Sarjen
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regarding DPICM: we should put our ethical principles behind the needs of Ukraine, which follows a higher legal and moral imperative (defense against a war of aggression contrary to international law). One can remain of different opinion but ethics are nice to have when you are not bound to be eradicated by Russia.
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9 hours ago, The_Capt said:
Good lord where in the sweet seven hells did this stupid sand/hourglass crap come from? Yes, I expect they are going to be doing saturation as well. Going to be interesting to see if it works.
I have another one for you: Putin has become entangled in his relationship with Prigozhin and resembles a king at chess who moves across the field with only two pawns left. He can no longer win and his time is running out
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Don’t know if it’s true, but if fighter jets are coming after the counter offensive than the Ukrainians are dying for nothing.
https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-not-receive-fighter-jets-061255539.html
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Russia is using chemical weapons at Bakhmut.
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9 hours ago, domfluff said:
Of course, none of this minutia is actually the point of this post. The Soviet tanks do indeed have worst situational awareness than the US ones in CMCW. They also have significantly better fire control systems, a much scarier armament, and superior protection. They are in most respects superior to the US tanks, until the generational change that happens with Abrams and Bradley (and to a lesser extent, the M60A3 TTS). This naturally leaps ahead of the Soviet designs, and this was late enough such that it wasn't something the Soviet Union ever really caught up with.
Exactly this. Thanks domfluff for getting the point through.
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6 hours ago, Grey_Fox said:
It's also night-time isn't it? Bradleys have thermal optics, while the T-80s don't, they have IR lamps which only provide visibility out to something like 100m. And I'm not even sure if they're used.
Edit: yeah it's 4.30AM, so visibility would be very low for non-thermal optics.
Just some info regarding the IR capabilities of the T-80s: the early T-80s uses the TPN-3 which is equipped with a much more sensitive infrared image converter assembly than its predecessor. The passive range of the early versions is between 500 and 800m. With the support of the modernized infrared headlight L4A, which had received a more luminous lamp, the visibility in active operation increased to about 1200 m. Still worse than the western technology but still more than 20m as in my video example.
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51 minutes ago, Butschi said:
Sure, we are spending our free time on a game and so it should be fun, nothing wrong with that. But the definition of fun is very subjective. For me, the fun in playing this game is to explore what difficulties a commander would have faced in such a conflict (and try to overcome them), not necessarily just winning. So, if you are after a more balanced game, where you can just as easily win with both side, maybe games like WARNO are more your thing? (And that wasn't meant in any negative way, I do enjoy WARNO and games like these, too, they just scratch a different itch.)
Well I am playing the Combat Mission line for more than 20 years and I sure like this game in all its facets. RTS like WARNO or Regiments and the like are not my favorites.
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30 minutes ago, Grey_Fox said:
It's also night-time isn't it? Bradleys have thermal optics, while the T-80s don't, they have IR lamps which only provide visibility out to something like 100m. And I'm not even sure if they're used.
Edit: yeah it's 4.30AM, so visibility would be very low for non-thermal optics.
Yes. I sometimes just share the frustation with the thread starter. I think about the scenarios for Single Players as a game, where the player should have fun. While i design a scenario for the "red" player, i have to give the soviets every advantage i can think of: Short range encounters, not night time
, many more tanks than "blue" side. It still is a game. I really appreciate the spotting and the whole mechanics underlying to give us a near realistic experience - but still the soviets feel at large at a disadvantage in the 80`s.
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10 minutes ago, Grey_Fox said:
Yes, tanks have very narrow fields of vision, which means that the closer they are to something the less likely they are to see it. Remember, you're essentially looking at things through letterbox-sized periscopes or viewports, and in the case of the gunner through a straw.
To overcome this, they should be used en-masse where possible.
Western doctrine is to fight with the commander at least partially turned-out. Soviet doctrine was to fight turned-in and en-masse.
While driving the company into the enemy the soviets killed two Bradleys with dismounted infantry from the scouts. The advancing tanks didn't even once see an enemy but got killed. All from 500m start to death. The US side in the above videos were not turned-out.
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I do share this frustation in many battles when i play the soviets. Just now i experienced a harrowing view. My T80B1 is driving into the enemy. Many of its company are already dead from invisble enemies. C2 didn't help. Infantry spotted and relayed the contacts to the HQ, but the info didn't trickle down to the tanks. So i just drove my tanks to near (20m) range of the enemy, still seeing nothing. I have recorded this from both views. Playing the soviets is no fun at all.
View from the T80B1:
and the view from the US side:
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Interesting view on the domestic car market in Russia.
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He only spoke of Donbas region. Nothing at all about decapitating the government of Ukraine nor denazification or demilitarization. Seems to me they acknowledge they can’t get it done and focus on the smaller target.
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1 hour ago, Taranis said:
Defense Forces of Ukraine move to counteroffensive in Kharkiv and Izyum directions - Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine General Valery Zaluzhny
https://t.me/UkraineNow/11167Time has come. Let's see how it all works out. Good luck.
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9 minutes ago, Fernando said:
The New Yoork Times has interviewed Gerhard Schröder. Unfortunately it is behind a paywall. Is there a way to read it for free?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/23/world/europe/schroder-germany-russia-gas-ukraine-war-energy.htmlTry web.Archive.org
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Short update on the German contribution of arms and equipment.
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On 4/11/2022 at 2:38 AM, Benjamin Ritchie-Hook said:
Yes, Cold War might finally solve its glaring omission of the Dutch armed forces.
You spelled german wrong.
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UA Tractor Defense Forces in action:
More on Chernobyl. The trenches digged by RA.
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The commander of the Panzerlehrbrigade 9 and and chief of the Situationroom Ukraine in the MoD Germany on the situation of the war including tank warfare and the future of tanks. In german language but english subtitles with automatic translation are available.
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11 minutes ago, DesertFox said:
Nah, see my earlier answer above. We are not talking about those old ones. 100 vehicles which mostly stem from the switch to Puma and are still in NATO reserve. Those are also deemed to be destroyed but were used until 2020.
So Trent used an old photo…
Anyhow. The German MoD send a list to Ukraine so they can easily tick of some entries to „shop“. Yes, you can call it a shopping list. Germany will buy it from weapons industries and send it to Ukraine.
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1 hour ago, DesertFox said:
Can´t get my head around those german idiots...
They stand there in the open for at least 12 years and are more than likely in no working condition. Prone to failure and motor power is bad because the 2nd armor layer is fitted but the motors are not upgraded. Additionally the springs and suspension brake easily. Plus, Ukrainians are not trained on it, including missing spare part logistics.
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General Mud is going on counter-offensive too.
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43 minutes ago, CHEqTRO said:
Wow. They are actually going to go ahead with this it seems. This is a worrying move, honestly.
Either Germany humilliates itself in such an unprecedented way, and esentially tears NATO and the EU apart, or the Russians are going to lose a lot of their GDP in a matter of days.
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According to a phone call between Putin and Scholz there will be no change for the european industries. They pay Gazprom bank in Euro and the not sanctioned Gazprom bank is converting them to rubel.
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Russia is using area denial to defend. Neither Russia nor Ukraine had signed the Landmine treaty so it is no war-crime per se.
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1 hour ago, DesertFox said:
, many more tanks than "blue" side. It still is a game. I really appreciate the spotting and the whole mechanics underlying to give us a near realistic experience - but still the soviets feel at large at a disadvantage in the 80`s.
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
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Maybe my English was not good enough to keep the too rigid legal context. Ukraine has a moral and legal obligation to protect its own people from the Russian war of aggression, no matter what ethics say. Otherwise, they would not fulfill their obligation as a state and nation. Ethics can then only influence execution frameworks. Just as Ukraine has done.