Splinty

This war is far from over. I think Ukraine has a hard task ahead of them. But, I also believe they will regain all their lost territory.

When I was stationed in Germany for my first tour ('81-'84). There were Viet Nam style flack vests in our supply room, but never once did those vests leave there. As far as I know we only still had them because they hadn't been removed from the books yet.

Same with the US Army.

At this point I don't even consider the UXO DPICM situation worthy of argument. Very little, if any DPICM or general purpose cluster munitions are going to be used anywhere that Russia hasn't already placed hundreds if not thousands of AT and AP mines. Areas that will have to be demined post war ANYWAYS. Whatever unexploded DPICM remains will just be another part of the clean up.

My Bradley ran over an unexploded cluster munition after the ground war in Desert Storm. It did explode, but the only damage was to one of the rubber track pads. Having said that, I wouldn't want to step on one. It would probably remove or shatter a foot.

The Redeye, Stingers predecessor was developed in 1961. The Stinger didn't enter service until the early '80s.

I'm hoping that Ukraine is just biding their time, waiting for the most useful moment.

The maximum effective of an M16A1/2 over iron sights is 460m. That is the US Army standard. Although the longest ranged target on a pop up range was 300m.

I'm imagining a drone that drops a litre of vodka, followed by a grenade when Russian troops scramble out to get it.

This.

I love my Brads! Get 'em boys!

Those are Americans. Take a closer look at the soldiers around the Bradleys. Those are US Army troops. And the Bradley facing the camera is nicknamed Candy in English.

So in other words, he's no different than any other politician.

I completely agree. Until Ukraine starts carpet bombing Russian cities this conversation is utterly irrelevant. Ukraine isn't -and most likely won't- deliberately killing Russian civilians.

You just Rick Rolled us!

I think your autocorrect doesn't like Antifa. OTOH being opposed to anarchists doesn't make someone a fascist either.

In other words one battalion-.

Actually the US Marines are technically part of the US Navy, but generally are treated as their own branch.

I would also expect that the Patriot batteries around Kyiv are reasonably well protected by things like Hesco barriers and concrete T walls and the digging/fortifying process is ongoing.

The Cold War isn't over. It's just switched opponents. China is in the process of becoming the new Cold War focus.

I think the 1st line of the creed "No one is more professional that I, a Non Commissioned Officer, a leader of Soldiers." plays a role in that too. There's a big difference in just being promoted to sergeant because someone has served long enough, and being a professional NCO.

I'm having the same issue with CMCW. I've tried doing a complete uninstall and reinstall, to include deleting all CMCW folders from my drive and still when I reinstalled the game I also got a few seconds of the Windows spinning circle and then nothing.

Nope. All the ammo besides the 6 rounds in the protected storage in the hull are stored in the separate turret storage compartment. THAT is with a full load. Western armies prefer to protect the lives of a trained tank crew rather than sacrifice barely competent conscripts.

At least in the case of the M1 Abrams, the ammo isn't stored openly in the hull or turret. It's stored in an armored compartment at the back of the turret and is separated from the crew compartment by armored blast doors. The loader opens the doors with a switch to access the rounds. The ammo compartment has blast panels on the turret roof in case of an ammo cook off.

This former Bradley crewman loves it!