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

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potatolord said:
This is just weird (from the guardian today):

"The Wagner PMC group has published adverts on Russian social media seeking to recruit computer video game players to operate its drones in Ukraine, the Kyiv Post has reported.

It reportedly said the ideal candidate for the role would be aged 21 to 35, in good physical shape, and someone who was used to sitting “straight for hours playing”.
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Can just imagine when they are shipped to Ukraine and ask where the drone controller is? Its that way comrade about 1km away, don't worry about the enemy artillery and if you turn around and come back you might get shot. Yes you'll need that gun.
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
Can just imagine when they are shipped to Ukraine and ask where the drone controller is? Its that way comrade about 1km away, don't worry about the enemy artillery and if you turn around and come back you might get shot. Yes you'll need that gun.
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"The drone controller is this stick, which you screw into the base of the drone. You then use your MAD SKILLZ to attack the enemy trench. Davai!"
 
Freddie1980 said:
Tbf the UK has never had a large ground army, being an island nation the priority has been on the navy. When Britain entered the into WW1 in the BEF was only 200k as that's all we had at the time, it was only through a patriotic enlistment drive and latter on conscription we got he numbers upto 2m.
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1960 the British Army 315,000 men
 
Puppetmaster said:
I have friends who live in Odesa which is what concerns me.

From the picture I saw posted in Telegram almost all of Ukraine could be affected by radiation though I don't know how true that is
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It isn't an impossible outcome but the more likely ones are any significant contamination being within 30 miles, though depending on the state of the Dnipro there could be significant amounts washed downstream.

The diagrams, even coming from Ukrainian officials, seem to be basically just transposing Chernobyl but you'd have to do some serious engineering to replicate what happened there with any other design.
 
Harlequin said:
1990 - 163,000 , Empire has long gone.
2025 73,000
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IMO we don't need a huge force, but we do need a prepared force and a contingency plan, even if the likelihood of a conventional peer scrap, let alone one where we are alone, is low it is pants on head absurd to risk everything we have not maintaining that level of security even in this day and age.

What we do need is the ability to surge forces if needed from a decent reserve/territorial pool and pivot to whatever threat.
 
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Rroff said:
IMO we don't need a huge force, but we do need a prepared force and a contingency plan, even if the likelihood of a conventional peer scrap, let alone one where we are alone, is low it is pants on head absurd to risk everything we have not maintaining that level of security even in this day and age.

What we do need is the ability to surge forces if needed from a decent reserve/territorial pool and pivot to whatever threat.
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A fair chunk of the 73,000 are probably not "fighting infantry", I guess? Central staff, maintenenace, drivers and so on?

In "what can you out in the field within 7 days", it has to be way lower?
 
Terminal_Boy said:
About 10k-15k combat troops then.

This is what happens when you send boys and girls off to die or get maimed in pointless wars for 20 years - no one wants to sign up for any regiment that could be deployed to the next Iraq/Afghanistan.
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I don't think the problem is people willing to sign up to be fair - we've not had it since COVID for some reason but we used to get a fair few people temping in the warehouse at work while waiting to go into the army or RAF quite a few had their intake delayed and delayed and eventually gave up and went for something else instead.

Maybe it has changed in the last few years.
 
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Rroff said:
I don't think the problem is people willing to sign up to be fair - we've not had it since COVID for some reason but we used to get a fair few people temping in the warehouse at work while waiting to go into the army or RAF quite a few had their intake delayed and delayed and eventually gave up and went for something else instead.

Maybe it has changed in the last few years.
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Might be something to do with the brain dead recruitment practices!
 
From what I can tell having a relative who has just signed up and how hard it was to get in there isnt a shortfall of potential candidates
I believe the issue is our government cutbacks primarily.

Anyway I came to post this, Ukraine have worked out a thermal imaging camera on a drone at around 60-70m high can spot mines that have been warming up all day!
Could be quite a new useful addition in regards clearing post war minefields even if not for frontline action.


Harlequin said:
Yup, this government has run down the military more than any other. Terrible really.
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My suspicion is that wasn't his point.
 
Rroff said:
I don't think the problem is people willing to sign up to be fair - we've not had it since COVID for some reason but we used to get a fair few people temping in the warehouse at work while waiting to go into the army or RAF quite a few had their intake delayed and delayed and eventually gave up and went for something else instead.

Maybe it has changed in the last few years.
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Weapons have evolved a hell of a lot (as you well know), so numbers are not as required as much as they were.

With regard boots on the ground etc.
 
Nate75 said:
The thing that really concerns me, which I have mentioned before is the outcome of the US election.

Let's be frank here. Without their support the conflict would be unsolvable.

I may be wrong of course, but it does strike me this way.
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Trumps not winning the election, he will be the republican runner but the polls are giving Biden a decent lead over him.

The sane republicans far outweigh the MAGA morons and they really don't like trump.

They wont vote for Biden but they will vote for someone else or not vote at all leaving the democrat to win the few swing states needed for overall victory.

This is what happened last time and will happen again.
 
NickK said:
Basically China would supply arms through bracs to argentina to take the falkands.
Next it will be greece and crete, africa vs portugal/spain.. france vs italy (islands), russia/china and japan..
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The Falkland's are British, does that not mean NATO would have to step in.

An attack on one is an attack on all isn't that the NATO way?
 
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