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He was channeling Bruce Lee's "Be like water".
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He was channeling Bruce Lee's "Be like water".
To continue with the above discussion with the exception of Javelin and NLAW missile wich are top atack and top of the line. We are not seeing even to try to mitigate the Anti-tank missile threat with samthing wich can be compared with this
AFAIK Tochka is not in current Russian mainline service and most of the Tochka's I have seen pictured thus far which were not Ukrainian were Belarussian ones not used by Belarus in the conflict. Since Belarus has not been an active part in the conflict yet. Tochka is also way more inaccurate than Iskander. For the Russians to use Tochka would mean abandoning their current stance on using precision attacks against Ukraine. Those Tochkha's you have pictured do look to be sporting Russian cammo and the markers the Russians have used in this operation. So perhaps the Russians are indeed going to use their stockpiled Tochkas for the Donbass takedown operation and destruction of Ukrainian army there. The Russians should have loads of decomissioned Tochka's that would otherwise have to be dismantled rather expensively. So this would be a good way to get rid of them.
His "debunking" is kind of failed I think. But Oryx's numbers should be taken with a huge pinch of salt. In some cases the tanks cannot be identified positively yet Oryx still does it anyway pulling the identification out of his ass. In other cases Oryx misidentifies tanks. He has identified tanks as T-72B3M when they are just T-72B3 with Relikt side skirts for example. And forget about Oryx's numbers on Ukrainian losses altogether.
That was never an objective. If it was they wouldn't have sent just those troops. I already said here, just look at Operation Storm-333 in Afghanistan and their other operations. That is an example of Soviet military doing a decapitation attack. The troop concentration and movements in this operation look nothing like that. If the objective was decapitation of Kiev they wouldn't need to send troops into Mariupol or attack Kharkiv.
The Russian MIC has been sanctioned from purchasing military or space grade chips from the West since 2014. These chips are so common they can't be sanctioned easily. You are talking about a communication chip that sells for $2 USD which will be used in IoT devices. Russia might need a couple hundred or thousand for their drones. Those can be easily smuggled. All of these efforts will prove futile. The Russian electronics industry does have points they can further pressure but they would get some counter pressure in return. And in the middle term, like 5 years, the Russians would either switch suppliers or make their own supplies.
The most precious chips in that photo, which they don't talk about, are those Xilinx FPGAs which seem to have been blurred out.
But even those, they fact they use 3 FPGAs mean those are the cheapest and easier to get models. Not the expensive hard to source ones. And once they do start mass manufacture of the drones they would likely be replaced with ASICs.
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60K troops for 5 weeks in not a feint, it is a half-assed commitment.
A 'feint' is tieing down massive amounts of Odessa troops and assets to Odessa by stationing a massive naval fleet and amphibious units outside the Odessan port. Russia never moved on Odessa, but it did tie down significant forces from reinforcing other fronts. This is a feint.
The objective was to rapidly surround the capital (by moving beyond advanced logistical supply lines) with hopes of scaring Kiev into suing for peace and a quick negotiated settlement. When this failed, they should re-group and concentrate on Eastern region.
Russia didn't start attacking Mariupol with front-line troops until it had Mariupol fully surrounded.
Russia wouldn't have started attacking Kiev proper with front-line troops until Kiev was fully surrounded... which they tried but failed surrounding Kiev.
So you are saying the 40 mile convoy was a theatre? That's a very expensive mistake, they should have concentrated on the eastern Donbass from the very beginning instead of trying a fancy 5-axis invasion to stun/scare the enemy into quick negotiated settlement.
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To continue and even with the BMP and the poor people inside in the modern battlefield you have to be in something in this nature
UK won’t get Russian gas – Moscow
Shell has London’s anti-Russia stance to thankBritish energy major Shell will not be able to buy Russian gas due to London’s anti-Russia sanctions, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin, told the media on Saturday.
“London wants to be the leader of everything anti-Russian. It even wants to be ahead of Washington! That’s the cost!” Peskov outlined.
He was referring to the fact that the UK is the only country to have imposed sanctions on Russia’s Gazprombank, through which payments for Russian natural gas are made. The measure effectively denies Britain the ability to pay for the commodity.
On March 31, Putin signed a decree requiring gas buyers from “unfriendly countries” to open special ruble and foreign currency accounts with Gazprombank to pay for gas supplies. They will transfer funds in foreign currencies to Gazprombank, which will buy rubles on exchanges and transfer them to the buyers’ ruble accounts to make payments to Russia’s suppliers.
You probably wouldn't know that Russia has taken an area larger than Great Britain by reading the BBC ,would you?
It was bad weather and cloudy this week, not good forecast for next week. If they rely on visual dumb bombing it's pretty hard to do so above manpads range.
"U.S. is sending $300 million MORE in military aid to Ukraine, including laser-guided rocket systems, Switchblade and Puma drones, humvees, ammo, and night vision goggles: Pentagon
The U.S. has sent $1.6 billion in military aid to Ukraine since Putin's Feb. 24 invasion."
The U.S. has sent $1.6 billion in military aid to Ukraine since Putin's Feb. 24 invasion."
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