It looks like a concrete shaft to down deeper in the development at the back right hand side. And there's two concrete boxes/shafts looks like on that same right hand side towards the front of that building development.
Ah it's really taking the mick.
And yet you can't even paint mural on the side of your house without being told your in breach of planning permission
Can anyone tell me why it takes up to a year to send Abrahams Tanks to Ukraine, is it a matter of logistics, training or politics ?
A bit of both but the main issue is logistics not just in shipping, and everything from secure infrastructure for maintenance and repairs ,as well as training people to operate and maintaining them,
We've too many people who seem to think you could fly some over and they could be fighting on the front lines within 24 hours.
It's not so simple
any planning for this stuff
Do you know how far off the Bradleys are from being deployed into action ?
Bakhmut Update
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjz7lfNtW1g
All of the above from what I can glean. Training takes a goodly while. Politics is certainly in the mix and logistics too. For a start-and again from what I gather-to supply Abrams to Ukraine some of the super secret stuff has to be removed from them in case any fall into Russia's hands and that takes time. Fancy armour for a start. No doubt some of the electronics too.
Or it's a ruse and they're already on their way? Though we haven't seen sight of the Bradley's yet so...
There in Poland and the first training class has been completed id expect soon,but it depends on how and where they are to be deployed
Thanks. Always found his commentary useful. I heard that the Russians are asking the Ukrainians in Bakmut to surrender now as they are surrounded and they won't harm them!
I was very surprised that Serbia have sent grads to Ukraine, and will be prosecuting all Serbians fighting on the Russia side, they certainly seem to be softening their stance.
They will just carve Zs on their noses !
I hope Elon does not follow James Vasquez, the Starlink antennas are clearly visible on his vehicle.
For that money, Ukraine could have built 5 walls and kept russia out surely. russians don't have ladders and angle grinders, do they?
Actually on the whole embassy construction how does planning work,,
Can planning inspectors rock and carry out a full inspection of the site or is there some kind of exemption once it's considered foreign soil,
Or would it be only access by invitation only from a foreign government and restrictions on what and where they can inspect
War will be over by time they arrive.
Interesting.
STOP TRIGGERING ME 😂 She's another dope....The Republican Party , the party of w@ankers for w@nkers ! Big fans of Russia due to ManBaby Trump being funded by them.
Not too sure about the rumours that Trump had stopped the Ruzzian invasion earlier by regularly preforming fellatio on Putin (while dressed as a goat no less!!)
Did you have to say that just before bed time ,
Because the US doesn't want to send any - period - so deliberately dragging it out seems the next best thing.
They have thousands of the things, but refuse to pull 30 from existing stocks. They have hundreds sitting in a dry bit of desert, with presumably at least the hulls and turrets in reasonable condition, but this is their actual plan: Manufacture them from sratch.
They are going to get 30 tanks from an ally and have them ship them to the US. You can imagine the delay in said ally country for their political process to talk about agree to it and negotiate a best deal for themselves. That alone will take months. Then they have to actually get them to a port and ship them to the US. and then ship them to the factory where the process in this article will take place.
The US Marines have recently stopped using Abrams so there is a good supply of their cast offs that are pretty much good to go. Australia has 59 surplus to requiremants M1A1s in very good nick that the US could easily persuade them to part with, especially since they have a large order of M1A2s in the pipeline for delivery next year.
The US is messing and makes Scholz look obliging and quick to make decisions, when it comes to tanks.
Which is all very weird given numerous senior political and military figures in the US who have said the US should be supplying more and a lot faster.
The 70 Bradleys might be just as effective and they are already next door, so that's one thing the US can certainly be applaude for.
I never ever thought I would defend a Republican, but Mitch McConnell and Liz Cheney are not like the Magas and appear to be keener to support Ukraine than Biden.
On Bakhmut, could it be the case Ukraine has delivered months of supplies to Ukrainians there and they could survive being surrounded for months, time for the Spring offensive to join them?
It depends on what you believe,
According to social media accounts and on here bakhmut is completely surrounded,out of ammunition, Dire situation, critical situation, evacuate ,cuff off ,
And yet day after day we see actual reports from people on the ground suggesting that all of these accounts social media or other are wrong and just repeating what the Russians want repeated that after 7 months of bakhmut is going to fall , Bakhmut still holds will likely keep holding,
But it's all down to what you believe from people who obviously have little knowledge of what's actually happening on ground
Could be that. Not at all clear what is going on now but it seems that not withdrawing is a big risk.
I don’t know if it is as simple as that. Demand for M1s has been high for a while, tanks such as the former Marine ones will be likely some of the first refurbished. Morocco, Poland and the US Army have been getting them as fast as they are coming off the production lines, the ones in Sierra likely are not in a condition where you can just put gas in them and give them a jump start. I’m fairly sure the Aussies would rather wait for the replacement tanks to show before making the current ones available.
Officially the luckiest person on the planet that day.
And the argument that the US would be putting itself in grave danger of being under equipped should a Mexican drug cartel, or Canada, attack, if they took 30 from the ±8,000 in US inventory, I don't find convincing.
Not to mention where the greatest need lies at this point in time, vis a vis needing to supply other customers as a priority.
Australia hasn't fielded a single tank since about 1972. The idea that they will need 59 before the new ones arrive next year is unconvincing. They could send 30 and still have 29 just in case. I'm sure the 46 F-18's they arent using could be called back into service to plug the tank gap, should they send some.
I wasn't suggesting the ones in dry storage were good to go, I was suggesting that they would be a more practical source of donor hulls and turrets than getting them from overseas allies and all that involves. The refurbishment process I have seen described suggests the hull and turret are about the only parts that aren't replaced in the manufacturing process.
Slovakia is considering handing over 10 Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad' said in an interview with the Associated Press.
So far, Slovakia has provided Ukraine with arms worth around €168 million. They are mainly heavy weapons from the times of communist Czechoslovakia. The equipment sent to Ukraine includes S-300 air defence systems, helicopters, ammunition for Grad multiple guide launchers, as well as armoured vehicles.
If Ukraine had gotten just half of the things that have been considered, they'd be sorted by now. Poland have been considering sending their Mig-29s since Feb last year, but they seem to want an offer of brand new F-16s, one for one, in exchange.
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If the Azov fighters lasted 80 days or whatever in Mariupol then Bakhmut would be a cakewalk. This time Ukraine can keep the pocket open for as long as they need.
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