**** sake. The petty squabbling here is gone ridiculous. And what's more it's among posters who seem (to me at least) be well informed and are able to provide good analysis on both sides. All the **** talk about links and what not is plain bollox and takes from the thread. Common sense should apply, if you make a claim back it the **** up with a link or something. That's been asked for since day 1. Ye folks should know that, especially ye more knowledgable ones. Christ.
Again, not an answer. You claiming Ukraine using gas grenades following a reference to Syrian war crimes can be taken as Ukraine committing war crimes. You've definitely gone off the reservation. I'm presuming for a reaction, but that doesn't mean you should be allowed post what you like. Similar to challenges made to those that spout disparaging comments about Ukraine without back up.
Interesting....
Agreed. So Gatling, I ask again what others?
The US Army has decided not to purchase any more Switchblade 300 loitering munitions. They gave 700 to Ukraine out of their existing stocks and so the assumption was that they would place a similar-sized order this year to replenish the stockpile. But have opted against it.
Apparently the Ukrainians were not particularly impressed with them, the warhead is too small and they are difficult to control.
Wait for RT to tell you how to respond, you clearly have no ideas of your own.
Edit: Responded before I saw the ban.
Source below is claiming there is more the Ukrainian forces crossing the Dnipro river is achieving than you are suggesting. There are claims that counter battery fire from Ukrainian forces are after hitting moskovyte artillery, tanks, armoured vehicles and air defenses in the area.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-25-2023
A peace plan for the run-away accounts to get behind now.
Nope, its the one with the big hat!
Seems other have quitely sent vehicles too .
The biggest with the likes of switchblades and other drone types systems is the lack of training and preparations, stateside soldiers will receive weeks or months training on systems before they would ever deployed with them,
In Ukraine people are expecting the Ukrainans a system and become instant experts ,be that drones , vehicles and weapons,
That's an interesting one, amphibious. Nice way to support troops on marshy ground on the other side of a river.
Lack of training - right...
In some cases, according to one source familiar with US intelligence, Ukraine is simply opting not to use the unfamiliar Western systems. For example, despite receiving hundreds of Switchblade drones, some units prefer to use commercial drones rigged with explosives that are more user-friendly.
That the US isnt renewing orders for switchblade 300s suggests they are not all that cost effective
I think it boils down to the fact that the 300's are relatively crap and weak.
On paper, the 600's look decent, but who knows what they are like out on the battlefield. The Ukrainians are literally field testing this stuff live, their views and feedback are going to become the gold standard.
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Exactly lack of training ,
12 trained for a few weeks,
It takes alot Longer to learn and qualify on weapons systems to use them effectively,
I agree.
This is the first proper near peer war (as opposed to wars like Afghanistan) that the US can field test their equipment, so many things that worked great against insurgents in the mountains with air superiority do not work in terrain with lots of forest cover, trenches, cities and contested airspace. Big learning opportunity for both sides definitely.
HIMARS and Iranian suicide drones seem to be the most successful in their niche
think them russians are very heavy smokers...
Looks like the Russians emptied a vehicle storage depo recently.
As in completely emptied..
Any info on the Ukrainian gas grenades yet?
It is notable that it is spreading outside Russia.
I saw a video of UA with a fridge full of "chemical bombs" a few weeks back. Can't find it or verify it.
Edit: seems to have been refuted
After being accused of using chemical weapons stored in a fridge, Robert Magyar(AKA Bada-Bum Jagga-Jagga Ukrainian commander) made a video explaining the content of his fridge. : r/UkraineWarVideoReport (reddit.com)
Air superiority works every where from deserts to Forrests or jungles things have moved on since Vietnam, even Vietnam wasn't a a great example due to political issues,
Now aircraft flir IR , and satellite imagery allows Airforces to conduct airstrikes or CAS anywhere and any time, very few places to hide these days ,
The biggest issue in Ukraine is neither side has superiority or the aircraft available to carry out heavy strikes, oddly enough the Russians have a fleet of heavy and medium bombers that could do could cause a serious amount of damage to the Ukrainan forces but for whatever reason the Russians are keeping their bombers away from Ukraine, even at the start of the war they never ventured to far into the blacksea.
While the US developed it air doctrine post ww2 to Korea and Vietnam to moden conflicts and can place bombs on target anywhere in the world with pinpoint accuracy, Russia didn't progress their doctrines from infantry to airforce,
was thinking that myself but im sure its just em 'accidental'
Indeed but could also be confirmation bias. E.g. prior to the war Russia could have been experiencing this level of fires, but they just weren't making news cycles so we didn't know. Of course would be fantastic if this was related to internal sabotage, but I'm still somewhat skeptical.
I never said air superiority doesn't work (what would that even mean?), I said US tech has been mostly based on having air superiority.
Ukraine is the first conflict in quite some time where US equipment is getting road tested in a no air superiority situation.
Likely the reason they wont hand over things like Predator and Reaper drones either - they cant operate in contested airspace
Given that their military is short on ball bearings, it stands to reason that Russian industry is too.
With domestic industry having to run at maximum production capacity (in order to meet military needs and bridge the gap where civilian imports are no longer available due to sanctions) amidst a likely shortage of spare parts (sanctions again) and qualified engineers to carry out scheduled maintenance on industrial equipment (due to mobilisation), it'd be amazing if their factories weren't going up in smoke regularly imo.
Mig 31 lost over murmansk north east Russia (technical)
Patriots in Ukraine on film took long enough and they definitely need more than the 3 given so far
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