Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Ecliptic]

You know, all this talk of Javelins and NLAWs made me wonder. Do the Russians have their own version? I don't seem to recall anything about their infantry using heavy weapons to take out armoured vehicles. (Maybe they don't need to, given the armour disparity but still).

DPR tank guys keep talking shit about Javelins specifically, calling it American marketing. Russians handed them few captured ones, guess we'll see.

 

[Lone MacReady]

Rofl Germans copied our shit as well. All their rocket development built off of American work pioneered by Goddard. Oh and their anti tank rockets? Bazooka copies.

And nukes?

 

[Adolphin]

They have the RPG, but honestly outside their parachute regiments Russia doesn't field alot of light infantry so they've never really felt the need for some high tech tank killer that can be carried by dismounted troops.

The Soviets developed the Malyutka, Fagot, and Konkurs ATGMs. All very potent ATGMs within their period of relevancy, but many of those have gotten upgrades. Additionally, the RPG series is far more expansive than most think. The RPG-7 was followed by new models like the RPG-29 boasting a tandem charge warhead and the disposable RPG-22 and RPG-26, those being comparable to the M72 LAW. Ukraine in this conflict uses a lot of those Soviet-era ATGMs and RPGs with a significant effect.

Note, the Malyutka is probably the most prolific ATGM ever, but its early versions required very skilled operators since guidance was manual.

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

The content has about dried up and now this thread is just trolls and spergs.
I have come to the conclusion that Putin won. That man is in my open source thread, my breadtube thread, /g/, all over the industry I work in. I was showing someone OSINT software, used an old acquaintance's username as an example, and discovered via Fetlife the guy is now transgender and in a relationship with a professional, hairy armed transgender dominatrix who has injection scars on his arms. I hover over the fetlife icon in the top left and it turns into ukraine colors.

He hasn't made it onto the AWS login page or node.js doc pages yet so his victory isn't total. George Floyd died and was plastered everywhere out of some weird religious fetish. This humble conscript salesman is the opposite with them. He can breef and that makes them upset.
That monkey man thousands of miles away now lives rent free in people's heads who now have to make it known to me. At least it's better than tranny and nigger signaling.

"They forgot about me? Invade it."

 

[A_Callow_Youth]

More shitpost to distract us from the rocket autism:

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Rofl Germans copied our shit as well. All their rocket development built off of American work pioneered by Goddard. Oh and their anti tank rockets? Bazooka copies.

Hermann Oberth was presenting his concepts the same decade as Goddard and Tsiolkovsky already worked out most of the necessary math decades earlier.

 

[White_N]

never even had the opportunity cause germans never made it anywhere near kazakhstan

After the Holodomor, when the Nazis showed up in 1940 you would have collaborated against the soviets too.

The point in question was the Holodomor. The Kazakhs might as well have gone full nigger on the Russian and other minorities, but they didn't. It's just a matter of will.

 

[kuuu]

Spoiler: What goblohomo sees out their window

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@White_N Best of luck arguing about Holodomor.
I didn't even try to engage this topic due to how futile it usually is.

 

[Corette]

Stop mistaking horrific incompetence with malice

Those things are indistinguishable.
Hanlon's razor is bullshit.

 

[SneedEyeMitch]

I didn't even try to engage this topic due to how futile it usually is.

That can be said with any tragedy, I've learned that it's never about learning from history but about keeping score. Seen all before in Ireland, the IRA sided with Axis to mess with Britain then they sided with the Soviets to mess with Britain.

 

[IamnottheNSA]

More shitpost to distract us from the rocket autism:

A bit unrelated, but are there any actual T-90s used in this conflict? I haven't seen them so far, but maybe I missed something.

 

[kuuu]

A bit unrelated, but are there any actual T-90s used in this conflict? I haven't seen them so far, but maybe I missed something.

Nope. Russia's keeping the best for the actual west, it seems.

 

[White_N]

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@White_N Best of luck arguing about Holodomor.
I didn't even try to engage this topic due to how futile it usually is.

Well, I didn't just study that God-forsaken region for nothing; now I can sperg about it with random people on the Internet!
pic tax

 

[Josterman]

Some good old fashion racism towards anything Russian or Russian like replace it with anything else these same assholes and cunts would be autistically screaming about it nonstop

 

[A_Callow_Youth]

A bit unrelated, but are there any actual T-90s used in this conflict? I haven't seen them so far, but maybe I missed something.

The carnage catalog has 16 of them, which is the lowest of Russia's 4 MBT models, but they are there. At least, the A's are, the M's seem to be as much of a vaporware as the T-14.

 

[No. 7 cat]

The carnage catalog has 16 of them, which is the lowest of Russia's 4 MBT models, but they are there. At least, the A's are, the M's seem to be as much of a vaporware as the T-14.

I just thought the T-14 hasn't started regular, serial production yet, just prototypes. It appears to be somewhat delayed. There might be one used for media posing, like with Kadyrov's toy soldiers and jannies.

 

[White_N]

That can be said with any tragedy, I've learned that it's never about learning from history but about keeping score. Seen all before in Ireland, the IRA sided with Axis to mess with Britain then they sided with the Soviets to mess with Britain.

Isn't the IRA supplied by Libya, of all places? The last IRA activity was not so long ago. If we already forget why and how such a recent conflict started, then we really learn nothing from history, which is why we are fucked.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

The point in question was the Holodomor. The Kazakhs might as well have gone full nigger on the Russian and other minorities, but they didn't. It's just a matter of will.

The Holodomor is mostly an exaggerated myth. Like there was a famine caused by Soviet mismanagement during an already difficult few years for farming, but it was exactly that, a famine caused by mismanagement that wasn't some concerted effort to destroy the Ukrainian people. The "muh 7 million Ukrainians" is pure nonsense, made up by Nazi collaborators in the OUN to top the 6 million Jews (that's also why they call it the Holodomor, because it sounds like Holocaust). It was promoted by the CIA and Western propaganda machine to whitewash the atrocities commited by Ukrainian Nazis during and after the war (where they were involved in atrocities against the Poles in Galicia).

Modern Ukraine is a dream 60 years in the making for these Ukrainian Nazis and their spawn who populate the ranks of the CIA and other Western intelligence agencies.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

I just thought the T-14 hasn't started regular, serial production yet, just prototypes. It appears to be somewhat delayed. There might be one used for media posing, like with Kadyrov's toy soldiers and jannies.

Switching over to a new tank is expensive, and somewhat hard to justify when you have damn near 10000 between active service and stored ones that could just be refurbished.

 

[Lichen Bark]

BTR-4 destroys 2 (possibly abandoned) T-72s with 30mm cannon fire.
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The sound of that BTR-4 cannon is pretty intense! Damn!

According to https://tvd.im/land-systems/2262-btr-4.html this thing is amphibious to. For someone who doesn't really know much about military stuff, and for the most part, thinks everything is some variation of a tank, it's wild when you read the specs on some of this equipment.

1 x 3TD diesel-fueled engine developing 500 horsepower driving conventional eight-wheeled arrangement.

500 diesel horses, damn! Weighs in at 22 tons. It's got like 12 different variants, with all manner of use-specific addons. They even have a recovery version with a powered crane, winch, welding equipment and towing equipment. I guess I see that "tiny" (to my retard eyes) cannon, and think what could that possibly do? Apparently a lot. There is so much military equipment out there it's really hard to keep up. Then you throw in different ammunition types, and my head starts to spin. Who see's this shit and then goes "yes, I want to go run around on the battlefield with that kind of equipment lurking around, never mind the shit in the air that you can't even see before you're dead." I'm still blown away by redditards.