Zaporozhye direction. Orekhovsky section of the front
AFU is preparing for a massive attack by the Russian Army. Judging by the radio intercepts, the AFU has information about the advance of Russian assault groups to the front line area.
Intercepted messages that local officers are sending to the AFU command describe a “lamentable” situation about Russian massive artillery bombardment on their positions since the very morning and big losses in men and equipment.
Slavyangrad
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Our soldiers near Artyomovsk themselves operated on dogs wounded after shelling!
The dogs' names are Ralph and Dobby, and leaving a living creature to die is not our way. There were no veterinarians at the front, so the soldiers took the victims to the hospital and went online, because animals had not been treated before.
First, the diagnosis was made: a displaced bone fracture. Afterwards they bandaged me and put on a plaster cast. Successfully!
The most touching operation
https://t.me/voenacher/61979
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It seems the Ukros prepared for another PR stunt and pooled some forces for an attack on Belgorod region. Russian artillery, missiles, drones and glide bombs had a nice time and destroyed those fools.
Couldn't resist this one, seldom seen quite like this, its so perfect
First you have to carry all that stuff inside the house and then you are bombed. Poor suckers.
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JohninMK wrote:The Challenger sinking was part of a Sun newspaper publicity stunt that went rather badly. This is their video
https://twitter.com/i/status/1767152321912291677
When I was on exercise in Salisbury plain on the other end of the training area, we told of fatalities with a tank crew, they had decided to sleep under their tank (being too lazy to set up their ponchos for shelter and with heavy rain during the night the tank sunk and crushed the crew sleeping under it. On the same exercise a Lt. Was killed while sitting in command seat in a Saxon (the top half of you is sticking out of the top of the vehicle) when it overturned crushing him. We were also based in Saxons the worst vehicle for mud, and general terrain, it was initially designed for the streets of Northern Ireland what idiot thought it was a good idea to use them for mechanised forces needs shot. After the the officers death every crew member minus the driver and commander had to disembark when going down any slope during the exercise. I was based in a command version, and when going over the bumps the command module would end up unbolting itself (it was held in with spring loaded bolts/latch system) and it would come hurling towards you crushing you against the side of the vehicle, and on one such occasion my helmet took the brunt of the impact, in the end we started using lengths of wood wedge between it and the side of the vehicle not ideal when getting out of the back of the vehicle. There's a reason why Soviet and Russian tanks tend to be tons lighter then European, USA, UK tanks. The Russians/soviets aren't daft, although the west would have us believe so.
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JohninMK wrote:Reminds me of Monty Python's Black Knight.
Its just a flesh wound. I've had worse.
Edit: The friggin moron is still seig heiling even though its his devotion to the nazi cause that has resulted in his conversion into a one-armed burden on society. Check out those "prosthetics"... they are like something you might find in Albania, or marketed as the novelty "Toulouse-Lautrec" option for those short of coin... but our Ukro friend couldn't afford the matching shoes.
BTW I wouldn't have lampooned this clown if he wasn't doing his nazi salute. He's marked himself as someone who deserves zero sympathy. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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Big explosion a few seconds after the 3rd (?) and final ATGM strikes. HE rounds cooking off in the turret bustle? If so, the anti-propagation measures weren't worth a hill of beans given that the vehicle was a total loss
Another wunderflop success for the murkhan trashcan aka King of the Battlefield...
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In the first few seconds of that video you see at least two explosions... I would guess at first that the first was a hit, and the second was ammo exploding. But it doesn't burn. At about 11 seconds in that firey ball on the right of the image is clearly a tank launched missile sent on its way to finish off the target... the thermal imager picking up the rocket exhaust and what appears to be a crosswind from right to left as the missile moves away from the camera and closer to the target.
The impact of the missile is immediately followed by a big explosion too.
Looking at the video again it looks to me like the first two explosions are drones that have hit the target but not set it on fire or done serious damage to it.
It does not look like the target is firing its main gun which might also explain those flashes.
There are two explosions at the start of the video but they are not followed by the glow of burning ammo or fuel so I suspect they were drones.
The impact of the missile, however, is followed by a significant fire ball that is separate from the missiles warhead exploding which I would take to be ammo on the tank going up.
At 36 seconds that is pretty clearly a decent sized ammo detonation followed by a fire and further explosions.
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But not that is interesting Take a look how they have used the remains. Both hull and turret are part of field fortifications. One can hide beneath. THat is why engine covering plate is placed on the turret ring. Bth sides are using this method for a while. Russkie has been spotted with prefabricated steel structures that are being put on the APCs. It covers the crew from FPVs, and when arrive at a location where they are supposed to dig in. Those blocks are being USD as temporary shelters, to be placed in prepared locations of the fortifications later.
One more interesting : take a look at the frontal hull armor. Half of it is teared off, I suppose due to artillery fire. You can clearly see how thick is a cavity that is filled with bulging plates. Nothing impressive, and nothing that the people who know some shit about tanks will be surprised with. But can make some mental meltdown to the part that knows shit about tanks
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