Yes training on new equipment takes time.
The issue is the reluctance to train in advance of agreeing to send Ukraine stuff.
Bradley's sitting in Poland, Leopards sitting in Poland. All waiting for Ukrainian's to be trained on them.
If Ukrainian soldiers were trained on them 3 months ago, there's a high chance the tanks and Bradley's would be already on the battlefield.
The Patriot system, announced December 2022, training begun Jan 2023, still not deployed.
Had the Ukrainians been trained on them say 4 months ago, it could easily have been deployed already in Ukraine and prevented a lot of destruction of their energy system etc...
I completely understand the reluctance to supply X, I don't understand the reluctance to train in advance.
X can be replaced with Self propelled Artillery, HIMARS, Bradley's, Abrams, Patriot systems etc...
Maybe if he shared some of his roubles with his comrade, then the comrade wouldn't have been in court for refusing to pay his rent.
Four Swiss bankers are going on trial this Wednesday accused of not taking due diligence in accounting for millions being lodged in their bank. The suggested owner is Sergei Roldugin. A godfather of Vladimer Putin's daughter and reported personal bank current account holder for Putin.
(Russia is a sham of a country as everyone knows. What everyone may not know is that Putin uses his friends names and confidents to act as his bank accounts. He's on a modest presidential salary you know.)
Story here.
To continue the story. Apparently Roldugin had a health emergency. So Yesterday a plane was flown from Frankfurt to Moscow and back to Nurnberg.
The trial of the bankers is on Wednesday.
Airlines and militaries do not spend millions on simulators because they are not very ueseful. I saw a few seconds of a news report this past week that showed Ukrainians training on a tank simulator in the UK.
There must be some underlying reason why the US is doing this. I doubt they are pulling 10-12 Ukrainian pilots from the battle zone just for amusement.
Looks like more strikes behind enemy lines from HiMars.......
Several hundred dead an all to familiar story...
Barracks with an ammo depot in the basement again? Odds on favorite!
Heard words the attic was being used this time..
It's two pilots....
Being assessed as whether over all in the future Ukrainian pilots can be trained along side US pilots
Or to be blunt know nothing at all about the reality of modern Russia. It really is the crudest "my enemy's enemy" 'reasoning': Russia is nothing like a western-style liberal democracy therefore it must be something like the Christian Nation we want the United States to be...
@Wolf359f Bradley's sitting in Poland, Leopards sitting in Poland. All waiting for Ukrainian's to be trained on them.
People are training on the Bradleys as we speak,it's going to take time to build a coherent units from the operators to maintainers
There's leopards in Ukraine,but only 4 which means one possibly two being used to train maintenance crews,
Again do people actually think it was only going to a take 2-3 week's before these guys were being deployed to fight with little or no real world experience in said vehicles,
It's not call of duty or battlefield whatever number there on now ,
It takes time and logistics to be in place before anything else happens, let alone spend two weeks on a new vehicle of any kind and being sent into a war zone completely unprepared,
These things take time,
Too many Hollywood movies being watched people need to come back to reality and take their heads out of the clouds or their holes which ever comes first.
I think you're really failing to grasp what some people are arguing.....
If Ukrainian troops were trained in advance of equipment being delivered/announced, there would be little delay from announcement to being on the battlefield.
All the soviet era equipment supplied to Ukraine has been put on the battlefield without delay, why? Because Ukrainian soldiers were already trained on them.
I don't see how you cannot grasp that.
I'm not talking about 2 weeks, I'm talking about months in advance.
Maybe this is easier to understand.... If the US decide to send Ukraine fighter jets 6 months from now and they take 6 months to train on.... when would the ideal time to start training Ukrainian's?
Now or 6 months from now?
officials said, and they may soon be joined by more of their fellow pilots. U.S. authorities have approved bringing up to 10 more Ukrainian pilots to the U.S. for further assessment as early as this month.
Unfortunately these types of stories of freshly mobilised and badly equipped Ukrainian troops being thrown into Bakhmut aren't isolated.
So not the 12 claimed.
Something we don't see too often HiMars launch only this time 3 separate launchers operating together a pretty big strike
What would the reasoning be behind them traveling in convoy and all launching from the same location?
Wouldn't it be safer to be dispersed? Do they all shelter by day in the same reinforced bunker?
Perhaps their intel showed RuZZia couldn't do anything about it.
What is the latest Intel on the amount of HIMARS operating in Ukraine?
Looks like they have at least 3 🙂
Who wants to know, comrade😑
I hear that washing machines exports to Russia are banned now lol because the Russians were stripping the Washing machines for there micro chips lol.
They must be really desperate.
I read somewhere that countries bordering Russia have suddenly increased their imports of washing machines and probably anything that's scantioned to get around the restrictions
Sanctions gradually become ineffective over time it the weapons that are helping here
It's a nice story and likely tru a few months ago, but unfortunately Turkey and the UAE and others are near flooding Russia with anything the want, chipwise. Turkey has just let a ship through the Bosporus laden to the gills with Orc military equipment from Syria.
The US do a great talk on sanctions but they don't even seem to limp, let alone walk, when it comes to enforcing them.
my bosses in the Kremlin of course ..... They know Boards is the go to source regarding the war
So a close friend of Putin travels to the West for "medical" reasons. Could be some kind of a ceasefire offer by Putin if the West stop supplying arms to ukraine.
Yes. There was something in last week's Economist saying that orders of appliances in Kazakhstan have rocketed and they reckon it's because the chips are being removed and sent to Russia.
Yeah I listen to his podcast because he often has really good guests on. His own thoughts and theories I take with a pinch of salt.
It believed they have between 16-20 launchers in Ukraine
They don't normally,but we're seeing an increase in their use of the last month regularly hitting Mariupol and metiplol,
What ever these were Targeting it must have been a large concentration of forces or equipment,
I posted yesterday that there was a strike that killed hundreds of orcs Saturday night
Now we have claims of a jdam bomb being used somewhere in Ukraine,no aircraft are heard in the area but quite the explosion, but it was also confirmed Russia was using a new glide bomb dropped from aircraft over ukraine.
I don't think it's an actual jdam bomb
Here's a nice thought - WHAT IF Russia simply doesn't have the ammo?!
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