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Same vehicle shows up in this German TV segment. There they say it was an FPV drone, the hit did not penetrate. Video should start at the correct timestamp. Subtitles work well enough. 11:15 till 13:50 is about Leopard 2. 21st Brigade. It shows one tank with two road wheels missing (AT mine), and then the vehicle above. Of 21 tanks only 5 are still combat ready. The crews express satisfaction with the protection. They complain about a lack of ammunition. We see the turret bunker is filled entirely with DM53A1 rounds. Crews complain that what they really need is HE ammunition, of which they have none left.

3 minute long Kraken unit video of tanks on the training range from the winter/spring. I think it is 6 tanks, many different versions of T-72 and T-80 variants. Somebody care and willing to put names to the versions? The T-80s all seem to be the same variant of the T-80BV but with plenty of Kontakt-1 and no more separate night sight? 00:00 - 00:15: T-72EA (identified by Chung-Tzu on Twitter) 00:25 - 00:30: T-72B3 obr 2016 01:54 - 01:55: T-72B obr 1989 with plenty of Kontakt-1 add ons? 01:59 - 02:00: T-72AMT?

These latter I see as an example for how easy the idea of the nation is malleable. The Eastern separatists came into being and came to influence because of specific historic constructions, not because of a natural automatism. Under different circumstances, the separatist movement may have never gained traction, and happily remained part of Ukraine. That is why it's so vile of Putin to legitimate his war with a "Ukraine does not exist" retoric. With the same arbitrary arguments that proof that Ukraine does not exist, you could dismantle the legitimacy of every other nation, including Russia.

Things in general yes. Nations, no. They exist because people see them. If god snipped his finger and tomorrow we would all wake up having forgotten the current nations, we would not group up in the same way again. We would form completely new nations, based on all kinds of criteria. The nations as we know them are without exception the result of historic construction.

Yes, in the form of these things being used to imagine a community they are completely artificial.

Countries claim historic events and processes as being "their history" in an arbitrary way. The nation itself is an artificial construct in any case, including Japan, France and Spain.

Seeing how regularly and ceaselessly you posted here basically around the clock for the past 6 weeks, that might be your biggest lie 😅

Those are Murrican M109A6.

Original video (not really original footage, already has text superimposed) that everybody screenshots for the "mobile crematorium" story. Very little points to this being for humans, or being operated by the Russian armed forces. It's a civilian truck operated by a civilian worker. The whole story seems highly construed. They just took footage of some random incinerator truck and pasted the whole "crematorium" story onto it. First it was for dead Russian soldiers so they don't have to be transported back to Russia, now its for dead civilians to cover up warcrimes.

Supreme! Thank you!

Does anyone have an inside picture of the thermal sights? Or the whole sight complex before being installed? What's the name of the system?

I would assume ammunition commonality will be kept with the Leopard 2 that they'll continue to operate.

I don't know I know nothing about metallurgy and welding, I was just summarizing his argument. It is not my argument. I also don't quite see his argument. The tanks don't fall apart in regular operation, they get torn apart in explosions. Whether they do so at the weld or not, I find pretty irrelevant at that point. Why should the welding seams be rated for explosion-level forces? But he considers it a really fundamental insight. Maybe he's a welding specialist and this is the one time he feels he can contribute something meaningful to the war debate. Have his moment in the spotlight like the tire guy a few weeks ago. I don't know.

He's primarily pointing out the torsion bar housing that is lying on the ground, which is in fact simple steel on steel. He says it should not rip off like that, in one piece, if properly welded. It should still be attached to the hull's side plate, and the torsion bar should be ripped out of it. I don't know if that makes any sense, but that's what he says.

Just googled T-64 Krab, seems to be a prototype unveiled last year. But I can't even find proper pictures. How do you know those are these? This looks quite like a Bulat to me. Which in itself would be interesting because so far the Bulat is absent from the current war AFAIK.