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This is absolutely expected performance -- the AMX-10 RC is not a tank at all, but an armored car designed for reconnaissance. Moreover, it's an early 1980s armored car without any of the fancy systems of later vehicle; it doesn't even have gun stabilization.

Morocco has a substantial number of T-72s; they purchased a hundred thirty-six T-72Bs and twelve T-72BKs from Belarus in 1999-2000, and later on fourteen modernized T-72Ms from the Czech Republic.

That's still dramatically better than "Fix Or Repair Daily".

The Tu-141s are old reccon drones from the 70s that were actually built at the old Tupolev factory in Kharkiv. It's been known for quite some time that Ukraine had reconditioned and put back into service a number of warehoused Tu-141 and Tu-143 drones starting back in 2014.

That's not what anyone is arguing about. Strategic nuclear assets are absolutely legitimate targets, but that does not mean that targeting them for preemptive strikes isn't a hugely dangerous escalation because of what it implies. Fortunately, that entire line is irrelevant because that isn't...

It's a bit more nuanced when one Great Power is supplying dual use hardware to a state that's actively at war with another Great Power, because while proxy warfare has always been fair game, proxy warfare on a level that could be actually targeting a nuclear deterrent is much more fraught...

In addition, "You're not allowed to defend yourself against dual-use units that we are actively using against you in their conventional capacity because that's escalating against our nuclear assets!" is one hell of a biased hot take.

The Confederate Congress once passed a resolution declaring that all captured "negro or muttalo" Union soldiers should be tried and executed for "inciting servile insurrection". In response, the United States declared that regardless of any pretense of trial carried out by the Confederacy...

That's going to be two or three editions old -- per the Army Publishing Directorate index page, the current edition is 2021 and the previous edition was 2015. If anyone is curious, I found an online PDF of the 2008 edition posted on FAS.org. It's not espionage stuff, it's brigade level tactical...

As the "FM 2-19.4" label on the top right corner indicates, this is simply a translated U.S. field manual -- FM 2-19.4 is "Brigade Combat Team Intelligence Techniques". This is far from "secret"; the Army Publishing Directorate page has it categorized as "Controlled Unclassified Information"...

Here's the thing. The entire count of major warships remaining in the Russian Navy was a single Project 1143.5 aircraft carrier and five heavy guided missile cruisers — two of the Project 1144 Orlan (“Kirov” class) and three of the Project 1164 Atlant (“Slava” class). With the sole carrier...

Just because he (Russian warships are culturally male) isn't dramatically blown apart like a movie set doesn't mean that isn't catastrophic damage.

The P630 Neptun is Ukraine's improved version of the Kh-35 Uran, a.k.a. the "Harpoonski". Given that the coast defense battery uses a single quad launcher TEL, I'm willing to bet they fired a full salvo and two got past the CIWS -- unlike Varyag, Moskva doesn't have the improved Kashtan CIWS...