SteelRain

With ongoing reliability issues and lessons from the War in Ukrain, Germany will ditch its Tiger Attack Helicopters in favour of new solutions like artillery deployed loitering munitions, while France and Spain will upgrade their Tiger's. As interim solution the Bundeswehr will acquire the H145M utility helicopter.

In my small, little, perfect world that is what i would hope for. A factual and objective investigation after the dust has settled but i am convinced that this attack will brush away the opposition to Netanyahu and the 2023 judicial reform.

I think the overwhelming majority participating in this discussion is not interested in superficial bull**** like the Stab-in-the-back myth. Lets focus on facts backed by evidence instead.

I'm a bit puzzled by the scale of the attack and can't believe that in this day and age preparations for such action were not noticed by Israels intelligence services.

As far as i understand it, the problem could be caused by the armor layout and not the capability to carry more weight. The currently delivered Leopards have the late box type turret. It consists of an outer and inner thin steel plate with a filling of air or some kind of plastic. Source of the images: https://ndb51.wordpress.com/2019/08/12/thu-vi-xem-xe-tang-leopard-1a3-trong-tinh-trang-bi-cat-doc/ My guess is that the outer steel plate can't withstand the energy produced by the explosion of the ERA Brick. The Canadians demonstrated that the Leopard 1 can handle a lot of weight by adding MEXAS NERA add-on armor kits while deployed to Kosovo and MEXAS + mine plows or dozer blades while operating in Afghanistan.

Russian State TV clown show reporting about the meeting of 2 neurotics in the east, starved of toilette bowls and washing machines. Also featured a clueless Shoigu.

There is a second video form the press briefing. Sadly only auto generated subtitles are available. Made a short recap. - German-French brigade is currently providing most of the instructors for the training hub north with Pz.Btl. 203 providing tank specific training - Danish trainers had the most recent knowledge of the Leo1 - German and Dutch trainers had to reacquire their knowledge as the Leo1 was phased out earlier than in Denmark - the press asked if Ukrainians would benefit from the delivery of such a old tank and Marlow repeats all the things that were discussed in this thread basically the Leo1a5 is a 2a4 with thin armor compared to the Russian stuff the tank is able to reverse , has a thermal imager, fully stabilized main gun and better crew ergonomics. - until the end of May 15000 Ukrainian soldiers have been trained - goal to train soldiers was raised to 30000 by the end of November 2024 but Gen Marlow is sure they will hit the mark much earlier Looking at the AMX 10RC I'm under the impression the Ukrainians know how to employ Stug's on steroids. As @holoween and the @The_Capt said on Bundeswehr vehicles they are for camouflage reasons, mostly made of rubber or some sort of natural fiber like burlap.

Some information on the Leopard 1 training in Germany. - done by Danish, Dutch and German instructors - basic course lasts 6 weeks with 6 days of training per week and 12 hours of training per day - its the fifth rotation in its fifth week of training - there were multiple gunnery runs this day. within these runs multiple states of equipment failure where simulated e.g. aiming with and without stabilization or worst case hand crank everything using the backup optical sight and try to score a hit while moving slowly - Ukrainians stick to 3 tanks per platoon https://www.youtube.com/embed/NdpHjoPkS8M English subtitles are available

At least there is some hope that the Russians half assed the developement of the KA 52 too.

on a side note: Germany alocated funds for 3 Israeli made Arrow missile defense systems and 6 IRIS-T SLM systems. The first Arrow system should be ready by 2025. https://www.timesofisrael.com/germany-okays-4-3-billion-purchase-of-israels-arrow-3-anti-missile-system/

I've read that the column was struck behind the frontline while on the move. Is Russia employing FASCAM? If so, a fire mission in front of the column combined with a drone observing, airsupport and an artillery barrage would be a nasty surprise. PS: Image to raise moral

More evidence that Röpcke's self perception as a military expert and his actual knowledge of military things don't really fit together. Maybe we should donate a copy of CM:SF2 to him. If we want him to have a mental breakdown within the first 5 minutes playing the game lets chose CM:BS

So far this is another desperate attempt of the Russian propaganda machine trying to convince the audience with wonky, low res clips stitched together that Ukraine is failing. There are lots of missing frames in between the cuts.

Haven't seen the video in here, so for the sake of comprehensiveness i present a Russian chopper crew committing war crimes. Maybe John Deer has a line of harvesters called Leopard? The last strike in the Video is particularly fishy, as the flight time is too short and the boom too big. Looks like they attacked another piece of innocent Ukrainian soil just like the terminator fighting hords of Ukrainian trees some time ago. https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1666089176633327620/pu/vid/848x464/IWoTvdGyAzT3uZKq.mp4?tag=12

Looks like the tank with the cope cage was destroyed by infantry with 2 rpg's at the edge of treeline. Arround 00:33-00:34 tow distinct smoke plumes can be seen. The tank cooks off instantly.