fire4effect Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 7 minutes ago, brabus said: Those lasers gave me a Wed morning headache, on a TDY of all things. Inconsiderate bastards. Russians have been inflicting headaches for years with their Vodka 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearedHot Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 26 minutes ago, fire4effect said: Russians have been inflicting headaches for years with their Vodka So you've been to K2... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearedHot Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 US Secretary of State Blinken says Ukraine will be NATO member Digging out my old Flights suits... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danger41 Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 This thing is really confusing me. I don't doubt that these people are all getting seriously fucked up. But the official position has been crickets and natural causes? WTF is the actual answer on this crap. Or is this the next generation in upping your disability rating? I'm personally going the Navy Chief route and gaining 250 pounds, getting sleep apnea from morbid obesity, and earning my 100% disability but this is creative. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clark Griswold Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 2 hours ago, ClearedHot said: US Secretary of State Blinken says Ukraine will be NATO member Digging out my old Flights suits... I doubt the civilians at the top are thinking this way but we knew how fast we could be taken down in the 80s if the Ruskies were willing to risk destroying the world and we were naively wishing for peace or in this case poking the bear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirkDiggler Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 1 hour ago, Danger41 said: This thing is really confusing me. I don't doubt that these people are all getting seriously fucked up. But the official position has been crickets and natural causes? WTF is the actual answer on this crap. Or is this the next generation in upping your disability rating? I'm personally going the Navy Chief route and gaining 250 pounds, getting sleep apnea from morbid obesity, and earning my 100% disability but this is creative. Highly recommend getting in the SCIF for additional information on this, there’s multiple reasons you’ve heard very little open source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirkDiggler Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 Probably belongs in the WTF thread… https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/04/04/former-air-national-guardsman-facing-child-porn-charges-may-have-defected-russian-military.html?amp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaputt Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 12 hours ago, DirkDiggler said: Probably belongs in the WTF thread… https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/04/04/former-air-national-guardsman-facing-child-porn-charges-may-have-defected-russian-military.html?amp What’s in the water in New England? Homeboy that leaked TS to his gamer friends, fire man, hunger strike guy, and now this clown are all from there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gearhog Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 Wait a sec. WTF? Kurt Campbell, US Deputy Secretary of State says Russia has completely reconstituted its military. We spend over a hundred billion dollars to weaken the Russian military, and this dude says it has had no effect. Starts at 29:50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biff_T Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 14 hours ago, DirkDiggler said: Probably belongs in the WTF thread… https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/04/04/former-air-national-guardsman-facing-child-porn-charges-may-have-defected-russian-military.html?amp Good. Hope he ends up on the wrong end of a $75 drone (with a hand grenade taped to it). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uhhello Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 1 hour ago, gearhog said: Wait a sec. WTF? Kurt Campbell, US Deputy Secretary of State says Russia has completely reconstituted its military. We spend over a hundred billion dollars to weaken the Russian military, and this dude says it has had no effect. Starts at 29:50 Needs a big more in depth review. Lots of twitter feeds showing the 'reconstitution' involves bottom of the barrel conscripts and mechanized units turned in to rifle units. A lot of the mechanized units are being backfilled not with armor but with light utility vehicles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gearhog Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 56 minutes ago, uhhello said: Needs a big more in depth review. Lots of twitter feeds showing the 'reconstitution' involves bottom of the barrel conscripts and mechanized units turned in to rifle units. A lot of the mechanized units are being backfilled not with armor but with light utility vehicles. Good point. DoS officials should be checking with the Twitter Feed Verification Department before making such wild claims. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FourFans Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 On 4/4/2024 at 1:23 PM, DirkDiggler said: Highly recommend getting in the SCIF for additional information on this, there’s multiple reasons you’ve heard very little open source. Dammit. I retired last year! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ratner Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 4 hours ago, gearhog said: Wait a sec. WTF? Kurt Campbell, US Deputy Secretary of State says Russia has completely reconstituted its military. We spend over a hundred billion dollars to weaken the Russian military, and this dude says it has had no effect. Starts at 29:50 If something is too sensational to be true, it's probably not true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawman Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 If something is too sensational to be true, it's probably not true. State is probably also not the department of government I’d go looking for in depth intelligence on understanding combat power. Be like asking the TSA how to do counter intelligence ops.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danger41 Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 1 hour ago, Lawman said: State is probably also not the department of government I’d go looking for in depth intelligence on understanding combat power. Be like asking the TSA how to do counter intelligence ops. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I'd say alot of things TSA does are counter to intelligence. 7 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uhhello Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 (edited) 5 hours ago, gearhog said: Good point. DoS officials should be checking with the Twitter Feed Verification Department before making such wild claims. Hah. Sure. It's pretty heavily documented by open source imagery. Where do you think they are magically getting all this modern equipment? There couldn't possibly be any motive for saying Russia is at the same state they were pre-war? Edited April 6 by uhhello Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirkDiggler Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 6 hours ago, Biff_T said: Good. Hope he ends up on the wrong end of a $75 drone (with a hand grenade taped to it). Agreed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirkDiggler Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 9 hours ago, kaputt said: What’s in the water in New England? Homeboy that leaked TS to his gamer friends, fire man, hunger strike guy, and now this clown are all from there. It’s real strange, that’s for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawman Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 Hah. Sure. It's pretty heavily documented by open source imagery. Where do you think they are magically getting all this modern equipment? There couldn't possibly be any motive for saying Russia is at the same state they were pre-war? https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/04/14/russia-sent-70-year-old-t-55-tanks-to-ukraine-without-even-upgrading-them/?sh=41432a5534d2Surely the only reason they would be doing crap like this is they want to do it… It wouldn’t possibly demonstrate they are consuming their best equipment faster than they can replace it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ClearedHot Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 Kiev claiming they shot down a TU-22M3, Russia says it was mechanical failure. Regradless, they have taken some big losses on the air side. Ukraine did heavily damage another TU-22M3 in a drone strike (bottom picture - note the used tire revetment). That is a big hunk of aluminum falling down. for-the-first-time-the-anti-aircraft-missile-units-of-the-air-force-in-cooperation-with-the-main-directorate-of-intelligence-of-ukraine-destroyed-the-tu-22m3-long-range-strategic-bomber-the-carrier-of-kh-22-cruise-mi.mp4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BashiChuni Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 i'm seeing a familiar trend of the west focusing on small tactical victories and missing the major strategic loss. great they shot down a bomber. but that won't prevent them from losing the war. it's amazing that such professionally educated officers can't grasp ukraine is losing. badly. and they have zero chance of beating russia. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ratner Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 1 hour ago, BashiChuni said: i'm seeing a familiar trend of the west focusing on small tactical victories and missing the major strategic loss. great they shot down a bomber. but that won't prevent them from losing the war. it's amazing that such professionally educated officers can't grasp ukraine is losing. badly. and they have zero chance of beating russia. This is an ironic thing to say considering they have been starved of the weaponry required to fight. If I were a bit more cynical I would say you are being intentionally disingenuous. We shouldn't be sending them money or weapons! *We stop sending them money and weapons.* See!? They are losing, so there's no point in sending the money or weaponry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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