Field Oggy

Yup. In words of Captain Blackadder: " War hasn't been fought this badly since Olaf the Hairy, High Chief of all the Vikings, accidentally ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside".
 

Well we have had Nuclear disasters  in other places besides the ex Soviet Union ...

Visegrad 24 posted an interesting video today showing Ukrainian soldiers arresting a corrupt traffic cop who was trying to extort a motorist. Nice to see Ukrainian soldiers doing their part to not only fight an invading force but also fight corruption.
 

I completely disagree. All it takes is one ignorant article in a tabloid or wherever and BFC could be in a world of hurt. Selling DLC with a Russian campaign that lets the consumer play the Invasion of Ukraine might even be construed as supporting a war of aggression in some countries (like Germany), which could lead to serious legal troubles, a ban on sales, or anything else that a small company wouldn't want to take a chance with.

About as well as their bridging operations...🤣

Sorry but why do the Russian speaking members of this forum have to be held up to a higher standard than anyone else? They are not obliged to provide anything, although I am very grateful they do. 
Can we just keep it civil please? Disagreement is ok, and being disrespectful to people who you disagree with is not a good way of encouraging a free conversation. 
Edit: just to be clear this is not aimed at only you, it's just I don't want this thread turning into a self-reinforcing echo chamber and I want to hear the "russian" narrative as long as it is expressed respectfully 

So secret there is 20 minutes of video in the SUN......🙃

Land Rovers didn't appear until the early 1950's, seeing service in the Korean war.  SAS Jeeps in WW2 North Africa were stolen from an Egyptian dockyard.

I meant for them to just end their own lives. In thinking about it I still wish they would just end their own lives.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/16/trump-administration-broke-law-in-withholding-ukraine-aid.html
I'm sorry but that's an absurd statement. Russia didn't decide to invade because Biden was weak kneed on Ukraine. In fact, Biden has been seen as a hawk in DC on the topic since at least 2008 or so. Russia invaded because before his administration Putin had successfully out maneuvered Bush and Obama while Trump was fairly actively his acolyte. The good times were over, American military aid was about to ramp up and the Ukrainian government was no longer as amenable to pressure. In short, Ukraine was about to become much harder to swallow up (if not as easy as the FSB imagined).
 

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Are we really bringing up the whole Ronson myth again? In 2022?

https://www.theshermantank.com/category/ronsons/
 
 

Ukraine showing it's appreciation for the support it is getting from Great Britain. 
Queen Elizabeth II bringing down the (n)law. 

Only one election away for $760 Billion you could have free medical care and free education for all. You would still hhave the firepower to check every nation on earth.

I don't consider myself the most pro russian guy but I can see why Russia feels threatened. Its not irrational, lets be honest.
On paper NATO is a defensive organization but its members have conducted and have been involved in the most wars and invasions since the end of WW2. Mainly US. NATO offcially has also intervened violently, bombing in the Balkans, Libya and waged war on Afghanistan for 20 years. So not a strictly defensive pact per se. The other most important member of NATO, (once Great) Britain, has been a colonial force for centuries, occupying and looting countries at will, and only recently has withdrawn from most of its distant colonized lands. Not a great record to be honest. France is not lagging that far behind on that matter and Germany has the most dark recent past of all of them and a special wound with Russia. So, yes not that aggressive anymore, but not a great criminal record if you want them for neighbours.   
US, the flagship and mastermind of NATO,  has bypassed UN council to invade sovereign states like Iraq with false pretext of WMD and has 750 military bases around the globe, thousands of miles beyond its borders. Its military spending is 10x times more than the second on the list. An alien observer coming from space would argue that these guys with the stars and stripes are everywhere, how can they complain of expansionism of others?   Russia is not nervous of NATO but of US army presence so close to its vital routes. Imagine a US base in Sevastopol (again distance from home:  
https://www.google.com/search?q=sevastopol+distance+from+US&oq=sevastopol+distance+from+US&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l2.9435j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 )
completly blocking Russia way out to Bosporus and Mediterranean Sea. 
In this story Russians might seem the bad guys and we would probably not want to see them reaching the polish borders but from their POV and as an entity , they have probably sound reasons to not want NATO(US) presence that close to their home. This regardless of what we feel is moral or not.    
 

Bolded. The rust appears almost instantly after a high-temp vehicle fire. Rust is, after all, just oxidized metal. The fires will burn off all the paint and other protections, leaving the bare metal exposed and also more reactive (due to high temp) to the atmosphere...that is 20% oxygen.
 

Very well said. That emotional buffering of time definitely seems to be a thing for impersonal shots of aircraft, ships or structures exploding where one is aware on an intellectual level that people are dying. However, there is a threshold of obvious human suffering past which it never gets easy to watch, no matter how old and grainy the footage. Nor should it...
I recall hearing that during World War II, it was often said that "the Canadians dress like the British, talk like the Americans and fight like no one else on Earth."

For Steve:

The Japanese company making miniature Russian soldiers can make some miniature tanks based on this image. 
 

Just made me smile, the Germans acting quickly...
 

M68 105mm cannon? Familiar to our British cousins as the L7.

I'd risk  assuming that launch containers are the same as in shipborne versions, both being hot-launch, launched and an angle etc. If Argentinians managed to hook land-based Exocets to Super Etendards in a matter of weeks, substituting ship-launched Harpoons in land-based launchers couldn't be that hard, right?
What would be really great is if those Harpoons are followed by NSMs, hopefully Poland could part with 1 or 2 of our 4 batteries if asked very nicely. 

[Looks out the window]
No commotion here. Just because some clickbait outlet has captured some pointless vox pop doesn't mean it's the primary concern for anyone other than that ranting, self-selected, self-appointed arbiter of importance. Any more than your outrage over someone's (probably temporarily misplaced) sense of proportion is more important than the existential struggle for the life of the rules-based international order that's going on in Ukraine. People can be concerned about more than one thing at a time, you know.

One of the tractors already in hiding. Now the long wait begins for that Terminator to get close enough for the taking.