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

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Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Any kind of distance and low quality camera and thats going to look like a fake blow up version!
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The multispectral is the neat stuff - but on the human eye visual side personally I think Woodland CP and similar patterns have become vastly underestimated for just generally blending in (obviously doesn't work for say desert or urban terrain) and then not being noteworthy to the mind, compared to patterns which might be superior in rendering something invisible to the eye in the right circumstances but less generally blend in.
 
Rroff said:
Comes back to something I feel people are vastly ignorant at to the implications, Russia has less and less to lose by staying on a war footing, unless domestically *events* happen, and Russia are far from as out of this war as the impression people seem to get.
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I wouldn't say Russia are on a war footing, it seems to be something Putin wants to avoid even if it means he looks weak politically having to beg to Korea & Iran for munitions
 
steve45 said:
That "Barracuda" stuff is phenomenal! Starting to filter its way out to our troops. Puts all previous cam kits I've had experience with to shame. Not ******* cheap though mind :eek:
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If their claim of "non-snagging" is accurate then its already generations ahead of the old IR suppressing Cam Nets I used which were absolutely guaranteed to snag on stuff that was as smooth as glass, never mind on vehicles with antennas etc!
 
Should have happened long time ago...
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The European Parliament adopted the Resolutuin on relations with Belarus, in which lawmakers once again condemned the Alexander Lukashenko regime in Belarus for the repression and oppression of the people of this country, recognized Lukashenko as an accomplice in Russian crimes in the aggression...
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That sub looks very very second hand

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Rroff said:
Comes back to something I feel people are vastly ignorant at to the implications, Russia has less and less to lose by staying on a war footing, unless domestically *events* happen, and Russia are far from as out of this war as the impression people seem to get.
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True but equally with totalitarian states like Russia collapses happen suddenly and without warning. We saw that with the collapse of the USSR and most likely we will see it this regime as well. The trigger will be economic problems rather them the outcome of the war, the pieces are in place with sky high interest rates, currency depreciation, a lag of forward investment, loss of skilled workers.

I would argue Russia is already in a recession at this point I know the GDP numbers suggest otherwise but it's being propped up by increased spending on the military which doesn't add anything of value to the economy. It's also worth noting Russia is burning through its sovereign wealth fund to pay for all this, the last lot data suggests they will have gotten through the fund by the end of 2023.

At some point there will be enough powerful people who will have had enough of all this and will take action. What and when that looks like I don't know but it will happen.
 
ianh said:
If their claim of "non-snagging" is accurate then its already generations ahead of the old IR suppressing Cam Nets I used which were absolutely guaranteed to snag on stuff that was as smooth as glass, never mind on vehicles with antennas etc!
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Its multi layered, the inside that you would normally get buttons/rifles/any object not completely smooth (even then nothing is guaranteed) is almost like a very densely weaved hessian. dunno what material it is but getting tangled in this stuff is pretty difficult. From the outside it would be hard to get snagged from the interior almost non-existant. How it will hold up in the long term I dunno. However it has really impressed me so far.
 
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Minusorange said:
I wouldn't say Russia are on a war footing, it seems to be something Putin wants to avoid even if it means he looks weak politically having to beg to Korea & Iran for munitions
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They've been very slow moving towards a war footing hence the very slow ramp up of production and not initially preventing people of fighting age leaving the country, etc., but it is progressing that way more and more, I don't know if there will eventually be a point where Putin can't avoid taking the gloves off in that respect when it can be dressed up no longer and go all in.
 
That Ukraine can strike it increasingly at will takes the shine off that jewel. As far as Russia is concerned Novorossiysk is the new Sevastapol. Ukraine dosnt need to physically conquer every square inch of Crimea, they just need to make it untenable to keep fully occupied.
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
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Oh, I hadn't actually seen that video before, well that pretty much validates his actions completely.

TLDW: The reason Starlink was off over Crimea was because due to US sanctions SpaceX were not allowed to serve Russia and that included Crimea. Couldn't be turned on without US approval. Ukraine gov called in the middle of the night asking for it to be turned on. If the US gov had asked for it to be turned on it would have been but they didn't. US secretary of state supportive of the position SpaceX took.
 
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ubersonic said:
Oh, I hadn't actually seen that video before, well that pretty much validates his actions completely.

TLDW: The reason Starlink was off over Crimea was because due to US sanctions SpaceX were not allowed to serve Russia and that included Crimea. Couldn't be turned on without US approval. Ukraine gov called in the middle of the night asking for it to be turned on. If the US gov had asked for it to be turned on it would have been but they didn't. US secretary of state supportive of the position SpaceX took.
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$80m in Starlink terminals and there's delusional nerds online accusing him of supporting Russia. Ironically the Ukrainian government love him.
 
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Hasnt their been evidence of North Korean munitions being used for many months? I'm sure late 22/early 23 there were photos of munitions originating from N Korea.
 
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