All right that’s it! You guys are losing your edge. I throw down a 10 ply smack down of Jane Honda and nobody called me out. I went back picking around at stuff and noticed it. You fellers are too kind to an old goober.

Why not assist Ukraine? The Russians assisted the Viet Kong against us.

don't feel bad, I don't think anyone picked up on the one legged man wearing new balance's either.

There ain't a whole lot of new footage out. Thought this was pretty cool look inside their tank. Shows them loading the auto loader carousel. That and lack of era counter measures causes pop top turrets as Irish pointed out earlier

https://twitter.com/TankDiary/status/1522206025113341955

Like this https://twitter.com/CanadianUkrain1/status/1522249636710424577

check out "Boltons Cross" game of thrones morale patch


this came up earlier, when Russian Forces found one of their patches. Heres that vid

https://www.bitchute.com/video/pQnQd0LBZ0gB/

Ukrainians using homemade drones to drop obsolete Soviet hand grenades from the sky, to which they attached 3D printed tail fins.

Their resourcefulness is pretty amazing.

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-cheap-grenades-expensive-tanks/31835434.html

I'm not sure how many folks were in the chopper but it looks like it would hold alot of folks.



This is for the other warrior poets out there. I really like this one
https://twitter.com/LesiaGillen/status/1523088077098340353

More than a couple anyways.

Watched President Zelensky's May 8th speech last night. Very moving. The man can deliver a message.

pretty good speech. I wonder if its in response to Russia's victory day celebration happening today. Kind of curious what it will entail. Supposedly Russia has already sent out draft notices. Don't know if that has been confirmed or not.

It seems like throwing completely untrained conscripts against motivated battle hardened opponents wouldn’t do a lot of good. I know Russia is not opposed to going the bullet-sponge-cannon-fodder route, but I don’t see path to success here.

Wheres the 40k lybians that were coming to fight their fight?

The house just approved just approved $40 billion in aid to Ukraine, once this passes the senate it will be added to the $13 billion we have already sent that way. This is after we have already spent trillions on two wars that lasted twenty years and as our economy is on the brink of a depression that will be unlike any of us have seen in our lifetimes. Keep posting rah rah propaganda videos to make yourselves feel better about what is going on.

The US had better start looking out for their own because the world as a whole does not back us due to the fact that we have always been their savior.

Reports are coming in that the Ukrainians are already using the M777 155 howitzers on the battlefield to great success. They are seeing accuracy of 1 or 2 meters at 15 miles out. (The 152's currently in use only have a range of 10 miles.) Pretty impressive accuracy. The rounds they are using furnished by the allies have built in GPS.

"The Excalibur projectile uses a jam-resistant internal GPS receiver to update the inertial navigation system, providing precision in-flight guidance and dramatically improving accuracy to less than two meters miss distance regardless of range," ASC's website says.

Other news sources are saying that the Ukrainians are about to or already have driven the Russians out of artillery range of Kharkiv.

The accuracy and range of the M777 Howitzers combined with the i[mproved 155-millimeter rounds could be of major advantage to Ukrainian forces, who are already reportedly making territorial gains in the area around Kharkiv.

How Allied supplied drones are helping target Ukrainian artillery...

Targeting Data Has Seamless Journey to the Big Guns

Operators can both create a pre-programmed flight or change the flight maneuvers manually. It has anti-spin technology and anti-icing for those cold Ukrainian days. The internal hard drive stores coordinate that locate enemy targets. This data is piped down to the ground control stations, which in turn passes the information along to the artillery batteries. The remote video terminal handles all the imagery and footage. The craft is good for 300-missions before maintenance on the unmanned system is needed.

The success of FlyEye is another example of the Russians suffering at the hands of combat tools that are provided by NATO members. The Poles have a winner on their hands and have not been shy about sharing it with the Ukrainian military. The drone video, documenting when artillery fire hits paydirt, also works well to boost Ukrainian morale as they see Russian targets explode into fiery balls of wreckage.


So a drone pilot sees a target, sends the data directly to the 155, where it is instantly uploaded to the round, boom and the flyer is off, a few seconds later and 15 miles away, a Russian target is destroyed. We've come a long way since I was in back in the early 80's.

Crazy technology Irish. When the unit I was in transitioned to artillery, I sat on the OP and watched rounds splash during training. That was in the 90's and they were crazy accurate even back then.

It’s amazing how the Ukrainian situation has faded in the news, it used to be front and center. Now it is rarely spoken. Ive heard more about oligarchs loosing their yachts, than what’s happening on the ground. Im stating to be conflicted on Ukraine. With Biden being so strong on supporting Ukraine, there has to be some type of liberal Democrat agenda.

There is. It’s hiding all the money they’ve been laundering through there and getting as much kicked back to themselves as quickly as possible, before the Republicans take over the house and senate in November. They know that as soon as they loose the house and senate, the Republicans will take over the money laundering and the Dems will only get scraps at that point.

Irish
Not sure what kind of Arty was used. But these videos look different than the previous ones.
I love a good "roll up, get swole up" video
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFoot..._medium=android_app&utm_source=share

I agree, and I am still wary of the whole thing. I still feel for the Ukrainian people though. There are good people there, just like there are good people in China and Russia and even North Korea and Iran, they are all just caught up in situations beyond their control and are just trying to survive.

I'm pulling for the Ukrainians in this thing, because they are the underdogs and they are fighting for their homes, their families and their very lives. Had Ukraine invaded Russia and were indiscriminately bombing apartments, hospitals, civilians, old people, women and children, I would probably be pulling for the Russians.

Plus there's this whole fascination with watching a near peer to peer conflict going down. My whole time in the Marines and the US Army Special Forces we trained to fight the Russians, but thankfully never did. And all during that time we were under the impression that they were this big black booger bear of a force that we would be overrun by in Western Europe, so it's kind of nice to see them getting punched in the face by the Ukrainians. So I'm kind of living vicariously through the Ukrainians on this one.