Attack On Europe: Documenting Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine (10-MAR-2022)

ORYX ^ | 10-MAR-2022 | ORYX

[SpeedyInTexas]

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.

[dangus]

Now up to 169.

[ThunderSleeps]

...but their reputation as well.

Excellent point. There had been at least a little bit of believing the Russians were 10 ft tall and unstoppable. I'll admit when I heard they had initiated the invasion I thought "Well that s**ks, it'll be over for Ukraine in a matter of a few days." Apparently not so.

Due to some combination of tentative/restrained or ill-conceived plan, tactical incompetence, Ukrainian resolve, celebrity endorsements, and Ukrainian flags posted on social media...(ok, those last two are not serious) the Russians have shown themselves to not be the armored fist everyone expected.

[jdsteel]

“I really think Little Pukin is F*ed. Russia will eventually lose this war.”

I really hope you are right, but I don’t put it past Putin to use Chemical, Biological and even Nuclear weapons to achieve his goals.

[xkaydet65]

A ground force of 250K is a lot different from Brezhnev’s Red Army of the 70s. Until Reagan’s rebuilding the only thing that kept the Reds at bay was Arthur and nukes and the belief we’d use them. Had they moved thru the Fulda Gap in 77 they’d have been at the Rhine in a week.

[mrsmith]

Oryx is a great ‘tweeter’ on wars.
Having a heck of a time keeping up with the losses on both sides but is making an honest and worthy effort.

His retweets are constantly helpful and informative too.

Notwoofer, Elint, and Abraxas Spa are good war tweeters too.

[mrsmith]

True.
What makes Oryx exceptional is he is a “just the facts ma’am” guy... well, mostly.

[SpeedyInTexas]

“Now up to 169.”

Yep. I just post once a day, around noonish. In Vegas for a short trip, so on “Vegas time”.

Number keeps going up.

[SpeedyInTexas]

“Nuclear weapons”

With Russian troops on the ground in Ukraine, it is hard for Little Pukin to use tactical nukes. His own troops will die.

[bravo whiskey]

My battle position was in the Fulda Gap in 1977.

[clearcarbon]

" The world now knows that their conventional forces are not the juggernaut that was once so feared and respected."

That's not good for Russian arms sales nor is it good for Russia to look weak to China. To Russia, China must be looking uglier every day with its continuing theft of American technology as well as it's build up of modern arms and advancement into space.

[allendale]

The greatest long term strategic threat to Russia has never been Europe, Ukraine or the United States. It has always been China. China with its teeming population, limited resources and propensity for famine has always looked at the underpopulated, rich Russian far eastern, Pacific lands and the unexploited treasure house of Siberia and have coveted them. Serious Russian military and security people realize that if the circumstances were right, an existential war with China, despite nuclear shields, is far more likely than war with the West. These military and security people, as well as the Chinese, now realize that Russia is far less capable of defending these territories than previously thought.

[dware]

The world now knows that their conventional forces are not the juggernaut that was once so feared and respected.

I've been thinking that myself. Seems Putin sorely underestimated the will of the people of Ukraine. If Ukraine can hold off the invaders this long, and with such losses, well, Russia ain't got nothing on more advanced and developed Countries.

Except, they have nukes, and a dictator crazy enough to use them...

[jdsteel]

Not if he withdraws his troops a bit.

Though I think chemical weapons are more likely.