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That's true and probably part of Ukraine's choice of targeting, but I'm sure there's also an element of hitting whatever they can, when they can.

Russia would love for a Ukrainian strike on military hardware carrying civilians. I'm sure they'd claim they'd sent messages along all sorts of deconfliction avenues. Such claims ranging from exaggeration to complete fabrication. It would be a tremendous way to refocus domestic attention after...

Eh, they're tactical weapons. They're also still "russian" despite Belarusian deployment. The only protection they have or need is the joint policies of escalation and "Use it or lose it." If any Western country decides to have a go at them, they'd probably try to use them before they could be...

Not necessarily? If they've got a 90% intercept rate, then 1 in 10 would get through. Given that we're hearing about 3-5 sites being hit in a strike, and some may be multiple sites damaged by the same hit, and that Russia are known for lobbing dozens of missiles in a strike, there doesn't seem...

IFF can be spoofed, and same or very similar types can add to confusion. In previous era's it certainly could pose an obstacle. It really should not be a significant issue in the modern day though.

Not if you have good IFF, combined arms integration, planning and inter-branch communication. So for Russia, yes.

Lol... He talks about how MSM just love to repeat the government lies, and won't go after politicians. That's not exactly how I remember them acting under Trump. They talk about "censorship" but by whom? It's censorship by private businesses acting in their own interests, by giving the majority...

Practical field testing of systems, increased funding for those systems, deeper ties with russia theoretically increasing the future threat to Israel, free advertising for their systems leading to greater sales and development. Just off the top of my head.

I initially misread that, and thought that it was comparing the NATO donation amount to the Ukrainian total rather than NATO donations compared with total NATO inventory.

Making little metal balls is easy. Making them perfectly spherical to within a tiny tolerance level, and making the equipment to check that tolerance level are the real challenge. In the case of ball point pens (And likely other applications, of course.) actually producing steel of sufficient...

I mean... They're buying drones from Iran, using SAM systems and anti-ship missiles as ground attack cruise missiles, refurbishing decades obsolete tanks, sending others out without ERA, requiring infantry to provide their own armour and medical kit, training with rusty weapons, reducing their...

Yeah... That pedestrian foot bridge was shifty looking. And the random street intersection was probably where Ukraine were hiding their invisible jets. And the apartment buildings were secretly commando training sites...

Dresden.

To be fair... How many Ukrainians were even left in the regions? And, we also have to consider that a possibly significant fraction of those who did choose to stay were in fact waiting for their russian "liberators" to arrive. Don't get me wrong, I don't consider the votes even slightly fair or...

Looks like it only took out the rail line, which I'd imagine has much more bearing on resupply than than retreat.

Yeah... They used a pair of shitty, mission inappropriate missiles for the strike. Because they used obsolescent missiles intended for a different role, one was a partial success in that it hit the outskirts of the target. The other was well off target, resulting in needless and unacceptable...

Strike may have been carried out using kh-22, which reportedly has a CEP as bad as 3 miles.

A BTG is typically equipped with roughly 10 tanks, 40 IFVs. So, 2-3ish.

Well, if they're taking losses to the point that BTGs are being rendered inactive and considered for merging, without having their positions overrun or encircled, it stands to reason that they're not able to rotate them out for replenishment and repair, no?

Why do the US put the President in a 747, instead of hauling him around in the second seat of an F-22 trainer? The risk of an identified internationally flagged flight being shot down, in a situation where they could communicate ahead of time, ought to be practically zero. Even allowing for...