Russian special military operation in Ukraine #22
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IIRC the USSR stored an absolute shitload of weapons in these mines back in the day, owing to the hygroscopic nature of salt. Basically, the salt sucked up all the moisture in the air, being hygroscopic, so the main enemy of steel (oxygen, very much exacerbated by moisture) was cancelled.
Wrapped up in some paper and ample amounts of gun oil, they'd last many centuries without significant rust/deterioration in those conditions.
I reckon lots of the surplus Mosins and SKSes that were cheap as hell on the U.S. market a few decades ago actually came from these mines.
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i missed waaay too much post so i skimmed trough them fast.
RF kamikaze drone hits Ukrainian army checkpoint
RF Krasnopol shell takes out Ukrainian tank
Destruction of the American howitzer M777.
RF and allies are battling for Soledar, DPR
RF kamikaze drone chases down Ukrainian M109A3
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Britain buys weapons in Kazakhstan
Remember the film "Lord of War" about our Ukrainian arms dealer? Today we will show you that all this is reality, not fiction.
We have received documents (https://telegra.ph/Velikobritaniya-pokupaet-oruzhie-v-Kazahstane-dlya-Ukrainy-dokumenty-08-09) containing a draft contract for the purchase of ammunition by a Jordanian company from the Kazakh company Technoexport: 122 shells mm. (for D-20 howitzers); shells 152 mm (for D-30 howitzers); missiles for BM-21 Grad. The total number is 20 thousand shells, 33 thousand missiles.
The documents say that the weapons are intended for the British Ministry of Defense. The deal is for $69,520,000. The deal is supervised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan in cooperation with the British military attaché in Kazakhstan, who will ensure the transfer of documents and certificates to the end user by diplomatic mail.
Also, we have documents stating that negotiations are underway on the supply of 200 BTR-4 units (BTR-82A or simplified modifications) and ammunition for 120 mm mortars and Konkurs anti-tank systems from Kazakhstan.
In fact, the British Ministry of Defense does not need weapons and military equipment of Soviet production, because. they have completely different standards for weapons.
But the most interesting thing is how documents about the deal between Jordan and Kazakhstan, which is overseen by the UK, ended up on the computers of the Main Intelligence Directorate of our Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. Maybe Pan General Budanov will be able to answer these questions?
And who are these “certain people who should be paid commissions”? We don't know much about the ins and outs of the arms trade, but the phrase "From our side, we also have to pay commissions on the Buyer's side, since the buyer cannot protect the commissions due to being a controlled company" was understood. The Kazakhstani firm will then have to transfer a certain percentage of almost $70 million to some people who have pledged their interest through the Jordanian firm as well. We have long said that for some, war is first and foremost an opportunity to get rich quick. Yes, Kirill Alekseevich? With whom did you so cleverly come up with this scheme in the OP, and who is the “Baron” with us?
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Meh, Moskva was solely the fuckup of Russian Navy, nothing more
Surprisingly enough it faded from memory very quickly, I guess killing fuckloads of enemies since then will have that effect
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caveat emptor wrote:Kazakhstan backstabbing and playing with fire, per usual.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7791036.html
Time to revive protestors, but this time more leaning towards better relationships with Russians... And no help this time.
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flamming_python wrote:Dforce wrote:Arrow wrote:https://t.me/breakingmash/37260
Apparently an airbase in the Crimea.
Those evil Ukrups, shooting on their own country!
Well I certainly don't consider the Crimea as part of the Ukraine, but if we're to entertain the notion for a minute
Then yeah, goes with the theme. Shooting their own country, shooting their own captive prisoners of war in Olenivka, shooting their own civilians in Bucha.
It's the only thing this abortion of a regime is successful in
Cutting off their own people from their water supply...
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Relentless shelling of their own people who are "occupied by the Russian invader"...
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Yup, these Ukro rats ain't big on consistancy.
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caveat emptor wrote:Soledar salt mines. Possibly biggest salt mine in Europe. Perfect for protection of troops and equipment. Depth of the mine is over 500m.
Yes for equipment, but troops? Not so much... Hiding in the bowels of Azovstahl didn't save the Ukro rats when they were cornered and trapped, neither will hiding in the salt mines.
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So Russia is selling Su-25's and helicopters to Mali in the middle of the special operation. That says everything you need to know about how much equipment Russia is losing in Ukraine.
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Kazakh oligarchs, like most post-soviet oligarchs are stupid, greedy people that somehow think the West won't do the Kazakhstan what they've done to every country that's not a US/EU vassal already. Russia should extend the special military operation to Almaty once they're done with country 404.Regular wrote:caveat emptor wrote:Kazakhstan backstabbing and playing with fire, per usual.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7791036.html
Time to revive protestors, but this time more leaning towards better relationships with Russians... And no help this time.
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caveat emptor wrote:Kazakhstan backstabbing and playing with fire, per usual.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7791036.html
Kazakhstan is the Ukraine of the caucuses. This is unacceptable. Russia should start planning out a special operation sometime in the 2030's.
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That would protect aircraft from fire but also make harder satelitte intel from nato.
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This clown-show should not be accepted, time to stamp the foot down.
At the end of the day Kazakhstan is a manageable problem. There's no need for any military operation or whatever. It's enough to cut all communications over the Caspian and there go all these budding links of Kazakhstan to the Anglo-Saxons.
However the current policy of looking the other way and pretending everything's fine has proved its worthlessness, and the Kazakh elite are becoming ever more bold. The facade of 'fraternal ties' is apparently taken advantage of by Astana to gradually build up a series of provocations against Russia.
Time to confront them and see what they do about it then.
These weapon systems and ammo will not make it to the Ukraine to kill our men. If it is not possible to intercept them on the Caspian then the shipments will have to be destroyed en-route, along with whoever is transporting them. To ignore such a threat out of a crisis in leadership and decisiveness over a once-ally going rogue would be criminal to the utmost.
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Backman wrote:^ Edit: You beat me to it. Seriously though. Look at that border.caveat emptor wrote:Kazakhstan backstabbing and playing with fire, per usual.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7791036.html
Kazakhstan is the Ukraine of the caucuses. This is unacceptable. Russia should start planning out a special operation sometime in the 2030's.
In my opinion, both Ukraine and Kazakhstan needs to be absorbed into the Federation in the immediate future, perhaps the 2030s is a reasonable timeframe.
By reacquiring the Baikonur cosmodrome, the Russian space program will regain some of its lost past achievements
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PhSt wrote:Backman wrote:^ Edit: You beat me to it. Seriously though. Look at that border.caveat emptor wrote:Kazakhstan backstabbing and playing with fire, per usual.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7791036.html
Kazakhstan is the Ukraine of the caucuses. This is unacceptable. Russia should start planning out a special operation sometime in the 2030's.
In my opinion, both Ukraine and Kazakhstan needs to be absorbed into the Federation in the immediate future, perhaps the 2030s is a reasonable timeframe.
By reacquiring the Baikonur cosmodrome, the Russian space program will regain some of its lost past achievements![]()
I wouldn't touch Central Asia with a 10-foot pole
And the 90s Russian leadership felt the same way.
Who the hell needs Ferghana, and Osh, and Dushanbe, and Zheltoksan, and Novy Uzen, and Bishkek with all its revolutions, and for that matter whatever the hell happened just this January in Almaty
If the Ukraine is Russia's Canada, then Central Asia is Russia's Mexico and it's just fundamentally a part of the world that a sorta-Eurasian but still mostly European country and culture such as Russia will not manage to absorb. Central Asians are good-natured people but they're of a fundamentally different temperament, they're a lot of them, and they can and will be manipulated by their own corrupt elites to cause problems and instability against usually each other, but potentially whoever - in the late 80s this was Moscow.
What Russia needs in Central Asia are stable, friendly regimes. Having them in the same economic union and military alliance is a big plus, maybe in the future a sort of loose political union can be formed - but what's really paramount is who you keep out of Central Asia. Namely all sorts of Anglo-Americans, Islamists, Turks and anyone else with an eye to causing problems. Ideally the Europeans too with their ambitions at getting cheap energy from there bypassing Russia.
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On Galitsinovo, located in the southern suburbs of Nikolaev, massive shelling by Russian rocket artillery is carried out that night. For the first time in a long time. This is not like the targeted destruction of enemy manpower. But rather, for ... artillery preparation before the offensive.
Most likely, in the Zaporizhia direction, from the Dnieper to Gulyai-Pole, massive artillery shelling of enemy positions was also carried out that night.
The activity of Russian guns is observed in the morning in the Sumy direction.
https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/18046
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Dforce wrote:Yeah, local partisans fed up with the occupation sounds much more plausible. Or SF roaming free with the help of locals is also possible.
Thank you pal, that was a good laugh after a long day of work
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Next target will probably be Sevastopol or, if they can reach it, the Crimea Bridge.
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PapaDragon wrote:
Meh, Moskva was solely the fuckup of Russian Navy, nothing more
Surprisingly enough it faded from memory very quickly, I guess killing fuckloads of enemies since then will have that effect
Moskva- was a lack of oversight
What happened there is a combination of factors
But above all, if Moskva had orders to patrol that close to shore, other tools should have been assisting Moskva with that job
For example, and AWACS would have great improved the survival of Moskva in that scenario
Identifying low flying missiles would be done by the AWACS and relayed to the air defense on board
Then you also need other tools such as su35 and su30 patrolling, Rotating constantly as long as Moskva is performing its mission
What if project 23900 Ivan Rogov or Mitrofan Moskalenko is present? How to protect such amphibious assault ships? An AWACS helicopter?
Same for Moskva, as only 1 helo can deploy, it would have been better to have an A50U up watching the area
As well TU214R monitoring communications there
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