Vet 0369
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6 hours ago, Haiduk said:
I'm back. Week ago Kyiv and Kyiv oblast were under heavy attack of Shakheds. More than 30 in one launch. Alas at least five could breakthrough and hit several important substations in Kyiv, so our quarter for three days had only five hours with a power supply,mostly at the night. First day we also hadn't a water and heating. Latter was repaired on second day after the strike and this was in time,because we had -5 at that night.
In other days electricity appeared some more, but anyway mostly at the nights or at the morning for 2-3 hours. So, we had opportunity to cook something and charge our phones. Several times we heated food in large can with dry spiritus and kept it in heating bateries. We were very angry, when have seen other districts around us with a light at the evening, but our several quarters were almost in full darkness.
Special thanks to Kinophile and other for notebook - it has powerful battery, so it's using as powerbank too )
Without electricity all cell towers around were either dead or had so big abonents load, that internet almost didn't work. Sometime I cought Starlink, deployed by Emergency Service, but it was too far and connection was unstable - about 1-2 minutes. Single place,where I can catch cell phone internet was subway and streets, having power supply. But I had too much work out of my workshop, so almost hadn't time to track news thoroughly.
At last at weekend, maybe in honor of Christmass our quarter got almost 24hours power
Damn, I have to read a week of forum )
Welcome back friend! I’m glad you made it through. Merry Christmas (whether you’re celebrating on December 25 (Roman Sect) or December 27 (Eastern Sect as I understand it), all are Christians.
You are a valued and trusted leader in this Forum, and we value you greatly!
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On 12/19/2022 at 8:26 PM, Beleg85 said:
Insane clip. Soon helicopters could be equipped with mine plows, they fly so close to the ground anyway.
Yup, they already are. On Mi8s, they’re called “undercarriage or landing gear.”
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2 hours ago, NamEndedAllen said:
If stamping out and annihilating every last instance of a bad idea were possible, politics at least in the USA would be far more rational than today!
For ideas that you consider “bad” yes. Unfortunately, they may be ideas that I consider to be perfectly valid GOOD ideas. How do you resolve that conflict of values and beliefs?
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3 hours ago, The_Capt said:
I am not sure where everyone is from but the opinions on this thread kind of do impact the war. First of all some are close to policy makers and are drawing on this conversation to inform decisions at higher levels. Second, and more importantly, we live in western democracies so the opinions of the people count very much.
I totally agree on trying to keep it above the belt, but informed decision is central to the democratic process and every conversation matters. Western democracies are not ruled by prime ministers and presidents - we rule them. And small conversations like the one's here are happening all over the internet and in every bar. If forum members go forth with a better view of the truth, or as best we can determine, then we have in some small way tried to make things better. This is why mis/dis information really needs to be hit hard, all of it. We cracked down on Bio Black sites, economic myths and a boatload of Russian lies and propaganda being pushed from some circles.
We can be passionate, we can disagree but we should never become an echo chamber or any value we have in the bigger conversation, that will impact foreign policies at some point, will be lost.
When I was working for a pretty significant U.S. Government Agency, I read a saying in a in a CocaCola bottle cap that I felt applied to the propensity of “group think” of most Agency Managers. The saying was, “When everyone’s thinking the same thing, someone’s not thinking!”
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46 minutes ago, NamEndedAllen said:
Or deciding SOMEDAY to actually win. As in game over, Russia is defeated and gone. No more pussyfooting that “they didn’t mean it”, or “only civilians were killed”, or they might attack us with their mighty ferocious devastated military”, “or the best, “Ukraine can attack Russians with our weapons, but only in Ukraine because Russia is sacred.”
We’ve had lengthy debates about nukes here, and lengthy discussions about how much Ukrainian territory is wise to regain so as not to upset the fragile Russian psyche. We’ve applauded the delivery of much Western or compatible Soviet weapon systems to keep Ukraine fighting, while lamenting the lack of war winning weapons - even those that would only be used within Ukraine; however intrinsically bizarre that rule is. Speaking of which, Russia gets to lay waste to the largest entirely European country without compunction while Ukraine is saddled with a variety of rules it must follow in order to remain in favor. And it must demonstrate that it can have some victories too. “Don’t back slide, or show lowered morale while you are being tortured and bombed into freezing rubble, and saways remember those Brit stiff upper lips in WWII - you must too! Or we might get tired of supporting you and demand appeasement of Russia.”
No apologies for being blunt. This how many MONTHS of relentless war crimes, crimes against humanity,, sheer mass human suffering? And no ATACMS? No official designation of Russia as a Terrorist State? I sincerely appreciate the finely reasoned abstractions about the need for caution, carefully laid out here by our best minds. I really do. And the absolutely admirable and correct defense against demonizing all Russians, because many are not demonic and doing so lowers us to their level.
But there comes a time…do you doubt it?
OK, let's put this in prespective. Putin WANTS NATO to respond. He lacks even passive support of the majority of Russian Federation populations, BUT, historically, any attack or threat to the "Rodina" causes ALL the populations to rise to the defense of the "Mother Russia!" Perhaps that's exactly what he wants. Then, he'll be able to say that Russia (and by extension he) were beaten by the evil west NATO, and not the subhuman inferior Ukraines.
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1 hour ago, Fenris said:
Zuzuna loading and firing
LOL, loved the bobblehead imitation at the end!
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9 hours ago, sburke said:
as I noted earlier, yes you do. The Russian student union at Stanford U has done events with the Ukrainian student union against the war. Is it a lot? No. To say there are none however is false. I am sure it isn't the only example in the US.
The Russian immigrant community and the Ukrainian Immigrant community joined together to provide support to the Ukrainian refugees who arrived in the Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. area, so not all Russian immigrants are “bad.” As SBurke said, I”m sure there are many similar occurrences happening all around the would that we never hear about.
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On 10/18/2022 at 9:54 PM, dan/california said:
They are probably trying to use the buses as human shields on the ferries. Wouldn't even be the worst thing the Ruzzians have done today.
Yeah, I can see it now, one bus of civvies and 50 mixed military trucks, tanks, and heavy weapons on each ferry (if they even have that many left)!
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On 10/18/2022 at 2:48 PM, Battlefront.com said:
Yup, totally expected. The Republican members of the House are traditionally anti-foreign aid and isolationist, with some exceptions (weapon sales being one of them). A separate faction, which shares this mindset, is also overtly Pro-Russian. Together they make a pretty large chunk of the Republican caucus and the leadership is expressing its interest in following their lead. There will be few Republicans that vote against leadership as independent decision making is actively discouraged.
The most problematic aspect is that if the Republicans regain control of the House they will have the "gavel". This means that they get to set the agenda and voting schedule. If they want to delay a vote on a particular bill, they have easy means to do it whereas right now they do not.
This might sound like political partisan statements, but it isn't. If I were going to make it so I would have put in my own opinions instead of stating very simple, easily proven facts. Instead, I'm pointing out that some degree of aid to Ukraine is going to be in doubt if the Republicans regain the House. The pro-Ukrainian Senate and White House can only do so much without approval of the House. Those here who don't have a solid grasp of US domestic politics need to be informed about this so when it happens there won't be shock.
Steve
I’m not surprised at all about the possibility of the U.S. House of Representatives flipping in these mid-term elections. In my half century plus of voting in U.S. elections, the party opposite of the President tends to gain more seats in the House. When the President’s party also controls both houses of Congress (the House and Senate), the opposition tends to flip the House. I think U.S. voters as a whole want at least some “balance” in the Legislative Branch so one Party can’t “run roughshod” over the other, and can’t ”run amok” passing legislation that’s either “far left” or ‘far right.”
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On 10/11/2022 at 6:12 PM, cesmonkey said:
So this is what Elon Musk is in legal jeopardy for?
Also, if the U.S. Government charges Musk under this law, they will be able to charge other violators, who world have immediately accused the U.S. of discrimination, under the same law (looking at you Dennis Rodman).
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16 hours ago, Zeleban said:
It would be interesting to have something similar in CMBS
Nah, wouldn’t be historically accurate. BFC works very hard at keeping everything as accurate as possible for the given timeframe. In the case of CMBS, that would be 2014. The only thing that should be changed is the performance of the Russian Army. The UKR Army is actually pretty well modeled as they wouldn’t have adopted the NATO tactics yet.
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1 hour ago, Maciej Zwolinski said:
This is how it should be. However, the affected countries probably have to make the first move of making an international scandal of this. So far Sweden and Germany have been quiet.
Sweden has applied for membership in NATO, but, as far as I know, has not yet been accepted. However, that also means that Sweden is not constrained by Article 5, so they might actually be able to do more than NATO at this point in time if the sabotage occurred on Swedish “territory” happened as in the NORD Stream pipelines.
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On 10/8/2022 at 5:54 PM, chrisl said:
So the whole problem with the Russian debacle is the fault of Philip Morris and RJR.
Nope, I tried a Soviet/Russian cigarette in Asia back in 1970 when I was in Fleet Marine Corp Pacific (FMFPac), scared the crap out of me. Those things could kill you!
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20 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
They'll do what they always do... try and make the best of a bad situation by brute force workarounds. The ferries are obvious tools for them to use and, unlike with the Dnepr, are unlikely to be directly attacked due to the range. Barges/sipping is also a given. Rerouting stuff through Mariupol i also a given. Other options, like laying down a pipeline, aren't practical in the short term.
This is going to be a huge problem for Russia going into the winter. With all those forces in need of supply... yeah, it isn't going to be pretty at all.
Steve
We might be looking at the 1930’s “Bitter Harvest” of 2023.
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20 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
They'll do what they always do... try and make the best of a bad situation by brute force workarounds. The ferries are obvious tools for them to use and, unlike with the Dnepr, are unlikely to be directly attacked due to the range. Barges/sipping is also a given. Rerouting stuff through Mariupol i also a given. Other options, like laying down a pipeline, aren't practical in the short term.
This is going to be a huge problem for Russia going into the winter. With all those forces in need of supply... yeah, it isn't going to be pretty at all.
Steve
In all of our “how did this happen,” let us not forget the largest and most important factor, RUSSIA BUILT IT!
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23 hours ago, Probus said:
Zeppelins!
We create our own natural gas here in the U.S. We use “Boston Baked Beans” and “Pizza!”
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On 10/7/2022 at 7:28 PM, sross112 said:
So with the new laws/decrees or such in Russia that will no longer allow service members to refuse to serve that number should start translating into POWs. Or at least a certain percentage of it probably will. Another chunk will be deserters and the remaining number will be very poor soldiers. If that is translated across the rest of the RA units it is at least 40% basically ineffective/unreliable personnel prior to contact. Throw in the new round of mobiks and probably a bunch of conscripts now that Russian thinks the occupied oblasts are Russian soil and I just can't see how the RA survives. They sucked as a pretty much all volunteer force so going forward it ought to be a real flustercluck.
I thought that the Russian Charter or Constitution, or whatever it’s called, doesn’t allow conscripts to be used outside the country. Perhaps that’s why Putin illegally annexed the territories in Ukraine, to keep his mobilization “legal?”
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39 minutes ago, cesmonkey said:
This is true ... but it's complicated.
Democratic lawmakers are more concerned about climate change, while Republicans are more concerned about economic growth and increased energy production.
By slowing down permitting for exploration, pipelines, and port facilities, Democrats (vs. what Republicans would do) are discouraging investment in oil production which affects how the oil companies will operate their businesses in order to maximize current profits. Also discouraging the use of coal and nuclear power, it increases the use of oil and gas for energy production for those areas where clean energy cannot meet the demand.
Limiting pipelines from Canada, also reduces the possibility of replacement for American production, but may be better for the environment.
It all depends upon what you value more.At this point in time, both parties are most concerned about the mid-term elections in November and control of the House of Representatives!
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1 hour ago, womble said:
Anyone know what the Rules of War say about handing off your immense POW problem to friendly, uninvolved neighbours/allies? Could the USA say to UKR "We'll handle those POWs," fly them to the States and intern them til hostilities cease? Saves shipping anything prefabbed very far from its desert holding compounds...
Nope, wouldn’t work. U.S. Congress would just find some reason that they should be released into the general population.
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4 hours ago, poesel said:
I think that was rather a reference to H.P. Lovecraft and this guy: https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Yog-Sothoth
Since the center of gravity of the whole gun assembly is probably directly over the wheels, there is not much force going into the barrel. Mostly from the drag from the wheels, which is in line with the barrel. That is a direction a pipe can handle well.
Also, not much of a momentum for the same reason. The only input here is drag difference from the wheels. But the length of the lever for this is in proportion to the length of the gun very small, so small momentum.It may be a bit reckless to pull a gun by the barrel, but it is actually quite clever. I can't imagine the ridicule the engineer that first thought of it had to go through.
I understood Huba’s humor, but just wanted to point out that the Triple 7 is designed to be towed that way, which is why if you look at a 777, there’s what look like a flat tongue with a tow ring extending from the muzzle end of the barrel.
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2 hours ago, Huba said:
That can't be good for the barrel
The triple 7 is towed by the barrel. What isn’t shown is the connection to the towing vehicle which is at least two to three feet above the road surface.
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On 10/4/2022 at 7:32 PM, sburke said:
baaaah stard!
Finally! Someone who speaks proper Bostonian.
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On 10/4/2022 at 5:23 PM, Beleg85 said:
Hey guys! Finally after 3 weeks offline (covid) I have an occassion to come back to this glorious thread...and I instantly find several pages of people talking about their favourite winter socks and shoes. What the hell?
A lot of things in this war changed in those 3 weeks, more than in last several months actually...
1.Ukrainians are seriously kicking Russians assess - as predicted in this forum.
2.Putin's mobilization is going as predicted as well, i.e. resembling slow, painful and pathetic road of Tsarist fleet of Rozdhestvensky to Japan, expecting probably similar fate- of long farce ending in short drama.
3. I see Russians Nats still didn't rebell but need tampons to dry their tears every day...We are at the stage Russians apparently even lacks vatnik clothes for winter, which sounds like satire.
Things seem to be very promising...did I miss something?
Oh, btw interesting video:
Whatever their sins might be, the crew of that second crew, they have balls, and didn’t leave their mates behind. I have to respect that.
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On 10/4/2022 at 2:16 PM, Artkin said:
You wear vapor barriers if you're serious about moisture. Like, plastic bags around your feet and under your socks.
Have to disagree. The plastic will retain the moisture from your sweat and will saturate your socks and make things much worse. You want materials that are permeable and let moisture escape. That include changing your socks. When we were in freezing conditions, I’d have my men remove their boots during a rest stop so I could inspect their feet for condition. Of course, that would mostly go by the wayside in combat situations. I seriously doubt many Russian NCOs have any interest in trying to take care of the men though.
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
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Whelp, I realize I’m about 50 years out of date with “combined arms” tactics, but in my day
, as soon as “enemy” armor was spotted, the Battalion 81mm mortars would fire on them (not to do much conceivable damage to the armor, but to knock out any Infantry support with them). If the armor was within range of the Company weapons section, we’d open up with them to. As infantry, we’d never get that close to our supporting armor either.