Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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If North Korea officially declared war on Ukraine due to the deaths of the incoming 300-500 or so cannon fodder and started sending thousands of troops I would be surprised if NATO didn't start putting boots on the ground or at the very least I would expect to see currently forbidden items such as F16's/longer range missiles given the green light.
 
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I thought some of you might find this interesting.

www.theguardian.com

The Ukraine repair shop: where Russian tanks go to change sides

Western supplies of Leopards and Challengers have made the news, but the biggest donor is the enemy
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The first task is to wipe off or cover up the Z, says Anatoly, 44, of the call sign infamously daubed on Russian hardware involved in the war in Ukraine. “We don’t want friendly fire later on.” Then the mechanics get to work.

In a secret location in Ukraine, within a vast warehouse that could be mistaken for a tank graveyard, what was once Russian – Soviet, in many cases – is being turned Ukrainian.

But for all the efforts of the Nato allies, it is Russia that is unwittingly, and yet by some margin, Ukraine’s biggest donor of tanks today.

Oryx, the open-source Dutch intelligence defence analysis website, has collected photographs of 546 captured Russian tanks. It will be just a fraction of the total haul that were either abandoned by the fleeing Russian forces or seized in bloody battle.
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Chris Wilson said:
No, NO, NO, it's NOT thread derailing, these are the uncomfortable realities of what Russia sees as one form of the Western threat to their country's lifestyle and morality, sweep it aside as thread derailment as much as you wish, but it's merely being ostriches to this reality.

The liberals in the UK are blindly, perhaps even magnanimously, welcoming the strongly illiberal into Great Britain. Try dressing as a some sort of quasi convincing transvestite and wandering around areas of Birmingham, Luton or Manchester, and see what your liberal views have brought to become a majority in parts of these areas.

Your ill conceived liberal views are having the opposite effect to what you probably wish... The dawn of reality is not far away at all, have fun whilst it lasts, the longer term reality will be terrifying...

Believe it or not, other less liberal countries are watching this, and are now taking Draconian steps to push aside these influences, whilst the liberal here allow those diametrically opposed to their views to be given literally free rein.
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The lifestyle of a country that has you put it's leader's ambitions above that of your own family? The very same leader that has had multiple wives and undoubtedly a moral vacuum?

No thanks.
 
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*US Announces $2.175 Billion Security Assistance Package for Ukraine - Reuters
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-S...range-fires-capability-to-be-sent-to-ukraine/

The presidential drawdown package includes:
  • Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems;
  • Additional 155 mm artillery rounds;
  • Additional 120 mm mortar rounds;
  • 190 heavy machine guns with thermal imagery sights and associated ammunition to counter unmanned aerial systems;
  • 181 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles;
  • 250 Javelin anti-armor systems;
  • 2,000 anti-armor rockets;
  • Claymore anti-personnel munitions;
  • Demolitions munitions;
  • Cold weather gear, helmets and other field equipment.
Under USAI, the DOD will provide Ukraine with:

  • Two HAWK air defense firing units;
  • Anti-aircraft guns and ammunition;
  • Equipment to integrate Western air defense launchers, missiles and radars with Ukraine's air defense systems;
  • Equipment to sustain Ukraine's existing air defense capabilities;
  • Air defense generators;
  • Counter-unmanned aerial systems;
  • Four air surveillance radars;
  • 20 counter-mortar radars;
  • Spare parts for counter-artillery radars;
  • Puma unmanned aerial systems;
  • Precision-guided rockets;
  • Secure communications equipment;
  • Medical supplies;
  • Funding for training, maintenance, and sustainment.
 
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Colonel_Klinck said:


Alright Enoch get back in your box for another 50 years and you can try again then as it hasn't happened yet.

And Putin doesn't tolerate people dressing as they please. sleeping with who they please, saying what they please or anything that doesn't comply with his rule. You'd love it there until he decides he doesn't like what you say then it wouldn't be quite so great.

Why is no one surprised you've jumped on the anti drag bus. I can imagine you as a kid watching It Ain't Half Hot Mum or Les Dawson in drag and shouting abuse at the screen that they are groomers and deviants :rolleyes:
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Whilst at the same time, doing exactly as he pleases, by cheating on his wife etc.
 
The latest package does not mention GLSDB, it says "precision guided rockets"

But the press have just clarified with the Pentagon that Yes it is GLSDB

But don't get too excited; it's a contract - Boeing needs to build the rockets first as predicted and secondly HIMARS needs an update to fire these rockets, hopefully an easy software patch

Edit: ETA for first GLSDB arriving in Ukraine is October/November 2023

 
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Grim5 said:
The latest package does not mention GLSDB, it says "precision guided rockets"

But the press have just clarified with the Pentagon that Yes it is GLSDB

But don't get too excited; it's a contract - Boeing needs to build the rockets first as predicted and secondly HIMARS needs an update to fire these rockets, hopefully an easy software patch

Edit: ETA for first GLSDB arriving in Ukraine is October/November 2023

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Boeing will pull out all the stops, will showcase thier goods to the world
 
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Kind of disappointing if the first GLSDB missile won't be delivered until October / November... Was thinking it might be a lot sooner than that given it was first developed 8 years ago and at least as described the main work needed to produce them is bolting a rocket and a bomb together, so it should be relatively simple to set up production for them compared to say building missiles from scratch.

Has the potential to be a bit of a game changer (like HIMARS was when first introduced) if Ukraine gets large numbers of GLSDBs delivered, 9 months is a long time to wait though.
 
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