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Quoted: I’ll double check off top of my head their active is only 280,000. View Quote The million includes Navy and Air Force. Attached File Attached File https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-signs-decree-increase-size-russian-armed-forces-2022-08-25/ That’s all branches they have rocket forces, special operations, border guards in addition to Navy, Air Force, etc. which some say the real number is 770,000 on payroll Attached File |
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Time to implement a DRAFT here at home.
Take every healthy, military-aged, male illegal coming across our Southern border and draft them. Take those that are too old, say 30 and up, and immediately put them to work building low cost housing for single mothers with children, and wives of the newly drafted yutes. Get all children educated, speaking English and start training for needed tech and trades . |
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Quoted: Time to implement a DRAFT here at home. Take every healthy, military-aged, male illegal coming across our Southern border and draft them. Take those that are too old, say 30 and up, and immediately put them to work building low cost housing for single mothers with children, and wives of the newly drafted yutes. Get all children educated, speaking English and start training for needed tech and trades . View Quote Lol! Gonna do all that before the incoming nukes or after? |
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Quoted: Time to implement a DRAFT here at home. Take every healthy, military-aged, male illegal coming across our Southern border and draft them. Take those that are too old, say 30 and up, and immediately put them to work building low cost housing for single mothers with children, and wives of the newly drafted yutes. Get all children educated, speaking English and start training for needed tech and trades . View Quote What are you going to do with a massive army of conscripts who have an average IQ of about 85 and don't speak English? |
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Quoted: The million includes Navy and Air Force. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/459941/B70A75BB-961D-4334-B123-397EE128FF34_jpe-2535778.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/459941/89B7B914-50D7-4604-B9FB-3C7C3D15045D_jpe-2535779.JPG https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-signs-decree-increase-size-russian-armed-forces-2022-08-25/ That’s all branches they have rocket forces, special operations, border guards in addition to Navy, Air Force, etc. which some say the real number is 770,000 on payroll https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/459941/125B910D-8363-4A06-A66E-D4E7AEBACA28_jpe-2535786.JPG View Quote Thanks for that. They have proved they couldn't defend their own soil, let alone take a neighbor. Fuck those ORCS !!! |
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Quoted: Thanks for that. They have proved they couldn't defend their own soil, let alone take a neighbor. Fuck those ORCS !!! View Quote This goes back to what I posted in the Spring and why every month I harped on manpower issues. First you don’t attack countries but if you do then you better fucking have your shit in order to win. It’s why as ridiculous as it seems, I find it believable that Moscow was deluded enough to think they’d show up, Kiev would flee Afghan and Iraq style and they’d get a welcome parade without a fight. Now 6 months later they’re trying to address shit that should have been done before you attack your neighbor. You never assume Shit, hope is not a plan. You plan for the worse. Now if you realize you don’t have what you need to win, then you don’t attack. But it’s pretty clear Moscow isn’t giving up so this will easily go into next year. Kiev is finally pressing the north above Lyman and getting across the river. Russia better deal with that instead of trying to focus on Bakhmut. If Russia switches out those being mobilized with personnel on active in Russia they can get troops into Ukraine faster than retraining the personnel that are being mobilized. |
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Quoted: Time to implement a DRAFT here at home. Take every healthy, military-aged, male illegal coming across our Southern border and draft them. Take those that are too old, say 30 and up, and immediately put them to work building low cost housing for single mothers with children, and wives of the newly drafted yutes. Get all children educated, speaking English and start training for needed tech and trades . View Quote We don’t need a draft. |
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Quoted: This goes back to what I posted in the Spring and why every month I harped on manpower issues. First you don’t attack countries but if you do then you better fucking have your shit in order to win. It’s why as ridiculous as it seems, I find it believable that Moscow was deluded enough to think they’d show up, Kiev would flee Afghan and Iraq style and they’d get a welcome parade without a fight. Now 6 months later they’re trying to address shit that should have been done before you attack your neighbor. You never assume Shit, hope is not a plan. You plan for the worse. Now if you realize you don’t have what you need to win, then you don’t attack. But it’s pretty clear Moscow isn’t giving up so this will easily go into next year. Kiev is finally pressing the north above Lyman and getting across the river. Russia better deal with that instead of trying to focus on Bakhmut. If Russia switches out those being mobilized with personnel on active in Russia they can get troops into Ukraine faster than retraining the personnel that are being mobilized. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Thanks for that. They have proved they couldn't defend their own soil, let alone take a neighbor. Fuck those ORCS !!! This goes back to what I posted in the Spring and why every month I harped on manpower issues. First you don’t attack countries but if you do then you better fucking have your shit in order to win. It’s why as ridiculous as it seems, I find it believable that Moscow was deluded enough to think they’d show up, Kiev would flee Afghan and Iraq style and they’d get a welcome parade without a fight. Now 6 months later they’re trying to address shit that should have been done before you attack your neighbor. You never assume Shit, hope is not a plan. You plan for the worse. Now if you realize you don’t have what you need to win, then you don’t attack. But it’s pretty clear Moscow isn’t giving up so this will easily go into next year. Kiev is finally pressing the north above Lyman and getting across the river. Russia better deal with that instead of trying to focus on Bakhmut. If Russia switches out those being mobilized with personnel on active in Russia they can get troops into Ukraine faster than retraining the personnel that are being mobilized. It's pretty clear the whole thing was not rational even before the initial attack. With the amount of guns, grenades and AA/ATGMs missiles floting about just before the invasion AND the unprovoked nature of the attack, Russia would have had to realise that any long term occupation would be cost prohibative in men and material. |
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Quoted: 3 weeks would be impressive. So that can't be right. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Polish government expects mobilized Russian to start arriving in Ukraine in about 3 weeks. Others have said up to 3 months so basically for next year. Three weeks means effectively zero training beyond any prior experience reservists have, which probably isn't worth much for Russian reservists. Here's a rifle and some uniforms (maybe), try to kill at least two Ukrainians before you die. |
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Quoted: Three weeks means effectively zero training beyond any prior experience reservists have, which probably isn't worth much for Russian reservists. Here's a rifle and some uniforms (maybe), try to kill at least two Ukrainians before you die. View Quote Guessing they’ll 1 for 1 current active duty and switch out with mobilized back in Russia then transport active duty guy into Ukraine. So the mobilized in the short term likely stay inside Russia while current active get sent to Ukraine. |
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Quoted: Like I wrote in May. Moscow expected a welcome parade - delusional - but walked into a bar fight instead. You don’t win wars on the cheap. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Should have called up a million. Trained them up over the next few months, then gone in hard. *I'm not saying that is what I want him to do. I think RUS needs to get the fuck out of UKR. Like I wrote in May. Moscow expected a welcome parade - delusional - but walked into a bar fight instead. You don’t win wars on the cheap. Unless they were that cocky they were gonna just March in with nothing stopping them. |
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Quoted: It's pretty clear the whole thing was not rational even before the initial attack. With the amount of guns, grenades and AA/ATGMs missiles floting about just before the invasion AND the unprovoked nature of the attack, Russia would have had to realise that any long term occupation would be cost prohibative in men and material. View Quote Pure speculation but I could see Xi Jingping blowing smoke up Putin's ass back around the Olympics and I can imagine Xi Jingping egging on North Korea and Iran in hopes of going for Taiwan with the world distracted. But I kept rolling out my “it’s Vietnam now baby” gif way back when the Pentagon said Kiev would be overrun in 3 days because I just never bought into most of Ukraine being okay with Russia controlling their country. Donbass might lean more sympathetic to Russia but I doubt the ordinary people living in Kiev would. |
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Quoted: Unless they were that cocky they were gonna just March in with nothing stopping them. View Quote Anything’s possible. Their ego has to be in check now. Even if they believe they’re fighting NATO, their Air Force is lackluster and NATO is all about air power. Russia better fine tune its air defense and aircraft or even India won’t buy their arms next year and Venezuela or South Africa can’t afford S-400s and SU-35s |
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Queues have sprung up along Russia's border as men attempt to leave the country to avoid a military call-up for the war in Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilisation on Wednesday, which could see 300,000 people summoned to serve in the war. The Kremlin says reports of fighting-age men fleeing are exaggerated. But on the border with Georgia, miles-long queues of vehicles have formed including men trying to escape the war... View Quote BBC source ... 'I will break my arm, my leg... anything to avoid the draft'... ...For many Russian men the Kremlin's decision to call up 300,000 military reservists for the war in Ukraine came as a shock. In the big cities, Russia's seven-month war on its neighbour has always seemed a long way away. But as soon as President Vladimir Putin's address was over, it hit home. Being sent into combat was closer than anyone could have imagined... View Quote BBC source |
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Quoted: We don't need a draft. View Quote Citing recruiting woes, Army will shed up to 28,000 troops in next year Then again, the last time we had a draft it didn't work out very well. An estimated 570,000 Americans were classified as "draft offenders", 210,000 were formally accused of evading the draft, and an estimated 30,000 to 100,000 fled to Canada. Given the high percentage of Soy Bois in America today those numbers would likely be significantly higher this time around. |
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Quoted: Guessing they’ll 1 for 1 current active duty and switch out with mobilized back in Russia then transport active duty guy into Ukraine. So the mobilized in the short term likely stay inside Russia while current active get sent to Ukraine. View Quote The mobilization decree says the mobilized will have the same status as contractors. Under Russia's "legal system" that is an important distinction because conscripts are not supposed to be used outside Russian territory absent a full mobilization; but volunteers/kontraktniki (contractors) can be used anywhere, including Ukraine. The latest decree kind of makes that distinction pointless but Putin hit up that point in his speech, so he's clearly feeling pressure there. If Putin planned to do as you suggest, that's a dumb clause to include because it will cost him a lot politically to include it. And I imagine he doesn't have many kontraktniki left. From what I'm hearing though, Putin is pretty much ignoring it anyway and sending a lot of the ethnic central Asian citizens off to war. Little villages of 450 people in the Far East sending 50 of their guys off, military experience or no. I guess he's aiming to prove Napoleon wrong that poverty, privation, and misery are the school of a good soldier. |
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Quoted: The mobilization decree says the mobilized will have the same status as contractors. Under Russia's "legal system" that is an important distinction because conscripts are not supposed to be used outside Russian territory absent a full mobilization; but volunteers/kontraktniki (contractors) can be used anywhere, including Ukraine. The latest decree kind of makes that distinction pointless but Putin hit up that point in his speech, so he's clearly feeling pressure there. If Putin planned to do as you suggest, that's a dumb clause to include because it will cost him a lot politically to include it. And I imagine he doesn't have many kontraktniki left. From what I'm hearing though, Putin is pretty much ignoring it anyway and sending a lot of the ethnic central Asian citizens off to war. Little villages of 450 people in the Far East sending 50 of their guys off, military experience or no. I guess he's aiming to prove Napoleon wrong that poverty, privation, and misery are the school of a good soldier. View Quote $2,000 a month is decent pay for that AO |
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Quoted: Good post comrade. They should be raped and murdered by Russian orcs if they bought food and weapons instead of coats. They were not given money but loan guarantees and military equipment. Do you keep warm with a 155mm cannon? *Actually, a smoking hot beltfed is my preferred heat source in the winter. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: If the Ukrainian army needs even winter uniforms, it's a clear sign of where the money to supply them went. And what that country stands for. Good post comrade. They should be raped and murdered by Russian orcs if they bought food and weapons instead of coats. They were not given money but loan guarantees and military equipment. Do you keep warm with a 155mm cannon? *Actually, a smoking hot beltfed is my preferred heat source in the winter. Sure! Because an army that should be prepared to fight in cold weather does not have winter coats. What's next? We already sent billions, weapons, and now winter coats. Because those corrupt parasitic tuckers would not even have winter coats? What's next? They will start selling bridges in Ukraine? There will be many here who would buy them. |
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Quoted: I've seen a picture of their ballot http://totallyhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Anschluss-ballot.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Those "votes" use dominion systems? If so, it's easy to predict the results. I've seen a picture of their ballot http://totallyhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Anschluss-ballot.jpg Don't forget that "Ukrainian nazis are good nazis." So, that isn't very far fetched... |
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Quoted: Sure! Because an army that should be prepared to fight in cold weather does not have winter coats. What's next? We already sent billions, weapons, and now winter coats. Because those corrupt parasitic tuckers would not even have winter coats? What's next? They will start selling bridges in Ukraine? There will be many here who would buy them. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: If the Ukrainian army needs even winter uniforms, it's a clear sign of where the money to supply them went. And what that country stands for. Good post comrade. They should be raped and murdered by Russian orcs if they bought food and weapons instead of coats. They were not given money but loan guarantees and military equipment. Do you keep warm with a 155mm cannon? *Actually, a smoking hot beltfed is my preferred heat source in the winter. Sure! Because an army that should be prepared to fight in cold weather does not have winter coats. What's next? We already sent billions, weapons, and now winter coats. Because those corrupt parasitic tuckers would not even have winter coats? What's next? They will start selling bridges in Ukraine? There will be many here who would buy them. Big trouble in little china "are you crazy?" |
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Quoted: Sure! Because an army that should be prepared to fight in cold weather does not have winter coats. What's next? We already sent billions, weapons, and now winter coats. Because those corrupt parasitic tuckers would not even have winter coats? What's next? They will start selling bridges in Ukraine? There will be many here who would buy them. View Quote How many armies do you think keep 5x their normal complement of winter coats in stock? The US military doesn’t. |
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Quoted: How many armies do you think keep 5x their normal complement of winter coats in stock? The US military doesn’t. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Sure! Because an army that should be prepared to fight in cold weather does not have winter coats. What's next? We already sent billions, weapons, and now winter coats. Because those corrupt parasitic tuckers would not even have winter coats? What's next? They will start selling bridges in Ukraine? There will be many here who would buy them. How many armies do you think keep 5x their normal complement of winter coats in stock? The US military doesn’t. Mostly the Ukrainian, which likely launders even uniforms. |
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Quoted: Are you sure? Citing recruiting woes, Army will shed up to 28,000 troops in next year Then again, the last time we had a draft it didn't work out very well. An estimated 570,000 Americans were classified as "draft offenders", 210,000 were formally accused of evading the draft, and an estimated 30,000 to 100,000 fled to Canada. Given the high percentage of Soy Bois in America today those numbers would likely be significantly higher this time around. View Quote Lol gotta be "soy" why one would avoid a modern draft ??. Totally not the mismanagement by military leadership and corrupt politicians sending young men to fight for 20 years with no clear objective and for really no reason other than $$$. Not to mention they lied us into Iraq why wouldnt they do it again. |
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Quoted: Are you sure? Citing recruiting woes, Army will shed up to 28,000 troops in next year Then again, the last time we had a draft it didn't work out very well. An estimated 570,000 Americans were classified as "draft offenders", 210,000 were formally accused of evading the draft, and an estimated 30,000 to 100,000 fled to Canada. Given the high percentage of Soy Bois in America today those numbers would likely be significantly higher this time around. View Quote Yes, I am sure. Given the overall force structure it’s not needed |
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Quoted: Sure! Because an army that should be prepared to fight in cold weather does not have winter coats. What's next? We already sent billions, weapons, and now winter coats. Because those corrupt parasitic tuckers would not even have winter coats? What's next? They will start selling bridges in Ukraine? There will be many here who would buy them. View Quote The Russians are building a bridge In Kherson and nova kakovka. Perhaps they needed dollars more. So one could be for sale The Ukrainian army standing up 5x its original number has nothing to do with it I guess. But you’ll never miss a chance to swipe at folks trying to save their nation |
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Quoted: Mostly the Ukrainian, which likely launders even uniforms. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Sure! Because an army that should be prepared to fight in cold weather does not have winter coats. What's next? We already sent billions, weapons, and now winter coats. Because those corrupt parasitic tuckers would not even have winter coats? What's next? They will start selling bridges in Ukraine? There will be many here who would buy them. How many armies do you think keep 5x their normal complement of winter coats in stock? The US military doesn’t. Mostly the Ukrainian, which likely launders even uniforms. If you’d like to show us where they sold 800,000 of their distinctive jackets as stolen surplus I’d be happy to see it. But you’re just talking out of your ass like always. |
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Quoted: How many armies do you think keep 5x their normal complement of winter coats in stock? The US military doesn’t. View Quote If someone invaded us, I bet 99% of arfcom are already prepared for all seasons of warfare. I'm sure these idiots had winter coats before the war. Shit, our troops didn't have winter gear during the battle of the bulge, but still didn't give up. |
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Quoted: If someone invaded us, I bet 99% of arfcom are already prepared for all seasons of warfare. I'm sure these idiots had winter coats before the war. Shit, our troops didn't have winter gear during the battle of the bulge, but still didn't give up. View Quote Have you seen them give up for lack of gear? Having a winter jacket isn’t the same as having a military winter jacket (if you doubt that we can play hide and seek with you in my yellow down jacket) and having it be a uniform item is important for obvious military reasons. |
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Quoted: Have you seen them give up for lack of gear? Having a winter jacket isn’t the same as having a military winter jacket (if you doubt that we can play hide and seek with you in my yellow down jacket) and having it be a uniform item is important for obvious military reasons. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: If someone invaded us, I bet 99% of arfcom are already prepared for all seasons of warfare. I'm sure these idiots had winter coats before the war. Shit, our troops didn't have winter gear during the battle of the bulge, but still didn't give up. Have you seen them give up for lack of gear? Having a winter jacket isn’t the same as having a military winter jacket (if you doubt that we can play hide and seek with you in my yellow down jacket) and having it be a uniform item is important for obvious military reasons. Well if it gets to that point freezing isn't going to work too well either so that civilian coat is going to be better than nothing. Maybe wear it underneath whatever summer uniform you have just to stay warm but still look uniform and camoed. |
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Quoted: Well if it gets to that point freezing isn't going to work too well either so that civilian coat is going to be better than nothing. Maybe wear it underneath whatever summer uniform you have just to stay warm but still look uniform and camoed. View Quote The cotton summers? That’s smart. They’ll do what they have to in the end. It’s not like they are going to surrender to Russia if they get cold. In the meantime they can have all the old winter clothing the west can find in storage. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Just an FYI, I've heard that several people received activation orders on the day Putin made the announcement. Make sure you tell them goodbye. They must be conservatives Click To View Spoiler Quoted: Quoted: "Universal service," thats just a fancy way to say an individual man does not own his mind or body and that those belong to the state. People have obligations to their community. That’s the most conservative thing there is. |
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Nah, conservatives go because it’s their duty, everyone else goes because the MPs seize them and drag them to post.
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Quoted: If someone invaded us, I bet 99% of arfcom are already prepared for all seasons of warfare. I'm sure these idiots had winter coats before the war. Shit, our troops didn't have winter gear during the battle of the bulge, but still didn't give up. View Quote We aren't the stupid Germans. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Just an FYI, I've heard that several people received activation orders on the day Putin made the announcement. Make sure you tell them goodbye. They must be conservatives Click To View Spoiler Quoted: Quoted: "Universal service," thats just a fancy way to say an individual man does not own his mind or body and that those belong to the state. People have obligations to their community. That’s the most conservative thing there is. This effeminate resistance to the profession of arms sure the fuck isn't conservative. |
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Quoted: The million includes Navy and Air Force. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/459941/B70A75BB-961D-4334-B123-397EE128FF34_jpe-2535778.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/459941/89B7B914-50D7-4604-B9FB-3C7C3D15045D_jpe-2535779.JPG https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-signs-decree-increase-size-russian-armed-forces-2022-08-25/ That’s all branches they have rocket forces, special operations, border guards in addition to Navy, Air Force, etc. which some say the real number is 770,000 on payroll https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/459941/125B910D-8363-4A06-A66E-D4E7AEBACA28_jpe-2535786.JPG View Quote Actual bodies, or just ghost soldiers on paper? |
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Quoted: Does the average Russian have basic internet access? I know the entire country can't be completely retarded but not much the leaders or people do seems to make sense. Finding out they live in an information vacuum might help me better deal with the oddities. View Quote What's our excuse with Biden then? |
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Quoted: From what I'm hearing though, Putin is pretty much ignoring it anyway and sending a lot of the ethnic central Asian citizens off to war. Little villages of 450 people in the Far East sending 50 of their guys off, military experience or no. I guess he's aiming to prove Napoleon wrong that poverty, privation, and misery are the school of a good soldier. View Quote Through most of the war; this is true. Very few people from Moscow, St Petersburg, or the surrounding areas were deployed or fighting. The latest leak of the mobilization names show about 50% total coming (around 150,000) from St Petersburg and Moscow and surrounding regions though. But, of course, you’re talking 150,000 men out of a combined area with a population of like 25 million (20 million in greater Moscow metro, 5 million in and around St Peterburg). The news cameras catch footage in those cities but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to a small village getting wiped of all its military aged men. |
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Quoted: Nah, conservatives go because it’s their duty, everyone else goes because the MPs seize them and drag them to post. View Quote So you're the latter? So which is it? Russia can stop the war by simply stopping their invasion, or MPs should seize them and drag them to their posts? Do the Russians have an obligation to fight in Ukraine because their gov told them to? Or does compulsory service only apply to Americans? |
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Quoted: This effeminate resistance to the profession of arms sure the fuck isn't conservative. View Quote Lol whatever you say Very compelling and intellectual response in defense of your position. Your cognitive abilities are unmatched! You have convinced me by simple name calling, I am on your side now. Draft everyone! Kill orcs! Mooreshawnm smash! |
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Y’all realize Ukraine and NATO are losing this thing and NATO has defense contractors in Ukraine fighting Russians now because they ran out of Ukrainians? Where do you people get your information from? ??
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Quoted: Y’all realize Ukraine and NATO are losing this thing and NATO has defense contractors in Ukraine fighting Russians now because they ran out of Ukrainians? Where do you people get your information from? ?? View Quote You waited that long to make your first post and it's pure garbage. Good work, comrade. |
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Quoted: Y’all realize Ukraine and NATO are losing this thing and NATO has defense contractors in Ukraine fighting Russians now because they ran out of Ukrainians? Where do you people get your information from? ?? View Quote You waited two years to make this your first post? Do you like feet? |
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