Regarding the Night combat and use of thermal/NVG optics.
Most comments are true regarding this subject.
most NATO militaries use obsolete thermal/NVG Gear.
if they have NVG's to begin with. they are very scarce.
new ones are very rare, as you know?. budget cuts for decades...
The nvg/thermal ones used in vehicles are indeed of such an poor quality you barely can make out where you are looking at.
you see barely anything when there is overcast and no moonlight.
the picture is very scrambled with very little detail.
Like stated before by Alamo, all you see is a fuzzy black spot on a green background.
You can't tell what it is.
Same goes for the NVG's the troop use. Just what is very near you can see.
Unless the target is illuminated by an infra-red artillery shell, Then for a very brief moment you might get a little detail.
But the object has to be out in the open, like the desert of Afghanistan.
OF course, you can also choose to activate the vehicles IR light/illuminator.
but you just might as well turn on your headlights and telegraph to everyone with an NVG you are there.
IR light is very bright in night vision.
also this brings us to actual night combat, In Afghanistan this was done a few times.
Unless you know exactly where your friendlies are, and they know where you are.
And you know exactly where your enemy is, then it might work. but still it is very high-risk.
Reality has shown that night combat is highly dangerous for all parties involved.
And has resulted in some very nasty blue on blue incidents.
and with that i mean an APC's 30MM cannon punching straight trough it's own troops nasty.
The gunner got told to engage, he hesitated as he could not positive I.D it, commander gave command to fire anyway.
of course as troops you try to mitigate this danger, In Afghanistan we used infra-red breaklights in an empty water bottle, and this was taped to the top of an radio antenna of an vehicle or man-portable radio.
or use of this black IR reflecting tape on the vehicles, that did not work right either as the tape gets lost or gets too dirty too fast to maintain it's reflective property's.
But nothing really worked well. and nobody wants to shoot their own guys by mistake.
all this effort was just to not get blown up by our own guys right?.
You can not do this if your enemy has NVG gear as well or you are just exposing yourself to them.
Yes, in Hollywood every soldier runs around with al kinds of fancy gear.
But in reality most NATO troops themselves do not have NVG gear, or it is obsolete/not effective.
So, ...what on earth is NATO going to give ukraine?.
There is nothing of value
Some might remember me commenting how i bought most of my own Gear?. Because A, there was a waiting list for more than a year.
And B, it was not suitable for the job i had to do?.
So keep in mind, this was just our own side dealing with night combat. It did not include an enemy that had the same capacity's.
you better not emit anything when you are fighting an enemy that has the same capabilities as you.
And judging from what i heard what the Ukrainians do, constantly transmitting on the radio's. Using personal cellphones. driving at night with the lights on. Start campfires...etc.
I really do not think they grasp the concept of "stay undetected" .
That all said, i seriously never seen so much Cope from western Media and clowns that still believe all that shit.
All the West's Empire's army's are all-powerful, and the rest of the worlds military's are incompetent. Russians are all drunks sitting all day in the park in track-suits, and the Chinese all still work in rice-paddy's.
I saw a small part of the russian equipment in Afghanistan, they where already ahead of us there. All the propaganda about it being antiquated rust-buckets where bullshit.
People never stop to think and realize these AK's and RPG's have been hammered by the elements in Afghanistan for decades without proper storage and maintenance.
Yet they where still operational to combat us with. Sure, there was a misfire here and then. But not even as much as our own NATO weaponry that misfired.
With western weapons you can not do that. Forget to clean your rifle for a day in the field in Afghanistan and that will probably jam the next day.
Heat build up issues with various NATO machineguns. Resulting in the bolt getting stuck to the point you need to let it cool off, or smash the receiver handle with your helmet untill it gets unstuck.
To of course, just get stuck again in the next few rounds. These locks where dangerous too as the chambered round might cook off because of the heat of the breach.
The new .50 M2HB had these issues too, after one day on the firing range some american SF dude heard me cursing and told me they had the same shit.
That i should get some rough sandpaper and wear down the internal parts so they got room to expand....and if i would part with some of my plastic magazines if his advice worked out.
I asked my senior sargeant, he got mad for wanting to sand down a new weapon and to get lost
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My sergeant tough, gave me the sandpaper and told me to do it. as the weapon was not working anyway.
Next morning on the firing range and me spraying half a bottle of gun oil in it the thing went like it was possesed when i pulled the trigger.
300 rounds further and it was still going just fine.
So, when i had to come clean to the senior sargeant why the M2HB was firing so fast and did not lock up. I almost got scolded again but grudgingly he gave the other gunners the order to do the same.
How sad is it that brand-new weaponry has to be "fixed" by the troops themselves?.
Gun barrels exploding, and i mean these where "fresh" from the factory to Afghanistan.
The stuff just could not handle the "above normal" use and would fail with risk to it's own operator.
Meanwhile Taliban go at it with their Dushka's and PK's and AK's like there is no tommorow.
And the excuses of arms manufacturers in the West for all of this is just pathetic, even worse in most cases they ignore the issues.
So yes, if given the choice. I'd like me some Russian stuff.
The Chinese went with Western forces as force protection to Mali, they where highly trained and sporting the latest in millitary equipment.
Meanwhile NATO showed up there with cold-war era weaponry and munition's they bought in some dump in eastern europe.
Witch, in one incident blew up in the NATO mortar in Mali. killing its crew. Because of course, the munition was not suitable for Use.
But NATO in it's ever worsening munition problems tries to get it's hands on ammo wherever it can.
Yes, it surprised the Chinese too. probably that the stories they where being told at home about NATO's equipment and army's where true.
And you know what is the worst part?. they both treat us westerners with respect. It is we western assholes that look down on them.
these people in the west that spew all this crap about the western wunderwaffe really should be pushed in the first plane to the next uncle Sams unwinnable conflict and find out for themselves how superior the west is the hard way.
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Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation
In South Donetsk direction, as a result of competent and self-sacrificing actions of the Vostok Group of Forces units, aviation and artillery, three attacks by AFU combined units have been repelled close to Vremevka salient. 
The enemy losses were 1 tank, 12 armoured fighting vehicles, as well as 1 foreign-manufactured combat engineer vehicle.
It’s honestly pretty funny we started getting a deluge of visual proof of masses of destroyed Ukrainian vehicles…and then Oryx decides to retire suddenly lol.
