridging equipment - then you need to change that too ,
breakdown and recovery ? You need something that can do that ,
So you need to train the crew on something that's alien to them - take a few months minimum , you need to do the same with your bridging crew and sappers , you need to do the same with your local repair team , they can learn and reequip just like the tank crew , but they can't do it overnight ..
The heavy stuff would prob be done by us contractors in Poland ..
It's kind of the same with aircraft , although I could see a aquadron of gripens being deployed quicker than abrams ..
the USA are getting ready for Armageddon, and their bombers have bespoke GPS too unlike Russia
Cannot wait to see the first AI Tractor steal a tank.
I think you mean the AN 225, the 124's are still flying.
I highly doubt that's the reason Ukraine haven't received any Abrams. I'd assume a tank barrel would last longer than artillery due to just the sheer volume of artillery shells being fired. There hasn't been many large scale tank on tank battles so far. Maybe the turbine engine would be a bigger issue.
What's your issue with Ukrainian artillery being transported to Poland for repairs and maintenance? For so many reasons it makes sense.
Quicker access to parts.
Mechanics who have years of experience fixing and maintaining said equipment.
Frees up Ukrainian engineers to fix Soviet era equipment and do field repairs.
Zero risk of a large repair facility in Ukraine getting attacked if it's actually in a NATO country.
They also built the world's largest plane, the AN-124-100, which the Orcs destroyed, but apparently if you listen to the yanks, they haven't got what it takes to repair one of their pork barreled Abrams tanks.
It's no wonder Putin wants to destroy Ukraine and kidnap it's children.
If they were left alone,.... they'd rule the world.
Lindybiege is a massive spoofer, Boris Johnson type energy. He did an interview with The Chieftain, of this parish, which mostly consisted of him enthusiastically spoofing away and Chieftain politely correcting him,
I wouldnt trust the provenance of anything the guy puts up.
Maybe, but so far, such niceties of rules of war have not bothered our Vladimir overmuch. That bastard would send his own mother or father to the front lines if it suited him. In his world there's only one center of importance, that everything must revolve around, and that's himself. And as we have already seen, many of his friends, colleagues, or advisors who thought different have discovered, they were not so important or essential after all.
I suspect the issue is that the Putin regime is not officially at war with Ukraine and therefore cannot legally send women soldiers into battle. Even now, it is still claiming to be carrying out no more than a "special military operation" in Ukraine.
Tks for that. You learn something everyday
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Standings should be standins
Came across a link to a detailed article about Orc spy netwoks and operatives in Europe. It's in Ukrainian:
https://war.obozrevatel.com/ukr/vijskovij-rozvidtsi-rf-zavdali-potuzhnogo-udaru-sotni-shpiguniv-iz-gru-rozkrito-v-evropi.htm
And in 2021, a GRU employee arrived in Norway at the University of Tromso, in particular to study "hybrid threats". And in Vilnius, he participated in a training on the "hybrid war". In addition, they discussed a very relevant topic on how to react in case of sabotage on the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
What a coincidence.
Not a question of "Fuss" as such cnockbui. In ww2, Russian women fought alongside the men (if you have seen "Enemy at the Gate" you will know what I mean) but in Ukraine, I have not seen or heard of any Russian women fighting on the front lines, there's one or two vid showing them at the bases OK, but on the Ukrainian side, the women are on the front lines fighting, predominantly snipers.
More than likely, especially if the request was accompanied by a billion or two lodgment in the opening account. The Swiss are very accommodating under the right conditions.. Personally, I'd say that I'd have to marry one, and wait out the 10 years.
Argueing??? Nope. Just stating a well-known fact, that in any situation, change the circumstances and conditions, and you change the outcome. But that does not necessarily mean that the changes will be beneficial. But as you mention Vietnam, some facts for you (and a preview of what's coming to Russia, curtesy of the war in Ukraine) Up to 2008, between 8-9'000 ex-Vietnam soldiers committed suicide after coming home. 38% got divorced within 6 mths of returning. 75'000 were severely disabled. 23'000 were totally disabled. 271'000 suffered from PTSD. Drug use dropped to "Normal" peer group levels. It did not stop. The above figures may well be higher by now. And they all had knock-on effects, so like ripples ina pond, the negative effects spread far and wide.
Now all of the above upheaval and disorder happened in a modern "Civilized" society, which was capable of containing / controlling it. Even so, it caused major damage to society. Russia is quite the opposite of America, where you have some kind of democracy. Russia is a mafia state. And we have already seen the contempt Putin holds the Russian people in. He is beyond contempt.
Do you mean the Orcs not making a fuss or the Ukrainians? Because the latter have made a big fuss about it. I haven't seen any indication the Orcs have any women in combat, whatsoever.
I didn't say the artillery was 'breaking', that was a journalist for the NYT. In fact, it was the headline: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/25/us/ukraine-artillery-breakdown.html
I am someone who's been repairing their own cars since the late 70's, so I do understand what maintainance is. When I'm sitting on a stool, crouched over an engine block, carefully threading the con-rod of a piston down the newly honed bore, trying not to scratch it, and then carefully compressing the cast iron oil scraper ring, being careful as that material doesn't like bending and is prone to snapping, so I can get it and the piston down the bore, I am fully aware I won't be driving the car to work that day, or a few to follow.
Part of the point I am trying to make is that I believe we armchair generals have read so many stories about weapons and stuff being supplied to Ukraine that we have perhaps formed a mistaken overall picture that the Ukrainians are well equipped, when the actuality is that they aren't, compared to the size of the problem, so with a third of all those goodies offline at any one time for maintainance, it's even worse. I was trying to highlight something I thought might have been missed by some who don't know what brake fluid or glycol tastes like.
One of the Ukraine millitary Telegram channels I view has these occasional little pieces where they go ecstatic with thanks when someone donates a well used car to them, to enable a squad to better get about in. That's how short on gear they really are when a used car as a frontline troop transport is a big deal to make a suitably sized fuss over.
It does read like a piece of fan fiction, I'm sure much worse has happened in private to many politicians as they get older or have an accident.
In news that has actually happened, Ukraine may have cut the strategically important P66 highway in Luhansk.
The Russian positions in the north of Luhansk don't look very defensible to me.
Likely propaganda. This is the original source for the story. It has posted a lot of dubious stuff before.
Are these conscripts Tartars mainly. Was Crimea well populated with Tartrs at one stage only to be outed , through various means , by the Russian Federation. I do’nt think that the Tartars had any problem in living amongst the Ukr. If all of the above is true, then no wonder they all walked ‘off the job’
The Putin in that post when you open it up , IMO, very much looks like one of those Putinlike standings. He looks very puffed up
I’m sure putin just asked the Swiss for it
You call that "coming to the table? Seriously?
Not good will, early crissie pressie.
That was brilliant, fascinating listening to his story
Explosive terror: what is known about letters with explosives that arrived at Ukrainian and international institutions in Spain
On November 30, a letter with explosives was sent to the building of the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid, which caused an explosion in the building. One person was injured.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine ordered to urgently strengthen security measures in all diplomatic institutions of our country abroad.
Now the embassy is working normally.
Later it became known that yesterday the same letter was received by the local company Instalaza, which produces weapons that are supplied, in particular, to Ukraine.
On December 1, a letter with explosives also arrived at the Spanish air base in Torrejon de Ardos near Madrid and at the US Embassy in Madrid. Law enforcement officers are currently on the scene.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs also reported that the office of the Prime Minister of Spain also received a similar letter with explosives on November 24.
A lot more going on relevant to that Ukrainian embassy letter bomb in Spain than it first appeared.
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