quakerparrot67

Gentleman. You can't fight here, this is the war room.
(Sorry I had celebratory drink.)

Easy, tiger...

A percussion cap muket? Regarding weapons it seems U.S. Army was in worse situation than the UKR army today.

But F#ck is so over used in the English language, to the point it loses nuance.  Goat Rodeo?  Dumpster Fire?  

Whoa, everybody settle down.  I don’t think anyone believes in war winning platforms anymore.  If we can inject them into the UA to sustain current capabilities that is a great idea.  But as we have seen with numerous platforms and equipment, none really changed the course of the war.  Together they ensured the US stayed in the fight and frankly right now that is what they really need.  The closest things we have seen to game changers are HIMARs and UAS.  HIMARs were able to go that last mile - UA C4ISR could see (being linked into western ISR) but could not reach.  HIMARs and other deep strike allowed for targeting much deeper than before.  This did cause operational effects as the RA scrambled to shift logistics and C2 nodes, while getting hit.  One could argue the RA failure of Summer ‘22 followed by massive gains that fall were enabled greatly by these systems.
But then the RA adapted, and although has to live with this new constraint, have continued to operate.  No point in getting all worked up.  F16s are not a bad idea but what we don’t want are F16s but no artillery ammunition.  Many of us have been saying - C4ISR, Precision/Fires, Unmanned and Infantry.  Try everything and anything else but do not get those four wrong.  And right now we are starting to fail on that Fires pillar.

I was thinking long time so far to write a short (?) dictionary of Russian filthy words (Rus. "mat"), which you often can hear in video or read in social media ))) 

I'd argue that a lot of the "wunderwaffe" to some extent were had they been provided/training began Immediately and that has colored a lot of public opinion about them. The talk about X always has a lead time, and by the time it actually arrives the situation has changed. When western tanks were originally being talked about in public drone warfare more or less didn't exist outside a few clips of consumer drones dropping frag grenades.
Essentially public expectation is set in October of 2022 but the actual on the ground impact isn't felt until June 2023. Well its been more than 6 months and its a whole new war.

Excellent Heart of Darkness reference, I remember reading that Joseph Conrad novel back when I was a school kid. 🙂
Anyway on to the subject. I do find it interesting how the usual pro-Russian suspects like that lowlife David Sacks as well as the convicted sex offender Scott Ritter( I hope you read this David and Scott, I know this topic gets around to some interesting places 😎), are gloating about Avdiivka.
Yet an actual Russian source who is much more familiar and connected to the war, literally killed himself over this great Russian victory.
 

Mr Murz, he dead

Murz colleague reports that Murz is no more.

The report explains how RU army "manages" to remain in the fight thus far.
P.S. Indeed, Murz left full blown suicide note. Except to get a feel of the mood.
And this is how RU army learns from mistakes.

Estonia on guard. 
 

Oh good this guy came back.  It was getting slow in here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States  
Just going to leave this one here because it is a slow Tues.  Anyone who wants to go on a learning journey can start there.
If only things could get back to the way they were:

Oh wait…they are.  
[Sorry couldn’t resist.]

Well see how much effort Musk really puts into this. 
 

Looks like every one of our allies is shaming us.  Thanks Japan and thanks Germany for doing the right thing.  

It begins....

FPV dog fights are already a thing: 
 

Sounds good. 🇨🇦

Ar you sure that's not Fawlty Towers?
 

I think Ukraine's casualties are between a tenth and fifth of the Russia's. Which isn't great, but is tolerable given that the alternative is the entire country being turned into a concentration camp. There is at least some possibility the the Russians will wake up one morning and realize that they can just go home. The more ammo we send the faster they will figure that out.

And This why we can't have nice things. 

Good ol' canadians coming in voice of calm reason.  😀

I'm confused.  Where else would someone get something this stupid?  I used to work w a guy who would come in every day spouting whatever nonsense he heard on rightwing radio on his drive, only to be devastated, continually by his coworkers who simply fact checked his nonsense.  Kimbosbread does this all the time.  Here, he triumphantly announces that the aid not happening is all the fault of the guy trying to actually get the aid instead of the people holding the aid hostage.