not-bono-ever
meh
That reminds me of long bus journeys in Yugoslavia back in the day. It made things more bearable.Laški Rizling
ETA also sleeping in a field next to the Hungarian border in a hot October waiting for our entry visas to be valid
That reminds me of long bus journeys in Yugoslavia back in the day. It made things more bearable.Laški Rizling
yeh. but those states, in particular the baltic states and poland, paid rather a high price for being buffer states don't you think?
there were good reasons not to walk away from iraq and afghanistan too.Yes, but my point was unlike Iraq and Afghanistan there's a good reason not to walk away. So they don't end up as "buffer states" for Putin Russia.
It's something that's actually possible, unlike at the end of WW2.
It's been announced by the PM and MOD.
The training isn't a real problem: it's a tank, it's got levers to make it turn, and a big gun you point at stuff.
The problems are going to be around logistics and support. Stuff like spares, recovery vehicles (boring stuff like the size of tow hitches), ammunition, fuel, the spanner for fixing tracks, and about a billion other things that aren't very exciting, but will stop an armoured advance quicker than you can say Javelin.
Also, bridges. Western main battle tanks are much heavier that Soviet/Russian MBT's, 20+ tons heavier...
Chally 2 holds the world record for a tank kill. 5km. You'll not find a Russian tank that can put accurately putrounds out to half that. The only chally that's ever been destroyed was by another Challenger in a friendly fire accident.
And it's got a kettle.
there was an article on the guardian website about this that i saw, and they seemed to think the 20 tonne weight thing would be important on other infrastructure apart from bridges. i suppose it's one thing to roar across the fulda gap in a challenger and another to go across country in the rather boggier ukraineIt's been announced by the PM and MOD.
The training isn't a real problem: it's a tank, it's got levers to make it turn, and a big gun you point at stuff.
The problems are going to be around logistics and support. Stuff like spares, recovery vehicles (boring stuff like the size of tow hitches), ammunition, fuel, the spanner for fixing tracks, and about a billion other things that aren't very exciting, but will stop an armoured advance quicker than you can say Javelin.
Also, bridges. Western main battle tanks are much heavier that Soviet/Russian MBT's, 20+ tons heavier...
Chally 2 holds the world record for a tank kill. 5km. You'll not find a Russian tank that can put accurately putrounds out to half that. The only chally that's ever been destroyed was by another Challenger in a friendly fire accident.
And it's got a kettle.
Russians are saying will lead to more civilian deaths.It's been announced by the PM and MOD.
The training isn't a real problem: it's a tank, it's got levers to make it turn, and a big gun you point at stuff.
The problems are going to be around logistics and support. Stuff like spares, recovery vehicles (boring stuff like the size of tow hitches), ammunition, fuel, the spanner for fixing tracks, and about a billion other things that aren't very exciting, but will stop an armoured advance quicker than you can say Javelin.
Also, bridges. Western main battle tanks are much heavier that Soviet/Russian MBT's, 20+ tons heavier...
Chally 2 holds the world record for a tank kill. 5km. You'll not find a Russian tank that can put accurately putrounds out to half that. The only chally that's ever been destroyed was by another Challenger in a friendly fire accident.
And it's got a kettle.
putting milk in tea - whether before or after the hot water - is an abominationRussians are saying will lead to more civilian deaths.
Which is fair enough given their experience...They sent a load of tanks into Ukraine and quite a lot of innocent civilians died.
Agree training shouldn't be problem. Eastern Europeans never put milk in before the hot water
Didn't know the SA80 had a bottle opener?Nah, designed on from ground up.
They only put the gun on once they'd got the important stuff sorted...
A truly British tankAnd it's got a kettle.
Very busy people
It’ll have a slushy machine probs.The Abrams probably has a microwave
Which is the better gun? the rifled Challenger II one or the smoothbore one of our allies?
It's a BV, if you don't mind. Otherwise, how can someone charge £100,000 to specify it?It's been announced by the PM and MOD.
The training isn't a real problem: it's a tank, it's got levers to make it turn, and a big gun you point at stuff.
The problems are going to be around logistics and support. Stuff like spares, recovery vehicles (boring stuff like the size of tow hitches), ammunition, fuel, the spanner for fixing tracks, and about a billion other things that aren't very exciting, but will stop an armoured advance quicker than you can say Javelin.
Also, bridges. Western main battle tanks are much heavier that Soviet/Russian MBT's, 20+ tons heavier...
Chally 2 holds the world record for a tank kill. 5km. You'll not find a Russian tank that can put accurately putrounds out to half that. The only chally that's ever been destroyed was by another Challenger in a friendly fire accident.
And it's got a kettle.
ISW's daily report occasionally mentions arson attacks at army recruitment / mobilization centres. Usually thrown molotov cocktails.This interesting podcast with Arthur Snell suggests that not all the fires in Russia are accidental. Doomsday Watch with Arthur Snell - SPECIAL: Who's burning Russia? Secrets of a covert ops offensive
What is especially interesting are the...careful denials
The podcast I linked to suggests that this probably is spontaneous social protest - I think they're more talking about bigger fires in more strategic locations, and some of the partisan stuff like disruption of railway lines and communications nodes.ISW's daily report occasionally mentions arson attacks at army recruitment / mobilization centres. Usually thrown molotov cocktails.
This interesting podcast with Arthur Snell suggests that not all the fires in Russia are accidental. Doomsday Watch with Arthur Snell - SPECIAL: Who's burning Russia? Secrets of a covert ops offensive
What is especially interesting are the...careful denials
The flower of their youth.
Gladio. Gladioli is I think a type of flower
A continuous policy up to the present day.The CIA's Operation Red Sox post WW2 is worth catching up on. The CIA sent 85 agents to their death trying to link up with 'resistance groups' in Soviet areas.
" The main body of Ukrainian insurgents, and in particular the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, had already been linked directly to Nazi atrocities in the region. “They were Nazis, pure and simple,” one CIA operations chief said. “Worse than that, because a lot of them did the Nazis’ dirty work for them.”
The Covert Operation to Back Ukrainian Independence that Haunts the CIA
After WWII, officials in Washington sent scores of agents to their deaths in a misguided effort to create an uprising against Moscow.www.politico.com
picked this up from the UKR livemap application this morning :
"Moldovan bomb squads detonated an 80-kilogram explosive warhead from a Russian missile that fell in the northern part of the country near Larga on January 14"
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IIRC, that's the same area that has had "stuff" dropped on it previously.
Who fired the missile and at what.
There seems to be a pattern with Americans backing one side and some decades later backing the other side, I guess most countries do the same and its just America does so much of that sort of shit that it shows up more clearly.A continuous policy up to the present day.