Pete Wenman

No real idea what to make of this. As stated above very odd all round. P

Good to see you back, hope things are all ok with you and yours P

Can't see that this has been shared before https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?ll=50.46236913639948%2C31.009234156915404&z=9&mid=1hit_p7DptnwsFEyv5g_sD2dE-SH0vvc P

Interesting perspective on Putin's and Russia's view of the (endless) war. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02/25/russia-ends-nowhere-they-say P

Within an article confirming Spartan APC's being handed over to the 127th Brigade - a territorial unit https://mil.in.ua/uk/news/harkivsku-tro-ozbroyily-bronemashynamy-spartan/ P

Shame about the arrests - lets hope its stern telling off for these arch criminals

The one bit of kit that would have given us a chance to beat the Soviets - tea anyone ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_vessel

That's pretty much all the Royals I've met P

I’ve got that tee shirt, made the gpmg seem no weight at all. Have to say though that live firing the 84 both sub and full calibre was a lot of fun.

“reports indicating something like ‘general counteroffensive’ of the ZSU in the Bakhmut area” Tom Cooper has thoughts https://medium.com/@x_TomCooper_x/ukraine-war-19-february-2023-bakhmut-c282d043b148

Tom Cooper summarising events - not sure too many here will disagree with the premise. Bottom line: the ‘biiiiig’ Russian offensive appears to be petering out amid massive casualties and at least two big failures. Yes, this conclusion might be premature (and yes: even I’m surprised for coming to the idea to write this).... Unless much more details become available, I guess the reasons are what I’ve explained again and again: a) the VSRF cannot support one ‘biiiiiiiiiig’ operation in a single sector, thus was forced to distribute less troops on three ‘primary’ sectors, and these proved insufficient to overcome the combination of Ukrainian fire-power and will; b) because of incompatibility with the winter weather, it’s Orlan-10 UAVs are not working, and thus the Russian generals are ‘commanding blind’ (they do not know where are what of Ukrainian positions), while their artillery lacks the effectiveness necessary to breach Ukrainian frontlines and enable a serious advance; c) the mass of mobiks is simply not trained well-enough to conduct offensive operations (especially no mechanised operations); and d) the VSRF is lacking officers to organise, train, and lead 100,000, 150,000, 200,000 (or more) of mobiks into combat. Atop of this, due to the lack of UAVs and other modern means of reconnaissance, and bad weather, even the GRU and FSB are experiencing growing problems with collecting intelligence. Between others, it turned out they’ve requested their moles in the German BND to obtain intel on activity of Ukrainian M142 and M270-units… Finally, by now it’s obvious that even Gerasimov and his aides found no solution for the general degeneration of the VSRF — for which there is nobody else but Putin and the Keystone Cops in Moscow (foremost including Shoygu and Gerasimov) to blame. https://medium.com/@x_TomCooper_x/ukraine-war-18-february-2023-dc29786a91df P

For those that can access the BBC iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001grdw/ukraine-the-peoples-fight

There is a translation of the clip further down the thread.

Interesting article from Tom Cooper, who seems to be making sense again, suggesting that the "big" Russian offensive is underway, just not as perhaps expected. and worth flagging for this quote if nothing else https://medium.com/@x_TomCooper_x/ukraine-war-3-february-2023-56183abaab20

@Haiduk - can you add anything to this "Seems the 241st Brigade has recovered Blahodatne, yesterday. If so, that would've been the first major - and the first clearly successful - Ukrainian counterattack in the Bakhmut area. And as such: right on time, then after some 6-7 months of endless Russian attacks resulting in advances, no matter how minor, the situation was beginning to get worrisome."

Coopers thoughts on the recent attack on Vuhledar and that it did not go well for the Russians https://medium.com/@x_TomCooper_x/ukraine-war-2-february-2022-vuhledar-8e34b3cc3ae1 P

Interesting update from Tom Cooper at a tactical level, (he has also just done one at operational level as well) https://medium.com/@x_TomCooper_x/ukraine-war-31-january-2022-tactical-level-1d78150d44cf Suggests that Ukraine are in the ascendancy across the board at the tactical level. edit to add the Operational level article https://medium.com/@x_TomCooper_x/ukraine-war-1-february-2023-operational-level-e87baf595f45 P

Good overview here of what is entailed in firing the M-777.

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Yes that would require download. They are separate game families and each family will need to be downloaded at least once. P

Some thoughts from Tom Cooper - posted at 19.45 last night so already over 12 hours out of date. My bold and his update from this morning can be found here https://medium.com/@x_TomCooper_x/ukraine-war-11-january-2023-soledar-cf0cf0e6d5b7 P

Thanks, it was an interesting map to build, but I do love the end result P

Use the quote tool P

You need to scale the overlay so that it matches the editor. The overlay image therefore needs to be a known size. Easiest way is to use grid square on maps, or the ruler on GE. If the overlay image covers an area 4k x 2k, that is then the size of map that needs to be created in the editor. If using an aerial photo then you will need to scale that correctly. This can be done by measuring the distance between two (or more) visible points on the photo and then measuring that distance on map. This will then let you scale the map. Otherwise you can overlay the photo over a map image and tweak the layers until they match. You can then take the scale from the map and it will also apply to the photo. Note the layers used here - grid, the purple squares being 1k x 1k, layer1 the GE image (erased in part to show the layer below) layer0 the map image P

@BFCElvis P