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Bad News For Kyiv’s Tanks; Russia To Flood Battlefield With Krasnopol-M2 Laser-Guided Sniper Shells
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Posted on 08/31/2023 6:52:54 PM PDT by ganeemead

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To: Alter Kaker
I speak better English than most US banana republic government apparatchiks like you and Apparatchik, being as how* I matriculated & graduated in the upper echelons of the former American Republic's schools.

*a tip o' the hat to Dave Barry

41 posted on 08/31/2023 8:01:48 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Apparatchik

“...the old Copperhead rounds we used to train to shoot and hardly even used in Desert Storm, and eventually scrapped them.”


How does Excalibur do on moving targets ?


42 posted on 08/31/2023 8:03:46 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Allegra

Exactamundo.


43 posted on 08/31/2023 8:04:58 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: kiryandil

MY English is better than yours.
And I am, of course, a foreigner.
And an engineer besides.


44 posted on 08/31/2023 8:09:58 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Alter Kaker

Nope. 78% of those polled in the Ukraine in the past week blame Zelensky for the ghastly corrupt situation they find themselves in. Very telling.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4176561/posts

It’s one big reason why he needs this war to continue, as he can use it as an excuse to remain dictator-for-life and avoid holding an election.


45 posted on 08/31/2023 8:09:59 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: tennmountainman

It is not any skin off Zelensky’s ass if every last Ukrainian male is killed. Then Biden Worshipers and their Allies including the god of South Carolina voters, Lindsey Graham] they will start Sending American Servicemen and women to shed their blood. Besides Biden and Zelensky will get a cut from every order of arms and ammunition.


46 posted on 08/31/2023 8:10:36 PM PDT by sport
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To: Brian Griffin

“Russian armament is being updated across the board.”

So they’re maybe someday going to catch up to the 1990’s?


48 posted on 08/31/2023 8:12:39 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: ganeemead; All

Do we know what the previous Krasnopol production was?

I saw somewhere that it was 3 out of 100 shells for Russian artillery.

If that is escalated by a factor of 25, Yikes !

I have believed for a while that drone corrected artillery was the future. (based on the conflict in the Donbass before 2022). But using drones as the laser guide takes it to the next level.

Add to that the Krasnopol is 1/10 the cost of the Excalibur...


49 posted on 08/31/2023 8:13:21 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Reverend Wright
How does Excalibur do on moving targets?

Indeed, not well. But then again, the high-value targets one might shoot at with a $70,000 round are typically not moving - command posts, ammo dumps, etc. The GPS-guided Excalibur only needs accurate grid coords, not some shlub with a laser designator with direct observation to paint the target and thereby paint himself as a target. But sure, spend 7 million rubles to hit one moving vehicle….
50 posted on 08/31/2023 8:13:50 PM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
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To: MeganC

You, again, do not own this website, madam. I don’t think the rules of this website include allowing for vile personal attacks, as you engage in ad infinitum, nor do they allow for open wishes of genocide and “eradication” of a peoples. I would say you’re the one who has been given an extraordinary level of special rights in continuing to post here.


51 posted on 08/31/2023 8:14:43 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: buwaya

No, it ain’t, flip.


52 posted on 08/31/2023 8:14:43 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
This is Zelenskyy’s wife. Compare that to the wildebeest you are probably married to (or your dominant hand, I suspect).


53 posted on 08/31/2023 8:18:15 PM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
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To: Reverend Wright

“How does Excalibur do on moving targets ?”

Poorly. But that is because the US gave up on trying to make Copperhead work. It was too difficult to use a laser designator at combat ranges. A fire and forget missile like Javelin was easier to use and safer.

That was besides the inherent problems of maneuvering a fast ballistic projectile in real time.

I doubt that the Russians have solved the problems in tracking moving ground targets, and of maneuvering ballistic projectiles.


54 posted on 08/31/2023 8:19:43 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I have never attacked you. That’s all you attacking, trolling, and stalking me.


55 posted on 08/31/2023 8:19:43 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC; fieldmarshaldj

Indeed - he is really creepy.


56 posted on 08/31/2023 8:22:07 PM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
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To: Apparatchik

Very charmed and privileged life being married to a corrupt warmonger and pervert. Even gets to go on a Vanity Fair photo shoot right in the middle of a war. I wouldn’t want to be her, however, when they finally get the Ceaușescu treatment they so richly deserve for their high treason.

As for your speculation on my marital status, I’m sure that’s pure projection on your part, comrade.


57 posted on 08/31/2023 8:23:52 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: MeganC

You make personal attacks in almost every post, madam. And stop playing the victim, it truly rings hilariously hollow.


58 posted on 08/31/2023 8:25:28 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: MeganC

They write endless offensive and obscene comments and then claim to be offended.
Reading through their threads is not exactly a learned discussion of the war.


59 posted on 08/31/2023 8:25:47 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Apparatchik

Blank FReeper page: sign of a troll. Personal attacks in lieu of substantive arguments: another sign of a troll.

Try again, comrade.


60 posted on 08/31/2023 8:26:48 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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