So they are clearly using what they have to destroy non military targets. These crude oil platforms will not change the course of the war they will just do a mess with oil spills... A fuel reserve near the border would be a good targets but not these...
The War in the Ukraine
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How is hitting non military targets helping their war effort? This just invites more escalation from Russia.
They've now started to behave like jihadists who live for headline suicide missions
According to the apparent location of the rigs and the currents, a spill would affect all of Sevastopol but then it would feed into a westward current towards Odessa, Romania and Turkey.
Since T-80 line was mainly worked on by Ukrainian SSR and Russia has never updated them, it's likely that the ones possessed by the Russian Federation are not in good condition. The T-62 line has been sold to different countries and there's upgrade packs which make it a decent legacy light tank.
Later export T-62s >>> moldy waterlogged basic T-80s with defect electronics. The latter likely doesn't even have working gun stabilizer.
I do think Russia is currently trying to tap into their stores of T-72 and T-80, but rushing them out will be not of much use.
Those T-62s were refurbished and upgraded to be sent to Syria. They are not state-of-art tanks but fairly modern and have elevation angle advantage over T-72s. So it makes sense to use them in urban combat.
As for T-80s, there are two variants, one with diesel engine which were produced in Ukraine during Soviet times (and some of those are still fielded by Ukrainian army) and another with gas turbine which was produced in Omsk, Russia and currently in use by Russian army.
As for T-80s, there are two variants, one with diesel engine which were produced in Ukraine during Soviet times (and some of those are still fielded by Ukrainian army) and another with gas turbine which was produced in Omsk, Russia and currently in use by Russian army.
some kind of communication mishap happened here
T-64 is.
But T-80's i think worked on Russian side particularly one with gas turbine which were made by Omsk Tank Plant and Kirov plant which all in Russia.
I think Scott Ritter has walked back a lot from his original assessment, although some of the things he says don't seem to be very consistent. One moment he's claiming the Ukrainians are the best soldiers in Europe, the next he's calling them corrupt civilian killing thieves who are ready to stab anyone in the back.
He also doesn't seem to understand that giving Ukraine the equivalent of a year of Russia's military budget isn't the same as the Ukraine achieving parity. Even excluding US MIC corruption and the PPP difference between America and Russia, Russia's military inventory was procured over decades of higher military spending, including during Soviet times when it outspent America.
The one thing I haven't heard any American analyst talk about is the massive intelligence failure this whole campaign has been. It's worse than 9/11.
Not only have they misjudged Russian intentions over the past few years, they've misjudged Russian capability. Russians have clearly been stockpiling missiles and ammunition, bringing tanks and heavy artillery out of storage. Things like that don't happen on a whim, they take years to set up. I think the Russians have been planning this since 2014.
At least with 9/11 you can say an attack of that type was unprecedented, watching the Russians is literally what the CIA was created for.
Heads should be rolling at the CIA and MI6, especially since the former has a budget that is bigger than most nations military budget. But I bet nothing will happen.
This map hasn’t changed in over a month!
Speaking of intelligence failures, the 3 star Trevor Cadieu has been charged for 2 counts of sexual assault in Canada stemming back to 1994.
What are the chances he pulls a Snowden and turns up in Russian hands?
What are the chances he pulls a Snowden and turns up in Russian hands?