No. The report is from a bunch of intelligence files leaked on Discord by a member of the US military, who was subsequently arrested. This has been extensively covered in the media.
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Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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No. The report is from a bunch of intelligence files leaked on Discord by a member of the US military, who was subsequently arrested. This has been extensively covered in the media.
I instantly want to think these are cheap and nasty based on their origin but i have no idea how good chinas military stuff actually is Or isn’t.
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Really? Jesus, I am looking them up!
18 bn cu m is so big, I can't conceive it, so clearly I still have some room for amazement!
Edit: I just looked them up- the Aswan dam is ten times that volume!
Sorry about all the exclamation marks.
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Tesco value if Tesco made them, probably better than Russian equivalent by the fact Kadyrov is using the Chinese ones over Russian (unless he's already burned through Russian made equivalents and there's no more to spare for his Toktik army)
Look forward to seeing some HESH rounds get put through them.
Pretty standard fair medium/light utility vehicle really - copy cat box van chassis with 4x4 transmission and light armour capable of withstanding up to full power rifle cartridges (tested against steel core 7.62mm but penetrated by armour piercing rounds of similar or higher calibre) and shell fragments. .50 cal would likely go through and through. Engine a touch underpowered but will do the job - I suspect if you were trashing it around a battlefield overheating would become a concern.
I have my doubts it is in any way mine resistant.
EDIT: Apparently there is an up armour package for it which gives protection against 7.62mm AP rounds ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFB-05 ). Some of the information there isn't correct for the vehicle as per the Tweet above however.
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They are not a vehicle you'd want to be in anywhere near actual fighting - as someone said in the comments even a hard, non penetrating, hit and you've got all kinds of stuff which can splinter/fragment and fly around the cabin, etc. whoever designed them has never actually tested or has experience of an actual hot situation. Good enough for ferrying troops from behind the lines though where you might encounter incidental stuff like shell fragments or errant rounds, etc.
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What part of this message did you lot not get?
Pocket typing ftw, still more legible than some here
I wonder if any of those Saxons are left
I think I'd rather have something like the Foxhound/Ocelot and/or Oshkosh - I'm a bit of a sucker for an aggressive looking armoured SUV - if I had the money and skills I'd love to convert a Pathfinder (R51) (w/ one of the better engines we never got in the UK
) into something a bit like the Rezvani Vengeance.
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In the latest ramblings :
www.dailymail.co.uk
Wagner boss Prigozhin says Russia may NUKE Belgorod region
Yevgeny Prigozhin warned Russia might be forced to unleash nuclear weapons on its Belgorod region where pro-Ukrainian Russian volunteer units have conducted a series of cross-border raids.
In the latest ramblings :
Wagner boss Prigozhin says Russia may NUKE Belgorod region
Yevgeny Prigozhin warned Russia might be forced to unleash nuclear weapons on its Belgorod region where pro-Ukrainian Russian volunteer units have conducted a series of cross-border raids.
There seems to be a fair few Russians whose response to the flooding in Ukraine is basically: "now we should turn Kyiv into a wasteland conventional or nuclear"...
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this was about Belgorod though ; as with any thoughts of nuclear war - its about over whoes real estate it would be used first, as once the gloves come off.....
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I think I'd rather have something like the Foxhound/Ocelot and/or Oshkosh - I'm a bit of a sucker for an aggressive looking armoured SUV - if I had the money and skills I'd love to convert a Pathfinder (R51) (w/ one of the better engines we never got in the UK
For aesthetics, you can't beat the ww2 puma. It's just so badass in a 1940s scifi kinda way.
Sdkfz 222 is far more scifiFor aesthetics, you can't beat the ww2 puma. It's just so badass in a 1940s scifi kinda way.
247 ausf B is my favourite.
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I think too many just blame Putin, sadly at this point many many Russians are complicit, it’s a different culture and mindset.
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Several other nations had the means and the motive and as for the financial benefit, Germany had already said they would no longer be buying gas from Russia, so the US had nothing else to gain from blowing it up.
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Yes, the US were not the only suspect, I just think they're most likely. Opinions, eh?
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