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Originally Posted By PurpleOtter: Compiled list of killed/captured Russian officers and others, March 11.
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Originally Posted By GiggleSmith: Smoking cigs or shooting 1,000+ Pages. It's enough to wonder what subject will Ever have more pages than this one. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By GiggleSmith: Originally Posted By Kuhndog: Originally Posted By Et2ss: Sad and badass at the same time https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNfbBk_XEAUUzeK?format=jpg&name=small I could see my oldest doing this in a heartbeat. 1,000+ Pages. It's enough to wonder what subject will Ever have more pages than this one. Looked like the end of a Loly pop to me. She already hunts, shoots competitively with 4h and does range trips with dad. |
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Russia Seeks Foreign Volunteers To Fight in Ukraine.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60705486 Putin may bring in Syrians. |
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View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Shenanigunz: Originally Posted By klinc: What's the officer insignia for Warlord? https://i.imgur.com/tWVBhqs.jpg Who's that creepy looking motherfucker? |
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Originally Posted By Obo2: i think the 4k was a pentagon number? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Obo2: Originally Posted By RolandofGilead: Ok, that's what I have seen as well- someone yesterday said 4k, but I've seen nothing from the Russians themselves either. i think the 4k was a pentagon number? Could be, and someone may have mixed it up with Russian claims. |
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View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Shenanigunz: Originally Posted By klinc: What's the officer insignia for Warlord? https://i.imgur.com/tWVBhqs.jpg |
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Originally Posted By GiggleSmith: Oh, boy... Glut of civil aviation aircraft coming soon! Start unloading Boeing stock. Hundreds of Irish-Owned Aircraft To Be Ordered Back From Russia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVvMP0nclVQ View Quote Those leased aircraft that are sitting in Russia are going to stay there indefinitely. The ones that are used domestically over there are going to be "nationalized" by the Russian government. The ones that can operate internationally had already gotten out. Those companies are going to lose a *lot* of money. |
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Originally Posted By mancow: Who's that creepy looking motherfucker? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By mancow: Originally Posted By Shenanigunz: Originally Posted By klinc: What's the officer insignia for Warlord? https://i.imgur.com/tWVBhqs.jpg Who's that creepy looking motherfucker? One of the owners of the Russian-based Wagner Group PMC. |
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Originally Posted By AeroEngineer: We've seen a fair number of South American economies collapse, but now we're going to see a major world economy collapse. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By AeroEngineer: We've seen a fair number of South American economies collapse, but now we're going to see a major world economy collapse. Not so much. Russia's GDP pre-Ukraine was smaller than California, Texas, and Italy. Per capita income is calculated at anywhere from $11k to $6k/year, depending on who's doing the counting, mean, median, mode etc. Either way, there's a ton of folks in Russia getting by on less than $6k/year no matter how you cut it. What we're looking at is the collapse of the world's largest second-world economy at best. The shitty part is that they still have nukes, so we can't just push their shit in, or ignore them either. Originally Posted By planemaker: Those leased aircraft that are sitting in Russia are going to stay there indefinitely. The ones that are used domestically over there are going to be "nationalized" by the Russian government. The ones that can operate internationally had already gotten out. Those companies are going to lose a *lot* of money. This. And it's not much better for Russia who's going to keep them. All these Boeing and Airbus planes are cut off from spare parts, and properly documented maintenance. Which means their likely to never get airworthy certificates again, and won't be able to operate outside of Russia, if they can operate them at all, assuming sanctions end someday sooner than later. (unlikely) Really a sour-grapes "fuck you" to the West causing the big leasing firms to lose a few billion dollars. But a very big deal if you are one of those leasing firms. |
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Originally Posted By mancow: Who's that creepy looking motherfucker? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By mancow: Originally Posted By Shenanigunz: Originally Posted By klinc: What's the officer insignia for Warlord? https://i.imgur.com/tWVBhqs.jpg Who's that creepy looking motherfucker? Head of the Wagner group. |
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Originally Posted By eesmith: There's a lot of snark about her and Willie Brown, but it underscores an important point: one party supermajority states like California can't sort for quality National-level politicians, because the selection process there is all about patronage and intra-party maneuvering with little regard for retail political skills or sound judgement. View Quote Good point. |
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Originally Posted By Croak: One of the owners of the Russian-based Wagner Group PMC. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Croak: Originally Posted By mancow: Originally Posted By Shenanigunz: Originally Posted By klinc: What's the officer insignia for Warlord? https://i.imgur.com/tWVBhqs.jpg Who's that creepy looking motherfucker? One of the owners of the Russian-based Wagner Group PMC. That fuck really put the work in trying to look the Nazi part. |
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Lighten up, Francis.
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Originally Posted By Bunn19: Someone posted earlier in this thread that China was building 350 silos for ICBMs that contained 10 MIRV'd warheads each. That alone would be 3500 strategic warheads. I don't know what the West isn't trying to actively engage China in strategic arms reduction talks. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Bunn19: Originally Posted By Drakich: Originally Posted By BigReb: Originally Posted By mercersfinest4: I wonder how successful they would be in actually landing ICBMs. Between our missile defense system and their equipment failing to operate at 100%, I don't know what actually gets through. Hopefully our attack boats are trailing their boomers. Is a big slow bomber going to make all the way over to the COTUS? If only 10 percent hit their targets thats still twice as many as the current Chinese arsenal. We have no idea what the actual size of the Chinese arsenal is. Given the number of official strategic warheads they have hasn't increased, literally, since 2000, and they've deployed at least 3 strategic platforms since then, I suspect the estimates for Chinese nuclear forces are way under the actuals. Someone posted earlier in this thread that China was building 350 silos for ICBMs that contained 10 MIRV'd warheads each. That alone would be 3500 strategic warheads. I don't know what the West isn't trying to actively engage China in strategic arms reduction talks. Talking to China about anything is a waste of time. They will lie when it suits them and reneg on any deal they make. Outcompeting China and building leverage against them is the only answer. |
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Originally Posted By Shenanigunz: Dmitry Utkin, founder of the Wagner Group Russia's own little "private" mercenary army. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Shenanigunz: Originally Posted By mancow: Who's that creepy looking motherfucker? Dmitry Utkin, founder of the Wagner Group Russia's own little "private" mercenary army. He looks like one of our old school meth cooks around here. |
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Originally Posted By RolandofGilead: Ok, that's what I have seen as well- someone yesterday said 4k, but I've seen nothing from the Russians themselves either. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By RolandofGilead: Originally Posted By Ryan_Scott: Originally Posted By RolandofGilead: Anyone have a source for how many KIA Russians are currently admitting to? It went from zero to 498 and stayed there. I haven’t seen an update since. Ok, that's what I have seen as well- someone yesterday said 4k, but I've seen nothing from the Russians themselves either. The US was saying 4000 Russian dead, now 5-6k. Europeans were thinking 7-9. |
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"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33
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Originally Posted By mancow: He looks like one of our old school meth cooks around here. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By mancow: Originally Posted By Shenanigunz: Originally Posted By mancow: Who's that creepy looking motherfucker? Dmitry Utkin, founder of the Wagner Group Russia's own little "private" mercenary army. He looks like one of our old school meth cooks around here. He does look like someone called central casting and said "I need a villain, who's a good look?" |
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Originally Posted By Shenanigunz: Dmitry Utkin, founder of the Wagner Group Russia's own little "private" mercenary army. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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God's grace is not cheap; it's free.
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Things are ripe for Serbia to start shaking things up. I see that more likely than something from China.
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Originally Posted By M-1975: Where are you getting your info? Ukraine has gained some ground back outside of Kyiv. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By M-1975: Originally Posted By martin248: Ukraine failed to destroy the convoy, which has now deployed into position around the area. Forward operating bases set up. Supply lines intact. Artillery in place. Ukraine appears to be able to do nothing about it. Russian probes into the city are attacked but if Russia can sit in those bases, firing artillery and choosing when and where to attack then it's just a matter of time. Only hope now is the Russian economy collapses before Kiev falls. Ukraine has gained some ground back outside of Kyiv. Same place they get all their other information, they make it up or get talking points from the propaganda lead. Are you not familiar with the Pfailed Pfizer Pfropaganda team? There is some likelihood that given the convoy that was all bunched up that got decimated yesterday(?) and had to retreat, that the Russians are trying to keep that from happening again. Spreading them out helps in that regard but also reduces their ability to mass forces for an attack. Seems to me like it's a "we're losing the war and we need to adopt a more defensive posture here" kind of thing. |
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Originally Posted By SmilingBandit: He does look like someone called central casting and said "I need a villain, who's a good look?" View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By SmilingBandit: Originally Posted By mancow: Originally Posted By Shenanigunz: Originally Posted By mancow: Who's that creepy looking motherfucker? Dmitry Utkin, founder of the Wagner Group Russia's own little "private" mercenary army. He looks like one of our old school meth cooks around here. He does look like someone called central casting and said "I need a villain, who's a good look?" |
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Originally Posted By bikedamon: Russia Seeks Foreign Volunteers To Fight in Ukraine. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60705486 Putin may bring in Syrians. View Quote Scraping the fucking bottom of the barrel if that's the case. |
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Originally Posted By planemaker: Same place they get all their other information, they make it up or get talking points from the propaganda lead. Are you not familiar with the Pfailed Pfizer Pfropaganda team? There is some likelihood that given the convoy that was all bunched up that got decimated yesterday(?) and had to retreat, that the Russians are trying to keep that from happening again. Spreading them out helps in that regard but also reduces their ability to mass forces for an attack. Seems to me like it's a "we're losing the war and we need to adopt a more defensive posture here" kind of thing. View Quote This. Ignore him. |
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Remorse is for the dead
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Originally Posted By Drakich: Scraping the fucking bottom of the barrel if that's the case. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Drakich: Originally Posted By bikedamon: Russia Seeks Foreign Volunteers To Fight in Ukraine. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60705486 Putin may bring in Syrians. Scraping the fucking bottom of the barrel if that's the case. Desperation. |
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Originally Posted By Drakich: Scraping the fucking bottom of the barrel if that's the case. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Drakich: Originally Posted By bikedamon: Russia Seeks Foreign Volunteers To Fight in Ukraine. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60705486 Putin may bring in Syrians. Scraping the fucking bottom of the barrel if that's the case. |
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Originally Posted By Ryan_Scott: The US was saying 4000 Russian dead, now 5-6k. Europeans were thinking 7-9. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Ryan_Scott: Originally Posted By RolandofGilead: Originally Posted By Ryan_Scott: Originally Posted By RolandofGilead: Anyone have a source for how many KIA Russians are currently admitting to? It went from zero to 498 and stayed there. I haven’t seen an update since. Ok, that's what I have seen as well- someone yesterday said 4k, but I've seen nothing from the Russians themselves either. The US was saying 4000 Russian dead, now 5-6k. Europeans were thinking 7-9. Assume 4X WIA, and that gets you anywhere from 20k WIA to 36K WIA, on top of 5K to 9K dead, for a total of 25K to 45K KIA/WIA. Seeing as they went in with 200K soldiers, that means you've lost 10% to 25% of your invasion force in a week. |
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Originally Posted By Obo2: Yeah he's already been called an alt right white supremacist. He's basically a commie but whatever View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Obo2: Originally Posted By stone-age: He's an odd guy. I kind of like him, but he is kind of different. Has he been labeled a white supremacist yet? That's what happens to people who don't toe the line for lefties. Yeah he's already been called an alt right white supremacist. He's basically a commie but whatever Who? Russel Brand? |
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Originally Posted By NightFAL: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/323727/traktor_jpeg-2309548.JPG View Quote It's a tractor. In John. Deere. Green. |
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Originally Posted By Drakich: Scraping the fucking bottom of the barrel if that's the case. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Drakich: Originally Posted By bikedamon: Russia Seeks Foreign Volunteers To Fight in Ukraine. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60705486 Putin may bring in Syrians. Scraping the fucking bottom of the barrel if that's the case. Yeah, let's see how Syrians like sub-zero Ukrainian temps. Besides that, how would they get there? And Assad just got a lid on things, he's not giving up thousands of fighters. |
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Originally Posted By Drakich: Assume 4X WIA, and that gets you anywhere from 20k WIA to 36K WIA, on top of 5K to 9K dead, for a total of 25K to 45K KIA/WIA. Seeing as they went in with 200K soldiers, that means you've lost 10% to 25% of your invasion force in a week. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Drakich: Originally Posted By Ryan_Scott: Originally Posted By RolandofGilead: Originally Posted By Ryan_Scott: Originally Posted By RolandofGilead: Anyone have a source for how many KIA Russians are currently admitting to? It went from zero to 498 and stayed there. I haven't seen an update since. Ok, that's what I have seen as well- someone yesterday said 4k, but I've seen nothing from the Russians themselves either. The US was saying 4000 Russian dead, now 5-6k. Europeans were thinking 7-9. Assume 4X WIA, and that gets you anywhere from 20k WIA to 36K WIA, on top of 5K to 9K dead, for a total of 25K to 45K KIA/WIA. Seeing as they went in with 200K soldiers, that means you've lost 10% to 25% of your invasion force in a week. I would like to add to this that every time these numbers are published, the US figures are the conservative estimates. The EU/NATO and Ukrainian numbers are reported as significantly higher. |
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Originally Posted By DaveyDug: Yeah, either that dude is enormous or the rest of those guys are Hobbits. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By DaveyDug: Originally Posted By NoMoAMMO: American(?) Volunteers with a fucking giant!
https://www.twitter.com/jmscaronte/status/1502286396467335170?t=NK9-5b5UBtXdLTC5Nc9ltw&s=19 https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56078/Screenshot_20220311-094919_Twitter_jpg-2309514.JPG Yeah, either that dude is enormous or the rest of those guys are Hobbits. I'd rather be a hobbit if people are shooting at me...more cover and concealment options. |
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Originally Posted By M-1975: Where are you getting your info? Ukraine has gained some ground back outside of Kyiv. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By M-1975: Originally Posted By martin248: Ukraine failed to destroy the convoy, which has now deployed into position around the area. Forward operating bases set up. Supply lines intact. Artillery in place. Ukraine appears to be able to do nothing about it. Russian probes into the city are attacked but if Russia can sit in those bases, firing artillery and choosing when and where to attack then it's just a matter of time. Only hope now is the Russian economy collapses before Kiev falls. Ukraine has gained some ground back outside of Kyiv. Yes, citation please. This intelligence update flies in the face of what I've been seeing. It seems like UKR is retaking some ground around Kiev and that the 40 mile convo hasn't moved closer to the city. |
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Originally Posted By RolandofGilead: Ok, that's what I have seen as well- someone yesterday said 4k, but I've seen nothing from the Russians themselves either. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By RolandofGilead: Originally Posted By Ryan_Scott: Originally Posted By RolandofGilead: Anyone have a source for how many KIA Russians are currently admitting to? It went from zero to 498 and stayed there. I haven’t seen an update since. Ok, that's what I have seen as well- someone yesterday said 4k, but I've seen nothing from the Russians themselves either. We're working with propaganda from both sides but is safe to say it's higher than 4k and most likely a lot higher. |
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Originally Posted By Drakich: Assume 4X WIA, and that gets you anywhere from 20k WIA to 36K WIA, on top of 5K to 9K dead, for a total of 25K to 45K KIA/WIA. Seeing as they went in with 200K soldiers, that means you've lost 10% to 25% of your invasion force in a week. View Quote I don't know these things. But I wonder if the time of the heavy damage to russian forces is going to be reduced as they are no longer strung out in vulnerable convoys. Though the people I hear talking about it say russia is entering the hardest part, urban warfare. I don't know how that translates to actual losses of russian resources as opposed to just being a stressful dangerous grind. Hopefully the foreign legion is made up of experienced, fresh guys who can up the damage on russian troops. Though I'm sure the Ukranians want to use them for security and such so that actually Ukranians can take the fight to russia. I can understand that. But I'll bet those foreign legion guys showed up because they want to kill russians. |
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Originally Posted By stone-age: One of the other posters here said he lives in an area with a little russia, lots of russian immigrants. He said when russia invaded crimea they were out in town celebrating like they had just won the supebowl. If we get enough ukranians here, we might have another civil war. View Quote This was me. Russians are 23% of the Estonian population. A fair number of them are dickheads. Younger ones are much better for the most part as they’re also at bare minimum also English speakers and are exposed to far more than just Russian sources. And it was the World Cup,not much care about the super bowl here but a subset of Russians really were quite happy about Crimea. They’re silent now,partially because public opinion is so strong in favor of UA and also they don’t want to be on a losing team. Crimea was an easy ego boost. |
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Originally Posted By M-1975: Where are you getting your info? Ukraine has gained some ground back outside of Kyiv. View Quote A commercial satellite company said the convoy had dispersed. Not an official source so like everything else take with a huge grain of salt. The Ukrainians launched counter attacks ne of Kiev and outside of Kharkov that supposedly drove the Russians back but we don't know how significant they were in the grand scheme of things. |
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Casualties will go up. Russians are assaulting urban areas where they are outnumbered, which is not a recipe for success in the first place. Ukrainian casualties will also increase as the territorials get pinned down and the pockets shrink until there is nowhere outside artillery range.
I was talking with an army officer last night and we guessed in two months the death figures will be something like Russia and UAF 25,000 each and 200,000 civilians. |
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"A 40-mile-long (64km) Russian military convoy, composed of tanks, armored vehicles and towed artillery, has sparked dread among defending Ukrainians as it lumbered towards their capital, Kyiv.
"The column has been stalled for a week, but now the forces appear to be regrouping, according to Maxar Technologies satellite imagery taken on Thursday, which showed parts of the convoy had "largely dispersed and redeployed." Russia is regrouping for a possible attack on Kyiv, say UK defense officials, after initially making limited progress in its advancement towards the capital." https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/11/europe/kyiv-russian-convoy-intl/index.html |
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Originally Posted By _disconnector_: Where is Curtis LeMay when we need him? Can you imagine him dealing with the 3rd rate Russian army right now? There wouldn't be enough left of them to bury in a sandwich bag. And the Russians would t do shit because they recognize and respect people who don't take shit. View Quote That's an ironic name to drop in a thread where one of the primary concerns is civilian casualties... |
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Originally Posted By GreenMushroom: We're working with propaganda from both sides but is safe to say it's higher than 4k and most likely a lot higher. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By GreenMushroom: Originally Posted By RolandofGilead: Originally Posted By Ryan_Scott: Originally Posted By RolandofGilead: Anyone have a source for how many KIA Russians are currently admitting to? It went from zero to 498 and stayed there. I haven’t seen an update since. Ok, that's what I have seen as well- someone yesterday said 4k, but I've seen nothing from the Russians themselves either. We're working with propaganda from both sides but is safe to say it's higher than 4k and most likely a lot higher. Right, that's why I was curious if the Russians were actually admitting to 4k. I think whoever said that was confused about Pentagon estimates vs Russian estimates. |
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Originally Posted By RolandofGilead: Right, that's why I was curious if the Russians were actually admitting to 4k. I think whoever said that was confused about Pentagon estimates vs Russian estimates. View Quote Considering how bad the Russian logistics and coms seem to be I doubt they have any idea how many they have lost. |
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