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Originally Posted By Waldo: Nope. I'll wait and see. If it was a missile, it was a pretty big one. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Waldo: Originally Posted By HIPPO:
Any takers on this bet? Nope. I'll wait and see. If it was a missile, it was a pretty big one. Same here, very curious to see what the evidence of the submerged section looks like. |
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Wouldn't a missile attack on the bridge leave a radar track?
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Originally Posted By cryo_tech: LOL a fucking ATG? What is this, 1944? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By cryo_tech: Originally Posted By Prime:
LOL a fucking ATG? What is this, 1944? I mean... I wouldn't say no... Attached File |
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Originally Posted By HIPPO:
Northwest of Kherson. View Quote Thats my wife's home town. She is on a bunch of the local telegram groups, so I've seen some pictures already. The top floor got hit pretty good, if it was occupied, there will be casualties. |
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Don't run over the landmines laying out the road..
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Originally Posted By realwar: Don't run over the landmines laying out the road.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iksmu2qOV34 View Quote (Other soldier watching the guy just throw mines out in the open road) “That will never work dude….” |
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Originally Posted By CPT_CAVEMAN: Anyone heard from the mustache guy? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By CPT_CAVEMAN: Originally Posted By HIPPO:
Anyone heard from the mustache guy? @CPT_CAVEMAN His Instagram story is active. He posted today. His account is yankee.in |
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The one video angle in the bridge looked like an aerial explosion high and right, not the truck, but who know with the quality of security cameras.
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ISW assessment for October 12th.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-12 Russian forces may have brought Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-affiliated personnel to occupied areas in Ukraine to train Russian troops in the use of Shahed-136 drones. The Ukrainian Resistance Center reported on October 12 that Russian forces brought an unspecified number of Iranian instructors to Dzankoi in Crimea and Zalizniy Port and Hladivtsi in Kherson Oblast to teach Russian forces how to use Shahed-136 attack drones.[4] The Resistance Center stated that the Iranian instructors directly control the launch of drones on civilian targets in Ukraine, including in Mykolaiv and Odesa oblasts.[5] The IRGC is notably the primary operator of Iran‘s drone inventory, so these Iranian instructors are likely IRGC or IRGC-affiliated personnel.[6] View Quote |
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Originally Posted By trapsh00ter99: The one video angle in the bridge looked like an aerial explosion high and right, not the truck, but who know with the quality of security cameras. View Quote But I'm not an expert on this it's just something I remember hearing about a video of a different explosion. |
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Originally Posted By realwar: Don't run over the landmines laying out the road.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iksmu2qOV34 View Quote Attached File |
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Originally Posted By xd341: There was speculation that the reason the Russians are pushing the VBIED theory so hard is that the bridge was protected by S-400. I don't know if that's true. S-400 systems are still fairly rare, but the bridge is a national priority for Russia so it's plausible that they had an S-400 in the area. That would be embarrassing View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By xd341: Originally Posted By HIPPO:
Any takers on this bet? That would be embarrassing Even more so if it was an organic UKR system. |
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Originally Posted By Prime:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fe34H9cWYAApuDJ?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 View Quote I'm wondering what the size and quality of those DT's are. I'm thinking cover the assault (after crushing their artillery batteries with accurate counter-battery) with artillery on the trenches, smoke the space between the trench line and the obstacles, hit the 1st lines of obstacles with MICLIC (are they still in inventory?) (Assuming they are a big enough boom to move/destroy the DT's), roll through the gaps with plow and roller tanks, drop some armored bridges and plow gaps into the obstacle trenches, and then you are in amongst the crunchies. Bring mounted infantry along to clear down the trenchlines. I'd want a shit ton of arty falling on the Orc's heads to keep the ATGM's from popping out of that smoke though. I'd want a couple of rehearsals for the guys doing it too before going live. |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: ISW assessment for October 12th. https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-12 View Quote |
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Originally Posted By ludder093: Dead Iranians would be a huge bonus. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ludder093: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: ISW assessment for October 12th. https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-12 This could be the second round. After the initial delivery of the Shahed drones, there was a strike that was said to have killed Iranian advisors that were training the Russian units how to use them. The fact that the Ukrainian govt mentions the three towns that these advisors are in means they are watching who is involved intensely and where they move. |
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Originally Posted By cryo_tech: LOL a fucking ATG? What is this, 1944? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By cryo_tech: Originally Posted By Prime:
LOL a fucking ATG? What is this, 1944? Well, when they set up the Ukrainian Legion after the war, they'll have plenty of obsolete guns to put on display outside the Legion halls! |
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Originally Posted By ludder093: Dead Iranians would be a huge bonus. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ludder093: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: ISW assessment for October 12th. https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-12 Ukraine claimed they killed around 20 of them last week hitting a barracks/launch point. |
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Originally Posted By Freiheit8472: Maybe @R0N could spitball about where this is at in the long process of fielding. Does that report mean that Lockheed has won a contract for the army to procure them or is developing them under their own funding to prepare a bid for an army procurement? Disclaimer: I’m in the TRL 0 world so this process is all stuff I usually glass over trying to wrap my head around when it comes up… View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Freiheit8472: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Originally Posted By ludder093: Originally Posted By HIPPO:
Double The Range Rockets For HIMARS One Step Closer To Production It's going to be a bit of time and testing, even for us to get good numbers of them. Maybe @R0N could spitball about where this is at in the long process of fielding. Does that report mean that Lockheed has won a contract for the army to procure them or is developing them under their own funding to prepare a bid for an army procurement? Disclaimer: I’m in the TRL 0 world so this process is all stuff I usually glass over trying to wrap my head around when it comes up… Lockheed Martin plans to finish qualification testing and start production in 2023. |
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Originally Posted By weptek911: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/41727/047159EB-EF8F-4CDE-BEB4-6C6BC1A31174_jpe-2561110.JPG View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By weptek911: Originally Posted By realwar: Don't run over the landmines laying out the road.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iksmu2qOV34 https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/41727/047159EB-EF8F-4CDE-BEB4-6C6BC1A31174_jpe-2561110.JPG |
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Originally Posted By weptek911: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/41727/047159EB-EF8F-4CDE-BEB4-6C6BC1A31174_jpe-2561110.JPG View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By weptek911: Originally Posted By realwar: Don't run over the landmines laying out the road.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iksmu2qOV34 https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/41727/047159EB-EF8F-4CDE-BEB4-6C6BC1A31174_jpe-2561110.JPG |
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Originally Posted By HIPPO: HIRM-2 was, allegedly, like 6 months from IOC back in Feb ‘22. 500 kg warhead. ATACMs is like half that in terms of warhead size. I’m still leaning on the SVBIED method given the size of the damage. One day the truth will come out. Looks like Chuck is all-in on the missile theory.
View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By HIPPO: Originally Posted By Waldo: Originally Posted By HIPPO:
Any takers on this bet? Nope. I'll wait and see. If it was a missile, it was a pretty big one. HIRM-2 was, allegedly, like 6 months from IOC back in Feb ‘22. 500 kg warhead. ATACMs is like half that in terms of warhead size. I’m still leaning on the SVBIED method given the size of the damage. One day the truth will come out. Looks like Chuck is all-in on the missile theory.
I have an open mind. But part of the circumstantial argument for a truck bomb is the destruction of the fuel train at the same time. That was either intentional or astronomically good luck and my bet is on intentional. What is the likelihood that could be achieved via ballistic missile? |
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Originally Posted By cryo_tech: LOL a fucking ATG? What is this, 1944? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By cryo_tech: Originally Posted By Prime:
LOL a fucking ATG? What is this, 1944? Used in a defensive role it would be entirely effective against anything but the frontal armor of an MBT. |
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View Quote Best decision of their now much-extended lives. |
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Originally Posted By weptek911: India really needs to face some sanctions for this, boycotts, their H1B Visa holders sent home, something massive. View Quote Sanctions? For an abstention? Really? Look at all of the votes on this recent Ukraine measure (setting aside it is the useless and ineffectual UN for one minute): the vote divide was all the "usual suspects" (DPRK and Iran and Venezuela)...and then all the Central/South American and African countries that rely on grain exports to feed themselves. And let's not fool ourselves about the unity or homogeneity of a country the size of India: the people who are grabbing our H1B visas are among their best, but there are millions of unwashed masses that their home political class is worried about. That's unkind and unfair and it sucks, but...that's demographics and politics. Some of you dudes need to re-calibrate your concept of foreign aid (aka, "wasting money on foreign shitholes", which it often is): why would we even need to build a wall if Nicaragua or Guatemala weren't open-air prisons? You can send soldiers to keep a lid on things, you're just not going to want to look very closely at how those sausages are made. HOWEVER: if you can't see how the Ukrainian people have a different situation and mentality, then I don't know what to tell you. I think they have shown themselves to be Western-oriented and upright people, harking back to the kind of attitudes we admired during the Battle of Britain and D-Day. |
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Originally Posted By trapsh00ter99: Like to see the GD mental gymnastics for this View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By trapsh00ter99: Originally Posted By ludder093: Dead Iranians would be a huge bonus. The Iranians need a nickname like the orcs have |
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World ain't what it seems, is it Gunny?
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Originally Posted By HIPPO: Moar
The defense industrial base, while underfed, poorly led, sadly managed, should consider this a light fucking warm-up before shit kicks-off in the INDOPACOM AOR. I hope that the COCOMs and the joint chiefs are paying attention, pounding the table, and doing the work. View Quote @HIPPO You used a lot of funny words there...and I salute you! Unngga Unngga, Hooh Hooh! Apes, Together Stronk! "We, the unwilling, led by the unable, have now done so much, with so little, for so long, that we are now capable of accomplishing anything with nothing"! |
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The Economist | The war in Ukraine has battered the reputation of Russian spies Article below: Click To View Spoiler The war in Ukraine has battered the reputation of Russian spies As they take greater risks, they are getting caught Oct 9th 2022 VIKTOR MULLER FERREIRA was a young Brazilian with impressive credentials and a big break. Fresh from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, an incubator of talent for America’s national security elite, he had secured an internship at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. But when he landed in Amsterdam in April, he was quickly deported to Brazil. Mr Ferreira was, in fact, Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov, an intelligence officer working for the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service. Mr Cherkasov was a so-called illegal, of the sort depicted in the popular television series “The Americans”—an officer dispatched abroad under an elaborate foreign identity, often for life. In a four-page document obtained by Dutch intelligence, an aide-memoire of sorts, his cover story was laid out in painstaking detail, down to childhood crushes and favoured restaurants. Mr Cherkasov is now languishing in a Brazilian prison, sentenced to 15 years. When the Soviet KGB was dissolved in 1991, it reappeared as the FSB, a domestic security service, and the SVR, a foreign intelligence agency. The GRU has endured in one form or another since 1918. These “special services” bask in the fearsome reputation of their tsarist and Soviet forebears. But they emerge from the war in Ukraine with that reputation, and their networks, in tatters. The explosion which damaged the Kerch bridge on October 8th was only the latest security foul-up; Ukrainian operatives are also suspected of having orchestrated a car bombing in Moscow in August which killed the daughter of a prominent Russian ultra-nationalist ideologue, according to the New York Times. Intelligence failure lies at the heart of the war. The FSB, the lead agency for protecting Russian secrets and spying in Ukraine, bungled both tasks in spectacular fashion. It failed to stop America from obtaining, and then publicising, Russian war plans for Ukraine—the most dramatic deployment of intelligence since America’s exposure of Soviet missiles on Cuba in 1962. Worse still, it was the FSB’s own conspicuous preparations for war—including plans to kill dissidents and install a puppet government—that helped convince American and British officials that the Russian military build-up was not a bluff. Vladimir Putin’s decision to go to war in the first place also owed much to the FSB’s bungling. The agency’s Fifth Service, responsible for ex-Soviet countries, expanded its Ukraine team dramatically in July 2021, according to a report by the Royal United Services Institute, a think-tank in London. Yet its officers largely spoke to those Ukrainians who were sympathetic to Russia and exaggerated the scale of their agent networks in the country, giving the Kremlin the false impression that the Ukrainian government would quickly collapse. Confirmation bias was only part of the problem. Intelligence agencies, like armies, reflect the societies they come from. At their best, Russian spies can be bold and resourceful. “We’ve consistently been surprised by the cleverness and relentlessness of some of the things that they do,” says John Sipher, who served as the CIA’s station chief in Moscow and later ran its Russia operations. “They have really, really smart people.” But that talent co-exists with venality and dysfunction. Intelligence is embellished at each stage as it rises up the chain, with bad news stripped out before it reaches the Kremlin. A Western official describes how, in one GRU unit, officers are thought to have skimmed off 30% of the salaries of the agents they recruited. That figure rose to 50% as the officers gradually had to spend more time padding out reports with information culled from the internet. The great strength of Russian intelligence is its sheer scale. Yet only a fraction of its personnel do useful spywork. It was FSB officers who poisoned Alexei Navalny, an opposition leader, with Novichok, a nerve agent, in Siberia in 2020. Nothing encapsulates the dual ethos of repression and larceny better than the fact that the FSB’s most sought-after position is the chief of the Fourth Service, a division responsible for “economic security”. Its officers are placed in key companies, giving them ample opportunity to enrich themselves. Infighting within the agencies, and with other government departments, is rife. “The FSB is like the Game of Thrones,” says Maxim (not his real name), a former FSB counterintelligence officer. “You have different clans inside with different political and financial interests.” The SVR, a descendant of the First Chief Directorate, the KGB’s flagship foreign intelligence arm, considers itself more urbane and polished than its Russian sister services. “Our view was that the SVR was far more effective and sophisticated than the GRU,” recalls Mr Sipher. But the war has left it battered. Western countries have expelled over 400 suspected Russian intelligence officers since the spring, mostly SVR officers, eliminating nearly half of those operating under diplomatic cover in Europe. Those remaining face heightened scrutiny by local security services. A recent report by SUPO, Finland’s intelligence service, notes that Russian intelligence officers there have mostly been “severed” from their networks. It warns that Russian spies are resorting to alternative means. One is cyber-espionage. Another is the recruitment of foreigners within Russia. A third, which SUPO does not mention, is to lean more heavily on illegals like Mr Cherkasov. But that comes at a cost. The pressure on illegals is driving them to take greater risks than usual, according to European intelligence officials. In March, for instance, Poland arrested Pablo González, a Spanish-Russian journalist also known as Pavel Rubtsov, on suspicion of working for the GRU. A Ukrainian source says he was attempting to enter Ukraine to access a cyber unit in one of the country’s intelligence agencies (Mr Rubtsov denies the charges). Mr Cherkasov might have targeted the ICC because it had opened an investigation into war crimes in Ukraine. Their exposure will be keenly felt. Illegals are hugely expensive to train and deploy. The SVR is thought to have 50 to 100 deployed illegals, and the GRU only 10 to 20, according to sources familiar with those programmes. In many ways, Russian spies face the same professional challenges as their Western counterparts. It is becoming increasingly difficult to cross borders under multiple names, given the ubiquity of biometric controls, or build a digital backstory that stands up to scrutiny. Paying and communicating with agents is another challenge. But whereas Western spies have learnt how to blend into the noise, Russian ones have been slow to adapt. Illegals still use the dated technique of appropriating the identity of a dead baby (familiar to readers of “The Day of the Jackal”, a novel published in 1971.) Sloppiness abounds. Data leaked from a Russian food-delivery service in March exposed the names of FSB and GRU officers having food delivered to their respective headquarters. That would not matter so much if Russian intelligence were not under intense scrutiny. Ever since the GRU’s attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal, a former officer, in Salisbury, an English city, in 2018, Western allies have shared increasing amounts of intelligence on Russian spooks. Though it was Dutch intelligence that exposed Mr Ferreira, the operation was a joint endeavour that relied on America, Ireland and others. There has been little accountability for all this bungling. Western officials say they cannot confirm rumours that Sergei Beseda, the head of the FSB’s Fifth Service, was arrested in Russia in March. There are no proven job losses at senior level. That reflects the privileged status of the siloviki—securocrats—in the Russian state. Mr Putin does not trust his spies—he is said to be bypassing Alexander Bortnikov, the FSB’s chief, and talking to department heads—but it would be unwise to pick a fight with them just as his regime is experiencing an upswell of popular discontent over the drafting of hundreds of thousands of young Russian men to fight in Ukraine. On October 8th Mr Putin even placed the FSB in charge of security for the Kerch bridge. The result is likely to be more of the same. “You have a deep tradition of intelligence professionalism,” says Sir John Sawers, a former chief of MI6, “and like a gangrene on top of it is this growing corruption.” Maxim, the former FSB officer, agrees. “Back in the 1990s and 2000s there was a KGB touch to it. We stayed under the radar,” he says. The breaking point for him was when new graduates of the FSB academy were spotted driving a luxury Mercedes around Moscow. Ukraine is an opportunity to rebuild, he says. “They need to substitute this money world with something bigger. I’m not sure how they are going to do it.”■ |
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Ukrainian intelligence denies role in Crimea Bridge bombing This story just keeps on giving. |
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Originally Posted By realwar: Russian TV calls for hypersonic missiles to be used on NATO defense ministers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk7i6IM963g View Quote Solovyov needs to die in a fire. Seriously suggesting that they start a war with NATO? Do it, punks. I want to see Russia's oil & gas production drop to zero in 24 hours. They'd have to stack firewood to get through the winter. |
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Originally Posted By weptek911: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/41727/047159EB-EF8F-4CDE-BEB4-6C6BC1A31174_jpe-2561110.JPG View Quote Oh my God. I think I woke some people up laughing so hard. |
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WSJ | How Ukrainian Strategy Is Running Circles Around Russia’s Lumbering Military |
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Originally Posted By bc42: I have been lurking this thread for the past ~2750 pages or so, and finally caught up to everything tonight. A few thoughts, for anyone who cares about my .02: - I have had my paradigm completely rattled by this entire conflict. I find myself agreeing with hipster liberal college kids who I probably have nothing else in common with as far as core values, and I find myself struck on an almost daily basis by the incredibly bad takes from people I used to hold some level of respect for in popular media or politics. That has been a real lesson for me. - Big thank you to people who are trawling social media for the killer primary/secondary sources on this conflict. This is one of the greatest Internet forum threads I’ve ever followed because of you all. - I have no idea where this conflict is going, and that is scary as hell. For the most part, a lot of the shooting conflicts of my lifetime have been pretty contained, but this is so ridiculously volatile on a macro scale. I wish we had better leaders in the west to see this through to an end. Not that I disagree with the west’s approach so far - I think mostly all the right decisions are being made- but I have no confidence in Biden et al to take the reigns if this gets truly out of control. - The world needs to begin working on denuclearization now or in the near future, and it needs to start with Russia. Bad actors like Putin cannot be allowed to hold the world hostage because they hold nuclear capabilities. This conflict, along with many that precede it and many that will follow it, are the result of allowing that threat to persist. If there is going to be a peaceful end to this conflict, that has to be a part of it. No debate can be had otherwise IMO. Anyway, have a good night. View Quote Russia wouldn't have invaded Ukraine if the Ukrainians would have retained about 50 nukes. Mankind will not be able to put the Nuclear Genie back in its bottle. |
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Originally Posted By realwar: Don't run over the landmines laying out the road.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iksmu2qOV34 View Quote Turns out... yes, vatniks are that fucking dumb. |
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Strikes happening in Kyiv.
Reports coming in about critical infrastructure getting hit. |
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Originally Posted By bc42: - The world needs to begin working on denuclearization now or in the near future, and it needs to start with Russia. Bad actors like Putin cannot be allowed to hold the world hostage because they hold nuclear capabilities. This conflict, along with many that precede it and many that will follow it, are the result of allowing that threat to persist. If there is going to be a peaceful end to this conflict, that has to be a part of it. No debate can be had otherwise IMO. View Quote That's a non-starter for many, or at best it's what happened with Ukraine (and look how that turned out), they came out of the breakup of the USSR with a massive stockpile and a desire be not be the USSR anymore so they agreed to get rid of them in return for a "guarantee" of their security and borders...... The method to create nukes is known and it isn't that difficult. The cat is out of the bag. The best we can do is keep a large enough deterrent and develop effective counter-measures while trying to restrict proliferation to countries that aren't batshit crazy (hence all the focus on Iran and North Korea). |
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Originally Posted By MarkNH: That's a non-starter for many, or at best it's what happened with Ukraine (and look how that turned out), they came out of the breakup of the USSR with a massive stockpile and a desire be not be the USSR anymore so they agreed to get rid of them in return for a "guarantee" of their security and borders...... The method to create nukes is known and it isn't that difficult. The cat is out of the bag. The best we can do is keep a large enough deterrent and develop effective counter-measures while trying to restrict proliferation to countries that aren't batshit crazy (hence all the focus on Iran and North Korea). View Quote Especially for a nation which has nuclear reactors for electrical power, and at least a 1940s-era manufacturing and technological base, nuclear weapons are impossible to prevent. Only their national will can prevent a nation with those basics from going nuclear. There are a dozen or so countries with the materials, expertise and technological proficiency to go nuclear over the space of a month or two if they so chose. |
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So I know I said a few pages back that I was leaning towards boat-vbied. I’m pitching a new theory.
Ukrainian SOF operating deep in Russian territory stole an Iksander or Scud variant and launched from there to hit the Kerch bridge. Explains Russians rabid attempts to cover up |
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I'm a few pages behind and will get more behind this weekend at cola...
1. I can't find anything in the chemical weapons treaty, Hague convention, etc, about making enemy troops cold. In the depths of winter, can Ukraine drone/mortar yeet dewar flasks of liquid nitrogen at a bunker? I don't think nitrogen counts as a asphyxiant weapon, being the majority of regular atmospheric air. The Russians are far too proud of general winter, make them cold. 2. I'm a mediocre strategic thinker, but Ukraine has a pile of S300s, the Russians are using them as shitty surface to surface missiles...why can't Ukraine send their S300s after the Kerch bridge repair operation and make it hot for the crane crews. |
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Originally Posted By p3590: I'm a few pages behind and will get more behind this weekend at cola... 1. I can't find anything in the chemical weapons treaty, Hague convention, etc, about making enemy troops cold. In the depths of winter, can Ukraine drone/mortar yeet dewar flasks of liquid nitrogen at a bunker? I don't think nitrogen counts as a asphyxiant weapon, being the majority of regular atmospheric air. The Russians are far too proud of general winter, make them cold. 2. I'm a mediocre strategic thinker, but Ukraine has a pile of S300s, the Russians are using them as shitty surface to surface missiles...why can't Ukraine send their S300s after the Kerch bridge repair operation and make it hot for the crane crews. View Quote It's a long flight from any Ukrainian held territory to where the bridge is. A long flight, even with a missile. |
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Originally Posted By RolandofGilead:
This is one of the scum bag talking heads on Russian state TV that every day now calls for the destruction of Ukraine. View Quote He hadn’t sold his soul to Putin yet, that’s all. He’s actually right, too…. Russia should have been accumulating “soft power” to persuade their neighbors they had changed. If they had done that Russia might actually have some friends. |
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Originally Posted By p3590: I'm a few pages behind and will get more behind this weekend at cola... 1. I can't find anything in the chemical weapons treaty, Hague convention, etc, about making enemy troops cold. In the depths of winter, can Ukraine drone/mortar yeet dewar flasks of liquid nitrogen at a bunker? I don't think nitrogen counts as a asphyxiant weapon, being the majority of regular atmospheric air. The Russians are far too proud of general winter, make them cold. 2. I'm a mediocre strategic thinker, but Ukraine has a pile of S300s, the Russians are using them as shitty surface to surface missiles...why can't Ukraine send their S300s after the Kerch bridge repair operation and make it hot for the crane crews. View Quote Ukraine doesn't have any S300 complexes in range of the Kerch bridge. |
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