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Read your article: "70 additional soldiers" which means there was already crew that could use it properly.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-drone-struck-russian-nuclear-waste-facility-ministry-says-2023-10-28/ false flag to scout the possibility to use tacticals in the near future?

If i am asking here: how to destroy a bomber? i can get a swarm of good answers. If im asking how to destroy a small bomber with rotors we get all -lasers, -spacey, -swarm, -must-kill-everything, -must be 1 solution. If i am asking how to destroy satellites and awacs? everyone sais 'dont get scifi'. But surveillance drones must at all cost be taken out! for everything offensive there are multiple specializations on different platforms to destroy or at least deny its mission success. it seems logical to me that a combination of systems is needed. And on different platforms and locations. think about every step that is needed to take ou det an enemy bomber. detect-identify-chose platform availability-hunt-destroy(or deny). why would a series of optimised radar systems, jammers, frequency scanners, pigeon-shooters, defence-drones, ERA with wings (would make a nice Ukr meme), hunter drones, bugs-in-a-shell and concealments in a network be out of the question? (and booze the solution;))

one-and-done as in.. this is the last you get, good luck. or as in this is all you would ever need to surely achieve all goals? What would such a package have to consist?

nah. its logical. Schulz heard that Taurus is installed with a beertap and bratwust-cooker and there are real Germans inside. totally undestandable that Germany wont send them

i Share this question. imo its: - grain export (morale, money, looks politically good) - morale (ukr can hit Crimea & biggest pride left of former 2nd world army-the fleet-) - less rockets on powergrid & random 'targets' - successes for international media consumption - limiting logistic/transport options to Crimea.. for future plans - making it longer for RU to military recover after the war. ..... making RU to make choices? not so much I think, every choice will go to reinforcing the line with trenches, mines. mobiks, guns, drones, artillery. If i forgot something or anyone can make a direct link to the ground war; id be happy to hear it. All of these things help of course -in the long run-. and it seems or could be more of a marathon than the sprint some people thought it would.. so not at all a bad strategy! However, the direct short term effect on the land war is small i think - taking out radars & airforce (and ofc troops, trenches, arty, etc) does have a bigger impact.

As far as i see it, RU are holding the line with mines, trenches, mobiks, convicts, or central asian fortuneseekers that are so hopeless that they fall for any good story, kalashnikovs, a few drones and some D20s. All highly replacable. For RU its just about numbers. The Ukr challenge is now: can they remove defence and secure a position before the RU replacement are in -and at what costs. Of course is not great for RU to lose a sub or a S400, but lossing it isnt going to change the replacement race. they got to crack the nut of attacking quicker than RU can replace. Both as in breaching as in disrupting the replacement flow. @experts -am I right that this is now the main story?

sure, would say that half the bridge is on RU territory, other half not. but heh, i didnt make the rules between UK and Ukr. 1. could be different at entrance over clear sea right? 2. probably right, 3. theoretically correct, but even if practically also possible... is it safe to fly a plane over Huliaypole?

or... the storm shadows were identified by RU AD and primarily downed. or... Ukr didnt throw in Storm Shadow yet for tactical reasons or... Ukr doest have the possibility to send birds in the sky (so close to the front) to deploy Storm Shadow or or ...

Im a bit confused here. Do you mean that the west should have no say in how Ukr fights on its own territory if they want to keep the support going? If they gear up in nazi uniforms and badges? to use napalm, chemical bombs and to torture? and sending ears of RU soldiers by post to their mothers? So yea, we (the west) are supporting the Ukr army, but not without boundaries. Where those boundaries are exactly is part of this political discussion, where there has to be a balance between nastyness and merit. Too much nasty for little merit = nogo. International conventions and treaties help to determine where the black and gray zones are for the west and for Ukr (in peacetime). APmines, cluster ammunition are somewhere in the gray zone. not clearly black (rape, nazi uniforms, chemical attacks) not clearly white (guns, infrared, kevlar, AA-defense). We discuss here if APmines and cluster ammunition are lightgray or darkgray, just as the politicians, armies, intelligence services and ngo's do. It seems your opinion is lightgray, others might say darkgray. We discussed 800 pages ago that its easy/very possible in war to slide of in morality to a place that you dread. The west helps Ukrain to keep the moral high ground and not only win, but to win with pride, both now and when you read the historybooks in 50 years. So yes. We (the west) help Ukr with aid and to discuss the gray zone of morality. Also on their own soil against a genocidal enemy. Both for Ukrs future and for internal (Western) consumption to sell the aid packages politically to the voters).

I think last years harvest produced some bad potatoes. With Aleksej Avramenko (transport and communication, 46 years old) the third Belarussian minister died since november. Makej (Foreign affairs, 65 years old) and Mitjanski (economic affairs, 43 years old) are the others.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/07/03/the-ukrainian-army-can-finally-recover-those-three-leopard-2r-breaching-vehicles-it-lost/ which means: advance...! recovering is one... but i wonder what the state of the vehicles the RU allowed for and if any can be repaired before winter.

it helps: - not stepping on your own mines - taking yourself serious signing treaties in the coming 10 decades - Being seen as selfconsious helps with the view of Western people and (leftish) politicians. thus aid packages from governments and (more even maybe) not frustrate the open heart of all the individuals and NGOs that provide masses of unseen help to the Ukrainians Keep the high ground and dont fall into the easy traps of morality.... Whats next when you start passing lines of morality? We talked enough about nazi symbolism, phosphorus bombs, cluster ammunition etc.

ofc, but you miss the point. 1. make a statement 2. stop placing the mines 3. make the individuals who ordered them to be placed responsible for cleaning.

noop, thats why i said imo ;). Though i am afraid nothing whatsoever is going to be done. Ukr itself should make clear that this was a mistake and they will fix it. cleaning up 10x what you place sounds like a good start no?

sorry Ukr, but whats the power of a treaty if its so easily dismissed. imo the officers who ordered the APmines should be redirected to mine cleaning operations and clean at least 10x the mines they ordered to be placed or to be send to The Hague. RU didnt sign the Treaty, but The Hague will expect them for a lot of other reasons.

and that field is defence line #2 out of the 6 defensieve lines on the map in this part of the front.

'the dam breach removed all mines.' of course that power was huuuge!, but wasnt it maybe overkill? Is water engineering (monitor, hydraulic mining or even opening a small reservoir, redirecting a small river) being used in the army specifically as a method for demining? like having a big (armored) watercanon blowing away the dirt on a downhill slope. depending on wateravailability and slope it could be carried out on a (small) distance from the actual minefield. Even if the mines are too heavy, they can at least be made visible. Theoretically it might work under the right circumstances. And of course a monitor is a target. but not less so than a Leopard I imagine.

uhhh.huh? i assume you mean 'the democracy with the strongest militairy power. Gerrymandering, unclear votingrules, strong unindependant media, decreasing the amount of voting stations in the areas of the city where your party isnt favourable, winner takes the state. this is only a start... and we all know it. i dont think USA has the strongest democracy.

Am i right in my assumption that minefields are only a major problem because there is no air superiority? dropping Airborne behind the minefields might help alot. A focus on how to clear the minefields might then become a focus on how to get air superiority. Also it doesnt help that attacking Rostov or Moskov is out of the question. and that RU has nukes.- Could it be that the power of the mines is so strong because of a setting very specific for this war. so q: will mines be this strong in any (landbased) war?

Patrusev is also 70+. Dyumin is also FSB, GRU and now Mod right? maybe we have to keep an eye open how any of these (or other) are being staged. Might be RU needs true glue or a real hero to be staged to prevent a fallout.

my hands have been aching for the best part of 2 days, lots of talk but 2 huge questions havent been asked nor answered. - Do we know that Putin is alive and in good health? - FSB is the current leading clan, do we have any idea who their prince to the throne would be in case of an (natural) emergency with Putin?

Well, assuming the best scenario for RU is a standstill. This means that anything which makes Ukr react instead of focus on the breakthrough is a good thing for RU. Attacking when every UA force is committed would only result in a small landgain here and a probable big loss in the south. Better for RU is to try and lure Ukr away from the main offensive and react elsewhere. If you dont force the opponent to make choices, it will never make bad ones. as long as you assume Ukr always makes the best strategical decision available- it makes every RU strategy look bad. History tells us that everywhere strategic mistakes are made sooner or later. So i dont think it is desperation, in RU perspective it is a well thought trough strategy, which might have the desired outcome. However, as seen from the other perspective; the chances on success seem reasonably small considering that UA doesnt do warplanning like the Russians, and their recent opponents do now (or how it was done in History).

you mean this. Ru might need it, but Ukr got it.

can anyone explain why Kerch br. is still standing if Ukr had Storm Shadow and its not part of logistics? are the shadows not getting through air defence? or is it strategically important to still keep it standing?