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Some nice hardware there. Modders should take a note of the camo scheme

Excellent! Is there any estimate when the new patch for CMBS will be released?

That's right - the commander was rotating all the time. Too bad - hopefully it will get noticed and fixed. @ChrisND @Battlefront.com I can provide the save file if necessary. In the mean time I think it's safer to go for the Bulats.

It looks like it hit the vision port, so it was a pretty lucky shot if you ask me share image

The distance was about 150m. What's quite abnormal about this situation, is that the Oplot actually spotted the BMP but it didn't fire during the 10 seconds. I think it's because simultaneously it was receiving fire from the infantry hidden in the buildings. Before getting killed by the BMP, it got hit by another ATGM ( I think it was fired by the infantry but I couldn't see it ) but the first missile didn't even manage to damage it. IMO the tank should have fired at the BMP because it could see it, while it didn't see the infantry. But it's a separate issue.

Here's a long awaited proof that the BMP-2 is able to fire it's ATGM to a good effect against an enemy tank. It took it about 10 seconds to fire the ATGM, since moment the tank had been spotted. subir fotos subir fotos subir fotos

The only captured guy they showed on Russian TV, is a Ukrainian driver who looks like he was beaten up, so I guess he would confess to anything. His cousin said, that on the video he wears a t-shirt that he normally wears when he goes to his work in a car workshop. So it looks like he was snatched by the FSB.

@John Kettler South Front is a Russian propaganda. Let's just take a look at the video that supposedly "explains" the recent tensions in Crimea. It's called "Who Instigates Russian-Ukrainian War Over Crimea" and the video thumbnail features a photo of Hillary Clinton, however there's no mention of her during the almost 3 minute video. The video simply repeats the claims of Russian official propaganda about the Ukrainian saboteurs in Crimea, which is a lie. No sorry, I've actually found the picture of the Ukrainian special forces group captured near Simferopol. Here it is: hosting imagenes There's also a South Front video about NATO called "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery NATO Information Operations". That kind of stuff sounds like it was written by the same people who work for Russia Today or Sputnik. Don't be deceived by their English accents.

That's correct. I'm sorry for not being precise, I thought that the information Steve posted was already well known by the forum members. @John Kettler be careful with South Front, they are as independent and unbiased as Russia Today, if you know what I mean. If you're looking for a real OSINT source, then Bellingcat is the best hands down.

What I meant, is that Russians were also using more advanced MLRS than BM-21 or BM-30. However the MLRS systems were used for the aerial attacks, at times equipped with the DPICM: But there were also instances that Russians were firing something much more advanced, possible the 30F39 Krasnopol or something similar.

What about 9A52-4 Tornado? Through the conflict Russian artillery was able to hit dug in individual Ukrainian tanks.

Initially the Ukrainians were supposed to chase off groups of thugs, that were armed only with baseball bats and firearms. That was the theory. They were expecting that the regular Russian army may intervene in an open fashion. But none could foresee, that the workers and peasants of Donbas would start hitting them back with precession artillery strikes

As a side note - do you think that many people in Russia are having similar discussions about Putin's foreign policy adventures?

John, keep in mind that the Ukrainians started ATO as a anti-terrorist/police operation. They had no idea that their units would be subjected to the cross border fire with DPICM or thermobaric munitions. And through the operation they were not allowed to conduct the counter-battery fire against the enemy batteries located inside of Russia.

So far only a BTR column and 2S19 Msta transport have been reported, no tanks. Interestingly Russians also deployed Bastion-P coastal defence missile system on the Kerch Peninsula. Also the S-400 system has been deployed to Crimea. Overall the Russian forces in Crimea and on the Russian Ukrainian border number about 50k thousand troops. What can they do with them? If anything we can expect a limited military operation that would aim at "punishing" the Ukrainians for the alleged Crimea incursion. It could take a form of artillery and missile strikes. While everyone is looking at Crimea, the Mariupol sector may be in danger. That would explain why the Russians deployed the Bastion-P in Kerch - to prevent the Ukrainian naval forces from operating on the Sea of Azov. It could be also the usual behavior from the Russian playbook - blackmail and aggressive posturing.

I think overall, the Russians have been very apt in creating asymmetrical responses to the deficiencies of their armed forces. For example since they cannot match the western air power, they developed the A2/Ad capabilities. In the past their C3 was lagging behind, so they invested in the electronic warfare, so now they are able to interfere with the enemy command and control. This is a very rational approach, while at the same time in many aspects the western militaries wasted the last 15-20 years.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37045730 As the commander of US forces in Europe, Lt Gen Ben Hodges, noted ruefully in December of last year: "It's been a very long time since American soldiers have had to worry about [an] enemy up in the sky... having the ability to drop bombs." In terms of communications, he added: "We have not had to worry about being jammed or being intercepted, that sort of thing." In the combat in eastern Ukraine, electronic jamming by specialised Russian units has been highly effective. Indeed, Russia has won the battle in the electromagnetic spectrum hands down. It has demonstrated a remarkable ability to locate Ukrainian units, to jam their signals, and then to bring down devastating fire upon them. In some incidents, sizeable Ukrainian forces have been nearly wiped out in a matter of minutes. The Russians have also shown a sophisticated ability to use drones, often in pairs; one to draw fire and the other to provide the targeting data for artillery or rocket forces who can instantly respond.

That's the version you get in "Carrius at Malinova" scenario, which is an "early" IS-2. According to the table below, the IS-2 turret can be penetrated from the side, by the Stug's main gun from 300m, while the front from 100m: It looks a bit exaggerated but it seems that from 1000m Stug, can't threaten the IS-2 in any meaningful way.

Yes, it's well beyond the effective range. The distance is about 900-1000m. To the 7.5cm to be able to penetrate the JS-2 turret it should be I think at about 500m. I'm just trying to keep it at bay and hoping for a lucky shoot that could possibly immobilize it.

After receiving a hit it moves the turret in the general direction from which the shoot came, but it's unable spot the hidden Stug. I also try to fire intermittently, only when JS if facing in the opposite direction. It received hits from at least 3 Stugs from few different locations.

I guess you cannot kill what you cannot see

I was the 75mm gun of Stug III.

Still alive and well Luckily this thing is almost blind and very slow to shoot.

Those pics look kind of like a new CMBS installment