Vanir Ausf B

"Show me on the map where the Russians touched you."

"Show me on the map where the Russians touched you."

"Show me on the map where the Russians touched you."

"Show me on the map where the Russians touched you."

Yeah, absolutelly terrible persona by the way, even by current standards, but not the guy to dictate anything. But it may be the case he was told to shut up cause no official confirmation yet of any request. So, proceed.
 
Wolski doing what he is best at; staring  at burn-out armour. Bradley ODS-SA destroyed, possibly somewhere in Zaporizhia (swicth-off sound if you use headphones, there is some loud Cossack-metal in the background).
 

C-RAM, mobility to make targeting problematic. How do you want infantry to deal with it?
1 An APS allows protection to keep pace with attacking munitions development because it doesnt require fully redeveloping and building hulls.
2 ATGMs and RPGs are already close to the weight/size limit for infantry use. If they are pushed beyond that to be able to ko tanks youre changing the math dramatically. From 1 infantry squad theoretically able to destroy a companys worth of tanks to an infantry platoon able to ko maybe one or two.
3 Youre always creative unless it comes to stuff you dont like. Its not hard to imagine a tank platoons APS data linked to combine their sensors and coordinate their response.
Yes tanks need more logistics support than infantry but nowhere near as much as artillery. And tanks can simply drive back some kilometers to resupply out of range of most arty while infantrys supplies have to be brought to the frontline.
Yea tell me how well has infantry been doing against ISR and Arty?
And mech isnt going anywhere because infantry isnt going to carry all the equipment they need without vehicles.

While that would not shock me I'm guessing it's because there are a lot more DPICM warheads in inventory than unitary.

While that would not shock me I'm guessing it's because there are a lot more DPICM warheads in inventory than unitary.

Morawiecki's words were misreported, as he did not declare a policy shift, but stated as a matter of fact that Poland at the moment is not supplying arms to Ukraine, because it needs to rearm itself. This is generally true because most of assets that Poland could spare have been donated already and the new deliveries have yet to be realised. The press being the press reported this in a way which both creates controversy and satsifies the biases of the writers and the readers.
Still what Morawiecki refers to is important to understand the present crisis in Polish-Ukrainian relations. Poland was determined to help from the beginning and had a significant stock of post-soviet stuff which blended relatively well with Ukrainian assets. This caused Polish aid to be hugely important in the first period of the war. By now, we have largely shot our bolt and do not have so much to give anymore. Western European aid is on the rise, and countries like e.g. Germany can help Ukraine in EU accession negotiations which Poland cannot. Therefore, our value as an ally has decreased, apparently to the extent that Zelenski decided to prioritise the profit marigins on the sale of grain over UKR-POL relations. As long as we do not close the border or the Jasionka airport - which is not going to happen - Ukrainians will continue to benefit from most of Poland's value as an ally in this war.  Also, he may be counting on currying favour with the EU commission and Western European governements by creating a difficult situation for the PiS govt shortly before the elections.
Conversely, most of Ukraine's value as an ally to Poland is realised via Ukraine defending itself and killing Russians. At this stage it seems they are capable of doing it without Polish aid deliveries, with Poland acting just as an airhead and land bridge to UKR, so I expect this will be the equilibrium on which the matters will settle: we will keep providing the passive support plus training, repair services and deliver under the existing contracts. Cheering for Ukraine's wins and enthusiasm for post-war close cooperation will decrease, money and asset collection among the general populace will fall away, etc. - but these have always been optional and had no impact on the general direction of the war.
BTW this is exactly the course of events which was predicted by many Polish political analysts of the "realist" persuasion.
 

Yeaterday Russians struck the bridge through Oskol river in Kupiansk and destroyed it. 8 people, who have droven in own cars in moment of strike were killed. 
Today it was claimed Russians have used own new wepon - hybride bomb-missile Grom-E1. This is gliding 500 kg bomb, integrated in the hull of new Kh-38 missile. It has 120 km of range. This weapon was introduced in 2012, and first examples were adopted in 2015, but level of production still very low - no more several pieces for a month.
   

Leopard 1A5 in UKR service. Alas, Florks will be dissapointed - it's turned out engine of Leo1 can't carry additional weight of ERA so far. 

Did I miss something? What do you mean and how many decades?
5-axis milling is easily in hobbyist range. Machining tolerances are mostly a function of how good your linear bearings are and China has some decent ones. If you have the money you can mill turbine parts in your basement.
I know some people who would strongly argue that point.
Unfortunately, once this kind of machine is set up it doesn‘t need much specialised maintenance. You get the consumables from everywhere including the tools and the control software runs well enough without need for an update.
TL;DR: the manufacturers of those machines cannot do much after it has been delivered.

Hilarious 
 
 

The root cause is actually Google in this case.
Steam is HTML based and renders to screen using the Chromium browser engine. Google is dropping Chromium support for Windows 7, so Valve is, too.
Of course I would prefer that they switch to a different engine, but not much chance that is going to happen.

Statistic of issued videos of Russian FPV strikes from June 2022 to September 2023 from LostArmor.
 
UKR soldiers also say as Russian artillery is degrading, main threat now is becoming Russian FPV and Lancets. Particilarly UKR soldiers on souhern flank of Bakhmut pointed out Russian sharply increased using of FPV and months ago it was ratio approx 1:2 in UKR favor, but Russian are still increasing production of FPV drones, they have state program of producing and operators training. Initial training is planning to introduce in schools on the lessons of basic military. In Ukraine all this branch alas, was ignored by MoD, which thought small commercial drones (recon, droppers, klamikadze) as "for wedding purpose, which don't capable to change something significant of battlefield", so all combat drones, based on commercial models or self-designed still suppluing by charity funds, international organisations, fundrisers and volunteers. Only in last months several developments of military quadqopters were intoduced. But how much we can produce, it's a question. Many of volunteers afraid we can lost a racing with Russia in FPV-building. Russia still gets free all components not only for commercial-type drones, but also for Lancets, using US, Germany, Japan and Switzerland electronic, engines etc. 

Some news from Zaporizhzhia front
- Hanna Maliar claimed "partial success" near Novoprokpivka and Verbove. I can't say how is her words reliable, because her statements often were objects of criticism, but some OSINT observations show UKR troops have taken enemy position NW of Verbove

... and west from Robotyne toward Kopani

Unofficial TG of 46th air-assault brigade claims:
- UKR troops captured part of strongpoint north from Novoprokopivka. Russian sources also partially confirmed this - that UKR forces siezed eastern part of this strongpoint and now there are clashes for it western part on otehr side of road to Tokmak.
- Russians brought too many infantry to places, where UKR troops broke their first position of main line. Also Russians are withdrawing from minor positions (but fiercely fighting for important strongpoints), when they see they can't stand against UKR assault or arty strtikes, but UKR troops mostly can't take foothold on these positions because of intensive mortar, artillery, airstrikes and FPV/Lancet strikes. 
- despite on some success near Novoprokopivka and Verbove, heights near theses villages still under enemy control, so until they are taken, it will be too hard to capture these villages. 
Video of fight from 47th mech.brigade
 
According to infromation from 47th brigade, thier commander lt.colonel Oleksandr Sak, youngest brigade comamnder in UKR army was removed from duty colonel Oleksandr Pavliy was appointed to command. Recently he commanded by 112nd Territorial Defence brigade of Kyiv. In social networks some people say Sak was removed because he turned out not enough ready to complete so hard tasks, he made several mistakes and lost too many soldiers and value equipment. Other say all is other way round - Sak just was rejecting to acomplish endless "Go-go-go!" from "Tavria" Operative Grouping HQ (or maybe and higher) and didn't want to send soldiers in "meat attacks", so top-brass decided to remove obstinate comamnder. Maybe will be more information soon. Recently chief sergeant of brigade Valeriy Markus sharply criticize brigade command for their vision of brigade usage and was forced to leave the unit.  

They dont need to actually mass in the sense of more troops per km of frontline.
Take their current company attack occupying maybe 2km of frontline. now add another 2 on each flank. the overall attack now occupies 10 km.
You now have reduced the enemys guns able to react to each individual attack significantly. Same goes for the own firesupport but massing your own guns in such an area is far faster than the enemys reaction.
Couple the attack with strikes on the hqs and you also dramatically reduce the reaction times when it matters.
Have reserve forces ready to push further oncr the first wave has taken the forward lines.
You never have forces more densely packed than currently, can dilute the defenders support and potentially cause a catastrophic failure of the defense.
Maybe ukraine is already doing this and were just not hearing it or they arent for some reason.
And i would be cautious with assuming ukrainians are doing everything as they should from a nato perspective. I wasnt particularly impressed with the performance of the ukrainians we trained so im skeptical their officers are generally much better.

I'm sure they did everything they could. But that little village has been jutting out like a salient since 20/08. I'm really surprised they held out so long.

And just in case anybody thinks I'm trying to praise the Russian army - no, I'm not.
I'm just saying that when a village barely 500x500 metres is able to hold out for nearly a month despite being surrounded on three sides, only to finally get totally destroyed instead of surrendering, then that doesn't sound like the typical story of clueless and demotivated mobiks that we so often hear.
Hopefully those guys were the last competent Russians in the army, because if they have many more of the same kind, then this will be a long war.

https://www.amazon.com/lamp-oil/s?k=lamp+oil  
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1480560/Lawn_Mowing_Simulator/
For the average “I just want things to go boom” player, perhaps.  If you want a serious realistic wargame simulation then obstacles and breaching ops are clearly a requirement.
 

On June 2, 1952, in a 6–3 ruling, the Supreme Court declared in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer that the President lacked the authority to seize the steel mills. Writing for a heavily-divided majority, Justice Hugo Black held that the President had no authority under the Constitution to seize private property on the grounds of national security. Since Congress had not otherwise authorized the president to seize the steel mills, the President could not do so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_steel_strike
Who wants to put odds on Congress authorizing Biden to nationalize SpaceX?

A somewhat sobering update from the Ukrainian Konstantin Mashovets. Here is an excerpt:
https://t.me/zvizdecmanhustu/1208
 
 

On June 2, 1952, in a 6–3 ruling, the Supreme Court declared in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer that the President lacked the authority to seize the steel mills. Writing for a heavily-divided majority, Justice Hugo Black held that the President had no authority under the Constitution to seize private property on the grounds of national security. Since Congress had not otherwise authorized the president to seize the steel mills, the President could not do so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_steel_strike
Who wants to put odds on Congress authorizing Biden to nationalize SpaceX?

Yeah, you know, if somebody has breathtaking ambitions to lead humanity into entirely new ways of communciating, safe travelling and space colonization, he perhaps should take into account that his own private business will likely clash with public needs rather often. I have little doubts which should take precedence in normal, rules-driven order. Even in global village people prefer to think of themselves as coherent societies, not some peons whithout agenda.
Nobody forced him to make a fortune specifically in (and of) grey zone between these two spheres, only his own ego and ambitions drove him there.
 

The last 24 hours in this thread, reminds me of the time Marsha was hit in the nose by a football.
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Praise be.