Poisened for sure .wouldnt it be funny if some of these deaths was an international covert op getting a little payback?
Another Putin Ally Dead After ‘Suffocating’ on Business Trip
“It happened absolutely suddenly,” one colleague who claimed to have witnessed the death of Vladimir Sungorkin said.www.thedailybeast.com
You're assuming they've sold out of the better stock before getting to the T-62's. You sure about that? Telling me that 12.5K -> 10.5K, that 10.5K is T-62's, worse, or rust?
An analysis of Google Maps satellite images of 19 Russian military storage facilities mainly located east of Russia’s Ural Mountains by the Ukrainian Military Center, a Ukrainian military defense news site, estimates that 2,299 tanks appear unrestorable.
Stored in the open for decades, they are basically heaps of rusty scrap metal ready for nothing but disposal.
Yes I know all this, and the only card I have is “Readiness” … They havent pouched all their best gear, cause they cant constitutionally unless its *real war*. Cause you cant compromise your readiness for a “retracted military operation”.Some will need massive amounts of repair to bring back into service (with parts that they may not be able to source), some will be so far gone that they are never being reactivated, some may have never even existed except on paper. Why else send in an old tank with worse armament, worse armour, and higher crew requirements (4 crew instead of 3)? I'm sure a trickle of various T-72s and T-80s will still come through as they get patched up, but it's not like they're ready to send to the fight right now.
How many tanks does Russia really have?
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Wagner recruitment speech in a Russian prison
Germany two months from now:Germany to provide Ukraine with more MRAPS and 2 more MARS II MLRS plus rockets.
Germany two months from now:
‘They will be there any minute, we can’t find the keys’
There are several photos of hundreds of stockpiled tanks - stored in the open, not maintained, with engines removed (stolen), which I've taken to be representative of most of their tank reserve. And at least 7300 of the tank "reserve" was indeed T-64, T-62, or T-55's.You're assuming they've sold out of the better stock before getting to the T-62's. You sure about that? Telling me that 12.5K -> 10.5K, that 10.5K is T-62's, worse, or rust?
Yeah, I don't doubt Russia has reserved at least a small core of latest modern armor & particularly has reserved strategic air defense assets against the phantom NATO menace, but I'd wager nothing short of an invasion threatening Moscow would get those deployed at this point.Yes I know all this, and the only card I have is “Readiness” … They havent pouched all their best gear, cause they cant constitutionally unless its *real war*. Cause you cant compromise your readiness for a “retracted military operation”.
I am not saying *it is so*, we’re playing odds here, and when the analysts here discusses it, they dont count it out.
Oh man Russia must figure the 30th time they issue that threat that people are going to take them seriously.Russians are terrified we will give the Ukrainians ER-GMLRS pods or ATACMS.
Obviously, if they have trouble with a mobile artillery system that has a range of 70-80km, what kind of problems would they have with one that has several hundreds km.Russians are terrified we will give the Ukrainians ER-GMLRS pods or ATACMS.
Oh man Russia must figure the 30th time they issue that threat that people are going to take them seriously.
Obviously, if they have trouble with a mobile artillery system that has a range of 70-80km, what kind of problems would they have with one that has several hundreds km.
What's interesting about this PR melodrama is that now these morons all disagree on Ukraine policy whereas one week ago they all agreed . I suggest their relations mirror the political state of the Russian intelligentsia and elites. Nevertheless, for all the obvious strife, no one faults Pukin, his murderous self. Not a whiff of turning on the leader, the one they know started the catastrophe. So presuming this ultimate solidarity, based on the love of a dictatorship as long as its yours, remains, even in the face of the fast approaching military surrender in Ukraine, the issue becomes, how to take him out and deliver his criminal ass to Brussels when he appears untouchable by political pressure alone ? I haven't seen a plausible scenario for this likely endgame.Ehh.. perhaps you haven't listened to the Russians?
"The Ukrainian people do not exist".
This is simply an internal matter, Russia is securing Russia.
That is their propaganda.
I simply do not know what the in the fucking hell is wrong with the Germans. Opening a Finnish front would be tantamount to suicide based on current Russian military performance.
How many redlines have we crossed now? WTF is Russia going to do about it? I really don't believe they are going to provide us with an artificial sun, so they have absolutely no ability to back up their threats.Russians are terrified we will give the Ukrainians ER-GMLRS pods or ATACMS.
Definitely, and finally say goodbye to that pesky Kerch bridge...Delightful. Now do the AGM-158.
Those pictures make my shorts feel tighter.