Politics

[Ray B]

@Red Leg : the previous destroyed battery is a fine example of the results a "lifers" handywork. I regret having concluded that you were of that class. Please accept my sincere apology.

 

[cpr0312]

 

[CJW]

This is a picture for a respected Opposite Pole. The picture shows the usual torchlight march of the Nazis in Kiev. They carry portraits of Bandera, the head of the Nazi organization UPA, which carried out the genocide of Poles, Jews and others in Western Ukraine. The current UPA does not carry out the genocide of Poles, but is influential in politics and, so to speak, preserves traditions.

So is Putin targeting these individuals, while the dead innocent civilians and military are just unfortunate collateral damage or......?

You seem to avoid these types of questions.

 

[Sabattiboy]

As someone in Alaska... Nope, no thanks.

I saw that with Greiner. It might be that it's being used as a political stunt, but if that really was her stuff and she was caught travelling with it... my level of sympathy is pretty non-existent.

With some of the insanity of our day and times nothing would surprise me to be on the table.
If she is a regular traveler to Russia she knows what is disallowed. No sympathy for that but also do not discount other fingers involved for any american overseas.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t80dri

A longer video of the 122mm howitzer battalion. It reinforces the earlier observations. Though it would appear fewer ammunition trucks escaped. These young soldiers should never have been put into a fight for which they were so badly prepared.

Interesting data point - the 122 mm muzzle brake develops twice the over pressure our designs are allowed to reach. Look at how several of the howitzers almost overlap. I can guarantee you the crew of the forward guns, if they survived, went home with burst eardrums. Yet another example of very poor collective training.

I love reading history and recently read U.S. Grant's memoirs. As with a lot of US Civil War history books, there is an often repeated phrase in the after battle reports of the number of guns (cannons) captured. It appears it is still a meaningful battlefield metric today.

 

[sgt_zim]

Phoenix Sunday newspaper front page. Mercury basketball player arrested in Russia. Seems she plays for a team over there on the off season. This will either be america's pearl harbor or Iran hostage under Carter.
Maybe Putin can get us to bomb Ukraine for them as a gesture of good will over our citizen being arrested a Vape possession drug charge. Oh and give Alaska back.
Maybe they will give her Francis Gary Powers old room.

Griner can rot over there.

 

[Red Leg]

I love reading history and recently read U.S. Grant's memoirs. As with a lot of US Civil War history books, there is an often repeated phrase in the after battle reports of the number of guns (cannons) captured. It appears it is still a meaningful battlefield metric today.

It is the finest military memoir ever written. He decided to do it because he was dying of cancer of the throat and hoped it would provide for his family. He was right, it did, and it has shaped every general’s memoir since.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

This is a picture for a respected Opposite Pole. The picture shows the usual torchlight march of the Nazis in Kiev. They carry portraits of Bandera, the head of the Nazi organization UPA, which carried out the genocide of Poles, Jews and others in Western Ukraine. The current UPA does not carry out the genocide of Poles, but is influential in politics and, so to speak, preserves traditions.

Bandera is a pretty controversial and polarizing figure in Ukraine's history. Probably not a lot different than some of the US Civil War figures that we've seen in recent years having their statues removed. Bandera, from what I've read, was assassinated by the KGB.

 

[rdog]

I love reading history and recently read U.S. Grant's memoirs. As with a lot of US Civil War history books, there is an often repeated phrase in the after battle reports of the number of guns (cannons) captured. It appears it is still a meaningful battlefield metric today.

What destroyed the arty unit?

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

It is the finest military memoir ever written. He decided to do it because he was dying of cancer of the throat and hoped it would provide for his family. He was right, it did, and it has shaped every general’s memoir since.

It was a great read but it didn't have a single map in it. I frequently went to my computer and opened a map and zoomed it to an area so that I could better visualize the left and right of the battle front.

I plan to read Sherman's memoirs soon, which I think was published before Grant's. The Union was indeed fortunate that these two generals worked so well together, when it was so common for egos and date of rank to cause problems for many of the others.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

What destroyed the arty unit?

I'm not sure I understand your question @rdog

 

[Vashper]

So is Putin targeting these individuals, while the dead innocent civilians and military are just unfortunate collateral damage or......?

You seem to avoid these types of questions.

I'm sorry, but I'm not a lawyer or a press secretary, and I don't know the hidden causes of this war, but only report facts that are significant for our public opinion and, perhaps, are less known in other places. Yes, civilians and soldiers suffer in the war, who find themselves under fire through no fault of their own, but that's how every war works. I do not know which country you come from, but I think your country also started wars or participated in them. Such Nazi groups do not just exist in Ukraine, but they carried out a coup d'etat in 2014 and then were transformed into special armed forces.
I will readily answer questions, but I will ask you not to ask rhetorical questions. The military of any army, in fact, do not shoot purposefully at civilians, because this does not give military advantages. Although the military propaganda of the opposing side always accuses exactly this, this is the law of war.

 

[Red Leg]

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It was a great read but it didn't have a single map in it. I frequently went to my computer and opened a map and zoomed it to an area so that I could better visualize the left and right of the battle front.

I plan to read Sherman's memoirs soon, which I think was published before Grant's. The Union was indeed fortunate that these two generals worked so well together, when it was so common for egos and date of rank to cause problems for many of the others.

It is the second best - or at least competes for it. And yes, the damn Yankees were very fortunate indeed.

 

[wesheltonj]

Adjustable Bogie (truck) will negate any train gauge problem.

 

[Red Leg]

I'm sorry, but I'm not a lawyer or a press secretary, and I don't know the hidden causes of this war, but only report facts that are significant for our public opinion and, perhaps, are less known in other places. Yes, civilians and soldiers suffer in the war, who find themselves under fire through no fault of their own, but that's how every war works. I do not know which country you come from, but I think your country also started wars or participated in them. Such Nazi groups do not just exist in Ukraine, but they carried out a coup d'etat in 2014 and then were transformed into special armed forces.
I will readily answer questions, but I will ask you not to ask rhetorical questions. The military of any army, in fact, do not shoot purposefully at civilians, because this does not give military advantages. Although the military propaganda of the opposing side always accuses exactly this, this is the law of war.

I truly appreciate your participation. If for no other reason old soldiers need to dialogue. But you are stretching the limits of your own credibility in trying to square this circle.

Whether you wish to admit it or not, your leader is a dictator. Whether you wish to admit or not, he has made your great nation a pariah among the vast majority of the nations of the world. Whether you wish to admit it or not, he has attempted to make strategic alliance with a nation that could care less if you devolve into the middle ages. Whether you wish to admit it or not, you are attempting to rationalize the murder of the very people you claim an uniquely enlightened Russian government is trying to rescue from fascism.

I honestly feel badly for you. Loyal men and women who love their country, and have served in its armed forces, should not be put in the position to deny what their own eyes and common sense may be telling them. It just sickens me that more and more women and children, who simply wish to live under their own flag and chart their own future, will have to die at the hands of a man vainly attempting to turn back the hands of time. If those 40 million people refuse to submit, Russia will eventually lose this contest. What then becomes of your country?

Indeed, all nations have done bad things. All have made miscalculations that have cost treasure and blood. None of those mistakes justify what everyone outside of Russia is seeing on their screens every minute of every day.

 

[Vashper]

Bandera is a pretty controversial and polarizing figure in Ukraine's history. Probably not a lot different than some of the US Civil War figures that we've seen in recent years having their statues removed. Bandera, from what I've read, was assassinated by the KGB.

Bandera was killed in Munich, in the 50s, by a man who soon found himself in the West and claimed that he was a KGB agent. Maybe he was a KGB agent, and maybe not. Bandera had many enemies, including among the nationalists.
Bandera's name has become a household name for extreme Ukrainian nationalists guilty of genocide of Poles and Jews. Nevertheless, Poland and some Jews support modern Ukrainian nationalists, surprisingly enough. By the way, Bush Sr warned Ukrainians about the danger of "suicidal nationalism" in a famous speech in 1991.

 

[Red Leg]

What destroyed the arty unit?

Counterfire. If a modern counter battery radar is looking in the direction that an artillery unit fires, it picks up the trajectory of the shells in flight and computes a location, with US equipment at least, within a meter or two of the firing location. In the US Army the counter battery strike is fired before the enemy's first salvo strikes its target. The Russians, and thus Ukrainians, typically use multiple launch rocket systems for such counterfire (as do we). A counterfire battery can typically cover a grid square (1000 meters x 1000 meters) with that barrage. The results can be catastrophic as were these.

During the Gulf War, the brigade for which I was the operations officer, was the primary counterfire headquarters for 1 ID and then 3 AD. We engaged 25 to 30 Iraqi artillery units attempting to fire on the VII Corps advance. Not one of them fired a second salvo.

 

[PARA45]

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Bandera was killed in Munich, in the 50s, by a man who soon found himself in the West and claimed that he was a KGB agent. Maybe he was a KGB agent, and maybe not. Bandera had many enemies, including among the nationalists.
Bandera's name has become a household name for extreme Ukrainian nationalists guilty of genocide of Poles and Jews. Nevertheless, Poland and some Jews support modern Ukrainian nationalists, surprisingly enough. By the way, Bush Sr warned Ukrainians about the danger of "suicidal nationalism" in a famous speech in 1991.

In an interview with Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda in 2005, former KGB Chief Vladimir Kryuchkov claimed that "the murder of Stepan Bandera was one of the last cases when the KGB disposed of undesired people by means of violence."

 

[rdog]

Counterfire. If a modern counter battery radar is looking in the direction that an artillery unit fires, it picks up the trajectory of the shells in flight and computes a location, with US equipment at least, within a meter or two of the firing location. In the US Army the counter battery strike is fired before the enemy's first salvo strikes its target. The Russians, and thus Ukrainians, typically use multiple launch rocket systems for such counterfire (as do we). A counterfire battery can typically cover a grid square (1000 meters x 1000 meters) with that barrage. The results can be catastrophic as were these.

During the Gulf War, the brigade for which I was the operations officer, was the primary counterfire headquarters for 1 ID and then 3 AD. We engaged 25 to 30 Iraqi artillery units attempting to fire on the VII Corps advance. Not one of them fired a second salvo.

Thank you, in my day we used the old 105 M2A 2 with Mortar locating radar that did not work all that well in bad weather.