Vanir Ausf B

If years of playing CM have taught me anything it's that cheap HE-chuckers are always useful

No panic, but...

More pics from the Bilohorivka crossing. Because you can never have too many.

The salient question remaining is how far can Putin kick the can down the road before he runs out of road.

Igor Girkin is calling it.

French hand grenades are dainty.

One seldom mentioned aspect of this is that, broadly speaking, the Southern Military District units have significantly out-performed those from the Western MD. The "elite" formations, such as the 4th GTD, have been the worst performers.

Well... it kinda is.

Everything old is new again. Panzerfausts doing work on Russian armor in Ukraine.

This was brought up a while back. IIRC, the gist of it was that "light" infantry is simply non-mechanized infantry. The term says nothing about what type of weaponry they carry or use.

It cannot be overstated how important it was that the Russians were road-bound, making them predictable. In addition to all the strategic errors Steve listed, the Russians also committed the cardinal sin of attacking at the worst possible time of year. The Ukrainians placed ATGMs on the obvious routes, confident the Russians could not just go around. The ATGMs slowed the columns down, then artillery destroyed them.

I'm 99% sure you are right.

There's lot of guys standing around watching. I'd guess this is training.

That would explain the drop tanks.

Yes.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-considers-alternatives-after-us-informs-howitzer-delay-2022-05-02/

They screwed up by not keeping the turret rotated towards the enemy while in LOS.

Nice work! I count exactly 40 dots...

Paging @Thomm

I was just looking over the Wiki page for the German Puma IFV. Unit cost $22 million, 2.5x M1A2 Abrams.

You said yourself that different sources give the cost of a T-90A as "1.5M to 3.5M". So does a M1A2 tank cost 6x T-90A or 2.5x? Who decides that and how is that not subjective? Wikipedia gives the unit cost of a M4A1 rifle as $700. What does Russia pay for an AK-74M? Wiki doesn't say. The unit cost of any manufactured item is also going to be influenced by how many of them are made because the R&D cost is spread over each unit and economies of scale. That has nothing to do with battlefield performance.

BMP-3Ms are fantastic. I buy them without hesitation.