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.
“Thanks for posting and good to hear this this phase of the special military operation is now wrapping up.”
Special operation???
You really believe the Kremlin line completely....
Bobl “Ukraine will find out what happens when Russia decides to go to war against them,”
You think Russia losing thousands of soldiers, hundreds of tanks and armoured vehicles and its black sea fleet flagship don’t make it a war???
Special MILITARY Operation. Please pay attention.
I have better sources than Daily Mail.
Your sources being the Kremlin?
Otherwise why would you persist in calling this war a “special operation”??
It’s not my fault if you’re uninformed.
It’s a war.
Calling it a “special operation” is Putin’s propaganda that fell apart in February.
3 months in and the “special operation” cost the lives of thousands of Russian lives and has less territory today than it had on March 2nd
No one is calling it a “special operation”. Get with the program.
The members of the Worship Soros church will not like what you wrote. Ditto the Biden worship crowd. Along with those who believe that the Republican and Democrat source of dirty must be protected and maintained.
Russia’s invaders are the ‘orcs’.
The Orkrainians are the Fighting Ukrukhai from the Lord of the Rings.
Meat was back on the menu every brunch after the morning shelling at the Azovstal steel plant, before it surrendered...
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Orks are the invading Russians:
Orks are the monstrous anthropoids name given to the monstrous anthropoids JRR Tolkien gave to violent, untrustworthy, and destructive wreaking havoc wherever they go. However in Beowulf, orcs can be translated as ‘ogres and monsters’. These mercenary Russian monsters just cannot help themselves!
Orkrainians are the hideous Azov battalion monsters who kill civilians and use civilians as human shields.
Fortunately, the Russians have taken those monsters out of circulation.
In 2016 a photo briefly emerged on the internet in which Utkin appeared together with Russian President Vladimir Putin. All who saw it treated it like proof that Putin has a state army, and his own private army. An army for all circumstances – even a sudden palace rebellion.
Utkin first fought in Syria on the side of President Bashar al-Assad as part of the Russian mercenary group Slavic Corps. After suffering a defeat from the rebel forces, the Slavic Corps returned to Moscow and its leadership was sentenced to prison: mercenaryism is formally illegal in Russia.
Upon returning to Russia, Utkin departed to Ukraine, heading his own group of mercenaries. Its name, Wagner, comes after Richard Wagner, a favorite composer of Adolf Hitler, for whom Utkin allegedly holds affection.
The Slavic Corps veterans were seen both in the Crimea in February 2014 and then in Donbas, where they fought alongside Russian militants. According to the Russian media, the Wagner squad could have been involved in the killing of several warlords of the so-called “Luhansk People’s Republic.”
Well-paid private military companies are an increasingly important component of Moscow’s strategy in the Donbas and elsewhere providing the Kremlin with a serious force that it can use as it likes and then plausibly deny whenever that suits its purposes, according to RFE’s Andrey Dikhtyarenko.
Among the many such Russian companies are Wagner, MAR, E.N.O.T. Corp, and the Slavyansky korpus, whose mercenaries make from 2500 to 6,000 US dollars a month, far more than Russian soldiers are paid and thus at least in principle far more ready to do whatever they are ordered to against non-Russians or against insubordinate Russian forces.
You are confused. The Orkrainian name is assigned to the evil done by the Azov Nazis [the Fighting Ukrukhai]: rape, targeted murder of civilians, human shields, pillage, et cetera ad nauseam.
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Orks are the invading Russians
Orks are the monstrous anthropoids name given to the monstrous anthropoids JRR Tolkien gave to violent, untrustworthy, and destructive wreaking havoc wherever they go. However in Beowulf, orcs can be translated as ‘ogres and monsters’.
The Russian invaders as well as these mercenary Russian violent, untrustworthy, and destructive wreaking monsters just cannot help themselves!
Orkranians are the invading Ukrainian Azov guys who tormented helpless civilians for 8 years, and now the Russians are dealing with those monstrous anthropoids who are violent, untrustworthy, and wreak destructive havoc wherever they go in the breakaway Eastern provinces which were formerly part of The Orkraine.
They will answer for their crimes in front of a court, now that they have bent the knee to their betters.
One of them deserves special attention: Alexei Milchakov from a neo-Nazi St. Petersburg organization “Rusich”.
Alexei MilchakovAlexei Milchakov [Ork Nazi from St. Petrsburg, Russia. The separatists’ poster presents Milchakov as “The pride and the glory of Russia”he posted pictures of Ukrainian prisoners of war faces he mutilated.
Another picture, made near Luhansk in September 2014, shows an ear, which was cut off from a Ukrainian soldier.
Orks are the Russians military & are dealing with those monstrous anthropoids who are violent, untrustworthy, and wreak destructive havoc wherever they go.
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