03-17-2022, 09:09 PM
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#4141
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Singapore
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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
Not too sure. The friend said that the center of the village was destroyed. The mayor of the village released a statement on the villages telegram channel saying it was cluster bombs. Wife's parents are a couple minutes away from there.
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A BBC field report from the outskirts of Kharkiv.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60785679
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03-17-2022, 09:21 PM
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#4142
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
This map is fairly comical, they haven't taken anywhere close to that much land, shows places like Kharkiv as being completely swallowed when we know that's untrue. The one above it is from wikipedia and is probably as reliable as they get.
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It also shows troop movement from Transdniestria, which I don't think was mentioned anywhere else.
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03-17-2022, 09:52 PM
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#4143
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: east van
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Originally Posted by edslunch
The east is looking dicey for Ukraine. They have a lot of their good troops there who could be in danger of encirclement. That would free up a lot of Russian forces to head north and that's the ball game.
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I would agree if it looked like the Russians had any way of heading north but in truth they dont have the logistics, also the Ukrainians even if encircled arent going to surrender and so will still need to be held in place by almost all of the troops for weeks yet until they are starved out and it appears Russia's supplies may not last until then, it might end up being the first case of a besieging army being starved into submission by the supposed besieged
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03-18-2022, 12:17 AM
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#4144
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by Captain Otto
They were also completely inept in Red Dawn.
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Wasn’t that the Cubans?
Last edited by Cappy; 03-18-2022 at 12:20 AM.
Reason: Cubans were tthe initial invasion not the occupation I think?
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03-18-2022, 07:12 AM
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#4145
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Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Alberta
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
In Afghanistan the Russian's didn't understand the enemy they were fighting. They were prepared to fight a modern war but let the Afghan's drag them into the mountains, and fight then with a fairly low tech war, with hi tech anti-air at the time.
The Russian's have fallen into the same trap here. They didn't understand that the Ukrainian military wasn't going to confront them in piecemeal battles and let themselves get sucked into ambushes and fire sacks.
The Russian General's that were killed were killed due to simple incompetence and over confidence. Making satellite calls in the open, stupid. Staying on the radio too long and letting the enemy pinpoint your command posts, outright rookie mistake.
To be honest and I know I'm going to get #### on here. but young Russian men and generally Ukrainian men woman are children are victims of these field generals. So yeah, I don't mind some general's get snuffed out.
Right now to me the difference in this war is leadership, the Ukrainian's have it the Russian's don't. With the edge in equipment, technology and sheer men and the ability to control the skies, right about now the Russian's should be trampling the last resistance in Ukraine. Instead they are bogged down, out foxed, and have been denied the mobile set piece war that they wanted to fight.
I want to see this thing end, its not going to though.
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I question the Russians having the edge in technology. To me, other than leadership, that's where the Ukraine is killing it.
Russia seems to be fighting an old school war while the Ukraine is embracing modern military technology to a very effective degree.
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03-18-2022, 07:28 AM
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#4146
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Originally Posted by icarus
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Heartbreaking read. Have said it a million times in this thread, but this is all so senseless, useless and serves absolutely no good purpose.
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03-18-2022, 08:14 AM
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#4147
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
It also shows troop movement from Transdniestria, which I don't think was mentioned anywhere else.
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The Government of Moldova issued a demand that Russian troops not cycle through Transdniestria, which is a disputed corridor inside of Moldova. I'm not sure if this is an effort to involve Moldova, pure lack of geological awareness on the part of Russian troops, or not giving a #### either way.
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03-18-2022, 08:20 AM
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#4148
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03-18-2022, 08:36 AM
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#4149
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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I can't believe the UN has to have a session on biological weapons. My username is checking out on this one
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03-18-2022, 09:46 AM
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#4151
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Here is the version being displayed in the Russian media.
It certainly paints a more dire picture for Ukraine, likely exaggerated for propaganda purposes, which I am sure they are both doing. The shaded blue part is supposed to show the bulk of the Ukrainian army. If it is true, they are fubar'd. |
Baghdad Bob would be proud of that map.
Meanwhile Russians are fleeing Kherson trying to salvage whatever equipment they have, Ukraine gained back over 100 miles of territory NW of Kherson as Russians fell back.
https://twitter.com/user/status/1504664916598345728
https://twitter.com/user/status/1504710271687970819
Ukraine may retake the only city above 200K population that is in Russian hands in the next few days
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03-18-2022, 10:07 AM
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#4153
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheese
Drones doing some damage, Russians not prpeapred for night fighting at all
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Drone warfare would have sacred the #### out of me. Thank god I am old.
Very difficult to defend against and ####ing near invisible if used correctly.
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03-18-2022, 10:19 AM
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#4154
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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03-18-2022, 10:40 AM
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#4155
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Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Alberta
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Originally Posted by Cheese
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this is awesome.
I hope everyone who has been saying the west should be doing more, reads this guys tweets.
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03-18-2022, 10:43 AM
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#4156
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Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Alberta
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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Drone warfare would have sacred the #### out of me. Thank god I am old.
Very difficult to defend against and ####ing near invisible if used correctly.
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amazing (and scary) to see what modern warfare looks like, especially used against an army fighting what seems to be with tactics from decades ago.
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03-18-2022, 11:01 AM
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#4157
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
amazing (and scary) to see what modern warfare looks like, especially used against an army fighting what seems to be with tactics from decades ago.
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I still remember the first time I was on a TOW range, that blew my mind.
This stuff pisses all over TOW.
Technology is amazing.
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03-18-2022, 11:02 AM
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#4158
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Calgary
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What is TOW?
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03-18-2022, 11:05 AM
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#4159
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Originally Posted by surferguy
What is TOW?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM-71_TOW
A way to kill tanks, the gunner can "drive" the projectile to the target.
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03-18-2022, 11:37 AM
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#4160
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Ate 100 Treadmills
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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
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A range of 4.5 kms....Plus a bunch of Russian vehicles are stuck in the mud.
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