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LongLeftFlank

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  1. Sorry, gotta meme you here, it's my way. Besides, Micronauts!
  2. Interestingly, I think I posted some footage a week or so ago of UA sappers busily (cover your ears, @The_Capt) mining the gaps in this very fence. Looks like it paid off.
  3. So as the Chairman exhorts us to 'seek truth from facts', 'learn from the peasants' and 'conduct rigorous self-criticism', I visited a pro-Russian feed to see what they are showing lately in the way of hohol doom and destruction that has been hidden from we bourgeois dupes and stooges in our echo chamber. Hilarity ensues (for some definition of hilarity). Yes, there's also some destroyed equipment but no context (where, when, how much). 1. "Training of Belarusian military personnel with soldiers of the Wagner Group continues." 2. Wot, behind the rabbit? 3. Dumb alligator tricks 4. OK, some beardos talking and walking is the righteous fist of Allah or sumfink? ***** Zoka got outed and his site was repurposed, but Geroman is still on the job. The footage is not without interest, but hardly supports the claims in the caption (that's true of UKR footage of course at times). Here too. Not sure I've ever seen a UA soldier in a steel pot with no helmet liner though, so not clear these hapless hohols aren't Russian or separs. 5. OK, this does seem to be a UA road column being shot to hell but jump cuts make it hard to tell what's going on. The drone strikes clip is actually more interesting to me: I know it's very much 'anecdata' and this is a built up (rubbled) battlespace, but do the Rooskies lean toward using SPV drones and Lancets in clusters as ersatz mortars, as opposed to the more curated strikes we see posted by the UA? (no firm conclusion reachable here, just something to look for) Anyway, for what it's worth.
  4. RESOLVED: 'Accuracy over mass is going to win this war'. Discuss. (jk, that's like the last 3100 pages) *** Been seeing a fair number of these kills of AD systems over the last month. I know very little about air defence, so not much sense of how badly each of these 'hurts' Ivan. So per Wiki, it looks like the Russian Army has about 350 Buk SAM launchers of all types. No count on Zhitel jammers.
  5. Well evidently somebody thinks moar mech is the key to breaking the deadlock https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/12/07/ukraine-is-forming-five-new-mechanized-brigades-now-they-need-vehicles/?sh=3bff7d502f70 The Ukrainian army is forming five new mechanized brigades. On paper, the 150th, 151st, 152nd, 153rd and 154th Mechanized Brigades represent a significant forceā€”a five-percent expansion of the Ukrainian ground forces.... The brigades reportedly are drawing their cadres of experienced officers and non-commissioned officers from existing brigades, while filling out their 2,000 or so other billets with new recruits. In practice, the Ukrainians seem to appreciate that brigades lose fighting vehicles fast while in combat, and need access to ample stocks of replacement vehicles.
  6. Avdiivka. I think the vids were posted before but this presentation gives helpful operational context.
  7. Perun from last month has some very relevant discussion of EW, and how it is keeping the ''Drone Apocalypse" at bay for the moment; last 1/3 of the hour, although the rest is also worthwhile as usual.
  8. Welcome, and let me offer you cigars and brandy from the Skeptics lounge. You're definitely not the only one getting WW1 vibes here. Bonus (Canadian clickbait) Somewhere between the 'Belarusian spetsnaz break bricks with head' division and the 'only a lumberjack stirs his coffee with his thumb' division.
  9. Good thread by Perpetua noting that not all tech on this new battlefield paradigm needs to be hi-tech. Another interesting minithread here. https://nitter.net/AndrewPerpetua/status/1734387176492716074#m P.S. Is it just me, or has Elon has effed around with the Twitter yet again, to inhibit embedding of tweet images in other media?
  10. https://www.axios.com/2023/12/05/humanoid-robot-factory-agility-bipedal-amazon If not slaughterbots just yet, at least a source of quick and dirty mine tramplers and ammo bearers? ...Of course, since these startups need funding all their core IC is already out during the vapourware stage, which means China Inc. can and will beat them to 'market' with crappy but functional knockoffs. Whatever happens we have got / the Maxim gun / and they have (Not!)
  11. It doesn't help much, sadly, since others just keep quoting and arguing with him. Look, there are tough questions to discuss here around actions Ukraine may need to make urgently if it is to stay in this war, much less 'win'. And there's a lot of room for differences of view on those. But I for one am not about to waste time chasing down Carlson/tankie talking points at the bidding of some rando who argues at the level of a bright 17 year old off his meds. He brings less than nothing to this conversation.
  12. If I choose, I can get the tankie view over on NakedCapitalism, which is basically the same rubbish you're spouting here. You're done.
  13. OK, the longer you guys try to engage @kevinkin replacement and his Gish Gallop (look it up) blasts of overconfident yet entirely unsupported broad projectile vomits of 'alternative facts' the more unreadable this thread becomes. If he really wants to be our good faith house contrarian, he needs to post credible third party information, then give his take, one or two points at a time and allow time for reubuttal. Otherwise, this is just garden variety trolling. ...This is what happens when nobody posts information and just bloviates and emotes.
  14. Anyone else here think that UA should push another couple battalions across the Dnpro in a different spot, to keep stressing these overextended RU scratch forces and their inexperienced commands by forcing them to move around? The Krynki bridgehead, which is now evidently 'contained' (all those covered entrenchments on drier ground across the highway), now seems to have served its military purpose and can be evacuated. Whack a mole on the lower Dnpr....
  15. As I continue to pore over frontline maps, I find myself looking not for 'defensible positions' like villes and tree lines, but for linear obstacles like this canal. With a nice deep, flat, open killing zone in front of it that Ukraine should be sowing like crazy with mines, plus RF sensors to triangulate and target their tactical drone controllers. Invite 'em in, then kill em by the bushel. They can't go forward and won't be allowed back.
  16. Ha ha mate, at this point it is not at all clear to me that ANY of: a. tanks/IFVs/mech b. aircraft c. artillery (other than PGMs) d. infantry (other than sappers) e. field fortifications f. tactical terrain (other than water and bogs) ...are a thing going forward, at least in terms of leveraging them to deliver meaningful results. https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-december-12-2023
  17. Sorry, I can't think of Eggs without thinking of one of the 10 all time best war film sequences (epic B25 takeoff included) ***** Drone bros in their hide. Note the 'US ARMY' patches on their parkas although I suspect these are made in Bangladesh....
  18. Interesting RU side assessment, though not yet sure what the drone revolution thinks of 'commanding heights'. ... there is nothing 'sensitive' but text.
  19. PR might be the least of UA command's worries right now, but fair enough. Don't see Zelenskyy smiling much these days; he clearly gets it.
  20. Solid report, many thanks. Twitterverse isn't yielding much insight on the frontline situation over the last few days. ....There is this; WARNING this is (recent) drone bombing clips from Bakhmut area, and EXTREMELY graphic and awful, but filmed in some of the highest resolution I've seen, as in modder resource quality textures of snowy/muddy ground, trees, kit, explosions, etc. That's the only reason I am posting it here, for those who have the stomach. One observation: these troops seem more professionally and uniformly equipped than many others we have been seeing, also fitter. So this could be an elite VDV unit being horribly dismembered here. Teplinski doesn't have an infinite number of those, and like a wolf-dog at some point they could turn.... Less graphic but also modder-interesting, a slideshow of still shots, many good quality (though some repeat) of what Brigadier Hackett once described as the 'indescribable mess of war'. Tik Tok time from Teddy Bear...
  21. I want to play CM on a pregnancy test. Can @Battlefront Charles get right on that please? (found via this blog post) https://taylor.town/pardon-2023
  22. This x1000% Which is why I feel the Ukes need to be 'pre-mining', mapping (for drone purposes) and burying hardened OPs (+EW jammers?) -- today -- to create an uninhabitable death zone c.50km deep, along more or less their entire current front, from Sumy to the Dnpr bend. Shortening that front (that is, ceding territory, however painful) if needed. And yes, that will be an enormous effort; one I believe Russia is already undertaking below Donetsk.
  23. Deepening the 'denied zone' beyond, of all places, the 'shallow' Ukrainian infantry bridgehead at Krynki. https://nitter.net/foosint Don't forget the mines
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