Recent content by lloyd007

Seems like Ukraine political corruption didn't magically disappear on February 24, 2022 and the millions of dollars given to Kharkhiv's corruptocrats to build defenses instead went to the laundromat, hence why the Russians just walked over the border...

My guess is a stock photo since unlike the T14, that many F-16's have definitely been built.

The only surprise is of course when exactly Russia was going to kick it off. But the reports are coming in.

The Ukrainian MOD's public numbers that they've outright killed the entire initial invasion force twice are as trustworthy as the Kremlin's public numbers for the same reason.

This is all assuming the Ukrainian MOD's numbers are roughly accurate rather than inflated and / or deliberately conflating killed with casualties for propaganda purposes. Even France, which is supportive of Ukraine just gave an estimate of 'only' 150k killed out of 500k total casualties...

Russia and pals against essentially JUST the Baltic states? I honestly don't see it going well for the Baltics who would fall in short order since unlike Ukraine that can mine / entrench and etc. a lot of fields and forests, the Baltics just don't have that luxury and we've all seen how much...

That's a pretty widely debunked myth, the Soviets back then and Russians now have plenty of arms and ammo, it's logistics, training, coordination, and the Kremlin only caring about ultimate victory which means they'll happily send 2/3rds of these new units as human ablative armor to exhaust the...

Good things come to those with the patience to wait... unless you're actually GRR Martin in which case the majority of your fans would really wish you're working on a certain book about seasonal air currents ;)

TBF, the Germans were certain they would take Stalingrad in less than a week and considering how sh!t the Soviets were in defending it, they almost did. The thing is though that the Kremlin DNGAF about losses at that point and so basically kept attacking and attacking and attacking which kept...

Mice were part of the issue from what I've read / watched (Tikhistory's Battlestorm Stalingrad is on the level of the best documentaries I've ever watched), but they were given very early war hand me downs in pretty much all things from the tanks (that did get chewed up by mice) to a few 40mm AT...

Honestly he's just a Marxist - Leninist, it automatically excludes EVERYTHING ELSE.

Russia undoubtedly has the STRONKEST! military in the world.

Simple fact is Russia has caught up and surpassed Ukraine wrt drone production / usage since they AND Iran are producing them in centralized factories while Ukraine is stuck with its cottage industry and their suppliers seem to be doing f all (cardboard drones are cool and stealthy... but when...

It does say something about the relative quality of troops, equipment and tactics between the Russians and Ukrainians that while the Zaphorizhia offensive is near parity in equipment losses (with Ukrainians using much more survivable NATO or inspired vehicles), for the Russians in Avdiivka...

To the soldier requesting a massive sustained artillery campaign similar to the one that allowed Wagner to take Bakhmut... Prigozhin is dead and your current leadership both close by and in the Kremlin were made very annoyed by his incessant complaining about not having enough fire support so...