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Russo-Ukrainian War #31: Wagner strikes back ! Strelok 10/21/2023 (Sat) 14:36:45 No. 8822
Only thing we need now are nukes and smooth bore muskets and we've seen it all! >Ukrainian spring summer counteroffensive has failed utterly, without achieving any of its goals. Recommended watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGGS25XFNHk&t=2839s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufouPCVEvdM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsYtZCLBO9k >Russians are slowly chipping away at ukrainian push on Rabotine, at the moment without real results. >Ukrainians are attempting a push in Kherson region >through Dniepr >so far they have captured two villages by the shore >consensus is that it is a suicidal push >Ukrainians have struck russian air base in Berdyansk with ATACMS >lossess depend on who you ask, from 3 helicopters (initial russian claim) lost to 60 (ukrainian propaganda). Anywhere in the region of 9-30 seems reasonable for damaged craft (there is one word for destroyed and damaged in slavic languages) >most likely this is the only time when we see ATACMS, at least unless more are provided. >there were only 12 provided of the cluster munition variety, insufficent for destroying Kerch bridge, which is why Ukrainians wanted them for in the first place >striking Berdyansk and other similiar airports are the only thing they are good for. >6 (+3?) were already used and next time air defences will have easier time when shooting them down. >Russians launch offensive along the entire frontline >the most important of which is attack on Avdievka >Avdievka is ukrainian fortress, fortified for 8th years >its has been used during the war to shell Donetsk city, which makes it a very important target >there is a huge industrial waste pile on the north-eastern edge, called Terrikon. It is the only elevated vintage point, 20 meter high stone outcrop from which you can see entire region >aside from initial push, there have been hardly any other successess so far >fighting is bloody, ukrainian MoD (so 0 credibility) reports almost 10 000 dead since the start of the offensive
>>8822 >Avdievka That whole attack feels like that they either learned nothing, or came to the conclusion that this is genuinely the best they can do if they want to attack. In either case, the other big question is what prompted them to attack exactly. Maybe they think Ukrainians are severely weakened and just want some results before the end of the year, or maybe they think Ukrainians still have enough forces to attack and the main goal here is to finally put them on the defensive again.
>>8822 That "Pz IV" looks like a movie replica. Most likely what it is, used as a decoy
>>8825 They will not get a single kill
>>8825 What are these women going to do? Tik-Tok dances?
>>8827 More than likely they'll get stationed on the non-combat front lines so they can sacrifice more men while keeping their borders busy. Gives Ukraine an excuse to shout "they killin our wymynz genocide!!!!" when Russia opens a new front and wrecks an all-female defensive battalion.
>>8828 Whwn you've already accused the bad goy side of everything under the sun that sort of shit rings hollow past a certain point. Plus the big new poopy bad is the sandniggers. Well new as in switched back to them after Ukraine turned out to be a retarded waste of time and resources I guess.
>>8827 I don't know, but I wish I had those rifles, life is not fair.
>>8828 Makes sense. They need better atrocity propaganda to compete with the experts in israel. Expect lots of stories about mass rape (although I can see at least two that even the Russian army would decline).
>>8823 There was one real fuckup filmed, the rest were inevitable. It is ridiculously fortified and assaulting always will incur huge losses. There is virtually no other way to do this. As for the reasons for attack, well, Ukrainians are obviously drained of manpower and materiel, it is a good time to attack, except for the weather factor but that does not prevent urban combat. if they really captured Terrikon then it is alread a victory.
>>8822 >there is a huge industrial waste pile on the north-eastern edge, called Terrikon "Terricon" (terril conique) is just a generic name for any mining waste pile in Russian, not like it's some kind of unique moniker specific to that location.
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>>8833 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/terril#French https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budonivskyi_District,_Donetsk Funnily enough the wiktionary page uses a picture from Donetsk to illustrate it, although this one is not the one they are fighting for.
>>8825 As an american, i didn't expect them to be this fat.
>>8825 >Hohols deploy stronk independynt brigade, who don't need no man >Vatniks invent superior new drone tech, can sense menses by air a mile away >All the holes sync up their periods after 1 month >On 2023-11-XX: "Komrade, we have very strong signal in the northwestern quadrant" >"Let us roll to glory, Komrades!" >"DAH!!" >??? >"Let's not turn this rape into a murder, ladies"
>>8823 >>8832 Not only is Avdiivka a natural fortress, it's also been heavily fortified over almost a decade of conflict. It's a tough nut to crack, but also a thorn in Russia's side, especially since the hohols shelled Donetsk from there. So this is probably the earliest time they could reasonably launch the offensive, when the other fronts are stabilized and Ukraine is sufficiently worn down. >incur huge losses I have to caution you here, there is an ongoing information war against Russia, so anything you hear about them being pathetic, evil, or taking L's, you have to take with several grains of salt. They have taken some hits while assailing the swine fortress, that's inevitable, but even those losses are being inflated. The Avdiivka offensive is still going well, considering it's a difficult objective. Also, is the server issue sorted yet? I want to contribute more of this stuff.
>go to watch the videos in that post above me >half second play time >5 second load time Holy FUCK why do webms/mp4s randomly take fucking forever to load on this site?
>>8824 >That "Pz IV" looks like a movie replica. Most likely what it is, used as a decoy With bonus of thick trolling. >>8822 >(there is one word for destroyed and damaged in slavic languages) Are you banned from all dictionary sites, or something? https://www.multitran.com/m.exe?l1=1&l2=2&s=destroyed https://www.multitran.com/m.exe?l1=1&l2=2&s=damaged https://www.multitran.com/m.exe?l1=1&l2=33&s=destroyed https://www.multitran.com/m.exe?l1=1&l2=33&s=damaged > >Russians launch offensive along the entire frontline >>8823 >or came to the conclusion that this is genuinely the best they can do if they want to attack. Nobody actually advances on the entire front at once. Usually a wide push is an indirect strategy, meant to probe for weakness and maintain pressure (i.e. keeps the other guys spread via the threat of a secondary breakthrough and more envelopment, even after they figure out where the main attack will be).
>>8838 Yes that is normal with larger webms. Shitty format. >>8833 >>8839 Hey I get paid for shilling not for learning foreign linguistics.
>>8838 Works on my machine.
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Old news, it's all about our allies at Israel now. G*d speed
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>>8837 >1st one Goddamn, that's some extremely well made propaganda. Short, relatable, brutal and to the point with great production values. Rusnigs know their shit!
>>8837 >propandorino/10, would surrender again
>>8837 >Not only is Avdiivka a natural fortress, it's also been heavily fortified over almost a decade of conflict. It's a tough nut to crack Why can't Russians arty it into oblivion like with Mariopul/Azovstal? Granted it's not a full encirclement but don't they still have an overwhelming artillery advantage?
>>8838 >Holy FUCK why do webms/mp4s randomly take fucking forever to load on this site? Same here, gypsies probably stealing server bandwidth.
>>8845 They probably have most of those artillery systems deployed somewhere else to push back the Ukrainians squatting on their tiny gain of land in Robotyne as well as attacks near Bakhmut. And the fighting hasn't even reached the city yet. So they can't concentrate as much artillery as they want on a single front.
>>8845 They can and it is precisely what they are doing, now with extra glidebombs added to the mix. In other news Russians started tunneling towards Avdievka and tanks were spotted past Rabotine on the ukrainian side which is rather unusual
>>8837 >5th vid >using pallets to make walkways I like seeing such everyday things being repurposed for war.
So that kike Netanyahu has killed, on average, 110 children per day (defining 'child' as <=14yo), and gets Western applause 'he dindu nuffin''. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/22/children-in-gaza-developing-severe-trauma-after-16-days-of-bombing OTOH, Literally Putler has an international arrest warrent out for saving the (Russian-speaking) kids from the warzone that kike comedian was counting on hiding his men behind: https://twitter.com/LizzMurr56/status/1716006253217108022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eREr43Xl7ck Really poor episode, fucked chronology and diversionary attacks on other frontlines are not even mentioned. Really I am dissapointed.
>>8851 >fucked chronology Seemed accurate to me based on what I was following in-thread? What was wrong with it? >and diversionary attacks on other frontlines are not even mentioned I thought the whole thing with Avdiivka was that it's far enough from conventional supply lines that they wouldn't hear word of diversionary tactics (and Ukraine went balls-deep with reinforcements instead of dealing with those diversions anyways)?
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Avdeevka waste heap is now reported to be under complete Russian control.
If the official Wikipedia narrative is to be believed Russians must be quite thorough in their honorable embracement of Putindo, how else would the Ukrainians only capture 18 Russian soldiers after killing 3000 of their comrades along with 200 tanks, 800 unarmored vehicles, 50 aircraft and a strategic anti-semitic congregation of Wagnerite homophobe officers with 666 high-ranking casualties bringing certain doom to the Russian war effort just like Prigozhin's misguided attempt to bring friends earlier during Operation Mikhail.
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>>8852 >Seemed accurate to me based on what I was following in-thread? What was wrong with it? I just have a feeling like this. Certainly less effort was made to deduce what the fuck actually happened than in his other videos. Like, both pincers were pretty much simultanous, not one after the other, after that there was rush into the city outskirts from the south then a lot of grinding. Battle for terrikon is just glossed over. As in it is presented as russian capture day one which was not a case in any capacity. No mention that the lossess from that pic in the OP are accumulated from years of fighting and it is unknown which are recent and in what condition which even ukrops admit. >>8853 Godspeed . But I would be afraid about tunnels under and inside of that terricon, I bet they are there and AFU forces will be able to pop out and retake it time after time but we will see. I would do that if I had to defend a slag heap.
>>8855 >But I would be afraid about tunnels under and inside of that terricon Can you even dig tunnels trough those waste heap? I'm not familiar with them, other than seeing them as I pass them by when driving. Aren't those things mostly lightly compacted and therefore loose soil?
>>8856 >>8855 Yeah tunneling through some bullshit that was just dumped there over the past couple decades seems like a bad idea, even tunneling through a lot of regular ground has a pretty high risk of cave ins. But I don't know much about slag heaps either.
>>8857 I'd expect they are reinforced/butressed as they are dug in, as would be typical -- especially with loamy type materials.
>>8858 Reinforced enough to handle tunneling? Do they anticipate that kind of stuff when making slag heaps? I'm genuinely curious, I didn't even know what a slag heap was until these past couple posts.
>>8859 My apologies, I meant the tunnels themselves not the general mounds.
>>8837 How did all those Ukrainian guys die on that tunnel system? They must have been shot to death? Seems like you could have put up a better fight with those numbers.
>>8856 Not really but they had enough time to reinforce the tunnels. As in literally dig up a portion of the heap and put concrete pipes under it to prevent caveins. >>8861 As far as I know first lines of trenches were bombed and shelled heavilly, most of them most likely were had by shrapnel and overpressure.
>β€œWe now have weapons systems which have taken down 24 planes in five days,” the minister was quoted as saying in a press release. https://www.rt.com/russia/585749-shoigu-ukrainian-planes-downed/ What did he mean by this?
>>8863 >Shoi- Anyway.... Jokes aside, the Russians have been changing their SAM / A2A tactics, which did give very satisfactory results in previous week or two, if they're to be believed. From what I've understood it goes something like this. A-50 AWACS have now begun their air patrols closer to the contact lines, while still being out of Ukrainan SAM ranges. Russian LRAAM carrier fires a missile while having height advantage over its target and only sporadicaly pings Ukrainan aircraft for correction of missile vector, osn terminal velocity of the missile, AWACS does active spotting, illumination and painting of the target which is transmitted to missiles already in flight and on the approach. This tactics supposedly gives almost no reaction time to Ukrainan planes, who previously had enough of a warning and time to do something like a overshot maneuver or energy bleed. Nothing revolutionary in the new Russian tactics really, just a modified version of yours standard AWACS assisted Hunter-Killer procedure. That being said, I'd call bullshit on claimed number of downed Ukrainan aircrafts.
>>8863 I read about russians using 400km air to air missile now. Coupled with recon-fire complex working well it might be possible, ukrainians have been proved to, somehow, use airbases as close as 70 km from the frontline. >>8864 >That being said, I'd call bullshit on claimed number of downed Ukrainan aircrafts. Yeah that would be like, everything they had left. I guess if we do not see any airstrikes from ukrainian side it might be true.
Dima thinks the plane losses are viable, check out with previous reported losses. Also the video from flag planting shows that they do have dugouts there, but more like trenches than tunnels. Terrikon is under russian control and they are pushing into factory which is now in the grey zone. Shit is fucking ridiculous.
>>8866 >Terrikon is under russian control and they are pushing into factory which is now in the grey zone. Then unless Russia clutches defeat from the Jaws of victory, this whole affair is a matter of when rather than if. It won't be good if Ukraine hasn't distributed winter uniforms yet.
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>>8867 >It won't be good if Ukraine hasn't distributed winter uniforms yet. At this rate they will not need to. Also some stuff from 4/k/. I am keeping tabs on it, pro ukrainian shilling has died down a little. As in these are the same retards but there are less threads made.
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>>57779 how was that counteroffensive? lol, so glad you subhumans have been massacred.
>>8868 those Ukrainians are sitting ducks. Just a total massacre.
>>8866 >Dima Today I noticed he corrected himself after accidentally using proper English grammar. >we hardly receive anything... we hardly receive naahthink from this direction He's memeing himself into talking like Ren Hoek.
>>8840 >>8841 yea, they work fine for me. could be an issue on his end. >>8843 >>8844 my thoughts exactly. if I had to direct a propaganda video, I couldn't have done a better job myself. it reminds me of some WWII propaganda I've seen, the way it works to get into their head. >>8849 yea, it's pretty cool. war really brings out what things CAN do, as opposed to what they're designed to do. >>8861 I'd assume >>8862 is correct. Maybe thermobaric weapons were involved, but I'm unsure. >>8868 major oof, especially the 2nd vid. >>8869 I feel for the slavs pulled into this mess, but still, the Ukrainians should know better than to be sacrificial pawns for GAE/Atlanticists/Empire of Lies. >>8871 kek
>>8872 I only ever have problems loading videos on this shithole.
>>8868 >ground completely covered with craters And this ain't their first rodeo through there either. >>8869 >takes the shitty bait Have some standards.
>>8871 I miss the times when every report had fierce fightings with personal armored carriers and swarm drone tactics.
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>1 Leo borked, longer version: https://files.catbox.moe/ggq9hx.MP4 /k/ope on 4 says it hit turret hydraulics and everything is fine. >2 Rip mickey. >3 Russian new (unsuccesfull ?) missile test. Dunno.
>>8876 >3 That's testing of Yars ICBM missile system. The test was successful, no idea what that atmospheric phenomenon is called though .Probably has something to do with the extreme cold.
>>8876 Does Ukraine even have hydraulic fluid to replace if their hydraulics get busted?
>>8876 >/k/ope on 4 says it hit turret hydraulics and everything is fine. So I take it the explosion'y things + flames belching out of the tank's interior are all part & parcel of 'everything is fine'? :^)
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>>8876 >>8877 Rockets can look weird in the high upper atmosphere, especially in cold regions. Just look at the spirals that SpaceX launches routinely leave. If I had to guess, it maybe had a stage separation at the end there. That would explain why the exhaust trail stopped, and why it briefly seemed to split in two.
>>8876 >he just wanted to do barrel rolls
>>8869 Anon that's a jew, just report and hide.
Y'know what? I appreciate everyone on this board. Otherwise, I wouldn't have a /k/ to use at all; I'm not on the internet much anymore, so I don't know what really happened -- what that whole mess was -- during & after 8ch fell apart, so this place is the only active splinter I know of. I genuinely just appreciate that there exists at least one place where I can reaffirm that reasonable -- or at least genuine -- men still exist in this sphere of interest(s).
>>8883 There are others, but this one is special. The remnants of /pol/, /v/, and /k/ all seem to be huddled together here like the stragglers from a lost battle, greeting the kikes/feds, tourists, and newfriends that trickle in as if nothing ever changed. It's a weird feeling, but I appreciate you too Strelok, and all the others.
>>8877 >>8880 Those are contrails/exhaust but because the rocket is spinning in flight it's getting thrown outward. The spiral cloud itself doesn't actually spin, that's an optical illusion from the gasses moving outwards. >>8883 Sir, you appear to be lost for this is a Romanian basket weaving forum.
>>8885 You seem to get it better than I do, so can you help me understand why the outer part of the trail keeps pace with the rest of it in the spacex video? I feel like it should leave trails instead of move along perfectly like a flying galaxy. Is it somehow preserving all the momentum from the rocket?
>>8886 In the SpaceX one, it's venting excess fuel rather than actually firing the engine. Both the trail and the rocket are simply orbiting, and because they're orbiting at the same altitude and effectively the same velocity (since the venting speed is a tiny fraction of orbital speed), they can't be on very different orbits and must (more or less) move together. >Is it somehow preserving all the momentum from the rocket? Of course. Momentum is conserved, and where would it go?
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>>8886 >can you help me understand why the outer part of the trail keeps pace with the rest of it in the spacex video? Because every single one of the trillions of particles are all traveling in orbit around the Earth, with little disturbance from atmospheric friction once in space. Therefore, they all are each independently following their own trajectories in orbit from the instant they departed from the maneuvering gas nozzle as the rocket rolled it's orientation. >tl;dr It's basic orbital mechanics. Since they were incrementally all sprayed out in a spiral as the rocket rotated, they all maintained that arrangement as they entered independent orbits. Hope that makes sense, Strelok.
>>8887 >Where else would it go W-well, someone said upper atmosphere, so I assumed there would be at least some thin layer of gases to disperse it or slow it down >>8888 That confirms it, thank you both for the explanation. I guess I didn't realize how high up the thing was.
>>8889 >I guess I didn't realize how high up the thing was. Y/w. Yeah, I've seen enough space launches to get a feel for it. This conglomeration may or may not be in 'space' yet (the general scientific consensus is that for Earth, space begins at 100K feet/20 miles), but clearly it's well above 99.999999% percent of it (and therefore practically no aerodynamic drag that would destroy the general spiral orbital arrangement). Another aspect that may be a bit hard to grasp at first is the scale of the grouping. It's probably YUGE at that point -- maybe 20+ miles across (and ofc would extend to hundreds/thousands of miles as it continues dispersing along the independent trajectories), and so what little disturbances that are happening are hard to even discern by eye. And, at 17,500mph, you really don't have a lot of time to analyze it regardless. Cheers.
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>>8883 >I appreciate everyone on this board. This is a /christian/ occupied board, by using this board you accept jesus as your lord and saviour
>>8883 I find it strange that you say that now, given that it's been in decline for a while and the past couple weeks have been a complete shitshow.
>>8890 >99.999999% percent of the atmosphere*
>>8883 Glad you found your way here, friend. Generally, the usual roundup from the 8ch days are to be found here, but the flavor has changed (primarily from the history/drama of the webring era, I'd imagine).
>>8883 same to you! this is one of the few places where you can have a sane discussion of the real war, as opposed to the fantasy war. >so this place is the only active splinter I know of. check the header, there's a webring full of other bunkers and new frens.
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>>8849 In the places where ground and climate provide lots of dirt pallets are routinely used this way. >>8863 Let’s see. Even old S-300 and Buk ukies had are better than anything NATO could give them. Russian systems are a generation ahead of those. Air defense had to be thickened above and beyond the norm when it turned out unreliable against Stormshadow, if temporarily. Then there were misgivings that NATO may do something stupid… In such conditions, if there actually were 24 planes flying close enough to swat them in less than a week, it’s desperation. They are used up like there’s no tomorrow, because they see there probably won’t be one. Of course, it’s also possible that he was given a report where all intercepts were lumped together and 24 includes drones. >>8891 This only works with fish.
>>8876 >>8879 It did indeed only hit the right-side smoke launchers and the main hydraulic pump. I don't know if the fire we see later is caused by the 32L of oil in the pump or if it somehow spread into the ammunition storage. But nobody must have died from that hit.
>>8883 If you actually like the look of the absolute state of what is supposed to be a weapons board you're part of the problem and I hope you die.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67234144 https://archive.ph/xqK0r >Ukraine war: Russia executing own retreating soldiers, US says How long until they say that Hamas is fighting alongside them?
>>8899 >How long until they say that Hamas is fighting alongside them? Probably just about the same time they reveal that a big influx of Hamas have been discovered operating within Burgoyimland.
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>>8895 >other bunkers and new frens
>>8901 Kek. Looks like it might be some kind of Urbex?
>>8897 >It did indeed only hit the right-side smoke launchers and the main hydraulic pump. All the same that tank is effectively kill, best case is the turret needs a complete overhaul or replacement after that fire and I don't Ukraine has the means or the parts for that.
>>8901 I'll be honest, I made sure to check that that was a jpg before I opened it, in case there was going to be some APNG jumpscare.
>>8904 Kek.
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lol lmao
>>8906 Lol. I saw more than 8 knocked out pieces of UAF hardware yesterday alone, posted on Telegram.
>>8906 Ghost of Kiiiv 2: The New Haunt?
>>8906 Why are they so fucking bad at propaganda? Sure the Russians lie about their numbers too but they at least attempt to make it believable. No one is going to buy that level of one sided losses especially when you're two years into an achingly slow slapfight, if it was that overwhelming Ukraine would own half of Russia by now.
>>8909 The NPC's believe almost anything, it seems. Not sure if they're retards, or if they're suspending disbelief and shutting off critical faculties to believe in their ukrainian shangri-la, or some combination thereof. I'd estimate that the numbers given for Russian losses are about 10x the actual figures (give or take a few), while Ukrainian losses are fabricated and exist only to provide a bit of realism (they'd probably put zero if they could get away with it).
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>>8906 >>8908 >inb4 hasbara shills retroactively declare Luigi's Mansion as Russian propaganda
>>8909 >, if it was that overwhelming Ukrainians are lying and they are losing, but don't act like K:D ratio is what decides wars. Just look at WW2. By K:D ratio alone the Germans completely and utterly ROFLstomped the Soviet Union. And yet they lost the war anyway.
>>8912 >don't act like K:D ratio is what decides wars I'm not and never claimed that was the case, now stop putting words in my mouth before I put my cock in yours.
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>>8913 > if it was that overwhelming Ukraine would own half of Russia by now. <I'm not and never claimed that was the case
>>8822 >Only thing we need now are nukes and smooth bore muskets and we've seen it all! Nukes already were transparently implied (as a part of overall escalation): https://thesaker.si/saker-archive/the-dire-significance-of-putins-feb-21-speech/ And APS (underwater pseudo-Kalashnikov nailgun) is smoothbore, IIRC.
>>8914 >K:D ratio is, in general, not what decides wars >the K:D ratio Ukraine claims is so extreme that it would have been an exception to this It's not hard to figure out what he might have meant, you retarded Turk rape-baby.
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>>8916 If you're going to attack somebody's flag then don't hide your own, bitch. Then again it's crystal clear that you're an amerilard, in fact you're the very faggot I was replying to earlier trying to pretend that he's got somebody else backing his stupid ass take. Reminder that it's who you started throwing insults for absolutely no reason. Anyway, >the K:D ratio Ukraine claims is so extreme that it would have been an exception to this The K:D ratio that Ukraine claims wouldn't be an exception to the rule, because their claims are still baby mode compared to the utterly ridiculous losses that the Germans inflicted to the Soviets in WW2. Meanwhile you say that if Ukraine's claims were true, not only would they have won the way, they would have also taken over half of Russia. Now your next reply will be "nuh-uh durr hurr i love to eat the burger"
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>612 since the entire Russian military was stopped cold by some hohol rednecks with a few NATO gadgets. This war has been really disappointing. >Putin fanboys cheering that the vatniks are advancing in Avdiivka, and it's only costing them 1 vehicle per meter. What the fuck. As we close in on the two year mark, it's clear that Russian has thrown everything they have into this conflict, with nothing to show other than their initial gains. Conversely, Ukraine has only received average NATO gear, and is slowly starting to receive more advanced toys (e.g., ATACMS). This will continue through next year, including the deployment of F16s and C-UAS. Based on statements by Russian leaders, it seems clear that the longterm plan is to hope that... America gets bored and forgets about Ukraine? Not that Ukraine is in a winning position here, it's unlikely they will push back against entrenched positions. But the war of attrition is slowly moving to their advantage, which will continue into next year unless Russian is able to leverage a non-military advantage (war in the Middle East, China, etc). But this just reinforces the perception that the Russian military is a colossal failure, because we need a non-military solution to a military problem. So what does the 2024 battle plan look like for each side? For Ukraine, they are going to hold on as their miltech scales up. For Russia, they are going to wait for an American election? Hope the Middle East blows up? What does Year 3 of the war look like for Russia?
>>8918 >F16s Chairforce is overrated. >C-UAS That could have an impact, assuming that Ukrainians will get enough of them to cover their entire frontline against all types of drones. They won't get nearly enough of these toys. >the war of attrition is slowly moving to their advantage Are we watching the same war. The war is clearly taking a tool on Russia, but to repeat the most common vatnik argument, they are yet to start a total mobilization. And ukrops managed to exhaust much of NATO's stockpile of shells to the point that their combined output seems to be inadequate for this war. Meanwhile vatniks only had to trade with the norks for extra shells so far, which is not a good sign, but if they were in deep shit they would be begging the chinks.
>>8917 >Reminder that it's who you started throwing insults for absolutely no reason. Do you actually believe this is true and that people who read your posts don't think you're a faggot? >K:D ratio This remains entirely your invention, with no relation to any prior post in the thread.
>>8914 >8 ded fornis while 150 million bajillion ded for dem So not only are you saying I'm supposed to take this seriously, but that I'm supposed to believe casualty nimbers that lopsided haven't produced some kind of result? Open up Greek faggot, I'm about to recreate the scenes on some of your ancient pottery.
>>8915 >And APS (underwater pseudo-Kalashnikov nailgun) is smoothbore, IIRC. Not a musket though. >>8918 >I have not been paying attention to the war: the post
>>8917 But the Germans did took half of Russia with those insane K:d ratios? They lost the war, but not before pushing Russia back to Moscow at a time when the Eastern parts were little more than snow huts.
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>>8918 I think History Legends has a good analysis on this very problem you're describing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOgh_hYDL8Y The war is a shit show, but taking Avdiivka does spell a major change in how this war could be fought (not that it will be). The Avidiivka bulge is the main way that Ukraine is shelling the shit out of Donetsk and creates a large gap in Russia's armor that they have to fill with bodies. Once that gap is closed, Donetsk can return to industrial metal processing/refining and act as a logistics hub along the railways for Russia to launch further attacks, and the number of Vatniks that will be loosened up by smoothing the line will allow for a new front to open up. >it's clear that Russian has thrown everything they have into this conflict, with nothing to show other than their initial gains. The first year that was true. This year Russia has massively expanded their industrial capabilities while Ukraine is still relying on gibs (now split with Yidsrael) from countries running out of ammunition. NATO is being forced to expel their ammunition elsewhere and America may soon have to protect their territorial proxies in other parts of the globe. At this point it's a resource war and it's not looking good. >Conversely, Ukraine has only received average NATO gear, and is slowly starting to receive more advanced toys (e.g., ATACMS). It doesn't matter how much ammunition you have when the food situation is growing more dire by the day. Ukraine produces enough still, but it doesn't have the means to transport it where it's needed, and a diet consisting primarily of grains and rations will lead to malnutrition if it keeps up for another 2-4 years. >Based on statements by Russian leaders, it seems clear that the longterm plan is to hope that... America gets bored and forgets about Ukraine? It's an attritional war unless Russia wants to repeat Avdiivka a few hundred times, and those loss rates are unacceptable to the Russian populace. America stepping out of the picture would be the best-case scenario since at the rate things are going Ukraine will end up starving and no America means Ukraine surrendering/conceding before starvation sets in. Ukraine are their brothers, for Christ's sake. They don't want to kill the Ukrainians. >But the war of attrition is slowly moving to their advantage It was until Israel decided to take Ukraine's shekels and South Korea found more wealthy investors to sell artillery shells to. It's not all fun and games for the Russians, but I don't know how anyone can look at the other global wars a'brewin' in Northern Africa and Asia, and come to the conclusion that these aren't dire straits. I don't hold Alexander's optimism but I imagine that we'll see if Russian attritional strategy made the difference it needed to or not this winter.
>What does Year 3 of the war look like for Russia?* Dunno. It should look like a strike on Kharkiv around January/February or maybe some other new front opening up, but it depends on what the Russians have the liver to go through with. It's "their turn" basically from mid-November until the spring floods come, but there won't be much in the way of trench-digging to slow them down in the mud and cold if they make a breakthrough somewhere post-Avdiivka. It will probably be a warm winter with the TOS-2 roasting Hohols though.
>>8918 Who wrote this? This clearly wasn't wrote by a sapient self aware being
>>8924 >South Korea found more wealthy investors to sell artillery shells to. Context? or zionists are the implied investors >>8925 >It will probably be a warm winter with the TOS-2 roasting Hohols though. A bit of a tangent but why does TOS have a relatively limited range, 10km as I recall. It's already a rocket-based artillery system - why not use a larger rockets?
>>8927 >A bit of a tangent but why does TOS have a relatively limited range, 10km as I recall. It's already a rocket-based artillery system - why not use a larger rockets? Because instead of propelant it has a metric fuckton of explodium. Basically.

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>>8926 >This clearly wasn't wrote by a sapient self aware being Of course not, friend, it would be such a silly for that to occur.
>>8927 >Context? With America depleting their stocks and the French/Germans neutering their industry, South Korea is pretty much the sole provider of artillery shells on the international stage unless you want Chinese munitions. South Korea is setting themselves up to be the arms manufacturers of the 21st century. SK refused to sell to Ukraine directly and only agreed to sell America their stockpiles. Now other countries want in on the South Korean pie and America is struggling to secure sales because they broke a handful of promises (both foreign and domestic) about how South Korean munitions would be used. >A bit of a tangent but why does TOS have a relatively limited range[?] It was designed as a "battering ram" moreso than as a rocket system. It was meant to be used by CBRN troops before being repurposed as an anti-fortification weapon. Rather than "burning" it creates a series of pressure waves from the vacuum created that rips apart "soft" materials and works in such a way that fortifications like trenches and walls create an "echo" effect that amplifies the damage caused by it. Basically >>8928 in that it was never meant to be used as an artillery/rocket system, but because it's been so effective they are modifying it in the TOS-2 for use as such. Russia primarily tested the ToS-1A on Afghanistan and Syria.
>>8928 >it has a metric fuckton of explodium Warhead is 'only' 45kg according to literature, about double the size of grads. I guess the literal bang-for-the-buck from TOS is pretty impressive. >>8930 >but because it's been so effective they are modifying it in the TOS-2 for use as such That makes sense. I wonder if the proliferation of drones primarily drove this, the newer truck based variants of TOS are especially a soft and high value targets so makes sense to get them our of tactical drone range.
>>8918 > nothing to show other than their initial gains. And here we have one of the creatures who got no clue what objectives could be so hopelessly that they resort to using territory (even empty) for point-scoring. >Conversely, Ukraine has only received average NATO gear, and is slowly starting to receive more advanced toys (e.g., ATACMS). This will continue through next year, including the deployment of F16s and C-UAS. Gosh golly. What peasants with rusty AKs and barn-manufactured landmines are going to do against mighty F-16? Oh wait, it’s going against the best anti-air systems in the world. Never mind. If it’s going anywhere at all. NATO backed off from escalation and training the locals (if anyone can find enough of willing ones) from scratch is going to take too much time. > Based on statements by Russian leaders, it seems clear that the longterm plan is to hope that... America gets bored and forgets about Ukraine? >>8926 > This clearly wasn't wrote by a sapient self aware being Likely a journalist. They are the only primates experimentally demonstrated to be less mentally capable than pigeons. We see a raid by the goons right now. Mentally high-tier (and properly zealous) goons get to State Department, while low-tier goons become journalists. >>8930 > it creates a series of pressure waves from the vacuum created …journalists, plural.
>>8932 >Chemical reaction causes a high-pressure blast that both pushes out the air and also sucks any remaining air out creating a vacuum >Air rapidly goes to fill in the vacuum >This air gets sucked into the chemical reaction which is not finished if in a confined space like a building or trench >The pressure from the air rapidly getting sucked in, in conjunction with the heat, causes a wave effect that causes damage to organic matter and weak metals similar to an egg getting sucked into a bottle with a flame in it and slamming into the wall of the bottle shattering >Fortifications create barriers that increase the effectiveness of this effect It creates a series of pressure waves from the vacuum created. Vid related. It's a middle school experiment that helps you visualize what is happening.
>>8931 >Warhead is 'only' 45kg according to literature, about double the size of grads. I guess the literal bang-for-the-buck from TOS is pretty impressive. That is just to jumpstart a giant subwoofer inside missile that plays hardbass so hard your flesh is shaken out of your bones (which are on fire now)
>>8931 >Warhead is 'only' 45kg according to literature, about double the size of grads. I guess the literal bang-for-the-buck from TOS is pretty impressive. There are typically two explosive charges for a FAE weapon. 1. to disperse the fuel into the air 2. to ignite the (now) fuel/air mixture volume The primary blast of the weapon isn't either of these charges, but rather from the FAE itself. >
Can any anon tell why is the ground white in this footage, can it be morning frost that is disturbed by demining vehicles in front of the columns or is it some kind of ir camera?
>>8936 Maybe the top layer of the ground is simply greyish because it is dryer. What is stranger here is that nothing is growing on those fields. If you just leave alone that kind of black earth, then you will have at least a bit of grass after a few weeks in my experience.
>>8936 Looks like algorithmic path-tracing, which would explain why there's some color for natural rises in landscape but why the soldiers are the same color as the ground as far as the drones are concerned.
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Kek. Why doesn't Elon Musk just go full 1488 already?
>>8936 Looks like frost.
>>8920 Read the thread and tell me who started insulting who first, dummy. >>8921 Give me Ukraine's K:D claims. After that go choke on an Oreo shake with 500 grams of sugar so you can forget about your stupidity >>8923 During the opening months of the war is was less about "insane K:D" and more about the fact that the Soviets would shit themselves and run at the first sight of a German panzer. Then the USA single-handedly saved Moscow from guaranteed obliteration and gave the Soviet Union the 2nd largest arms industry on earth, which is what allowed them to shit out tanks, howitzers and rifles like they grew on trees for the remainder of the war Soviet Union's existence.
>greek faggot still going Are you mad you didn't immediately get jerked off for stating shit no one here believed in the first place? You're like some retard on /v/ repeatedly stating the vidya industry sucks and getting mad when someone gets tired of his shit and makes fun of him. Go yell about fire being hot next or something you fuckin pederast descendant.
Guise the ukies said the vaties got wiped to the floor and that they destroyed everyfing. What? You don't think the numbers are accurate? You must think K:D ratios determine everything then. Fuckin idiot gyro chomping t*rk rape babby lmao
>>8941 >Read the thread and tell me who started insulting who first It was you, in >>8912 Are you genuinely retarded? Does your legal guardian know you're on this site?
Slow day, innit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhpFopC5wuU Russia has allegedly stormed the coke plant.
>Ukraine uses old Soviet-era shite >Wins back (underwater) Kherson and Kharkiv from the Russians >Ukraine swaps to western equipment as the soviet-era shit runs out >Begins losing territory and having to hold the line Heh. Yes I'm aware it's more complicated than that with Russian troop numbers so quit sperging, but it's still not a good look for NATO.
>>8941 I'm going to clarify this without insulting you for exactly one post. >wow these numbers are clearly bullshit (no mention of K:D determining anything besides walhat was clearly not a serious an offhand comment about owning Russia) >you having taken it seriously proceed to go off about K:D ratios >insults ensue I will do nothing but call you a stupid faggot while not reading your posts after this. I'm well aware lopsided K:D doesn't guarantee victory, but if you've been paying any attention to this war you would realize Ukraine has done nothing but put out these ridiculous numbers when all evidence points to them being completely full of shit.
>czech flag But my IP is in tegas
>>8949 anon.cafe thinks Switzerland is the Netherlands, Serbia doesn't exist, France is Germany, Finland is Norway, Iceland is Great Britain, and half of Asia resides in America. You get used to it.
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btw this is supposed to be a Mongolian IP.
>>8947 To be fair, while I personally consider NATO gear to be overrated and derives most of its reputation from marketing and sealclubbing third world counties who have nowhere near symmetrical response capabilities, they're still very capable systems, albeit fine tuned for low intensity conflict with inferiour foe, neither of which is happening in Ukraine. And Ukraine hasn't received any meaningful numbers of something like Leopards, just enough to keep them hopeful and grind their men ad infinum. >>8948 Isn't K:D ratio for German-Soviets around 1:2 / 1:2.5 if civilians and POW are ommited? I remember reading it somewhere, but I'm not sure POW should be ommited ,since they are technically combat casualties. >>8950 >Serbia doesn't exist God I wish. Unfortunately we are still quite corporeal
>>8948 this as I've often said, there's an entire simulacrum of propaganda, a fantasy war fabricated for the NPCs, in which the Ukrainians are the paladins/Spartan 300 with cheat codes activated and the ruzzians are the goblins/persians. I'm not even exaggerating. It's fascinating to see how many ppl have been taken in, and I genuinely look forward to watching their narrative crash & burn; I believe the cognitive dissonance will exceed even the 2016 election. >>8952 Yes, as I've said, NATO systems are actually quite good in their intended role, which is counter-insurgency ops by professional soldiers with full support. However, once you take them out of that narrow window, they are lackluster & unreliable. One of several consequences of the Ukraine war is that the myth of NATO invincibility got shattered on the Caspian steppe.
>>8950 >France is Germany Alsatia is Germany, bigot >half of Asia resides in America. There's a joke somewhere there. >Mongolia Long time no see old admin how are you? i thought Mongolia was going to phase out cyrilic a couple of years ago.
Oh hey Dima posted a map under his new video! https://dev.militarysummary.com/#/login
>>8955 Yeah, the only benefit he gets is that he never took a map away, he only offered one as a monetized product. In any case his reporting might be the newest but the accuracy has gone down significantly over the months. I primarily rely on Weeb when I want a map that isn't more than two days old and History Legends for summaries.
>>8924 >This year Russia has massively expanded their industrial capabilities while Ukraine is still relying on gibs To be fair the Hohol's lost most of their industrial capacity when Donetsk and Luhansk declared independence and the little industry they have West of the Dnieper River is a logistical nightmare to defend even with all the free Patriot missiles. They have no choice but to work with all their cobbled together N.A.T.O. gibs and whatever they inherited from the Soviet Union that isn't blown up, meanwhile Russia stretches to the far reaches of Asia so most of their air space is relativity safe. It's impressive how long the Hohol's have held up for being a relatively flat country and against a country with air superiority that is also a net exporter of energy no less, but ultimately I believe it's inevitable they'll lose most if not all of everything East of the Dnieper, especially since most of those people don't want to re-unite anyway. >NATO is being forced to expel their ammunition elsewhere and America may soon have to protect their territorial proxies in other parts of the globe. At this point it's a resource war and it's not looking good. The US and Canada have plenty of resources, it's just locked behind miles of legalize red tape but if things ever get THAT BAD between the US and China you could probably see Congress and local state governments loosen up mining permit requirements. But ehh at least we can still grow our own food... Well until Bill Gates decides to release some kind of crazy virus that wipes out a good chunk of our cows, poultry, or grain and legume fields anyway and I have no doubt that psycho would love nothing more than to cause a massive global famine, and to be fair it's not like US factory farming has a reputation of being clean or healthy so it won't be all that surprising to see a mass die off, our cattle are already insanely overly reliant on antibiotics and growth hormone as a result of that meaning their immune systems are basically nonexistent. Who knows maybe that's why mainland China and North Korea have been restocking their strategic food reserves, not because they fear sanctions but because they fear exactly what I hypothesized, or maybe not I could just also be full of shit too, only time will tell. >>8924 >>8927 >South Korea found more wealthy investors to sell artillery shells to. Technically that's actually bullshit from what I understand, SK sells artillery shells to Poland who then drip feeds the shells into Ukraine and Romania. It's how they remain 'neutral' in the war much like how America never gave the Mujaheddin weapons, Pakistan just so happened to have a bunch of US arms and decided to 'donate them'. Holol's are still getting Korean artillery shells, well older 'expired' ones that the military wanted to get rid of anyway, not that it matters much if most of them still go boom of course. (MOST), some are apparently duds however and apparently Russia has been having the same problem with North Korea's shells as well.
Is Avdievka the new Bakhmut? It started off strong, but it bogged down into an attritionaI warfare like most fights in the war devolved into. I feel like we're just repeating the last year's greatest hits at this point but without the star of the show. I miss him already bros
>>8958 Depends on what you mean. It will be fought in a similar manner (piece-by-piece with a focus on forcing the Ukrainians into a bottleneck where they will either get captures or flee), however the Russians seem to be on an accelerated schedule and want Avdiivka finished up sooner rather than later. >>8957 I'm not expecting the Ukrainians to fully mobilize a wartime infrastructure into place magically, but they've had a decade at this point to stick some weapons factories in Western Ukraine yet they've seemingly done nothing. Not even plans to do so after the Russians struck. If Ukraine had established some repair depots and factories to produce armor/weapons/ammunition then sure the Russians might try to bomb it, but they would have the means to replenish themselves. This wartime economy is unsustainable. Even the Germans and Brits maintained something of a functional economy while firebombing each other.
>>8958 We all miss the little warlock chief Jew Strelok, we all do. Not surprising someone offed him eventually though with how many countries he pissed off in Europe an West Africa, plus his own government and I'm sure Poland didn't like his attempt to flood them with niggers either. The dude was an Icarus who flew to close to the sun for his own good but so be it, I'm sure the trolling was worth it regardless in the end. Not to mention I agree with him on the fact that Sergei Shoigu is a useless bureaucrat larping as a General but that isn't exactly a controversial opinion in Russia or N.A.T.O. >>8959 >but they've had a decade at this point to stick some weapons factories in Western Ukraine yet they've seemingly done nothing. I think your underestimating how crippling their corruption was back then and only slightly less now, they probably had more chocolate bar factories than weapon factories by the time the Russians started their 'special military operation'. Bayraktars can easily be built over night with some corner cutting and low expectations but the factories and their precision machines plus the supply chains for chemicals and refined materials such as aluminum frames and motherboards are mostly definitely not built over night especially during war times when half your supply trucks and trains are getting bombed. There's a reason most of Ukraine air force now consists of Amazon and Wish.com drones. Time is not on their side. Conversely that's the same reason Russia hasn't just started mass producing shaheeds in house YET, they are working on it though last I checked. I do find it funny how they dropped the ball hard on drone research and development to the point they're decades behind the rest of the world but in all fairness they were focusing their budget on their nuclear submarines to much to care about drones probably.
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Rybar reports successfully attacks across the whole Avdiivka area that took place today and yesterday. Waiting for the third party analysis.
>>8961 They're preparing another cauldron, they're pushing to get direct LOS on Ukraine's main supply route into Avdiivka.
>>8962 Logical move is to encircle the opposing force and starve it into either submission or destruction. If they can't pull off Mariupol or Grozny, then it's gonna turn into another ugly grind like Bakhmut. It's up to Russians to take Orlivka if you're to encircle Avdiivka, but UAF is putting up stiff resistance.
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Putin Signs Law Revoking Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Citing US Failure To Ratify https://web.archive.org/web/20231102200142/https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-signs-law-revoking-nuclear-test-ban-treaty-citing-us-failure-ratify >President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed into effect a law which paves the way for potential Russian nuclear testing, which would mark a huge escalation given the context of the Ukraine war and the broader context of a 'new Cold War' standoff between Washington and Moscow. >The new law confirms Russia’s de-ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which is the 1996 landmark agreement which sought to ban all nuclear testing and explosions, in order to bring Russia and the United States in line on the issue. Kremlin Pool Photo via AP >But the two sides were never really in line on the question of the treaty itself, even if nuclear tests weren't happening. Some countries which were integral to the treaty never fully ratified it. >The Kremlin earlier last month said it would take steps to "mirror" the US position, explained as follows: > The law’s text on Russia’s legal portal states that Moscow will no longer be bound by the UN-backed nuclear test ban starting Nov. 2. Both Russia and the United States signed the treaty in 1996, but while Moscow ratified it in 2000, Washington never took the final step of codifying it into law. > Other holdouts to the treaty include China, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel, as well as Egypt and Iran... OH FUG
>>8963 Logical move is to cut off the supply of the area and starve like you said, but to leave open a pathway for retreat. A pathway that bombs/shells anything going into it with prejudice, but only takes pot shots at anything coming out. Always leave your enemy the option (or at least illusion) that he can escape.
>>8957 >China and North Korea Are both net importers of food, a food shortage will fuck them up no matter which way you look at it. A "strategic food reserve" can help smooth out ripples in an otherwise functional market for maybe a year at most, that's not enough time to become self-sufficient if a worldwide food crisis breaks out. >I could just also be full of shit too, only time will tell. Simplest explanation is most often the right one. I don't buy the unleash-a-crazy-virus theory, and if anything large scale factory farm operations are in a better position to recover from such things. i.e cull the entire population, and restart with newer stock. If federal help of course since too-big-to-fail. >best korea and worst korea armaments clashing in europe Well now, ain't that some fine pottery to gander at. Reality can really be stranger than fiction. >>8960 >Conversely that's the same reason Russia hasn't just started mass producing shaheeds in house YET, they are working on it though last I checked. I recall one of the holdups with UAV production was they wanted all components produced domestically (in other words sanction proof). Not sure to what degree they succeeded with that or if it was just an excuse. >I do find it funny how they dropped the ball hard on drone research and development to the point they're decades behind the rest of the world That's been a persistent problem for Russia being an oil/gas exporter - sell the oil/gas and buy the rest of the shit. Work smarter not harder, right??? Ironically the massive sanctions were about the only way for Russia to break out of that cycle.
>>8963 They shouldn't even have to go that far as long as they can set up ATGM's to target anything going down the roads. The mud it hitting hard right now so soon roads are going to be the only viable way of getting anything in or out of Avdiivka
>>8961 This is reportedly the largest scale battle of the war so far.
>>8947 It was a pile of everything from the start. But yes, once the wunderwaffe hype backfired, the show looks even stupider than before. >>8952 >Isn't K:D ratio for German-Soviets around 1:2 / 1:2.5 if civilians and POW are ommited? I remember reading it somewhere, but I'm not sure POW should be ommited ,since they are technically combat casualties. This got to depend on the specific time/place greatly. Early on, being caught with pants down at worst and blind counterattacks at best? If it wasn’t a lot more, that’s only due to lots of POW indeed. After the commissars were told to go write regimental papers and stay out of operation planning, well, things changed. >>8953 >One of several consequences of the Ukraine war is that the myth of NATO invincibility got shattered on the Caspian steppe. One of two by far most important together, especially after the first leg of this stool was pretty much broken from hammering on #OrangeManBad. If NATO is not as mighty as it looked like, and neither are β€œsanctions”… what exactly deters any current vassal from defection now? As in, suppose a military coup happens in some or other muppet state tomorrow. The new guys tell State Department and the rest to kindly go neck themselves. Then what? Right now, all the new regime would need to instantly become popular is undo the most obvious (and expensive, anyway) pozzed policies, and a public process over one or two most odious money bags (whoever worked with Soros too much to ever trust anyway) pour encourager les autres. >>8964 Not unexpected. >>8915
>>8957 The Ukrainians have fought with valor, no one can deny that (although they should not have let themselves be used as pawns). They'll keep it going as long as they have NATO support and doods to sacrifice, but it's unsustainable, they'll certainly collapse within a year or two. >population reduction I think the elites are pondering this, but they're also worried about the goyim rebelling. I think covid-19 was a trial run for purging the "useless eaters", and we were not as obedient as they would've liked, so they're unsure (as an aside, the ruling elites are the real useless eaters, they are essentially parasites/parasitoids). >>8960 he was based, but he took his trolling/shitposting too far. I'm still not certain whether he was bumped off, or whether he's in hiding, but either way, his piece is off the game-board. >drones The Lancets have been MVP on the front, scoring lots of hits on Ukrainian tanks/m777/other vehicles. Maybe they haven't prioritized drones, but they're making good use of them. GAE has been drone striking for awhile, but seems unable to adapt to the new integrated combat role of drones. >>8969 indeed. I think the vassal states are biding their time and waiting for the best moment to rebel. Naturally, if they can make an easier break from GAE 5 years from now, it makes sense to wait a bit. >>8954 >i thought Mongolia was going to phase out cyrillic a couple of years ago. I read about that, I'm not sure what the deal is. Their traditional script is cool, but the vertical orientation is impractical when modern tech is all designed for horizontal text. I wonder, if you rotated 90Β° & flipped it upside-down, would that work for a native reader? Also, it seems like they prefer their traditional script, which I understand on some level, but Clear Script is superior and more accurate as a writing system while being aesthetically similar; one would think it's the better choice.
Rumors on the Russian parts of the internet that there may be an internal coup in Ukraine right now after Zelensky announced a reshuffling to remove the top commanders from their positions. Lots of military commanders demanding that Zelensky hold elections in which most of them intend to run against him because of this. Take it with a heap of salt, but updates out of Ukrainian official sources have slowed down to a trickle suggesting something is up, and Ursula is visiting Kiev.
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>>8971 I hope that's true and I hope who ever takes over calls for an armistice. Even if it doesn't end the war per se and becomes a frozen conflict, that's still better than Ukranians continuing to be fed into the meatgrinder at the behest of the NATO overlords.
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hehe check this shit out, from Zaluzhnys oped in our favorite Rotschild rag, the Economist ( https://archive.ph/wNzUa ) On minefields >Technology is the answer. We need radar-like sensors that use invisible pulses of light to detect mines in the ground and smoke-projection systems to conceal the activities of our de-mining units. We can use jet engines from decommissioned aircraft, water cannons or cluster munitions to breach mine barriers without digging into the ground. New types of tunnel excavators, such as a robot which uses plasma torches to bore tunnels, can also help. >Use of a mini tunnel excavator with a drill, Rapid Burrowing Robot (RBR), empty hoses for the injection of gaseous or liquid explosives, missiles with a fuel-air explosive for breaching mine barriers; use of anti-drone guns to counter enemy reconnaissance UAVs, which will increase the level of obstacle-clearing detachments (teams) concealment while breaching mine barriers. On lack of manpower: >We are trying to fix these problems. We are introducing a unified register of draftees, and we must expand the category of citizens who can be called up for training or mobilisation. We are also introducing a β€œcombat internship”, which involves placing newly mobilised and trained personnel in experienced front-line units to prepare them. >you are not a cannonfodder taken off the street and thrown into combat with no training, you are taking part in our "combat internship" programe. From more detailed accompanying piece On protection against russian missiles and glidebombs >Use of radiation simulators of the medium-range anti-aircraft missile system to target illumination stations in close proximity to the contact line in order to reduce the effectiveness of the use of glide guided bombs against our troops when assuming offensive (due to the fact that carrier aircraft will launch guided bombs from the maximum possible ranges) and reduce the manned aviation intensity due to the pilots' refusal to conduct sorties; >just like lets put fake radars right on the line of contact so that pilots will be too afraid to move close and drop the bombs! Who could see through this ruse?
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>>8974 Sounds like he wants to make some w40k equipment real.
>>8974 Too his credit it's at the very least innovative.
>>8974 I'm disappointed. He didn't even ask for railguns or Rod-From-God
>>8977 You laugh but I want to see a giant tungsten rod dropped from orbit in my lifetime.
>>8978 >I want to see a giant tungsten rod dropped from orbi Try swinging by your mum's house near midnight
>More Russian & Ukrainian MTLB Adaptations https://yewtu.be/watch?v=pqN5XSG99Tc
>>8980 And that channel also has a few RPG videos: >RPG Shove https://yewtu.be/watch?v=KTvsf94J31M >Makeshift Fire Extinguisher RPG Warheads In Ukraine https://yewtu.be/watch?v=O2zK0jC8x3U >Ukraine: RPG Warheads with Fragmentation Sleeves https://yewtu.be/watch?v=KmetI8LLfws
>>8981 And to finish off my round of channels that I only check once in a while, Lindybeige seems to be making a whole lot of interviews: https://yewtu.be/playlist?list=PLzzh7AuEBkEniKL6Uwk4R528ds7SiucOS
>>8960 >Conversely that's the same reason Russia hasn't just started mass producing shaheeds in house YET, they are working on it though last I checked. I do find it funny how they dropped the ball hard on drone research and development to the point they're decades behind the rest of the world but in all fairness they were focusing their budget on their nuclear submarines to much to care about drones probably. The most sensible explanation is linked there >>58146 The late start happened because small drones were dismissed. When proved effective for anti-armor purpose, they were taken seriously. As simple as this. This also suggests they were dismissed as fancy IED exactly because were believed to not be effective vs tanks and other armor.
>>8983 Not an unfair assessment either. The early-adopted American and French drones were for export only as anti-infantry flying IEDs meant for insurgent groups. The US didn't believe that the drones would be effective for anti-vehicle use because you'd have to make the drone larger to account for more munitions and that would make it an easier target. Turned out when everything is either at the macro-artillery scale or micro-rifle scale, suddenly drones fill in a niche that would be unthinkable 50 years ago.
Anyone got more info on this?
>>8985 Well, based on the audio the foreigner was trying to tell him something about the position and the troops told him to go back. Foreigner got uppity and shoves the guy so they killed him. If I had to guess the video was taken by barrier troops that Westerners keep insisting don't exist.
After a 4th/5th viewing I think this is a propaganda video. The landscape is too pristine (not littered with shells) meaning it would have to be at least 20km from the front lines, the trenches aren't full of shit/piss/blood, the soldiers are too well-dressed, the camera quality is too good, and the shots were too well-placed. Too many "perfections" for belief on repeated views.
>>8978 > You laugh but I want to see a giant tungsten rod dropped from orbit in my lifetime. How close? Seriously, though β€” it’s a weapon of the same sort as aircraft carriers: mostly useless against a peer or near-peer. Satellites can be killed very easily. On all sides, so in most circumstances this counts as Mutually Assured Stupidity, but if things escalate far enough that satellites become a real trouble, this could happen. >>8984 Now add an old bias for β€œeverything must be able to fight tanks, unless it’s a specialized support (and if possible, even then)”. >> Inside the Soviet Army by Viktor Suvorov > The Most Important Weapon > ... Soviet generals insist that defence must mean, first and foremost, defence against tanks. The enemy can gain victories only by advancing and, in the nuclear age, as before, offensive operations will be carried out by tanks and infantry. Other forces can not carry out an offensive: their only role is to support the tanks and the infantry. Thus, defence is essentially a battle against tanks. > The most important weapon in achieving victory is the tank. The most important weapon in depriving the enemy of victory is the anti-tank weapon. > ...Because they consider anti-tank warfare to be so important, Soviet generals insist that every soldier and every weapon system should be capable of attacking tanks. > ...The fact that 20mm automatic guns are fitted to Western infantry combat vehicles is met with friendly incomprehension by Soviet military specialists: `If such a vehicle is not capable of taking on our tanks, why was it built?' It’s from 1970s, but obviously this way of thinking was not going to evaporate. Not unreasonable either, but such things can add up.
>>8988 >The enemy can gain victories only by advancing and, in the nuclear age, as before, offensive operations will be carried out by tanks and infantry. Other forces can not carry out an offensive: their only role is to support the tanks and the infantry. Thus, defence is essentially a battle against tanks. Weren't most successful advances in the pre-nuclear age just infantry + artillery? I thought barrages never really went out of fashion.
>>8978 I'd rather salt the earth for 20 years with Cobalt-60 nuclear shells.
>>8988 I heard the US had ideas about using ICBMS for the tungsten delivery, as for how close preferably far enough away to survive but depending on circumstance not even having that might not be a deal breaker.
>>8982 >the swarthy britbong survived, took part in the Kharkiv offensive, got a medal and decided to become a mine diffuser Cool. I wonder what truly made him decide to end his tour of Ukraine, and if he's had any second thoughts after seeing the Spring offensive die in a minefield.
>>8989 >Weren't most successful advances in the pre-nuclear age just infantry + artillery? I thought barrages never really went out of fashion. Did you miss the entirety of the Eastern Front of WW2? Entire fronts are decided on tank battles there. The difference between the tank in WW2 back then and the tank of today is that there are way less anti-tank weapons than there are now. The modern tanks are still made to counter other tanks, not flying drones or ATGMs as it's main threat. Which is why there will be a paradigm shift soon for tanks to specifically counter non-assymetric threats like the Terminator. or unless somehow the defense technology catches up and manage to render the drone and ATGMs less feasible, which is pretty improbable. >>8985 >>8987 Yeah it's fake. There is no way a real trench can look that clean and dry in the middle of Autumn.
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>>8978 How big are those suppose to be anyway? You need speed and mass to do some really significant damage. For example >The object that excavated the crater was a nickel-iron meteorite about 160 ft (50 m) across. The speed of the impact has been a subject of some debate. Modeling initially suggested that the meteorite struck at up to 45,000 mph (20 km/s), but more recent research suggests the impact was substantially slower, at 29,000 mph (12.8 km/s). About half of the impactor's bulk is believed to have been vaporized during its descent through the atmosphere. Impact energy has been estimated at 10 megatons TNTe. The meteorite was mostly vaporized upon impact, leaving few remains in the crater. Alternately >Researchers used data from both Tunguska and Chelyabinsk to perform a statistical study of over 50 million combinations of bolide and entry properties that could produce Tunguska-scale damage when breaking apart or exploding at similar altitudes. Some models focused on combinations of properties which created scenarios with similar effects to the tree-fall pattern as well as the atmospheric and seismic pressure waves of Tunguska. Four different computer models produced similar results; they concluded that the likeliest candidate for the Tunguska impactor was a stony body between 50 and 80 m (164 and 262 ft) in diameter, entering the atmosphere at roughly 55,000 km/h (34,000 mph), exploding at 10 to 14 km (6 to 9 mi) altitude, and releasing explosive energy equivalent to between 10 and 30 megatons. This is similar to the blast energy equivalent of the 1980 volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens. The researchers also concluded impactors of this size hit the Earth only at an average interval scale of millennia. So theoretically you could either design a rod to actually hit and penetrate or instead to build up as much ram pressure as possible and disintegrate mid-air, effectively making it a gigantic HEAT warhead. >>8991 Yeah if you could load a big rod on a rocket and send it on a parabolic orbit it would do much the same thing as keeping it held in high earth orbit. Maybe even better.
Have you heard? Zaluzhnys aide was assassinated by grenades gifted to him as fancy vodka glasses.
>>8995 >assassinated Are you sure, or was it just a dumb slav joke gone wrong?
>>8996 Playing hot potato with grenades seems to be popular sport these days.
>>8994 >Yeah if you could load a big rod on a rocket and send it on a parabolic orbit it would do much the same thing as keeping it held in high earth orbit. Maybe even better. The largest rockets can (theoretically) get a 100 metric ton payload into low earth orbit. That's about 5.2m^3 of tungsten or a rod 1m diameter * 6.6m long inb4 your mom. The estimated impact velocity for "rods from god" was mach 10, but let's say it hits at 8000m/s (~mach 23) which is the full LEO velocity (fuck air friction).... 100,000kg going at 8000m/s is 3.2x10^12 joules of energy.... to put it in perspective let's divide by 4.184x10^9 and we have 765 tons of TNT equivalent. 1) Not even a megaton with all the outlandish assumptions. 2) that thing will bury itself into the ground and most of the energy will be dissipated into the earth rather than an air burst 3) cost is going to be billions per "shot" 4) targeting is going to be impossible when it's going at mach 23 due to plasma cone. Also the set of targets would be limited to it's orbital path. >parabolic orbit Note that the total energy (kinetic+gravitational potential) doesn't change whether the orbit is circular or elliptic. And an elliptic orbit will sweep through thicker layers of the atmosphere on the perigee so it will typically decay faster.
>>8998 Where's the Ukrainian propaganda videos? Is the situation on the front so hopeless that they can't even bring themselves to pretend that everything is OK? Webm unrelated
Zelensky is now asking for a new line of credit from America while reports of mass theft from government officials run rampant. Biden is refusing to approve Israeli aid unless unrestricted Ukrainian aid is included in the package. Unless something changes, this war is effectively over. Anything else will be Russia snagging up bits and pieces they aren't satisfied with leaving in Ukrainian hands pre-negotiations.
>>8998 >2nd vid Now THIS is shitposting.
>>8999 Wouldn't it work like an earthquake bomb?
>>9001 I assume the AFU could just dig in and make it a very bloody year before having to contemplate surrender if US aid dries up.
>>8999 I also assume you could deploy the rods mirv style as well.
>>9003 >Wouldn't it work like an earthquake bomb? I guess, maybe? From what I recall the major effect was from earth movement - cracking the foundation or building falling into the sinkhole - rather than the initial explosion/quake. Without a HE component I don't know that it would cause that necessarily. >>9005 >rods mirv style as well Yeah one of the ideas was "space crowbars" to carpet bomb a tank regiments. I mean a giant billet of metal at orbital speeds will fuck up things in its vicinity above or below ground, no doubt about that. It's just that bang-for-the-buck is piss poor and it's not even convenient or practical either. >>9002 do russians poo front the front side??
>>8999 >that thing will bury itself into the ground and most of the energy will be dissipated into the earth rather than an air burst Wouldn't it be better then to pick a different shape to maximize ram pressure instead? Sort of the flesehette vs flat nose dynamic. >Note that the total energy (kinetic+gravitational potential) doesn't change whether the orbit is circular or elliptic. And an elliptic orbit will sweep through thicker layers of the atmosphere on the perigee so it will typically decay faster. I was specifically thinking of a long orbit to allow for a gravity boost + return trajectory from the moon, or from Mars or Venus if you really wanted to fuck shit up.
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>>9007 >gravity boost + return trajectory from the moon, or from Mars or Venus if you really wanted to fuck shit up For one planets have to be aligned *just* right to do it, any useful opportunities to do this will be extremely rare and take years or decades to setup. Also it's going to aim essentially at a random side of the earth's surface so... On top of that I think there's a fundamental speed limit here of 16km/s here, adding more than that and you're leaving the solar system. Think of it this way - for kinetic weapons starting out on the earth's surface you can always make a bigger mess with just the rocket fuel, any added steps will dissipate some portion of the energy. Also here's a fun read: https://what-if.xkcd.com/20/
>>9008 Was pointless if Russia could amass troops to attack and NATO can amass at its borders anyway.
>>9008 tl;dr on CFE Treaty?
>>9011 Its called google dumb dumb, muh spoonfeeding has been breeding post stagnation for too long.
>>9011 Bunch of post-cold-war conventions about how post-USSR and USA were supposed to behave in Europe. Neither side ever followed it so Russia started criticizing it in 2007 and effectively pulled out in 2015 after the first Ukraine war. USA's response is more or less justified under >>9010 >Specifics about the policies See >>9012
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How in the hell they even got their hands on Ferret?
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>>9014 Somebody bought one and then donated it. We don't know who, but it's been operating in Ukraine for about a year now. All these antique vehicles showing up in Ukraine makes me wish we had HD footage of the absolute Orkish monstrosities that fought in the Balkans.
>>9014 The UK sells ferrets on the civilian market and some third world countries still use them as budget guard vehicles. That appears to be a civilian model. They're actually quite affordable at only Β£10,000.
>>9016 Pretty great. Reminds me that I hoped at the start of the war to nab myself a fixable BTR. Looks like there will be nothing left there anymore though.
>>9017 You could probably buy a few scrapped ones and cobble together a complete vehicle.
>>9018 About ten years ago I happened upon what I think was a BTR-60 on some eastern European craigslist analogue. The page was in cyrillic. In one of the pictures of it, the seller had his back to the sun casting his shadow on the vehicle, and it was obviously a man in a military uniform including a beret. I just thought it was funny so I took a screenshot and memed about it with my friends, but looking back I should have saved and translated the page.
>>9019 BTR-60(P) aka coffin on wheels? It had problems with getting out of water. Unlikely to be fixable, short of squeezing much stronger engines into it, to have enough of power on wheels and screw at the same time. Understandable if most ex-Warsaw Pact countries sold these once they had any replacement. Perhaps to the places with fewer rivers?
>>9019 Personally, I'd go for an BRDM-2 since it's cute and easy to drive. It'll cost you 'bout 10.000 dollaridoos for one in nice condition, last time I checked. The only drawback is you can't fit as many frens in BRDM-2 like you can in BTR-60 or convert the crew compartment into a comfy camper style interior
Russia picking up the slack along the entire eastern front. Looks like they're zerge rushing for the railway.
Vatniks a shit after killing the alcoholic potato. Hohols always a shit. Death to Israel.
These Ukrop landing operations across the Dnieper would make sense if they have managed to seize Tokmak, because it would tie up forces that could have been used to defend around Tokmak. And maybe even an attack towards Tokmak would have made sense if they concentrate on bombing the bridges of Crimea so that they are effectively useless, and if instead of headbutting Robotyne they start a wide frontline attack from the shore of the Dnieper to around Tarasivka. Who knows, maybe if they somehow even manage to reach Melitopol then Vatniks might have withdrawn from the area back to Crimea, and the collective west would be celebrating the ”inevitable” Hohol victory. Now, I'm not saying that this is a realistic plan, but by now it's quite obvious that the Dnieper attacks have been planned for quite a while, and they would have made sense if they get to Tokmak and beyond, but by now these operations are quite meaningless.
>>9022 Yeah and there are a lot of things moving on the political side, things are getting interesting again.
Hohols still wasting resources in their little codpiece bulge.
>>9025 I'm curious if this will end in total collapse or a proper negotiation between powers. Zelensky seems pretty opposed to elections, but aid is drying up because of pissrael, so will Ukraine crack down even harder or blackbag their leadership? >>9024 I think if they had tried shortly after flooding Kherson or during the offensive that it might have had a chance of working, but they waited too long hoping for Western gibs and it royally fucked them over.
>>9016 Damnit now I want one too.
>>9027 >I'm curious if this will end in total collapse or a proper negotiation between powers. Zelensky seems pretty opposed to elections, but aid is drying up because of pissrael, so will Ukraine crack down even harder or blackbag their leadership? I have a feeling that the only way this ends is for Zelensky to be removed and who ever comes in after to approach Russia with some sort of peace or at least cease fire negotiations. Just like in Isreal, which can only end in with Bibi being deposed or WWIII or total Middle East war at minimum. At one point Ukraine seemed to have the WWIII question to the conflict but it seems pretty clear at this point that if the West was going to go in hot they would have already done so before now and at any rate that's basically off the table because focus has shifted to Palestine. There's still the possibility if the Israel-Hamas thing widens in scope and looses containment that the Middle East and Ukraine could all run together in a single conflict, starting WWIII.
>>9029 >I have a feeling that the only way this ends is for Zelensky to be removed and who ever comes in after to approach Russia with some sort of peace or at least cease fire negotiations. Yeah I see zero possibility of negotiation as long as Zelensky and Putin are both in power. Even if Putin randomly drops dead all the possible successors are even more hawkish, so Zelensky is going to end up under the bus in terms of Ukranian domestic politics. Sure he'll get a comfy lifestyle in exile in US or Germany as a part time pundit/troll. >the Middle East and Ukraine could all run together in a single conflict The merchant of Citrullus lanatus has a major role to play here methinks
>>9030 One of the reasons NATO wanted control over the black sea via Ukraine was to force the cucurbitaceae connoisseur to stop trying to play both sides and become a true NATO puppet. Given the current situation however, Turkey is free to be an independent regional power and can tell the rest of NATO to get lost.
>>9031 Often makes me wonder, is it even worth the trouble to have Turkey as a NATO member? Seems like only if to keep your enemies closer.
>>9032 It made sense during the Cold War, and it would make NATO look like a weak weekend club if a major member such as TΓΌrkiye decided to leave. I like using TΓΌrkiye and Czechia simply because they are funny, and it is even funnier that these are supposed to be the official names in English.
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>>9032 Turkey is kind of pivotal to American power projection in the Middle East/North Africa. Israel doesn't actually host America/NATO unless it suits their end-goals. America's only real friendly allies in the region are Morocco, Kuwait, and the UAE. Saudi Arabia plays ball to prevent upsetting Kuwait/the UAE, and Egypt is forced to play ball with America via Turkey, but if America were to lose Turkish support, then access to Egypt would be revoked shortly afterwards followed by Saudi Arabia buddying up with Russia and the UAE following suit. Kuwait would be put between a rock and a hard place being the only true pro-American country in that region and being utterly isolated from America in that worst-case scenario. Turkey being in NATO means America can maintain this "neutral alliance" with the wealthy parts of the Middle East and prevent a war between Greece and Turkey. tl;dr- Yes, it's worth the trouble to have Turkey as a NATO member (if you're America).
>>9034 Is their importance just geographical? I assume it's all to do with Turkey allowing the US complete and unfettered access to most of the middle east by air and land.
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I am quite giggly at the resent coping from all the Ukraine enthusiasts about how we didn't give Ukraine enough gibs. Turns out jews matter more than Ukraine as a whole, who would have thunk.
>>9035 Torkee has pretty significant military power compared to most of the rest of NATO, even if they weren't located in a geographically advantageous spot for the US they'd still be enough of a threat to any operations in the Middle East that having them as pretend frens is simply far less of a hassle than having to try and glownigger Erdogan and start yet another chaotic shitstorm with wide ranging and potentially highly unpredictable consequences that may or may not include Turks openly siding with Russia which is obviously not desirable for the US. Otherwise the glowniggers probably would have instigated some shit by now.
It's worth pointing out that for Russia and the USSR before them, attempts to influence the Turk have been limited. The caucasus region is considered to be of more immediate value, and even there Russian suzerainty is uneven at best. A mountain range bordering a NATO member suits the Soviet-era strategic defense plan just fine. They have also long been aware of the Turkish aptitude at playing the fairweather friend game. If Assad's Syria is a Russian inroad to having soft power in the mideast again, then Turkey is an objective that is much further down the road. In other words, we can have a conversation about whether Turkey is a worthwhile ally for the west, but for Russia there is no conversation.
Wagner are fighting in Avdievka and russian tanks were seen fighting in the city proper. But that is not interesting, what is interesting is the entire political drama in Ukrainian leadership, with rumors of purges in high echelons of ministry of defense, Zelensky trying to remove Zaluzhny after his unauthorized, negative interview I posted about above. Fake (?) video of Zaluzhny calling to arms to march on Kiev, soldiers making videos saying that they will rebel if Zaluzhny is removed, And now apparently CIA director visited Zelensky. Any bets on how long will he remain in power?
>>9039 The fact the CIA director is openly visiting him instead of trying to keep the appearance that Zelensky is not just some US glownigger puppet seems suspicious to me, I wouldn't be surprised if he was exiled. Or gets what he really deserves and has a bayonet shoved up his ass like Gaddafi, but Zelensky is a kike so that's probably not on the table. I feel bad for the Ukrainians having to deal with this literal clown as a leader, maybe they'll put someone in charge that is more competent this time so they can end this conflict and redirect all their resources to Israel or some shit.
>>9034 >Yes, it's worth the trouble to have Turkey as a NATO member (if you're America). Cogent, yet irrelevant. This assumes β€œAmerica” as a country with its interests is even a thing. During the last 10-15 years it should be increasingly obvious for anyone who as much as peeked nose into wide Internet this simply ain’t so. Up to and including mistreatment of USA flag not being regarded as lese majeste anymore, unlike mistreatment of Globohomo flag. The clowns don’t even bother with fake noses anymore. But if we remember that the show belongs to an expansionist theocracy, the question is rhetoric, isn’t it? More and more puppets on ever stronger strings is one of primary objectives, not means to some specific end. What you did demonstrate, however, is how Turkey is in position to actually negotiate, rather than have things done to it at a discretion of the more powerful party if it fails to bend over quickly enough. As >>9037 noted. >>9036 β€œReturn of the industrial warfare”, indeed. >>9038 See also Bazhanov. Mostly, USSR did not try because it did not fit the doctrine. >>9040 Why keep the appearances? Everyone knows he is a puppet. Those who looked into it a little bit know even exactly how some of the puppet strings run (for example: https://im1776.com/2022/05/27/servant-of-the-corrupt/ ). The globohomo loyalists will simply pretend everything is peachy and the Orange Revolution junta was always genuinely popular, no matter what. Others won’t buy it, no matter what. So there’s no practical reason to jump through any hoops with deception.
>>9041 Sad state of affairs when you don't even have to pretend that Ukraine is a vassel anymore because the state knows it's own people are kowtowed niggercattle and it's inconsequential to the opposition.
>>9040 >>9039 This is the funniest thing I've seen in years. Last month bit was holobolo 2 now it's internal political problems in ukraine. What is next joe biden gets shot like a dog?
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/russo-ukrainian-war-the-reckoning?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2 Good article. >>9024 Its not just river crossing. It was a coordinated multipronged attack >skirmishes on the russian border >threats to zaporozhia npp >attacks on kerch bridge >attacks on black sea fleet All of this would have worked if Ukrainians managed to push back Russian defences. And not only Ukrainian command was dumb enough to believe this would work, but also NATO commanders. I mean come on pointless propaganda and attacking ships? That just smells like Brits.
>>9043 > What is next joe biden gets shot like a dog? No one would be that merciful.
>>9039 There has been much shit flinging within ranks of UAF Nad ukrainan politicians. Zaluzhny seems to have started openly preparing to challenge Zelenskys political power and the disagreement between how things should be run seem to brow larger. Not to mention an arrest warrant has been issued for Arestovich heh. Once, one of the main propagandists of Ukraine has allegedly fallen out of favor because he's been accused of 'defeatism, disinformation and discrediting of UAF'
>>9043 Speaking of Biden, didn't Ukraine just arrest a bunch of (formerly) pretty high-level officials who had been involved in investigating Hunter?
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I haven't seen any videos of drones attacking armor, mostly harassing unarmored vehicles like vans, atv, bikes or just going after solders, have Ukrainians run out of armor piercing ammo for drones, or have Russians finally figured out anti drone warfare for columns of armor.
>>9049 >have Russians finally figured out anti drone warfare for columns of armor. They probably know that EW are a godsend against FPV drones. I hope those EW add-ons for tanks become commonplace.
>>9049 >I haven't seen any videos of drones attacking armor There have been a bunch. Just not lately. But there has been a lack of overall videos lately.
>>9048 Good links from that article. There are a surprising and refreshing number of links to MSM articles admitting Ukraine is in trouble, and Russia is stronger than Western assumptions. But seeing any MSM outlet going so far as to admitting Ukraine shall go from being in trouble to clearly losing is still a waiting game for now.
>>9052 Finally, some equality.
>>9052 Send all those virtue signalling fucks there, finally get a taste of what they preach.
>>9052 There must be 50% of women fighting in the front lines!
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The fuck is happening?
>>9057 Rough translation: >These insects caused the death of their company by refusing to march (deserting?) >This is what happens to these pussies They appear to be digging their own graves assuming the "mining salt" part is a euphemism.
>>9057 >Recently, a video of punishment in one of the units of the Russian Armed Forces, where several military personnel died after a group of fighters used drugs, went viral on the Internet. >An educational conversation is held with those who are guilty, followed by heavy assault and forced excavation work. >One can, of course, talk about the inadmissibility of lynching in such situations and rely on the relevant authorities. But all this clashes with the harsh reality of a warring army, which does not march in formation in a β€œpixel” with authorized duffel bags and is forced to be guided by the situation in its decisions. >The two majors note that one of the reasons for what happened was the lack of effective legal norms due to the peacetime regime. However, field tribunals simply do not have enough resources to respond to every violation: that is why, even during the Great Patriotic War, many issues were also resolved β€œon the ground.” >All this does not negate the need to improve legal tools and ways to combat disciplinary offenses. But whether someone likes it or not, sometimes you literally have to resort to other methods. >Especially against the background of the fact that among hundreds of thousands of military personnel, not everyone corresponds to the image of an ideal soldier, and iron discipline can be quickly imposed among them only through tough measures. From Russian Telegram. Posted by Rybar but j think Two Majors is the OP
>>9059 >Drug users >Only get disciplinary action How progressive of the Russian military given the usual response to drug use among civilians.
>>9057 >>9059 duuude krokodil lmao
>>9060 Sometimes you simply can't unfuck someone. They can still serve as penal troops though.
>>9057 He should be thanking every God in recorded human history for not being skinned alive and having his skinless eyeless crying, blood-gurgling face video'd and sent directly to his mother's messenger. That is the most humane end that traitors deserve.
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>>9052 Reminder that Stalin himself had to order every single female sharpshooter to be forcefully taken away from the front and sent back to Moscow because these dumb bitches were dying at penal battalion-rates and the Soviets couldn't find any women still alive to photograph and review for propaganda purposes.
>>9064 Mind posting the .pdf? This looks like an interesting read.
>>9066 Thanks hungry boy.
>>9064 Tbf snipping is the only combat role that genitally impaired people are not completely outclassed by males. Snipping is for pussies itf.
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Speaking of snipers ukrainians claim the longest sniper kill at 3 800 meters.
>>9069 >kill Noone died though, they all got up at the end
>>9071 Those aren't rats, they're mice and in either case I hate killing them. But when you live across the world's biggest wheat fields you're going to see a couple of them
Whoever wants to see more combat footage and doesn't mind the strong Russian bias and obnoxious music in most of the videos, December1991 on Bitchute uploads nearly daily videos that are normally only found on paywalled faggotgram channels. If anyone knows any other good channels, bring them up
>>9074 Bit of a warning though, most of the comments have the mental capacity of a drain fly. They don't think or say anything rationally, they're normalfags who cheer at the sight of death and spew the most braindead takes possible. So just watch the videos and don't bother reading the comments bellow
>>9074 Yeah, I don't mind watching people die with horrible music playing.
>>9076 If that was supposed to be sarcastic, I hope you don't live in a country threatened to be invaded by another. Raw combat footage should be mandatory watch for any man who is expected to serve his country
>>9074 I think that channel is run by simplicius76.
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>>9079 A+ mp4
>>9074 >So just watch the videos and don't bother reading the comments bellow So like everywhere else on the internet then.
>>9073 What are the confirmed lossess? >>9079 Nice. Also ukrainians used big ass baba yaga drone as a drone carrier for smaller, fpv drones. Also another story about ukrainians defending a position with automated turret. On russian side, we have video from a few weeks ago showing them blowing up a tunnel (of the mine sort) then pouring out behind ukrainian trenches . Badass honestly.
>>9082 >What are the confirmed lossess? According to the Russians, 7 not including the singer and her director. Apparently missile didn't explode on the floor where the concert was held but penetrated to lower floor. >On russian side, we have video from a few weeks ago showing them blowing up a tunnel (of the mine sort) then pouring out behind ukrainian trenches Any sauce on that video?
>>9082 >Also another story about ukrainians defending a position with automated turret. That was pretty cool, but also rather strange. A single machine gun position gave Russians trouble, because they had no idea it's controlled from afar, and no matter how many explosives they lobbed at that position, it kept firing. But the solution from an outsider's perspective would have been to lay some smoke and roll up with an armoured vehicle. I guess they were afraid that if there are still people firing from that position, then they might have some AT weapons too.
>>9082 >ukrainians used big ass baba yaga drone as a drone carrier for smaller, fpv drones. Also another story about ukrainians defending a position with automated turret I wanna these, especially the automated turret that kinda shit terrifies me. >On russian side, we have video from a few weeks ago showing them blowing up a tunnel (of the mine sort) then pouring out behind ukrainian trenches Sounds nuts.
>>9077 >Raw combat footage should be mandatory watch for any man who is expected to serve his country The country can go to shit, post the videos.
>>9079 lol'd
More and more instances of women popping up on the frontline in UAF ranks. Ukrainian goverment is also openly discussing increasing intensity of mobilization of men from ages 18-25.
>>9088 >increasing intensity of mobilization of men from ages 18-25. They still have those?
>>9088 >More and more instances of women popping up on the frontline in UAF ranks And without fail every single video I've seen of females is them crying under fire, getting first place during an extraction and abandoning their positions to go surrender to the Russians (bonus points for lying that they're pregnant)
>>9088 >increasing intensity of mobilization of men from ages 18-25 Don't they already practically take them at gunpoint?
>>9091 Not practically literally.
>>9090 >crying under fire Men cry under fire too. Doesn't matter unless they abandon rank. >getting first place during an extraction Good, let the men come to hate female conscripts. >abandoning their positions to go surrender to the Russians Maybe more men will too. >bonus points for lying that they're pregnant That can be corrected back at the barracks if they weren't already.
>>9091 >Practically Literally. The lucky ones get tied to a tree naked in the rain for 8 hours or beaten to a pulp and left behind. The unlucky ones get the same service they would have gotten if they fled their trench.
>>9090 Post the videos, please, anonkun.
>>9094 >Good, let the men come to hate female conscripts. I think the male instinct is to do that anyway, i doubt any man would hate women because of that
>>9089 >>9091 I think its the law over there that men going in collage cannot be conscripted, but dont quote me on that. >>9090 Women should not be serving in the military period. Not only are they less physically and psychologically equipped to deal with such situation, they are much higher maintenance and demand increased strain on logistics.
>>9093 He's pretty good.
>>9083 >Any sauce on that video? I cannot find it but it was in Dimas daily update though so it should be somewhere on his telegram https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/11/its-official-us-uk-pressed-ukraine-to-reject-peace-deal-with-russia.html#more Check this shit out, ukrainian officials are outright stating that during negotations at the start of the war russians just wanted Ukraine to be neutral, and that they did not sign it because boris johnson came in.
>>9100 >eternal anglo does it again Are they unironically trying to compete with the chosen people for being the most harmful to the human race?
>>9100 >I cannot find it but it was in Dimas daily update though so it should be somewhere on his telegram Thanks, I'll try to dig it up. Must have missed it when it was first posted. >and that they did not sign it because boris johnson came in. I thought that was already known fact? Either way, Ukrainian media let slip that 1.1+ million men have been listed as casulties. Keep in mind that this is most likely only the number for those whos paperwork has been filed, often local commanders would not acknowledge the loss of a soldier in order to keep getting his pay so 1.1+ million number should be taken with a grain of salt.
>>9102 >Ukrainian media let slip that 1.1+ million men have been listed as casulties Can you throw me a link for this?
>>9102 >I thought that was already known fact? That is official admission from member of ukrainian government taking part in negotiations though, that changes the official story and is interesting for other political reasons , like the blame for the war is put squarely on the west. The change in messaging is important. >>59360 >>9103 https://archive.ph/lReqk If its true then these are some WW1 tier numbers already. But people in Weltkrieg couldnt exactly run away to another country en masse. Like this shit is unprecedant in how costly this war is.
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>>9103 Unfortunately no I don't have links, but this slipped trough Ukrainan censors. It was published on state news if I understood it correctly. Polandanon has you covered with link though. >>9104 I've noticed much more somber news coming out of both Ukrainan and western sources. Now there's much more talk of Ukrainans making concessions to Russians, even within Ukrainan circles.
>>9104 >>9105 They're calling it a typo.
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>>9106 Of course they do.
>>9107 Oh yeah... I deffintly hope zelensky wasn't disappointed after the "successful offenisive" Alson 400 kmΒ² isn't much from a large scale offensive. So no this is pure stupidity coming from a person who never cared about wars. Plus offenisive has a point that they should achieve. They didn't. It's a failed offensive >>9102 >1.1 milion That's a lot. If it's even half it'd be a paintful cut to ukranian manpower. Which from the looks
Any theories on oblivious solders?
>>9105 >Now there's much more talk of Ukrainans making concessions to Russians, even within Ukrainan circles. Vae victis. The time to surrender was before Ukraine lost. Now it's too late for a surrender unless they are willing to cede significantly more than they are comfortable with as a sign of good faith in negotiations. Russia should take their entire coast if Ukraine sues for peace.
>>9109 >First video Guy seems to be suffering from the early stages of hypothermia and thigh rashes. Probably doesn't give a shit because his thighs feel like they're bleeding from the chaffing. Give the man some goldbond. >Second video In a war zone you get so used to all the sounds and debris that you figure the drone could be anywhere at night like that and figure it's probably shrapnel that landed on your head.
>>9109 There is nothing to theorize about. Everyone is tired, cold, numb from stress and adrenaline. Probably also drunk or high on whatever they can get their hands on.
Its just a war myth, like every decent ammo depo explosion being a nuke, every boxy tank being a tiger, every pile of corpses or bodyparts left after amputation a mad science experiment.
>>9111 Both of them could also just be severe shell shock. WW1 vets came home walking like the guy in the first video and the trenches were sometimes filled with dudes who just stopped reacting to anything like the guy in the second video because their brains stopped functioning at all and considering this has been the most intense war in yurup since Yugoslavia broke up it wouldn't be surprising to see soldiers with artillery induced brain rot on both sides.
>>9107 Can you explain this image?
>>9088 >More and more instances of women popping up on the frontline in UAF ranks. Any videos of hohols women dying and stuff?
>>9114 >considering this has been the most intense war in yurup since Yugoslavia broke up it wouldn't be surprising to see soldiers with artillery induced brain rot on both sides. What exactly causes this? Is this what is commonly known as shell shock?
>>9115 Pro-Ukraine "free thinker" makes the most delusional bad guys' casualties list possible
>>9105 >Now there's much more talk of Ukrainans making concessions to Russians, even within Ukrainan circles. What concessions? A promise to steer clear of NATO… again? Besides, it’s not like anyone would trust these puppets anyway. >>9109 The first dude is alone and has odd gait, already bad signs. Maybe this >>9111 Or returns from "rest and recreation" in shrubs less than sober >>9059 , or lightly wounded (and possibly on painkillers), or just worn out from lack of sleep and lags far behind his guys. The second dude is nothing special. He just sits there for who knows how long, and wiggles fingers either to keep his right hand from numbing, or to keep himself awake. Something banged him on the head hard, but not quite enough to knock down, he takes a few seconds to blink and look around, but it’s too late for him.
>>59407 Daily reminder that people who like blacked and openly post it don't have right to exist or even argue about stuff inb4 >he goes apeshit.
>>9115 Its just schizo image I found while trawling 4/k/ for informations from the ukrainian side. Dont think too hard about it, in their world russians are currently suffering 20:1 vehicle losses. It is genuinely the worst board I have ever seen and that includes tvchan. >>59407 Of course. No state is eternal.
>>9119 >What concessions? Territorial. General consensus among the Russians is that their govement will not accept another Minsk style agreement, since even the western politicians admitted it was basically a ploy in order to pump Ukraine full of weapons and trained men. I don't think Russians will be willing to discuss anything short of Zaporozhie, Donetsk, Luhanks and Kherson, with Kherson maybe being split among Russians and Ukrainans by Dineper. I think Odessa,Nikolaev and Kharkov are probably off the table unless we see some massive change on the front, which I highly doubt we will
>>9121 >No state is eternal. Although the Abbos have been doing good for about 50,000 to 60,000 years. Well "good" anyway.
>>9117 Shell shock is technically just another term for ptsd but yes being around explosions constantly will have effects in your brain, the blast waves from them will literally rattle your bones and can bruise your organs those WW1 vets that struggled to walk at all most likely had severe TBIs and other internal damage because of artillery.
>>9120 Tengu won't do shit about him but that doesn't mean you have to oblige the dopamine prostitute with responses.
>>9122 I don't think Kharkiv is optional. If Russia ends this war without it, they effectively lost because the porous border there is how Globohomo imported their gay trash into Russia in the first place. They'll get their warm-water ports but they'll lose the culture battle in 20 years without Kharkiv.
>>9122 > Territorial. That’s meaningless. What matters are capabilities and agreements, in this context things will have to go farther than just concessions. > General consensus among the Russians is that their govement will not accept another Minsk style agreement, Rumours are just so, rumours. > it was basically a ploy in order to pump Ukraine full of weapons and trained men. The very existence of Orange Revolution (post-Maidan) β€œUkraine” was. It’s little more than a framework for proxy army. It served its masters’ purpose. With puppets it’s impossible to have an agreement worth the paper it’s written on. By definition: they don’t own themselves, so they don’t own their word. Never mind puppet of a puppet of a puppet. It follows that if left around in any form, the hostile puppet can and will be used for the same purpose in one form or another. So perhaps it’s possible to secure Black Sea areas, roads and pipes Westward, etc. But it’s only going to be reasonably safe if effectively isolated from external support and carved up to the point of inability to do anything at all. And lasting peace is only possible if hostile puppetry ceases altogether, which requires regime change. So… why stop halfway?
>>9120 blacked porn > actual sex You're an incel so you wouldnt understand anyways.
>>9127 >So… why stop halfway? Depends how much war Russia is willing to stomach, given that the west's own constitution for direct war seems to be nil. Can the Russians endure a long grinding war for a longer term solution? It's anyone's guess.
>>9129 The only thing vatniks can stomach is cum, much like UKikes.
>>9130 You're probably right in implying that this war will go on till the apparatchiks in Moscow and Washington decide.
Looks like Washington wants to offload this problem to Europe some time in 2024 though.
>>9132 I wish they'd offload into my ass
>>9132 I think it will be quite the hot potato during the election season.
>>9125 The guy isn't a prostitute but whole goddamned clown.
>>9126 I don't see how they would take Kahrkov with their current numbers and battlefield situation. The only way I realistically see it without a sizable mobilization of Russians is if UAF and Ukrainan goverment simply disintegrate under the attrition and unrest. >>9127 >So… why stop halfway? I'd say the same, but sometimes decisions made by the Russian govement were simply bizarre. If they don't go for something like Carthaginian peace they will have hostile entity right at its several thousand kilometer border, the only question is are they willing and able to impose their demands.
>>9136 >UAF and Ukrainan goverment simply disintegrate under the attrition and unrest. That could be yet one more thing this conflict resembles ww1. Russia collapsed without the Central Powers ever getting close to Moscow, and then the Central Powers collapsed without any Entente forces even entering their territories. It makes sense, as ww2 was much faster so enemy forces usually conquered a whole country before the hardships of war could even properly set in.
>>9137 My thoughts are along the same lines. Russian army wasn't actually defeated on the battlefield proper in WW1 but rather Russian goverment imploded due to the absolutely fucked goverment and revolutionary movements. Low morale and absolutely retarded conduct by some Russian generals didn't help either. We might be seeing something similar brewing within Ukrainan goevtment as split between Zaluzhny and Zelenski seem to grow with each day. Still, time will tell
When a country implodes like that you'd think the Russians could just march to the capital... in which case, can't Vlad secure the puppet-state governance that he wanted to install since the start of it all?
>>9136 >I don't see how they would take Kahrkov with their current numbers and battlefield situation. Look at the deployment map and how many units ukrainians have in there. > The only way I realistically see it without a sizable mobilization of Russians reminder that russians formed two entire military districts out of new recruits. >>9085 >I wanna these, especially the automated turret that kinda shit terrifies me. You can make one by yourself with a gun, controller, motions sensors and camera. Its cheap and relatively easy to do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnTqK8JRi0k ------------- https://strana.news/news/451432-valerij-zaluzhnyj-dolzhen-ujti-v-otstavku-marjana-bezuhlaja.html >Zaluzhny didn't provide the plan of war-2024 and has to leave-the people's Deputy from "Servants of the people" >The commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, does not have a war plan for 2024, and therefore must resign. >This was stated by Deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense, MP from Servant of the People Mariana Bezuglaya on her Facebook page, referring to a "non-public discussion" with the military. <"Yes, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine could not provide a plan for 2024. Neither big nor small, neither asymmetrical nor symmetrical. The military simply said that they need to take at least 20 thousand citizens a month, " she writes. Two points here, 1. rumors say that this happened because zelensky demands offensive during the next year . He publicly stated that the newly mobilized/conscripted/enslaved troops will be used in future offensive and ukrainian armor has been pretty much withdrawn from Avdievka so they do have armor. Old ass leos 1 and abrams but they do have them. 2.Zaluzhny does not work alone. Its not just him that does not know what to do its ENTIRE NATO HIGH COMMAND. >Ukraine will not sign a settlement agreement with the Russian Federation without reparations. Ukraine will never agree to this. And peace will not go well, because someone has to pay these reparations. If not Russia, then who? >(c) Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine Iryna Mudra Just lmao Budanovs (chief ukro spook) wife was assasinated, at least according to rumors. Dima is sick Otherwise, the weather is shit and everything halted to a crawl (more)
>>9139 >When a country implodes like that you'd think the Russians could just march to the capital... in which case, can't Vlad secure the puppet-state governance that he wanted to install since the start of it all? And pay ukrainian debts to the west?
>>9141 Why bother if the West wouldn't recognize such government as legitimate anyway?
>>9142 International law and such. Also most of that debt would be to private entities not to governments. You know it is one of the theories that circle around, if russia outright annexes ukraine than they now have to deal with rebuilding of the entire country, pay for all the wounded and limbless etc. so it might be more profitable to anex just small bits and leave a sick rump state with economy on the level of somalia (not somaliland).
>>9109 >2nd video Was that a stun or smoke grenade? I thought the guy on the left was sleeping, but seems he's already dead. >>9123 >Well "good" anyway. And "state". >>9141 >And pay ukrainian debts to the west? Nah pull a page from bolsheviks and repudiate the predecessor debts, simple as!
>>9140 >Ukraine will not sign a settlement agreement with the Russian Federation without reparations. Ukraine will never agree to this. And peace will not go well, because someone has to pay these reparations. If not Russia, then who? They'll get reparations just fine. As a Russian vassal state. The Russians will pay to recover the infrastructure because the Russians will be using said infrastructure. ffs when this war began Ukraine could have given up their coal mines and continued being a global leader in agriculture and computer tech, but they had to go full retard over some yokels who didn't even want to be part of their country and now their country might get split between Russia and Poland at this rate. It's disgusting.
>>9140 >Look at the deployment map and how many units ukrainians have in there. True, but Kharkov is a city, and a major one at that. It doesn't take many men in order to pin down a far larger force in urban combat. Even some smaller or depleted units can be used to slow down a large attacking force, giving enough time for UAF to transfer reserves there to stabilize the situation. Russian fucked up big time by using only two brigades with some recon elements in the beginning in a attempt to encircle Kharkov.
>>9123 State is separate entity from nation, race and people it rules over. >>9146 >giving enough time for UAF to transfer reserves there to stabilize the situation. There are no reserves. Just look at poor 47th mech brig, getting thrown from the meatgrinder of Robotyne straight into meatgrinder at Avdievka without a pause for refit or recovery. Russians opening another front would mean Ukrainians having to scrable brigades from different frontline, at this point Ukrainians can only choose which battle they want to certainly lose.
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>>9147 >There are no reserves. Most of Russian analysts say that Ukrainans still poses mobilization capacities, especialy since they've drafted the bill that will allow any men over 18 to be conscripted, as well as as supplementing depleted formations with female soldiers. Though you're right about the latter, since any further conscripted men will pale in comparison in terms of combat experience, equipment, training and even health. Looks like the NATO trained and equipped formations have been largely mangled im short order, such as the 47th you've mentioned so any large scale offensive actions should probably not be expected at leats for the near future. In other news, Russians re started their offensive actions around Bakhmut, they've captured Khromove in a few hours.
>>9145 >but they had to go full retard over some yokels Retarded indeed, none of this would be happening if Khrushchev finished off Banderites instead of making pardons.
>>9136 >I don't see how they would take Kahrkov with their current numbers and battlefield situation. The only way I realistically see it without a sizable mobilization of Russians is if UAF and Ukrainan goverment simply disintegrate under the attrition and unrest. And troubles with logistics. NATO supplies are drying up. Once they have no ammunition to actually fight a war, the rest is mop-up: envelopment and/or pinpoint strikes at barrier troops when identified, followed by mass surrender. And yes, the Kiev junta is politically fragile. Once NATO is neither seen as a serious help, nor threat, a coup is only deterred by being complicit in too much unpalatable stuff. But then, do they expect the Kremlins to actually care about this? >>9138 > My thoughts are along the same lines. Russian army wasn't actually defeated on the battlefield proper in WW1 but rather Russian goverment imploded due to the absolutely fucked goverment and revolutionary movements. Mostly it just intolerably sucked on strategical level and logistics. When even Brusilov’s breakthrough resulted only in snatching a failure from the jaws of victory, no one with eyes and ears had anything to hope for. With government discredited as much as humanly possible, it was up for grabs. But also, its internal security was feeble, counterproductive and openly mocked. >>9138 >as split between Zaluzhny and Zelenski seem to grow Zelenski is a puppet whose uselessness is increasingly complete and obvious. Considering the junta had to suppress opposition non-stop, it probably holds mostly due to MAD situation between AFU and SBU. >>9140 >Budanovs (chief ukro spook) wife was assasinated, at least according to rumors. Factions, factions everywhere.
Henry Kissinger is dead.
>>9151 Nice, another dead kike.
Description says it's filmed somewhere in Donetsk. Hm, what is file limit on cafe? I thought it was 32Mb is it not? https://files.catbox.moe/yr9pb4.webm
>>9153 What's the morale like among Russians? at what point is the war not worth it in their eyes? they're the aggressors after all even if somewhat justified all that geopolitical talk must go over the heads of the average Russian conscript. So in their eyes why is it worth the threat of being blown up in a muddy, wet and cold trench? at least Ukrainians have good old defend the homeland
>>9154 Russians are a very fatalistic bunch in general from what I've heard, and if that is the case most of the conscripts probably have a "fuck it I'm on this ride and have zero control over it" outlook on the situation.
I need videos of women dying for their country.
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>>9156 >Starts socializing outside of her goblin hole >Gets droned Heh. You know I've come full circle to the Russian orcs jokes after remembering that Orcs usually rule over Goblins in D&D.
>>9156 Same. I've worked with women before and I have to admit seeing them blown to shit by drones is kind of funny. She was probably asking for a period diaper or how her make up looked when the drone went off. I guess things must be really bad for them to send women to the front lines. Where exactly was this footage taken from?
>>9159 >Where exactly was this footage taken from? In Ukriane.
>>9150 >muh Ukie implosion Hoping the leader of your enemy's country to just get deposed is as laughable as the (((West))) hoping the Putin will just keel over dead soon. It's wishful thinking at best, and fantasy at worst. You know damn well how good the Jews are at staying alive if it's not threatened directly, Zelenskky won't stepping out of office as long as he can get all the credit for the 'defense' of Ukraine.
Zelensky ordered the Ukrainians to go on the defence and establish new defensive lines behind the current ones. And it looks like there might be some withdrawals in Marinka and around Bakhmut to better defensive position.
>>9123 Without the miscegenation that came with colonisation, they were literal paleolithic fauna. Seriously. The empire's representatives, who had dealt previously with thousands of other cultures and tribes, including the darkest parts of Africa, did not recognise them as being meaningfully human, and I don't think they were wrong about that.
>>9162 >there might be some withdrawals in Marinka They already fled the city. Following Russian reports, they haven't even witnessed troop withdrawals while monitoring the area 24/7 suggesting almost everyone in Marinka is dead. De-mining operations began a couple days ago IIRC.
>>9123 >Abbos >State You'd have a better time arguing the ancient Somalis since at least their non-government "state" lasted 1000+ years and consisted of a set of customs and rules that could be interpreted as a state expanding beyond individual tribal policies. Tribal "states" can't really be called that when they consist of following tribal policies and murderhoboing people you don't like. >>9163 This. People like to joke about certain groups like featherniggers being fauna, but purebred Abbos were literally dumber than your average gorilla (about 40-60 IQ for pre-"ain't not Shielas gimme an Abbo I'm desperate" average Abbo vs about 60-80IQ for your average gorilla), they just had the musculoskeletal framework to use tools whereas most apes have physical limitations to doing so. Breeding with humans as a missing link species of Homo allowed for abnormalities in skull development to put modern racemixed Abbos within the realm of intelligent individuals, but the original natives only had the advantage of firemaking over that of natural wildlife. The niggest niggers of Africa were more civilized as an existence back then. Don't bully the modern Abbos though. Some of them might huff petrol while laying in the road all day, but most of them are cool dudes who will teach you how to hunt monitor lizard and sea turtles in exchange for some money/grub/drugs and they'll teach you about rock paintings and shiiet.
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>>9165 >about 60-80IQ for your average gorilla Gonna need a citation on that.
>>9166 Koko the gorilla tested at 70-90 on infant IQ scales, and she was considered exceptional. Through the media's game of Chinese telephone, the infant part usually gets dropped, and sometimes (like here) it's gone from one exceptional captive gorilla to an average.
>>9168 Cats and dogs don't pass because reflections have no scent therefor they just treat it as extraneous environmental phenomena, much like shadows.
>>9169 And you don't pass because of that huge fucking Adam's apple.
>>9170 Kinda rude tbh.
>>9171 I'm just trying my best.
>>9168 Doesn't the second pic call into question the validity of IQ test, or at least the test it was given, if on the high end it is only 5 points shy from triple digits. The average IQ range is 90-109. So maybe we need to revamp things a bit if we can't even differentiate between species.
Weather across Ukraine has been dry and cold and is expected to continue to be dry and cold for the next few weeks, making the ground too frosty for artillery to dig in. Armored operations are expected in the near-future from the Russian side if snow/rain doesn't save the Ukrainians since the ground will be hard enough for armored vehicles to show their stuff.
>>9173 What it calls into question is the IQ of the person who made the image, and the anons who post it and reply to it in threads where it was already fucking explained why it's a load of bullshit before it was even posted. It was an INFANT IQ test. It's on the tier of a Fisher-Price "put the blocks in the correctly-shaped holes" toy. Even if you were looking only at humans, it would be idiotic to compare the results to an adult test.
NATO chief on Ukraine war: β€˜Be prepared for bad news’ >β€œWars develop in phases. We have to support Ukraine in both good and bad times. We should also be prepared for bad news,” Stoltenberg said in an interview with German broadcaster ARD on Saturday >Stoltenberg’s comments come just as the White House issued a warning Monday saying it will run out of funds to provide weapons to Ukraine in its fight against Russia without congressional action by the end of the year. Additional aid for Ukraine has hit a wall in the House, while Senate Republicans are looking to tie support for Kyiv with border security changes. >This also comes as some Ukrainian officials have warned that the war has come to a β€œstalemate.” >Ukraine’s commander in chief, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, said in an interview last month that only a significant technological breakthrough could help move the war forward. https://thehill.com/policy/international/4340800-nato-chief-ukraine-war-bad-news/ (sorry archive is fucking up right now)
>>9175 Hey nigger lover. Infant IQ test results are generally consistent with adult IQ test results. And this still doesn’t take away from the fact that niggers are retarded.
>>9177 Congratulations. This post has beaten out Ukrainian claims of Russian casualties as the dumbest thing in these threads.
>>9173 Only someone dumb enough to feel legitimately threatened by a gorillas intelligence would say that.
>>9178 I cant imagine how your nigger brain is processing this. Do you expect them to give a gorilla a test that requires verbal or any kind of advanced communication? What do you think IQ tests are designed to measure? Do you think a literal gorilla will sit and cooperate with a test taker? How do you think they test non verbal people and people that dont speak the same language? Do you think its all unreliable even though every study shows them to be consistent across barriers? Do you not understand what intelligence is? You must be really fucking stupid. You should move to africa.
>>9180 An individual scoring 90 on a test designed for toddlers is not "generally consistent" with that same individual scoring 90 on a test for adults, no matter how much you claim it is. There is a reason that people talk about the mental or developmental age of actual, literal retards being lower than their actual age. >Do you expect them to give a gorilla a test that requires verbal or any kind of advanced communication? Do you think a literal gorilla will sit and cooperate with a test taker? No. But that is irrelevant. The impossibility of a comparable test does not make an incomparable test comparable. >niggers niggers niggers What niggers score is completely unrelated. It has zero relevance whatsoever.
The whole point was that (purebred) Abbos are dumber than a box of rocks. Niggers were never part of the equation when the intelligence of Abbos was brought up. Abbos are not niggers the same way featherniggers are not niggers. Obviously racemixed Abbos are classifiable as humans and should be treated with the respect that every human gets regardless of melanin content, but it's not hard to understand why the original Aboriginals were seen as native wildlife.
>>9181 >all this cope to argue niggers arent dumber than gorillas. You realize they graded a gorillas test results against humans, right? You realize that the differences in these tests largely consider physical and communicative abilities, right? You realize that these tests are generally consistent and accurate when judging these things across age levels, right? And you realize that these tests are specifically designed to measure things that generally dont improve with age (and ability), right? While the gorillas IQ is not going to be as accurately measured as an adult humans, it doesn't mean its without any value or merit. Infant/toddler/adult tests are designed to judge intelligence according to their abilities. They take compromises because of the lack of input from the subject and the compromise is accuracy, but the standard deviation between the tests is still relatively small because of the amount of research that goes into them. They make the same compromises when getting some sudanese nigger that can barely speak to take the test.
This thread is concerned with the Russian and Ukrainian war. It is not Australia in that area. Also, whose political argument rests on whether a nigger's IQ is smarter than a gorilla? If you hated niggers, then that's a shame because God made niggers. If you loved niggers, then that's a shame because God made niggers not know what a two storey building was for millennia until virtually every other group already saw the steam engine. As for the ethno-nat arguee there's a bit of an inconsistency there; "race mixing for thee, but not for me (or for anyone else)". Which again raises the point of well, then why would God make niggers?
>>9183 >You realize that the differences in these tests largely consider physical and communicative abilities, right? Does an adult gorilla have comparable motor control to a human infant whose age is measured in months? And no, infant tests are also designed to test more basic things like fundamental sensory perception (shit like "looks toward a bell when it rings"), which are absolutely expected to be more developed in an adult animal than a human infant. >you realize that these tests are specifically designed to measure things that generally dont improve with age (and ability), right? Can you point me to those studies showing that an individual taking both an adult test and the Cattell infant test will get the same result on both? That test (which is one of the most-often-cited ones Koko took) and others are explicitly designed so that the results will NOT be the same when administered at different ages, because those differences measure development. Subjects of the test are expected to fail certain tasks and pass others depending on age, with unexpected failures or successes being what establishes differences from the baseline. Given that you cannot even assign a particular human development stage to a non-human, it's meaningless, because you can't even set an expectation. >all this cope to argue niggers arent dumber than gorillas. Why are you so obsessed with niggers? I haven't made a single claim about them. We're talking about comparing infant scores to adult scores, and the applicability of an adult gorilla taking a test for human infants. You're arguing as though you care more about the result than the process.
>>9180 >What do you think IQ tests are designed to measure? IQ tests measure performance on IQ tests, nothing more, nothing less. >Do you not understand what intelligence is? Well it ain't IQ, I can tell you that much. There is correlation between the two but correlation really only works when comparing sufficiently large populations. (hint: sample size of 1 gorilla not sufficiently large for any statistical test) The definition of intelligence is squishy enough already without trying to claim it can be represented by a scalar value (or claiming we can measure that value directly). Let's use an analogy: if true intelligence is your combat ability then IQ is your weight in lbs. Broadly speaking larger, heavier individuals will be more successful compared to smaller, lighter individuals in many forms of "combat" but claiming that this represents the full picture is... simplistic.
>>9185 Your entire dispute with the image is that niggers arent averaging sub-gorilla IQs by attempting to lower the IQ of a gorilla by disputing the results of the tests saying theyre not comparable to the kinds of tests given to niggers. in a pathetic attempt to defend niggers. Are they as accurate as tests given to an adult human that is capable of speaking? no. but theyre not completely invalidated. >>9186 >IQ tests measure performance on IQ tests, ramblings from the top of the bell curve.
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>>9187 >Your entire dispute with the image is that niggers arent averaging sub-gorilla IQs by attempting to lower the IQ of a gorilla by disputing the results of the tests saying theyre not comparable to the kinds of tests given to niggers. >ramblings from the top of the bell curve. Enlighten us, go on.
>>9176 >only a significant technological breakthrough could help move the war forward. Like what, hover tanks?
>>9187 The dispute is with the idea that applying an IQ test designed for infant humans to one adult gorilla will give meaningful results, and that it is meaningful to compare those results to IQ tests designed for adult humans and administered to adult humans. Please explain, you drooling imbecile too retarded to find your apostrophe key, how I started disputing an image about niggers before the image was mentioned and before niggers were brought up. I was wrong to say you're arguing as though you care more about the result than the process. You actually do care more about getting the result you want than you do about being truthful. The anti-logic that any claims supporting your preferred conclusion must be true, and that calling them false can only be an effort to oppose your preferred conclusion rather than being based on those claims' own factual merit, is genuinely psychotic. What some population scores on one test does not matter to the validity of a different test as applied to a gorilla. It's fucking impossible for it to matter. It doesn't change the nature of the test. It doesn't change the nature of the gorilla. I dispute the test and the comparison when niggers score "lower" (on a different test). I'd dispute them just as much if they scored higher. I'd dispute them if I didn't know the result. >ramblings from the top of the bell curve. And your posts are ramblings from its bottom.
>>9183 I don't know about you, but even if I'm not the biggest fan of niggers seems to me quite clear they're at least smarter than gorillas >>9185 >You're arguing as though you care more about the result than the process. He probably does, he probably will take any claim shitting on niggers no matter how nonsensical it might be. >>9187 >in a pathetic attempt to defend niggers. It's an attempt to be accurate you retard, like it or not right now there's a above average nigger somewhere performing a surgery and saving someone's life instead of arguing in a philipino basket weaving forum. Niggers are on average less intelligent than whites absolutely true or almost any other group, but the difference is not that big, they're certainly orders of magnitude smarter than animals, can't believe anyone has to point that out.
>>9189 A functioning airforce.
>>9192 Guess we can look forward to another wunderwaffe hype cycle with the F-16.
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The Russians captured a Bradley.
https://nitter.1d4.us/Gerashchenko_en/status/1732004112919629855#m >A festival called "Peaceful Warrior of the Russian Federation" was held in the Russian city of Tomsk. At one of the locations, a shooting range was set up for children, where instead of targets there were photos of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Joe Biden and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. https://nitter.1d4.us/Gerashchenko_en/status/1731690445233590540 >Russian propagandists discuss re-creating an "Austrian-Hungarian territory" protected by a Russian contingent.
>>9195 >Russian propagandists discuss re-creating an "Austrian-Hungarian territory" protected by a Russian contingent. Stop, I can only get so hard
I found a hohol youtube channel that uploaded a video of the AK12 from a dude that his buddy killed. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=l0VDS1G6GEI
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>>9190 They tested that specific gorilla on several tests and that was their result after examining the results. Often as smart or smarter than the average african nigger. This is pretty obvious you're just grasping at straws to form an argument. >bottom of the bell curve you're too kind. >>9191 Accurate by cherry picking a single test they did for a gorilla in an effort to make it appear like niggers with an average 60 IQ isnt an animal? and ignoring every other marker they used? LOL >>9188 Saying IQ tests only measure performance on IQ tests is just a coping mechanism.
>>9198 So looking at the pic there's about a third of whites that are as stupid as gorillas then, seems you are part of that third.
UKRAINE WAR !
>>9200 Hohols asked for 35 billion dollars and 17 million 155mm shells from the US. They got nothing like that, and maybe it is just a negotiating tactic. Or maybe they genuinely need those to win the war.
>>9199 The fact you have no idea how to read that graph points more to you being in the gorilla range actually.
>>9202 Enlighten us then, what is that crossover between blacks and whites?
>>9201 I propose third option: Zaluzhny is just shitposting, making impossible demands to drive the point across that the war is lost. Same with his robots. >>9203 Spain.
>>9204 Sure beats Poland
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>>9201 What about 6000 2600 Abrams tanks?
>>9206 I hope they send 5,000 burger tanks to the hohols
>>9198 >>9199 >>9200 >>9201 >>9202 >>9203 Listen up assholes, Satan trips have settled this debate >>9190 already, nothing more to say here. of course he manifests as a leaf All your arguments are henceforth invalid but if you still have the insatiable urge to talk about literal niggers, kindly fuck off to kanteen or something.
>>9208 >PANCAKES PANCAKES PANCAKES WILL YOU GUYS STOP TALKING ABOUT PANCAKES!? did you really needed to come out of the woodwork just to defend niggers on the internet? just for attention?
So Ukraine officially goes on the defensive, with Zelensky saying they will even fortify entire russian border... Using private companies, when every able man is already conscripted and economy is running on western donations. Digging up trenches, in winter, while not having enough manpower already. Transporting building materials with the same supply lines that are used by military And perhaps worst of all, going on defense seems to have been Zaluzhnys stance so it complicates the political side of things even further. Shit is not looking good. Oh and Zelensky did not make a speech to us congress because they did not pass further funding lmao.
>>9210 They would have been better off building defensive lines instead of trying to go on the offensive, and just tell everyone that they will bleed the Russians dry that way. Who knows, maybe they would be holding slightly more territory at the cost of significantly less losses, and maybe the Russians would be also fine with keeping the status quo by now. Ukrainians could still claim victory by saying that Russians couldn't even capture Keeev and Kharkov, let alone the whole country.
>>9203 Not a third of the population like you said, idiot. I don't know how to break down such a simple graph any further for you than what should already be apparent. You are stupid on a mystifying level. Also we were talking about African niggers and their gorilla tier IQs and there's basically no significant overlap there with the most retarded whites. That little bit of overlap that is there probably represents Spaniards.
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>>9210 >Zelensky did not make a speech to us congress because they did not pass further funding lmao. Well since y'all got niggers living rent-free in your head, here's what BBC is reporting: >Virtual appearances in the Senate and House had been scheduled for Tuesday, but were cancelled at the last moment. >Senate leader Chuck Schumer did not explain why Mr Zelensky was a no-show. >The chamber's top Democrat said the Ukrainian president was occupied with a "last-minute" matter, without providing further detail. >Ukraine's embassy in Washington DC did not immediately respond to a BBC question asking for further explanation for the cancellation. Did Putin manage to clap him with a missile? Kevin McCarthy, clearly distraught by the events, announce is is retiring from congress by end of the year and will not seek reelection.
>>9214 Either Zelensky has gotten coup'd, clapped by Russia, or he's seen the writing on the wall and he's skipped town with as much money as possible.
>>9213 The alleged upper range of gorillas is like 70 idiot and you're still wrong either way. I'm not going to keep derailing after this you've thoroughly proven how fucking stupid you actually are.
>>9201 >17 million shells That's roughly a century of US production at its current output. Even if America actually manages to hit their 2025 goals (impossible because nobody will work for shit wages and the government can't pay them enough) that's still 14 years worth of stockpiles. The money is fucking nothing, but the artillery shells are dreamland. And obviously without the artillery shells the money is a fucking waste.
>>9214 >Kevin McCarthy, clearly distraught by the events, announce is is retiring from congress by end of the year and will not seek reelection. He doesn't really have a choice. >Be McCarthy >Promise the big donors if they get him in he'll do XYZ favors for them so don't fund freedom faction >Big donors tell the RNC to not fund freedom faction >RNC chairwoman has a hate-clit for Trump so she sabotages her own party for money like a greedy kikess >RNC sabotages themselves so badly denying candidates funding in swing districts for being pro-freedom-faction that they actually don't have enough NeoCons to pass shit >McCarthy lies like a smarmy snake thinking he can have his cake and eat it >Freedom faction calls his bluff >McCarthy has now earned the ire of the RNC, the big donor class, and the grassroots freedom faction Yeah no shit he'd drop out. He committed political suicide.
>>9216 I've been reading this thread, And the only retarded person here is you. Seriously you're making most niggers look like Leonardo di vinci with how stupid you're acting.
>>9219 >I've been blah blah blah Nahh, why don't you sign at me gorilla nigger Spaniard I don't care how much you IP hop.
You're both children who never learned to pick and choose your battles and insist on getting in the last laugh. Your parents should be ashamed that you're acting like spoiled teens over niggers of all things. In the real world this niggerish behaviour would have been beaten out of you at a young age for trying to "well actually" the wrong guy.
>>9211 They really would. I have been proposing defensive approach since the very beggining, which might have aged poorly after Kharkov but that is misscalculation due to insufficent data on troop counts. But if they, instead of preparing for the (fruitless) spring offensive, started digging, using Bahmut battle to buy time, they would be in much better position than they are currently in. Sure, russians would have to answer to that and possibly go on the offensive instead before the fortifications were prepared but they were hardly ready for this at the time. Ukrainians really dont deserve their leadership.
>>9220 I think they think you're me. You are :^) But don't worry about IQ, all it means is you're good at taking IQ tests. And apparently Gorillas are fantastic at it despite their shortcomings (such as not being able to speak human language or communicate without help), while niggers are terrible at it despite their advantages (such as being able to mimic human language and communicate). >>9223 >Ukrainians really dont deserve their leadership. Yea, because afterall who knew electing a cross-dressing jew you saw on TV and then letting him persecute the other half of your own country to the point a much larger foreign power invades your country, and then supporting the war to keep that jew in power solely because you have a tribal hatred towards that larger foriegn power even though you are genetically the same as them would turn out to be such a costly mistake?
>>9224 >he believes elections matter You are pretty smart for a gorilla.
>>9225 >ukranians never liked zelensky That's a lie and you know it is. The only reason the political pendulum swinged away from him is because the ukranians that want to fight russia are dying in droves. Poland was eating out of zelenksys asshole a few years ago crying how Poland is next after Ukraine if we let putin get his way.
>>9180 Non verbal test tend to be some of the most popular as they get around language and cultural barriers. One of the most popular is the Raven's Progressive Matrices IQ tests; you couldn't get a gorilla to finish one which is why they opted for a developmental IQ test designed for infants for Koko; gives you idea that a young developing child might be retarded but every adult that takes it would rated as a super baby. >>9186 Yes that is what they do, however IQ is the best metric we have for figuring out what the general intelligence of a person is: smart people do well at IQ tests and dumb people do poorly. Every other test I have seen just are a proxy for IQ with weaker correlations with general intelligence; I am thinking about the alledge IQ slayer EQ which is just a lame IQ test that lowers the scores of sociopathic types.
>>9226 >>9227 Stop shitting up the thread you fucking niggers Ukraine now wants f-18, THAAD, burger helicopters. Frontline without meaningfull changes.
>>9222 This isn't the first captured Leopard 2, unless that video is months old
>>9229 It's the first Leo that they've captured in mint condition and actually managed to drag back to their rear.
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>>9226 Tell that to Medvedchuk. If the clowns could win even obviously crooked elections, why would there be need for a color revolution? Never mind suppressing the opposition after? >>9173 You are shooting dead fish in a barrel of circular swimming. OTOH, this particular lame distraction illustrates the problem well. I mean, who promotes this silly quackery? The kind of people who need reassurances that they are smarter than monkeys so desperately, they are eager to grab what amounts to science equivalent of Monopoly money. >>9176 >that only a significant technological breakthrough could help move the war forward. In other words: wunderwaffe. >>9195 > >Russian propagandists discuss re-creating an "Austrian-Hungarian territory" protected by a Russian contingent. Now this was trolling of good quality. See the difference? >>9211 It’s not a military issue, it’s a show issue. >>9215 >Either Zelensky has gotten coup'd, This could make sense if the confusion is really the clowns stalling to develop a spin on the next regime. > clapped by Russia, What’s even the point? > or he's seen the writing on the wall and he's skipped town with as much money as possible. He would probably like to grab some money and disappear in some hole (like Nigeria) for a while, but who will let him? >>9228 >Ukraine now wants f-18, THAAD, burger helicopters. Frontline without meaningfull changes. Which they expect the conscripts will magically learn to use in a week of training, or with personnel attached?
>>9231 >why would there be need for a color revolution? Never mind suppressing the opposition after? To kill as many white Ukranians and Russians as possible. >>9231 >quackery IQ tests are mostly used as a diagnostic for intellectual disabilities. Countries like China and Israel only give it to gifted people because they see it as a point of pride but that's not the purpose of the tests. measuring cognitive ability can help people in many ways, but people like you and the person you replied to seem to be a product of internet-IQ tests becoming normalized even though they are not valid or useful, its just a dick measuring contest. The tests were even created as a way to correlate the result of their test with the result of an actual IQ test. regular IQ tests arent just giving you a number, but they give you pages of results. The single number people tend to discuss is the average, which can be useful for generalization, but not much else. The full test results will produce pages of information for example knowing one person is particularly gifted with certain types of cognitive abilities, while very weak in others. and people like that often can come out with above average IQs. The classic example is autistic people that can't figure out things that seem obvious to everyone else, but make observations that experienced detectives would overlook and draw more information from those observations than the average person would. The tests they used on apes and other animals were usually to emphasize their level of intelligence in specific areas. They can take those numbers they get from the tests (omitting tests the animals physically cannot perform) and create averages, which they did, but this average will have a much larger margin of error. Before anyone argues that because the animal average has a larger margin of error and therefore meaningless, consider for the average to be larger, they would have to score significantly higher on some areas of the tests vs the others. An animal would have to do better on atleast some parts of a test, than you. An animal would have to do better than you.
>>9232 It doesnt fucking matter you fucking nigger stay on topic.
>>9233 >the mass killing of ethnic russians doesnt matter Typical pole.
That's one hell of a comedic timing to get hit by a shell while saying 'to survive a war...'
>>9231 >>9215 Yeah if Russia sees a chance to capture him they probably will try, and if he dies on accident it's a "BLYAT but oh well" moment. However, Russia has no reason to kill him . If he dies then it'll be seen as a Russian-imposed rule of a foreign nation. That is something Russia doesn't give a fuck about with Western Europe/North America, but does give a fuck about with their trade allies and begrudgingly quiet neighbors. Plus he makes great propaganda fuel.
>>9226 >>9234 If your reading comprehension is honestly this bad, then my condolences. >>9231 >disappear in some hole (like Nigeria) for a while Nigeria of all places, really? Weren't they buddies with Wagner? Being the puppet he is I see him getting a comfy retirement package somewhere in US or Germany where he can safely continue to troll Putin and his own successors alike. Maybe get back into standup comedy? >>9235 >while saying 'to survive a war...' Seems like a smaller drone rather than an artillery shell proper. If he really was live streaming I wonder if the cell signal played a role in helping them target him. Curious what the full speech is about? I'd guess general purpose bitching/rant from the tone of his voice. >>9236 >Russia has no reason to kill him Who is his successor, formally or informally? I doubt anyone else would change the tone of the diplomatic ahem relations with Russia.
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>>9237 >Curious what the full speech is about? I can make rough translation, but it's really nothing interesting. >Returning from mission >We spent couple of days completing battle missions >Right now we are walking home >Look at this fucking weather in this fucking country during this season. Today is fist of December first day of winter >We are at war (Π’ΠΎΡŽΠ΅ΠΌ originally no Idea what term would be comparable in english) >As Konstantin Dmitrievich my first commander of company used to say when I was cadet of famed one in universe 'The General V.F. Margelov Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov Command School': to survive a war you need to be lucky
>>9231 >>9215 >>9237 Another curious theory. There's a tradition, indeed. And after all, he is a witness for lots of fascinating shenanigans. Realistically, it should not matter, since the clowns never care about evidence unless convenient, and will shamelessly push any spin on anything. Like with the cow fart thing. But the psychopaths seem instinctively inclined to off or cripple their former partners in any non-trivial deals (see The Psychopath Code from Hintjens, or just remember what she-Clinton used to do).
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>>9237 Zelensky owns property in Florida. I figured that was common knowledge so I hadn't brought it up, but it's fairly expensive property. He bought it around the time he was elected.
>>9239 >pic Well you see the big difference there is one of them is a kike so the US isn't going to murder him or pay some mercs to shove a bayonet up his ass. If anything he's got mansions waiting for him in zogmerica on multiple properties.
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>this war has been a win-win that we need to continue for our economy https://youtu.be/sPM7v255ROs
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As expected, these nork shells are not so good
>>9242 So they admitted ukraine is the new afghanistan to prop up the military industrial complex as some people speculated?
>>9243 Chink quality strikes again.
>>9244 More or less. He's not mentioning that it's all debt-spending from a debtor that may not continue to exist, but he's not outright lying in this instance either. These are the scumbags who believe that slapping morphine on a bullet wound is better than removing the bullet because "removing the bullet will hurt more."
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Nigger (cuban) volunteers in the Russian army
Stronk woman DEMANDS that HQ sends transport even though she's repeatedly told that there aren't any vehicles available. She keeps demanding for transport as if one is going to appear out of thin air, until the operator gets fed up and gives her a reality check. What do you think happened after that? A. She sat there until a drone dropped a grenade on her head B. She helped the wounded and carried them back to safety C. She got up, and left Watching this video reminded me of the countless excerpts in WW2 memorials where soldiers would often have to give the severely wounded the coup de grΓ’ce and drag the ones who had a hope of surviving for literal miles in -25c snowstorms.
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>>9248 forgot the video
>>9249 tbh its pretty fucking rude to drop a woman off somewhere and not offer to pick her up or expect her to walk back without an escort, especially in a dangerous or unfamiliar area. The least he could do is call an uber.
>>9248 >>9249 Makes sense what she's asking for, at least is for the rest
>>9239 >Another curious theory. Can't rule it out but the rest of them did bite the hand that feeds, I don't think Zelensky is going to do that. He might be a literal glowing clown but I don't think he's dumb. One more theory to the pile: If they do decide to remove him, permanently, I think it will be under the guise of corruption/embezzlement charges to the tune of "Ukraine lost the war because so much aid was diverted/stolen and Zelensky and his people knew". For one "everyone" knows that Ukraine has/had deep corruption - worse than Russia! - so the story sells well to hoi polloi. >>9247 I'm adding Cuban Missile Boogaloo 2024 to my next year's Bingo card.
>>9248 She is happily married to a russian and pregnant.
>>9253 >happily married >Russians lol
I just looked at Lindybeige's channel after ignoring it for years. This war seems to have really broken him.
>>9254 >projecting >>9255 >war *special military operation
>>9255 What's happened?
>>9255 I got into his channel pretty recently and have watched a ton of his videos but have zero interest in watching any of those Ukraine interviews he's done. I'm only in this thread because I saw your comment on the front page.
>>9258 They're really good actually
>>9255 All of his WW2 videos are reddit-tier revisionism, so I do hope the war breaks him
>>9240 >Zelensky owns property in Florida. I figured that was common knowledge so I hadn't brought it up, but it's fairly expensive property. Not necessarily a good sign. Who would inherit it if the clown gets assassinated with a brick of Polonium signed by Putin, as British experts found out? >>9252 > Can't rule it out but the rest of them did bite the hand that feeds, I’m not at all sure about this. Considering civil war by proxy angle and cheering for Viet Cong, etc. >>9252 >I don't think Zelensky is going to do that. He might be a literal glowing clown but I don't think he's dumb. Excessive stupidity is not required for him to be far out of his depth almost from the start. And by now he should be quite desperate. >to the tune of "Ukraine lost the war because so much Hmm. Maybe. Demand for a convenient scapegoat is probably there. Even though plausibility doesn’t matter anymore, the habit of attaching at least a fig leaf won’t just go away.
>>9256 >>projecting You know spousal abuse in Russia is common to the point of being a huge joke right?
>>9262 Is it really spousal abuse when you put your wife in her place?
>>9263 You don't understand it goes both ways, Russian women are vicious as shit.
>>9263 >further projection >>9264 Nah, just western men are pussies.
According to wee bunion, Russian artillery crews around Bakhmut have had their shell expenditure limits lifted, resulting in a big increase of shelling. They're also now allowed to target single individuals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beecnWKAOrI We are back, bros. We are so back!
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>>9266 Looks like those ramp-ups in production are paying off and Russia can go on the offensive again. Plus with the weather turning, artillery is going to have to be backed up by armor since it will take time for artillery to be restationed because of frozen ground (same for the Ukrainians if they lose ground too fast). Thankfully the TOS-2s should be in service by then to act as pseudo-artillery while warming Ukrainian trenches for them.
>>9265 >if I say nuh uh it'll make it false lolk if you've sepnt any time around slavs at all you would know how retarded you sound right now pussy.
>>9259 Maybe I should give them a try then eventually.
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Video of a supposedly Russian T-55 packed with explosives and remotely detonated near Ukrainian position
>>9270 Do so, they're quite interesting a full of stories to give an idea what life on the front is like, i respect them a lot even if i find the decision stupid, not everyone is willing to put their life at risk for their beliefs.
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You guys think its just the usual late onset dementia again or some sort of Freudian slip?
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>>9275 At this point I've seen meth addicts with less necrosed faces.
>>9275 This is how my demented grandpa was acting right before he put a suit jacket and a fedora on then went marching down the street with his dick flopping back and forth. Then he died like a week later. I wonder what measures they have to take to keep Biden from doing something like that, it's genuinely impressive he's been kept at even this level of "competent" this long.
>>9274 That seems like a reasonable response to the question What the fuck would you say?
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>A file had a format that is not allowed by the server. Since when does this site not allow H.264-encoded mp4s from Twatter?
>Don’t build roads, spend all your money on weapons t. Zelensky, in an interview with Fox.
>>9280 The nerve of him. The blatant gall of Zelensky to come here as the leader of a foreign country and tell the US to put Ukraine's welfare over our own. Only Israel is allowed to do that. :^)
>>9278 >What the fuck would you say? How about >"Yes we want side that we invested hundreds of billions in to win a war" Or, if he can't form a coherent though >"Yes" Otherwise it just comes off as a laughing matter that the people should think there even exist a possibility of Ukraine 'winning' a war. Bad optics.
>>9282 >Bad optics. Fuck your optics, I'm going in, Jack. But seriously, he was clearly paying attention to someone else in that clip, probably didn't even hear the question. Which is fortunate for him lest he pull yet another one of >>9275 or >>9279 or >>59910 etc.
>>9282 >Otherwise it just comes off as a laughing matter that the people should think there even exist a possibility of Ukraine 'winning' a [sic] war. It is. It isn't the american's fault either, if you ignore that the standard model of international aid is worse than useless which the viewer, questioner and president probably are. >Bad optics. No, it's good optics for reducing aid to ukraine.
>>9284 The issue of aid comes back to give a man a fish/teach a man to fish. If Ukraine had at least attempted to make a working war industry at the start of the war, then they would have been able to rush out some last-gen tech that could even the playing field numerically even if not in training/accuracy. Instead they took the gibs and ran with the money thinking it would continue to come in indefinitely and that NATO training would have been more effective than a pep talk and boot camp. Ideally you want to strategically target your aid into specific sectors to improve the home turf standing of your aid recipient in much the same way you don't give the homeless guy money because he'll just use it to buy booze/drugs.
>>9285 > If Ukraine had at least attempted to make a working war industry at the start of the war, then they would ...get bombed back to stone age.
>>9286 presumably if they had a working war industry they'd have a working AD net and air force. Admittedly they'd still end up the same way it'd just take longer.
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Compilation of ukrainian drones getting jammed
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Akhmat special forces unit takes down Ukrainian sentry with a knife, repeatedly stabbing him in the neck area. His buddy then appears to throw a grenade into a foxhole. Supposedly the knife-wielding guy had a vintorez but it got stuck on a sling somehow, so he resorted to the Metal Gear Solid take-down instead.
>>9288 Dem nigga rigga fuses with wires before camera. πŸ˜‚ But yeah, those things are just repurposed toys: designed to fail safe and without a single serious thought put into communication security. Of course they are easily jammed.
>>9289 It really needs some music and voice lines from a turn-based strategy such as XCOM. Also, was the poor Ukrainian peeing when he got charged? It reminds me of that shitting Russian who got droned.
>>9291 The future of combat is leg bags and diapers. Never be caught with your pants down.
>>9289 Are they wearing IR-blocking capes?
>>9293 In the macro it just looks like an extra large civilian coat or other article of clothing/gear that is draped over them to circulate body heat/sweat with the supplies. Which given the time of year and everything seems normal and would explain it without advanced capes. Just regular ones.
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>>9295 Oh yeah, I read about that on sportschan earlier. Apparently they unilaterally decided that they were going to pay the village head a 50% bonus and then double his pay as well. At some point "there is no fucking money" fell on deaf ears, so he came back and chucked it in the fuck it bucket.
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>>9295 >>9297 >Walks into room >Casually drops one grenade after another >Refuses to leave >Blows everyone up himself included
>>9295 >>9297 Holy fucking shit. >>9296 Things are getting spicy over there it looks like.
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>>9295 >>9297 > Propaganda of the Deed > Blocked door, willing to die to ensure none escape his wrath > Most of them don't even fucking notice > Women nearest door only ones to realise he isn't bluffing, can't do shit about it anyway. > Videobombed someone else's livestream, so not immediately taken down before the action is seen Lots to unpack here.
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>>9303 >If We Lose Ukraine, We Are On Our Way To A Global Catastrophe That's what the pro-Russians and pro-family people have been saying since the sanction wars kicked off during tumultuous times, yes. >It's bad because literally Putler >Poland is next! >Bitches about the NATO cock in the cigar cutter >Bitches that our allies are becoming self-sufficient in defense spending >Britain also suspended voting was it a democracy then? No, it wasn't. Oh ffs I thought he was going to say something intelligent not just insist literally Putler will invade all of yurop and shill the surface-level status quo about America World Police. Fuck these neocons/neolibs. They're all garbage. Irredeemable Kissinger-era garbage.
>>9304 What really gets me about the current pro-Ukraine rhetoric is the sheer audacity of the ones talking about how if Ukraine falls, Russia will be right on NATO's borders, on our very doorstep, with no neutral buffer state in between.
>>9305 Reminds me of that old meme, heh. I just hate the sheer audacity of the arguments. Like there are legit pro-Ukraine pro-west arguments like... >If we allow the collapse of Ukraine, this will strengthen BRICS and Saudi Arabia may jump ship to the Russian sphere of influence causing hyperinflation of euros and dollars >Turkey may go pro-Russian and leave NATO in favor of invading Greece if Russia takes the Black Sea >If Turkey leaves, this will cause a domino reaction where Eastern Europe could also functionally leave NATO to form a neutral bloc, and this will also weaken western values abroad without Germany/America's influence >Russia will legitimately turn their sights to solving problems in the countries south of them if Ukraine stabilizes, and this will spell disaster for Western influence in Central Asia/the Caucuses >If Ukraine loses, America will be seen as weak and China could potentially make a go at Taiwan; if Taiwan falls, this will spell disaster for global peace as China will be able to distribute ghost ships of weapons abroad to world-sanctioned countries, destabilizing us and our allies by creating a multipolar world! >I don't want $20/gallon gas, god damn it! And many more. All reasonable opinions, even if I disagree with them or want the undesired result to happen, but unheard in any of the mainstream. Because they have to cover up lies upon lies while being subject to smarmy personalities who twist the truth for silly reasons in the mainstream news/talk shows.
And for the Americans, yes gas prices have been down, but that's because demand is 10% lower than the expected low (YUGE), investors aren't biting because of fed interest rate hikes, and the gubmint knows this so they ain't sayin' shit until the disaster is already there since otherwise people are gonna blame them for it because of the national reserves being bone fucking dry.
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>>9303 Look at the camera while speaking you old fuck. If you keep acting like that, then I hope Ukraine will lose.
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>>9303 Look, the giraffe has a gut reaction too. It’s just delayed. >>9309 > Look at the camera Maybe his hearing is poor enough that he prefers teleprompter over earphone?
>>9303 But just yesterday Kiev said the Russians lost 1,600+ troops and dozens of vehicles in a single day, again! Why would anyone make videos like this if Ukraine is breezing through the Russians like that? Hmmmm...
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>>9313 I'd be shitting myself too in that position.
>>9312 How old is she? Looks 16-18 to me.
>>9315 It is hard to tell, I know girls who are 17-18 yet look like 13-14. Neoteny is one hell of a drug.
>>9312 Those damn lucky orcs.
>>9312 >>9313 Are they drafting 12 year olds now or some shit?
>>9318 Zelensky just said Ukraine is planning to mobilize an additional half a million troops. They've got to come from somewhere.
>>9319 Hopefully they stashed away enough of the weaponry from when the gov't opened up the armories at the beginning of the conflict. The game for the average Ukrainian is now just about outlasting zelensky. Me and my fellow gym bros would be rolling deep and heavy - lest I get singled out on leg day and sent to clear a high saturation minefield by foot.
>>9303 Did you know, Forbes is owned by the Hong Kong investment group Integrated Whale, making it an arm of Chinese influence overseas, and that Steve Forbes, grandson of the founder of the Forbes company, is a puppet who ran for presidential office in 1996 and 2000 and signed the Principles for the New American Century, a series of statements endorsed by members of the Regan and Bush Senior administrations who would then be given jobs in Bush Junior's administration and called for America to shape the 21st Century through military force by acting as the world police and raising defense spending while also investing in the change of biological warfare from something used by terrorists into something usable against certain genotypes by nations?
>>9321 >Written before the September 11 attacks and during political debates of the War in Iraq, a section of Rebuilding America's Defenses entitled "Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force" became the subject of considerable controversy: "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor." really makes you think
In other news, Ukrainians claimed to have "ambushed" and shot down 3 russian SU-34. The source is of course ukrainians. More likely it was one frogfoot
>Russians captured Mariinka in full, battle for Mariinka is officially over >Russians seem to be constantly making small advances along the whole front, Ukrainian counter attacks are far and few between in seems >Russians lost 2 or 3 planes in an ambush couple of days ago, Su-35 seem to be planes in questions, Russian SEAD tactics are not developed and implemented properly. >Ukrainian goverment has drafted a bill that will call up for another 500K able bodies to be conscripted, massively lowered requirements for conscription, now various chronic illnesses are no longer recognized as excuse not to serve. >Ukrainians have started to erect checkpoints in every city in order to facilitate conscription of 500K citizens >Somene did a math, allegedly western supplied artillery shells for 155mm cost around 4000-6000 dollars per pop, Russia manufactures 152mm shell for around 600 dollars a pop ( grain of salt to be taken with this info )
>>9324 >Russians lost 2 or 3 planes in an ambush I've seen claims from only one to as many as six. Is there evidence for more than one loss?
>>9325 One is definitely visually confirmed, but most likely Russians lost 3 planes, Russian telegram also made a big fuss about the planes so there must be some merit to it. So for once Ukrainan claim seems to be true.
>>9326 Multiple shotdowns only would make sense if they were flying in groups. Do SU-35 fly in squadrons? Ukrainians hit and probably sank Nowoczerkask, Ropucha class landing boat.
LOL
>>9328 What the fuck is he doing? This is fucking retarded.
>>9329 >This is fucking retarded. This entire shitshow has been fucking retarded.
>>9329 Russians Beware. Signing up to fight ukranians is basically a death sentence. They took down 5. I REPEAT 5 WARPLANES. Surrender now and maybe we'll spare you.
>>9327 Russia started using guided bombs dropped from planed on mass, so maybe they ambushed such a group?
>>9324 155 ammo manufacture has skyrocketed in Europe and America so while those numbers don't look completely accurate costs are trending in that sort of direction.
>>9333 *ammo manufacture costs
>>9327 Russia has only confirmed one shot down, they're insisting that all other planes completed their sorties. The landing boat was packed with explosives for some reason so it's been written off by the shadowstorm strike.
>>9328 >>9335 >Ukranian claim: Ukraine shot down 5 Russian planes in one week >Russian claim: Ukraine only shot down 1 plane >Probable Truth: 1 plane was shot down, 3 landed hard due to vodka related incidents, 1 plane and pilot went AWOL for the weekend to Belarus to go Christmas shopping for his hanger mates because he didn't think anyone would notice
>>9324 >Ukrainians have started to erect checkpoints in every city in order to facilitate conscription of 500K citizens While trying to leave the Russian sphere of influence they end up doing a 360 back to the USSR. Pottery. >allegedly western supplied artillery shells for 155mm cost around 4000-6000 dollars per pop, Russia manufactures 152mm shell for around 600 dollars a pop Who knew 3mm can make such a difference. inb4 your mom It might be even worse though: >Admiral Rob Bauer, head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's military committee... >According to Bauer, the price for one artillery shell has gone up to 8,000 euros ($8,489.60) from 2,000 euros before Russia's attack on Ukraine. That's coming from the chief procurer of budget so also take with a grain of salt. But the biggest joke of all might be that NATTO has a separate "military committee", what the fuck is everyone else doing there?
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=od-FAmMa5cA >Ukrainians decided pull a McNamara and send a literal retard to the trenches >Russians developed a drone with a shotgun to shoot down enemy drones >Ukrainians developed a drone that stick to the side of a trench and explodes when someone passes by, essentially a flying mine War has changed...
>>9333 Don't know when the numbers were taken, but I'd assume there's atleast some truth to it, since the demand is great, why not increase the price substantially and make a killing all under a pretense of supporting Ukraine? .Good old supply and demand. Anon here >>9337 seems to have more info.

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>>9338 At what point do militaries start using swarms of palm sized assassination headshot drones?
>>9339 It's more than that, because the cost of energy has gone up so has the cost of everything else, so while I'm sure some scalping is going on it's more to do with everything being expensive right now and the producers having no incentive to invest in expanding production at a time when it'd be cost prohibitive with n o guarantee of a continued demand for that expanded production in a couple years.
>>9337 > what the fuck is everyone else doing there? Getting fat paychecks for sending emails between different bureaucratic entities inside NATO.
>>9340 Russian cruise missile tech and production looks like it's coming along in leaps and bounds..
>>9338 >send a literal retard to the trenches So that's what all those strikes yesterday were about, karma.
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>>9340 There's actually something really cool that you can see in assault videos. Those aren't the same assault tactics/trench-clearing tactics that Russia was using at the start of the war. Those are assault tactics that were seen in some of Patrick Lancaster's coverage that were taught to Luhansk/Donetsk regional defense forces and that veteran forces "decommissioned" from the first stage of the war were custom-teaching to barrier troop conscripts back when Russia decided they needed an extra 300k bodies to fill in the defensive lines. That is to say, either these are the same conscripts from roughly a year and a half ago, and Russia's forces are just going to keep getting bigger/better as time goes on, or these are tactics that were organically passed on from veteran instructor to conscript to keep the conscripts alive in defensive forward advances that have now completely taken over Russian besieging tactics because of their real-world success. tl;dr- The Russians are learning. In other news for some reason the Russian anime OC has been almost exclusively Arknights lately.
>>9342 Shipping your shit through six different factories to optimize the production process suddenly isn't profitable any more when gas is expensive? Who woulda thunk it. Well, plus boat-shipping costs for a lot of the raw materials. >>9337 A lot of NATO crew are either the diplomatic corps or engineering corps to pinpoint the location of things like the Russian Woodpecker. >>9346 >Ukraine can't keep shelling civilians via Avdiivka right now so they decide to attack Belgorod instead Entirely predictable behavior. Ukraine has been committing terrorist acts since the start of the war. Any time Russian advances get a little too strong and a little too existential in threat to Ukraine, they clap a few civvies to release the pressure valve and force Russia to relocate troops. The only thing Russia can do right now is keep pressing forward and maybe re-invade Kharkiv since it's a narrow valley. If the Russian forward assault slows down or stops it means Russia got spooked and decided to reinforce Belgorod instead of continuing to push forward. If past predictors are anything to go off of, this means Ukraine is about to lose a strategic city in the South-Eastern part of the war.
>>9347 What are those tactics exactly? All I could gather is that they drove to the enemy trenches while suppressing them with autocannons, and then the dessants disembarked. Post some of that OC, I want to see the gachasluts.
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>>9349 Primarily their 45 degree staggered advances that you can see in the video. The LNR/DNR refused to adopt it at the start of the war which is why they got their shit kicked in by Ukraine for the first few months of fighting until veterans who had either gotten shot at or received special training from Russian elite forces got approval to teach the new guys these staggered advances instead of getting shot at more. If you look at Patrick Lancaster's "training" videos he interviews some of these veterans and conscripts after getting permission to attend conscript training drills where the vets explain why they are doing this.
>>9350 >why they are doing this. And why are they doing this? The anime adaptation aired this season, it features a Russian city and a few Russian characters, including that frostbunny on the second picture, so maybe it just hit a nerve in a good way.
>>9351 >And why are they doing this? Eh I don't remember all of the details but it has something to do with trench depth perception and allowing for maximum covering fire during the advance while preventing accidental friendly fire. Basically a group of 3-50 (it scales) soldiers will advance at a 45 degree staggered arc, preferably with covering fire from vehicles or grenadiers/machine gunners. There will be 3 lines of these groupings and they advance in X-meter increments depending on the situation (usually about 30-50 meters at a time). Group 1 advances, group 2 provides covering fire, group 3 remains ready to charge if there's an issue or if they spot enemies coming from a different location (and maintains communications with their defensive line). Then group 3 becomes group 1, group 1 becomes group 2, and group 2 becomes group 3, rinse and repeat. The staggering allows more smooth transition of forces while minimizing casualties. Vehicles will usually be bundled with one of the three groups to advance in force, or machine gunners/grenadiers will take the place of vehicles if conditions aren't acceptable.
Obviously this formation is also used during retreats to minimize losses as well just in reverse. From the videos I watched back in the day the instructors really drilled in this technique and the timing for it for weeks/months compared to the days of training on actual weapons (self-admitted by the veterans) so that the Russian forces would be able to advance in force or retreat in force without breaking rank (since breaking rank leads to casualties). It's been very effective in creating veterans who would otherwise have gotten smoked.
>>9338 >War has changed... Mothefucking Bethesda lied to us. >>9340 >Kalibr upgraded to use flares.mp4 A friendship rocket is delivering fireworks just in time for new years celebrations! >>9344 >Russian cruise missile tech and production looks like it's coming along in leaps and bounds.. I wonder how much data mining NATO has been able to do for improving the AA and anti-missile systems, Russia is definitely busy dialing in the radar profiles of NATO's stuff but their AA installations aren't getting BTFO'd on a regular basis so they actually have a chance to extract data for analysis. >>9352 >>9353 That sounds fascinating but I could do with some visual aids.
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Green arrow represents shooty shooty, purple arrow represents talky talky with base about what's happening. Black arrow represents direction of movement. Rinse repeat for as many meters as you have to move. Reverse for retreating with middle group providing cover fire and far-back group keeping an eye on the situation.
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According to weeb, due to shell shortages, instead of sending in artillery pieces and ammo at a steady pace, Ukraine stockpiles it and unleashes it in a big wave to use it in greater effect. Thinking about it, that's been Ukraine's strategy for most of the war and is most prevalent when Russia is advancing. That, and stuff like this >>9346 to pressure Russia into redeploying their troops.
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Suppose one wanted to volunteer with a civilian medical background and skillset, which group is the least corrupt/pozzed/fucked curently? Also any news on those anti-kremlin russians?
>>9357 Last I heard all the foreign volunteers have gone home or been killed. In any case all groups are going to require you to buy everything yourself and there's still a chance they'll off you if you look wealthy enough. Some foreign fighters got offed by some Ukies a few months back over money they were being sent.
>>9357 Anon, dont. Its beyond suicidal at this point, if you want to unfuck your life through adventure go on operation: white boa to africa. There is new war in kongo and somaliland is still fighting with worst somalians. They sure as fuck would take a medic in.
>>9357 You would be better off blowing your brains out or joining a drug cartel if your life is that far gone.
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>>9357 >Also any news on those anti-kremlin russians? Defenestrated, probably. >>9359 >Its beyond suicidal at this point >Try somalia instead Are you drunk? >>9346 >Russians conducted rocket/drone/artillery strikes throughout Ukraine, presumably in retaliation for Belgorod/Donbas. >Maps from Rybar >Claims that multiple Leopard were taken out by drones.
>>9358 >>9360 Should I wait until more established organizations get involved then? >>9359 I don't want to get unironically vored.
>>9362 The more established organizations were involved early on. They got shafted worse than the conscripts did. That's why the mercenaries all left, and Ukraine is crying that nobody will help them in the private sector unless they have guarantees/protection provided by a foreign nation.
Some thing going around telegram >The National Interest (USA). β€œAt net cost, Russia can produce 314 Lancets for every German Leopard. The discrepancy becomes even more striking if we take into account the difference in prices in the two countries, adjusting them to purchasing power parity (PPP), as is customary in accurate economic comparisons. It turns out that for every German Leopard, Russia can release 683 Lancets. This begs the obvious question: will Leopard 2 be comparable in its combat capabilities to almost seven hundred Lancets? Hardly". >Putin signed a decree on granting citizenship to foreigners who entered into a contract with the Russian Armed Forces >Zaluzhny is publicly complaining in conferences that he simply doesn't have enough men to fight. >Russians have started using Best Korean KN-23 ballistic missiles, which are analog to Iskander TBM. >Allegedly, in the last few days, Kizhal strikes in Kiev have taken out one NASAMS and one Patriot SAM battery >Russians have massively increased their Geran and Kalibr missile usage in the last week.
>>9364 >This begs the obvious question: will Leopard 2 be comparable in its combat capabilities to almost seven hundred Lancets? Hardly." I hate these comparisons. Certain costs have to be absorbed to make progress and you aren't going to make an ROI on them. The Leopard II is wildly overpriced, however lancets don't win towns and cities; boots do. >Putin signed a decree on granting citizenship to foreigners who entered into a contract with the Russian Armed Forces That was already a thing. Russia and France were the only two "modern" countries that had foreign legions prior to this war taking off. Well, ones that offered you citizenship. UAE has the best foreign legion deal on earth, but they just offer you fat stacks of cash. The only thing that changed was now you don't have to join the Russian Foreign Legion which required you to know Russian anyways. >Zaluzhny is publicly complaining in conferences that he simply doesn't have enough men to fight. His brain must be feeling better since he was doing that in the past. >Russians have started using Best Korean KN-23 ballistic missiles, which are analog to Iskander TBM. Makes sense, the Norks probably sold them at a discount for bread and steel.
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>>9365 >however lancets don't win towns and cities; boots do. Neither do tanks, the thing is, which is a better literal bang for your buck? a leo or 700 lancets? i'd rather have the latter >Russia and France were the only two "modern" countries that had foreign legions prior to this war taking off Can't believe you've forgot these guys... making us proud
>>9366 The Spanish Legion only accepts foreigners from former colonies. You have to be a native Spanish speaker with either Spanish citizenship or hold citizenship in the Philippines, Mexico, or Central-South American Spanish diaspora to qualify.
>>9366 >which is a better literal bang for your buck? a leo or 700 lancets? Which one can park in a town and hold negotiations with the mayor at barrelpoint/check buildings for stragglers? I understand the lancets are militarily more bang for your buck, but you have to control the rubble or else it doesn't matter. By the same logic we should abandon all AFVs and build more artillery pieces because it's more bang for your buck, yet clearly countries need AFVs.
>>9368 Using tanks as expensive occupation paper weights still seems like a raw deal. They have their uses but their utility on the battlefield is narrowing due to new and inexpensive tech while still being expensive themselves.
>>9369 >Using tanks as expensive occupation paper weights still seems like a raw deal Always has been, always will be. Occupying territory has always been a raw deal and the age of the internet has only made it rawer.
>Dima dubbed the nork missiles as Kimskanders I also switched to watching his videos at 1.5x speed, but that is my personal problem.
HistoyLegends year in review/what to expect in 2024 video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmUfnN_ylZI >>9371 >Kimskanders heh >I also switched to watching his videos at 1.5x speed I've been doing the same since a lot of these guys are doing it for monetization moreso than amount of content.
>>9372 >>9371 >not just watching everything always at 2x
>>9312 imagine catching that on the battlefield...mmmm...
I have a feeling that being a Russian soldier stuck in Moldova might be the safest way to take part in this war. Once the frontline reaches that place it's all ogre for Ukraine anyway, and until then it is unlikely that anyone will bother a bunch of soldiers sitting on one of Europe's largest collection of explosives.
>>9375 Yeah, I don't know what happened there. Ukraine was legit getting ready to invade. The number of troops they put on Moldova's borders well-exceeded anything that would involve a feint in Kherson. Best I can figure is Romania threatened to stop supplying Ukraine if they actually did it since this war has drummed up anti-Romanian sentiment in the Moldovan population that a few years ago was ready to integrate into Romania.
>>9376 >this war has drummed up anti-Romanian sentiment in the Moldovan population Is it only amongst the pro-Russian part of the population, or more general? In the latter case, why?
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>New Russian Geraniums now come with jet engine which allows them to cruise at 500 kph >First time somebody within Ukrainan power structure came out and commented on UAF casulties, apparently UAF is now losing 30K men a month, 500K so far. >Ukrainan govement ordered 50K female camo uniforms >Russians changed AtA tactics, now they wait for UAF pilots to scramble to intercept Geranium drones then bonk them with R-37. >Russians still haven't run out of missiles.
>>9377 It's a general sentiment. Moldova was on the verge of a breakthrough to reunite with Romania (transnistria question notwithstanding), but a lot of Moldovans feel like Romania fucking around in Ukraine is endangering a Moldovan-Transnistrian war and they are becoming upset. Or so I've heard anyways. >>9378 I've noticed a pattern of Ukrainian shills on social media screaming about how Ukraine has yet to suffer 100k casualties and there's no sources to back it up almost every single time before the actual numbers are released. It's getting old.
>>9379 >I've noticed a pattern of Ukrainian shills on social media screaming about how Ukraine has yet to suffer 100k It's been like that for months now,yet they claim they trade like 5 to 1 against Russians. Russians themselves are similar when fiving wild claims but they seem to be more restrained and will say they're suffering heavy casulties in some cases but that Ukrainans are suffering even more. I guess it's understandable in both cases, war tends to bring out such fervor among warring sides.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PcNYDc2-Msw >Dima thinks the burger's secretary of defence was wounded in Keeev, and the story about him developing cancer is just a fabrication to hide this >Hohols seen handling out papers to their fellow Hohols in Warsaw, although they don't have the legal power to actually bring them back to Hoholistan (yet) >Hohol officers are negotiating with Natto to get comfy jobs once the war is over
>>9380 >It's been like that for months now Yeah, but it always seems to be worse than usual right before a number drop. The Soviets used to do the same shit (minus the internet) to let their civilians know actual war deaths while obfuscating any and all data about it. >>9381 >Hohols handing out papers to foreign Ukrainians I don't know why they don't just blackbag them off the streets. That's what China and all the Middle Eastern countries do when they want someone from a Western country. >Hohol officers are negotiating with Natto to get comfy jobs once the war is over Soviet-era officers? In my natto? More likely than you think! After the last Holocaust Jew dies off my negative energy is getting re-routed to remaining Soviet and Chinese officials.
Nothing interesting is happening but we should make a new thread probably.
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>>9383 Yeah. You should.
>>9383 I'm waiting for something interesting to happen or for the 2 year anniversary. The bongs believe Russia will re invade the Kharkiv region on the 15th, and the rumor of reopening the front has been floating around for a while so it could happen especially after the attack on Belgorod. With 30k losses per month and the lackluster draft/gang press rate, I don't see the 500k mobilization target for new units being met in a timeline where the monthly casualties don't eat all of those new troops. Combined with dwindling equipment and I think opening a new front, if Russia can sustain it without weakening other areas, would be the straw that breaks the camels back.
>>9385 Allegedly they have at least 70k "active reservists" who can fill in the role of a new front line. Will be interesting to see if they do it or not. They should if only because Russia can not win this war without conquering Kharkiv. That valley has been the source of Natto gays interrupting Russia's shit for nearly twenty years now.
>>9385 The entire site is shutting down in March. If we wait for the anniversary to make the last thread, then there's no point in making one.
Aight I'll make it in a second.
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