3811

I read the photo was taken on the newlyweds first day of marriage, which they spent collecting rifles for the defense.

3812

@newbrof you can’t post that without it’s matching photo!

3813

You have to post the photo of their wedding the night before:

https://www.gelestatic.it/thimg/faWChu7TCJXe7s5fzjyMlxgh0HA=/fit-in/1280x1280/https%3A//www.ilsecoloxix.it/image/contentid/policy%3A1.41258063%3A1645813402/coppia%20sposata%20matrimonio.jpg%3Ff%3Ddetail_558%26h%3D720%26w%3D1280%26%24p%24f%24h%24w%3D0669f87

Edit: ninja’d. That’s a VERY photogenic couple

3814

Heh. Dejin did. :) Powerful pictures.

3815

Someone I saw on Twitter linked it to the marriages during the Warsaw Uprising, which I’d never heard of (never heard of the weddings, I had heard of the uprising), but I found this article pretty interesting:

3816

I got together with my grognard group today. Naturally Ukraine came up. I said, "This is what it looks like when the underdogs roll REALLY well, and the other side rolls REALLY Poorly.

3817

I found his telegram account that gives the official account of the situation:

Google translate works well on it.

Air defense report

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine informs: During the day, the occupiers lost three SU-30 CM, 11 helicopters, two SU-25, two IL-76MD, a column of equipment and a platoon. significant losses of the occupiers’ aircraft, armored vehicles and enemy manpower. During the current day, the Russian occupation forces lost at least 11 helicopters of various types, three Su-30 SM fighters, 2 Su-25 attack aircraft and another military transport IL-76 MD with the occupiers’ landing. Enemy equipment was destroyed by: Su-27 fighters, combat calculations of S-300 and Bu-M-1 anti-aircraft missile systems

Armed forces report

Evening update from the Armed Forces:
🔻 In Kharkiv , they managed to repel the attacks, the city is under the control of Ukraine. Many Russian vehicles were destroyed: tanks, armored vehicles, etc. There are damages to houses and victims.

🔻 In Sumy , the situation is under the control of the defenders of Ukraine. During the day, artillery shelling was recorded, there are casualties. The Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed a column of enemy vehicles with fuel, and two Russians were taken prisoner.

🔻 In the Luhansk region , the enemy is trying to capture settlements, moving from Belgorod to Starobilsk. The Russians did not manage to reach the border of Luhansk and Donetsk regions, the Ukrainian army has a strong defense.

🔻 In Okhtyrka , the Armed Forces prevented the enemy’s intentions to capture the city. The damaged local thermal power plant has now resumed its work. It is reported that 6 people died as a result of the shelling.

🔻 Demonstrations of the occupiers from Belarus are observed in Volyn region .

🔻 In Skadovsk and near Kherson in Goly Pristan, the enemy temporarily managed to cross the border. Fierce battles are fought, the Defense Forces do not allow the enemy to gain a foothold.

🔻 In the Black Sea , the Armed Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed a Russian military aircraft Su-30 SM. The defense of the southern border of Ukraine continues.

Does anybody know if Russia is putting out their own reports?

3818

The Russian economy is about to be crushed. With actions taken today, the Russian Central Bank can no longer access it’s reserves. Putin had built up a war chest of $630 billion dollars in preparation for sanctions - now he is limited to the money on hand, about $12 billion dollars. I’ve seen one economist saying this could be 1991 all over again - a catastrophic collapse of the Russian economy.

3819

A lot of modern antitank weapons are designed to puncture the top of the turret.

Tank design is a nasty balancing act between armor, power (engine), and fuel. The heavier the armor, the bigger the engine required, and then the more fuel it burns. You can’t be strong everywhere, or else the tank becomes too big to move, or guzzles godawful amounts of fuel.

As a result, tank design is all about placing maximum armor on the frontal glacis, but you start sacrificing armor on the sides, the rear, and most especially the top. The top is a big weak spot, which is why a lot of modern antitank missiles will fly above the target, then pop a penetrator through the top armor of the turret. Punch through that, and there are all sorts of juicy soft targets inside, from flesh to ammunition.

That’s why you see photos of Russian tanks with wooden structures atop the turret, atop which they’re putting sandbags and gear. They’re trying to blunt the top-down capabilities of those munitions (and it’s not working).

3820

I imagine the folks still working in European Theater intel/combat analysis are eating this up. Watching the Ukrainians give the Russian army a black eye has been illuminating.

3821

I think we’re talking past each other, top-down attack on tanks has been doctrine for decades. I’m just wondering about what would be able to achieve that in an urban/partisan resistance. Ukrainian resistance is going to be perhaps fighting an urban war, a war where like the Russians said, “They look like us.” A man-portable RPG-like that is multishot, aimed but not guided, and still able to inflict damage would be a good thing for them to have.

3822
3823

More for us!

3824

Come on Nvida! Daddy needs a 3090. I’d love to see the Intel & AMD news from ABC or something.

Edit: here we go https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/25/ukraine-russia-chips-sanctions-tsmc/

Also, why does twitter keep asking me if I really want to post that when I’m telling Gabbard she is the most pathetic piece of shit to ever wear the uniform.

3825

Here’s another Ukrainian Molotov Cocktail preparation party:

3826

Older Russian tanks are also generally designed with the crew sitting with the ammunition.

If you hit the ammo rack on an Abrams, the crew is probably fine.

If you hit the ammo rack on a T-72 the crew is sitting in the middle of the ammo.

If you look up videos online of both tanks getting ammo rack hits, you can really notice how the Abrams has a big fire pretty much exclusively on the back of the turret, while the T-72s will have a giant geyser of flames pouring out of all the crew hatches.

3827

or the turret pops off completely.

3828

The numbers that the Ukrainians already have in top attack missiles, and the further shipments that have been promised will do great work. Sure, what you are talking about would be great, and even better, but it just doesn’t exist. But I suspect they do have do have some RPG’s in armories and will pull them out and issue them. They can still take out APC’s and other lightly armored vehicles.

3829

HLAWs are top down attackers when the tanks drive past your apartment building.

3830

Let’s just meet in the middle and say BOTH 2003 Iraqi invasion AND 2022 Ukrainian invasion are wrong. The far left’s tendency to blame always US imperialism is sometimes right, like a broken clock can be right twice a day. Now it is time to call out Russian imperialism.