Eh? Javlins are better but pricier.
Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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Eh? Javlins are better but pricier.
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If its Sakhalin I did a photo shoot for Inmarsat there maybe 18 years ago. There is a oil pipeline down to the south of the island as the sea ice never reaches that far south so tankers can use it all year round. We were there in March and it was still covered in snow. Lots of Russians drinking lots of vodka. They said the bodies of people who'd got so drunk they got lost or fell asleep on their way home and got buried by the snow would soon start appearing as the snow melted. The Japanese definitely want it back.
I believe the current school of thought is actually that the death toll from Dresden was massively inflated by the Nazis and later the Soviets for propaganda reasons, so actually although Dresden was burnt to the ground, fewer people actually died than during the Blitz.
https://www.spiegel.de/internationa...-died-in-the-bombing-of-dresden-a-581992.html
The difference was whole countries were at war with each other. An ‘innocent’ civilian may not have been a front line soldier but they may have been making the munitions for them, the food they ate or the shoes they wore or even the shoes that the munitions workers wore. It was a different time, a different era which cannot be judged through history. I’ll be blunt it’s the reason your typing in English.
Depends on situation - the NLAW has advantages (when used properly) in a lot of the fighting Ukraine has been doing - close to medium range, high mobility, medium contact engagements and pop up and run. While on the counterattack or for longer range non-direct-contact engagements they aren't a good substitute for the Javelin though.
I think it is something we need to be wary of - if things spill out, whether a more limited/accidental event or a more serious wider war, we don't want to be caught with our pants down. IIRC we've sent nearly a quarter of our stock to Ukraine - which were already entering the point of being cycled out for new stock (probably one reason we've been so ready to supply them) but still.
Apparently Putin is saying that unfriendly states need to start buying gas supplies in the Russian Rubles, even current contracts.
Germany is insisting its still going to pay in Euro's.
If Russia turns off the gas supply would that be considered an attack on NATO countries?
Germany is insisting its still going to pay in Euro's.
If Russia turns off the gas supply would that be considered an attack on NATO countries?
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Quite the turn of events since ww2 if so
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No.
They've been saying that for awhile.
Personally I think we need to more broadly share and deal with these issues if we want to stay on top of this situation - things like Germany's dependency on gas, even if it is a situation they've kind of put themselves in, should be dealt with via a unified approach from the West - there are also a lot of smaller entities who are going to feel disproportionate levels of pressure which should be supported.
The convoy dispersed largely - I assume what they mean is they don't know if those vehicles and supplies overall are still a thing - whether they are still supplying units spread out around Kyiv, how much had been destroyed and/or returned to Belarus/Russia, etc.
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no a contractual disagreement. The original contract payment would have been in dollars but changing the pricing structure may have broken the contract. Not that putin cares.
No not just not a good substitute, not a substitute at all in that case as they don't have the same range, yes there are situations where the NLAW has some advantage, especially at very close range in an urban environment but overall the Javelin is a way more advanced anti-tank weapon.
In the British army for example you'll have, within an infantry battalion, a support weapons /maneuver support company containing recce, mortar, machine gun, assault pioneer and anti tank platoons.
The anti-tank platoon will have Javelins, they specialise in... well destroying tanks and armoured vehicles. Back in the day they'd have had MILAN, they're fun to watch go down the range at Otterburn, each missile is about the price of a Golf GTI.
Regular rifle platoons on the other hand will have NLAW when appropriate, back in the day it was LAW 80, unlike the anti-tank platoon guys it wasn't so common for people to get to fire these (though in the case of the LAW 80 there was an inbuilt 9mm spotting rifle that could be fired during live-fire demos - ironically I was involved in doing one of these in the 00s for some Ukrainian SF types!).
Yeap, there's no such think as a "civilised" war with boundaries. Even countries who pride themselves as "the good guys" knowingly, as well as accidentally, kill civilians all the time.
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I wonder if the nuclear capability of Russia is as paper thin as their military capability
lol how is turning off gas supply an attack, that's a business decision
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We think the S300 & Buk are rubbish and no match for Russia but they're also really effective & we'd like more
It's no different to the sanctions and embargo's put on Russia really
Years ago did a visit to one of the para bases in Aldershot - their multi-million pound MILAN missile simulator had got trashed by some school kids on a visit a couple of days before :s
I mean to be fair they are fighting Russia on behalf of the rest of the West at this point, perhaps we should consider going beyond "defensive" aid?
Yikes, oops. Sadly I've never used one, I have done exercises in an artillery simulator though which were fun - you basically sit in a kinda cinema room with a projection of a hillside/landscape and a pair of binoculars and then give fire orders and practice "bracketing"/adjusting the fire (kinda like using Newton's method in maths as a kid).
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