Lord_James

Info on Iranian 3rd/4th gen Almaz-1 ATGM
 

 
 

Bullcrap PKP

 
 

finnish tests with K-1
 
 

Donbass region - for several years UAF was building positions and strongholds. Examples of them:
 
 

 
 
A bit 18+ in the video
https://t.me/izvestia/86654
Destroyed and captured strongholds:

 
 
https://vk.com/video-123538639_456281094
Near Checkpoint 29 in Lugansk region. Shows one of long term position made out of concrete, with thick armored/steel doors.

 
 
18+ in the video
https://vk.com/video-123538639_456281093
Trenches and other positions inside of village and under houses.

 
 

The bins are placed on top of the armor modules :
 

 

Looks like fiberglass storage bins instead of armor
 
https://ibb.co/ykY5nhX
https://ibb.co/Cnc79nn

It wasn't me who said that. I don't know about Chinese birder problems, this part of Russia is quite calm. Only region that might generate problems are Central Asia, islamists, Afghanistan-related.

Those ones on picture were fired at Azovstal in Mariupol, where nazis made a base and use as shelter for last 2 months, telling them to surrender.

The Elbit Sigma (which is supposed to replaced the venerable M109 in IDF service) is taking shape. Production models are still months/year beyond

 

https://www.usarmygvsc.com/2022-gvsc-industry-day-briefings/

https://www.usarmygvsc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2022-Industry-Days-MS2_v2-OPSEC.pdf

Giatsint-S in Ukraine.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20210017131
Compass Final Report: Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP)-Chemical Vehicle 1.2

 

https://newsonair.com/2022/04/13/demystifying-indian-armys-indigenously-developed-specialist-combat-vehicles/

Russian MoD report that the ship ended up sinking once towed back to port because of previous damages and rough sea.
 
https://t.me/rian_ru/158794

We already have F&F ATGM for infantry in development, called "Tulyak". Javs will probably help to some degree. We don't have anything like NLAW, on the other hand.

Plenty. It is even filmed in use by DPR rebels
 
 

 
 

While I'm sure all of this is great fun I'm gonna put on my "responsible adult" hat and ask y'all to please calm down a little and play nice. 
 
-please refrain from petty insults which are not workplace-suitable 
-please refrain from challenging the all-powerful dictator and/or mod team to a pissing match.
-If you are offended, don't let the internet sharks smell blood.
 
Thank you.

Their wife? 

The ground breaking ceremony for the Hanwha Armoured Vehicle Centre of Excellence happened today in Avalon, Victoria.
 

 

Better look at Point Blank's design, from a trade-show model company.
 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/21159426@N05/albums/72177720297935581
 
 

To quote myself:
 
 
Your impoliteness is uncalled for and your accusation of laziness would be better aimed at yourself.

In a discussion on an ongoing war, in which parties to the discussion are citizens of the warring nations, it really would fit you as a moderator to have an ounce more respect and grace than Eric Cartman.

Depends on what both sides are willing to accept.
 
Russia is still sticking to the "special operation" narrative, meaning the political cost of mobilization or sending conscript into Ukraine would be high. It would mean admitting to the Russian population that the scale of the invasion was much bigger than initially reported and that they took not insignificant losses. Russian ground forces have about 280 000 soldiers about which a bit over 100 000 are tied up in Ukraine. Keep in mind that Russia still have to keep it's other borders secure (especially the border with China) and that the country is huge. So without access to conscripts or forces from other theatre they can't easily replenish their losses. All of this is compounded by the poor state of Russian logistics in Ukraine. Ukrainian know this and are targetting their supplies. They recently blown up an oil depot in Belgorod (Russia), which supply the forces in Kharkiv, using attack helicopter. Even if the Ukrainian deny it was them, the Russian have no reasons at all to blow up their own badly needed supplies, even for a false flag operation. On top of it force the local Russian population to see that the war came back right at their doorstep contradicting the narrative of the Kremlin.
 
As for Ukraine they are fighting on their own soil, so as you said the longer the fight goes on the higher civilian casualties will be. It all depends on what losses the Ukrainian population are willing to accept, but for now their moral is likely high (Russian troops stepped back from Kiev and they are fighting a defensive war to keep their independence). On the other hand Ukrainian forces so far denied engagement on open terrain to the Russian forces. They know that in open combat they will likely be defeated by Russian forces which have the edge in the air and in the overall quality of their material. So far they preserved some of their manoeuvrer capability by forcing the Russian in urban combat and being on the defensive, but now that they are going on the offensive their losses will be much higher and they could lose most of their remaining assets and be forced back into a passive defensive position. It's a big gamble.
 
The fight in the Donbass will most likely determine the future borders of the separatist republics and how much terrain will Ukraine lose during negotiations.
 
A slightly different matter is the worrying radicalization of both sides. We know that exactions against POW occurred on both sides and that both of them already partially disregard international law regarding POW (Publishing images of captured soldiers is normally forbidden for example). The massacre in Bucha will rile up the Ukrainians even more, possibly leading to even more exactions against Russian POW creating a negative feedback loop. This was aggravated when Russia, instead of denying their responsibility in Bucha and saying that they would investigate anyway (which would have been the smart choice) went and immediately claimed at the UN that all of it was a fabrication from Ukraine using ridiculous arguments (like corpses being living actors, Ukrainian forces planting the bodies in the town, or Ukrainians killing their own for a false flag) which was very quickly debunked using satellite imagery proving the chronology of Russian claims was impossible. We may never know what really happened in Bucha (at least before a few years to decades after the end of the war), but it remain that Russia will have to deal with the image of a war criminal for at least the rest of the war, which won't help them either on the international stage or on dealing with the population in occupied territory.
On the Russian side we also have seen a few public personality using a vocabulary which is frankly worrying and would have been better left in the gutter of History. Like the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church claiming that the very existence of the Russian people is on the line and borderline making it a Holy war against a "decadent" Occident or in another register the diatribe of Timofeï Sergueïtsev :
 
 
I can only hope that those are isolated cases and that they do not reflect the public opinion, but that kind of discourse can only lead to a no-matter the cost and a no-compromises attitude which will lead to an escalation of the atrocity on both sides.

Announcement of the decision kicked into the long grass. 
 
 

The year is 2157: man has conquered the stars; hover tanks are being fielded by every major power and those who can afford to buy them; lazer and rail gun technologies have completely replaced chemical propelled weapons; nuclear fusion is a common and reliable power source; Britain is still looking to replace their aging fleet of Warrior IFVs.