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

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My goodness there is a drone footage vid out there of some Russians getting attacked by either accurate arty or some other munition, a couple get injured and as they are getting helped away a direct hit on 3 of them just blows them to bits, parts raining down on the 2 survivors. I'm not sure what they were hit with but the accuracy was incredible. Brutal footage.
 
Have to say the BTR-4s are impressive - if they can circumvent the frontal armour on any of the Russian tanks they can easily knock them out - even some cases, probably due to sub-standard quality, where their autocannon has penetrated T-72s and 80s thicker armour directly never mind BMPs, etc.
 
Rroff said:
That isn't an impact scorch mark (check older imagery and/or other parking stands for these aircraft).

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Also I highly suspect there was a direct hit and they've reshuffled the scene to look like it was less impactful and have at least 1 complete hull loss as well as damaged airframes which are no longer air worthy.
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From Denys: the black marks all over the concrete pads is oil. These old Soviet engines are leakers and they
just gush oil while standing parked
 
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Rroff said:
Been some quite stark lessons, seemingly forgotten from earlier conflicts, on the realities of this kind of combat - especially when it comes to how quickly you get through ammo stocks.
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I’m not sure it’s even a case of forgetting. There’s probably enough stock for a short conflict and much being kept for ourselves. In reality we’d surely switch our manufacturing of ammo up many many gears while the current stock kept us going in the short term. Pretty much what a war economy is set to achieve.
 
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dowie said:
Artillery is combat support, it's combat support in Ukraine too, whether you have air superiority or not doesn't change that, nor does it mean your guns/gunners are going to just chill or not try so hard or that the manufacturers would have magically made better barrels that didn't need replacing so soon. Sorry Freddie but this just silly.

Edit: In fact, for comparison, the M777 can fire 2500 rounds before the barrel needs to be replaced, the 155mm gun it replaced in US service, the M198 (designed in the 70s), could fire 1750 rounds before the barrel needed to be replaced, the M1 (a WW2 era 155mm gun also used in Korea) could fire 1500 rounds before the barrel needed to be replaced.

It's simply not true that these guns weren't designed with this sort of combat in mind, guns like this have been used in the most intense conflicts, it's an improvement on its predecessors.
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I think the point being made by the others is that they believe that amount of time being taken for a M777 to fire 2500+ rounds would be far longer if used by NATO, who has a massive depth of various other munitions to use plus a far greater number of M777's available (meaning each M777 would take longer to fire 2500 shells), as opposed to its current use in Ukraine where the daily fire rate will be far higher just because there's less depth of other munitions and less M777's overall in theatre.

Whether any of that above is actually true, vs just being someone's opinion, is something the war planners in the West will hopefully be studying with great care because as always, a peacetime planner with a budget to manage, almost never keeps an adequate stockpile of munitions once combat actually begins leading to a rush to resupply which, with modern munitions being so tech heavy, takes far longer to make than "simple" 155mm shells etc.
 
That Tu-95 on the right has the wing tips removed. I can’t imagine it is damage as it would be far too symmetrical. Maybe it is being cannibalised for parts.
 
ICDP said:
That Tu-95 on the right has the wing tips removed. I can’t imagine it is damage as it would be far too symmetrical. Maybe it is being cannibalised for parts.
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Apparently it has been parked up for awhile undergoing "maintenance" (which may be true flicking through older aerial imagery) - though personally I favour it being cannibalised for parts.
 
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Scougar said:
The oil marks are in a different place than the scorch marks.
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They've been doing various renovations and moving stuff around over recent years/months based on aerial imagery. There are some scorch marks though but not from an impact - if something got hit it was more directly or airburst and has now been moved.
 
bingham67 said:
*Massively dishonest crap on Twitter*
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Reality: Germany offered to send German Patriot system with a German crew to Poland to protect Poland. Kaczyński, with an eye to the '23 Polish elections suggested that they crews should go to Ukraine instead. Germany, unsurprisingly, isn't putting German crews on the ground in Ukraine and Poland aren't offering Patriots at all.
 
The Funktopus said:
And what a distant shot like that won’t show is how badly those aircraft may have been peppered by shrapnel. They may look intact from afar, but close up you might see that they’re like Swiss cheese, and complete write-offs.
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The explosion shook buildings 6 miles away, those aircraft 20-30 metres away will be useless now.
 
Putin signs anti lgbtq legislation into law. Any expression of non traditional relationships and sexes is illegal, as is changing gender

Prepare for Fox News and right wing support for Putin to explode

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Putin Signs Law Banning Expressions of L.G.B.T.Q. Identity in Russia (Published 2022)

The law makes it illegal to spread “propaganda” about “nontraditional sexual relations” in all media, including social, advertising and movies.
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