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English-speaking "NATO" troops intercepted by Russia
Well, that's an iinteresting infowar attempt if true. |
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Dear Adolf Putin,
You crackheads couldn't decrypt your own handwriting. Sincerely, "NATO" |
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Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: I agree with this. If/when China (or whoever) develops body armor that will easily stop our 5.56, we should practice shooting them in the face and hip, legs, or better yet just keep them pinned down until something with boom can be delivered rather than developing some 20lb "rifle" in .270WSSM than no one will carry to clear a trench. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Originally Posted By MelGibsonEnthusiast: Small arms don't matter much in conventional warfare and haven't in at least a century. The main purpose of small arms is to suppress dismounted enemy infantry long enough that they can get plastered with supporting arms, and right now, 5.56 and 7.62 do that job just fine. I don't recall many Ukrainians complaining that their small arms are unable to suppress and kill Russians, and they don't have super sexy polymer 6.8. In terms of infantry stuff, I'd rather we place our emphasis on drones down to the squad level, better marksmanship and fire control training, more HE weapons, more thermals, etc. I'd like the capability to fly a small unit ISR drone above the enemy's position, spot them, and then hammer them with patrol mortars, airbursting Carl Gustaf rounds, an AGL, etc. I can see replacing 7.62 NATO with polymer 6.8, and the new optic looks kinda cool, but there's better places to be spending our time and money in terms of increasing our infantry's effectiveness in near peer conflicts. I agree with this. If/when China (or whoever) develops body armor that will easily stop our 5.56, we should practice shooting them in the face and hip, legs, or better yet just keep them pinned down until something with boom can be delivered rather than developing some 20lb "rifle" in .270WSSM than no one will carry to clear a trench. I honestly don't think that penetrating plates with small arms is a very important capability. The head, neck, arms, legs, hips, etc. are all still exposed. We just spent 20 years fighting dudes with small arms that couldn't penetrate our plates, but we still got suppressed and took casualties from small arms all the time, and lots of the dudes we frequently fought couldn't shoot for shit. It's just not a capability that I think matters very much. If I want to get around their plates, I'll use HE to do it. |
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Originally Posted By Schmigs:
View Quote It's about time (if this is true). I think we all expect this to happen eventually, hopefully in Moscow... |
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World Military Spending Rises to Record as Insecurity Swells
-Inflation-adjusted defense expenditure grew 3.7% in 2022 -European nations spent most since the end of Cold War https://archive.ph/3oW52 Global military spending rose to a record last year, spurred by a policy U-turn in Europe where governments boosted capabilities by the most since the end of the Cold War in the wake of Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine. Defense expenditure increased by 3.7% in real terms to reach a record high of $2.24 trillion in 2022, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, said on Monday. About half the annual increase was due to Ukraine’s ballooning military budget, according to data for the eastern European country that excludes foreign aid. Arms budgets are expanding across Europe in response to Russia’s aggression at the same time as tensions in East Asia are prompting larger outlays in that part of the world. “The continuous rise in global military expenditure in recent years is a sign that we are living in an increasingly insecure world,” SIPRI senior researcher Nan Tian said in a statement. “States are bolstering military strength in response to a deteriorating security environment, which they do not foresee improving in the near future.” Russia’s War Puts Focus on Huge Korean Artillery Stockpiles -North and South Korea may have more than a million shells -Yoon hints at possible shift in war aid policy for Ukraine https://archive.ph/w3IU0 Half a world away from the front line of Russia’s war in Ukraine there’s a stockpile of probably more than a million artillery shells on the Korean peninsula — a hoard that’s drawing attention as South Korea’s leader heads to Washington. President Yoon Suk Yeol has indicated his government may be open to changing its policy about providing lethal aid to Ukraine under certain conditions. That would be welcome news for US President Joe Biden, who has been seeking help from partners to ease Kyiv’s perennial ammunition shortage. Yoon’s office said any decision to send lethal aid depends on how far Russia goes in stepping up attacks on civilians. Yoon is due to meet Biden for a state visit on Wednesday, with security and economic cooperation high on the agenda. The Koreas have two of the world’s largest artillery forces, with thousands of big guns pointing at each other across the demilitarized zone that separates them. They have stockpiled hundreds of thousands of shells that include North Korean artillery inter-operable with Soviet-era artillery in Russia, and South Korean 155 mm caliber shells, which are the standard used by the NATO countries supplying Ukraine. “You can bet the stocks of both North and South easily exceed a million shells of differing types,” said Joost Oliemans, a weapons expert who co-authored the book The Armed Forces of North Korea. “Both operate many thousands of artillery pieces, which, even without being restocked, would necessitate hundreds of thousands of shells,” he said. |
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Originally Posted By MelGibsonEnthusiast: I honestly don't think that penetrating plates with small arms is a very important capability. The head, neck, arms, legs, hips, etc. are all still exposed. We just spent 20 years fighting dudes with small arms that couldn't penetrate our plates, but we still got suppressed and took casualties from small arms all the time, and lots of the dudes we frequently fought couldn't shoot for shit. It's just not a capability that I think matters very much. If I want to get around their plates, I'll use HE to do it. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By MelGibsonEnthusiast: Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Originally Posted By MelGibsonEnthusiast: Small arms don't matter much in conventional warfare and haven't in at least a century. The main purpose of small arms is to suppress dismounted enemy infantry long enough that they can get plastered with supporting arms, and right now, 5.56 and 7.62 do that job just fine. I don't recall many Ukrainians complaining that their small arms are unable to suppress and kill Russians, and they don't have super sexy polymer 6.8. In terms of infantry stuff, I'd rather we place our emphasis on drones down to the squad level, better marksmanship and fire control training, more HE weapons, more thermals, etc. I'd like the capability to fly a small unit ISR drone above the enemy's position, spot them, and then hammer them with patrol mortars, airbursting Carl Gustaf rounds, an AGL, etc. I can see replacing 7.62 NATO with polymer 6.8, and the new optic looks kinda cool, but there's better places to be spending our time and money in terms of increasing our infantry's effectiveness in near peer conflicts. I agree with this. If/when China (or whoever) develops body armor that will easily stop our 5.56, we should practice shooting them in the face and hip, legs, or better yet just keep them pinned down until something with boom can be delivered rather than developing some 20lb "rifle" in .270WSSM than no one will carry to clear a trench. I honestly don't think that penetrating plates with small arms is a very important capability. The head, neck, arms, legs, hips, etc. are all still exposed. We just spent 20 years fighting dudes with small arms that couldn't penetrate our plates, but we still got suppressed and took casualties from small arms all the time, and lots of the dudes we frequently fought couldn't shoot for shit. It's just not a capability that I think matters very much. If I want to get around their plates, I'll use HE to do it. Wasn't the 2ID investigated for the number of headshot enemy that started showing up? I mean, don't get me wrong. Body armor is a necessity.... But if a guy with a scoped rifle gets the drop on you, you're DRT. |
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Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: It's about time (if this is true). I think we all expect this to happen eventually, hopefully in Moscow... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Originally Posted By Schmigs:
It's about time (if this is true). I think we all expect this to happen eventually, hopefully in Moscow... Agree, this is excellent news if true and I hope UKR is doing what it can PSYOPS wise to encourage it |
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Originally Posted By THOT_Vaccine: Wasn't the 2ID investigated for the number of headshot enemy that started showing up? I mean, don't get me wrong. Body armor is a necessity.... But if a guy with a scoped rifle gets the drop on you, you're DRT. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By THOT_Vaccine: Originally Posted By MelGibsonEnthusiast: Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Originally Posted By MelGibsonEnthusiast: Small arms don't matter much in conventional warfare and haven't in at least a century. The main purpose of small arms is to suppress dismounted enemy infantry long enough that they can get plastered with supporting arms, and right now, 5.56 and 7.62 do that job just fine. I don't recall many Ukrainians complaining that their small arms are unable to suppress and kill Russians, and they don't have super sexy polymer 6.8. In terms of infantry stuff, I'd rather we place our emphasis on drones down to the squad level, better marksmanship and fire control training, more HE weapons, more thermals, etc. I'd like the capability to fly a small unit ISR drone above the enemy's position, spot them, and then hammer them with patrol mortars, airbursting Carl Gustaf rounds, an AGL, etc. I can see replacing 7.62 NATO with polymer 6.8, and the new optic looks kinda cool, but there's better places to be spending our time and money in terms of increasing our infantry's effectiveness in near peer conflicts. I agree with this. If/when China (or whoever) develops body armor that will easily stop our 5.56, we should practice shooting them in the face and hip, legs, or better yet just keep them pinned down until something with boom can be delivered rather than developing some 20lb "rifle" in .270WSSM than no one will carry to clear a trench. I honestly don't think that penetrating plates with small arms is a very important capability. The head, neck, arms, legs, hips, etc. are all still exposed. We just spent 20 years fighting dudes with small arms that couldn't penetrate our plates, but we still got suppressed and took casualties from small arms all the time, and lots of the dudes we frequently fought couldn't shoot for shit. It's just not a capability that I think matters very much. If I want to get around their plates, I'll use HE to do it. Wasn't the 2ID investigated for the number of headshot enemy that started showing up? I mean, don't get me wrong. Body armor is a necessity.... But if a guy with a scoped rifle gets the drop on you, you're DRT. I think that was Marines in Fallujah, aided by acogs. |
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Originally Posted By MelGibsonEnthusiast: I honestly don't think that penetrating plates with small arms is a very important capability. The head, neck, arms, legs, hips, etc. are all still exposed. We just spent 20 years fighting dudes with small arms that couldn't penetrate our plates, but we still got suppressed and took casualties from small arms all the time, and lots of the dudes we frequently fought couldn't shoot for shit. It's just not a capability that I think matters very much. If I want to get around their plates, I'll use HE to do it. View Quote Exactly. And if they develop a Level V suit of armor that protects almost everything, it will be very hard to move. By then little drones and pulse rifles will be the threat. |
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Originally Posted By MelGibsonEnthusiast: Russian IFV with infantry on it hit by ATGM. View Quote Certainly looked like the guys on the outside got the worst of it. I wonder if better than ERA? |
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Originally Posted By iggy1337: A not to well narrated video synopsis featuring lots and lots of Russian armour being blown up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWVvmoVgec View Quote Narration was fine! He has some unusual pronunciations but it was a great compilation of explodey Russian vehicles. Thank you for posting. |
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I've been battling some internal demons this week, so far I'm 0 for 6.
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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every gun makes its own tune
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Originally Posted By weptek911: Narration was fine! He has some unusual pronunciations but it was a great compilation of explodey Russian vehicles. Thank you for posting. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By weptek911: Originally Posted By iggy1337: A not to well narrated video synopsis featuring lots and lots of Russian armour being blown up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWVvmoVgec Narration was fine! He has some unusual pronunciations but it was a great compilation of explodey Russian vehicles. Thank you for posting. No what I meant that in some of the shots he mixed NLAWs an Javelins up. Minor gripe in a massive compilation of Russian explody stuff. As we follow the war here in real time it seems less intense but condenced Russians shit is being broken on a astronomical scale given the timeframe. |
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His strategy to hold Bakhmut as long as possible seems to be paying off. |
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Deplorable fan of liberty
“I don’t need a ride, I need more ammunition.” |
A face to the Wagner leader doing the beheadings in Syria and Ukraine. The thread contains a NSFW pic. |
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Deplorable fan of liberty
“I don’t need a ride, I need more ammunition.” |
Nice to see Theiner is watching these developments. I imagine “the feint that isn’t a feint” will be delayed in reporting but there has to be thousands of eyes watching every movement forward. Sometimes too much information is as bad as not enough. Especially if the Rooskies lack as much up to the hour satellite imagery and spotty comms. |
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“I don’t need a ride, I need more ammunition.” |
Stephen King is an idiot compared to Elon in their Twitter exchanges. In this one King invites a smack down. Regardless if one thinks Musk has done as much as he could for Ukraine, no one can deny he has made a substantial contribution—more so than any self-important wind bag on Twitter. |
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From the Cri-me-a River news desk:
https://twitter.com/albafella1/status/1650303236975337474 In #Sevastopol, with an interval of 8 minutes, two powerful explosions were heard, which were heard in the Gagarinsky, Leninsky and Nakhimovsky districts of the city. And…
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Originally Posted By stone-age: I would think the drones would be very useful when Ukranians are trying to take trenches. A drone buzzing russian trenches would have to freak out and the russians and cause them to focus their attention on the drone instead of on the attacking Ukranians. It wouldn't much matter if the drone was armed or not. A cheap way to shape the battlefield. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By stone-age: Originally Posted By THOT_Vaccine: You could probably conduct a pretty good psyop with just a recording of drone prop noise and a good set of speakers. If you did it often enough late at night. The reflex to look around would just go away. I would think the drones would be very useful when Ukranians are trying to take trenches. A drone buzzing russian trenches would have to freak out and the russians and cause them to focus their attention on the drone instead of on the attacking Ukranians. It wouldn't much matter if the drone was armed or not. A cheap way to shape the battlefield. Start doing night attacks with drones equipped with Glow Sticks. Then just start harassing them with a mix of armed an unarmed glowstick equipped drones while UA sneak up on them at night. |
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World ain't what it seems, is it Gunny?
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The more jam proof Skylink satellite enclosure.
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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Note to self: keep huge stock of landmines under a tarp or something.
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Originally Posted By m35ben: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/390973/FB_IMG_1682252563743-2793513.jpg View Quote Originally Posted By m35ben: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/390973/SPOILER_FB_IMG_1682275104134-2793514.jpg View Quote NEVER getting old. |
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Chakravartin of the Feculent Multiversal Litterbox Protodeacon of the Iniquitous Gurkhan of the Illimitable Feline Hordes |
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God's grace is not cheap; it's free.
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God's grace is not cheap; it's free.
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Training of soldiers of the Armed Forces on Leopard tanks in Poland 🇵🇱
The Third Force https://t.me/The3rdForceUA/16320 |
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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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lol, beat.
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Originally Posted By THOT_Vaccine: Wasn't the 2ID investigated for the number of headshot enemy that started showing up? I mean, don't get me wrong. Body armor is a necessity.... But if a guy with a scoped rifle gets the drop on you, you're DRT. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By THOT_Vaccine: Originally Posted By MelGibsonEnthusiast: Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Originally Posted By MelGibsonEnthusiast: Small arms don't matter much in conventional warfare and haven't in at least a century. The main purpose of small arms is to suppress dismounted enemy infantry long enough that they can get plastered with supporting arms, and right now, 5.56 and 7.62 do that job just fine. I don't recall many Ukrainians complaining that their small arms are unable to suppress and kill Russians, and they don't have super sexy polymer 6.8. In terms of infantry stuff, I'd rather we place our emphasis on drones down to the squad level, better marksmanship and fire control training, more HE weapons, more thermals, etc. I'd like the capability to fly a small unit ISR drone above the enemy's position, spot them, and then hammer them with patrol mortars, airbursting Carl Gustaf rounds, an AGL, etc. I can see replacing 7.62 NATO with polymer 6.8, and the new optic looks kinda cool, but there's better places to be spending our time and money in terms of increasing our infantry's effectiveness in near peer conflicts. I agree with this. If/when China (or whoever) develops body armor that will easily stop our 5.56, we should practice shooting them in the face and hip, legs, or better yet just keep them pinned down until something with boom can be delivered rather than developing some 20lb "rifle" in .270WSSM than no one will carry to clear a trench. I honestly don't think that penetrating plates with small arms is a very important capability. The head, neck, arms, legs, hips, etc. are all still exposed. We just spent 20 years fighting dudes with small arms that couldn't penetrate our plates, but we still got suppressed and took casualties from small arms all the time, and lots of the dudes we frequently fought couldn't shoot for shit. It's just not a capability that I think matters very much. If I want to get around their plates, I'll use HE to do it. Wasn't the 2ID investigated for the number of headshot enemy that started showing up? I mean, don't get me wrong. Body armor is a necessity.... But if a guy with a scoped rifle gets the drop on you, you're DRT. Iraq had a lot of headshots. Jihadis didn't wear Kevlars, and with the suicide vest threat, a lot of headshots were taken, as suddenly missing brain matter impedes triggering IEDs and suicide vests.. This was one of the reasons they scrubbed the preservative off of the M14s and sent them over, as well as decent individual optics. |
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My search-fu sucks so sorry if this made it into the thread already, didn't see it on the last two pages.
Looks like Ukraine has crossed the Dnipro near Kherson and has a position established with stable supply lines into Oleshky: https://nypost.com/2023/04/23/ukrainian-forces-establish-a-foothold-along-dnipro-river-as-spring-counteroffensive-speculation-mounts/ |
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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 PolarBear416: My search-fu sucks so sorry if this made it into the thread already, didn't see it on the last two pages. Looks like Ukraine has crossed the Dnipro near Kherson and has a position established with stable supply lines into Oleshky: https://nypost.com/2023/04/23/ukrainian-forces-establish-a-foothold-along-dnipro-river-as-spring-counteroffensive-speculation-mounts/ View Quote We talked about it. It is mostly swamp and bog. Not suited for a bridgehead for a major operation. |
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: The more jam proof Skylink satellite enclosure.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FubHgrUXoAUjDHa?format=jpg&name=large View Quote I'm curious what they're doing here though. I'm not positive how Starlinks are setup. Do they acquire a gps signal and then when it's set up, they seal the cage, and it'll keep working in the absence of a new gps signal? I thought the other post said something about leaving the top open and it still shielded enough against directional gps attacks but I could be misremembering. |
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Originally Posted By m35ben: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/390973/FB_IMG_1682252563743-2793513.jpg View Quote Need a lot of those under the launch mount. |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Images coming in from the drone attack in Sevastopol. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FucfiKjWAAAz8A7?format=jpg&name=large View Quote Attached File |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Images coming in from the drone attack in Sevastopol. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FucfiKjWAAAz8A7?format=jpg&name=large View Quote My only question, regular or menthol? |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Images coming in from the drone attack in Sevastopol. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FucfiKjWAAAz8A7?format=jpg&name=large View Quote Taken with a potato |
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Originally Posted By spydercomonkey: Start doing night attacks with drones equipped with Glow Sticks. Then just start harassing them with a mix of armed an unarmed glowstick equipped drones while UA sneak up on them at night. View Quote Good lord. The russians would be able to see those things for miles. |
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Originally Posted By m35ben: Its been done https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/390973/IMG_3551-2793587.png View Quote New era trampoline. |
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