What does this guy think about that?
Posted on 11/04/2023 7:36:31 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
What does this guy think about that?
A couple hundred missiles could take out the entire Black Sea fleet.
Germany needs to step up.
RuZZian Boys are dying by the thousands every month.
Celebrate!
Sing and Dance!
“What does this guy think about that?”
His facial expression indicates he is confused and has no answer.
“01.11.23
Destroyed 🇷🇺 SPG 2S9 “Nona-S” near Verbove, Zaporizhzhia oblast. “
https://twitter.com/lost_warinua/status/1720851507422155045
The Israeli army has not officially commented on its involvement in the strike.
Al-Azhar University in Gaza was founded in 1991.
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1720763101765591231
This is what an air strike looks like.
My guess is a 4-ship of F-16s dropping 2 2000# JDAMs each.
Release the Falcons!
https://twitter.com/UkraineINtoucH/status/1720526785555673248
The UKR FPV drone flies over a vehicle to attack the ruzzian drone operator.
Candidate for fav video.
You have only been here 10 weeks and already pro-America/NATO postings on the Russian invasion in Europe are wearing thin on you?
Moscow Re-Organizes Russian Armed Forces (Part One)
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 20 Issue: 164
By: Hlib Parfonov
October 24, 2023 04:53 PM Age: 2 weeks
(Source: Kremlin.ru)
On October 17, Russian forces launched a new offensive in the Avdiivka direction (Ukrinform, October 17). Since then, intense fighting has commenced along various sections of the frontlines.
On October 23, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced that Russia had launched multiple “heavy attacks” in the “Avdiivka, Kupyansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, and Marinka directions” (Kyiv Independent, October 23).
This comes as a reaction to Ukraine’s counteroffensive and demonstrates that Russia has been given too much time to adapt and regroup on the battlefield.
The Russian military has set about re-organizing and reinforcing its units in Ukraine to improve defensive positioning and its ability to launch future offensives.
In December 2022, as part of wide-ranging military reforms, the Kremlin decided to create five new motorized rifle and airborne assault divisions as well as several new army corps.
Russian military officials also agreed to deploy more than ten brigades per division, with the number of soldiers in each expected to increase by two or three times.
The plans for several new aviation regiments and brigades and five new artillery divisions were also announced (Meduza, December 21, 2022).
As of September 2023, significant progress has already been seen regarding the formation of these new units. The most recent developments have mainly involved airborne troops.
Open-source information shows that the 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade in Ulyanovsk has been re-organized into the 104th Guards Airborne Division after its commander was reportedly killed in Ukraine (Meduza, September 18).
Two additional brigades are being formed - the 119th and 299th - that will be added to the 106th and 98th airborne divisions, respectively.
The 299th Air Assault Brigade will be moved to Yaroslavl with its current commander and former first deputy commander of the 11th Airborne Assault Brigade, Colonel Dmitry Burov (Yarinform.ru, August 2)
Russia hopes to reinforce the new divisions with additional mechanized and armored elements. According to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, the 104th Guards Airborne Division will likely be formed along the lines of the 7th and 76th air assault divisions, with the inclusion of tank and artillery battalions (T.me/mod_russia, September 26).
Shoigu also announced that two newly formed airborne assault brigades will join the 104th division. In addition, the 52nd Artillery Brigade has been integrated into the ranks of the airborne units.
This brigade is an analogue of the high-power artillery brigades of the Russian Ground Forces.
The main gun of the brigade is a 152-millimeter (mm) 2A36 Giatsint-B field gun, which represents an important change as the largest caliber of artillery used in the original concept for Russian airborne forces was 122 mm (T.me/art_vdv, August 21).
The new tank battalions demonstrate that the Russian General Staff seemingly reached the same conclusion the Ukrainian military command did in 2015 - namely, the need to strengthen air assault units with heavy equipment to increase their firepower.
Ukraine added tanks and artillery to these units in 2015 to form the 148th Self-Propelled Artillery Battalion of the Air Assault Forces (Na.mil.gov.ua, July 23, 2015).
This development also reflects the Russian military’s experience in Afghanistan, where a separate tank battalion with T-62 tanks was created as part of the 103rd Separate Guards Airborne Brigade (Topwar.ru, May 18, 2016).
Russia has also made progress in organizing the new army corps. The 18th and 25th combined arms armies are being formed, with the land units of the Russian Black Sea Fleet being directly subordinated to the Ground Forces.
This is evidenced by the organization of the new formations based on the 22nd Army Corps and the promotion of the command of that corps to the command of the newly created units. The integration of commands was done to prevent the loss of control over the new corps when they are finally deployed (Iz.ru, July 3).
The Russian High Command is placing special emphasis on forming new high-power artillery brigades. For example, the 17th High-Power Artillery Brigade was recently formed in the Leningrad Military District (Vpk.name, September 4).
An additional five artillery brigades of the same type are still planned to be formed and will include 200 pieces of artillery each (120 2S7M Malka howitzers and 80 2S4 Tyulpan heavy mortars). Russia, however, does not currently possess sufficient equipment to complete this effort due to heavy losses in Ukraine and the overall wear and tear of artillery barrels (Telegra.ph, July 17).
It is quite likely that Moscow will turn to North Korea to deal with the shortage. This has been indirectly confirmed by the distribution of training materials to Russian soldiers for the S-23 180-mm heavy gun, which is not currently in service in Russia.
This gun was used as the basis for creating North Korea’s high-power artillery systems, including the M-1978 Koksan (Author’s interview, September 22).
Additional efforts have been dedicated to integrating non-Russian units into the regular army. The 25th Combined Arms Army has begun absorbing certain volunteer units, especially those from battalions of the ethnically non-Russian republics.
Thus, the 67th Motorized Rifle Division now includes the Bashkortostan 31st Motorized Rifle Regiment and the Tatarstan 72nd Separate Motor Rifle Brigade (Gazeta.ru, August 22).
Cossack units have been a special focus of this approach (see EDM, February 14, October 10). Russia has used the state-registered Cossacks to infiltrate populations in the border regions, especially those with predominantly non-Russian populations, to keep these nationalities down and potentially help with future mobilizations.
Additionally, Moscow has used an increasing number of Cossack conscripts from the Volunteer Assault Corps, which includes the Cossack Don, Terek, Dnepr, and Siberia brigades, as well as the Volga artillery brigade (Topwar.ru, July 14; T.me/Cossack_pika, September 18).
The consolidation of Cossack units into one volunteer corps was done to accommodate the increased use of state-registered Cossacks in Ukraine as the winter campaign approaches.
The Kremlin’s ongoing re-organization of its military units has allowed Russian forces to effectively regroup in defending against Ukraine’s counteroffensive and preparing to launch future offensives (see EDM, September 26, October 4).
Ukraine maintains the initiative on the battlefield, but disagreements and delays in the West regarding future aid to Kyiv risk giving Russia a window to retake control.
The recent clandestine delivery of MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) is a step in the right direction, but it is not enough (Ukrainska Pravda, October 17). As winter approaches, Kyiv desperately needs a recommitment from its Western allies to support the Ukrainian military until Russia is soundly defeated.
Moscow Re-Organizes Russian Armed Forces (Part Two)
By: Hlib Parfonov
November 3, 2023 06:40 PM Age: 21 hours
(Source: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
The series of unsuccessful offensives in the Kupyansk and Avdiivka directions have caused major problems for Russian forces in Ukraine (Ukrinform, October 27; Kyiv Independent, October 29).
The Russian army is losing military equipment at a high rate, which Moscow seemingly considers a worse problem than heavy manpower losses along the front (see EDM, October 31).
The rate of domestic production for critical arms and munitions is well below the rate necessary to adequately replenish growing deficits. Military plants supply the so-called “mobilized” versions of tanks, which are repaired practically from scratch.
The growing supply of equipment with rare modifications or experimental equipment from the late 1980s and early 1990s reveal the truly dire state of affairs in the Russian army (T.me/Tanki-Istoriya-i-sovremenost’, October 23). Such concerns are what originally motivated the Kremlin to announce the mass re-organization of the Russian Armed Forces (see Part One).
The pace of these reforms picked up greatly this past summer. On June 2, Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff Colonel-General Evgeny Burdinsky reported, “In 2023, it is necessary to timely carry out ... the formation of the combined arms and air forces, the army corps, the Azov Naval District, five divisions, and 26 brigades” (Gazeta.ru, June 2).
As a result, Russia’s military districts began carrying out more concerted efforts to re-organize its existing forces and create new formations. Most recently, on November 1, the Kremlin announced plans to integrate 25,000 specialists trained in the use of hi-tech weaponry into the existing Russian brigades as well as newly formed units (TASS, November 1).
In general, the reorganization of the Russian military can be summarized with the following units being created in each military district (see EDM, June 6).
In the Western Military District:
The 3rd Army Corps headquarters was formed at the end of 2022 (ru, December 21, 2022).
The management of the 3rd Army Corps in Karelia is currently being formed.
The 6th Motor Rifle Division and the 17th High-Power Artillery Brigade were also formed (name, September 4).
In the Southern Military District:
The 1st Army Corps of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” and 2nd Army Corps of so-called “Luhansk People’s Republic” were created and subordinated to the 8th Combined Arms Army (TASS, February 19).
The 1st Army Corps includes the 1st, 5th, 9th, 110th, 114th, and 132nd motor rifle brigades, 14th Artillery Brigade, and several separate regiments and battalions.
The 2nd Army Corps includes the 4th, 7th, 85th, 88th, and 123rd motor rifle brigades, the 10th Artillery Brigade, and several separate regiments and battalions.
The command of the 18th Army Corps was formed on the basis of the command of the 22nd Army Corps (see Part One).
The command of the 40th Army Corps was merged with the command of the 144th Motor Rifle Brigade.
The 47th and 70th motor rifle divisions were formed and the 52nd Artillery Brigade was created as part of the airborne troops stationed in the Southern Military District.
In the Central Military District:
The command of the 25th Combined Arms Army Reserve was formed (Defence-ua.com, September 21).
The 67th Motor Rifle Division and the 72nd Motor Rifle Brigade were created.
Formation of the 104th Guards Airborne Division is underway on the basis of the 31st Air Assault Brigade.
In the Eastern Military District:
The formation of the 55th Naval Infantry Division in the Pacific Fleet was announced (TASS, April 3).
These reforms represent a significant overhaul in the organization of the Russian Armed Forces. The newly formed units constitute:
Two new combined arms armies with newly formed commands;
Two new army corps, merging commands with those of other units;
Three new motor rifle divisions;
One new motor rifle brigade and four re-organized motor rifle brigades;
Three new motor rifle regiments;
Two high-power artillery brigades;
One new air assault division.
The Kremlin’s re-organization efforts also extended to the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia). This summer, 116 separate special-purpose brigades were added, whose prime area of operation will be the Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine (Temryuckiy Raion, September 6).
In general, the practice of creating new regional battalions within the National Guard has been expanded. For example, the process is already underway to form the Bashkir battalion “Salavat Yulaev” as part of these new units (Asilikul, August 14).
The deployment of these units and the re-formation of the Moscow and Leningrad military districts suggest that Russia expects to use these units as cadres. Given the overall need for more contract soldiers, these units will likely be reinforced with freshly mobilized and conscripted recruits.
On average, 10,000 to 15,000 are reportedly being mobilized every month in Russia to replenish combat units and form new ones. The planned units will presumably be deployed during the next wave of large-scale mobilization, which Moscow continues to avoid.
Mass resignations at state-owned enterprises and the growth in newly created units of mobilized personnel point to the growing possibility that the Kremlin will be forced to launch the next phase of mobilization in the near future and risk enflaming societal tensions with Russia (Author’s interview, October 20).
The red pin is the point of impact.
Blue circles are the positions of the S-400 launchers and 92N6 radar.
The yellow circle is a large radar station in #Kerch.
The orange scribble is the location of the reconnaissance and target designation radar of the S-400 Triumph 91N6 anti-aircraft missile system.
White circles are the positions of the Pantsir-S1 air defense system.
The Ukrainian military carried out a brilliant combined attack, thanks to which they hit an important target and also humiliated Russian air defense.
https://twitter.com/UkraineINtoucH/status/1720880101636587676
The orange scribble is inside the yellow circle, to the left of the impact point.
This facility was heavily guarded.
I believe that taking out the S-300/S-400 radars earlier this week allowed the Storm Shadow launch aircraft to fly closer to the target.
The Kerch bridge is clearly in range.
You thinking about Speedy masturbating is more than a little bit creepy.
Russia just struck a Uke award ceremony with an Iskander M missile. Lots of dead and wounded. Someone probably leaked the time and place, possibly real time. A bit of carelessness on Ukraine’s part. Not sure if there was a VIP presenting medals...
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1720911611085431084
Armored vehicles aren’t what they used to be. Too many threats.
Armored vehicles aren’t what they used to be. Too many threats.
“The Russian MoD confirmed that a ship located at a shipyard in Kerch was damaged as a result of being hit by Storm Shadow missiles.”
https://twitter.com/OSINTNic/status/1720923938669084970
You must be joking.
That’s really stupid, but expected.
Good shooting.
It’s not wearing thin on me, especially in light of all the claims made by people who want Russia to win.
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