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The Combat 75 Military Surplus Thread. Past, present and future.

spitfire said:
German bombs not welcome here.

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Excellent navigation waypoints though, that's what the number is for... The Neutrality thing has always been a bit threadbare - overflight rights, weather forecasts, navigation support, a good breakfast and a lift to the border for crashed aircrew, joint planning, a bit of SIGINT..
 
kebabking said:
Excellent navigation waypoints though, that's what the number is for... The Neutrality thing has always been a bit threadbare - overflight rights, weather forecasts, navigation support, a good breakfast and a lift to the border for crashed aircrew, joint planning, a bit of SIGINT..
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Spot on, we weren't a complete washout in the war as some may say. Dev was a cunt and the treatment of Irish WW2 veterans was abysmal but things were done to help as you describe.

To be fair we'd had our fair share of death and destruction in the years 1916 - 1922 so another war was probably more than the state, and more importantly, the people could take.
 
The Ukrainian war has got me thinking about main battle tanks. As far as a conflict between two modern armies is concerned, are tanks on their way out?

I am sure Russia’s T90s, not to mention T72s, are inferior to their Western counterparts, but antitank weapons are relatively cheap and far more numerous. If a Javelin or its Swedish equivalent are capable of at least disabling any main battle tank, missiles that most developed countries would have in their thousands, tanks increasingly look to me to be useful for little more than urban warfare against guerrillas.
 
Nah, tanks are no more on their way out than aircraft are on their way out because of SAM's.

The problem the Russians have is that they can't do Combined Arms operations - CA is a system of interlocking capabilities that mitigate each components vunerabilities, but they are lobbing tanks without artillery or infantry support into a nest of ATGW and are surprised when they get slaughtered.

So artillery should be making it difficult for dismounted missile teams, infantry (from infantry fighting vehicles) should be closing and destroying them, tanks should be providing fire support, killing their vehicles and cutting them off through manouver - but they are doing one at a time to almost no effect.

If they had spent the last ten years training their people to work as a single combat arm, and doing effective exercises - in the way Russian doctrine says they should - they'd have surrounded Kyiv in 3 days. But they didn't, they pissed it up the wall in corruption, unrealistic exercises that looked good for the cameras, and cheap training so they could by shiny stuff that looked impressive driving through Red Square, but that no one knew how to use...
 
T & P said:
The Ukrainian war has got me thinking about main battle tanks. As far as a conflict between two modern armies is concerned, are tanks on their way out?

I am sure Russia’s T90s, not to mention T72s, are inferior to their Western counterparts, but antitank weapons are relatively cheap and far more numerous. If a Javelin or its Swedish equivalent are capable of at least disabling any main battle tank, missiles that most developed countries would have in their thousands, tanks increasingly look to me to be useful for little more than urban warfare against guerrillas.
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I am no expert, and I'm sure one will be along in a minute, but if you have enough infantry out around your tanks, and talking to them I think it would be a lot harder for the other sides infantry to get close enough and uninterrupted enough to use those missiles quite so easily.

ETA kebabking actually was along in far less than a minute as he posted before me and actually knows what he is talking about...
 
T & P said:
The Ukrainian war has got me thinking about main battle tanks. As far as a conflict between two modern armies is concerned, are tanks on their way out?

I am sure Russia’s T90s, not to mention T72s, are inferior to their Western counterparts, but antitank weapons are relatively cheap and far more numerous. If a Javelin or its Swedish equivalent are capable of at least disabling any main battle tank, missiles that most developed countries would have in their thousands, tanks increasingly look to me to be useful for little more than urban warfare against guerrillas.
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To add to what's already been said about a combined arms approach being the only sensible way to operate...

The infantry/tank scale wobbles back and forth over time. Right this second, it's skewed towards infantry which doesn't help the Russians when they behave stupidly. The Israelis and the Americans already have operational systems that do a good job of defending armour from these sorts of attacks, and as that passes down the food chain you can expect the balance to swing back towards tanks until the next development comes along.

That being said, the bottom line is that tanks are almost impenetrable from the front. If you've deployed them in such a way that allows them to be shot at from the sides and back, you've done it wrong. The current bunch of infantry held AT weapons are viciously lethal used in such a way, but if you've done it right then the only real threat is pop-up weapons that shoot into the roof of the tanks.
 
It's deeply silly - even myopic septics have heard of the Victoria Cross and how rare it is - he'd have been far better off just bluffing an MC or just tours and probably have just made steady money on the speaking circuit without attracting the attention of the Walt-Finder General...

Tosser. And that fucking suit is unforgivable.
 
StoneRoad said:
Well, he got "busted" for that rack.

Pity "stolen valour" isn't an offence [criminal] that carries a suitable penalty ...

{How about helping with labouring - ie digging the holes to find the bodies - for the war crimes investigations ?}
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Squaddies get an extra per diem for that.
 
StoneRoad said:
Well, he got "busted" for that rack.

Pity "stolen valour" isn't an offence [criminal] that carries a suitable penalty ...

{How about helping with labouring - ie digging the holes to find the bodies - for the war crimes investigations ?}
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If people are stupid enough to believe that row of gongs and are genuinely impressed, then more fool them. Criminalising bullshitting discussion about my 15 years in the SAS (I don't like to talk about it though) would much reduce the entertainment value.

For all we know he served in the Catering Corp and is suffering from PTSD after seeing too many turkey twizlers :(
 
spitfire said:
Extreme WALTing.

If you're gonna do it you may as well go all in...



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If you liked this^^

They have done a kind of ‘Best of the Walt’s’ as a result of the publicity around this chap. If you haven’t seen it:

thewaltercumpershunterclub.wordpress.com

The Walter Mitty Hunters club HQ Collection of the best walts, Bloaters and all around Rotters, bounders and cads.

Since our last high profile exposure and media interest of Baz Porter we have been ask to publish a ‘ Rogues Gallery’ of some of our past exposures and as the list is stretching back a few years th…
thewaltercumpershunterclub.wordpress.com thewaltercumpershunterclub.wordpress.com
 
A380 said:
If you liked this^^

They have done a kind of ‘Best of the Walt’s’ as a result of the publicity around this chap. If you haven’t seen it:

thewaltercumpershunterclub.wordpress.com

The Walter Mitty Hunters club HQ Collection of the best walts, Bloaters and all around Rotters, bounders and cads.

Since our last high profile exposure and media interest of Baz Porter we have been ask to publish a ‘ Rogues Gallery’ of some of our past exposures and as the list is stretching back a few years th…
thewaltercumpershunterclub.wordpress.com thewaltercumpershunterclub.wordpress.com
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In my experience the hunters are every bit as fucking deranged as the hunted

Keep clear of all of them
 
CV-22 vertreps USS Georgia.

FRRgrWVXsAMapsg
 
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