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

[Grim5]

Can't post here cause the tweet contains video of combat but Ukraine's armed forces have awarded the gold star (also known as a golden combat merit) medal to Ruslan aka "Predator" - the guy who took out a Russian APC and dismounted infantry assault on his trench, his friend who was also in the trench was reloading guns and finding ammunition for him while Ruslan kept unloading on the charging Russians - Ruslan fired 3 RPGs, threw 3 grenades and fired multiple clips of ammunition from 3 different assault rifles and one LMG and he was able to destroy the Russian armoured assault without getting injured himself

 

[HungryHippos]

Can't post here cause the tweet contains video of combat but Ukraine's armed forces have awarded the gold star (also known as a golden combat merit) medal to Ruslan aka "Predator" - the guy who took out a Russian APC and dismounted infantry assault on his trench, his friend who was also in the trench was reloading guns and finding ammunition for him while Ruslan kept unloading on the charging Russians - Ruslan fired 3 RPGs, threw 3 grenades and fired multiple clips of ammunition from 3 different assault rifles and one LMG and was able to destroy the Russian assault without getting injured himself

That footage was crazy!

 

[Grim5]

When you want to fight the west but also you just spotted boobs on the iPad

Reddit - Dive into anything

www.reddit.com

 

[Grim5]

This website claims France is going to send 40 Mirage2000 jets to Ukraine. These jets were intended for sale to UAE and now France wants them for Ukraine

France/UAE/Ukraine : UAE's surplus Mirage fighter jets look set to go to Ukraine - 27/03/2023 - Intelligence Online

The race is on to supply Ukraine with French fighter aircraft in addition to the ones it is due to receive from the US. Countries that have acquired Mirages from Dassault are being canvassed. - 3/27/2023

www.intelligenceonline.com

 

[Nelly]

This website claims France is going to send 40 Mirage2000 jets to Ukraine. These jets were intended for sale to UAE and now France wants them for Ukraine

France/UAE/Ukraine : UAE's surplus Mirage fighter jets look set to go to Ukraine - 27/03/2023 - Intelligence Online

The race is on to supply Ukraine with French fighter aircraft in addition to the ones it is due to receive from the US. Countries that have acquired Mirages from Dassault are being canvassed. - 3/27/2023

www.intelligenceonline.com

Be interesting to see how MBDA shares fare in the coming months, don't they make the Exocet? RIP Russian Navy? lol

 

[Rroff]

This website claims France is going to send 40 Mirage2000 jets to Ukraine. These jets were intended for sale to UAE and now France wants them for Ukraine

France/UAE/Ukraine : UAE's surplus Mirage fighter jets look set to go to Ukraine - 27/03/2023 - Intelligence Online

The race is on to supply Ukraine with French fighter aircraft in addition to the ones it is due to receive from the US. Countries that have acquired Mirages from Dassault are being canvassed. - 3/27/2023

www.intelligenceonline.com

I dunno why there is all this messing about with jets, sure it takes time and money but the best option for Ukraine would be something with capability to be operated and maintained with minimal facilities, able to mount stuff like the latest US/NATO missiles and backed up with relatively small and fast AWACS with similar short take off and low maintenance.

The time, money and effort is better spent at the moment IMO providing capable high mobility SPAAG systems and sensors/radar, developing anti-drone systems both man portable against the likes of DJI stuff as well as systems for protecting against the bigger ones.

Ukraine doesn't need to be in the air to take apart Russian ground forces - they just need to be able to deny hostile use of the air to protect the assets which are doing the job - especially if their hands are tied in terms of going after the launch sites, etc.

 

[Rroff]

Been watching some of this being shipped in:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1640567337530032128

Wasn't sure what it was but apparently that.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1640595102119735297

I really hope they are properly equipped, properly used, properly supported and live up to the hype but also unlock more efforts in supporting Ukraine.

 

[Harlequin]

^^ Old from storage kit,, definitely not the TES stuff our lads would fight with - no ERA for a start

 

[Rroff]

^^ Old from storage kit,, definitely not the TES stuff our lads would fight with - no ERA for a start

I'm hoping those are pre being kitted for combat... hopefully they look very different in action :s

 

[diamount]

^^ Old from storage kit,, definitely not the TES stuff our lads would fight with - no ERA for a start

Do the T54s?/T60S/T72s?

 

[potatolord]

What's the latest situation in Bakhmut? Is it still stalemate? Not seeing much reporting tiday/ yesterday.

 

[Harlequin]

I'm hoping those are pre being kitted for combat... hopefully they look very different in action :s

I suspect not, the UK doesnt have that much TES stuff anyway - the rapid deployment sadly proved that when 2 of the 3 battlgroups didnt have it

 

[NinjaCool]

Reports of Russia suffering heavy armor losses in their attempts to encircle the town of Avdiivka

 

[Harlequin]

Do the T54s?/T60S/T72s?

T64BV from mid 1980`s came with ERA bricks, similar time to the T72B getting them. T55 MV also added Kontakt-1 bricks and slat armour (again in the mid 1980`s) Most T54 are pretty much T55 nowadays anyway, there isnt a lot between the 2 anyway

 

[Grim5]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1638942785670619139

 

[Rroff]

T64BV from mid 1980`s came with ERA bricks, similar time to the T72B getting them. T55 MV also added Kontakt-1 bricks and slat armour (again in the mid 1980`s) Most T54 are pretty much T55 nowadays anyway, there isnt a lot between the 2 anyway

Russian tanks generally haven't survived well in Ukraine including with ERA (or "ERA") fitted compared to Syria, etc. I've seen a few videos of T-72B3s fully kitted in Ukraine taking more than half a dozen hits from RPGs and Javelins, etc. to kill them but most just seem to fair badly from a single hit. In Syria, etc. wasn't uncommon for them to survive 1-2 hits due to ERA and be able to retreat with relatively minimal damage. Albeit in Ukraine a lot of Russian tanks have been lost to mines and artillery.

 

[Rroff]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1638942785670619139

It is interesting to see the difference in response from those countries who've first hand experience of Russian oppression, even relatively long time ago now, and those without. They know the truths when it comes to the current Russian government and what they believe in and how far they'd go if they were able to.

 

[Sankari]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1638942785670619139

Based Finland. She beat Russia before, she can do it again.

 

[Harlequin]

For anyone who actually believes this is anything other than an illegal land grab - i would remind you that Russia signed this:

ODS HOME PAGE

Multilingual interface of the UN Official Documents System

documents-dds-ny.un.org

And agreed to :

1. Respect the signatory's independence and sovereignty in the existing borders.
2. Refrain from the threat or the use of force against the signatory.
3. Refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by the signatory of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.
4. Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used".
5. Refrain from the use of nuclear arms against the signatory.
6. Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments

Even China has given security assurances - http://www.gov.cn/gongbao/shuju/1994/gwyb199429.pdf ; but this is broken as well - https://blog.ucsusa.org/gregory-kulacki/chinas-broken-promise-to-ukraine/

 

[Rilot]

Based Finland. She beat Russia before, she can do it again.

I had a Finnish girlfriend for 5 years about 12 years ago. She said this about Russians (in her thick Finnish accent): "All Russian men are drunks and all Russian women are hookers".