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The War in Ukraine

Extreme Cope-Cages: Russian Edition


We may laugh at the solution, but it illustrates just how serious the Russians feel the threat from small UAV's is to their forces. Makes you wonder if we're taking the threat anywhere near serious enough ourselves.
 
 
Apparently that 'turtle tank' did survive the attack.

It was then geo-located by one of it's crew posing for a picture with his 'local dollie' and it then drew a (HIMARS?) strike that destroyed it, and several other tanks in the same building/garage.
 
Extreme Cope-Cages: Russian Edition


We may laugh at the solution, but it illustrates just how serious the Russians feel the threat from small UAV's is to their forces. Makes you wonder if we're taking the threat anywhere near serious enough ourselves.
They'll just fly the drone inside the front.
 
Now if Putin makes a move on the Baltic states or towards Poland, Finland or Romania that's a whole different story.
I doubt that will happen for at least 5 years. However, once the Ukraine front is under control and while they still have a lot of battle hardened troops (the survivors of 3 years of meat wave and mechanised single file attacks) they will go after Moldova. Unless NATO absorbs them first - at least as a probationary member but eligible for article 5 protection.
 
Meat is murder... it's like a real life Smiths' album ;)

Ukraine faces Russian ‘meat storms,’ military chiefs warn as U.S. aid stalls​


Pressure is intensifying on the U.S. Congress to pass additional aid to Ukraine, with senior military leaders in Canada and the U.S. issuing stark warnings this week that Russia will overwhelm the Ukrainians unless ammunition starts flowing to Kyiv soon.
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The mounting pressure comes as Ukraine has passed a controversial law to expand military conscription in the country, hours after Russia launched another round of missile strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities overnight Thursday.

“The strikes in Ukraine over the past 24 hours are another terrible reminder that Ukraine’s need is critical,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday as she urged the U.S. House of Representatives to hold a vote on whether to approve billions of dollars in new aid.

Yet Canada’s political leaders are continuing to express confidence that U.S. support for Ukraine will ultimately prevail, with Defence Minister Bill Blair most recently calling the legislative logjam in Washington “a bump in the road.”

On Wednesday, U.S. Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli — the commander of U.S. European Command who also serves as NATO’s supreme allied commander in Europe — told the U.S. House Armed Services Committee that Ukraine will exhaust its existing artillery and air defence munition stocks “in fairly short order” without continued U.S. support.

Russia, he added, is expected to have a 10-1 advantage on artillery shells “within weeks.”

“Based on my experience in 37-plus years in the U.S. military, if one side can shoot and the other side can’t shoot back, the side that can’t shoot back loses,” he said. “So, the stakes are very high.”

Similarly, Canada’s Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre told the same Senate defence committee meeting attended by Blair on Monday that Russia is already outgunning Ukraine at a rate of four to one.

He added the Russians have also shown “a much lower regard for life” by sending waves of expendable soldiers into battle in a tactic the Ukrainians have called “meat storms,” quickly replacing them by recruiting from a far larger population.

 
Meat is murder... it's like a real life Smiths' album ;)

Ukraine faces Russian ‘meat storms,’ military chiefs warn as U.S. aid stalls​


Pressure is intensifying on the U.S. Congress to pass additional aid to Ukraine, with senior military leaders in Canada and the U.S. issuing stark warnings this week that Russia will overwhelm the Ukrainians unless ammunition starts flowing to Kyiv soon.
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The mounting pressure comes as Ukraine has passed a controversial law to expand military conscription in the country, hours after Russia launched another round of missile strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities overnight Thursday.

“The strikes in Ukraine over the past 24 hours are another terrible reminder that Ukraine’s need is critical,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday as she urged the U.S. House of Representatives to hold a vote on whether to approve billions of dollars in new aid.

Yet Canada’s political leaders are continuing to express confidence that U.S. support for Ukraine will ultimately prevail, with Defence Minister Bill Blair most recently calling the legislative logjam in Washington “a bump in the road.”

On Wednesday, U.S. Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli — the commander of U.S. European Command who also serves as NATO’s supreme allied commander in Europe — told the U.S. House Armed Services Committee that Ukraine will exhaust its existing artillery and air defence munition stocks “in fairly short order” without continued U.S. support.

Russia, he added, is expected to have a 10-1 advantage on artillery shells “within weeks.”

“Based on my experience in 37-plus years in the U.S. military, if one side can shoot and the other side can’t shoot back, the side that can’t shoot back loses,” he said. “So, the stakes are very high.”

Similarly, Canada’s Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre told the same Senate defence committee meeting attended by Blair on Monday that Russia is already outgunning Ukraine at a rate of four to one.

He added the Russians have also shown “a much lower regard for life” by sending waves of expendable soldiers into battle in a tactic the Ukrainians have called “meat storms,” quickly replacing them by recruiting from a far larger population.

Go ask the Germans what its like to sit back and have 10 shells rain down on you and you're only able to throw back 2-4 in return. Sooner or later your side breaks and runs.
 
Go ask the Germans what its like to sit back and have 10 shells rain down on you and you're only able to throw back 2-4 in return. Sooner or later your side breaks and runs.
And the "meat storms." Attacks where only the first Russian wave had weapons. Subsequent waves were expected to find weapons amongst the dead and wounded of the first wave.

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And the "meat storms." Attacks where only the first Russian wave had weapons. Subsequent waves were expected to find weapons amongst the dead and wounded of the first wave.

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And the Chinese did similar things in Korea.

The opening scenes from "Enemy at the Gates" I think might be a pretty accurate description of life in the Red Army at Stalingrad.
 
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