Alexey K

There is Russian proverb: "He is lying like a witness"

Laser-guided PGM should be callable but with appropriately increased timing (due to communication network disruption).

About Ukranian (and sometimes Russian meida). There is a one guy in youtube - Anatoly Shariy. He is regularly exposes fakes in media. He mostly is focused on Ukraninan sources but occasionaly slams Russian news as well Overll conslusion from his videos is that current news from these sources generally should be dismissed as intentional fakes or instances of incompetent journalism.

M982 Excalibur uses GPS guiadance which is affectable by electroinc countermeasures (GPS jamming). Does ECM level set in mission properties affect precisionof Excalibur in game?

Steve, you seem to possess some detailed reports about Debaltzevo. Could you, please, share links to public sources you use? Thanks in advance.

I'very found some official info. Ukraniand admitted 22 KIA, 150 injured "during last three days" Googled for that tweet, found none. But there are numerous Ukranian sites copying same scary story about Russian special force fighting rebels for trucks to move bodies away Looks like this text is basis of that "tweet" was mentioned.

I would be very strange for "Russian mercenary commander" to tweet things like that. Can you provide link to that tweet?

Er... "Reverse Direction Advance"?

I've noticed some strange thing with smoke launchers on T-72B3. AFAIK smoke mortars are located on turret and should be launched along main gun axis. But when I order smoke to my tank, it appears along hull axis. Is this a bug? EDIT: And one more quiestion: are smoke launchers reloadable? I've seen one Bradley for launch smoke 3 or 4 times.

Are any official reports about casualties? Zakharchenko claims "3500" of Ukranian casualties Ukranian resources do not report any summary numbers, but are quite grim when talking about this battle. Titles are like "Hell in Debaltzevo" and authors exhibit general distrust to official reports.

That mode of retreat implies loss of all heavy equipment, doesn't it?

It's hard to tell, has Putin won or not without knowing his intent. There are widly different speculations on this matter. Versions range from that all war in Eastern Ukraine is just cover operation for tacking Crimea back, to that he wants to annex entire Ukraine and rebuild Soveit Empire (of Evil).

I've seen multiple messages that from Debaltsevo Ukraninan Army pulled out ~2450 men and 200 vehicles including 15 tanks and 50 BMPs. Any sources on total amount of forces Ukranian Army had in Debaltsevo? Has only unofficial source in LJ saying that inside Debaltsevo there was 5 BTGs and 4 more were sent to rescue.

Actually, I don't see why Russia needs this, I mean intense combat. From Russian perspective it would be better if sides adhered Minsk[-2] agreements and simply kept conflict frozen for a while. The only reasonable explnation is that Russia is not controlling rebels that tightly to enforce strict adherence. IMO, Putin is now between two fires: further escalation of this war is pointless for Russia, but he can't simply abandon rebels, as he would face drop in popular support whithin Russia.

I don't say they support it. They mostly don't care or seek to use this situation on their own behalf, like South American countries that increased their food export to Russia or China that has signed long prepared gas deal.

I don't think it really offensive to "rest of the world" It is offensive mostly to US and US imposes it's will on it's European allies.

I doubt that Putin or anybody in power in Russia really want to chop off Eastern Ukraine and annex it. I think that low-intensity or frozen conflict inside Ukraine if more preferrable option.

Is there any way to increase QB time duration over upper limit of 2 hours? I'am still slowpoke a bit

Is shock damage from HE rounds that didn't achive penetration modeleed in game?

It's not only gas. Eastern Ukraine has majority of industry and good share of it's products was exported to Russia. Space rockets (Zenit) and some space tech, helicopter engines, railroad locomotives, etc. These economic ties were formed during Soviet period and helped them to keep afloat after fall up USSR. Now these ties are cut off for political reasons and no new markets to replace them have emerged.

Wow, that's funny fact

I've just shot Krasnopol against Stryker. Round has merely scratched foilage and exploded midair Is this realistic? I doubt 152mm round whould detonate unless it hit shaft of the tree.

Thanks, now it clear!

Can't say anything about outcomes, but completely agree that external involvement tends to make civil wars bloodier.

Hm, I thought they got rid of carousel-type autoloader.