Cue the Putlerists here to deny, insult, or otherwise change the subject.
yay for globohomos! Yay for the Biden crime family! Yay for Hunter’s Burisma paycheck!
The Russians and the Chinese have the same approach to war that they have had for centuries. Any cost, human or otherwise, necessary to win is an acceptable cost. The only time that wasn’t true was in WWI, and that was only because Lenin and the Bolsheviks figured it was worth losing the war in order to ensure the revolution—even 100 years ago, the issue was never the issue, the issue was always the revolution.
(Lenin and the Bolsheviks, sounds like a Marxist pop band)
In the modern technological era of AI, pinpoint targeting and drones of many different sorts, not only are land armored vehicles obsolete but so are naval surface combatants. Nor can helicopters or fixed wing aircraft survive over a modern battlefield.
That’s about one a week.
Cue the picture of “ Oh Geez Not This Again” guy….
Russia lost 2/3 of its tanks in Ukraine?
“Is it over yet?”
No. The Russians took what should have been a one-month walkover and instead spent the next thirteen months stepping on their own cranks.
As I understand it, the auto loader made sense in the 1980s before cheaper anti tank rockets.
Now they are death traps.
Does this mean I put my wallet back in my pocket?
Does this mean I can tell my wife she can stop planning to send our son out of the country to avoid a draft?
Tanks are nothing but large mobile iron coffins with high explosives inside. Their use by large is obsolete on a modern battlefield. They are embraced big-time for use on domestic uprisings of regular citizens however, which in America is their intended future role.
The Soviets had a bug up their butt that their tanks had to be shorter than everybody else's to make them a smaller target. The only tank crewman who goes about his business standing erect is the loader, so they reasoned that they could 'compress ' their tanks, make them shorter, by getting rid of the loader and installing an autoloader.
In the US's M1, what ammo remains in the turret is stored in the bustle rack, separated from the crew compartment by a blast shield. The blast shield opens when the loader activates a "momentary" switch and closes when he releases it. Plus it has a halon fire suppression system and the roof of the ammo compartment is designed to blow outward before creating unsurvivable overpressures inside the turret.
But, the Russians are getting destroyed!
The Daily Mail and UK propaganda has eclipsed Baghdad Bob.
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Current situation at Bakhmut city:
#RussianArmy broke #UkrainianArmy defense line & took control over School Nº 2 & Nº 40 & post office thus reaching Chaikovskoho street. The south supply line of Ukrainian forces to the city of Bakhmut is cut now.