This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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This is the trouble with trying to make a 30 member defensive alliance that relies on unanimity into an offensive policy instrument.
Who is going to make the second largest military in NATO ‘pound sand’, and what would that look like?
Maybe another good sign Russians are running out of equipment?
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"Russia’s neighbor and ally Belarus announced so-called “wartime transition” exercises Tuesday as Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine shows no sign of slowing in its fourth month.
The Belarusian defense ministry said all of its army units, command centers and personnel will undertake “a set of training sessions on the transition from peacetime to wartime.”
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022...peacetime-to-wartime-transition-drills-a77920
The Belarusian defense ministry said all of its army units, command centers and personnel will undertake “a set of training sessions on the transition from peacetime to wartime.”
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022...peacetime-to-wartime-transition-drills-a77920
"Perhaps the most incredible thing today, a Sukhoi Su-27/35 fighter jet firing its 30mm autocannon at a Mil Mi-14 helicopter." The Russians claim that they derived it, the Ukrainians that they did not, we will see the short truth."
I've said this before, but the Turks are being rotten about this. Blame the Russians, but the Turks are not doing all that they can. That makes me think they are working an angle while food insecurity looms.
This is like the US being so desperate that they have to go down to Lone Tree and try and crank up the tank sitting in the city park.
Turkey under Erdagon is basically an authoritarian theocracy under a dictator. He has purged the military, press and universities.
Turkey has always tried to play on both sides. They should have never been admitted to NATO.
Article on the challenges of operating a hodge-podge of foreign equipment:
But an oversight nearly delayed all maintenance on the guns at the hard-to-reach front lines, Ukrainian officers said. The entire M777 machine is put together on the imperial system used in the U.S., meaning that using a Ukrainian metric wrench on it would be difficult, and would risk damaging the equipment.
Only after sending the guns did the U.S. arrange for a rushed shipment of toolboxes of imperial-gauge wrenches, said Maj. Vadim Baranik, the deputy commander of a maintenance unit.
But tools can be misplaced, lost or destroyed, potentially leaving guns inoperable unless someone scrounges up a U.S.-supplied wrench.
https://news.yahoo.com/potent-weapons-reach-ukraine-faster-114318516.html
But an oversight nearly delayed all maintenance on the guns at the hard-to-reach front lines, Ukrainian officers said. The entire M777 machine is put together on the imperial system used in the U.S., meaning that using a Ukrainian metric wrench on it would be difficult, and would risk damaging the equipment.
Only after sending the guns did the U.S. arrange for a rushed shipment of toolboxes of imperial-gauge wrenches, said Maj. Vadim Baranik, the deputy commander of a maintenance unit.
But tools can be misplaced, lost or destroyed, potentially leaving guns inoperable unless someone scrounges up a U.S.-supplied wrench.
https://news.yahoo.com/potent-weapons-reach-ukraine-faster-114318516.html
I use approximate metric/english tools all the time.
Of course, I'm not working on something that can blow up in my face if I do it wrong....
I’m surprised they didn’t use gauges that were close enough to work with metric tools without stripping the parts.
And requiring something to be ultra-precise like that seems like a bad idea for a battlefield machine.
"If you thought that the Ukrainian "Stugna" can only hit Russian helicopters and armored vehicles, then you were wrong, this is an excellent weapon for working on a crowded herd of invaders' infantry."
They were a pretty critical member during the cold war even with their downside.
