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Oh dear. Guess this is what happens when the backwards Chechens stop bothering goats and start driving.

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Russian new armored tactical vehicles collide in a horror crash

The Russian military lost four Z-STS Akhmat armored tactical vehicles on the Crimean bridge, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. "Five armored vehicles of Russian terrorists Z-STS Akhmat did not reach the combat zone. On March 26, a convoy of five...
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Malevolence said:
Oh dear. Guess this is what happens when the backwards Chechens stop bothering goats and start driving.

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Russian new armored tactical vehicles collide in a horror crash

The Russian military lost four Z-STS Akhmat armored tactical vehicles on the Crimean bridge, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. "Five armored vehicles of Russian terrorists Z-STS Akhmat did not reach the combat zone. On March 26, a convoy of five...
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Jesus they are so ******* stupid. This war has proven how utterly retarded and incapable the world's "second army" is.
 
Malevolence said:
Oh dear. Guess this is what happens when the backwards Chechens stop bothering goats and start driving.

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Russian new armored tactical vehicles collide in a horror crash

The Russian military lost four Z-STS Akhmat armored tactical vehicles on the Crimean bridge, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. "Five armored vehicles of Russian terrorists Z-STS Akhmat did not reach the combat zone. On March 26, a convoy of five...
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It's funny that driving in a column on a literal straight line is even too much for them
 
bris said:
Or egg boxes disguised as ERA bricks
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You're thinking of Russia, Ukraine wouldn't do that to it's tankers :)


Terminal_Boy said:
Gain air superiority and ground superiority will follow. It’s that simple.
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This, it's how we defeated Gadhafi without even setting foot in Libya :)

Harlequin said:
For anyone who actually believes this is anything other than an illegal land grab - i would remind you that Russia signed this:
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Specifically, Russian ambassador Sergey Lavrov (their current foreign minister) signed it. So it's not like they can even pass the buck to previous administrations here xD
 
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StriderX said:
Also that temporary things tend to become permanent, ;).
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Given that the size of the Russian force in Transinistra’s only about 1500-1700 men from what sources I can find, I’m surprised Ukraine hasn’t wiped them out to eliminate a threat in their rear.

Admittedly, a regiment or so’s worth isn’t a massive threat in and of itself, but it could be used to support things like sabotage and recon groups going into Ukraine.
 
potatolord said:
So, they're still stuck? Good.
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Wagner/Russia moved up a couple of streets in the last few days but seem to have stalled there, back to sending a lot of people in to their deaths for no more gains - think Ukraine has pushed back a little in the north over the last 1-2 days. Everything south of the main east to west road (T0504) is contested with a very fluid situation.

TBH Ukrainian forces are squeezed into the middle really, though it is still hugely costly for Wagner/Russia I think Ukraine is quickly running out of room to manoeuvre without strong counter-attacks on the flanks.
 
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Rroff said:
Wagner/Russia moved up a couple of streets in the last few days but seem to have stalled there, back to sending a lot of people in to their deaths for no more gains - think Ukraine has pushed back a little in the north over the last 1-2 days. Everything south of the main east to west road (T0504) is contested with a very fluid situation.

TBH Ukrainian forces are squeezed into the middle really, though it is still hugely costly for Wagner/Russia I think Ukraine is quickly running out of room to manoeuvre without strong counter-attacks on the flanks.
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Well the gear is starting to arrive. Going to get interesting shortly.
 
bris said:
I don't think there is any denying that planes are a huge part of war.

They can make a huge difference, firing at targets miles away and being on the way home before they can react.

Russia's biggest mistake was not getting air superiority early in the war.

I believe these new planes will make a difference simply because they will not have much competition from Russian planes so I think they will be a huge boost to the Ukrainians.

Historically, lets take Iraq, the air power USA brought was devastating, who can forget those images of the miles long columns of Iraqi armour burnt to a cinder with the charred remains of those poor Iraqi's still in their seats.

That's what real airpower can do. Not saying they wont lose aircraft but the damage they do will be significant and it wont be soft targets, what they hit will make a difference.
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Russia, even now, isn't like Iraq, etc. they have capable air defence platforms and fighter aircraft, etc.

Russia's biggest mistake was not getting air superiority early in the war but between the realistic state of their air fleet and a seeming lack of institutionalised knowledge and experience of complex large scale air operations, combined with Ukraine's air defences not being comprehensively dismantled in the early strikes, it doesn't seem like it was actually possible for them to do so.

Ukraine has a variety of land based platforms which can fire at targets miles away and scoot - they've been using helis and to a lesser extent aircraft to lob dumb rockets in a mobile artillery style role due to a lack of mobile artillery systems available but more stuff is being supplied in that regard.

Russia is also somewhat handicapped by the focus over the years mostly being on an all out war with the West - their air defence and aircraft don't do so well in a complex situation like this with still having to have consideration for civilian air traffic and other nation's borders - if Ukraine escalates in the air we will start to see stuff like Russia's S-400 complexes come into play and for all their failings they are not as much of a joke as this situation so far has got people thinking.

Ukraine will need a far larger and more sophisticated air capability to do much more than what they are doing now of extreme low flying, high risk, missions - more than having a few dozen extra older aircraft, especially mixed ones, will provide.
 
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Rroff said:
Russia, even now, isn't like Iraq, etc. they have capable air defence platforms and fighter aircraft, etc.

Russia's biggest mistake was not getting air superiority early in the war but between the realistic state of their air fleet and a seeming lack of institutionalised knowledge and experience of complex large scale air operations, combined with Ukraine's air defences not being comprehensively dismantled in the early strikes, it doesn't seem like it was actually possible for them to do so.

Ukraine has a variety of land based platforms which can fire at targets miles away and scoot - they've been using helis and to a lesser extent aircraft to lob dumb rockets in a mobile artillery style role due to a lack of mobile artillery systems available but more stuff is being supplied in that regard.

Russia is also somewhat handicapped by the focus over the years mostly being on an all out war with the West - their air defence and aircraft don't do so well in a complex situation like this with still having to have consideration for civilian air traffic and other nation's borders - if Ukraine escalates in the air we will start to see stuff like Russia's S-400 complexes come into play and for all their failings they are not as much of a joke as this situation so far has got people thinking.

Ukraine will need a far larger and more sophisticated air capability to do much more than what they are doing now of extreme low flying, high risk, missions - more than having a few dozen extra older aircraft, especially mixed ones, will provide.
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I think ironically just like people over estimated Russia in Feb 22, they're now under estimating them, since that Kharkiv region counter offensive it seems Russia has learned quite a few lessons, yes their offensive tactics are archaic and laughable but defensively they are in a decent state now and well dug in pretty much everywhere considering they've been defending against a force supplied by basically the whole of Europe and US so another offensive is going to be bloody for Ukraine (and Russia) even with the better tanks they're going to be able to start fielding
 
Minusorange said:
I think ironically just like people over estimated Russia in Feb 22, they're now under estimating them, since that Kharkiv region counter offensive it seems Russia has learned quite a few lessons, yes their offensive tactics are archaic and laughable but defensively they are in a decent state now and well dug in pretty much everywhere considering they've been defending against a force supplied by basically the whole of Europe and US so another offensive is going to be bloody for Ukraine (and Russia) even with the better tanks they're going to be able to start fielding
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Truth as almost always seems to be the case is somewhere in between. People get very hung up on the headline fails but for every fail they have twice as many instances of things working to useful capacity. Their military industry is far from on its knees as the image some get for instance the 103rd repair plant is putting 100s of armoured vehicles of all sorts back into service either from battle damaged or storage stocks, they are putting new IFV designs into production (based on the VPK Bumerang platform) albeit one is only individual hand builds and the other around half a dozen serial production a month. They are still producing and/or putting into service dozens of T-72s, T-90s, etc. despite the headlines being dominated by the large quantities of T-54/55 they are pushing back into service and so on and so forth.
 
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Looks like that added the egg boxes ;)

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No, just a Photoshop.

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