To those rootin for Putin.......
Best investigate better the side you are backing.
Moving quickly to inflict de bellatio.
A tangent admission that these are affecting UkA operations.
How about if you post a tweet. Post the English translation. We can't read that shit.
To those rootin for Putin.......
Best investigate better the side you are backing.
It isHow about if you post a tweet. Post the English translation. We can't read that shit.
Current year
Funny funny.
It seems I was right about the maturnity hospital being turned into a Azov position after they kicked out the women and hospital staff.
The Maternity House of Kiev.You are literally posting a twitter thread from a Russian Bot and trying to call it evidence...
Which is especially hilarious given there's direct photographic and video evidence the Russian Bot's claims are false.
Hasn't Russia been saying that they don't want regime change? Just recognition of the independence of their puppet states and Crimea joining Russia? Well that and a neutralized Ukraine, non-aligned and demilitarized.Seems like there's been a turn of events:
Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskyy says no longer interested in NATO membership
Ukraine President also says he is open to talks on two key breakaway domains of Donetsk and Lugansk, which Moscow insists are independent republicswww.business-standard.com
I wonder if Zelensky is trying to forestall the final assault or if he's signaling to Moscow that he's willing to negotiate. If it's the latter, it might be that the truth of the situation has finally sunk in and he's willing to make terms with Moscow. Probably in return for sparing him and his administration.
If that happens, Biden and many Western leaders are going to look really, really stupid. And Russia will have lots and lots of NATO weapon systems (and Ukrainian-Western trained officers) they can now draw upon.
You are literally posting a twitter thread from a Russian Bot and trying to call it evidence...
Which is especially hilarious given there's direct photographic and video evidence the Russian Bot's claims are false.
Moving quickly to inflict de bellatio.
A tangent admission that these are affecting UkA operations.
Not to be rude, but are you Russian by chance?
Can you show me the pictures of Cope cage tanks that have scorch marks on the top and a damaged cage?Tanks are definitely AFVs and classed as such.
As for photos, we seen destroyed Tanks that had clearly been hit in the side in ambushes at close range. We also see large numbers of Tanks with the cages showing visible marks of battle and scorching but still operating.
Frankly there is not enough data and too much survivor bias to come to any conclusions. As it stands, the UkA is still unable to take the initiative and is being destroyed at an unsustainable rate in local counter-attacks. Zelensky knows this, knows he is fucked, but is backed into a noose of his own making.
At the end of the day, the Operationally Reality is once the Chenobyl Chokepoint was breached, the UkA lost any hope of forming Corps level counter-attack formations that could prevent the pocketing of the Northeast Units and allow the extrication of the Kharkiv and Donbas Fronts to form Army level counter-attack units.
Russians were willing to accept high losses in the breach phase to pull this off, and in the long run as the pockets in the Northeast throw in the towel, fewer folks on both sides will die, and they get all their abandoned gear and more back.
But given you still confuse fighting a 3rd world militia as indicative of how mass maneuver warfare is fought between industrial states, I don't hold out hope for you.
Definitely gonna trust anything NOT Russian.I haven't heard any US Military estimates. Only estimate I've seen is this one:
Deep Dive: The U.S. military program to arm Ukraine with Javelin anti-tank missiles
Get a rare inside look at how the U.S. military armed and trained the Ukrainian military with the Javelin anti-tank missile, which is now wreaking havoc on Russian forces.www.audacy.com
Just estimates on armored vehicles.
So the estimates in this thread so far are between 6% to 93%!
Of course it's being reported in some media as a 93% kill rate of Russian tanks. Who needs context?
More talk on the cages:
1. RPGs are the most common threat based on real world experience
2. 82mm mortars if they hit the top of a tank can ruin its day and this is protection from that. Ordinance from smaller drones as well can be shielded from.
3. Extra stowage
4. Camouflage including thermal masking camouflage can cause an infrared guided ATGM to go for the engine block instead of the crew compartment.
I disagree on it being useless against a tandem Javelin. If the first warhead detonates on the screen, there is a chance it can cause the impact angle to change as well and that can mean the difference between a destroyed tank or a damaged tank or the second and main warhead missing the tank entirely. The Russian have no doubt tested this theory with their own ATGMs.
To those rootin for Putin.......
Best investigate better the side you are backing.
Because it would not do anything.Kinda surprised they didn't try sticking ERA blocks on the slats too; that might have actually had a meaningful effect.
Then again ERA is expensive and I doubt Russia/Putin was willing to waste the money on a slim, marginal gain in survivability.
Really, even if the ERA blocks are on top of the slats?Because it would not do anything.
The metal is to spread out to be effective
Mounting it would be a pain because they would basically be ziptied and stuff. Not mounted how they normally wouldReally, even if the ERA blocks are on top of the slats?
I mean I still think it would have been too expensive for the marginal survivability gain, but those slats look close enough together to mount ERA on.