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When Israel got an emergency transfer of F-16s during the war, their pilots were flying them pretty much the next day. (Alternative narrative: those were USAF pilots who substituted Israeli ones in first weeks)

Once again showing 122mm being very lethal against armour under 10km. Elevation of the barrel suggests <10km distances

Well, USSR counts as Russia now? It's very much a communist thing

I'm not talking about "who's the boss" in that bromance, but "who's the boss" in Beijing. It's been Xi's signature style to order something utterly stupid, and self-harmful, and then watch who didn't go along with the game. Medieval Japanese lords had a favourite way of checking their...

That would've been more rational for China to prop up Russia before it lost half its military, but it doesn't mean the demand for an economic self-harm move diminished with a worsening cost-benefit ratio. Maybe, it's even going up because of more ruinous results, and thus more utility, and...

There is absolutely no shortage of historical precedents for "wars over a tantrum", nor for economic suicides on one's own will. The Western critical thinking is completely uncritical of ambitions, ideology, passions being >>>> money, and the self-preservation instinct for most of mankind's...

Russia has no plans for Poland after lossing half its military.

I will agree with you on that the West is absolutely not taking it seriously. It is a stark contrast with Western leaders giving panicky speeches with shaking ankles in Poland a year ago. They got at ease now as they know that there is no chance of Russians going to Poland now.

Do we have any reason to doubt that Russians have set a "very high red line"? Any higher than an already mind boggling number of 3 millions, and it's simply unfathomable how they will function as a country. They will turn into Paraguay. And there is no doubt, they have logistic difficulties...

UA intel says Russian pullout redline is 3 million losses. It is like half of their 20-30 aged men. Obviously, it will be a deadly blow to the country demographically. But there are big doubts if they can mobilise even half a million with their logistics.

I wouldn't say so, even if Bakhmut is such a convenient point to tackle Russian forces, it's static defence against an enemy still having artillery superiority. Even small, half-hearted feint counterattacks could've kept Russians discomombulated, and have more or less the same effect, while...

The impermanence of allied relationships in the Middle East is not news to anybody. Saudis bailing out of anti-Iran coalition at the most inopportune time is just that.

Probably an exaggeration, but so far China is the only country with so many nuclear shelters. The amount of space will be extremely low in comparison to the number of population, but total area will be larger than in any other country.

Not another. I think it's first documented Buk M3 loss. All previous ones were of M2 models. Wikipedia tells of 3 batteries of Buk M3 = 9 vehicles + 3 loaders. So they lost 1 of only 9 Buk M3s in existence.

I read accounts that only people attending Church in Russia are local Armenians, Chinese, and Koreans. On the other hand, Russia was the only surviving shard of the original Mongol empire after Crimean Khanate, which was destroyed by them. Persianate Kazakh, and Khivan Khanates in the Central...

They have the Golnas navigation satellites, but, for some unfathomable reason, their smart ammo uses very old SIRFStar GPS only chips

35mm effective range is 4-5km, vs. 2-3km of 30mm. The line of sight on a flat terrain is 5km. If you are on a very tall vehicle, like Patton, at most you will see tops of similarly tall vehicles at that distance, so range past 5km is pretty much inconsequential with direct fire weapons. Bigger...

That's huge downside of front engined IFVs on display

Indeed, both use same round, and both based on Oerlikon tech

It is at least 3 times the real number