Russia Invades ukraine

[peds]

21 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Russia have blown the dust off the old D-74 122mm gun from the 1940s and are shelling Ukraine with those . Running short of modern ordinance ? 

 

Err, no. It's his own decision to use the old stuff. Retro is cool.

[Steven P]

I heard a tale once that propeller airplanes were getting past a modern aircraft carriers defences easily, they anti-aircraft defences were built around attacks at twice the speed and couldn't cope with a slow moving plane... maybe something the same here that Ukraine defences are not quite expecting 75 year old technology? However... suspect using up old stuff first

[sime42]

This brings to mind a very distant memory, it's been years since I read the book.

 

Here's how we could make a real-life Dune force field

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[sime42]

Think I half heard a mention yesterday of a Hezbollah rocket getting through Israelly defenses because it was some kind of ancient, slow type.

 

 

[peds]

Ah, that was kind of them. Like letting the kid with Down's syndrome score the winning goal. 

[topchippyles]

6 hours ago, Stubby said:

Russia have blown the dust off the old D-74 122mm gun from the 1940s and are shelling Ukraine with those . Running short of modern ordinance ? 

Listening on bbc world service this afternoon reports that there is a regiment of 20K north koreans ready to deploy. 

[Stubby]

1 hour ago, topchippyles said:

Listening on bbc world service this afternoon reports that there is a regiment of 20K north koreans ready to deploy. 

Yea I read that .

[daveatdave]

Ukraine Is Deploying This Classic American Missile, Bringing a Cold Warrior Back to Life

WWW.POPULARMECHANICS.COM

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The HAWK is rising from the ashes for a new dawn in air defense.

 

[Stubby]

Russian men killed or injured fast approaching 700K . Confusion in the Kusk area . Russian fighting vehicle drives toward to Ukrainian tanks thinking they were friendly's . One tank scores a direct hit disabling the Russian vehicle . Russian troops disembark smartish and run toward Ukraine lines and are captured . Second Ukrainian tank finishes the Russian fighting vehicle .  Most of the latest Russian troops are poorly trained it seems .        

[dan blocker]

Apparently some North Koreans have already gone awol? No doubt they think they’ll at least get better fed by the Ukrainians than back home🤔 and I doubt if any do refuse to fight they definitely won’t want to go home!