Russia - threadbanned users in OP

For the third time, it takes varying time to prep, refurbish and send equipment. Some batches are arriving very shortly, like the Canadian Leopard 2's, other countries, like the UK, estimate arrival of their Challenger's by about March. Some of the German and Dutch Leopard 1's that are being refurbished may not even arrive this year.

I suggest reading the news instead of all this "bewildered" incredulity and guesses.

Three Leopards from Portugal are having their spots touched up, then they should arrive next month.

Lesson for Europe; spend a bit more on maintaining your materiel.

Roger Waters at it again the pathetic commie bstard

Because prisoners have no time on their hands according to you

The evidence to the contrary is this independent Russian media outlet report

[translated]

"Not only human rights activists, but also the convicts themselves, who remained in the colonies, but by telephone can still contact their comrades who left for the war, talk about heavy losses among the recruited prisoners.

“It seems to me that at least 30-40 deaths are known reliably, for sure,” says a prisoner from Yaroslavl IK-2, from where 110 people were taken in August. According to him, a volunteer from this colony, with whom Mediazona spoke before his departure for the war, has stopped communicating since mid-autumn, but so far they have not received reports of his death in the colony."

"Human rights activist and former political prisoner Ivan Astashin wrote that recruiters again began to come to the camps of Mordovia at the end of November: “In particular, for the second time representatives of the Wagner PMC visited the IK-10 special regime, where this time about 60 enrolled in the ranks of Prigozhin’s army convicts."

The creator of the telegram channel Resident of MLS reported in December about a “new enrollment” in Smolensk IK-6, Karelian IK-9 and Chelyabinsk IK-1. He told Mediazone that, according to his information, they repeatedly came to the colony in Voronezh , the first time they took 107 people there, the second - about 40.

In his colony , there was no second intake yet, and in the fall, about 250 people were taken from them, although initially twice as many enrolled. Some, according to "Resident of the MLS", were "rejected" by the FSB officers, for some "it worked that they talked with relatives.""

Was watching one of Binkov's recent Youtube videos on equipment going to Ukraine and glanced at the comments, definitely seems to be a significant uptick in Russian bots. Likewise this thread seems to have an influx of new accounts recently.

Eh? That wasnt a tweet from Elon Musk, it was a statement issued by president of SpaceX as reported on by a news outlet.

Presumably SpaceX would like more than just the USA to use their rockets to get payloads into orbit and beyond, so trying to remain neutral-ish is a smart business decision

The EU will be even less of a military "superpower" after this as it will take up to a decade to replenish the equipment given to Ukraine

Oh for sure. Pushing all of that gear over to Ukraine needs to trigger a replacment program for everything that got sent. One effect of this is that I think we're going to see a lot of the old Soviet stock getting completely flushed out of Eastern EU armies and replaced with NATO-standard kit. My hope is that this conflict has triggered a series of modernisation programs to ensure that everyone facing Russia has got the same tech-level as what Ukraine ideally end up at as well.

All my thoughts concerning those filth involve loss of life by various violent means, but fine, if you want me to part with one, I'll hand it over, I'm really quite generous, sometimes.

All in all, he's just another prick, knows fúck all.

a lot of that stuff has been sent already - in the first year most of stuff supplied was Soviet equipment from ex-Warsaw pact states.

The problem is that many of those tanks/bmps donated were done so with the understanding that they would be replaced by NATO gear (Leopards/Marders etc) - great news for Rheinmettal, but the downside of the order book growing and growing is that the time until EU members have their stocks replenished keeps getting further and further away.

I'm pretty confident in predicting that this will be reversed. Remember this did happen before.

Epstein and his band of rich peado clients != russian army/mercenaries raping, relocating kids to Russia and into porn/peudo hands, civilian infrastructure destruction. Though they are both unequal, both are wrong and both sets involved should be strung up by their balls (or female equivalant)

Did anyone have FIAT currency as the reason for this war?

Rheinmetall from Germany discussing the possibility of sending it's newest tank (Panther) and IFV (Lynx) to Ukraine down the line