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Even though Russian nuclear weapons are formally subordinated to theatre commands, they are outside of regular chain of command. So, Russian strategic nuclear forces in the Centre, South, and the Far East don't receive commands from separate theatre HQs. Wagners convoys seem to be lightyears...

Russians were masterfully concealing the real size of their central bank's ballance sheet, but it came close to my original estimates of how big is their war chest, and how long will they be able to sustain an all out conflict: 16 months. So it's now either non-stop money printing for them, or...

:woot: I told you all, it will end like this once Kremlin will run out of cash. Just yesterday, some damning news came about Russian exchequer, with Russian major banks being forced to buy overvalue bonds.

A weird maneuver on Russian part. It's now confirmed they withdrew 4th (and possibly 90th as well) division from Kreminna. 4th is now roaming somewhere south of Donetsk. They were by far the more competent armour unit. Russians then went on a bum rush there with much lighter para units. What's...

IFVs will have to operate alone outside of tank's protection for most of the time outside of large, well planned manoeuvre. How well do you think the army will be able to send whole mech battalions to every small diversion by the opposing force in a large conflict?

ATACMS?

Russians have moved their remaining para units to fight in Kreminna-Svatove along with paramilitaries, and reservists, and immediately sent them into bum rushes, which were repelled. At the same time, Russian 4th division, and a lot of armour from the area was withdrawn over previous few weeks...

Have you noticed the increasing commotion in Kreminna area? Russians went on few bum rushes there, but they also seemingly moved out the few best preserved units from the area, and moved them somewhere over the last few weeks. UA telegrams write of "Russian armour vanishing" from the general area.

You always want to have at least 2 types of a big ticket defence items, especially if you have foreign equipment. Also, never let your defence companies to merge too much. An IFV taking a hit from a modern ATGM will still lose a squad, but at least it can retaliate at 2-3kms... if the gun is...

Patrion 2 is exoatmospheric as well, it's Patriot 3 which is high atmospheric, but yes, the comparison is odd, and it makes no sense for IRIS and Arrow to stand in the same competition.

That's a weird comparison. A much more direct comparison would've been Arrow, and a Patriot 2.

That's interesting, it's uncommon for Russia to operate mstas so close to the frontline. Usually, they fire from the edge of their range. In Russian force structure, only corps level commander can normally move their longer ranged 152mm SPGs, including mstas.

History repeats, they pretty much lost a full division back in 1941 when they did the same trick RUAF 5th, and 35th armies were heavily attrited in the initial offensives, and then they spent last year doing nothing in the south. In November, Ukrainians got 35th HQ, killing a lot of officers...

I have great doubts of Beijing betting on Putin now. Instead, Li Zhanshu, or possibly Zhong Shaojun has convinced Xi to hedge his bets. If anybody noticed, Beijing has invited on its own initiative Russian prime minister for talks. Normally you don't invite a premier of a country with a...

And in the end, they pretty much installed a communist into power, and undid everything.

@waz @LeGenD @The Eagle Can we make a separate 3rd part of this thread?

When I tell people from China how is life in UAE, people don't believe that there are way more Indians living here than Arabs until I start to show videos.

@dbc can we have a separate third part of the thread now? It's coming over 2000 pages now.

Most of UAE's population are not Emiratis

Even very cheap recently made washing machines come with rather powerful inverters featuring power electronics which would've costed thousands few decades ago.