Fake news.
PS
The ship still floats.
My son’s unit in Operation Iraqi Freedom, 299th Army Engineers, MRB (multiple role bridging) out of Ft. Beloit, VA., put up the first Ribbon Bridge in U.S. combat while its’ sister unit, the 54th Engineers, seized the concrete bridge over the Euphrates River, April 3, 2003 at Hindaya, Iraq.
This action by the 3rd ID started its
Baghdad Run from the West while the Marines came in from the East. This helped end the war against the Saddam dictatorship and his eventual capture, trial and execution.
The 299th was awarded a Presidential Unit citation for their actions that day.
My 1991 Gulf War Army unit used M198 howitzers. I had to look up the M777 howitzer on Wikipedia. Apparently the M777 replaced the M198 in the US in 2005.
Side note: in the article is a picture captioned “US Marine gunners test fire an M777 howitzer”. Gun geek that I am, I noticed that one of the Marines is rockin’ an M1911-style pistol with the curved mainspring housing, in what looks like a Kydex holster. Any currently- or recently-serving Marines want to comment? Are these possibly “issue”, or does the USMC have a sensible policy about personal weapons?
The destruction at the pontoon bridge was a cleverly crafted Russian feint designed to lure Ukrainian forces into thinking the Russians actually wanted to conduct an offensive. Stupid Ukrainians fell for it hook line and sinker. š
Fake news. Russia has total control of the air over Ukraine.
Do you really think they’re going to just let a significant army group get wiped out by artillery and juset be nice guys and not bomb them??
Our fr Putin supporters will tell you all sources except TASS are alien.
The truth they will tell you is that Rossiya has won all the way to the coast...
The Atlantic coast ...
Of the USA ...
Still pushing this fake news i see.
Isn’t it amazing how those Zombies got right back in them destroyed tanks and captured another city just north of that crossing?
,(since it’s been on the ISW map for more than a week ,the info source must have been the uke general staff...)
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Finally a plausible description of these pontoon crossings over the last 10days or so (aka ātampon crossingsā if you listen to defense Politics Asia - which is actually good and rather balanced)..
at least 4 crossings - 2 thwarted,1-successful-1- partly successful
losses were heavy on both sides..Russians may have lost half to 2/3 of the 75 vehicles in the photo. Rus artillery has also been accurate..from link below āthe hills were littered with ukranian bodiesā. The russians control a swath of territory on the Bilohrivka side of the river that stretches from Bilohrivka to Rubizne. The Rus captured one town and fighting continues in two others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qyr06Ydw5w
bkmk
No steel shortage in the Ukraine bonus round found.