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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
View Quote Sounds an awful lot like the German use of hiwis in WWII. |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfLoKpXXkAAE6Dm?format=png&name=900x900 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfLj5AcWYAAj_ZB?format=jpg&name=900x900 Video here:
These could be the regular unguided 122mm rockets, but interesting when you can see them coming in regardless. View Quote Wow, NICE catch. |
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“If by chance you were to ask me which ornaments I would desire above all others in my house, I would reply, without much pause for reflection, arms and books.”
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Regarding the HARM strike on Belograd
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: They are coming from Belarus again. RU is too desperate for men and equipment to send them to Belarus as a distraction. Belarus is doing a "covert" mobilization. I'm 50:50 on actual Belarussian troops entering Ukraine or just getting ready in case Poland (or Ukraine) gets sick of their shit and come calling for Lukashenko. I see this as the last option for Putin: They know they lost and their only chance for some partial success is to put pressure on Kiev and get them to negotiate or withdraw enough troops from the East so Russia can take the rest of the 4 annexed regions. View Quote I am fairly certain that Ukr has troops ready to defend the North... |
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Originally Posted By LurkerII: Thanks, still working on my first cup of coffee this morning. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By LurkerII: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: In English it says "No Hold" Thanks, still working on my first cup of coffee this morning. lol, we're all at that same point before our coffee too. |
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Originally Posted By Harlikwin: That was true 20 years ago, not so much today. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Harlikwin: Originally Posted By ludder093: China uses a lot of Russian stuff in their military. That was true 20 years ago, not so much today. Still true...now they have started their own stuff...but a looooot of their stuff is Soviet... |
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The Russian Military Is Screwed |
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"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity." -Hunter S. Thompson
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
View Quote Clearly Iran is just helping Russia fight the globohomo and uphold Christian values. |
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"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity." -Hunter S. Thompson
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Originally Posted By Ryan_Ruck: Clearly Iran is just helping Russia fight the globohomo and uphold Christian values. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Ryan_Ruck: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
Clearly Iran is just helping Russia fight the globohomo and uphold Christian values. I’m going to steal that. |
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"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity." -Hunter S. Thompson
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They need Iron Dome and some of the more advanced Israeli drones like yesterday.
It’d be a shame if something happened to those Iranian shipments. They are sneaky bastards though. |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfLZJySXgAAFfNq?format=jpg&name=small This means we can send ATACMS now, right? It's only fair at this point. View Quote I hope so. This is big news as it will just extend the conflict timeline to the right, fucking POS Iranian regime |
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Big news.
Originally Posted By Prime:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfMM1hzXoAIkbwY?format=jpg&name=large View Quote |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
View Quote HARPY drones and Iron Dome! |
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“If by chance you were to ask me which ornaments I would desire above all others in my house, I would reply, without much pause for reflection, arms and books.”
Baldassare Castiglione |
Originally Posted By GTLandser: I don't think the Ukrainians were prepared for an assault of that size at all (moderate though it was). Maybe they were TDF, or maybe they were in a thinly held sector. I didn't see any vehicles, any AT weapons, and the defenses were primarily the two bunkers right on the road, and some other rather sad looking dugouts off the road. They didn't even appear to have vehicles of any kind, and their positions didn't have any depth (meaning they had nowhere else behind to run TO). So yeah, considering the Russians had 1 or more tanks and 2 BMPs + dismounts, that went about how I would expect. Without ATGMs, mortars, or artillery to call upon, I also couldn't reasonably expect they would just remain there, in a badly prepared position, taking direct fire from tanks. View Quote That video of a small attack had more drama than the best action scenes from Saving private Ryan or Band of Brothers. I just wish we had more info about it from either the RU or the UA. Since the RU had a drone in the air observing and probably directing the attack, it was probably well planned and organized, at least by RU standards. There was certainly more happening off camera or too far to be seen, probably on the right flank. I bet the vid will be studies and discussed in various war colleges or at least infantry/armor schools for years. |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
View Quote Man, Pootie is gonna really be pissed that teh joos are going to help the nazis. |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
View Quote What would Ben have done? |
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Originally Posted By sq40: I’m going to steal that. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By sq40: Originally Posted By Ryan_Ruck: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
Clearly Iran is just helping Russia fight the globohomo and uphold Christian values. I’m going to steal that. lol, that was a good one. |
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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Originally Posted By Brok3n: HARPY drones and Iron Dome! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Brok3n: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
HARPY drones and Iron Dome! That kind of support would certainly help change the playing field overnight. I can only imagine most everyone backing Ukraine is pushing up some timetables to get the new air defense systems up for Ukraine sooner rather than later now. |
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“If by chance you were to ask me which ornaments I would desire above all others in my house, I would reply, without much pause for reflection, arms and books.”
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Originally Posted By m24shooter: Man, Pootie is gonna really be pissed that teh joos are going to help the nazis. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By m24shooter: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
Man, Pootie is gonna really be pissed that teh joos are going to help the nazis. And then there is that... |
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"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity." -Hunter S. Thompson
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Deckard “nobody wants to know the truth, nobody” Cobra Kai Johnny Lawrence “she’s hot and all those other things” Tucker Carlson 1/10/2018 “I used to be a liberatarian until Google”https://mobile.twitter.com/Henry_Gunn
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Originally Posted By Easterner: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/526834/IMG_20221016_103908_jpg-2564847.JPG View Quote Is there an over/under on whether we get to 100K? |
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Originally Posted By Capta: We don’t know his intentions and I’ve never said that. What I’ve tried to do is to look at Lukashenko’s actions and positioning from the perspective of “what is this consistent with? What is possible?” Not “what is the convenient propaganda view?” The conventional wisdom here and elsewhere is that Lukashenko is a buffoon and a toady. I believe the facts say otherwise. He didn’t invade (on 2/24) when there was every incentive to do so and little apparent reason not to. This is almost certainly not by chance. He either had access to better information than Putin or evaluated the information he had much better than Putin. In the very early days when stuff started going brown for Russia he didn't throw reserves in when it would have been reasonable to do so, indicating again he was actively making intelligent decisions for his interests. And he has kept Belarus mostly out of the war despite what must have been intense pressure from Putin, indicating he isn’t just a puppet. After that, what are his interests? How does he achieve them? What is his endgame? Putin is clearly “playing out the string” hoping to draw 4 cards to a straight flush, or win on a bluff. Lukashenko, I believe, is not “playing out the string.” He has options outside of a Gotterdammerung finale with Putin. So how does he get there? What are his actions consistent with? Could they be consistent with more than one option? Take crypto mobilization. If one doesn’t bother to go beyond the “toady” impression, then mobilization is to help Russia invade Ukraine again. (Which Lukashenko has refused to do for 8 months.). However, factually, mobilization only provides an increased capability to exert policy through force. You plan for capabilities, not intents. Lukashenko will have a larger, somewhat more capable military to be used for an unknown intent. That is what we can factually say. I argue that this capability is equally consistent with the desire to secure his regime against Russia, as it is to invade Ukraine. View Quote I generally agree that Lukashenko is not an idiot. He has been doing pretty good walking a tightrope between Putin and NATO. But I think the reason Belarus did not take an active part on the Feb 24th invasion is that Russia/Putin "knew" it would be a pushover and they were too proud to share in the glory. They were expecting a 3 day operation. They assumed (probably from a variety of intel sources) that Zelensky would flee and the UA would fold quickly. That all went to shit and Putin is now desperate. At this point, I'm sure Lukashenko wants no part of this shit sandwich but his marker is being called and he has no choice. Join Russia and share in the 10% chance of success now OR defy Putin and take 100% chance of being removed either by Putin or by the Belarussian people who are being pacified by Russian troops. Do we really think that Putin would press-gang the sons of elites in Moscow and St. Pete, send them into the meatgrinder, yet be shy about sending Belarussian troops. Putin is all in and he will do anything and everything at this point. |
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Originally Posted By Ryan_Ruck: And then there is that... View Quote Just to try to keep this straight in my own mind- Pootie says Russia is the true defender of the Christian faith, which is of course why Iran is helping out because they are so supportive of not only crusades but very specifically Christians as a whole. Pootie says Ukraine is rampant with nazis, and that Russia must invade and crush them as an existential threat, which is of course why Israel is now going to send military aid because they are down with the brown(shirts) and have spent their entire existence as a nation providing material, financial, and legal support to Adolph's minions. Pootie says Russia is the last bastion against perversion and globohomo, which is why we have the drone video feed of two of his champions coming and going at the same time. I think those are the high points. |
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Originally Posted By sq40: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/49447/9C8B7F51-5602-4432-9F46-3D17D08DD910_jpe-2564998.JPG View Quote |
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The only logical explanation I can come up with as to why we haven't sent ATACMS yet is that some elements of the Biden Administration (probably including Biden himself) are stalling. After all, it has to be remembered that Biden was against the raid to get UBL. The Ukrainians likely have very good intelligence as to what's going on deep in Russia's rear, both through NATO and their own SIGINT and HUMINT, hence why they've been begging for ATACMS for months. It's really a shame that we haven't supplied any, and that the Biden Administration has shown no indication that they're going to supply any in the future.
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My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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Deckard “nobody wants to know the truth, nobody” Cobra Kai Johnny Lawrence “she’s hot and all those other things” Tucker Carlson 1/10/2018 “I used to be a liberatarian until Google”https://mobile.twitter.com/Henry_Gunn
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Originally Posted By Ryan_Ruck: Clearly Iran is just helping Russia fight the globohomo and uphold Christian values. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Ryan_Ruck: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
Clearly Iran is just helping Russia fight the globohomo and uphold Christian values. LOL! |
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Patrick Henry is the greatest Founding Father because without him there would be no Bill of Rights!
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Originally Posted By CarmelBytheSea: https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3195837/ukraine-conflict-chinese-envoy-un-warns-forcing-nations-take View Quote |
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Originally Posted By Prime:
View Quote GIT-R-Done |
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Originally Posted By CarmelBytheSea: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202210/16/WS634ac867a310fd2b29e7cacb.html View Quote |
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Should I be concerned with seeing people buying up old electronics on the streets? I also saw some posts in a local Facebook group buying radio tubes by the kilogram. Seems like more than a hobby.
Aren't these components used in the older systems Russia has been fielding? @AlmightyTallest |
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Originally Posted By sq40: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/49447/8B63EE35-7BBD-4064-A7CF-1AADC03665DA_jpe-2565005.JPG View Quote Good. Good. The Israelis have a whole bunch of systems that would prove useful for Ukraine. Harpy, Iron Dome, Atmos-2000, various drones. They also have an upgrade program for the Mig-29 that provides for an AESA radar install and Python/Derby missile integration. This would also provide Ukraine with yet another supplier of 155mm shells and various rocket artillery systems. |
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I stand with Ukraine. Fuck Putin! And fuck Russia!
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfLZJySXgAAFfNq?format=jpg&name=small This means we can send ATACMS now, right? It's only fair at this point. View Quote |
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Originally Posted By spydercomonkey: That analysis claims the Plutonium cores have expired...Plutonium has a half life of 24,000 years. It's my understanding that the Tritium (like in gunsights, watches, and ACOGs) is what goes bad in nukes, and needs to be swapped out every 20 years for them to be able to achieve Fusion. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By spydercomonkey: Originally Posted By Prime: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfHMZkWXwAAu2M1?format=jpg&name=small That analysis claims the Plutonium cores have expired...Plutonium has a half life of 24,000 years. It's my understanding that the Tritium (like in gunsights, watches, and ACOGs) is what goes bad in nukes, and needs to be swapped out every 20 years for them to be able to achieve Fusion. Agreed. I stopped believing that moron soon as he said that. No doubt the Russian nuclear weapons aren’t maintained in the numbers they had during the Cold War, they simply can’t afford to. |
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"You must be the change you want to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" -Edmund Burke |
Originally Posted By Brok3n: HARPY drones and Iron Dome! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Brok3n: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
HARPY drones and Iron Dome! |
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How come every time there is a shooting, they want to take away the guns from the people who didn't do it?
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Originally Posted By Easterner: Should I be concerned with seeing people buying up old electronics on the streets? I also saw some posts in a local Facebook group buying radio tubes by the kilogram. Seems like more than a hobby. Aren't these components used in the older systems Russia has been fielding? @AlmightyTallest View Quote Maybe, but also in anticipation of nuke use. |
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“If by chance you were to ask me which ornaments I would desire above all others in my house, I would reply, without much pause for reflection, arms and books.”
Baldassare Castiglione |
Originally Posted By Easterner: Should I be concerned with seeing people buying up old electronics on the streets? I also saw some posts in a local Facebook group buying radio tubes by the kilogram. Seems like more than a hobby. Aren't these components used in the older systems Russia has been fielding? @AlmightyTallest View Quote Depends on what those tubes are. 12AU7/AT7/AX7 and similar along with 6L6...probably audiophools. High power transmitting tubes usable into low VHF? Hams. High power stuff operable into microwave frequencies might be destined for Mil usage. The Russians had a huge surplus tube market going for a while themselves. |
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