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6 hours ago, Roman Alymov said:

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Doesn't really exist in the USA.  Any thing like that is vanishing as the walls are closing in around him. 

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2 hours ago, JWB said:

Doesn't really exist in the USA.  Any thing like that is vanishing as the walls are closing in around him. 

Well, not going to debate this, especially in this thread. If you really believe old man who, with all my respect, is struggling with names of his key subordinates, is able to run massive country of 300+ mln people without massive, lets call it this way, help - it is up to you.

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Back to Irina Farion who was killed recently by unknown gunman: Prediction made 14 years ago by Oles' Buzina  (Oles Buzina - Wikipedia who was killed by pro-Ukrainian activists in Kiev in 2015)

"If you will stay on this Bandera's way, you will sooner of later be killed by terrorist bullet"

 

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6 hours ago, Roman Alymov said:

Well, not going to debate this, especially in this thread. If you really believe old man who, with all my respect, is struggling with names of his key subordinates, is able to run massive country of 300+ mln people without massive, lets call it this way, help - it is up to you.

It may not have occurred to you but Presidents don't run the USA. 

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Was watching an interesting video this morning, Russia is down to 16 percent stocks of MTLB in their depots. Apparently at the present rate they are going to run out in 7 months. They do have lots of MTLBu still, but seem to be reluctant to use those.

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55 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Was watching an interesting video this morning, Russia is down to 16 percent stocks of MTLB in their depots. Apparently at the present rate they are going to run out in 7 months. They do have lots of MTLBu still, but seem to be reluctant to use those.

So now "Russia is out of missiles" is replaced with "Russia is out of MTLBs".....

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Ill find the video if you like. Your yards are starting to look very, very empty. Doubtless the Satellite photos were airbrushed by the party of the west to make yourselves look on the brink of defeat.

As said, there are alternatives, but some classes of weaponry are getting very, very thin on the ground, and you have no easy means to replace them.

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4 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Ill find the video if you like. Your yards are starting to look very, very empty. Doubtless the Satellite photos were airbrushed by the party of the west to make yourselves look on the brink of defeat.

As said, there are alternatives, but some classes of weaponry are getting very, very thin on the ground, and you have no easy means to replace them.

So what? This yards were mostly considered as scrap after three decades of postSoviet neglect, and the fact they are nevertheless put to some use is industrial and military miracle. How are your yards doing? For example, how many SPGs left  in reserves of mighty Global Britain Army?

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Scrap, yet they have been removing tanks out of them and sending them to refurbishment. Yes, there are still vehicles there, probably the ones that are so badly damaged there is no easy way to bring them back.

How are our yards doing? Glad you asked, we are now making new artillery tubes for the Ukrainian army after a hiatus of 20 years. So thanks Vladimir for helping British industry!

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-rebuilding-ability-to-manufacture-large-calibre-guns/

 

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Back to innocent victims of bloody Stalin.

""One must beware of combinations with low-value representatives of one's own people, but also, or perhaps even more, one must beware of combinations with representatives of alien peoples if they: a) belong to racially low-value peoples, b) belong to neighboring or living with us peoples and through mixing with them the influence of foreign peoples grows in an undesirable degrees. From this point of view, for us Ukrainians, only a combination of our elements with the so-called Nordic race (Scandinavians, most Anglo-Saxons, Germans) and with our kindred Southern Slavs and Czechs is useful. On the contrary, combinations with Poles, Muscovites, Romanians, Turkish Tatars, Jews, etc. are not useful.""

Autor of this valuable thoughts - Stepan Rudnitsky

"He was born in Przemysl (now Przemysl, Poland). His father, Lev Denisovich Rudnitsky, was a geography and history teacher at the gymnasium, his mother came from the famous Taborsky family in Galicia[5]. Brother of the writer Julian Opilsky[6].

He received his primary education in Ternopil, where the Rudnitsky family moved in 1879. In 1895, he graduated with honors from the IV gymnasium in Lviv and entered the Faculty of Philosophy of the Lviv University[7], where he studied: classical philology (professors L. Tsviklinsky, B. Kruchkevich), Slavic philology (Professors R. Pilyat, O. Kolessa), German studies (Professor R. Werner), history (Professors I. Sharanevich, T. Wojciechowski, L. Finkel, B. Dembinsky, M. Grushevsky) and geography (Professor A. Reman)[8]. In 1899, he received the right to teach geography and history in Ukrainian, German and Polish[9]. For several years he taught geography in the 1st and 3rd gymnasiums of Lviv, the 1st gymnasium of Ternopil[10]. After graduating from Lviv University, he interned in Vienna and Berlin. In 1901 he defended his PhD thesis in philosophy. In 1902, at the Lviv University, he studied geology, petrography, mineralogy, zoology, botany, astronomy (professors R. Zuber, Ya. Semirodsky, E. Dunikovsky)[8].

From 1908 to November 1918, Privatdozent Rudnitsky was head of the Department of Geography at Lviv University with the Ukrainian language of instruction.

In 1918-1919, he was an expert advisor to the Government of the ZUNR on economic and political geography. He prepared documents on geopolitics for the Paris Peace Conference.

In 1919, under pressure from the Polish authorities, he emigrated from Lviv to Vienna, where he worked as a professor of economic geography at the Trade Academy. From 1921 to 1926, he was a professor of geography at the Ukrainian Free University in Prague, was the first dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, a member of the Geographical Institute and the State Geological Charter of Czechoslovakia[11]. In 1921-1926, he was Professor of Geography, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the M. P. Dragomanov Higher Pedagogical Institute in Prague.
In 1926 he moved to the USSR. Since 1926, he has been a professor at the Kharkov Institute of Public Education[12]. Since 1927 — Head of the Department of Topology and Cartography of the Kharkov Geodetic Institute. He organized and headed the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Geography and Cartography in Kharkov. Since 1929, he was the head of the Department of Geography of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine[12]. He edited the Bulletin of Natural Sciences, headed a number of expeditions to the Donbass, the Commission of Local Lore, the F. Vovka Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography at the University.

He was arrested on March 21, 1933 in Kharkov by the OGPU authorities on charges of belonging to a counterrevolutionary Ukrainian military organization, sabotage and espionage. On September 23, 1933, he was sentenced to five years in prison by the judicial troika at the Board of the GPU of the Ukrainian SSR. He served his sentence in Svirlag, at the facilities of the White Sea Canal, on Solovki. On January 4, 1934, the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences excluded him from the list of full members of the Academy as an "outspoken propagandist of fascism in geography"[13][14].

On October 9, 1937, he was sentenced to capital punishment by a special troika of the NKVD of the Leningrad region. He was shot in the Sandarmokh tract (Karelian ASSR) on November 3, 1937[15].

Posthumously rehabilitated by the ruling of the Military Tribunal of the Kiev Military District on May 11, 1965, the decisions of the Judicial Troika at the Board of the GPU of the USSR of September 23, 1933 and the Troika of the NKVD of the USSR in the Leningrad region of October 9, 1937 in relation to Rudnitsky Stepan Lvovich were canceled, and the cases were terminated due to the absence of corpus delicti[16]. In 1990, by a resolution of the General Assembly of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, it was restored (posthumously) as part of the Academy of Sciences"Рудницкий, Степан Львович — Википедия (wikipedia.org) )

   Memorial for him in Ternopol', note borders

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11 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Scrap, yet they have been removing tanks out of them and sending them to refurbishment. Yes, there are still vehicles there, probably the ones that are so badly damaged there is no easy way to bring them back.

How are our yards doing? Glad you asked, we are now making new artillery tubes for the Ukrainian army after a hiatus of 20 years. So thanks Vladimir for helping British industry!

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-rebuilding-ability-to-manufacture-large-calibre-guns/

 

Your link is saying "The Ministry of Defence has announced plans to regenerate the nation’s ability to produce forgings for gun barrels in collaboration with Sheffield Forgemasters." Are you sure you are "now making new artillery tubes"?

  But yes, your industry (what was left of it) was at least partly  kept afloat by Russian money (probably because of nice opportunity for Gazprom managers to syphon funds directly to London property) "Nationalised in July 2021, the company is now fully owned by the Ministry of Defence. ........In March 2022, the company ended its supply contract with Gazprom following the Russian invasion of Ukraine." 

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Ah, so you are now asserting it was the party of the west oligarchs that armed the West against Russian's peaceful intentions? :)

This is getting really like Communist dialetics, where one must be aware of the message is, even if the message really doesnt make any sense on any level.

The contract has gone out, they are at work on it. Unlike other countries, when British industry gets an order, they dont hive the money off and stash it in an offshore trust fund, or buy a superyacht with it. They actually get on with it. Watch this space.

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57 minutes ago, Roman Alymov said:

So now "Russia is out of missiles" is replaced with "Russia is out of MTLBs".....

And I thought the MTLB had no combat value in the first place...

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1 minute ago, seahawk said:

And I thought the MTLB had no combat value in the first place...

MTLB is in theory transport vehicle, but in this war transport function is often more important than big gun

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1 minute ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Oh it does, when they weld a 1950's naval antiaircraft turret on it, it becomes a tank...

No, it became heavy infantry weapon carrier, as its function is to provide support fire "from this forest belt into next forest belt across the field".  

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One of the reasons the shares of arms companies are going through the roof right now is that everyone, East and West, has to start making everything again.

And ordinary folks are gonna have to pay for it.

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9 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Ah, so you are now asserting it was the party of the west oligarchs that armed the West against Russian's peaceful intentions? :)

I'm just quoting your article and commenting on it. It was your choice to provide the link to article that mentioned it was Russian business (with all its specifics) that supported this plant untill recently. No idea where you got Communist dialetics intengled here  - more logical question to ask is "Was it really the need to place orders in UK, not on plants in Russia?" 

15 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

The contract has gone out, they are at work on it. Unlike other countries, when British industry gets an order, they dont hive the money off and stash it in an offshore trust fund, or buy a superyacht with it. They actually get on with it. Watch this space.

I am not going to debate British industry with you (it is your industry and your problems, not mine) so would limit myself to quoting another Member post 

 

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11 minutes ago, Roman Alymov said:

MTLB is in theory transport vehicle, but in this war transport function is often more important than big gun

Well at least Stuart loved to pity soldiers driving around in MTLBs. But obviously running out of MTLBs will be devastating for the Russian army now.... While in reality the West would be easily defeated, by true Russian government using all available means to achieve victory.

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'Now all the youth of England are on fire,

and silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies:

Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought

Reigns solely in the breast of every man:

They sell the pasture now to buy the horse,

Following the mirror of all Christian kings,

With winged heels, as English Mercuries.'

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44 minutes ago, ink said:

And ordinary folks are gonna have to pay for it.

The costs of functioning deterrence are much lower than the follow-on costs of a failed deterrence. Didn't think I'd had to spell that out - on Tanknet, of all places.

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