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Originally Posted By HIPPO:
/media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/476-342.gif View Quote Won't be long till the orcs try ERA body armor. |
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Blameless, the tempest will be just that
So try as you may, feeble, your attempt to atone Your words to erase all the damage cannot A tempest must be just that |
Originally Posted By Waldo: They put reactive armor on a scooby doo van? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Waldo: Originally Posted By HIPPO:
/media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/476-342.gif They put reactive armor on a scooby doo van? Man the scientist in me wants to hit it with a HEDP to see what happens 🤷 KATAGORA Package received, some to DOZOR, Some to 115 and 25th, some to a new secret 🤫 unit. Attached File Thanks from DYKYY AND AMERICANS IN UKRAINE |
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Originally Posted By HIPPO: What a waste.
View Quote There is always a choice. Pop a 7.62 or a 5.45 into your CO and surrender.. |
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Blameless, the tempest will be just that
So try as you may, feeble, your attempt to atone Your words to erase all the damage cannot A tempest must be just that |
Blameless, the tempest will be just that
So try as you may, feeble, your attempt to atone Your words to erase all the damage cannot A tempest must be just that |
In addition to the export of wheeled and tracked military equipment from Belarus to the Russian Federation, we also record the export of ammunition from the arsenals of the Republic of Belarus. So, for example, on October 11, 2022 at 01:24 am from the station Bronnaya Gora (Brest branch of the Belarusian Railway) in the direction of the station Baranovichi-Tsentralny freight train No. 3502 left with a group of cars (26 units, 20 of which are marked VM) loaded ammunition from the 46th arsenal of missiles and ammunition.
📍The final destination for this group of cars: Olkhovatka station (South-Eastern Railway, Central Federal District, Voronezh Region). 📍Consignee: code No. 7787807 - Federal State Institution "Department of Financial Support of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation". 📍Estimated date of arrival: 10/19/2022. The route to the Olkhovatka station: Bronnaya Gora (BelZhD) - Baranovichi-Central (BelZhD) - Minsk-Sorting (BelZhD) - Orsha-Central (BelZhD) - Osinovka (BelZhD) - Krasnoe (RZD) - Smolensk (RZD) - Bryansk- Lgovsky (RZD) - Lgov-Kyiv (RZD) - Otrozhka (RZD) - Rossosh (RZD) - Olkhovatka (RZD). The length of the route is 1612 km. @belzhd_live https://t.me/belzhd_live/1921 |
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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 HIPPO:
/media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/476-342.gif View Quote They should just make a suit covered in ERA...UN_Stoppabe!! Or at least make vests out of them. beat |
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Originally Posted By atavistic: Damn. How thin are their supplies? You'd think they'd be pretty fat going into winter. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By atavistic: Originally Posted By governmentman: Originally Posted By HIPPO:
Losing the bridge causing logistical collapse? Only explanation I can see for this 'only a matter of days' attitude we're seeing pieces of from both sides. Damn. How thin are their supplies? You'd think they'd be pretty fat going into winter. The original force would have wintered with difficulty. A few weeks ago the decision to double or triple that force meant that a lot of Russian troops were going to surrender or die this winter of exposure and disease with empty stomachs, IMO. Then their most important supply line was all but severed. Even if it's miraculously patched back up in a week or two those are weeks they couldn't afford to lose because they were way behind to begin with. |
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Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad: Ukraine has been capturing half-starved Russians for weeks, and the Russians are dumping as many as 300,000 men into open fields often without issuing them sleeping bags, tents, first aid supplies, or sometimes summer weight uniforms, and apparently few if any winter outfits. That was the situation before the Kerch Bridge explosion. There are recent reports that an oil and fuel shortage (or at least a projected one) is forcing the Russians to park some of their armor. The original force would have wintered with difficulty. A few weeks ago the decision to double or triple that force meant that a lot of Russian troops were going to surrender or die this winter of exposure and disease with empty stomachs, IMO. Then their most important supply line was all but severed. Even if it's miraculously patched back up in a week or two those are weeks they couldn't afford to lose because they were way behind to begin with. View Quote Something... Something... Professionals study logistics. And the thing my thoughts seem to keep coming back to. Ukraine is right on Russia's border. |
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Originally Posted By Prime: In addition to the export of wheeled and tracked military equipment from Belarus to the Russian Federation, we also record the export of ammunition from the arsenals of the Republic of Belarus. So, for example, on October 11, 2022 at 01:24 am from the station Bronnaya Gora (Brest branch of the Belarusian Railway) in the direction of the station Baranovichi-Tsentralny freight train No. 3502 left with a group of cars (26 units, 20 of which are marked VM) loaded ammunition from the 46th arsenal of missiles and ammunition. 📍The final destination for this group of cars: Olkhovatka station (South-Eastern Railway, Central Federal District, Voronezh Region). 📍Consignee: code No. 7787807 - Federal State Institution "Department of Financial Support of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation". 📍Estimated date of arrival: 10/19/2022. The route to the Olkhovatka station: Bronnaya Gora (BelZhD) - Baranovichi-Central (BelZhD) - Minsk-Sorting (BelZhD) - Orsha-Central (BelZhD) - Osinovka (BelZhD) - Krasnoe (RZD) - Smolensk (RZD) - Bryansk- Lgovsky (RZD) - Lgov-Kyiv (RZD) - Otrozhka (RZD) - Rossosh (RZD) - Olkhovatka (RZD). The length of the route is 1612 km. @belzhd_live https://t.me/belzhd_live/1921 View Quote Why we can’t give the UA a few hundred ATACMs is beyond me. 18 for the Kerch bridge, 4 for each Belorussian depot, 16 for Sebasastapol etc. all in one big FU strike. Letting the Russians run offensive ops just behind the border is absurd. It’s typical half m assure stuff. You can fight back but you just can’t punch with your right (opponent can but you can’t) or hit below belt. Don’t worry we got your back isn’t good enough here. |
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Originally Posted By gentlemanfarmer: Why we can’t give the UA a few hundred ATACMs is beyond me. 18 for the Kerch bridge, 4 for each Belorussian depot, 16 for Sebasastapol etc. all in one big FU strike. Letting the Russians run offensive ops just behind the border is absurd. It’s typical half m assure stuff. You can fight back but you just can’t punch with your right (opponent can but you can’t) or hit below belt. Don’t worry we got your back isn’t good enough here. View Quote Add Transnistria, make it an Eastern European death blossom. |
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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 |
Aerial footage shows Russian MT-LB vehicle slowly inching towards scattered TM-62 anti-tank mines lining a Ukrainian road without seeming to notice the explosive devices.
Russian soldier cluelessly ploughs armoured vehicle into clearly visible landmines |
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Originally Posted By HIPPO:
View Quote Best Twitter comment so far: "why does that look like Obama and George Washington?" |
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Interesting. |
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Originally Posted By Charging_Handle: That is a lot of M142 HIMARS systems Lockheed could have sold Poland if they had greater production capacity. I recall Poland wanted to order 500 HIMARS systems, but it is understandable that they can't wait years to get them. We seriously need to increase our capacity for manufacturing greater numbers of weapons systems and also have an additional built in surge capacity for even more, should the need arise. It is a joke that we can only produce such a pathetic number of HIMARS launchers in a given year. The same is true for many other weapons systems as well, to include naval ships. We need multiple plants capable of producing the same systems. And we need multiple yards capable of building a single class of ships. View Quote I'm no SME (someone will be along shortly) but I think part of the problem is the fickleness of the US politics. One year they want 100 HIMARS, the next year Congress wants to cancel the whole thing. Year after that they want 500...It's probably better to keep the production lines running at a snails pace, maximize profits and ride out the ups and downs. Otherwise they'd go crazy (or broke) hiring a bunch of people one year, training them etc then firing everyone. Then trying to re-hire again. Slow and steady so they have contracts for several years out. |
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Originally Posted By HIPPO:
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Blameless, the tempest will be just that
So try as you may, feeble, your attempt to atone Your words to erase all the damage cannot A tempest must be just that |
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Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: I'm no SME (someone will be along shortly) but I think part of the problem is the fickleness of the US politics. One year they want 100 HIMARS, the next year Congress wants to cancel the whole thing. Year after that they want 500...It's probably better to keep the production lines running at a snails pace, maximize profits and ride out the ups and downs. Otherwise they'd go crazy (or broke) hiring a bunch of people one year, training them etc then firing everyone. Then trying to re-hire again. Slow and steady so they have contracts for several years out. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Originally Posted By Charging_Handle: That is a lot of M142 HIMARS systems Lockheed could have sold Poland if they had greater production capacity. I recall Poland wanted to order 500 HIMARS systems, but it is understandable that they can't wait years to get them. We seriously need to increase our capacity for manufacturing greater numbers of weapons systems and also have an additional built in surge capacity for even more, should the need arise. It is a joke that we can only produce such a pathetic number of HIMARS launchers in a given year. The same is true for many other weapons systems as well, to include naval ships. We need multiple plants capable of producing the same systems. And we need multiple yards capable of building a single class of ships. I'm no SME (someone will be along shortly) but I think part of the problem is the fickleness of the US politics. One year they want 100 HIMARS, the next year Congress wants to cancel the whole thing. Year after that they want 500...It's probably better to keep the production lines running at a snails pace, maximize profits and ride out the ups and downs. Otherwise they'd go crazy (or broke) hiring a bunch of people one year, training them etc then firing everyone. Then trying to re-hire again. Slow and steady so they have contracts for several years out. LM has the capability to build what they anticipated to supply the government acquisition objectives. For a period of time M142 production was done, than it restarted. But, there are wider ranging supply chain issues throughout the US defense sector, and its not just LM. All the primes out there have similar issues and it gets worse when you get down to the subcontractors that make the various components of the all the weapon systems. |
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In the real world off-campus, good marksmanship trumps good will.
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Originally Posted By HIPPO:
View Quote Hopefully those of the post-Boomer generatons who are too young to remember and were never taught what the Russians are really like are getting real-time exposure to the facts. |
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"...Capitalism...shares its blessings unequally; ...Socialism...shares its miseries equally."
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Originally Posted By 7empest: Originally Posted By HIPPO:
The vast number of kids and young women (breeding vessels) is truly staggering and a good argument for attacks past 1991 border if conditions are not met. I say breeding vessels because bet your ass that’s how the Soliviki in power see them. Future Russian force generators. |
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Originally Posted By veritas8985: Like they wouldn't just abandon it while retreating only to have it fired back at them...... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By veritas8985: Originally Posted By gentlemanfarmer: Please don’t give the Z boys more ammo Like they wouldn't just abandon it while retreating only to have it fired back at them...... In this case we were discussing the Wagner Obama scubby van of horrors but yes that too. |
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Originally Posted By HIPPO: NSFW.
View Quote They need to dock those ruskies a days pay for nappin' on the job! |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
View Quote GSD is best dog! |
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Originally Posted By Waldo: They put reactive armor on a scooby doo van? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Waldo: Originally Posted By HIPPO:
/media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/476-342.gif They put reactive armor on a scooby doo van? True, but it's not like it has explosives in it... |
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Originally Posted By realwar: NATO Chief: There will be 'severe consequences' if Russia uses nuclear weapons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSkIzp_UBiY View Quote The UA and the West has already made its mind up that, nukes or no, Putin ain’t coming out of this alive He can’t |
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Originally Posted By Frank_B: Hopefully those of the post-Boomer generatons who are too young to remember and were never taught what the Russians are really like are getting real-time exposure to the facts. View Quote At no time in history has humanity had more information available, unfortunately tons of people only accept "their" truth. Yuri Bezmenov warned us... |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fe-SttSX0AA18la?format=jpg&name=900x900 View Quote Battle pup fuck you up! |
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They’re either learning or too lazy to get those weird flat boxes out of the way before they set stuff down.
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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 Prime: They’re either learning or too lazy to get those weird flat boxes out of the way before they set stuff down.
View Quote Pallets? |
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Originally Posted By 7empest: Originally Posted By HIPPO:
Seeing that makes me glad I don't associate with anyone who has the "Why should I care about Ukraine?" attitude. |
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Originally Posted By Ryan_Ruck: GSD is best dog! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Ryan_Ruck: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
GSD is best dog! It's always struck me how a dog in a combat zone brings most everyone over. Probably a brief return to normal times and a bit of relief. |
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Originally Posted By jungatheart: I felt the same way. What a fucking waste! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By jungatheart: Originally Posted By BigGrumpyBear: Originally Posted By Dominion21: Originally Posted By Lightning_P38: Originally Posted By K0UA: what ever it is, we needed to have sent more. What so few seem to grasp is that most of what we have sent is our garbage, sort of like at my house, every few years we go through and donate junk to a church rummage sale or other charity, it is junk, but still useful to someone else. I am glad to get rid of it, and the other person finds it valuable. I often send a few bits that are "good stuff" with the junk, because it is for a good cause, but it is still things I am not going to use any way. P38 is right of course. Here is an illustration of his point (building an artificial reef): https://www.islandpacket.com/latest-news/21tjkh/picture33033822/alternates/FREE_1140/9bMe6.So.9.jpeg WTF man! I would have bought one of those! It breaks my heart to see that. I felt the same way. What a fucking waste! One of best old friends was a seabee (sp?) During the Korean War. After the war, his job was to dispose of American equipment off the side of a ship. Brand new vehicles of all types. Cadillac produced ambulances, personnel carriers, Jeeps, etc. For weeks on end. He said it broke his heart doing it. |
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vidi vici veni
I don't give a fuck. My name is Dave. TRUMP 2024 m~:#er |
Originally Posted By HIPPO:
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vidi vici veni
I don't give a fuck. My name is Dave. TRUMP 2024 m~:#er |
"the science" /duh si-ens/ noun: progressive postmodern religious dogma not based in tested hypothesis or facts used to advance an authoritative political ideology
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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Originally Posted By Ryan_Scott: Depuy was the fucking man. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes One of a kind. Here is a paper written by a retired three star, discussing how the Army experimented on its new hole, and conducted 70 experiments to determine the best way to dig a hole. They actually seemed to have brought out a primitive version of MILES for it. Soldiers have always been accused of preparing for the last war. In this case we could be accused of preparing for the last war twice removed plus one or two intervening affairs. But the evolution of weapons and tactics is a continuum. As in navigation, it is easier to know where you are if you also know where you have been. Now at last there are very modem methods for simulating many of the critical features of combat in order to find the best tactical solutions without waiting for that next war. In 1976 at Hunter Liggett Reservation, Calif., the Army's Combat Developments Experimentation Command (CDEC) conducted a long series of laser engagement simulations with infantry units in the attack and defense. CDEC has this to say about such simulations: "The experiment marked the first time that a force-on-force infantry experiment had been conducted with realistic real-time casualty assessment. Methodology for simulating (with lasers and associated instrumentation) rifles, automatic weapons, grenade-launchers, antitank weapons, hand grenades and indirect-fire weapons was employed. The technology developed for this experiment opens up almost unlimited possibilities for future infantry field experiments." In the mid-1970s Ft. Benning prescribed a whole new concept for infantry positions. Designed to defeat the direct suppressive fire of an attacking enemy, the defensive positions were to be dug behind some form of frontal cover-a rock, tree or hummock, or where no such natural cover existed, behind a parapet to be constructed from the spoil excavated in the course of digging-in. Used with stunning success by certain units in Vietnam, this technique was only partially-perhaps reluctantly is a better word-accepted by the infantry noncommissioned officers. Requiring, as it does, that the soldiers in each two-man position fire to the right and left at about a 45-degree angle across the front of adjacent positions, this system of defense involves a high degree of mutual interdependence. The protection of each position from a direct frontal assault depends upon the fire from the positions on either flank. The benefit derived from the system, of course, is that these interlocking positions can continue to engage the advancing enemy even when they are receiving suppressive fire from the front. The inability to see directly to the front during the enemy assault reduces casualties, but produces anxiety, especially among the sergeants, many of whom apparently would rather take their chances with the enemy fire while looking and fighting to the front. It was for these reasons that CDEC was asked to evaluate the parapet foxhole. Troops from the 7th Division at Ft. Ord conducted some 70 trials in which a platoon of infantry armed with laser engagement simulators on each weapon, in a highly instrumented environment, attacked a rifle squad similarly equipped using three different foxhole configurations. The first was the good old hole in the ground called standard. The second was the parapet foxhole as described earlier. The third was a so-called split parapet in which there was a slot in the middle of the parapet through which the soldiers could see and shoot either to the front or obliquely from behind the cover of the two "humps." The more important findings were as follows: * "Based on the casualty exchange ratio, the parapet and split parapet foxholes are more than twice as effective as the standard foxhole in the daylight defense." * "The soldier prefers the split parapet foxhole over both the standard and frontal parapet foxhole." * "The attacker fired three times as much ammunition against the parapet foxhole as against the standard foxhole to achieve the same number of hits." " Use of two fire support squads and one maneuver squad was more effective in penetrating all types of prepared positions than the use of one fire support and two maneuver squads."' This last finding was a bonus. While looking for one thing, as is so often the case during scientific experiments, the Army found something else of equal importance. More specifically, it was found that a formation of two up and one back-that is, two moving and one shooting-penetrated the defense only 25 percent of the time. But when the ratio of movers to shooters was reversed-that is, two shooting and one moving-the defense was penetrated 87 percent of the time. |
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Originally Posted By BigGrumpyBear: They need to dock those ruskies a days pay for nappin' on the job! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By BigGrumpyBear: Originally Posted By HIPPO: NSFW.
They need to dock those ruskies a days pay for nappin' on the job! |
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"This is the Way"
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Originally Posted By gentlemanfarmer: Why we can’t give the UA a few hundred ATACMs is beyond me. 18 for the Kerch bridge, 4 for each Belorussian depot, 16 for Sebasastapol etc. all in one big FU strike. Letting the Russians run offensive ops just behind the border is absurd. It’s typical half m assure stuff. You can fight back but you just can’t punch with your right (opponent can but you can’t) or hit below belt. Don’t worry we got your back isn’t good enough here. View Quote USA is well known for letting certain nation states provide logistics to opposing forces while we were not allowed to target those locations. Aka: china/Korean war, china,Russia,laos-vietnam war, and on and on Geopolitics. And it sucks. |
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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Alleged M777 destruction.
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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 Swampgrass: It's always struck me how a dog in a combat zone brings most everyone over. Probably a brief return to normal times and a bit of relief. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Swampgrass: Originally Posted By Ryan_Ruck: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
GSD is best dog! It's always struck me how a dog in a combat zone brings most everyone over. Probably a brief return to normal times and a bit of relief. But it's one of the worst things when anything happens to the dog. Our four legged buddy took some shrapnel from a granade, 2 guys nearly got killed while rescuing the dog. |
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Thread continues. Posting does not constitute endorsement at all.
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: But it's one of the worst things when anything happens to the dog. Our four legged buddy took some shrapnel from a granade, 2 guys nearly got killed while rescuing the dog. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: Originally Posted By Swampgrass: Originally Posted By Ryan_Ruck: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
GSD is best dog! It's always struck me how a dog in a combat zone brings most everyone over. Probably a brief return to normal times and a bit of relief. But it's one of the worst things when anything happens to the dog. Our four legged buddy took some shrapnel from a granade, 2 guys nearly got killed while rescuing the dog. |
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