Warfare Russia/Ukraine War

[Connaught Ranger]

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[nemipuka_]

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He's also a Deputy Minister of Defense.

Andrey Kartapolov - Wikipedia

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[Mike1976]

Not sure if this would make for exhilarating gameplay in the next CoD compared to the AC-130 mission

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[Adamicz]

The British Brimstone I rocket fell into the hands of the Russian army in the Zaporozhye direction of Ukraine. An unexploded rocket was found near the positions of Russian troops. The Brimstone missile is 3 times more effective than the American AGM-65G Maverick missile against modern tanks and is a valuable model for research by the Russian army. The rocket was made in September 2001, and the forward compartment of the rocket was made in 2004. These missiles began to enter service with the UK in 2005, this is a fire-and-forget missile. The homing air-to-ground missile is equipped with an active radar homing head. The rocket discovered in Ukraine belongs to the first modification of the Brimstone 1 in its early version.

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Just like with the one same Bayraktar wreck moving around ?

 

[Gordus]

Okay, but hit the missile complexes too, not just their cmdrs.

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Started early today

 

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He's also a Deputy Minister of Defense.

Andrey Kartapolov - Wikipedia

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This is just pure evil, their "culture" be damned.

 

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Just like with the one same Bayraktar wreck moving around ?

They have not worked out that this is the delayed explosion version ?

 

[NebrHogger]

With all these ammo dumps going up in smoke, it looks like *somebody* is passing along info from spy satellites. I sure hope so anyway.

 

[Deleted member 11302]

Are not you an example of an immigrant from the Third World?

Are you not an example of an immigrant from a formerly communist eastern-bloc country? I fail to see the relevance of my ethnic background, what are you, some kind of racist, or something?

Orban is supported by the current Polish government, but he was not supported by the previous one.

It's not about buying gas, as Poland does it as well.
It's all about the lack of diversification and not looking for any alternatives for the sole purpose of maximising profits. Poland has been warning Germany for years that Russia is not a trustworthy partner and she tends to use energy as a weapon. It has nothing to do with the current Polish government, as the previous one was clever enough to look for alternatives and decided to build the Baltic Pipe from Norway.
In case of Germany, I cannot even understand how stupid one could be to sell German gas depots to Russian companies.
Your governments' behaviour, no matter if it is the current one or the previous one, is a pure self-harm in terms of your policy towards Russia.
First, your politicians believed that buying Russian energy would make you competitive, but it made you dependent on Russia in fact. When it comes to trade, Russia is a much smaller economic partner comparing to Czechia that has about 14 times fewer people than Russia. I believe it says all as even such a tiny economic partner holds you by the balls.

You're pushing at open doors with me, you don't need to preach to the choire, my dude. When I tell other Germans that I'm in favour of nuclear power and a policy that aims for self sufficiency in energy supply all I get is shocked expressions of horror and exasperation. But they'll learn soon.

Your governments kept objecting any permanent NATO bases in the new NATO countries, despatched Typhoons armed with training missiles to the Baltics and care too much of Russia not being humiliated. They would be happy if the U.S. troops left Europe for good, so you'd be able to do business as usual with Russia and establish a new security scheme at the expense of the Eastern Flank. Don't blame us for not liking that idea.
What Russia is, you could see in Bucha and Irpin, but everything like that was fully predictable for people living in PL, UA, LT, LV and EE.

And don't blame the average German for the institutionalised cuckoldry that is Germany's defence policy. Must I remind you: this is how everybody wanted it! Germany is militarily impotent because all of you would collectively p.i.ss your pants if Germany even approached a number of 200.000 infantrymen, let alone start amassing the heavy equipment to support and transport them all.

NATO is to keep America in, Germany down and Russia out, does that ring a bell?

BTW, I find it quite scandalous that none of you even acknowledge how tremendous it is that there are some of the world's most advanced heavy weapon systems in Ukraine right now, courtesy of Deutschland.

You may have an excuse not knowing this, but Germany is strictly forbidden by its own laws to export weaponry into an active war zone. This policy wasn't invented to annoy rabid Hungarians and Polish people but to cement Germany as a pacifist power (not that I agree with that law). I realise that a lot of you Eastern Europeans are a bit lax when it comes to following laws, but in Germany the law is a big deal, you abide by it even if you disagree with it. Small ancedote here, I pay my TV licence-fee even though I barely ever watch Germany's public broadcasters and generally despise the filthy, worthless commies working there. But unfortunately it's the law, so I pay. It's too bad Putin doesn't say "ARD is the best, tovarishch!", perhaps I'd be allowed to ditch that law, too....

DId not you come to Germany as a refugee from Iran? You are welcome to force ethnic Germans to doing some undesirable jobs, but don't be surprised if a meal in a restaurant would cost €40 rather than €20, the car that costs €30,000 would cost €40,000, etc. You might love it, but most Germans would not, especially the poor ones. A guy in Spain or Portugal would think twice before buying that car.

The € has given Germany quite an unfair economic advantage over the other European countries. This has worked well for a small number of people in the short term, in the long term you'll see the ramifications of this policy which won't be rosy for anybody, but at least I'll get to witness the demise of the EU and its putrid institutions in my lifetime.


But allow me to get something of my chest that I believe is a fair observation in general here. I didn't see any cries of outrage when the EU spearheaded by Germany and France sought to realign its energy imports towards Qatar and Azerbaijan. The former a country that outright enslaves people and bankrolls each and every jihadist up to and including ISIS, the latter a country that subscribes to a toxic master-race ideology that would make some members of the SS blush and that intends to wage a war of annihilation and ethnic cleansing against its neighboring countries, preferably with the assistance of a NATO member (Turkey).

Oohhh, I forgot, forgive me, I've been remiss! They aren't doing that in the former hinterlands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth so you don't give a s.h.i.t and you have the social licence awarded by the members of this forum not to give a s.h.i.t, right?

So, you and the rest of the power brigade on here do me personal favour, will you? Kindly climb off of those high horses you're sitting on, because I'm afraid no regular human being can carry enough sugar cubes in their pocket to feed those things.

 

[nemipuka_]

This is just pure evil, their "culture" be damned.

 

[BCNTM]

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Worth a read if just for the comments section ?

 

[Mike1976]

They have not worked out that this is the delayed explosion version ?

Would it be too obvious if the next one had "Take me to your leader" in Cyrillic painted on the side? ?

And don't blame the average German for the institutionalised cuckoldry that is Germany's defence policy. Must I remind you: this is how everybody wanted it! Germany is militarily impotent because all of you would collectively p.i.ss your pants if Germany even approached a number of 200.000 infantrymen, let alone start amassing the heavy equipment to support and transport them all.

The Bundeswehr between 1969 and 1989 always numbered upwards of 455,000 troops*.

Only the Germans themselves chose to degrade their own military into irrelevance in the era of eternal rainbows and prancing unicorns. No one forced them to do so out of fear.



* Source: the Bundeswehr themselves.

The Bundeswehr in the Cold War

Binnen weniger Jahrzehnte mauserte sich die junge Bundeswehr im Kalten Krieg zu einer der stärksten Armeen der NATO.

www.bundeswehr.de

 

[pigmode]

And don't blame the average German for the institutionalised cuckoldry that is Germany's defence policy. Must I remind you: this is how everybody wanted it! Germany is militarily impotent because all of you would collectively p.i.ss your pants if Germany even approached a number of 200.000 infantrymen, let alone start amassing the heavy equipment to support and transport them all.

NATO is to keep America in, Germany down and Russia out, does that ring a bell?

BTW, I find it quite scandalous that none of you even acknowledge how tremendous it is that there are some of the world's most advanced heavy weapon systems in Ukraine right now, courtesy of Deutschland.

Don't know about your 200,000 grunts but IIRC, before the fall of the Berlin Wall the Bundeswehr went through 2000+ Leopard 1's.

 

[Mike1976]

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Worth a read if just for the comments section ?

Only ~1775 more to go until they break even.

And that's if they retreat to Russia right away.

 

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Another previously unseen vehicle destroyed - hopefully not that destroyed