Walther von Oldenburg wrote:How strong is Ukrainian army compared to Bundeswehr or French army?
The German army is a paper tiger. Very bad and poorly equipped. They have no air force. There is a lot of unrest among their military.
Walther von Oldenburg wrote:How strong is Ukrainian army compared to Bundeswehr or French army?
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Compared to both armies much stronger. Not only in equipment but also in experience. Ukraine soldiers had much experience from Donbass war since 2014.Walther von Oldenburg wrote:How strong is Ukrainian army compared to Bundeswehr or French army?
Azi wrote:Combined they are really strong but in europe they lack a few important weapon systems only USA have.
If russian forces will terminate the Nazi scum in Mariupol a huge amount of forces will be freed for further offensive to close the pocket for Donbass. Izium is now in russian hands and the grip on ukrainian forces in Donbass is harder than ever before. Expect collapse of the complete frontline in the next 5-7 days.kvs wrote:Russian forces are pulling up the rear echelons. But the focus is not grabbing more real estate but defeating regime forces in key areas.
Closing the Donbass cauldron, cleaning out Mariupol and Kharkov.
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What is UE? You mean UK?ALAMO wrote:Azi wrote:Combined they are really strong but in europe they lack a few important weapon systems only USA have.
That is very not true.
UE has it all.
Only small in numbers.
And most of the European stuff is actually better than Murican one.
Azi wrote:
The APCs are of course better, the Boxer is a nice APC. The IFV Puma is nearly on the same level like a MBT. But but they lack numbers and APS!
What Russia can learn from the conflict is not protect better the MTBs...they are really well protected. Maybe an addition to APS upwards against Javelin. They should protect APCs and IFVs with active protection systems! With APS the effect of VDV would be more than doubled.
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Europe has no long range artillery, no strategic bombers...no bombers at all, no long range AD systems. No tactical missile systems. Most european members lack generally AD systems. They have nothing compared to A-10 or Su-25. They have no military satellite network, nothing like GPS or Glonass for military (only a civilian system). Only with multi role fighter, APCs and a few MBTs it's really hard to win against an adversary like USA, China or Russia.ALAMO wrote:Read what I wrote again.
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flamming_python wrote:Yesterday the head of the Nikolayev region was boasting about a successful attack on a Russian VDV position (seems to have been a recon platoon) near Nikolayev that the Ukrainian military garrison in the city subordinated to him had carried out (the Ukrainian 79th assault brigade)
Today a rocket flew into that brigade's base, killed 8 soldiers outright, 8 more are still missing, and 19 are injured
Seems to be a case of 'leave our forces alone and we'll leave you alone'
Isos wrote:flamming_python wrote:Yesterday the head of the Nikolayev region was boasting about a successful attack on a Russian VDV position (seems to have been a recon platoon) near Nikolayev that the Ukrainian military garrison in the city subordinated to him had carried out (the Ukrainian 79th assault brigade)
Today a rocket flew into that brigade's base, killed 8 soldiers outright, 8 more are still missing, and 19 are injured
Seems to be a case of 'leave our forces alone and we'll leave you alone'
I have hard time believing that soldiers would go inside their bases when iskanders and kalibrs are flying above their country since 10 days.
I would imagine they go as far possible from such targets.
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