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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 28, 2024 21:04:15 GMT
Some good news today!
Ukraine can shoot Finnish supplied weapons into Russia. We should be building strike weapons for Ukraine to use on russian airbases and industry.
Also Belgium has joined the ammo supply group, tossing in $200m.
In normal times that would buy 200-400k shells but priced are crazy right now. Either way, hopefully they'll turn up quickly!
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Post by terryconroysmagic on Feb 28, 2024 22:00:15 GMT
Some good news today! Ukraine can shoot Finnish supplied weapons into Russia. We should be building strike weapons for Ukraine to use on russian airbases and industry. Also Belgium has joined the ammo supply group, tossing in $200m. In normal times that would buy 200-400k shells but priced are crazy right now. Either way, hopefully they'll turn up quickly! Exactly imagine being in a war and your not allowed attack the aggressors territory. Stupidly perplexing
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 28, 2024 23:03:38 GMT
Some good news today! Ukraine can shoot Finnish supplied weapons into Russia. We should be building strike weapons for Ukraine to use on russian airbases and industry. Also Belgium has joined the ammo supply group, tossing in $200m. In normal times that would buy 200-400k shells but priced are crazy right now. Either way, hopefully they'll turn up quickly! Exactly imagine being in a war and your not allowed attack the aggressors territory. Stupidly perplexing I understand why some things were done step-by-step but it's been way slower than I ever imagined. So so so stupid. I was also worried that Ukraine would just be emotional in targeting Russia and it would backfire. But they've been so smart going after strategic targets that they've proven we should just let them fire everything they need into russia. That said, I still think they'd win if we just sent the needed weaponry, even if they couldn't hit russian surface targets.
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Post by Northy on Feb 29, 2024 8:11:55 GMT
Exactly imagine being in a war and your not allowed attack the aggressors territory. Stupidly perplexing I understand why some things were done step-by-step but it's been way slower than I ever imagined. So so so stupid. I was also worried that Ukraine would just be emotional in targeting Russia and it would backfire. But they've been so smart going after strategic targets that they've proven we should just let them fire everything they need into russia. That said, I still think they'd win if we just sent the needed weaponry, even if they couldn't hit russian surface targets. Just blow up that new rail line they are building from Crimea to Mariupol for starters.
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Post by Northy on Feb 29, 2024 8:14:37 GMT
My sister has taken in a Ukrainian lady, 40 years old, she arrived on Monday, she's slept most of the time so far, apparently they don't get much sleep at all there with all the air raids going on.
She's already getting her NI number and started looking for work.
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 29, 2024 15:53:05 GMT
Ukraine has made a number of strategy and political blinders that look like that are going to hurt.
They didn't build enough defences behind Avdiivka and they should have mobilised sooner.
Now Avdiivka would still be Ukrainian held if they had ammo. It really is the Republicans siding with Putin that has given him a chance to make serious progress here.
Another problem is the delay of F-16s and more Patriots. Russia is dropping dozens of huge air bombs every day on any positions that Ukraine tries to hold.
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Post by gawa on Feb 29, 2024 17:25:33 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68401870What's the consensus on this? Will it just be an unknown mystery or will we ever find out who did it? What motivations would Russia/US/ukraine/other have for destroying it? Who had the most to gain from it?
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 29, 2024 18:23:25 GMT
Russia is burning through unbelievable amounts of armour.
5 tanks and 6 armoured vehicles lost near Vulhedar.
As far as I can find, 6 of those losses (MT-LB, BMP-2, T-80) are types that literally haven't been built new in 30 years. Russia will eventually run out of them.
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 29, 2024 18:33:42 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68401870What's the consensus on this? Will it just be an unknown mystery or will we ever find out who did it? What motivations would Russia/US/ukraine/other have for destroying it? Who had the most to gain from it? I don't know who did it or who had most to gain, but there is really strong evidence pointing to Russia. Motives: 1. Gazprom was contractually on the hook for at least $12 BN for failing to deliver. After the blast they declared Force Majeure and voided the contract, escaping the penalties. 2. European gas prices went up +12% at the beginning of winter when European storages were very low. It was a huge political and financial blow to Ukraine's European allies, helping Putin. Means: Russia has special underwater engineering ships with mini subs, they are fully equipped to do it. Opportunity: Russia sent the SS-750 underwater engineering ship and its mini sub to the blast site 4 days before. The SS-750 turned off its transponder and took a weird route avoiding known NATO radars. Just like it was trying to sneak there. Overall: think of it as like finding a crime scene like a body with a gunshot wound. Russia inherited a shitload of money from the victim, and CCTV footage showed them entering the crime scene with a gun, then leaving, in the hours before the victim was found.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Feb 29, 2024 18:40:54 GMT
This might be completely unrelated but every night about this time for the last month or so there's been regular low level flying sorties by jets unknown. Always about 6 on each flight. Let's just say that the Mach loop is seeing a hell of a lot of action.
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Post by staffordstokiemad1 on Feb 29, 2024 18:56:54 GMT
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Post by mtrstudent on Feb 29, 2024 20:11:07 GMT
Russia's main weapon against superior Ukrainian artillery is "Lancet" drones.
I've donated to the charity this guy works with - he showed videos of them making simple cages for about $3k each and they've already saved three of the $5 million mobile artillery pieces.
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Post by mtrstudent on Mar 1, 2024 15:45:18 GMT
Another pile of Russian losses outside Stepove village. They started attacking Stepove on October and finally took it recently.
It had a population of 60 before the war.
One drone video ages ago showed over a hundred Russian corpses in the trees outside. A new video just showed dozens of them lined up too.
Ukraine's defenders are fighting heroically.
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Post by mtrstudent on Mar 1, 2024 16:54:37 GMT
Thread from Ukrainian drone trooper.
In February they destroyed 3 of Russia's ancient T-62 tanks, some weren't even given modern sights or armour additions. Putin's clearly rushing everything possible in now to take advantage of the help from North Korean and the Republicans.
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Post by lawrieleslie on Mar 1, 2024 18:14:00 GMT
This might be completely unrelated but every night about this time for the last month or so there's been regular low level flying sorties by jets unknown. Always about 6 on each flight. Let's just say that the Mach loop is seeing a hell of a lot of action. F16 Ukraine Pilots in training??
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Post by chuffedstokie on Mar 1, 2024 18:59:13 GMT
This might be completely unrelated but every night about this time for the last month or so there's been regular low level flying sorties by jets unknown. Always about 6 on each flight. Let's just say that the Mach loop is seeing a hell of a lot of action. F16 Ukraine Pilots in training?? Get it wrong and you're stuffed but they are brilliant to watch. To be doing that in the dark at the moment I'm guessing they're honing certain skills.
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Post by mtrstudent on Mar 1, 2024 19:20:08 GMT
F16 Ukraine Pilots in training?? Get it wrong and you're stuffed but they are brilliant to watch. To be doing that in the dark at the moment I'm guessing they're honing certain skills. I was in Tucson last month and there were F-16s flying quite a bit day and night. Chatted with an F-16 engineer in a brewery and they said Ukrainian pilots were training.
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Post by mtrstudent on Mar 1, 2024 20:35:58 GMT
Some good news on the horizon. Europe has funded about 400,000 shells that the Czech Republic found for sale, and the first ones could arrive in weeks.
With luck, Ukraine might have the ammo to slow and stop Russia starting round April. Assuming they get hundreds of thousands of shells per month from then, and enough air-defence missiles.
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Post by steve66 on Mar 1, 2024 21:47:57 GMT
Get it wrong and you're stuffed but they are brilliant to watch. To be doing that in the dark at the moment I'm guessing they're honing certain skills. I was in Tucson last month and there were F-16s flying quite a bit day and night. Chatted with an F-16 engineer in a brewery and they said Ukrainian pilots were training. Incredible machines and incredible pilots
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Post by mtrstudent on Mar 2, 2024 22:50:19 GMT
Killer ground drone.
I hope our army is taking notes about drones, got a horrible feeling we could see some of our soldiers taken out and the footage put up everywhere in future.
Ukraine says they're making over 100k battlefield drones a month now.
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Post by musik on Mar 3, 2024 16:18:17 GMT
How long will it go on?
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Post by mtrstudent on Mar 3, 2024 16:29:49 GMT
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Post by musik on Mar 3, 2024 17:34:24 GMT
Do you have an urge to hang yourself when you read or hear about the war?
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Post by mtrstudent on Mar 3, 2024 17:47:55 GMT
Do you have an urge to hang yourself when you read or hear about the war? Hope you don't musik! I feel sad and angry, but also similar feelings about Myanmar, East Africa, Israel-Palestine and so on. Ukraine is just the most black-and-white situation we've got, and we can fix it pretty easily. Your laundry room stories have often brightened my days musik, keep them coming! If the world had more musiks in it things would be loads nicer.
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Post by mtrstudent on Mar 3, 2024 18:16:11 GMT
A little history on the T-80 tank might shed some light on how russia will face serious equipment problems if Biden wins. Putin needs Trump. They last built new ones in 2001 and now they're talking about maybe restarting the factories. That could take years, I guess we'll see. They had ~480 active ones and thousands in storage before 2022. Since October 2023, over 150 have been taken out on video ( source), zero new ones are being made and they'd already taken most of the best ones out of storage, only ~900 were left last October ( source). No idea what condition they're in, but they're the worst condition ones so it's possible that most of them could only be useful for scrap and spare parts. If Democrats win 2024, the US will arm Ukraine right when russia is finally emptying its tank storages.
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Post by lordb on Mar 3, 2024 18:35:50 GMT
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Post by mtrstudent on Mar 3, 2024 18:43:21 GMT
Russia says it will cut crude oil output by 500k barrels per day by June, but exports will only drop by ~70k. This means Russia will be processing or using a lot less oil in their own country. Reuters. Russia has also temporarily banned petrol exports. Gotta wonder what's going on, could be some combo of: 1. They want higher prices 2. The Ukrainian hits on oil processors 3. Sanctions cutting investment, they don't have the machinery to easily expand production.
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Post by gawa on Mar 3, 2024 19:06:42 GMT
Do you have an urge to hang yourself when you read or hear about the war? Yes. It's far far too normalised. With no disrespect to mtrstudent but even talking about suicidal drones and how we hope the uk has them. I just find it sickening. Again no disrespect to you mtrstudent because you're simply being a realist and if other armies are using these weapons then we should do. Sooner or later technology will be so strong that we don't need civillian armies and that's even more concerning. I blame our global leaders and greed too. Sooner or later us or our ancestors will be on the receiving end of these weapons of mass destruction. Behind every successful Ukraine or Russian attack are a load of families and friends suffering the needless loss of life because a few leaders can't agree with eachother.
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Post by mtrstudent on Mar 3, 2024 19:23:47 GMT
Russian drones murdered anither innocent Ukrainian family.
Just a little kid in his batman pajamas, he curled up and tried to survive.
It didn't work 😢
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Post by musik on Mar 3, 2024 19:26:09 GMT
Russian drones murdered anither innocent Ukrainian family. Just a little kid in his batman pajamas, he curled up and tried to survive. It didn't work 😢 They bought the drones from Iran?
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