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It’s also a suitable Ad Hoc anti air system. You won’t hit anything fast or high with it, but against Low slow flyers like helicopters or drones it’s been remarkably effective as a tool. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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It’s not. Russians redesigned a whole lot of their ground doctrine following Chechnya. https://www.armyupress.army.mil/portals/7/hot%20spots/documents/russia/2017-07-the-russian-way-of-war-grau-bartles.pdf https://info.publicintelligence.net/AWG-RussianNewWarfareHandbook.pdf https://info.publicintelligence.net/AWG-RussianNewWarfareHandbook.pdf That’s Low side. There is other stuff out there…. There is a lot of wide area discussion but essentially it focuses on the move to Battalion Task Group models (BTG). Actual Table of Equipment though is all over the place dependent on type of units. Main tank rule is Battalion structure. They don’t intermix tanks below Brigade level so a battalion is going to be structured around a particular model (72, 80, 90). Brigades may have Battalions with different types (like a single 80 and 2x 72s). Within that individual Battalion you have 3 or 4 company models (10 MBTs per company with 1 for the Battalion Commander) based off what kind of parent brigade/division it’s intended to fall under. Tank Brigade/Division will usually prioritize 4 Troop tank Battalions (41 total tanks) to Infantry brigades so they can provide a Troop to each infantry Battalion with a single Troop in force reserve. Which brings me to my main point….. Send More Javelins! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I just gotta make the connection with your post and the meme that just started up on social media… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There is nothing about the VDV (Airborne) of their 1st Guards guys that got hammered which would qualify as anything resembling a Penal Battalion. The Russians losing an AN-26 and IL-76 alone would cut a pretty deep swath across some formations that they cannot readily replicate. Same as burning T-80s being seen in social media feeds. I’m noticing a lot more of these convoys with problems that to the laymen would be easily missed. Non prime movers with tow bars attached to other trucks, Diesel engined trucks/tracks with smoke colors that should cause alarm just hammering in down the road until they catch fire somewhere later. When you see a whole Mech convoy in what is not your rear area being filmed by somebody with absolutely no sign of any kind of set security or flank guard. Why on earth in a line of tanks at a tactical pause are you sitting turrets all facing forward, or have dismounts pushed out watching your vulnerable fixed force… that says a lot about the mindset of how they thought this was gonna go. It also explains why the Ukrainian military is having such luck with complex ambushes against these elements. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A whole lot of “Peace Keepers” getting ready to learn what every military professional with experience in it will tell you…. don’t fight in cities unless you absolutely have to. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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Not just no but hell no… Let’s go fly around an active conflict as a nonparticipating/quasi referee… one where coordination with either sides air defense is questionable at best, no form of distributed ACO/IFF exists… Basically hope that any Ukrainian with a Stinger or SA-11 can tell the difference between our aircraft and the bad guys. We’ve shot our own airplanes down when we did have TAGS/AGS working…. F all that Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

We also have image intensification and FLIR in way more abundance than they do. Conversely the Russians equip small ground units with ECM and Radar equipment. It does however give me some hope in a LSCO type scenario that one of the two Big Bad’s has demonstrated little in the ability to maneuver in the dark. Conduct fire support operations sure, but if there is an entire portion of the day that they find themselves readily fixed in their combat cycle, that’s a huge advantage to us who can conduct maneuver in the dark. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Buys no drinks at any bar full of pilots…. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Drinks on me for the boys that did this…. Great work guys, keep them coming. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Agree on Germany for USAA. It worked well there, but I’ve got friends in other countries that had issues when they needed them. I wouldn’t call those issues specific to them, more they held no advantage where in Germany they seemed to do very well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Well after all it is the same Brigade and Command Structure that was tossed into the ring for he last foreign policy disaster. They’ve got experience in this sort of thing now. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Time the start of active combat with the end of the Olympics. Realize it takes advantage of the short attention spans and selfish nature of world media. Buys them extra hours to make gains before the general mob of people even realize it’s happening. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I’m just gonna say it…. If we get involved in this war it’s going to cost a lot more marriages than the last two…. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

@Mods Why is “this” still here? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well freezing their bank accounts, locking them off from any outside financial support… simultaneously not allowing them to gain or go in any form of government assistance…. While still having bills to pay and mouths to feed. Promise them to turn it all off if they “simply stop protesting.” Yeah that would do it. Funny because I’ve seen plenty of hyper liberal slanted people get all sorts of offended when conservatives suggest turning off welfare checks for anybody caught protesting/rioting. It’s the same kind of forcible way to stop an action. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Well in fairness… Some idiots equate a Confederate flag and a Nazi flag as the same thing… Hammer and Sickle though that’s cool. It goes with my Che shirt… Stamp out hate, with jackboots and a firing squad. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I mean sure, but some of us are old enough to remember when the Air Force said auto land for a Predator was impossible and the Navy said there is no way you could safely bring a drone aboard a carrier. It’s gonna take effort no doubt. Meanwhile we are busy trying to figure out what will be best to drop bombs in Toyotas with. The bigger thing is as bad AI and drone autonomy may mess up now… the pink component in the jet trying to dodge/duck/dip/dive umpteen threats while dealing with weather, worrying about fuel, where the hell is my wingman, What was that last radio call, and put steel in target…. It won’t do any better. There is only so much that bio organic computer in the cockpit can process it doesn’t matter how optimized the displays are. We are a few years out from seeing real wide scale tactical level fielding of directed energy weapons and dealing with an enemy that enjoys precision and depth in targeting that used to be our sole domain who is actively embracing AI augmentation in its targeting/decision cycle… Start spending and researching now so in 6-9 years when the bill comes due we can send the robots. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Dude you don’t get it. The media will paint whatever narrative they want despite what visual aids are available. Downtown cities torn up, burned up, looted. Police presence deployed in riot kit actively having to deal with violence… oh we can call that anything but riots. Mostly peaceful protests, yeah that works… Bunch of pictures of rednecks in semis with no real examples of damage or violence by any of the group… label those bastards as extremists. They are telling us we are stupid and we have to believe what they tell us because we can’t figure out for ourselves. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You should. The unbridled white washing of any group deemed undesirable by the so called 4th estate should terrify anybody. You could readily be called a terrorist or threat to National security simply because whoever the hell “they” are at the time decide you are one. We’ve got a long history of that on both political parties. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That’s where local AI backup and autonomy would kick in… There is a spectrum of autonomy between remote control drones that go stupid and only do what they are preprogrammed to do and the autonomous metal killing machines herding mankind into camps once we turn SkyNet on… If we want to compete with the ever shortening collection/decision/coordination/action sequence of events any next war will be fought in we are going to need to get comfortable with the idea of the machines making a lot of their own decisions. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Jesus Christ… Dude you’ve got political leaders and people representing the media using inflammatory terms like extremists, terrorists, anti-government, talking about threats of violence, etc… Show us one overturned cop car or burned out building as the result of this protest. Anybody smart enough can see just how easily and readily the media narrative will paint your actions to suit its ideology. Half a downtown neighborhood is on fire and looted = “mostly peaceful protests.” An bunch of truckers park rigs on a bridge and wave flags and signs = “right wing extremist science deniers.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Anybody trying to use this as some sort of example of inept actions or unsuitable conditions for invasion have never worked with tanks. Go to any field problem any time of year at any US Army installation with tanks… you’ll find them stuck in shit you can’t imagine. Nothing gets stuck like a tank. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk