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Originally Posted By Capta: Ka52 hit hard by MANPAD: https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/wow492/a_russian_helicopter_claimed_to_be_a_ka52_was/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 View Quote I saw them claiming two Ka-52's yesterday, with at least one confirmed. Good to see the manpads taking their toll on the Russian airpower. |
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This is actually a Russian observation tower being taken out by a kamikaze drone, just wait for it after the explosion.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/woty4z/footage_of_an_ukrainian_drone_taking_out_an_tv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Ukrainian 2S7 failure. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/wou9hp/footage_of_an_ukrainian_2s7_failed_when_firing/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 |
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Originally Posted By mancow: It's like that scene in Falling Down. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By mancow: Originally Posted By Capta: You'll shoot your eye out! https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/woewoz/this_is_temporarily_occupied_kherson_and_local/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 It's like that scene in Falling Down. The way they took off running reminds me of the old arcade game, Cabal. |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: This is actually a Russian observation tower being taken out by a kamikaze drone, just wait for it after the explosion. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/woty4z/footage_of_an_ukrainian_drone_taking_out_an_tv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Ukrainian 2S7 failure. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/wou9hp/footage_of_an_ukrainian_2s7_failed_when_firing/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 View Quote Unfortunately, I think we will be seeing more of this as the fight goes on as tubes are approaching condemnation criterial. |
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Originally Posted By Dracster: The way they took off running reminds me of the old arcade game, Cabal. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Dracster: Originally Posted By mancow: Originally Posted By Capta: You'll shoot your eye out! https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/woewoz/this_is_temporarily_occupied_kherson_and_local/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 It's like that scene in Falling Down. The way they took off running reminds me of the old arcade game, Cabal. |
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Originally Posted By R0N: Unfortunately, I think we will be seeing more of this as the fight goes on as tubes are approaching condemnation criterial. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By R0N: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: This is actually a Russian observation tower being taken out by a kamikaze drone, just wait for it after the explosion. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/woty4z/footage_of_an_ukrainian_drone_taking_out_an_tv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Ukrainian 2S7 failure. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/wou9hp/footage_of_an_ukrainian_2s7_failed_when_firing/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Unfortunately, I think we will be seeing more of this as the fight goes on as tubes are approaching condemnation criterial. Yea, I can only imagine how hard these things are being pushed to the limits. |
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Originally Posted By R0N: Unfortunately, I think we will be seeing more of this as the fight goes on as tubes are approaching condemnation criterial. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By R0N: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: This is actually a Russian observation tower being taken out by a kamikaze drone, just wait for it after the explosion. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/woty4z/footage_of_an_ukrainian_drone_taking_out_an_tv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Ukrainian 2S7 failure. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/wou9hp/footage_of_an_ukrainian_2s7_failed_when_firing/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Unfortunately, I think we will be seeing more of this as the fight goes on as tubes are approaching condemnation criterial. With all the ammunition laying around the battlefield, I wonder if this failure isn't a result of sabotaged ammo left in the field intentionally by the Russians. Dirty tricks are played by both sides in conflicts like this. |
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Originally Posted By kpacman: With all the ammunition laying around the battlefield, I wonder if this failure isn't a result of sabotaged ammo left in the field intentionally by the Russians. Dirty tricks are played by both sides in conflicts like this. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By kpacman: Originally Posted By R0N: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: This is actually a Russian observation tower being taken out by a kamikaze drone, just wait for it after the explosion. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/woty4z/footage_of_an_ukrainian_drone_taking_out_an_tv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Ukrainian 2S7 failure. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/wou9hp/footage_of_an_ukrainian_2s7_failed_when_firing/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Unfortunately, I think we will be seeing more of this as the fight goes on as tubes are approaching condemnation criterial. With all the ammunition laying around the battlefield, I wonder if this failure isn't a result of sabotaged ammo left in the field intentionally by the Russians. Dirty tricks are played by both sides in conflicts like this. Could be But the more likely one of the two occurred: failure of the safe and arming mechanism in the fuze or the tube exceeded its fatigue condemnation limits. Both have been know to blow up guns. |
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Originally Posted By Chaingun: In the first video at the very beginning, one can see a cement pillbox in action. A month ago there was a photo of them transporting these 6"-8" thick cement boxes. The orcs put dirt on top and on one side of this box. Bet it didn't fare so well. View Quote they didn't hit the pillbox, if you pause at 58 seconds you can see it still intact. Didn't look like they hit either of the targets they had marked in the beginning of the video. I imagine the target boxes were added later and they probably hit the target they was after. The after editing is a little misleading. |
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Originally Posted By sq40: The movie Chernobyl seems to really reflect the attitudes Russians have towards blame, failure, and coping. It seems like as long as you check the boxes on the checklist paperwork, you are absolved. But if you didn’t, you risk holding the bag. Responsibility for failure falls on the person that doesn’t follow the instructions to a T, no matter if it’s impossible to do, or the wrong thing to do. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By sq40: Originally Posted By Dracster: Originally Posted By Jack67: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Whoever in this thread said that the Russians will double down and reinforce their mistakes was a tactical genius. Earlier I said, "in Russia, it's not really a failure until you reinforce it." Maybe that's what you mean. Regarless, It's just amazing; they have positively feudal levels of command and control. My buddy the former tanker is in awe of the Russians constantly and consistently reinforcing mistakes. The movie Chernobyl seems to really reflect the attitudes Russians have towards blame, failure, and coping. It seems like as long as you check the boxes on the checklist paperwork, you are absolved. But if you didn’t, you risk holding the bag. Responsibility for failure falls on the person that doesn’t follow the instructions to a T, no matter if it’s impossible to do, or the wrong thing to do. Corporate America is like that too |
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Originally Posted By Glock63: As nice as russia paying reparations sounds, you people who think it will happen are living in an alternate reality. View Quote |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: This is actually a Russian observation tower being taken out by a kamikaze drone, just wait for it after the explosion. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/woty4z/footage_of_an_ukrainian_drone_taking_out_an_tv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Ukrainian 2S7 failure. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/wou9hp/footage_of_an_ukrainian_2s7_failed_when_firing/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 View Quote in the first one, its hard to tell what that was, it could of been a drone. Also could of been demo by sappers. Hard to tell really. |
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Originally Posted By kpacman: With all the ammunition laying around the battlefield, I wonder if this failure isn't a result of sabotaged ammo left in the field intentionally by the Russians. Dirty tricks are played by both sides in conflicts like this. View Quote When I saw captured areas with a bunch of left behind ammo I was wondering when this would start happening months ago. |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
View Quote Looked like something in the tree shot across the road at the 2nd tank too but missed (Flash in the tree then black smoke/dirt next to 2nd tank). |
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Originally Posted By klinc: Looked like something in the tree shot across the road at the 2nd tank too but missed (Flash in the tree then black smoke/dirt next to 2nd tank). View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By klinc: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
Looked like something in the tree shot across the road at the 2nd tank too but missed (Flash in the tree then black smoke/dirt next to 2nd tank). You are correct, it was another DM-22, but it missed making the black puff of smoke, otherwise both vehicles would have been taken out. Look above the tank and slightly to the right when it happens, seems to come from that tree line, a puff of smoke at the 4 second mark, just missed in front of the IFV. |
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Sounds like there is a good chance he was there but he may still be alive.
"Wagner Group Director Evgeniy Prigozhin is alive. The rumors were not confirmed. But he was somewhere nearby, so he took a photo near the destroyed headquarters." https://nitter.net/ruscrimes24/status/1559190516876693507#m |
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Originally Posted By kpacman: With all the ammunition laying around the battlefield, I wonder if this failure isn't a result of sabotaged ammo left in the field intentionally by the Russians. Dirty tricks are played by both sides in conflicts like this. View Quote That would be iffy. It is generally a bad idea to sabotage the same ammunition that you are using also. We did it in Vietnam with the 7.62x39 as we had no weapons to fire it There is a chance your forces might run across the shell and use it themselves if they are running low. I bet there was, either, a bore obstruction or barrel metal failure. A driving band from a previous shell might have come off of the previous shell. I am betting metal failure though |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: I saw them claiming two Ka-52's yesterday, with at least one confirmed. Good to see the manpads taking their toll on the Russian airpower. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: Originally Posted By Capta: Ka52 hit hard by MANPAD: https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/wow492/a_russian_helicopter_claimed_to_be_a_ka52_was/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 I saw them claiming two Ka-52's yesterday, with at least one confirmed. Good to see the manpads taking their toll on the Russian airpower. Ukraine sources made the claim on another thread that the Stormer AA vehicle has killed 3 helicopters and an SU-25 in three days. |
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Indications of over 100 deaded Wagner mercenaries from yestdays strike. |
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The SSO of Ukraine foiled an enemy attempt to break through in one of the areas where the tasks were carried out.
When the Russian occupiers formed a strike-reconnaissance group, the soldiers of the Special Operations Forces already advanced to intercept the enemy.
130 battalion TrO adjustment of fire and interaction with artillery. Dozens of vehicles and many goat-faced creatures were destroyed
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Originally Posted By acrocat: Sounds like there is a good chance he was there but he may still be alive. "Wagner Group Director Evgeniy Prigozhin is alive. The rumors were not confirmed. But he was somewhere nearby, so he took a photo near the destroyed headquarters." https://nitter.net/ruscrimes24/status/1559190516876693507#m View Quote Is that kind of like all the Moskva sailors that didn't go down with the ship and were on parade the days after in Sevastopol? IN before some enterprising person finds that the wagner supplied pic is from days or weeks ago. I'll believe he is alive when he shows up in public somewhere in Russia and is moving. |
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Not him but one of his guys. Defused mines being transported in a Kia.
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
Indications of over 100 deaded Wagner mercenaries from yestdays strike. View Quote That's fantastic news. And I've repeatedly heard that wagner men really do everything they can to avoid getting hurt. They prefer to stay in the back and such. So a strike that targeted and killed 100 of them will really make them question if this paycheck and the opportunity to commit war crimes is really worth dying for. |
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Originally Posted By Bama_Rebel: in the first one, its hard to tell what that was, it could of been a drone. Also could of been demo by sappers. Hard to tell really. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Bama_Rebel: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: This is actually a Russian observation tower being taken out by a kamikaze drone, just wait for it after the explosion. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/woty4z/footage_of_an_ukrainian_drone_taking_out_an_tv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Ukrainian 2S7 failure. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/wou9hp/footage_of_an_ukrainian_2s7_failed_when_firing/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 in the first one, its hard to tell what that was, it could of been a drone. Also could of been demo by sappers. Hard to tell really. You might be right. |
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Originally Posted By Capta: Ka52 hit hard by MANPAD: https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/wow492/a_russian_helicopter_claimed_to_be_a_ka52_was/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 View Quote https://t.me/mertviorku/1560 |
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Originally Posted By stone-age: That's fantastic news. And I've repeatedly heard that wagner men really do everything they can to avoid getting hurt. They prefer to stay in the back and such. So a strike that targeted and killed 100 of them will really make them question if this paycheck and the opportunity to commit war crimes is really worth dying for. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By stone-age: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
Indications of over 100 deaded Wagner mercenaries from yestdays strike. That's fantastic news. And I've repeatedly heard that wagner men really do everything they can to avoid getting hurt. They prefer to stay in the back and such. So a strike that targeted and killed 100 of them will really make them question if this paycheck and the opportunity to commit war crimes is really worth dying for. Yea, as more photos and videos come out, damage seems extensive, and I'm sure intelligence made sure Wagner was there in numbers to make the strike worth it. I'm wondering if other higher ranking Wagner guys were taken out if not the main chef.
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I think the airbase was hit with a combo of missiles' including the ATACMS.
I just wanted to throw out this video in case we see anything that looks familar. I would imagine we want to get rid of the gen one jassam since we went to the er and xr models. Look at the range of the gen 1 and what countries bought some, also how many can be loaded onto f15's. Informational video none the less. The gen 1 would be perfect for some of those deep weapons depo's or other HVT's. Doubt they'd use it for a bridge, but it would probably work well. US Military Testing the deadliest stealth missile - AGM-158 JASSM |
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'We Strike Back Mightily': Ukrainian Troops Slug It Out With Big Guns
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: This is actually a Russian observation tower being taken out by a kamikaze drone, just wait for it after the explosion. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/woty4z/footage_of_an_ukrainian_drone_taking_out_an_tv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Ukrainian 2S7 failure. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/wou9hp/footage_of_an_ukrainian_2s7_failed_when_firing/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 View Quote spiked ammo or breach failure? |
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Originally Posted By R0N: Unfortunately, I think we will be seeing more of this as the fight goes on as tubes are approaching condemnation criterial. View Quote I was trying to tell someone on Reddit that tubes had a wear life after which they were ineffective and a fatigue life after which they are dangerous and he said he was a Norwegian army M109 driver and gunner and he knew I was lying. My brother then told me that there are some things you shouldn’t tell the guy that sits next to the breech. |
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Originally Posted By Capta: Ukraine sources made the claim on another thread that the Stormer AA vehicle has killed 3 helicopters and an SU-25 in three days. View Quote The Starstreak seems like a real winner. I wonder if it’s getting a second look from buyers and developers of the next generation MANPADS. |
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Originally Posted By Prime: The SSO of Ukraine foiled an enemy attempt to break through in one of the areas where the tasks were carried out. When the Russian occupiers formed a strike-reconnaissance group, the soldiers of the Special Operations Forces already advanced to intercept the enemy.
130 battalion TrO adjustment of fire and interaction with artillery. Dozens of vehicles and many goat-faced creatures were destroyed
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FaNpPpJXkAADo7C?format=jpg&name=large View Quote Seeing lots and lots of M4's now |
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We'll see what develops.
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Originally Posted By Ryan_Scott: The Starstreak seems like a real winner. I wonder if it’s getting a second look from buyers and developers of the next ge station MANPADS. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Ryan_Scott: Originally Posted By Capta: Ukraine sources made the claim on another thread that the Stormer AA vehicle has killed 3 helicopters and an SU-25 in three days. The Starstreak seems like a real winner. I wonder if it’s getting a second look from buyers and developers of the next ge station MANPADS. I want to see this footage. Modern NATO AA systems engaging good ole Soviet aircraft. Just as the Cold War intended. |
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Originally Posted By kpacman: With all the ammunition laying around the battlefield, I wonder if this failure isn't a result of sabotaged ammo left in the field intentionally by the Russians. Dirty tricks are played by both sides in conflicts like this. View Quote I would rate this as extremely unlikely, and even unnecessary. The Russians haven't proven to be that skilled at regular combat operations, let alone the poor quality of their other "provocations" (take for example the PGM footage of a "HIMARS being destroyed"...where it was apparently parked on the second floor of some building). A bunch of OSINT types on the bird app and on YT have been speculating about what ammo stocks the Russians and their successor states ended up with after 1989, and stock levels in the years since. So it could have been any number of things for the Ukrainian gun, but the Russian ammo situation is getting worse by the day. Very old ammo and with dubious storage conditions and handling. |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: We'll see what develops.
View Quote Could be very interesting to see how this unfolds. Ukraine is being very methodical in the groundwork for retaking Kherson. Cutting off logistics, taking out air defenses, targeting leadership. Communications is probably on the chopping block soon. |
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Kharkiv, Kharkiv region, de-occupied village of Ruska Lozova: captured Rashist MT-LB number 572. On top of the boxes, you can make out the inscription 9М39 (ie, MANPADS "Igla"). Normal trophies!
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest: This is actually a Russian observation tower being taken out by a kamikaze drone, just wait for it after the explosion. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/woty4z/footage_of_an_ukrainian_drone_taking_out_an_tv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Ukrainian 2S7 failure. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/wou9hp/footage_of_an_ukrainian_2s7_failed_when_firing/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 View Quote The sweetest thing about watching that comm tower collapse is knowing that it’s on Russian soil. |
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Originally Posted By Prime: Kharkiv, Kharkiv region, de-occupied village of Ruska Lozova: captured Rashist MT-LB number 572. On top of the boxes, you can make out the inscription 9М39 (ie, MANPADS "Igla"). Normal trophies!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FaOEerVXkAQZPCS?format=jpg&name=large View Quote It's a box of umbrellas. |
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View Quote I don't expect that he made it back to his base. |
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Serbia abandoned the Russian Federation military base and will train the army according to NATO standards
It is reported that after the Russian ambassador announced Russia's plans to deploy a military base in Serbia, Belgrade intensified cooperation with NATO. Thus, the "South" base the main center for training of the Serbian army according to NATO standards, as well as training of Serbian special units for peacekeeping operations will appear in Serbia instead of the Russian one. Attached File |
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Originally Posted By SFguy: I'm just a dummy from Utah so I need to ask. Could the funds that we froze/seized from Russia and the oligarchs be used for reparations? I honestly don't know. View Quote Hopefully so. I dont particularly consider that reparations however. Reparations require a knowledgement of wrongdoing and a willingness to make amends. Not a chance of that with Russia. They will simply call the seizing of their overseas assets as theft by nato, the EU, etc. |
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