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Sounds like the Crimea bridge was hit again
 
 

 
 

Sounds like the Crimea bridge was hit again
 
 

 
 

According to Mashovets it seems like the Russians are assembling a force of considerable size in Luhansk. We’ve already seen them launch probing attacks with varying degrees of success, but it seems like quite a lot of combat power is unused.
The last translated post is attached here. If his numbers are accurate, it means that the Russians certainly don’t seem to be short on combat potential and/or aren’t overly concerned about the situation getting out of hand in any of their defensive battles.
While I have great faith in the courage of the AFU and the talent of their top commanders, I can only hope that they have (or are making) a plan to turn things round for their offensive in the south before the clock runs out this year.
Let's Sum up...
They are waiting for the right moment... and they really hope that their "colleagues" in the South will force Zaluzhny to "unpack" the bulk of his reserves... And when Ukrainian reserves begin to tear the "main line" in the South and get stuck there, they hope to hit...
While they are "extiring out" where and how to "beat" ... improve their positions at the tactical level and complete the process of rapid deployment of their strike groups ... (including "prepared" reserves at Belarusian training grounds) ... create a dispersed and hidden logistics system (MTO) in future areas of strikes.
In total, in the Kupyansky and Limansky directions (i.e. along the Seversky Donets River, in the northern part of the Luhansk region), the enemy concentrated under 830 tanks, more than 1.5 thousand armored vehicles, about 770 artillery systems and 300 units of MLRS... and the number of both groups together has already reached more than 100,000 "carcasses" … and all this is concentrated in a front line that’s 120 km in a straight line … So you can calculate the degree of concentration and operational density yourself...
I think now, the Russian headquarters are solving one important issue - where it is better to concentrate the main efforts - closer to the border (Kupyansk direction), or it is still worth hitting Liman and Borovaya... and in the Kupyansky direction to organize "auxiliary actions"...
All these intentions and hopes of the enemy for the summer campaign... in this part, the LBS can destroy one thing. Of course, we won't talk about it now... but for some reason I'm sure it will happen. The reason for this is the fact that the enemy command, preparing for this operation, in my opinion, made only one, but very important mistake... Although it did everything allegedly right - gradually, hidden and "pretended to be a rag..."
The roots of this mistake are again in the usual trend for the Russian command - underestimation of its opponent (i.e. APU) in the operational planning of its actions. They again deny the Ukrainian military command the ability to think strategically and non-standardly... For which, most likely, they will pay, once again...

According to Mashovets it seems like the Russians are assembling a force of considerable size in Luhansk. We’ve already seen them launch probing attacks with varying degrees of success, but it seems like quite a lot of combat power is unused.
The last translated post is attached here. If his numbers are accurate, it means that the Russians certainly don’t seem to be short on combat potential and/or aren’t overly concerned about the situation getting out of hand in any of their defensive battles.
While I have great faith in the courage of the AFU and the talent of their top commanders, I can only hope that they have (or are making) a plan to turn things round for their offensive in the south before the clock runs out this year.
Let's Sum up...
They are waiting for the right moment... and they really hope that their "colleagues" in the South will force Zaluzhny to "unpack" the bulk of his reserves... And when Ukrainian reserves begin to tear the "main line" in the South and get stuck there, they hope to hit...
While they are "extiring out" where and how to "beat" ... improve their positions at the tactical level and complete the process of rapid deployment of their strike groups ... (including "prepared" reserves at Belarusian training grounds) ... create a dispersed and hidden logistics system (MTO) in future areas of strikes.
In total, in the Kupyansky and Limansky directions (i.e. along the Seversky Donets River, in the northern part of the Luhansk region), the enemy concentrated under 830 tanks, more than 1.5 thousand armored vehicles, about 770 artillery systems and 300 units of MLRS... and the number of both groups together has already reached more than 100,000 "carcasses" … and all this is concentrated in a front line that’s 120 km in a straight line … So you can calculate the degree of concentration and operational density yourself...
I think now, the Russian headquarters are solving one important issue - where it is better to concentrate the main efforts - closer to the border (Kupyansk direction), or it is still worth hitting Liman and Borovaya... and in the Kupyansky direction to organize "auxiliary actions"...
All these intentions and hopes of the enemy for the summer campaign... in this part, the LBS can destroy one thing. Of course, we won't talk about it now... but for some reason I'm sure it will happen. The reason for this is the fact that the enemy command, preparing for this operation, in my opinion, made only one, but very important mistake... Although it did everything allegedly right - gradually, hidden and "pretended to be a rag..."
The roots of this mistake are again in the usual trend for the Russian command - underestimation of its opponent (i.e. APU) in the operational planning of its actions. They again deny the Ukrainian military command the ability to think strategically and non-standardly... For which, most likely, they will pay, once again...

According to Mashovets it seems like the Russians are assembling a force of considerable size in Luhansk. We’ve already seen them launch probing attacks with varying degrees of success, but it seems like quite a lot of combat power is unused.
The last translated post is attached here. If his numbers are accurate, it means that the Russians certainly don’t seem to be short on combat potential and/or aren’t overly concerned about the situation getting out of hand in any of their defensive battles.
While I have great faith in the courage of the AFU and the talent of their top commanders, I can only hope that they have (or are making) a plan to turn things round for their offensive in the south before the clock runs out this year.
Let's Sum up...
They are waiting for the right moment... and they really hope that their "colleagues" in the South will force Zaluzhny to "unpack" the bulk of his reserves... And when Ukrainian reserves begin to tear the "main line" in the South and get stuck there, they hope to hit...
While they are "extiring out" where and how to "beat" ... improve their positions at the tactical level and complete the process of rapid deployment of their strike groups ... (including "prepared" reserves at Belarusian training grounds) ... create a dispersed and hidden logistics system (MTO) in future areas of strikes.
In total, in the Kupyansky and Limansky directions (i.e. along the Seversky Donets River, in the northern part of the Luhansk region), the enemy concentrated under 830 tanks, more than 1.5 thousand armored vehicles, about 770 artillery systems and 300 units of MLRS... and the number of both groups together has already reached more than 100,000 "carcasses" … and all this is concentrated in a front line that’s 120 km in a straight line … So you can calculate the degree of concentration and operational density yourself...
I think now, the Russian headquarters are solving one important issue - where it is better to concentrate the main efforts - closer to the border (Kupyansk direction), or it is still worth hitting Liman and Borovaya... and in the Kupyansky direction to organize "auxiliary actions"...
All these intentions and hopes of the enemy for the summer campaign... in this part, the LBS can destroy one thing. Of course, we won't talk about it now... but for some reason I'm sure it will happen. The reason for this is the fact that the enemy command, preparing for this operation, in my opinion, made only one, but very important mistake... Although it did everything allegedly right - gradually, hidden and "pretended to be a rag..."
The roots of this mistake are again in the usual trend for the Russian command - underestimation of its opponent (i.e. APU) in the operational planning of its actions. They again deny the Ukrainian military command the ability to think strategically and non-standardly... For which, most likely, they will pay, once again...

Seeing all those Russian vehicles grouped together like that…
I have a feeling these kind of videos will be far more interesting to watch once the cluster munitions finally get to the frontline.

Yeah, but whether someone has a blue or yellow checkmark is no criterium whether or not hes posting bull****.  Even before Musk took over there were lots of accounts producing fakenews which had blue checkmarks.

Best viewed on their website; IIB is always worth a visit.
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/ukraine-russian-war-infographics-data-visuals/#one-year

Seems like Erdogan‘s actions back up his most recent words as well. The commanders of the Azov Regiment that went into captivity at Mariupol last year have been allowed to return to Ukraine from their Turkish exile.
 
 

Maybe they can propose a counteroffer that would involve turning over all their Leo tanks to Ukraine.

Today we have 500 days of full-scale war and a birthday - 50 years of Valeriy Zaluzhnyi

Maybe they can propose a counteroffer that would involve turning over all their Leo tanks to Ukraine.

Maybe they can propose a counteroffer that would involve turning over all their Leo tanks to Ukraine.

Seems like Erdogan‘s actions back up his most recent words as well. The commanders of the Azov Regiment that went into captivity at Mariupol last year have been allowed to return to Ukraine from their Turkish exile.
 
 

EDIT
Thanks to @Monty's Mighty Moustache who picked up a briefing error in TTP No2. This has been amended and the attached zip file below has the updated file.
This series of three missions is very loosely based on several of the ‘Tank Battle Problems’ detailed in the Nafziger publication ‘the German Tank Platoon in WWII: Its Training and Employment in battle’.
Whilst the series of ‘problems’ outlined in the book appear to be pre/early war I have updated the fundamental concepts to a later period in the war i.e. 1944.
The key intent of these tank tactical problems is to give the player new to using German armour an opportunity to use them in a more doctrinally ‘correct’ manner within the limitations of the Combat Mission game engine.
This series complements the German halftrack (SPW)/panzergrenadier training lessons in the CMRT Battlepack 1 where the main focus is on using SPW in Combat Mission.
For the tactical problem series the German player uses Panzer IVs. This tank was used in significant numbers during the war and though starting to become outclassed by 1944 by the Soviet T-34/85 was still a significant part of the tank strength of most panzer divisions. Though Panthers were slowly starting to form the main panzer strength in the panzer regiments. The player cannot rely on superior armour/armament to bully through this series as the Panzer IV’s armour is comparatively speaking, inadequate. 
All the missions are best played as German Vs Soviet AI. 
There are NO German AI plan. 
Each tactical problem has a ‘Tactical Top Tips’ at the end of each briefing (under ‘notes’) which may help the player new to using tanks in Combat Mission get the most out of them.

Plan is when done to convert them to Soviet versions so players can contrast.

If you get a chance to give em a whirl I'd appreciate any and all feedback thank you.



You download  https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/cm-red-thunder/cm-red-thunder-add-ons-scenarios/cmrt-german-tank-tactical-problems/
 
 

I'm finally getting to grips with Five Days One Summer after mostly playing CW for the last few months.
 

This is Part 1 of a short series giving a summary and overview of the tactical fundamentals and principles behind WWII German and Soviet armoured unit tactical drills and combat formations commonly used in 1944 using examples from Combat Mission Red Thunder to illustrate key points.
Part 1: What is the difference between formations, drills, principles and tactics?
This video defines these terms and may also help the viewer differentiate between a potentially bewildering array of terms and puts them into context with German armoured doctrine.

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1677633626689732610?s=20

aand it is official:
 

Not really. Those of us unwilling to log in to the Twitter can't read threads or view author feeds. We just see the first tweet.

Combat Mission Red Thunder and Fire & Rubble (with some mods).  Also included but not shown below are Kriegsmarine, Luftwaffe and Volksstrum.   
Tank riders.






Partisans



Lend Lease


Bedspring armor.

Just Because












 

Jaw-dropping footage of yesterday's strike at RU ammo depot, a must watch!
 

A clip has been making the rounds of a Russian being very visibly hurled into the air after his tank blew up. Based on the video it looks like he was riding on the tank just in front of the turret on the right hand side. Then, after the tank hit a mine (??) he was flung into the air before landing about 100 metres away.
 

Ammo dump at Donetsk goes Boom, so they say