Kiev Is Burning

[Roman Alymov]

Just now, jaro said:

or Kadyrov's Chechen infiltrators..

Really? How many times have you seen ethnic Nokhchiy in your life?

[jaro]

 

Scooby doo shit there..  some comments are killing me...

[X-Files]

1 minute ago, bojan said:

They are notoriously bad at ID. 

https://lostarmour.info/ is much better.

 

Thank you, I'll add that to my "compare and contrast' favorite tabs.

[bojan]

Just now, X-Files said:

Thank you, I'll add that to my "compare and contrast' favorite tabs.

lostarmor takes a bit longer to upload data, but so far I have not found a single ID mistake.

[X-Files]

2 minutes ago, jaro said:

Scooby doo shit there..  some comments are killing me...

 

$5 says it'll look like this in 24 hours - if it lasts that long.

[bojan]

4 minutes ago, jaro said:

seems to me these battalions do not have anything in significant number..  

They are still Bns, not brigades.

[bojan]

Just now, X-Files said:

 

$5 says it'll look like this in 24 hours - if it lasts that long.

 

It is good old "Buhanka", or Soviet/Russian indestructible road monster. I can safely guess that shit will be still rolling  on when current crop of "off-road vehicles" are all at scrapyard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAZ-452

[futon]

6 minutes ago, bojan said:

Kiev, as well as Peking is in English I have learned. OTOH, that one did not have 43 genders either.

Requiring people to write it Kyiv is the same bullshit as me requiring you to write Beograd instead of Belgrade, Srbija instead of Serbia, Jugoslavija instead of Yugoslavia etc.

I prefer Kyiv. I hope others would to.

Київ > Киев

[X-Files]

5 minutes ago, bojan said:

It is good old "Buhanka", or Soviet/Russian indestructible road monster. I can safely guess that shit will be still rolling  on when current crop of "off-road vehicles" are all at scrapyard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAZ-452

Does Eduard offer anti-NLAW/RPG screen P.E. frets?

 

Huh. There's a kit of that 

1/35 Scale UAZ-452 "Bukhanka" by Arsenal Model (hlj.com)

Edited February 27, 2022 by X-Files

[Stefan Kotsch]

Village of Bucha, Railstation Street ist titled. 014/2015 looked completely different. The Ukrainians have learned an incredible amount in 8 years.

Arrival of the marching column in Bucha NW outskirts of Kiev:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1497836545486774274

And finally
https://twitter.com/i/status/1497914392209330176

https://twitter.com/i /status/1497915457013272578

Edited February 27, 2022 by Stefan Kotsch

[futon]

Well he just went with Kiev, lol.

[jaro]

6 minutes ago, bojan said:

They are still Bns, not brigades.

yes, but making battalion an "universal" force means you end up having weak everything... not enough AA, not enough artillery, infantry, recon or armor...

Edited February 27, 2022 by jaro

[bojan]

Just now, X-Files said:

Does Eduard offer anti-NLAW/RPG screen P.E. frets?

Don't know, but now in the time of 3d printing and easy etching solutions you can for sure makeyour own  

[jaro]

3 minutes ago, Stefan Kotsch said:

Village of Bucha, Railstation Street ist titled. 014/2015 looked completely different. The Ukrainians have learned an incredible amount in 8 years.

Arrival of the marching column in Bucha NW outskirts of Kiev:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1497836545486774274

And finally
https://twitter.com/i/status/1497914392209330176

https://twitter.com/i /status/1497915457013272578

thats... embarrassing..

[Gromit]

The camera in your first link was obviously automated, so was this a pre programmed artillery strike?

The devastation is apalling.

[jaro]

 

i think he is losing it..

[Stefan Kotsch]

The battalion combat groups are said to have not proven themselves particularly well in 2014/2015. Hence the major reorganization into a division and regiment structure. And now another fiasco. Is the duvet just too short?

[Sardaukar]

4 minutes ago, Stefan Kotsch said:

The battalion combat groups are said to have not proven themselves particularly well in 2014/2015. Hence the major reorganization into a division and regiment structure. And now another fiasco. Is the duvet just too short?

Probably indicates that Russian commanders are not yet used to operate independent fashion that BTGs would need to succeed.

But then, have they ever really been operating that way?  Brigade/divisional level is more suited for sort of rigid doctrine.

[DKTanker]

10 hours ago, JamesR said:

Yes... according to the news media, those are all tanks. 

This is also a tank. 

Yes it is.
So are these:

As is this:

Which is why the media calls this an "Armored" tank so as to distinguish it from its linguistic origin.

[Perun]

1 hour ago, bojan said:

That is "T-72B "obrasca" (which is usually translated as model, but is not the same...) 1989".

Maybe beter translation would be "version"

[jaro]

2 minutes ago, Sardaukar said:

Probably indicates that Russian commanders are not yet used to operate independent fashion that BTGs would need to succeed.

But then, have they ever really been operating that way?  Brigade/divisional level is more suited for sort of rigid doctrine.

my guess?? their NCOs are just slightly older soldiers with no special training... therefore low initiative, low skills...

[Ivanhoe]

19 minutes ago, bojan said:

It is good old "Buhanka", or Soviet/Russian indestructible road monster. I can safely guess that shit will be still rolling  on when current crop of "off-road vehicles" are all at scrapyard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAZ-452

Russia has so many off-road truck designs, I've always thought they should try marketing some to the US/Cdn/Aussie offroader community. Not going to compete with Toyota on quality, but a $20k USD offroad van or truck might sell quite well.

At least before the current unpleasantries.

[bojan]

3 hours ago, Mistral said:

Supposedly UKR SU-25 shot down while sucessfully attacking bridging equipment column.

 

There are parts from two planes in the photos of wreckage of 25 and two bodies, one fully burned and one not (I will not post such pics). Looks like 2 x 25 fell at the almost same spot.

[Perun]

Zmiiyni island

 

https://youtu.be/eHzo8Yja4rA

[Jaguar]

Lot´s of reports like this in twitter, including brazilians and africans.