Jump to content

World War III Updates

gearhog

By gearhog
in General Discussion

 Share

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 867
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Popular Posts

Inertia17
Inertia17

Isn't it amazing what can be accomplished when everyone isn't so worried about not offending people, and risk aversion instead caring more about killing bad guys and breaking their shit? What if...

Boomer6
Boomer6

Didn't realize Iran was employing balloons.

Skitzo
Skitzo

Me laughing at Hezbollah getting their stuff blown off with explosives in pagers while reading this on an iPhone produced in China. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Posted Images

Stoker Flight Lead

Stoker

Posted
Posted
On 11/1/2024 at 11:05 AM, Lawman said:


They are celebrating a “win” that has them 10k square miles short of taking the Donbas much less anything worth while.

Positional warfare at its finest.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

They started the war with the goal of taking Kiev in three days, and are now celebrating taking Random Tiny Village #47 like they just captured Berlin. And all it cost them was their future.

  • Upvote 1
Lawman Gray Beard

Lawman

Posted
Posted
They started the war with the goal of taking Kiev in three days, and are now celebrating taking Random Tiny Village #47 like they just captured Berlin. And all it cost them was their future.

It’s really too bad that with all the existing war stocks that we could give up to the Uke’s to fight, the one capacity that they could use (engineering) is one of those mission sets that just doesn’t have a depth in anybody’s inventory to hand over en mass.

They are finally figuring out effective maneuver doctrine and practice, but with only so much capability to conduct a penetration (sts) and breakout they can’t get the full mileage out of that ability.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
uhhello Gray Beard

uhhello

Posted
Posted

Lots of chatter on twitter directly from UKR defense leaders on their inability to re-fill units through conscription.  Lots of very degraded manpower strength units that suffer from AWOL/conscriptions not showing up.  Time is ripe for a settlement.  UKR won't like it but it's inevitable unless we take all the handcuffs off.  I saw Biden removed the 'no US contractors in UKR' restriction yesterday.  

busdriver Gray Beard

busdriver

Posted
Posted
2 hours ago, uhhello said:

Lots of chatter on twitter directly from UKR defense leaders on their inability to re-fill units through conscription. 

Are they still at 25 year old to get drafted?

uhhello Gray Beard

uhhello

Posted
Posted
50 minutes ago, busdriver said:

Are they still at 25 year old to get drafted?

Still at 25 from what I can see.  They lowered it from 27 to 25 back in the spring.  

busdriver Gray Beard

busdriver

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, uhhello said:

Still at 25 from what I can see.  They lowered it from 27 to 25 back in the spring.  

I saw that, I'm inclined to think we'll know they're really hurting when they drop the age again.

ClearedHot Gray Beard

ClearedHot

Posted
Posted

The election is dominating the news cycle but the think tanks and watchers are shooting up red flares.  Highly recommend the Institute for the Study of War, they have a daily summary daily summary that is very detailed.  Also, get outside of the U.S. based news agencies, some of the sites based int he Middle East have excellent reporting.  A couple of key indicators:

- Iran observed moving more missiles into launch position.  (Open source reporting)

- Intel reports Iran plan to use some of their better capabilities (different missiles and bigger warheads), this time.  (Wall Street Journal

- 12 F-15Es did a hasty deployment to Jordan two days ago. US F-15 Strike Eagle fighter jets en route to Middle East ahead of possible Iranian retaliatory attack on Israel: report   (New York Post)

- RC-135 Rivet Joint arrived in Jordan 12 hours ago. (OSINT Defender)

- Iraq is now a center of gravity as Qatar tells Hamas to move HQ out of Qatar. (ISOW)

- Hezbollah ramping attacks as well, used a Fateh-110 ballistic missile for the first time. (Open source).

- Iran said planning to use more powerful weapons in next attack on Israel (Axios)

- Iran’s IRGC plans ‘complex’ retaliation to Israel: What we know (AL Monitor)

There are several X pages that do an incredible job (almost too good), of collecting and collating open source information and presented it with context.

  • Like 2
  • Upvote 1
uhhello Gray Beard

uhhello

Posted
Posted
5 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

The election is dominating the news cycle but the think tanks and watchers are shooting up red flares.  Highly recommend the Institute for the Study of War, they have a daily summary daily summary that is very detailed.  Also, get outside of the U.S. based news agencies, some of the sites based int he Middle East have excellent reporting.  A couple of key indicators:

- Iran observed moving more missiles into launch position.  (Open source reporting)

- Intel reports Iran plan to use some of their better capabilities (different missiles and bigger warheads), this time.  (Wall Street Journal

- 12 F-15Es did a hasty deployment to Jordan two days ago. US F-15 Strike Eagle fighter jets en route to Middle East ahead of possible Iranian retaliatory attack on Israel: report   (New York Post)

- RC-135 Rivet Joint arrived in Jordan 12 hours ago. (OSINT Defender)

- Iraq is now a center of gravity as Qatar tells Hamas to move HQ out of Qatar. (ISOW)

- Hezbollah ramping attacks as well, used a Fateh-110 ballistic missile for the first time. (Open source).

- Iran said planning to use more powerful weapons in next attack on Israel (Axios)

- Iran’s IRGC plans ‘complex’ retaliation to Israel: What we know (AL Monitor)

There are several X pages that do an incredible job (almost too good), of collecting and collating open source information and presented it with context.

I don't even bother with "news" sources anymore.  They are always about 6-12 hours behind anything.  The more reliable OSINT twitter pages are pretty fucking good.  They will frequently self-correct quickly if they get out ahead of something.  

  • Upvote 3
  • 3 weeks later...
  • 4 months later...
SurelySerious Gray Beard

SurelySerious

Posted
Posted


Just in case World War III wasn’t big enough, yet. We’ll just bait the Iranians into shooting some ballistic missiles at DG. Kudos to the 6-9 B-2s reference, though.
Biff_T Gray Beard

Biff_T

Posted
Posted

I've probably drank over a 1,000 beers at DG.   Good place to spend a few days.     

  • Upvote 1
McJay Pilot Flight Lead

McJay Pilot

Posted
Posted
8 hours ago, Biff_T said:

I've probably drank over a 1,000 beers at DG.   Good place to spend a few days.     

And that was just one TDY. Fucking. Legend.

  • Like 1
  • Haha 2
Biff_T Gray Beard

Biff_T

Posted
Posted (edited)
14 hours ago, McJay Pilot said:

And that was just one TDY. Fucking. Legend.

I tried my hardest.  DG can be a real good time!  

Edited by Biff_T
Words are hard

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing
×
×
  • Create New...