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I wouldn't call 20% of the Ukrainian Bradley inventory "minor".

I wouldn't call 20% of the Ukrainian Bradley inventory "minor".

This (second video) looks like a KA-52 hit on a Bradley. Note that the vehicle fires an ATGM just before it is hit.
 

I wouldn't call 20% of the Ukrainian Bradley inventory "minor".

I wouldn't call 20% of the Ukrainian Bradley inventory "minor".

I wouldn't call 20% of the Ukrainian Bradley inventory "minor".

More evidence that Röpcke's self perception as a military expert and his actual knowledge of military things don't really fit together. Maybe we should donate a copy of CM:SF2 to him. If we want him to have a mental breakdown within the first 5 minutes playing the game lets chose CM:BS 😃

ISW

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To be honest, I'm getting really tired of these braindead "NAFO" shills on social media who are making any realistic discussion about the war increasingly impossible without blocking dozens of people first. 

This (second video) looks like a KA-52 hit on a Bradley. Note that the vehicle fires an ATGM just before it is hit.
 

This (second video) looks like a KA-52 hit on a Bradley. Note that the vehicle fires an ATGM just before it is hit.
 

+1
To be honest, I'm getting really tired of these braindead "NAFO" shills on social media who are making any realistic discussion about the war increasingly impossible without blocking dozens of people first. 

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To be honest, I'm getting really tired of these braindead "NAFO" shills on social media who are making any realistic discussion about the war increasingly impossible without blocking dozens of people first. 

There are faithful on both sides, so this cuts both ways.
I find people who tell me the offensive has failed already because Ukraine has taken some losses and there has been no break through on day 1 about as bewildering as people from the "Ukrainians are tactical genius uber soldiers, now invincible with NATO wonder weapons, Russia already lost, lol" meme show, who now tell people how stupid they are because such things take time and sacrifice.
Deliberately exaggerating, no offence meant to anyone here.

Sorry about replying to this so late. I was in a conference all day yesterday, and then was so tired when I got home that I went to sleep. I'm in Italy right now so the time zones are a little wonky.
 There have been professionals analyzing this war with tools other than raw emotion since day 1.
Definitive is only really used in pop-history. The term has no place in a serious study of history. And an event being recent and traumatic does not prevent us from analyzing it in a balanced manner (what has ISW been doing all this time?).
We won't get there even then. More information does become available after a war. And as the decades stretch on you will get fresh viewpoints and better analysis. The 50th draft of a history of a war is certainly more accurate than the 1st draft. But the fog of war never fully lifts. There will be questions about this war that we will still be arguing about even in a hundred years (I never fail to be impressed by the leaps that have been made in WW1 scholarship in the last couple of decades, but there are still things we don't know, and that war is just over a hundred years old now).

Even the sharks hate them.
 

Even the sharks hate them.
 

Even the sharks hate them.
 

Probably this. If the drones are the cause, then this is a very important observation. In trench warfare there is the phenomenon of "race to the parapet", i.e. the attacker tries to suppress the defender with artillery, but the barrage has to lift some time, and then whoever is first at the parapet of the trench either bombs the defender emerging from his dugouts with grenades, or shoots the attackers in the open. If the defender can be driven away from the trenches and into shelters by drones, the race is unwinnable for him. As opposed to artillery barrage, the drones can stop lobbing grenades into the trench when the attackers are just a few metres from it. And there is no need to spend thousands of artillery shells to achieve this!

Is this one of the alleged neo nazi units? If no, then why are they using Nazi symbolism?
I know the Wolfsangel was also used in medieval heraldry, but today, it's strongly associated with the SS. Ukraine could do better than this.

That certainly explains the Patriot barrage. 10 or so ballistic missiles incoming at the same time, 2-3 interceptors per contact.

President Zelensky at the award ceremony for the Charlemagne Price in Aachen.
The entire dilemma of German/European policy on the war in one picture.

Luhansk strikes are pretty much confirmed Stom Shadow, by now.
 

You know there is only so much good news a person can ingest on a weekend morning without cracking a beverage early.

The offensive of the Third Assault Brigade or how the 72nd Brigade of the Russian Federation "fled" from Bakhmut TEASER
 


looks to be a darn goldmine of footage to come