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If those numbers are accurate they're worse than what the Union and Confederate doctors managed during the American Civil War. For every battlefied death roughly three died of disease and six were listed as "wounded or missing" ... of whom about 80% of the wounded survived at a time when a...

I'll give it 3mo. It ain't a Ram 3500 Heavy Duty dually with a Cummins 6.7L I6 diesel and an approximately 20ton towing capacity.

When two countries are at war every military asset belonging to both sides is a legitimate target. The best way to keep a very valueable and hard to replace piece of strategic kit from getting damaged is to keep it too far away from the enemy for them to hit.

Murphy would disagree with your asessment, vehemently.

IFF can be spoofed and things get confusing when both sides are using the same plane. The American C-47 and Japanese L2D during WWII is just one example. They're both legit DC-3 variants. The Japanese didn't just buy some before the war. They acquired a licence to build them and got the blueprints.

The shortest US "basic training" is the Navy's 8-week RTC. Someone 39-years old can volunteer for that and Seaman Recruit Smith will know how to do damage control before he or she is Seaman Apprentence Mess Specialist Smith.

Can't confirm but I wouldn't put it past them because ... infantry privates. On top of its use as a fertilizer and in explosives ammonium nitrate is also an oxidizer which can be used in a solid rocket motor with powdered aluminimum and a plastic binder if you aren't *cough*trying and...

Sometimes a direct hit is not what you want. Take torpedoes, fr'ex. A direct hit is nowhere near as nasty as a "near miss" which detonates a few feet under the keel.

That reminded me of this...

Putin is in a bit of a bind here: - Ukraine didn't roll over and is holding out - He needs to mobilize for Russia to win - Mobilization will be very unpopular if he can't convince the Russian public that Ukraine is aggressor

That's hilarious. Apparently Russia is planning a new offensive: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-explosions-rock-kyiv-kremlin-vowed-inc-rcna24670

In other words "Nuh, uh! They started it." theatre for the Russian public and history books.

That's about 8-9% of the Russian military just for those two cities. (3% when the reserves are included) Mariupol is probably the easier nut to crack.

It would be really hilarious if they were relying on American GPS instead of their own GLONASS. They might be because the cheapest random smartphone you can buy almost certainly has a GPS receiver and GPS is accurate to within less than 2m. Yikes!

Damn. That's a lot of senior officer casualties that's sorta starting to look like a US Civil War casualty list ... which is not a good thing: https://thomaslegioncherokee.tripod.com/listofuniongeneralskilledormortallywoundedinbattle.html

NATO doesn't want to fight Russia and Russia doesn't want to fight NATO. That's been clear since before I was born. Nukes will fly if that happens. A clear "here's the border" would do wonders for world peace.

Or brilliant on the Ukranians' part if they can get EU membership and NATO membership as part of the peace deal.

Russian eqivalent of the Purple Heart? That the missing limb for all of them is a leg appears to imply that they were sent into a minefield and stepped on a mine.

That's going to suck for everyone involved because Door #1 might have an angry pre-teen girl with a twin-barrel 10-gauge shotgun who is just looking for an excuse to pull the trigger and wipe out everyone who tries to go through the door with one shot before she does a bayonet charge.

I was mentally debating with myself when I saw your previous use of "mod text" as to whether I should PM you or say it publically: "You are valliantly fighting a lost cause and I want to give you a hug." I decided to say it in public.