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4 minutes ago, FancyCat said:
How much profit can a sanctioned Russia give tho to China
China would happily take as much as she can
There's a joke going around in Moscow nowadays that it was not Agent Donald sitting in White Hose but rather Agent Vladimir that was sent to Kremlin.
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3 minutes ago, BeondTheGrave said:
With what he has now there is probably no way to win something useful.
Yepp. There's no plan. And never been. That's the whole problem what sets apart Putin and Xi - the former never has a strategy, only immediate turtle-like reactions.
8 minutes ago, BeondTheGrave said:But even getting Ukraine to formally recognize the DR/LR and Crimea
It may happen only if ZSU's Eastern Group is decisively defeated which is far from certain to say the least. US DoD made their forecast - it will end up in a bloody stall. They have been pretty accurate so far. Yet so many people will die before that happens
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10 minutes ago, sross112 said:
Maybe someone has some source knowledge of what they actually have for that sort of equipment and how many troops they could actually fully equip?
@sburkewas absolutely right. You may have a howitzer. You may train a loader within a couple of weeks. You need a hell of time to train an arty FO save an FAC.
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7 minutes ago, sburke said:
Time is not on Putin's side and this doesn't help solve the time problem.
They don't have a strategy or a least credible forecast whatsoever and that's probably the most frightening thing. What comes tomorrow may be absolutely not what they anticipated and they are absolutely irrational in their reactions.
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6 minutes ago, sburke said:
forget that for decades. This is a looming headache for Russia that will far outlast Putin.
You can forget about the whole of Russia for decades to come. Not only the oil industry. Personally I think 25-50 years - one-two whole generations. What is being done - it's not easily forgettable
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12 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
This will most likely make the cost of borrowing significantly higher than for other nations
Russia cannot borrow at whatever interest it may want to offer. It's prohibited under sanctions regime. Only one-on-one G2G exclusive payment deal say with China. And China will make sure Russia pays "exclusive" price for an exclusive deal. And this will not change within years if not decades to come. Yet not that Russian budget needs borrowing. It's is the least of the long term veritable disasters that will befall the country.
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8 minutes ago, Vacillator said:
This is a world I've not really visited. So I'm not up to speed and would welcome enlightenment on:
'a U.S. license allowing Moscow to make payments is due to expire'
Under the sanctions regime banks cannot process the payments. So the debtor may want to pay the interest yet the banks won't process the payment and the debtor will end up in default anyway. The license allows the banks to process the payments whatever they are. Normally the license exclusion allows some specific type of payments from / to specific parties.
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1 hour ago, DMS said:
It is a belief that humans of all races and nations are equal and have common interests.
You waste your time. Haiduk just does not believe in equality. He believes in his birthright to cleanse land of populace that not sufficiently loyal to his ideas.
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49 minutes ago, Haiduk said:
Nationalism will be exist always, as a natural protection reaction of any long time existed communality, which developed own culture, language, lifestyle, mentality and system of relations. So, "internationalism" is just leftists cosmopolitism.
Sounds like Mein Kampf, does it not?
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5 hours ago, The_Capt said:
I am still waiting for @dbsapp to show up here and tell us it is all "fake news", at this point I am actually hoping he is right...
What for? It's just pointless blah-blah-blah. 17 Russian ships in Med, including tenders and tugs - and they should have some, - would either be useless in case of further confrontation with Ukraine or just as good as dead should NATO steps in. No more than irrelevant propaganda.
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27 minutes ago, MOS:96B2P said:
I wonder what type of "extra duty" was earned for this?
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3 hours ago, Artkin said:
So what?
You said
3 hours ago, Artkin said:Yeah a consistent flow of information can be a huge issue.
I'm saying Ukraine has this flow. Just that. No catch.
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4 minutes ago, Artkin said:
Yeah a consistent flow of information can be a huge issue.
US is doing recce flights along the Crimea coast and Donbass LoC almost every day. Both UAVs and piloted planes. Sometimes planes of other NATO countries join them as well.
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20 hours ago, ncc1701e said:
Is there any difference between the three? Pros / Cons?
US arty observation/recce vehicles improve ToT for arty bombardments if FO is mounted. May be they also improve precision though I haven't tested. Russian/Ukrainian vehicles do not have any effect on ToT so they're no more than a free taxi.
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@Schrullenhaft Thanks, will ask Helpdesk. May be they see the current platform at least. The one I want to keep is on Win7 and the I other - I want to migrate from MacOS to Win10 laptop.
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I own two sets of CMx2 games that are installed on two different computers. Now I want to discontinue the use of one set where it's installed at the moment and migrate it to a different computer. Is there a way to see what license key is linked to what computer so that I do not accidentally install the same one on two PCs I plan to use in future?
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On 2/14/2022 at 5:00 PM, Phantom Captain said:
What is the best way to utilize Soviet MG teams? How do you get the most effect out of them?
I use them in suppressing suspected enemy positions in urban combat. They move through buildings, can hide in them up to the very moment of assault, can establish narrow fire lanes to cover the buildings they need to cover yet shield themselves from return fire and their suppression effect is quick to kick in and lasts considerable time. IMO in urban combat one MG team is as useful as another infantry squad and almost as much as BTR/BRDM. Compared to the former it is stealthier and provides more suppression effect over distance. As per the latter, MG teams are easier to navigate safely built up areas and more convenient with establishing keyhole firelanes.
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31 minutes ago, Flibby said:
it does seem to be the key to get over-watching infantry or ambushing troops into position without being spotted first however - or is there another way around this without smoke?
- I normally do not use smoke for placing spotters. 2-3 man spotter team is not exactly unobservable when not in hidden mode (and it's terrible at spotting when it is). With smoke it's so easy to get too close to the enemy so when smoke disappears your position is revealed and your team is killed instantly. I prefer to stay back yet use as many spotters as possible. When playing Russians I normally take one scouting team out of every infantry squad.
- If I remember correctly there's one unfortunate place in the center in this mission. Those buildings where one has its top floor demolished. I don't remember what exactly yet I had troubles with my team being fired upon by something heavy. Other than that I don't recall any issues.
- When deploying spotters start deploying smaller teams first: one-man teams if you have any as they are practically invisible (though not too good at spotting itself). First put your spotters further away from the enemy then come closer. Let spotting team stay on a position for a while to reconnoitre. I normally deploy all my spotters further away from the enemy then start moving them closer one by one so that the rest are observing. In CMBS never put spotters directly in front of enemy armour irrespective of distance - thermals are deadly.
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On 2/6/2022 at 7:51 PM, John Kettler said:
Super well armed
BMP-3 uses 100mm GLATGMs, the same as venerable T-55 whereas BMP-2 uses Konkurs and BMP-2M - Kornet. So BMP-2 is actually better against enemy heavy armour.
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On 2/7/2022 at 1:53 PM, THH149 said:
how would you knock out Abrams
If you play RT PvE:
- Spot Abrams with an infantry team. Since it has very good thermals try to avoid putting your spotting team facing Abrams' front.
- Put two tanks flanking the Abrams yet so far covered from it.
- Roll out one of your tanks to try to spot Abrams.
- Abrams will see your tank first most of the time yet since you have infantry's eyes on Abrams you'll see it turn the turret. So when you see it - just roll back your tank into cover and roll out the other.
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Repeat till one of your tanks spots Abrams first
- You can also use area fire on Abrams to try to degrade its sensors. Though only direct hits count and not all of them deal damage.
- Putting your tanks above or below Abrams helps as it somewhat increases the time Abrams needs to target your tank.
You can use this tactics in PvP or turn-based PvE as well by rolling out and rolling back with a short pause command in between. Though whereas you can do it with zero damage in RT PvE all the time you'd need to accept certain casualties in turn-based. Too short a pause - and your tank never ever spots Abrams, too long - you loose a tank. Infantry team overwatching Abrams is still of use as you'll know if Abrams moves and what direction Abrams' turret facing at the moment. So that you can somewhat reduce your risk by using the "right" tank at least at the beginning of the turn.
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15 hours ago, Flibby said:
getting overwatch over a position, most of the time, reveals the over-watching squad to the enemy who get fired on first - is smoke the only way to avoid this situation?
- Never use more than three-man teams and two men are way way better than three. Four-man one is almost as easy to spot as a whole squad.
- Always use crawl when crossing the crest or entering the building squares facing the enemy. Even inside the buildings crawl greatly reduces the risk of being spotted.
- Crawl exhaust the infantry pretty quickly and tired infantry is easier to spot. So don't crawl too far a distance - break it down to several hops with a rest between them. Keep a spotting team in hide position till it recovers before unhiding.
As per tired teams being easier to spot - that's my impression. I haven't done proper testing.
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18 hours ago, Flibby said:
I seem to be having some great difficulty with this mission as the Russians
- You have a lot of buildings facing the enemy - so put a lot of teams watching the enemy side. The distance between buildings on your side and enemy side is actually not that large. So to reduce the risk of your teams being spotted by the enemy rather than the other way around use two-men teams and crawl command when entering building squares facing the enemy.
- Choose whatever flank to cross the deep dividing road. Since you have many BTR-80As and enough RPG and PKM rounds preemptively suppress enemy buildings facing your side whether you spotted any enemy infantry there or not. Quickly cross the road - I used mounted infantry to shorten the exposure time. Coordinate the suppression with the crossing so that all potential enemy teams stay suppressed and not shoot at your advancing teams/armour.
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I did it on both flanks yet I like the right flank better since:
a) there's no long keyhole fire lane where an enemy armour can hide and be spotted too late; though it can be mitigated is you cross somewhat closer to the center and avoid exposure to this this fire lane
b) there're buildings on your side closer to the enemy buildings so you can put your spotters closer
c) there's a depression on the road leading to the enemy side so you can bring BTRs closer to the enemy side to shorten exposure
d) the road is paved and runs straight to the enemy side - saves exposure time as well; with the left flank you need a fine micromanagement to avoid the firelane yet cross with your armour (if you use the armour) - AFAIR I killed almost all - if not all - enemy armour with RPGs except for the tank or BMP - don't remember - that suddenly crosses to your side. Yet as I expected something like this I kept RPG teams and BTR-80s flanking the probable routes of approach so it was easy. Your armour is stone blind and can't spot enemy armour quickly enough so keep infantry nearby and order area fire to the enemy armour spotted by infantry even if your armour can't see it yet.
- The rest is standard building clearing. Put as many two-man teams as spotters on the enemy buildings. If fire lanes allows preemptive suppression by your armour then do that and move quickly. If there are no fire lanes - then suppress with the infantry teams and risk some low casualties.
- If you play PvE rather than PvP then you can abuse the engine into opening fire and revealing its positions. Take a 2-3 man team and make it run a short distance from cover to cover in the wide open far enough from the enemy positions. If you do it correctly you won't have any casualties almost 100% of the time. If you use two man teams and the run is too far away from the suspected enemy position then do it 2-3 times - two man teams are hard to spot.
The key is to have as many spotting teams in overwatch as possible and avoid revealing them. If you have enough then Russians are playable even against Americans. Though be wary of American thermals that can laser see your spotting teams across the whole map. So put them to the flanks and not so obvious places. Ukrainians don't have thermals so it's a piece of cake.
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23 minutes ago, Haiduk said:
Russians so long time have an image of Ukrainians as mild "khokhols", "younger brother of Great Russians"
Seems there are cases when a visit to a shrink can easily avert a whole war
23 minutes ago, Haiduk said:manifestation on nazism
This is a rally in Kiev celebrating SS division Galichina. The picture is not from "Putin's propaganda"
- it's Deutsche Welle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician)#Atrocities
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41 minutes ago, DMS said:
Sometimes I think that Haiduk is Kremlin's troll, infiltrated to this forum for anti Ukrainian propaganda.
He must add "but we will correct them in labour camps", but it would be too fat.
The really sorry thing is these are the people who really believe in it. They do believe they are serving a noble cause by cleansing Eastern Ukraine of people who are not "sufficiently Ukrainian". They would prefer an open war over giving up an inch of their beliefs. There's something profoundly wrong about people who think that every inch of an ideology of a kind is more important than people's lives.
49 minutes ago, danfrodo said:Putin is playing the nationalist hero card and he can't afford to lose face.
No, there will be a sigh of relief in every corner of Russia if a war can be avoided this way or another. Ukraine will probably cease to exist in the current form yet it will be a catastrophe for Russia as well.
49 minutes ago, danfrodo said:while at the same time not actually rewarding him with anything significant for this war-extortion racket he is running
He believes if Ukraine will continue to grow stronger militarily (through NATO membership or through massive arms transfer) then a war is unavoidable sooner or later. And reading Haiduk I think he has a reason to think so. So all he wants is that Ukraine is not put over the threshold when it can venture to do what Saakashvili did in 2008. I'm far from being a Putin's fan yet to me personally it does not seem a price too high for avoiding tens of thousands deaths from both sides.
3 hours ago, Haiduk said:Since "compatriots" cried "Putin, enter the troops!", "Donbas is Russia!"
Ukraine recently closed several TV channels and banned a political party that started to acquire significant popularity. The party never cried for Putin to come their only fault was they were considered more predisposed to find SOME accommodation if it ever comes to power. Ukrainian Far Right have a clear idea of what kind of Ukraine they want and they are ready to go any length to make sure it's the only way Ukraine can ever live. They take no prisoner neither with foreign policies nor with their own populace who dare to be less ideologically pure. If need be they are ready to stage a coup and overthrow a democratically elected government.
There's a joke going around in Moscow nowadays that it was not Agent Donald sitting in White Hose but rather Agent Vladimir that was sent to Kremlin.
He must add "but we will correct them in labour camps", but it would be too fat.
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
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It's even worse than that - there was no Plan A. They thought Ukrainian people would greet them with bread and salt after they take over their country. They didn't even let in professional servicemen into their plan. It was all done in a close circle of political appointees. That's why such a disaster. And there's no way out of the mess. One thing that Putin achieved in Ukraine - he managed to unite the country. Now there's no Russian speaking East and Polish-Ukrainian speaking West.