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Looks like Ukraine is assembling its own set of shock units that are specifically earmarked for offensive action. Recruitment is apparently going well so far, with thousands of volunteers signing up:
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has announced the formation of assault brigades called the Offensive Guard. Volunteers who want to help the state expel Russian invaders and liberate the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine can join them.
The Offensive Guard is eight professional assault brigades of the Ministry of Internal Affairs consisting of patriotic soldiers who want Ukraine to win the fight against Russian aggression.
The National Guard of Ukraine invites you to Bureviy, Chervona Kalyna, Kara-Dag, Rubizh, Spartan, and the most famous, Azov. At the same time, the State Border Guard Service is recruiting volunteers for the Steel Border brigade, and the National Police is recruiting for an assault brigade called Rage.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs said that the units would consist of current police officers, border guards, and National Guardsmen. And the core of officers, sergeants, and soldiers will be defenders with significant experience who have shown themselves to be the best during the defense of Donbas since 2014 and the liberation of the Kharkiv region after February 24, 2022.
The soldiers will not be sent to the front immediately. First, they will have to undergo several months of intensive training to ensure the combat cohesion of the new units. Only after that will they be able to take an active part in offensive operations to drive the Russians out of Ukrainian soil.
The best instructors in firearms training and tactical medicine will be involved in the training of the soldiers, who will be equipped with high-quality weapons and equipment.
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1 hour ago, The_Capt said:
The UA and Ukraine are barely holding on and are going to break any second - lets call this the Macgregor school. Or the "Russia is just getting started and has magic rabbits by the fuzzy buttload in hats".
Bearing in mind that, if anything, it’s the Ukrainians who’ve shown far more talent in pulling rabbits out of hats in this war.
The Russian withdrawal from northern Ukraine? Sinking of Moskva? Surprise Kharkiv Counteroffensive? Kherson withdrawal? All these happened quite suddenly, and without (apparent) warning. Meanwhile almost every one of Russia‘s battlefield successes were both drawn out and very predictable.
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2 hours ago, LongLeftFlank said:
So forget my stuff about mines or starvation. How does UA best defeat this scheme, or accelerate the point at which Russia can't find more meat (women? Norks? Africans? Muscovite IT majors?) to toss into it?
It’s gonna require a few elements. Obviously the Ukrainians will experiment and figure out how to best deal with these tactics, but we can still speculate for what would work best:
1) If the Russians now only use small groups in attack, the Ukrainians should use even smaller groups in defense. 8 men can easily be held up by just 2-3 with an LMG, especially if the former stops for artillery support as soon as contact is made.
2) The attacking groups won’t have cover immediately, now matter how fast they dig. To exploit this the forward Ukrainian units should be lavishly supplied with comms equipment so that any attacking Russian group gets plastered by artillery whenever they stop for more than a few minutes. In other words, they need the ability to effectively call in fire all the way down to squad level.
3) Ukraine has to learn how to effectively launch local counterattacks. If they can have effective reserve forces (ideally equipped with night fighting gear) then they should retake lost terrain as soon as possible. By all accounts the Russians aren’t the best at rapidly calling in artillery fire, so if they can avoid getting pinned down they could be very effective.
In summary, more so than MBTs in my opinion, Ukraine should focus on getting as many of their infantry equipped and trained to NATO standard as possible, and couple them with US-level godlike artillery that is flexible, responsive and lethal. Then we‘ll see how long Russia can keep up their human wave tactics against qualitatively superior infantry that can call in annihilation upon any exposed hostile infantry that stay in the same place for more than a few minutes…
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8 minutes ago, Yskonyn said:
Perhaps not a great place to discuss gory details, but the bodies look rather intact in the aftermath shots. Is this to be expected?
Is their gear keeping the fleshy bits in?
I’d expect serious dismemberment after such a hit.
Granted this is mostly speculation… but I’d assume that most of the dismembering in modern war comes from shrapnel rather than the actual blast of an explosion. That’s a big boom, of course, but I don’t think a HEAT round would generate that much shrapnel and so the blast (though plenty fatal) wouldn’t generate that kind of damage.
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1 hour ago, dan/california said:Things appear to have gotten even livelier. May you live in interesting times really is a curse.
Good to see Israel doing it‘s part as well!
Found a pretty recent article talking about how Israel factors into this war. Apparently they might be pretty similar to Bulgaria in that they’re doing more for Ukraine than most folks realize.
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30 minutes ago, Erwin said:
Can understand why Greece needs Leo deterrent re their ancient enemy Turkey, but Spain and Portugal together have the largest reservoir of Leos in Europe and it's unclear why quite a number of those could not be spared.
Ditto for all the Nordic countries (except Finland), plus Germany. Poland is switching over to new tanks for their fleet so their Leo 2s won’t be needed for much longer. Between all those countries they could (and should) absolutely be able to dig up 300 Leo 2s for Ukraine.
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1 hour ago, Der Zeitgeist said:
Germany will send at least one company of Leopard 2A6.
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1 minute ago, Zeleban said:
Ukraine continues to use the T-84
Are they still building new T-84s?
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How hard would it be to install systems like the Trophy APS onto Ukrainian tanks (western or Soviet made)? A reliable hard kill system for anti-tank missiles (which are responsible for most tank KOs it seems) could be a pretty game changing thing if introduced in sufficient numbers.
After all, maybe you guys have had different experiences in CMBS, but while playing that game I’d rather have 5 Bradleys with APS than 10 Bradleys without. Being able to move armour into contested terrain knowing that it is relatively safe against most threats could provide Ukraine with a huge advantage. Even if they couldn’t use it on all their systems, slap a reliable APS on all the tanks at the Schwerpunkt of their first major 2023 offensive and now you have much better odds of a breakthrough.
Trophy in particular would be an excellent choice to send, as it’s got a very good track record at defeating almost every type of Russian made AT missile from RPGs to Kornets.
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On 1/10/2023 at 12:14 AM, Battlefront.com said:
OK, here's an intellectual game we've not played in a while! What realistic options do people think Russia could pursue to achieve a better outcome than what it is doing now? Keep in mind that regime preservation is the ultimate goal, so any strategic shift that puts the regime more at risk is not likely viable.
Steve
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15 minutes ago, lcm1947 said:
I kind of vaguely realize how a new game engine would improve all phases or aspects of a game but what areas and how in particular would Combat Missions games be improved do you suppose?
Oh let’s roll off a few:
1) Better integration of airpower (e.g. helicopter insertions)
2) More responsive AI that doesn’t need to be preprogrammed as extensively
3) Nicer graphics (tank turret throws would be f***ing cool!)
Those would be at the top of my CMx3 wishlist
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12 hours ago, Simcoe said:
I have a feeling that the focus has moved to the next engine. All the popular time periods are already covered.
A vocal minority wants early war WW2 but Battlefront would have done it if they thought it would make money.
This engine is pretty long in the tooth so I welcome a pause in content if it gives us a modern engine.
About time we moved on to the new engine. Hopefully Steve will confirm that for us soon!
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Too hilarious to not share
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According to the latest video from Denys Davidov it sounds like Ukraine will be getting the M2A2 ODS variant of the Bradley.
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2 hours ago, Kraft said:
Bakhmut, failed Russian assault.
"We don’t leave our own behind" became "We don’t leave our weapons/gear behind"
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12 hours ago, Offshoot said:
A short article on the defence of Sumy by largely ad hoc citizen groups at the start of the war. Zelenskiy called Sumy a bone in the throat of the Russians in his New Year speech.
One thing that was fascinating to read was how the Russians got spooked by the devastating outcome of their first attempt to enter the city and then just settled into siege mode after that, even though they were just up against basically armed civilians that could’ve probably been overwhelmed with a determined effort.
In Combat Mission there’ve been a number of scenarios I’ve played where I gave up a scenario due to high losses, only to find afterwards that the enemy defence was far weaker than expected and probably ready to fold if the attack had been pressed!
So here we have a great real-life example of how aggressive probing really is key for a competent army in order to take advantage of situations that might otherwise have been passed up.
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Just checked the forecast for Melitopol. Though it’s still a ways out, it looks like Ukraine might finally get that cold snap it’s been waiting for. Anyone here have an idea of how many days of subzero temperatures it takes for the ground to freeze?
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2 hours ago, Haiduk said:
More trolling - UKR soldier plays on harmonica some similar to "O, mein lieber Augustin" and writing below "well, if we are Fritzs, then we will be Fritzs" (Fritzs - jokingly name of German soldiers in Red Army)
It’s good to see something like this where they make their intent pretty obvious.
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20 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
Which reminds me, there were reports a few days ago of Ukrainian forces getting into Kreminna's outskirts. Anybody hear anything since?
Our friend Denys has that covered in the first couple minutes of his most recent update. Essentially, nothing new but he expects offensive activity in the next few days.
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Looks like Ukraine‘s gonna have to wait for it’s winter counteroffensive. So far there doesn’t seem to be any weather cold enough to freeze the ground coming up in the near future.
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Apparently Morocco has decided to support Ukraine in this war. Nothing wrong with another source of Soviet era tanks if true. According to the article Morocco will send over 90 T-72s, with a batch of 30 more to follow.
https://www.military.africa/2022/12/morocco-choose-sides-supplies-t-72b-tanks-to-ukraine/
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Still doesn’t beat their best recruitment video so far
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6 hours ago, Kinophile said:
Come to Canada my friends. Cheap hydro power and all the snow you can eat.
Unless you’re in Saskatchewan of course (almost all fossil fuel power and more snow than you can handle)
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Finally got round to making this video. Throughout this year the bravery and skill of the Ukrainian state and military against overwhelming odds has been nothing short of outstanding, and since this war also has so much quality combat footage that wasn’t even remotely possible to create in previous major wars I figured it would be awesome to make an action-packed tribute video for Ukraine’s defenders.
Almost all the source material is combat footage since 24/02/2022. Some of the clips are super iconic and will be well known to all, while others are relatively unknown. I tried my best to include footage from throughout the year and featuring as many of Ukraine’s star performers as possible (biggest gripe is that I couldn’t make any reference to the Moskva sinking). Also, the whole Russian Z vs the Ukrainian + has been kinda fascinating to me, so clips that showed vehicles with those markings were preferred.
Thanks to all the users here who’ve been sharing such footage since things kicked off (especially some of the less famous stuff). This thread has been the source of many of the clips that were used, in addition to just being an awesome way to keep up with war news in general.
And, of course, a great big salute to all Ukrainians for not only standing your ground against the Russian beast, but also showing it can be pushed back. It’s nothing short of incredible, and history will remember your defiance.
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
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