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

[bingham67]

Stugna-P videos never get old

 

[Quartz]

Oof. Sending those T-62’s into the frontline in the face of an opponent armed with the likes of Javelin, NLAW, and AT-4’s, plus tanks that are a generation or more ahead of the of T62 is akin to throwing baby Barn Owls into a running industrial fan.

I expect every military and every defence contractor around the world is going to be very interested in how long they survive.

 

[Minstadave]

Stugna-P videos never get old

Remarkably effective bit of kit. Seems remarkably effective in open terrain. The clip where they hit a hovering KA-50 was pretty legendary.

 

[Hook]

Weapons and heavy weapons are not the same thing. I wish Germany would be more rapid and active in sending heavy weapons (and that the Swiss weren't blocking stuff, and that the French would step up more, etc.) but it's just not true that Germany haven't sent any weapons, millions of rounds of ammunition, rifles, anti-tank weapons, grenades, etc. have all been sent, along with ammunition for the howitzers sent by Holland. Germany did follow decades of established policy in rejecting initial transfer requests, but that was swiftly reversed within days of the war starting, as were rules preventing Germany sending direct military aid.

Like many of Western Europe's leaders, Scholz is clear that his top priority is preventing an escalation into a war between NATO and Russia, well ahead of ensuring that Ukraine wins. That doesn't mean that Germany is doing nothing.

This is the most up to date chart of military aid I can find:



A breakdown of some of the German deliveries is on Wikipedia

Those numbers include the heavy weapons that Scholz has promised but hasn't delivered. The wikipedia as well.
edit: I'm not saying Germany isn't doing anything, it's Scholz empty (heavy weapon) promises that's putting Scholz in a bad light.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1532310384710926342

 

[Scougar]

"#Switzerland has banned #Germany from supplying #Ukraine with Swiss-made ammunition The veto concerns, among other things, ammunition for the "Gepard" self-propelled air defense systems, the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs said, citing the country's neutrality."

This is somewhat ridiculous. If they were neutral, they wouldn't sell weapons in the first place. Now they are trying to dictate where/when they are used /facepalm.

^^ This tweet is from April, but it still baffles me, as it is related to the German supply of weapons to Ukraine.

 

[Hook]

"#Switzerland has banned #Germany from supplying #Ukraine with Swiss-made ammunition The veto concerns, among other things, ammunition for the "Gepard" self-propelled air defense systems, the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs said, citing the country's neutrality."

This is somewhat ridiculous. If they were neutral, they wouldn't sell weapons in the first place. Now they are trying to dictate where/when they are used /facepalm.

^^ This tweet is from April, but it still baffles me, as it is related to the German supply of weapons to Ukraine.

It's also noted Brazil would provide shells for those instead, but those Gepards still havn't been delivered..

 

[ICDP]

I takes a long time to negotiate these things and it is never simply black and white. Germany wanted to send the Gepard but could not because the Oerlikon cannons it uses are a Swiss design, that use Swiss supplied ammunition. So they had to seek an alternative source for the ammunition.

It's much easier for many (not you) to post memes about Germany = bad and UK = good. Yet we can all see the bulk of the weapon and financial support comes from the USA. As usual the EU/UK are slow to act with mostly rhetoric. "We will fight them on the beaches... with American weapons".

 

[Roar87]

I takes a long time to negotiate these things and it is never simply black and white. Germany wanted to send the Gepard but could not because the Oerlikon cannons it uses are a Swiss design, that use Swiss supplied ammunition. So they had to seek an alternative source for the ammunition.

It's much easier for many (not you) to post memes about Germany = bad and UK = good. Yet we can all see the bulk of the weapon and financial support comes from the USA. As usual the EU/UK are slow to act with mostly rhetoric. "We will fight them on the beaches... with American weapons".

Yeah the US has this massive advantage of being a military and economic super power able to fight Russia and China on it's own if push came to shove, Europe is pretty weak militarily.

 

[Freddie1980]

https://deepstatemap.live/en#6/49.438/32.053

Ukraine has managed to regain about 90% of the remains of Severodonetsk according to the situation map at Deep State. If this is accurate it will hopefully give Ukraine some breathing room to bring up further western artillery and these new missile systems.

 

[Rroff]

I takes a long time to negotiate these things and it is never simply black and white. Germany wanted to send the Gepard but could not because the Oerlikon cannons it uses are a Swiss design, that use Swiss supplied ammunition. So they had to seek an alternative source for the ammunition.

It's much easier for many (not you) to post memes about Germany = bad and UK = good. Yet we can all see the bulk of the weapon and financial support comes from the USA. As usual the EU/UK are slow to act with mostly rhetoric. "We will fight them on the beaches... with American weapons".

Granted the quantities aren't always huge but most of the systems we've promised Ukraine have been seen in action not long after - delays are usually training/support related. Even Brimstone and Wolfhounds have supposedly been seen in action.

 

[RoboCod]

Yeah the US has this massive advantage of being a military and economic super power able to fight Russia and China on it's own if push came to shove, Europe is pretty weak militarily.

No it isn't. The US has superior ability to project power but the European military machine is far from weak.

 

[andybird123]

"#Switzerland has banned #Germany from supplying #Ukraine with Swiss-made ammunition The veto concerns, among other things, ammunition for the "Gepard" self-propelled air defense systems, the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs said, citing the country's neutrality."

This is somewhat ridiculous. If they were neutral, they wouldn't sell weapons in the first place. Now they are trying to dictate where/when they are used /facepalm.

^^ This tweet is from April, but it still baffles me, as it is related to the German supply of weapons to Ukraine.

Switzerland have since granted permission for various systems and ammo to be sent to Ukraine - they are no longer claiming to be neutral.

 

[woppy101]

https://deepstatemap.live/en#6/49.438/32.053

Ukraine has managed to regain about 90% of the remains of Severodonetsk according to the situation map at Deep State. If this is accurate it will hopefully give Ukraine some breathing room to bring up further western artillery and these new ROCKET systems.

 

[Freddie1980]

Short video from an Ukrainian artillery unit using an M777 (no combat footage showing destroyed trenches or broken vehicles etc but you do see the howitzer being fired a few times) where the commander explaining the difference a single unit can make in terms of morale for local forces. Incidentally he says it took 5 days for them to be fully trained to use a M777:

 

[ianh]

As usual the EU/UK are slow to act with mostly rhetoric. "We will fight them on the beaches... with American weapons".

I disagree with this as the UK sent NLAW's (not a US weapon) a month before the Russians invaded at the same time that the US sent Javelins. Granted the EU has been slower, mainly as the various countries waited to see if the invasion would take place in the first place but some EU nations sent anti-tank weaponry (not US weapons) within a few days of the invasion starting. Since the invasion the UK has supplied various types of non-US weaponry (Starstreak, Martel etc) alongside more NLAW's and the EU has provided lots of non-US weaponry too.

As someone else mentioned, the reason that graph is so skewed is that the US, with a defence budget $810 Billion (approx 1100% more than the UK spends) has huge stockpile of weapons it can give away such as 90 M777 artillery pieces (50% more artillery than the total UK army has!!), whilst the UK and EU don't have the money to build stockpiles like that.

 

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[Scougar]

I disagree with this as the UK sent NLAW's (not a US weapon) a month before the Russians invaded at the same time that the US sent Javelins. Granted the EU has been slower, mainly as the various countries waited to see if the invasion would take place in the first place but some EU nations sent anti-tank weaponry (not US weapons) within a few days of the invasion starting. Since the invasion the UK has supplied various types of non-US weaponry (Starstreak, Martel etc) alongside more NLAW's and the EU has provided lots of non-US weaponry too.

As someone else mentioned, the reason that graph is so skewed is that the US, with a defence budget $810 Billion (approx 1100% more than the UK spends) has huge stockpile of weapons it can give away such as 90 M777 artillery pieces (50% more artillery than the total UK army has!!), whilst the UK and EU don't have the money to build stockpiles like that.

Very true. The US has an absolute ridiculous military budget. Dwarfs everyone.

 

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[Custor]

https://deepstatemap.live/en#6/49.438/32.053

Ukraine has managed to regain about 90% of the remains of Severodonetsk according to the situation map at Deep State. If this is accurate it will hopefully give Ukraine some breathing room to bring up further western artillery and these new missile systems.

Not the right battle to 'win'. Either win at Pospasna and Sloviansk or loose the whole area.
Despite the whole lets fight with a river to our backs posts.

 

[Scougar]

They need to be pushing the flanks, so that it doesn't get encircled.