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11 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Holy fuck the BMP-2 is claustrophobic as fuck. And there were fuel tanks built into the back doors/hatches.  They get hit, you've got to go through burning fuel to get out.

@RDCanecutter you may appreciate this.

Inside a Bradley for comparison

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The Russian stuff is claustrophobic for a vehicle, but if you think of it as collective body armor it's quite loose-fitting.

 

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The Synod of the PCU testifies that the use of weapons is not a sin and does not contradict God's commandments. On the contrary, defending the homeland with weapons in hand, protecting one's neighbors from aggression, from the threat of violence and death at the hands of foreigners, is a civic duty and has God's blessing.

Fascinating videos of the destruction of enemy vehicles from the Scythian ATGM

The command and staff car of the occupiers was destroyed.

 

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1 hour ago, MillerEP said:

During the battle with the racists, the stormtroopers of 128 separate mountain assault brigades captured the head of the group of information and psychological counteraction of the military unit 47084 of the Russian army

Obviously this guy hasn't seen StarTrek.

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31 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Nice piece about the Ukrainian Air Force with an interview from one of their pilots. Bolded line explains a lot about how they're operating. Also, Russians can't fight or fly worth shit in the dark.

How Ukraine’s Outgunned Air Force Is Fighting Back Against Russian Jets

LVIV, Ukraine — Each night, Ukrainian pilots like Andriy loiter in an undisclosed aircraft hangar, waiting, waiting, until the tension is broken with a shouted, one-word command: “Air!”

Andriy hustles into his Su-27 supersonic jet and hastily taxis toward the runway, getting airborne as quickly as possible. He takes off so fast that he doesn’t yet know his mission for the night, though the big picture is always the same — to bring the fight to a Russian Air Force that is vastly superior in numbers but has so far failed to win control of the skies above Ukraine.

“I don’t do any checks,” said Andriy, a Ukrainian Air Force pilot who as a condition of granting an interview was not permitted to give his surname or rank. “I just take off.”

Nearly a month into the fighting, one of the biggest surprises of the war in Ukraine is Russia’s failure to defeat the Ukrainian Air Force. Military analysts had expected Russian forces to quickly destroy or paralyze Ukraine’s air defenses and military aircraft, yet neither have happened. Instead, Top Gun-style aerial dogfights, rare in modern warfare, are now raging above the country.

“Every time when I fly, it’s for a real fight,” said Andriy, who is 25 and has flown 10 missions in the war. “In every fight with Russian jets, there is no equality. They always have five times more” planes in the air.

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The success of Ukrainian pilots has helped protect Ukrainian soldiers on the ground and prevented wider bombing in cities, since pilots have intercepted some Russian cruise missiles. Ukrainian officials also say the country’s military has shot down 97 fixed-wing Russian aircraft. That number could not be verified but the crumpled remnants of Russian fighter jets have crashed into rivers, fields and houses.

Andriy, a Ukrainian Air Force pilot.“Every time when I fly, it’s for a real fight,” he said.

Andriy, a Ukrainian Air Force pilot.“Every time when I fly, it’s for a real fight,” he said.

The Ukrainian Air Force is operating in near total secrecy. Its fighter jets can fly from air strips in western Ukraine, airports that have been bombed yet retain enough runway for takeoffs or landings — or even from highways, analysts say. They are vastly outnumbered: Russia is believed to fly some 200 sorties per day while Ukraine flies five to 10.

Ukrainian pilots do have one advantage. In most of the country, Russian planes fly over territory controlled by the Ukrainian military, which can move anti-aircraft missiles to harass — and shoot down — planes.

“Ukraine has been effective in the sky because we operate on our own land,” Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force said. “The enemy flying into our airspace is flying into the zone of our air defense systems.” He described the strategy as luring Russian planes into air defense traps.

Dave Deptula, dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies and the principal attack planner for the Desert Storm air campaign in Iraq, said the impressive performance of the Ukrainian pilots had helped counter their disadvantages in numbers. He said Ukraine now has roughly 55 operational fighter jets, a number that is dwindling from shoot-downs and mechanical failures, as Ukrainian pilots are “stressing them to max performance.”

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has appealed repeatedly to Western governments to replenish the Ukrainian Air Force and has asked NATO to enforce a no-fly zone over the country, a step Western leaders have so far refused to take. Slovakia and Poland have considered sending MiG-29 fighter jets, which Ukrainian pilots could fly with minimal additional training, but as yet no transfers have been made.

“Russian troops have already fired nearly 1,000 missiles at Ukraine, countless bombs,” Mr. Zelensky said in a video address to Congress on March 16, appealing for more planes. “And you know that they exist, and you have them, but they are on earth, not in Ukraine — in the Ukrainian sky.”

Mr. Deptula said transferring these jets into Ukraine is critical. “Without resupply,” he said, “they will run out of airplanes before they run out of pilots.”

Pilotless drones are also a tool in the Ukrainian military’s arsenal, but not in the battle for control of the airspace. Ukraine flies a Turkish-made armed drone, the Bayraktar TB-2, a plodding, propeller aircraft that is lethally effective in destroying tanks or artillery pieces on the ground but cannot hit targets in the air. If Ukraine’s air defenses fail, Russian jets could easily pick them off.

As in other aspects of Ukraine’s war effort, volunteers play a role in the air battles. A volunteer network watches and listens for Russian jets, calling in coordinates and estimated speed and altitude. Other private Ukrainian pilots have removed up-to-date civilian navigation equipment from their planes and handed it over to the air force, in case it can be helpful.

Air-to-air combat has been rare in modern war, with only isolated examples in recent decades. U.S. pilots, for example, have not flown extensive aerial dogfights since the first Iraq War in 1991. Since then, U.S. fighter jets have engaged in air-to-air combat on just a few occasions, shooting down 10 planes in the Balkan wars and one plane in Syria, according to Mr. Deptula.

In the night sky, Andriy said he relies on instruments to discern the positions of enemy planes, which he says are always present. He has shot down Russian jets but was not permitted to say how many, or of which type. He said his targeting system can fire at planes a few dozen miles away.

“I mostly have tasks of hitting airborne targets, of intercepting enemy jets,” he said. “I wait for the missile to lock on my target. After that I press fire.”

When he shoots down a Russian jet, he said, “I am happy that this plane will no longer bomb my peaceful towns. And as we see in practice, that is exactly what Russian jets do.”

Most of the aerial combat in Ukraine has been nocturnal, as Russian aircraft attack in the dark when they are less vulnerable to air defenses. In the dogfights over Ukraine, Andriy said, the Russians have been flying an array of modern Sukhoi jets, such as the Su-30, Su-34 and Su-35.

“I had situations when I was approaching a Russian plane to a close enough distance to target and fire,” he said. “I could already detect it but was waiting for my missile to lock on while at the same time from the ground they tell me that a missile was fired at me already.”

He said he maneuvered his jet through a series of extreme banks, dives and climbs in order to exhaust the fuel supplies of the missiles coming after him. “The time I have to save myself depends on how far away the missile was fired at me and what kind of missile,” he said.

Still, he said in an interview on a clear, sunny day, “I can still feel a huge rush of adrenaline in my body because every flight is a fight.”

Andriy graduated from the Kharkiv Air Force School after deciding to become a pilot as a teenager. “Neither me nor my friends ever thought we would have to face a real war,” he said. “But that’s not how it turned out.”

Andriy has moved his wife to a safer part of Ukraine, but she has not left the country, he said. She spends her days weaving homemade camouflage nets for the Ukrainian army. He never tells family members when he is going on duty, he said, calling only after returning from a night flight.

“I only have to use my skills to win,” said Andriy. “My skills are better than the Russians. But on the other hand, many of my friends, and even those more experience than me, are already dead.”

 

God Damn.  # respect 

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7 minutes ago, J.R. Juniors Junior Jr. said:

Luckily, I know someone who can explain to potential candidates how a turnaround works:

 

So I watched that entire thing and was like "She should do EVERY instructional video" but then when it was over, I realized I still don't know what a turnaround is, so then again maybe not.

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21 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

So I watched that entire thing and was like "She should do EVERY instructional video" but then when it was over, I realized I still don't know what a turnaround is, so then again maybe not.

You should watch it again.  Alone.  With a bottle of Jergen’s lotion.  It’ll click then.

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8 minutes ago, Goredho said:

You should watch it again.  Alone.  With a bottle of Jergen’s lotion.  It’ll click then.

I just appreciate any outfit that follows one of my key pieces of advice: "know your audience."

They have a message to sell to a buncha plant guys.  They chose an effective delivery system.  Had their eyes glued to the screen the entire time.  Well-done.

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https://open4business.com.ua/today-israel-to-open-field-hospital-in-ukraine/

TODAY ISRAEL TO OPEN FIELD HOSPITAL IN UKRAINE
 22 MARCH , 2022  

On Tuesday, Israel will open a field hospital in the city of Mostyska, Lviv region, Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Michael Brodsky said.

“Israel will become the first country to open a field hospital in Ukraine. The official opening ceremony will take place today in the city of Mostyka, Lviv region,” Brodsky said on Twitter on Tuesday.

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1 minute ago, InkaUtexas said:

They did this a few days earlier across the Ukraine. Wonder what they want to hide. 

 

Standard practice in prelude to war.  A not so subtle Russian threat to now Poland.  Probably saber rattling, but without a doubt a threat of war.  

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2 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

Standard practice in prelude to war.  A not so subtle Russian threat to now Poland.  Probably saber rattling, but without a doubt a threat of war.  

Oh, I don’t think that’s going to unnerve the Poles at this point.  They’ve got to be absolutely chomping at the bit to throw hands with the Russians. I image half of the SecState’s job rn is keeping them from doing something aggressive. 
 

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https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2022/03/22/7333531/

"Marines" of the Russian Federation, which were to land near Odessa, were destroyed - a spokesman for the staff

VALENTINA ROMANENKO - TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2022, 09:57

The Odessa regional military administration says most of the Russian marines who tried to land on the coast in late February have been killed.

Source: spokesman for the Operational Headquarters of the Odessa Regional Military Administration Serhiy Bratchuk on his Facebook page

Direct speech: "Friends, I received interesting information, very nice. Because when you talk about the destroyed occupiers - it's always nice. the beginning of the great war to try to land here at us, on the Odessa coast, unfortunately, didn't go to the bottom, but fortunately - is killed, destroyed and rots. Near Nikolaev, Mariupol. infantrymen, who are still hanging out like shit in the Black Sea, are already feeding the bulls. But he began to worry about the bulls - so as not to be poisoned. The Russian ship and the Russian Marines went to the specified address. "

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9 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

https://open4business.com.ua/today-israel-to-open-field-hospital-in-ukraine/

TODAY ISRAEL TO OPEN FIELD HOSPITAL IN UKRAINE
 22 MARCH , 2022  

On Tuesday, Israel will open a field hospital in the city of Mostyska, Lviv region, Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Michael Brodsky said.

“Israel will become the first country to open a field hospital in Ukraine. The official opening ceremony will take place today in the city of Mostyka, Lviv region,” Brodsky said on Twitter on Tuesday.

Seems Isreal isn't worried about offending Putin or escalation our anything.  Good.

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1 minute ago, Parliament said:

Seems Isreal isn't worried about offending Putin or escalation our anything.  Good.

Few countries are. My buddies are on a USAID contract, but working in Ukrainian facilities and helping do health checks on people leaving the country. I would love to see us set up a few medical facilities in neighboring countries. 

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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya:

I declare:

1. Alexander Lukashenko has already committed high treason by making Belarusian territory available for Russian aggression against Ukraine. This aggression is against the national interests of Belarus and is a crime, as well as directly contrary to the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus. He and all officials who assisted the aggression will inevitably be tried and punished for high treason and, in the case of invasion of Ukraine, for war crimes.

2. The invasion of Ukraine by the Belarusian army is a step with irreversible consequences. It would be a shameful stain on relations with Ukrainian people and would further isolate Belarusians from the outside world - right up to the Iron Curtain, behind which Belarus would not be seen as an independent state, and life in the country would come to poverty.

3. All those who give the order to invade the troops of Belarus in Ukraine, regardless of their position and military rank, will face a tribunal.

4. All those who carry out this knowingly criminal order will be held accountable to the law.

5. Members of the armed forces and any officials who refuse to carry out criminal orders will be exempt from liability for failure to carry out such orders. The right to disobey knowingly criminal orders is guaranteed by law. To record one's disagreement with an order is to take the direct action of laying down one's arms.

6. Members of the armed forces, officials and citizens of Belarus, who by any available means prevented the execution of criminal orders, shall be exempted from liability.

7. Servicemen who left the battlefield or surrendered in Ukraine shall be exempt from liability.The order to introduce troops into Ukraine is not only an order to send servicemen of our country to their certain death but also an order to all of us, Belarusians, to give up our independence and our future.

Zhyvie Belarus!

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