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Pete Wenman

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  1. Don't think this has been posted earlier but the Army trying some new tech here. Airborne soldiers do some smart shooting with new sight that helps smash drones. https://www.forces.net/services/army/airborne-soldiers-do-some-smart-shooting-new-sight-helps-smash-drones?fbclid=IwAR0TWthFemVVlX_5RRp79SZg4GiWN8JOPy84i4znNrwF7E1cRtwvIsFwyi4
  2. Cause someone needs to keep changing the batteries in all the hi-tech kit.
  3. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th P
  4. Just to jump in here in as a Cold War infantryman - we did extensive FIBUA training at various specialised training ranges over the years. We trained to go in through the roof, the doors, windows, mouseholes, not to go in at all but to bypass, to call in air support, to call in armour support, to blow the place up and if I've missed any options we also trained for them. P
  5. Tom Cooper talking about what he knows best - aviation . An interesting timeline and suggestion as to what happened to the A-50U and Il-22M https://xxtomcooperxx.substack.com/p/ukraine-war-16-january-2024-scratch P
  6. Well that looks like the splatter from a missile strike to me. Now what sort is the bigger question?
  7. MOD with thoughts on RU casualties (4/5) It is likely that Russia has suffered 150,000-190,000 permanent casualties (killed and permanently wounded) since the conflict began, with the total figure including temporarily wounded (recovered and due to return to the battlefield) in the region of 240,000-290,000. (5/5) This does not include Wagner Group or their prisoner battalions who fought in Bakhmut.
  8. Interesting, update on the incident from last year, but what I think most suspected https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66798508 P
  9. You have a dedicated Forward Observer, mounted in Sdkfz 250 (unless you have moved him) and he has access to all artillery including the Nebelwerfers. P
  10. Eliot Higgins Retweeted Ukrainians advance 16-20 kilometers in 'tactically significant' move. Ukraine made a "tactically significant" advance along two lines of attack towards the southern coast, according to the Russian and Ukrainian sources.
  11. Ben Mayne - @BattlefieldBen on Twitter is posting a whole series of tweets covering the actions on Operation Charwood, with annotated GE maps/photos and film clips from the IWM https://twitter.com/hashtag/OpCharnwood?src=hashtag_click Well worth checking out if you are on the mess that is currently twitter P
  12. RT blank map 5696m x 5696m P Rad1.btt
  13. Excuse the language - but this is funny and perhaps surprisingly accurate P
  14. The BBC are also reporting this, but no idea if true, nor what the deal is Also in the thread
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