Isos wrote:Or just encircle them and cut water and food supplies as well as facebook and instagram. They will surrender quickly.
No water and food is OK, but no Facebook...? War crime!
Isos wrote:Or just encircle them and cut water and food supplies as well as facebook and instagram. They will surrender quickly.
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Isos wrote:After all the video of urban war in syria where lonely taks get anhilated they still find some people crazy enough to drive them there.
Urban war must be done on foot. With support from the drones. Tanks aren't needed. Maybe send those bmp-t behind the troop. But first reenforce the protection with add ons.
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littlerabbit wrote:Isos wrote:After all the video of urban war in syria where lonely taks get anhilated they still find some people crazy enough to drive them there.
Urban war must be done on foot. With support from the drones. Tanks aren't needed. Maybe send those bmp-t behind the troop. But first reenforce the protection with add ons.
Maybe they were carried away by battle...people can forget themselves in that kind of extraordinary environment.
Airbornewolf wrote:Arkanghelsk wrote:Наглядная демонстрация живучести танка Т-72Б3, который получил четыре попадания из ПТРК Javelin/NLAW без детонации боекомплекта, дав возможность спастись экипажу
https://t.me/swodki/43224
God damn... heroes ... t72 took so many beastly hits
They hit the engine on the left side, and he lost power... them they just kept hitting and hitting..
RIP and I hope the guy who got out made it
It said crew escaped but idk
**** Ukraine
Mobility kill, Left Track is broken after hit and rolls off when the tank reverses.
even with light AT weapons that can not penetrate the Armour, you can still put tanks out of action.
Tracks, optics, radio's, weapons
Tanks are an usefull resource in urban combat, but they need to advance behind infantry to clear out any AT-Threats.
Hole wrote:littlerabbit wrote:Isos wrote:After all the video of urban war in syria where lonely taks get anhilated they still find some people crazy enough to drive them there.
Urban war must be done on foot. With support from the drones. Tanks aren't needed. Maybe send those bmp-t behind the troop. But first reenforce the protection with add ons.
Maybe they were carried away by battle...people can forget themselves in that kind of extraordinary environment.
In Syria tanks were always present in urban warfare, combined with infantry. But you need tank crews that are familiar with that kind of enviroment. Syrians learned it the hard way.
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Scorpius wrote:diabetus wrote:
What's with the mosins?
These are the militia of the DPR and the DPR, recently mobilized to defend against the attack of Ukraine. So these are not combat units, they play the role of the commandant's office and law enforcement patrols. So they are armed with what is left, and new weapons go to the front. You don't need an AK to keep order at roadblocks.
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Isos wrote:Hungry for targets choppers.
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diabetus wrote:franco wrote:Regular wrote:Makes no sense, just give them SVD. Bolt action and especially in sentry duty?
Seen him mentioned by a reporter. Apparently it was his grandfathers gun from WW2.
Look at the pictures it's more than 1.
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franco wrote:diabetus wrote:franco wrote:Regular wrote:Makes no sense, just give them SVD. Bolt action and especially in sentry duty?
Seen him mentioned by a reporter. Apparently it was his grandfathers gun from WW2.
Look at the pictures it's more than 1.
Believe it is the same guy.
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limb wrote:
Also, this shows that some type of UV MAWS is essential for tanks, so they can pop smoke when an ATGM is approaching. Also you guys say that the javelin has a conspicuous plume from the rocket. I guess it's not conspicy because the tank crew didn't see it.
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diabetus wrote:
In one of the pictures (one with the t-72B3 in the background, there are 2 men with mosins.
limb wrote:Airbornewolf wrote:Arkanghelsk wrote:Наглядная демонстрация живучести танка Т-72Б3, который получил четыре попадания из ПТРК Javelin/NLAW без детонации боекомплекта, дав возможность спастись экипажу
https://t.me/swodki/43224
God damn... heroes ... t72 took so many beastly hits
They hit the engine on the left side, and he lost power... them they just kept hitting and hitting..
RIP and I hope the guy who got out made it
It said crew escaped but idk
**** Ukraine
Mobility kill, Left Track is broken after hit and rolls off when the tank reverses.
even with light AT weapons that can not penetrate the Armour, you can still put tanks out of action.
Tracks, optics, radio's, weapons
Tanks are an usefull resource in urban combat, but they need to advance behind infantry to clear out any AT-Threats.
. Also here we see the piss poor reverse speed of the T-72 dooming it. If it had a 20-50km/h reverse speed like all nato tanks it could retreated very rapidly out of LOS into a side street.
it.
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Regular wrote:diabetus wrote:
In one of the pictures (one with the t-72B3 in the background, there are 2 men with mosins.
Also earlier pictures of DNR troop movements also show multiple people with Mosins.
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During the liberation of Marinka from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the stronghold of the 1st mech. battalion of the 54th brigade, foreign weapons were found there - NLAW, SMAW grenade launchers, AN / TPQ-48 radars and personal belongings of American instructors who fought on the side of the Ukrainian national battalions. A US Tennessee flag and other items were found in a backpack near the remains of the militants, which made it possible to identify the dead as:
Captain Michael Hawker (Cpt. Michael Hawker),
Lieutenant Logan Shrum (Lt. Logan Shrum) and
Lieutenant Cruz Toblin (Lt. Cruz Tomblin), who came to Ukraine to kill civilians in Donbass in 2018.
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Firebird wrote:https://en.news-front.info/2022/03/17/ukraines-denazification-operation-operational-update-march-17-updated/
08:34 lists the oblasts according to the RU MOD that are in favour of "good relations" with Russia.
Basically includes Odessa and Zhtomyr but doesn'tmention Vinnytsia. Then its all the way East.
They mention 15m people, plus the Donbass and of course Crimea are already liberated.
So I wonder...will there be a partition there?
What will happen to the West?
Because thats where Uncle Sham will want to station his nukes and stage terrorist groups from.
I notice Russia is now striking the West, but its not sending troops there right now.
Frankly I see dealing with Banderastan proper ie Lvov etc to be a lot easier. BEcause if they despise Russia, Russia doesn't have to worry about killing them in an (ahem) surgical strike from a Tu-95 bomber.
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Dr.Snufflebug wrote:Regular wrote:diabetus wrote:
In one of the pictures (one with the t-72B3 in the background, there are 2 men with mosins.
Also earlier pictures of DNR troop movements also show multiple people with Mosins.
A week ago or so there was one DNR guy filmed sporting a PPS-43, saying something like "it's grandpa's old faithful, it killed fascists back then and still does it" or something along those lines.
Obviously just some stunt thing, for the "optics" so to speak.
...But when the Donbass insurrection started in early 2014 there were loads of ancient weaponry being used by the rebels. Many had seized Ukrainian army/Berkut/police AK-74s of course, in the mid-1980's "plum" furniture, but there were also civilian guns, and lots of old Mosins, PPSh's, PPS's, SKS's even some PTRD/S-41s...
The USSR and several other WP countries stockpiled insane amounts of weapons, sealed in oil/grease, in old mine shafts and concrete bunkers. Many of those huge stockpiles date back to the 50's, when Mosins, SKS and PPS etc were still around in big numbers in rear guards before the AKs completely took over.
After the fall of the USSR some of these giant stockpiles were broken up and sold off, mostly in former Warzaw Pact countries, but some from the former USSR as well, which is why import surplus Mosins, SKSes etc, were dirt cheap in the U.S. for quite a while.
One of the Russian Twitter people commented on this stockpiling phenomenon a while back too, saying that some family member of theirs when doing USSR military service in the 1980s saw vehicular stockpiles that even had T-34s left, in mint condition all covered in grease and paper to prevent corrosion. Rather safe to say that those were gotten rid of though, as Russia rather recently bought T-34s from some South East Asian country (I don't remember which) to be used for historical parading duties. But T-55s and onward still remain here and there in massive numbers. Soviet war planning was like that.
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