Posted on 05/24/2022 6:21:08 PM PDT by delta7
Germany has reportedly supplied Kiev forces with thousands of anti-tank mines on the hopes of slowing down the advance of the Russian military in Ukraine.
In a report released on May 17, Der Spiegel revealed that Germany sent 1,600 DM-12 PARM and 3,000 DM-31 anti-tank mines to Ukraine over the last few weeks.
The German-made DM-12 off-route anti-tank mine, which is mounted on a small tripod, fires a fin stabilized rocket with an effective range of 2 to 40 meters and the ability to penetrate 600 millimeters of armour. The mine incorporates an arming delay of five minutes. It can be detonated either by command or by a fiber-optic trigger cable, which triggers the mine when it is crushed.
DM-12 anti-tank mines have been already spotted in Ukraine. In fact, the Russian military and its allies captured several of them. On May 21, several photos of a recently captured DM-12 mine surfaced online.
The second anti-tank mine, the DM-31, is a German-made copy of the Swedish FFV 028. The DM-31 is a more traditional anti-tank mine.
The mine uses a magnetic influence sensor to detonate, which allows it to attack the full width of the targeted vehicle. When the mine is triggered, a small clearing charge blows away any material that may have been on top of the mine, followed a fraction of a second later by detonation of the main shaped charge.
Supposedly, the mine’s shaped charge can penetrate the belly armour of any tank currently in existence. The DM-31 is yet to be spotted in Ukraine.
Germany moved from the being the main opponent of arming the Kiev regime, to one of its biggest military supporters. Berlin has supplied Kiev forces with loads of weapons, including thousands of anti-tank rockets and anti-aircraft missiles, since the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine.
Like the rest of Kiev’s Western backers, Germany hopes that its military support will eventually lead to the failure of the Russian special military operation.
Dear Ukrainians: Beware of Germans bearing military gifts.
That’s why everyone has started to ignore your “Link Please!” posts. No matter what evidence you are shown, no matter what links you are provided, you just simply dismiss them out of hand.
You’re a provocateur and a fraud.
Grow up.
Which would warm the cockles of your heart.
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Yes it does. The EU ( I travelled in/ out for decades) has turned into a socialist s-hole, Islamist strongholds from Paris to Cologne to Madrid. Illegal alien tent cities all over Cologne, overrun. Between VAT taxes and income taxes, the average EU citizen sees only between 40-52 percent of his paycheck (Switzerland the worst- Germany close), NOT a society to be supported or emulated. They are broke, been charging negative interest rates for years, and steal everything they can from their citizens to fund their governments.
Have you seen what they have ponied up in relief / aid? 24 billion, all the EU can only cough up 24 billion? …and those beggars got vegetable head Joe to pony up 80 billion from the US..I know what Trump would say about that….
We have been had, again.
I hadn't heard that, but they have been reported to have attempted to blow up a dam, that would have flooded a town. I thought they were the good guys?
“Reading numerous non western media, the Ukie farmers are enraged their fields are being heavily mined.”
By the Russians ...
It does seem Ukraine is slowly being pushed out of Donbas by an immense amount of sewage flowing into the country from the Russian toilet. It’s a narrow front now and Ukraine does not have the ability to target Russian airfields, supply lines, etc.
None of this unrings the humiliations Putinist Russia has garnered in recent months. The Moskva is still on the bottom of the sea, Sweden has ended 200 years of neutrality and joined NATO, Russia’s best troops made into sausage at the gates of Kyiv, etc. But no doubt Putinist filth will cheer this on. It’s all they’ve got. Russia and its Potemkin army are the laughing stock of the world tonight.
“I thought they were the good guys?”
“Hold on, Volodya, everything will be fine”: our soldiers dragged a wounded AFU soldier through a minefield for 2 km
t.me/RVvoenkor
TROIKA🏴☠️
‼️🇬🇧“Hold on, Volodya, everything will be fine”: our soldiers dragged a wounded AFU soldier through a minefield for 2 km t.me/RVvoenkor
When crests yell that the Russians are abandoning their own - know that we are pulling out yours too! Give thanks for this Russian mercy.
“No, unlike the NEOCONS here, I would have preferred a peaceful resolution to the issues there. So you guys got your war. You happy?”
You would have preferred Ukraine surrender and give up its sovereignty to Russian interests.
I would have preferred Russia never invaded in the first place. And don’t give me that BS that Russia just wanted to rescue the Russian citizens in the Donbas (had that been their intent, those citizens could have simply gone across the border to Russia, where they are citizens). Had that been Russia’s goal it would not have demanded the complete demilitarization of Ukraine.
So, who is the warmonger? Me, whose preference is that no invasion had taken place in the first place? Or, you, who demands Ukrainian surrender to Russia, or face the Wrath of Vlad for failing to do so?
It’s kind of like an armed robbery. You’re walking down the street and some loutish brute sticks a gun to your head and says, “Your money or your life!” You, you would have given the perp everything you had on you and hoped he wouldn’t shoot you for kicks (which is what you have demanded of Ukraine). If it was me, though, I’d prefer that I had called a cab instead of walking home (no confrontation to begin with).
It was their choice to listen to the Neocons, and now they’re paying the price.
Don’t play stupid, it is a bad look. Forever War is Gulf War I, the Yugoslav War, Somalia, the Afghan War, the “War on Terror,” Gulf War II, and now the Ukraine War. 31 years of never-ending spending, dying, and obscene profit.
It’s my understanding that the deserts of North Africa are still loaded with German land mines from WWII.
Krauts never clean up after themselves.
Still more reliable than our MSM.
“did you read his initial war speech? Did anyone?-I did).”
Yup, I sure did.
“an Independent ethnic Russian Donbass provinces...”
You should have highlighted the operative word: RUSSIAN! Not independent Ukrainian provinces, since they are IN Ukraine. Nope, Russia wants a Russian enclave inside another country, not only loyal to Russia, but “voting” to be annexed BY Russia (which Russia will gladly accommodate). Russia used the same playbook in the Caucasus.
“Don’t play stupid, it is a bad look. Forever War is Gulf War I, the Yugoslav War, Somalia, the Afghan War, the “War on Terror,” Gulf War II, and now the Ukraine War. 31 years of never-ending spending, dying, and obscene profit.”
You’re the one who is stupid, because your analogy isn’t even valid.
In your examples, WE invaded and WE occupied, and WE decided when and how to stay or leave.
In the Russo-Ukraine War we may have some influence (money and materiel), but that is just temporary, and while we may desire a certain outcome, when it comes down to it we will have no say in the matter. So, if the Russo-Ukraine War becomes a Forever War, that will be on the two belligerents, not on us, not on NATO, not on the EU.
“Still more reliable than our MSM.”
Then read Russian propaganda, which you seem to find very credible and objective. But, really, I don’t care what you read.
Plus Syria, Libya, Yemen, and now Somalia once again.
And yes, I am calling you all a bunch of hypocrites for that fact. And don't go assuming I'm a "shirtless Vlad fanboy" either. He's a crooked oligarch that needs to be put down, along with Zelensky, Biden and the rest of them. The only people I have empathy for are the average Ukrainians on the receiving end, and the soldiers on both sides that are being used as cannon fodder in a war between the Great Reset crowd and the criminal nationalists that want just a different version of the reset. If only you people were this vehement about defending America's borders.
I thought world proliferation of land mines was supposed to be bad?
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Cambodia is STILL picking them out of their craw.
turn Europe’s breadbasket fields into one big minefield ?
But I know enough not to trust the MSM.
As per delta’s sources, the glorious Putinist army is already on the banks of the river Rhine and will soon be on the Atlantic.
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