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What's crazy is that Storm Shadow is a 30 year old cruise missile, developed in 1994. It's obsolete and Britain 🇬🇧 and France 🇫🇷 are giving them away because they're replacing them with newer, much more advanced systems. Meanwhile, Russia thinks they've struck gold and can share some serious...

During a July 4 hearing in Parliament, British Defense Chief Admiral Tony Radakin said that Russia had lost nearly half its combat capability in Ukraine. "Russia has lost nearly half the combat effectiveness of its army," Radakin said. "Last year it fired 10 million artillery shells but at best...

The flanks of Bakhmut are slowly falling under Ukrainian control. It's going to be absolute hell for the Russians inside the city itself (as it was for the Ukrainians previously). Especially when Ukraine starts using cluster munitions, JDAMS and M31 GMLRS shells on the city. It took Russia 8...

BS. This war is about two things. Period. 1. Putin's desire to expand westward and cut Ukraine's access off to the sea. Historically, Russia has continually expanded westward until somebody stands up and beats them back for another generation. He miscalculated that this invasion would be easy...

We all are. Do you know that my country alone (Canada) spent nearly $500 Billion on Covid-19? That's more than twice what the entire West has spent on aiding Ukraine so far. When you look at the way Federal debt works vs personal debt, the 35+ countries supporting Ukraine (including Ukraine...

Media from all countries are full of shit, for a variety of reasons... But make no mistake about it, Russia is losing equipment in Ukraine FAR faster than they can replace it. Even with their factories working around the clock to produce new armor, weapons and missiles, Russia's stockpile is...

Considering that war numbers are almost always in line with a 3 to 1 WIA to KIA figure, and considering the 50,000 number that people are referencing is already a couple months old... My best guess at Russian casualties (including Wagner) is about 60,000 KIA , 180,000 WIA and 5000 POW, for a...

Make no mistake about it, the West isn't actually running out of anything critical, it simply comes down to the political will to support things. Here are some examples. Main Battle Tanks The United States 🇺🇸 has more than 5500 M1A1 and M1A2 Abrams MBTs. More than 3000 of those tanks are being...

Everyone is doing their part. Lithuania 🇱🇹 will send two NASAMS air defense launchers to Ukraine. For those interested, a full NASAMS battery consists of 3 launchers, each with 6 AIM-120 AMRAAM, AIM-9 Sidewinder, or IRIS-T SLS missiles. Therefore, Lithuania's contribution will be combined with a...

Basically, it comes down to this. The West / Ukraine cannot allow this war to end in peace until the Soviet stockpile of weapons is essentially exhausted (we're talking 60% attrition). Russia no longer has the economy to build like the Soviets, therefore, the West knows that if they can...

Russia keeps having their ammunition and supply convoys destroyed in precision strikes by thr Ukrainians, in the deep rear of their defensive positions. In this video, 6 Russian Kamaz trucks full of supplies for the front get massacred by drone corrected, Ukrainian artillery fire.

Reminder that while Ukraine has slowly started its offensive in the West, we still have not seen the majority of the troops that Ukraine is preparing for the offensive engaged in any kind of serious battles. They've used a small amount of the Western donated supplies that they've had donated...

USA 🇺🇸 announced a new $500 million military aid package for Ukraine. The package is extremely robust and will include the following.... - 30 Additional Bradley M2 ODS - 25 Additional Stryker APCs - Additional PAC 2 and PAC 3 Patriot air defense missiles. - Additional GMLRS for HIMARS -...

Ukraine has liberated more land (more than 300 KM2) in 3 weeks, than Russia took over its entire winter campaign, which lasted nearly 6 months.

According to Russian bloggers, the Russians were forced to retreat from Dachi, on the left bank of the Dnipro and Ukraine now has bridgehead there, which they are reinforcing in an attempt to open a 3rd line line of attack on the southern front. Obviously, Ukraine isn't saying much for OPSEC...

Ukraine continues to be a bad place for Russian armor. This T-80 MBT caught fire and was destroyed after a drone strike somewhere in the south. This T-90 MBT was abandoned and submerged by the Russians. Ukraine towed it and sent it for repairs, before turning it over to their own army...

Nice new arms package for Ukraine 🇺🇦, this time from Australia 🇦🇺. The package is worth $110 million dollars and consists of the following... - 28 M113 APCs - 14 Special Operations vehicles - 28 Medium trucks - 14 Trailers - 105mm artillery shells Approximately $10 million of the package is...

I have no doubt that some of the Western made systems were not performing ideally in the Ukrainian mud. That said, despite that, Ukraine is using its western supplied 155mm self-propelled artillery, along with Excalibur, Vulcano and SMart munitions, as well as GMLRS launched from HIMARS, as it's...

My point is, literally, that it's junk in modern terms. That's relavent because the war is being fought in 2023, not 1973. There is junk being used on both sides of this conflict. M113s are junk. HMMWVs are junk. Mig-29s are junk. Mig-25s are junk. T-72s and T-80s (for the most part) are junk...

In fairness, it is junk by modern standards, regardless of where it was made. The new 155mm systems are much better. Significantly better range. Significantly targeting capabilities. Significantly better survivability. Significantly better rate of fire. Both Ukraine and Russia use them and...