Posted on 11/14/2024 9:32:10 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Vladimir Putin has been forced to call up dozens of creaking T-55 tanks used by Russia's Hollywood as props in war films.
The army has raided the Mosfilm warehouses in its desperation to invade Ukraine.
Desperate Russian president Putin thanked movie chief Karen Shakhnazarov for the outdated Cold War military hardware during a Kremlin meeting.
'We have handed over to the [Russian] Armed Forces 28 T-55 tanks, eight PT-76 tanks, six BMPs (combat vehicles) and eight tractors [that] we had stored at the military-technical base,' Shakhnazarov said.
'I found out that there was a need, contacted the Ministry of Defence and they took these vehicles. In short, these are our results.'
Putin acknowledged the importance of the contribution of the geriatric military equipment. 'We are proud of Mosfilm - thank you,' he said.
Shakhnazarov branded the move 'charitable assistance' by the Russian film industry to Putin's war.
The T-55 is a Soviet-made main battle tank first produced in the late 1950s.
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NO ONE can beat the INFLATABLE vehicles the USA/BRITS DID in WW II.
Ukraine has lost 222,395 personnel wounded and killed in all directions since the start of the invasion of the Kursk region - from August 6 to November 11, 2024 (97 days), according to the Russian Defense Ministry
Is this the fourth or fifth Ukrainian army?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo4YfHWmpPk
In the last 97 days the Donetk Republic, Ukrainian casualities are being reported as 67,370:
Kursk 30,640
Kypyansk 46,270
Pokrovskoe 49,715
Donetsk 67,370
..........222,295*
*Russian MOD
Zelinski, ‘Ve R Vinng” The green t-shirt is running around trying to blackmail Trump by building Fat-boy nukes. He did in NYC and walked it back, then it comes out again this past week.
My dad joined the Army for WWII. He took basic at Camp Warren (now Warren AFB) WY.
He trained with a 1917 bolt action rifle. He turned it in when he left basic. He asked when he would be issued a weapon.
He was told his gaining unit would supply his rifle, as these were recovered from causality. The kind Sgt also added, “Don’t worry kid, they have plenty of causalities”.
He was tickled when his got his hands on his M-1 carbine....
Bolt action rifles don’t jam much and are reasonably accurate but are a step above muzzle loaders. Good sniper weapon, though.
Both sides have made extensive use of props/decoys to draw enemy drones and artillery fire, so this sort of thing makes perfect sense. Not as an act of desperation as the delusional zeeper crowd would like to think, but simply as a matter of good tactical thinking. And I’ll say the same if the Ukrainians do something similar (which I presume has long been the case anyway.)
I love how they recycle these stories. Isn’t it time for “putin has cancer” stories again?
Pretty sure he’s dead and so is his body double and so they’re down to using his backup body double. Russia will collapse any day now, I tell ya! :-D
Some big, beautiful common sense on the subject, which seems to be rare round these here parts. I concur with your assessment.
What it actually is, is PR for the home front.
It’s like in WWII, a village buying a T-34 Tank.
Like cities in America buying a P-47 and getting the town’s name on it.
And like those meaningless “scrap aluminum drives” where housewives turned in their aluminum pots and pans.
It’s a way to make people feel like part of the effort. Nothing more, nothing less. But it excites Zeepers.
I like the one where Putin’s body is deep in some ice cave in Siberia. I’d love to see an update on that one.
“reasonably accurate”
Wouldn’t snipers use the most accurate rife?
Not a sniper so I will defer to any snipers.
Too bad. My idea is much cooler. Just like those inflated M4s in East Anglia in 44.
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