flying_monkies @ flying_monkies @kbin.social

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7% of just the one type... Not of all tanks. That being said, I get where you're coming from. 14 Challengers, 31 Abrams... Guess it's going to boil down to if the countries can/will replace the losses.

Yeah, that's what I wasn't following. MBTs are going to need repairs, no matter how heavily armored, when you run them over a minefield, hit them with anti tank missles or drones. APVs aren't designed to survive that, just to keep the occupants alive from something that would have turned them into a thick red mist.

Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article.

The complaint about armor (tanks) being destroyed seems odd. Last report I saw had them losing five of the 70 Leopards and a single Challenger so far.

I wonder if the complaint is directed at the amount of maintenance/depot work that needs to be done to keep them running. That would kind of make sense. Countries that donated them have significantly more of them than donated, so cycling them through depot repair would barely be a cause for concern.

Not on your instance, but I assume that's the posters "reputation". It's the sum score of likes/dislikes their threads/comments received from viewers. The user has no control over it.

So, if the US provided a HIMARS cluster munition that dropped MREs and a note saying "there's more food if you surrender" they could wrap this thing up in a week to 10 days?

Have to agree with the poster. Dude has 40 threads (mainly twitter) and 17 comments.

He hasn't posted 1000 links, or anything close to that.

Not sure what the deal was on that. The Patriot doesn't broadcast that it's targeting a plane, the F16 shouldn't have seen anything more than "there's a radar out there looking" before the pilot shot. No one indicated that the Patriot battery was actually targeting the F16 for a kill.

My understanding is that from those three incidents they changed the SOP for target engagement as well as offering advanced schooling for the senior individuals.

He comments on that, it was an F16 pilot.

It didn't actually target friendlies. Apparently the two incidents with Patriot in 2003 were with a Tornado and F18 that didn't have IFF enabled. video from an instructor for air defense artillery, dude explains Patriot issues well.

Don't recall anyone saying it would be a few weeks. Don't doubt some people said it would only be a few weeks, just don't remember it.

From the start of the invasion, it was two months one week and three days to topple the Taliban government.

Unfortunately, then next 19 years were apparently a waste since the regime that replaced the Taliban didn't actually want to fight for themselves.

there are no other choices

There are all sorts of choices.

Russia could come to their senses and leave.

Russia could continue wasting their resources until they have to accept unconditional surrender.

Russia or an ally could go even more pants on head stupid than they already are and do something that triggers a NATO Article 5 response.

Repeating fantasies over and over doesn’t make them materialize,

You really need to feel this in what's left of your soul

Ukraine can’t win a war of attrition against Russia.

And yet, they are. If the Russian command had any sense, they'd roll back to their side of the border.

(“game-changing” western equipment that doesn’t change the outcome of the conflict)

You're actually right, they won't change the outcome.

It'll just make the Ukrainian victory quicker than it would have been without the equipment.

Guess it depends on the definition of "lasts". With Iraq, Coalition forces rolled through the third largest military in under two months.

Germany need 35 days to take Poland and six weeks for Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France in WWII.

Russia figured they were on par with other modern militaries for their special smoothbrain operation. Why wouldn't it be fast? 🙄

So much for throwing tires on top of their planes

Putin needs to start reading lemmygrad. One of the tankies there mentioned the counter offensive hit a brick wall.

none of the boats are seaworthy

You just described the modern Russian Navy and it's considered "legitimate naval power"

Closest timeline on there is the statement "Since Feb. 24 2022" in the bottom and the disclaimer in the top that they are discounting aircraft shot down by Wagner during their rebellion.

Non-paywalled article

You really are as clueless as the day is long. Explains the Tankie mentality.