Russian special military operation in Ukraine #37

Finally, I agree with the Frenchman who writes that German tanks will be destroyed like any other tanks. Although, I am convinced that France will also have to send Char Leclerc tanks, even though these tanks have one advantage - in the event of the destruction of the tank, one less crew member would die because the Leclerc has 3 crew members

France sent amx-10RC. They ain't sending leclerc. They vave barely 200 of them in active service and production line doesn't exist anymore. They can't send any even if they want to.

They are also trying to sell the ones in reserve to arab state like saudi arabia who seems to prefer it over their own m1a2. So Ukraine will wait long time unless Macron obei the orders.

As a Lithuanian, I am not sure should I laugh or should I cry.

HOLE : Reports of GERAN in the air.

also multiple RF TU22m3 bombers have taken off to the air

yup its Monday Alamo,

Reports of explosions coming in on Ukrainian targets in Kherson, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Dnipro, Kharkov.

@Alamo
you quote that it can operate for 15-20 MINUTES before needs to be turned off for cooling for about half an hour.

I agree that nowadays the TI of the Leo2 is not the most modern equipment but the statement that it has to be turned of for cooling is not true. According to the Dutch manual it was put on when switching the FCS on. It took about 10 minutes to cool down so it could ''see'' the temperature differences. It could stay on a long as you wanted, there was no time limit or degradation of picture quality after hours and hours of use. You could see and identify a peeing man in the treeline at 3000 mtr, so it was good enough to see the heat signature of a vehicle. Snow and fog degraded the image, that is true. I have tanked the Leopard A4, A5 AND A6 (same thermal image for gunner) for about 20 years, I think I know how to operate a Leopard 2 thermal.

Sincerely
Lesley

.. so it is Monday again?!?

For General Electric it is always Monday morning. 



Dnjepropetrovsk

Biden (at his age!) as well as Scholz are now embarking on sheer adventurism!

As many have already realized, sending small numbers of tanks or even jets will not change the war, but politicians might use these deliveries just to find out how far they can go. In the next escalation step they might send weapons with very long range or even weapons of mass destructions. As long as those Western war criminals do not have to deal with too much resistance from their own population and from Russia, they will continue to double down - probably without any limits.

@AZgeopolitics
Missile hit Turkish-owned ship in Ukraine's Kherson- Reuters
Reuters was not able to independently confirm the date the videos were filmed.
No one was injured. The vessel has been blocked in the port since February 2022.


Will already have a reason why the rocket hit exactly this ship.

@AZgeopolitics
Arrivals in Dnipropetrovsk

It looks like NATO states are preparing to start transferring F-16 aircraft, which Lockheed Martin will replace with new F-16s.

https://www.ft.com/content/88d19145-5235-45e4-80e6-ade3530060d2

Russia must not undervalue those tanks, the recent arm delivery they announced was a lot to conduct offensive operations.

Germans are dramatically pleading for a whip on their arses. Once again!

The danger of western tanks , is that the mass of Ukrainian infantry will be able to move with speed in the south

If the front lines are staffed with minimal manpower, the Leopard 2 and the Abrams will be able to cut through the lines, just like T64 did in Kharkov

That's a bunch of crap. They reorganized their defences because they were too much spread and ukro where using ambushes, special ops and drobe attack against advanced russian troops too far from russian protection.

T-64 breack nothing. Where are those t-64 now ? Dead. Leo 2 will end same way. Just hunt them with drones + kancet strikes. After 15 video if such attacks no ukrainian will get in one of them anymore.

Looking at all the video of civilians getting arrested to ve sent by force on the front I have the impression they have no more real and motivated soldiers out there. Those guys will surrender much easily than previous nazi gangs. Things will just go faster and easier for Russia.

for all the talk of NATO sending Armor and Aircraft.

Ukrainians do not have cloning facilities to just shit out new men to send to the front.
they just grab any man they can now at gunpoint.
Cemetary's as far the eye can see.

They do not have (almost) nothing left,
All their reserves where used to hold on to meatgrinders like Soledar and Bakhmut.
Soledar was a massacre, Bakhmut is in the process of falling.
New RF assaults are underway without Ukrainian units moving in to reinforce.

The writing is on the walls what is happening when you compare all this with NATO going in panic mode and throwing everything they can to Ukraine.
And here is the American MIC, "do not worry!, we will supply you with sub-standard crap to replace whatever you send!".
and Well, its still pretty laughable when you look at what NATO really sends.

Incomplete Patriot battery's, maybe they get lucky and can assemble a complete one?.
$4 million a missile for an flying lawnmower?. yes sounds like win-win to me.

A handful of older generation Leo-2 here and there.
M1a1, 35 of them. On an contact line so extensive as it is. You need to go searching with an magnifier to find these.
I do advice RF troops to keep a geiger counter nearby.
I do not know if Americans will supply DU munitions.
Personally i know they still used it as i was deployed in Afghanistan in 2009
So they might hand it too to the Ukrainians
Like the Ukrainians care with their rich track record of using forbidden munitions?.

In the end, these are "just" tanks. they went to hell just fine in Iraq, Yemen and Syria.

Meanwhile, Western MSM goes crazy, Promoting to all the new wave of WunderWaffe that will pave the way for Kiev to Retake Crimea.
There is going to be one way how this ends, burning Western armor that the Western MSM will do it's best to ignore.
Meanwhile, The Rest of the world will watch how detached from reality NATO really is. Corrupt and Incompetent.

NATO, Having an combined defense budget of 1.2 trillion U.S. dollars in 2022. versus Russia with 75 billion defense budget.
Meanwhile NATO cant replace anything it wants to send (it takes half a year or longer) and Weapon factory's in Russia go BRRRRRRR! with 3 shifts 24/7 in some cases.

These shortcommings where already very noticable during my time in Afghanistan.
Logistics was shit, Factory's of vehicles and munitions had issues meeting demand even then.
And weapon R&D was even more corrupt and dirty deals with every new system being bought.

And to top it off when you needed it to work, it did not do it's job.
To the point you discussed the problem with your squadmates and you all agree the guy that put his approval for this should be put against the wall.

And here we are now, Where the Whores to U.S Foreign policy decide to do everything that is NOT in their own nations interrests.
As long they can crawl on Dementia Joe's lap for a little nibble of that Approval.

This is not going to end well for Europe. Even after this war the rest of the world that has been treated like shit by the EU and U.S will remember everything.
First the defeat of Ukraine will come, followed by an massive wave of refugees from Ukraine that may have been rooting for the Bandera scum.
Putting massive strain already of what is a house of cards in Europe.

Then EU, lacking any resources of its own to meet its energy demands competitively with the rest of the world. will no longer be able to compete on the world economy.
And the list goes on why things go to shit from that point.

For now tough, it is what it is.
War is unpredictable.
We will see how things progress.

F-16s? have Russians mobilize S-200s,



or if you don't want to humiliate the F-16s too much send S-300s.