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Vanir Ausf B

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  1. I like the sound effects, although I would have gone with traditional pewpewpew
  2. That's going to make for some boring war games in the future. But we'll always have CMCW.
  3. Everybody's walking in Ukraine More stories of Russians using tear gas. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/08/world/europe/ukraine-troops-exhausted-defensive.html
  4. There's a new book out claiming that Zaluzhny wanted to do the Zaporizhzhia offensive a full year before they actually did it, but that the US convinced them to hit Kherson instead. https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-wanted-a-bold-counteroffensive-but-us-disagreed-book-2024-1
  5. Instigating people in India or Morocco to attack shipping going into India or Morocco is going to severely piss off India or Morocco, and it would get shut down very quickly. These are not lawless failed states where that could function for long. Ukraine has done this sort of thing on land in Africa, but AFAIK only in Sudan specifically. Sudan is in a state of civil war and Wagner has taken a side in that war, so the other side in that war has nothing to lose by letting Ukraine SOF operate on its territory. That dynamic doesn't translate to just anywhere else.
  6. I'm confused that @dan/california lives in Seattle
  7. "So, Zelensky, now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
  8. "In our war against the Finns we had an opportunity to choose the time and the place. We outnumbered our enemy, and we had all the time in the world to prepare for our operation. Yet even in these most favorable conditions it was only after great difficulty and enormous losses that we were finally able to win. A victory at such a cost was actually a moral defeat. Our people never knew that we had suffered a moral defeat, of course, because they were never told the truth. All of us—and Stalin first and foremost—sensed in our victory a defeat by the Finns. It was a dangerous defeat because it encouraged our enemies' conviction that the Soviet Union was a colossus with feet of clay." -- Nikita Khrushchev
  9. Back on topic... equipment loses for the Zaporizhzhia counter-offensive. Roughly 1:1 with trucks and drones excepted.
  10. This is a very strange time for Armenia to be disarming itself. I'd wait for confirmation.
  11. Fair. Some bitterness is understandable. "Mykola Melnyk was seriously wounded during one of the assaults during the Ukrainian counter-offensive in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. A Russian large-caliber gun hit him when he was trying to navigate a Bradley through a minefield and lost his leg. During an attempt to get to the nearest Ukrainian positions, he stepped on anti-personnel mine and fell on another one. Mykola is now slowly recovering, and just recently was able to stand up."
  12. Very interesting. It runs counter to the narrative that all Ukraine needs to win is more weapons.
  13. ? It goes to the correct one when I click on it. EDIT: ninja'd
  14. A good shot of the new Lancet EFP drone. Looks like it detonates about 3 or 4 meters from the target. https://twitter.com/cvetko35/status/1722589902347383131
  15. Major General Viktor Khorenko does not know the reasons for his dismissal from the post of Commander of the Special Operations Forces. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, did not submit a request for his dismissal. "I personally do not know the reason. I will tell you this, I learned about it from the media. I talked to the Commander-in-Chief (Valerii Zaluzhnyi), who also could not explain this to me. The commander-in-chief is supposed to make the request for this, but he told me that he had not done so. I don't understand what has happened." Khorenko noted that Zaluzhnyi called him today and asked if he was aware of the situation. The major general replied in the negative. Khorenko says he does not know anything about his further fate in the military. He only said that "he will do everything he can for the victory of Ukraine". When asked whether Khorenko tried to contact the President's Office to clarify the situation, the officer stated that he did not have such access. https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-special-operations-forces-commander-182834018.html
  16. There is. Kinda. The US has a goal for 1.2 million in 2025 and Rheinmetall claims it will be able to produce 600,000 in 2025. But 2024 may be a lean year for Ukraine. And for Russia, actually, since even with North Korean help they will not be able to sustain their 10 million/year usage rate.
  17. Current US production is around 350,000. Russian production is estimated to be near 2 million
  18. More specifically Mi-29NM and Ka-52M. Fortunately, Russia probably only has a handful of these models available. The contracts were signed in 2021 and the first 10 Ka-52M were delivered in January of this year.
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