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More about smoking. This video says this thing can produce a ton of it for hours. Probablly thermal blocking as well. But what a nice sitting target indeed who ironically can't hide itself.

Yes, who would have thought after 100 years , masses of infantry with gas masks , trenches, absent tanks and massive artillery. And godamn Rats! The only good thing out of this that hopefully the new CM will be infantry heavy and more focused In these tactics. No more all seeing killer tanks and APCs. All bow to the weary infantryman.

So after WW1, we will now see again photos of men in gas masks in trenches. Are we really moving forward

So the Russians keep pushing despite losses. Some questions. Have they really calculated they can take every small Ukrainian settlement in slow fashion while taking losses of precious equipment, even from hits in their airports well behind lines? Could they win the ground war and lose in the big picture in the end. Or they have certain city goals like Kharkiv and Kramatorsk - Slaviansk that think will bring a domino blow in the UKR political/military structure. Where are the precious toys Ukraine has received from the West. I see some scattered Bradleys here and there but no news about Leopards, M1s, Challengers etc. Artillery systems are also not much visible anymore. Is Ukraine holding them for a bigger counter operation, or they have suffered heavier losses than actually reported.

I suspect the main problem for Russians are the myriad simple FPV drones that Ukraine is using. These rely on plain cameras mainly. Smoke can make them less effective at some percent. Guess that would be small. They seem to be producing the smoke on ground level. I think it could be more effective perhaps with real time satellite intelligence the UA is getting from the West. But I have no accurate idea how "real time" it is in a moving battlefield.

6. I hope they have good graphics card BTW otherwise the offensive might stall I agree overall. Looks like it's more psychological for own consumption. Though I think the primary weapon of Ukraine are myriads of small market non IR FPV drones that may have some problems. If I was serious as RU, I would also think of decoy smoke too. Not sure if they have the luxury though. This kinda reminds me of the rather unsussesful zukkov's use of searchligts in the battle of seelow heights.

Not sure if this pro russian account is trustworthy but this looks like preparation for RU wide scale offensive. Could this be actually effective against drones, I wonder.

First Tu-22 kill? Pilots reportedly bailed out.

Who knew, motorcycles (and sidecars) would finally make it in CM BS2 as an assault element

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I "hope" this thread stays titled how hot Ukraine's gonna get, in the near future. There are clear axises colliding in an expanding battlefront and nothing will surprise us anymore. Especially since we witnessed something us unimaginable as Russia storming a European capital. Everything is connected in a way or another. There is Russian presence in Syria, and there are Iranian drones in Kiev. But yes, for now makes sense to keep this thread clear off other conflicts. Like we wouldn't discuss WW2 North Africa and European theatre in the same thread.

Scores of ballistic missiles penetrated US/Israel's defense, some hit negev F35 airbase

Ukraine had the finest most battle hardened and motivated infantrymen West could hope to employ imo. It is still unknown the losses they suffered in the large counter offensive. Unfortunately many were lost too in lengthy sieges like Bahmut, Mariupol and Avdeevka and keep suffering losses under Glide bombs and artillery. These troops would rather die than succumb to Russia's plans, and hated them with a passion. That's the no1 adversary Russia had to defeat. After that, what kind of infantry will fight against them in eastern Europe ? Polish conscripts or French legionnaires? The dramatic surge in FPV drone use might be an indication how Ukraine plans to counter a possible a frontline manpower issue. They are in cases more effective/deadly than a whole platoon of infantry but can they really replace infantry?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-06/china-is-providing-geospatial-intelligence-to-russia-us-warns?embedded-checkout=true Behind paywall, but the sum is that we slowly see official evidence surfacing of the role China is playing to keep Russia in the fight. The hypothesis that somehow they will be backtracking afraid of business disruption with the West was false. China is an almost unlimited X factor imo, both in resources, production capacity and levels of involvement. This makes the Ukraine war a lot more complicated.

Agreed Yeah it's puzzling they fight each other, since they are both white and believe in white supremacy and are probably fans of Nazi Germany too but these are groups that never went too deep with their reasoning I guess.