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    Russian special military operation in Ukraine #42

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    Post  owais.usmani Mon May 08, 2023 3:01 pm

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    Post  nomadski Mon May 08, 2023 3:31 pm




    It looks like the Ukrs are now politically committed to the offensive . They can simply not turn back and loose face . They and their Anglophile backers are now flying the Ukrs flag , from their windows ! Soon they will have no windows left ! So smash this vile Nazi union into dust . Bakhmut should be declared liberated . Another pincer to follow . First Bridge to fall , and not the last .

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    Post  JohninMK Mon May 08, 2023 3:40 pm

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    Post  Backman Mon May 08, 2023 7:16 pm

    Interview with Dmitri Babych. He's Russian. They go into Prigozhin and Strelkov. It is weird how these guys go off the reservation the way they do. Some ppl say it's always been like this. No wonder Stalin just crossed some of them out 

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    Post  mnztr Mon May 08, 2023 8:14 pm

    JohninMK wrote:AFV Recognition
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    Russian 76th Guards Air Assault Division MT-LBu with an S-60 57mm automatic anti-air gun, these guns have been used throughout the war on both sides with devastating effects on ground targets.


    They should built a vehicle with MBT level armor with a 57mm and 30 mm auto cannon and 4 ATGM. An anti personnel tank, with the ATGM only in case it meets another mbt or heavily fortified position the auto cannons can't deal with.
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    Post  ALAMO Mon May 08, 2023 8:18 pm

    No shit! Shocked

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    They should give you a position in the core of Russian decision-making bodies, this idea is so brilliant!
    Let me call Putin, pack a bag, and steam ahead Moscow they will await you.

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    Post  Arkanghelsk Mon May 08, 2023 8:57 pm

    Stalin killed Tukhachevsky, well he didn't but the red terror did

    The result? 10+ million soldiers lost in kesselrings due to ineptitude of the command

    Red army won in the end, but the entire genocide in the east, and almost losing St. Peter, Moscow, and Stalingrad could have been avoided with competent leadership during the opening stages of barbarossa

    Political leadership should heed the words of the experts, and while Prigozhin is definitely not an expert

    The military guys in Wagner are, and I'm sure his breakdown had to do with what they were telling him

    Strelkov is no expert, but he did win keep the militias combat effective at least at the outbreak of the war, granted they devolved into warlords and eventually were all assassinated , but who's to say why that happened
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    Post  Hole Mon May 08, 2023 9:57 pm

    Russian forces hit enemy targets in Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk.
    At the same time, authorities in the Kharkov region reported that at least six missiles exploded.

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    Post  JohninMK Mon May 08, 2023 10:25 pm

    More good news. Wonder if the 45 Azov operatives released in exchange for those 3 pilots are on their way to the front?

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    ▪Dmitry Yudenko was the commander of the branch of the 3rd assault brigade (former Nazi regiment “#Azov”)

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    Post  JohninMK Mon May 08, 2023 10:27 pm



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    Post  JohninMK Mon May 08, 2023 11:52 pm

    MI6 passed on intelligence to the Office of the President and the General Staff that Russia continues to transfer heavy equipment to non-government-controlled territories of Ukraine.

    According to British intelligence estimates, there are 700 tanks and 400 MLRS systems in the South, another 900 tanks on the eastern front, while about 3,000 different heavy equipment are in reserve in the Rostov and Belgorod regions.

    According to the latest data, Russia has deployed more than 100 T-90 tanks to Ukraine, and has concentrated more than 700 aircraft/helicopters at military airfields, in anticipation of a Ukrainian counteroffensive.


    https://t.me/rezident_ua/17667

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    Post  kvs Tue May 09, 2023 12:34 am

    Looks like we know who is preparing the real "counter offensive".

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    Post  Arkanghelsk Tue May 09, 2023 4:42 am

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    Sentinel hub EO and Airbus DS scans of echeloned defensive positions of Russian army north of Tokmak

    Along with forecast of Ukrainian objectives, capturing Energodar would be symbolic, and taking Tokmak would be the peak of what they would achieve

    If the echelons work the way they are supposed to, they can allow Ukraine to get deep, and destroy them as they run into defensive bulwarks

    Allowing them in is not the problem, but destroying them would be a defensive success for the Russian army , they would lose north of 80,000 men in a quarter of the time they have lost the same amount of men during Bakhmut and Soledar battles

    So if RU army can stop them in the defensive belts, and launch counter offensive, it would be a successful defense

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    Post  mnztr Tue May 09, 2023 5:23 am

    ALAMO wrote:No shit! Shocked



    They should give you a position in the core of Russian decision-making bodies, this idea is so brilliant!
    Let me call Putin, pack a bag, and steam ahead Moscow they will await you.

    I know if those but they are kinda like the BMP-3. I don't think they have MBT level armor protection do they?
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    Post  ucmvulcan Tue May 09, 2023 5:28 am

    Arkanghelsk wrote:Russian special military operation in Ukraine #42 - Page 17 Fvnh9p10Russian special military operation in Ukraine #42 - Page 17 Fvnox610

    Sentinel hub EO and Airbus DS scans of echeloned defensive positions of Russian army north of Tokmak

    Along with forecast of Ukrainian objectives, capturing Energodar would be symbolic, and taking Tokmak would be the peak of what they would achieve

    If the echelons work the way they are supposed to, they can allow Ukraine to get deep, and destroy them as they run into defensive bulwarks

    Allowing them in is not the problem, but destroying them would be a defensive success for the Russian army , they would lose north of 80,000 men in a quarter of the time they have lost the same amount of men during Bakhmut and Soledar battles

    So if RU army can stop them in the defensive belts, and launch counter offensive, it would be a successful defense

    Ukraine is all about nihilistic pyrrhic victories that serve no purpose except to keep my money coming into Kiev. I could so easily see them creating a terrible Chernobyl style ecological disaster that shuts down a large part of Ukraine's energy grid, renders a lot of crop land useless, displaces lots of people and gives lots of people cancer and then making a commemorative stamp about it. They don't care if lots of Ukrianian or Russian civilians die. As long as my tax dollars keep coming in it will be hailed as the greatest NATO victory since Paris 1940

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    Post  0nillie0 Tue May 09, 2023 7:02 am

    mnztr wrote:
    ALAMO wrote:No shit! Shocked



    They should give you a position in the core of Russian decision-making bodies, this idea is so brilliant!
    Let me call Putin, pack a bag, and steam ahead Moscow they will await you.

    I know if those but they are kinda like the BMP-3. I don't think they have MBT level armor protection do they?

    BMPT is litteraly on a mbt chassis with An unmanned turret. I don't think you can put it in the same protection class as BMP-3.

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    Post  mnztr Tue May 09, 2023 7:23 am

    0nillie0 wrote:.

    BMPT is litteraly on a mbt chassis with An unmanned turret. I don't think you can put it in the same protection class as BMP-3.[/quote]

    The chassis does not make it a tank. The Typhoon is on the same platform at a T 14. It may not be the same protection class is the bmP-3 but I don't see any evidence it approaches MBT Levels of armour.
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    Post  ALAMO Tue May 09, 2023 7:40 am

    Is there any hidden agenda with you discussing things obviously unknown?

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    Post  Tolstoy Tue May 09, 2023 8:31 am

    Red Square just a few minutes ago. Completely prepared for Victory Day Parade (fake news media had said Victory Day Parade was cancelled). Gorgeous weather in Moscow today.

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    Post  jhelb Tue May 09, 2023 8:40 am

    mnztr wrote: They should built a vehicle with MBT level armor with a 57mm and 30 mm auto cannon and 4 ATGM. An anti personnel tank, with the ATGM only in case it meets another mbt or heavily fortified position the auto cannons can't deal with.
    Kurganet, Boomerang rings a bell?

    And when a 57mm is available where is the need for a 30mm auto cannon?

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    Post  mnztr Tue May 09, 2023 8:47 am

    jhelb wrote:
    mnztr wrote: They should built a vehicle with MBT level armor with a 57mm and 30 mm auto cannon and 4 ATGM. An anti personnel tank, with the ATGM only in case it meets another mbt or heavily fortified position the auto cannons can't deal with.
    Kurganet, Boomerang rings a bell?

    And when a 57mm is available where is the need for a 30mm auto cannon?


    Have you seen how large a 57mm cart is? 30mm allows serious firepower and qty of rounds. Thats it. Whats the max rate of fire of a 57 mm vs 30mm? These machines are to hose down the enemy. Yes I have heard of all of these, they lack the MBT level armour. So you are making them go closer to the enemy with less armor.
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    Post  ucmvulcan Tue May 09, 2023 8:51 am

    Tolstoy wrote:Red Square just a few minutes ago. Completely prepared for Victory Day Parade (fake news media had said Victory Day Parade was cancelled). Gorgeous weather in Moscow today.

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    Unpossible, Russia ran out of missiles, tanks, guns, troops, this parade doesn't exist and at this point I am not sure Moscow really exists. I mean if we are going to take the American and British "news" media to their illogical conclusion. . . . Oh and look for the sympathy trolling and condemnation of the parade in the western press as "Putin depriving his troops of much needed weaponry to score political points." For the rest of you, for those who love freedom, and for those whose ancestors rid this world of Nazism, Eternal Glory to the Memory of those who defeated Hitlerism and С Днем Победы!!

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    Post  ALAMO Tue May 09, 2023 9:09 am

    Enjoy.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hity6nGWxJM&ab_channel=WION

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    Post  Mir Tue May 09, 2023 9:17 am

    mnztr wrote:
    The chassis does not make it a tank. The Typhoon is on the same platform at a T 14. It may not be the same protection class is the bmP-3 but I don't see any evidence it approaches MBT Levels of armour.

    My goodness! What a Face

    Anyway from Rosoboronexport:

    BMPT has substantial protection against anti-tank weapon systems, as of now, no combat vehicles have similar all-round, top of the class protection.

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