The War in the Ukraine

Tootensky said:

If true, that's a huge jump escalation-wise. First thing it tells me is that things must be really catastrophic for the Ukrainians on the ground, second, it really worries me that these idiots will push Russia to using The Mushroom...

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Given that Ukraine already spamming cluster lepestok and other form of cluster munitions since very start of the war. ATACMS and cluster is not really escalation i think. It will escalate the difficulty Russian have on the field but to make them use nukes.. No.

The real deal would probably be direct NATO intervention or NATO blockade of Russian ports in Black Sea and elsewhere.

Cult Icon said:

These articles says that a recent press release that Rostec is suspending secondary UVZ contracts and focusing only on producing tanks.

Russian tank production rate has been claimed by the Russian security council to have increased to 120 tanks a month (~1500 tanks fiscal 2023), which is 3.5 times the maximum rate in peacetime. (350-400)

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I'm more curious on whether these tanks are new built. like started from pure raw material instead of drawing from storage and modernize them. The Turret however esp for the T-90's be it A or M it will always be new as it's welded construction instead of cast turret like in old T-72 and T-80's. The hull however i wonder.

They'll say it doesn't represent the country, and it's still only about irrelevant bullets, so what will happen after that?

Shadow_Whomel said:

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tens of thousands of kilograms of smokeless powder

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So that's what, one or two semitrailer load? Enough to make maybe half a dozen T-54 kamikaze tanks? Is this a joke?
Poly is already sanctioned I think anyway.

Temstar said:

So that's what, one or two semitrailer load? Enough to make maybe half a dozen T-54 kamikaze tanks? Is this a joke?
Poly is already sanctioned I think anyway.

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Attitude is the key, Chinese customs did not stop it, unless the gunpowder was taken to make fireworks.

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Phase one.
We claim that nothing happened;
Phase two.
Saying that maybe something is happening, but
but we shouldn't act on it;
Stage three.
Saying that maybe we should act, but
but we can't do anything about it;
Stage four.
Saying that maybe we could have done something in the first place.
But now it's too late.

I think we are at Phase two right now

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Shadow_Whomel said:

Attitude is the key, Chinese customs did not stop it, unless the gunpowder was taken to make fireworks.

*Edit
Phase one.
We claim that nothing happened;
Phase two.
Saying that maybe something is happening, but
but we shouldn't act on it;
Stage three.
Saying that maybe we should act, but
but we can't do anything about it;
Stage four.
Saying that maybe we could have done something in the first place.
But now it's too late.

I think we are at Phase two right now

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The customs in China don't have any active restrictions towards Russia.

Individual companies who understandably don't want themselves associated with bloodshed have banned direct supply to both Russia and Ukraine. But none of the state owned arms companies have.

The willingness of Russia to source as well as whatever China's authority on selling sensitive tech says, are the major factors behind what Russia can buy.

Something like a little gunpowder or old shells from 1980s storage would not be subject to export restriction. As long as Russia can pay what the seller demands, the customs won't interfere.

TOS working. More and more of these units are seen and used in the front as production increases.


Dead Leopard



Ukrainians trying to recover a destroyed Bradley.


Husky under new ownership. Being towed by elements of the 40th Marine Brigade of the Russian Pacific Fleet.


Destroyed MaxxPro in Zaporzhyzhia.


Storm Shadow shot down.


This UAV is lasing for a Krasnopol strike or KAB drop, based on it's target indicators, but an Iskander beat it to the Ukrainian bridgehead at Antonovsky Bridge. The Iskander strike is fully caught on the UAV's camera.

From the POV of a Russian tank that took a hit from a Ukrainian FPV drone. The tank shrugged off the kamekaze drone attack.


MoD promo video. 2S9 Nona-S, an armored mortar vehicle, engaging with success against Ukrainian mortar crews in a mortar duel.


Wounded Ukrainian marine abandoned and left four days alone in his vehicle. Russian recon team finds and recovers him alive amidst abandoned vehicles belonging to the Ukrainian 37th Marine Brigade.


Artillery duel against an M777 which was destroyed. Footage shows a 2S1 Gvozdika in action.


A strike from the 155th Marine Brigade of the Russian Pacific Fleet appeared to hit a local Ukrainian base and depot in the forest line near Ugledar.

War's over for this British Husky TSV

Shadow_Whomel said:

Attitude is the key, Chinese customs did not stop it, unless the gunpowder was taken to make fireworks.

*Edit
Phase one.
We claim that nothing happened;
Phase two.
Saying that maybe something is happening, but
but we shouldn't act on it;
Stage three.
Saying that maybe we should act, but
but we can't do anything about it;
Stage four.
Saying that maybe we could have done something in the first place.
But now it's too late.

I think we are at Phase two right now

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Why would customs stop it? We know there are goods flowing to both sides
We know for sure both sides are buying things like helmets, body armor, flash lights, night vision, drones, etc.
You should see the reviews for those portable LFP battery stations, half of them say they are from Ukraine (A little sad to read them).
How are they powering Starlinks? Often by Ecoflow/Jackery/Bluetti etc. battery stations

The West is only concerned about Chinese lethal goods/aids. Gunpowder is hardly lethal by itself in the sense for warfare until the Russians manufacture it into something lethal. However, by that logic then all non-lethal goods is lethal if you twist the circumstances to the extreme.