EU, US getting closer to kicking Russia out of SWIFT:
Germany reverses long-standing policy and sends lethal aid to Ukraine:
Reposting this link from AAZCD-Jon. I don't know the website, but it gives quotes from the Russian side:
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/russo-ukraine-2022-02-25.htm
Reddit has a post showing a video of a Russian BMP and T80 that have run out of gas on a road. A freakin Ukrainian drives up in a car and asks them if they need a ride back to Russia and that they should just surrender like everyone else is. Wow, the balls! Talks to the moral situation in Ukraine though.
Of note, there is a comment by a poster who was a Russian conscript:
unfortunately, I happened to be in the russian army, all we did was: we painted the snow green, made the snowdrifts square and made the beds for 4 hours a day. and most of the conscripts have never even fired a weapon at the shooting range. I wouldn't be surprised that this is the first time they got into a tank
The "snow green" comment is apparently in reference to making things "look" good for visitors, which apparently involves actually painting snow green sometimes to make it look like grass!
As noted previously, the units attacking Kiev are almost certainly the "contractors" or professional military, so a lot better trained and motivated... and they still appear to be holding them!
In reply to aircooled :
I just watched that! To me it's wild that the state of affairs is so easily being broadcast, after living with nearly 2 decades of US wartime not really seeing anything from the civilians on the ground.
There is a video circling that all the TV stations in Russia were hacked and playing Ukrainian songs.
Also many of the Russian websites were down from DDoS attacks. One of the top posts on r/hacking was how to perform one on Russian sites.
I think Putin seriously underestimated how much the Ukrainians would resist and how much it would pass off the rest of the world.
I mean even his formerly strong allies aren't falling in lock step.
aircooled said:Reddit has a post showing a video of a Russian BMP and T80 that have run out of gas on a road. A freakin Ukrainian drives up in a car and asks them if they need a ride back to Russia and that they should just surrender like everyone else is. Wow, the balls! Talks to the moral situation in Ukraine though.
That is the most hilarious thing I have read all week and it is Saturday afternoon!
It also reminds me of what I had read about the Red Army in WWII (sorry, the Great Patriotic War): They had no logistics corps like the US military had and still has, all logistics is internal to the unit. I guess they still have not learned.
Some one pointed out that total Russian military spending is approximately equal to what our increase in military spending was last year.
Aircooled's live map link from about 20 pages back: https://liveuamap.com/
Some live web cams. Mostly nothing going on right now, except for some flashes in the sky.
I can't find it now but a US tank mechanic went into some detail on how to defeat armor in and urban environment. I saw it on Reddit and lower down in the thread someone translated the whole thing into Ukrainian.
More live cams, well... some dead, some live:
Aaron_King said:I can't find it now but a US tank mechanic went into some detail on how to defeat armor in and urban environment. I saw it on Reddit and lower down in the thread someone translated the whole thing into Ukrainian.
I was just reading that a few minutes ago
-Rob
barefootcyborg5000 said:Russian engineering - Strong, like bull; Smart, like tractor.
I may steal this and apply it to other things.
I've used that one to describe myself...more than once!
There is very good to the minute info in Reddit. There are a lot of these posts now which I think is why the Russians are not getting very far. Not exactly battle hardened troops at this point.
93EXCivic said:In reply to 1SlowVW :
IIRC one military operating something with another's colors is a war crime. So if we had US operators flying a drone with Ukrainian colors I believe that would against the Geneva Convention
My coworkers friend is a drone operator, drone could be anywhere in the world. He resides in Alaska.
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akylekoz said:93EXCivic said:In reply to 1SlowVW :
IIRC one military operating something with another's colors is a war crime. So if we had US operators flying a drone with Ukrainian colors I believe that would against the Geneva Convention
My coworkers friend is a drone operator, drone could be anywhere in the world. He resides in Alaska.
I get that but if he was operating a drone as part of the US military and the drone had Ukrainian colors on it, my understanding is that this would be a war crime.
93EXCivic said:akylekoz said:93EXCivic said:In reply to 1SlowVW :
IIRC one military operating something with another's colors is a war crime. So if we had US operators flying a drone with Ukrainian colors I believe that would against the Geneva Convention
My coworkers friend is a drone operator, drone could be anywhere in the world. He resides in Alaska.
I get that but if he was operating a drone as part of the US military and the drone had Ukrainian colors on it, my understanding is that this would be a war crime.
Correct. It is a violation of the Geneva Convention (so a literal war crime) to represent yourself as a different country on the battlefield.
Nothing wrong with operating the drone from Alaska, as long as the drone and operator are both clearly marked USA.
In reply to Stampie :
Sorry but I missed that. Or cut and paste and replace berkley with something else.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
Isn't another function of a molotov coctail against a tank that you can effectively disable the engine cooling system and slightly turn it into an engine heating system causing the engine to overheat to the point of damage?
I was always under the impression the point of Molotov Cocktails is that the engine bay on a tank is full of flammable bits and probably leaking oil/fuel somewhere. A tank with no drivetrain is just a very expensive pillbox...
Modern tanks (M1A1's at least) have fire suppression systems, and the intake is deep enough that its doubtful the fire would get into anything valuable. A molotov isn't going to do much to starve an engine of oxygen.
Barb wire all over the pathways of the tanks will tangle in the tracks and the drive gears. Usually takes minimum of an hour to cut it all out and get the tank mobile again
In reply to Mr_Asa :
At which point a molotov would greatly delay those Russians trying to cut it all out.
Stampie said:In reply to Mr_Asa :
At which point a molotov would greatly delay those Russians trying to cut it all out.
Oh yeah, molotov on people is definitely not the non-starter it is on tanks.
Whats the Pratchett quote? "Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life"
The US/EU just announced a new round of economic penalties, including removing some Russian banks from SWIFT as well as putting restrictions on the Russian Central bank.
Here is some analysis: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/02/26/russia-central-bank-white-house
From browsing social media and twitter, people don't seem to be worried that these steps are being taken against a nuclear power. I'm seeing calls for a no-fly zone as well, which seems ludicrous to me.
Frequency 8990 khz usb is now active in the Kiev region. That is the Russian Air force primary channel. I hope everyone has a bunker to hide in, they are about to get bombed.
73's, KD9AIH
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