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gonefirefightin

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Awesome. Someone should go hunting the death squads operating in larger cities and make terrifying examples of those shitstains.
Priorities are the concern right now it seems, as you can tell from that vid, they are getting complete and normal coverage in their missions now that there are more american and UK volunteers communicating and running their own perspective units such as scouts, mortars and artillery. There simply wasn't enough UA to do these missions before.

They are starting with the bigger elements and working their way down so it essentially it relives the smaller UA units to go do other things. Having actually trained peeps running the stingers has been a huge help as well as you all saw from yesterdays hunting trip for birds.
 

StiHacka

Compensating for something
Jan 4, 2013
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In hell. Welcome!
Priorities are the concern right now it seems, as you can tell from that vid, they are getting complete and normal coverage in their missions now that there are more american and UK volunteers communicating and running their own perspective units such as scouts, mortars and artillery. There simply wasn't enough UA to do these missions before.

They are starting with the bigger elements and working their way down so it essentially it relives the smaller UA units to go do other things. Having actually trained peeps running the stingers has been a huge help as well as you all saw from yesterdays hunting trip for birds.
I really hope this strategy works well and wish your buds good hunting. Best update I've heard in a few days, btw.
 

jonKranked

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PayPal, visa, Mastercard have all shut down services in Rus. Given that paypal owns venmo I'm assuming that's shutdown as well.

Apple and Samsung have both halted all shipments to Rus. Worth noting those 2 companies account for half the smartphone sales in Rus.
 

Westy

the teste
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NATO doesn't issue equipment, its up to the participating gov to provide their own electronics and there is no such thing as NATO IT, nor would any gov use a computer for NATO related comms with at CAC, (common access card) and the typical hardware associated are secured tablets, tough-books or defense contracted devices,
You also don't put fucking stickers on laptops identifying what kind of info it could contain.
 

Jm_

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Fixed artillery like that has to be used just right. We still have it, but we also have self-propelled and MLRS (HIMARS). The usual game is your artillery section gets a fire mission, shoots a bunch of rounds real quick, then gets the hell out of there and repositions, like immediately after a salvo. It's assumed the other side has fire-finder type radar and as soon as anyone sees rounds coming from a certain position, they usually shell the hell out of that position. That looks like what happened here. I think you use the fixed stuff with like "firebase" type operations, but the usage is fairly limited IME on the modern battlefield. NK has a huge artillery section that is aimed at a bunch of positions in SK, but they are probably a lot more suicidal in their intent/use of assets and fixed positions. I was in MLRS and we were an indirect fire asset (only used for beyond-visual-range stuff), but the game was the same, shoot the rockets, then get the hell out of that launching position as fast a possible, because you are expecting the enemy to shoot back. You'd have a bunch of pre-set launching spots, rally points, ammo dump points, etc.

In NTC, Fort Irwin, we were doing war-games and had a fire-finder unit attached to our headquarters unit. We had a trailer a crapload of cardboard and spray paint and someone got the idea that we could tape together a "fake" radar, for forward observers to mistake, so as usually happens at NTC, when our forces got overrun by the Russians (yep, that was who we were training against), we scurried up a little valley into a hilly area where we were not visible and we put our fake radar up on a peak in another area. Like clockwork, "they" shelled the hell out of our fake radar and we continued to launch fire missions against the enemy with our actual radar. Someone got a pat on the back for that one.

Basically, what I'm getting at is, shooting artillery up into the air at someone is basically giving away your position. Modern sensor systems will pick our your position before the rounds even land. The whole idea was to fire back before the enemy had the chance to move, so we trained and trained to be that fast.
 

jonKranked

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amex suspending operations in rus

netflix has halted service.

tiktok has suspended livestreaming and new content in rus. this one is interesting because it is a chinese owned company
 

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
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Correction @gonefirefightin your boys have anything to do with that airbase that was "unexpectedly and "quietly" laid waste to last night? That just screams of special ops...


On the night of March 7, Ukrainian troops destroyed more than several dozen of the aggressor’s helicopters and three columns of vehicles.
 
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gonefirefightin

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@gonefirefightin your boys have anything to do with that airport that was "unexpectedly and "quietly" taken last night? That just screams of special ops...
lol, yes yes they did, they actual took the airport and the city back. I am sure the videos will be brutal. They been traveling around with an element of MLRS in tow for all the indirect support. Its been pretty easy for them since for the second night all the russians were standing around a fire.