Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

How well is the war this going for Russia?

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ElsonSohai said:
Why are silencers not used more often in a war?
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Others have largely laid out most of the reasons in posts before mine but there is
1. The added expense of manufacturing the silencers themselves, especially to a Military use specification. There is a world of difference between a 10oz fully titanium silencer rated for .300 Win Mag than an Elk hunter would use and a silencer for a belt fed machinegun that a Soldier would use.
2. In addition to additional parts wear on firearms not properly tuned, suppressors depending on their design and the design of the weapon suppressors can make it quite uncomfortable to actually fire the weapon due to stinging gases getting into the shooter's eyes.
3. In addition to potential discomfort suppressors depending on their design (this applies to all suppressors but but I assume some are worse than others) can dramatically increase the rate at which a weapon fouls
4. In addition to discomfort suppressor blowback gases are actually pretty toxic and it is not good to be breathing that shit in. USSOCOM guys who fire more suppressed rounds than anyone have developed some serious health problems apparently. This of course can be countered through intelligent design but those designs are more expensive than traditional designs.
 
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Others have covered most of the downfalls. One could use a shorter barrel to offset overall weapon length concerns, but then you'd reduce your effective range. The things most people who aren't gun autists don't normally know is that suppressors drastically increase your chance of jams (and short strokes, if you don't have the proper buffer/recoil spring installed... Doubly sketchy if you plan on switching from supers to subs, etc), and that they get hot af and dirty the shit out of your gun very quickly. To the point that you won't be able to wrench the can off to change the baffles without a bench vice. Not good if you plan on being in the field for a while.
 
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A survey of a British mercenary who fought in Ukraine

Andrew Hill's group was defeated in the Mykolaiv region, and he himself was wounded and surrendered to the Russian military. The militant said that he came of his own free will. He had a Czech CZ rifle with him. According to the man, he received a minimum amount of information from Ukrainians.

Hill asked when he would be sent home and if he was safe. The Russian military assured the man that he was not in danger:

— What's wrong with my hand? Will I be sent to the hospital?

— You will get help. You have a gunshot wound.

 
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AZOV in Mariupol can hold out much longer with this one simple trick.

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Getting tard comed said:
Been busy so haven't really been keeping track of the actual war. I know it's 10 days until Russia finally runs out of everything and has to declare victory since they won't have food, ammo, men, or supplies, but besides that any updates with Russias second push?
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Russia has run out of food for two weeks already, and they have caught and eaten all the hedgehogs in the forest, now, due to the lack of hedgehogs, Europe is facing an ecological disaster
kuuu said:
Some azovite shows his living quarters underground.
They wholeheartedly believe in international help and eventual de-blockade.
It seems they might indeed be using antiseptic fluid for fuel.
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Wy4M said:
AZOV in Mariupol can hold out much longer with this one simple trick.

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How the fuck do the Ukrainians turn into orcs living in dark dungeons and eating human flesh?
kuuu said:
I like the very last two sentences he said.
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A rare breed of anglo-a reasonable one.
 
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Borscht said:
Worse. They sanctioned Russia to hell and back and still are expecting it to give them free gas.

I am actually surprised by all the indignant noises coming from the EU about "breach of contract" and "blackmail". Dudes. Dudes. You seized Russia's gold reserves and kicked it out of all your banking and legal institutions. Boo fucking hoo.

By kicking it out of EU you freed it from your courts jurisdiction. And you already closed your ports, closed your airspace, banned Russian trucks, confiscated Russian assets, nationalized Russian companies, fired Russian employees, cancelled Russian music and literature, disconnected Russia from SWIFT, pulled out all of your businesses and wrote a blank check for a war by proxy IN THE FIRST WEEK.

Cope, seethe, dilate and pay for the gas in roubles. Because there is literally nothing else that you can possibly do to punish Russia more.
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The Ugly One said:
Ethno-nationalism is good when it's some other country.



To people in other countries, the USA's foreign policy doctrine, "It's different when we do it," sounds like a gag. But I can assure you, everyone in Washington unironically believes it. They really did think that after tearing up every single international agreement, written or handshake, to sanction Russia, that Moscow would continue to abide by the terms of a functionally null contract because Washington had taken away Russia's ability to receive payment for gas. They thought this, because we're the good guys, so when we seize your assets and cut off your banking, we're just doing good guy stuff, but not giving our EU vassal states gas is bad guy stuff, so it's still wrong.
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So I guess Putin, 4Chan, and this very sub forum was right when they said Western governments were the arch enemy of every person who believes in aiming for the prosperity of their own nation. And now only the truest of true believers want to keep the pissing match going.
The Ugly One said:
Back when the Twin Towers were hit, House Representative Ron Paul (PBUH) pointed out that we'd spent the last decade dropping bombs all over the Muslim world, and that to people in those countries, that sure as shit looks like an act of war, so striking back at us is a natural thing for them to try to do. This got labeled "blowback theory," and he was smeared in the press as saying the 9/11 victims deserved it. To this day, official Washington foreign policy doctrine is that it's not an act of war when we drop bombs on you, only when you drop bombs on us.

What we believe is that when we punch you, you deserved to get punched, so it's morally wrong when you punch back.
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How have these people lived so long without learning the concept of “making enemies”?
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The eternal anglo is rattling it's rusty old sabers and claiming we need a "global NATO" which includes nations in the West Pacific. The last world war only cost Britain its entire empire, surely they would fare better in a hypothetical WWIII. I hope they keep pressing this line, because I think it will only serve to reveal how weak NATO is.

In WWII the domestic manufacturing output between all the western powers (particularly the US) was insane. That's just not the case anymore. ZOG, in its infinite wisdom, has offloaded so much manufacturing to China that even items of strategic importance like advanced weaponry are reliant on components from China. I think the west no longer has the ability to arm Ukraine and Worst Korea and Japan and Taiwan and Australia simultaneously.
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WW2: British lose their empire. WW3: A loan shark ends up taking over the world. Her Majesty can never win apparently.
Spicey McHaggis said:
Low. Incredibly low. Despite plenty of people fear mongering, the odds of any global leader, not just putin, dropping a nuke are ridiculously small.
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You have to really want to use a nuke as well as really hate the place you’re using it on. Putin doesn’t check either of those boxes.
 
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ElsonSohai said:
Silly question : Why are silencers not used more often in a war?

I mean imagine the Chechens being armed with silenced machine guns or something, they'd be firing thousands of rounds at the enemy without giving away their position.
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Suppressors aren't as quiet as le movies but they do remove some muzzle signature and reduce bang noises that echo at a significant distance (300+ meters).

In order for a Suppressor to even be close to movie level quiet, it must be fired from a weapon that uses sub-sonic ammunition. Examples of sub-sonic rounds include 9x19mm, 9x39mm, 9x21mm and I think .45 ACP as well.

The US army is planning on making suppressors standard on infantry weapons to make friendly gunfire easier to identify and to reduce ear damage and noise in combat.

This is a 9x39mm Assault Rifle with an "integrated suppressor" used by Russian Special Forces as an example.

 
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Gay_nig_from_outer_space said:
In order for a Suppressor to even be close to movie level quiet, it must be fired from a weapon that uses sub-sonic ammunition. Examples of sub-sonic rounds include 9x19mm, 9x39mm, 9x21mm and I think .45 ACP as well
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The 9x19 and 9x21 aren't subsonic rounds, but subsonic ammo is made in those calibers. 9x39 is a rather specialized round, there's not much that uses it. The best example of a round specifically for running with a suppressor is 300 blackout.
 
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Terekhov: "They came here ( Russians), they don't understand what a toilet is… Our broken cities look better than theirs! "

This is the official position of the government. Cool


🐻 A Himalayan bear was evacuated from the Kharkiv ecopark.
 
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White_N said:
A survey of a British mercenary who fought in Ukraine

Andrew Hill's group was defeated in the Mykolaiv region, and he himself was wounded and surrendered to the Russian military. The militant said that he came of his own free will. He had a Czech CZ rifle with him. According to the man, he received a minimum amount of information from Ukrainians.

Hill asked when he would be sent home and if he was safe. The Russian military assured the man that he was not in danger:

— What's wrong with my hand? Will I be sent to the hospital?

— You will get help. You have a gunshot wound.

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Lol these niggers really need to be careful about what they're saying. Not for OpSec reasons, but because the Russian government is wanting to charge them criminally. Even if the interrogator isn't looking to trap them into saying something self-incriminating and is just fishing for military intelligence, that doesn't mean a prosecutor later on down the road won't use the recordings of their integrations as evidence.
 
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mr.moon1488 said:
Lol these niggers really need to be careful about what they're saying. Not for OpSec reasons, but because the Russian government is wanting to charge them criminally. Even if the interrogator isn't looking to trap them into saying something self-incriminating and is just fishing for military intelligence, that doesn't mean a prosecutor later on down the road won't use the recordings of their integrations as evidence.
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To be fair, I think they'll decide whether or not to charge them regardless of what they say in interrogation.
 
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Today's my bday, so it's nice to be greeted with a fresh batch of footage...

Russian chopper flies over Popasna (link)



Russian UR-77 Meteorit clears out a Ukie fortress in Rubizhne, which is funny considering how it's used for mine-clearance. Pretty creative in my book (link)



Separatist convoy on the move somewhere in the Donbass (link)



Remains of a bridge in the Donbass that was demolished by Ukrainian forces, apparently (link)



British mercenary Andrew Hill gets captured by Russians in Nikolaev (link)

 
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White_N said:
A survey of a British mercenary who fought in Ukraine

Andrew Hill's group was defeated in the Mykolaiv region, and he himself was wounded and surrendered to the Russian military. The militant said that he came of his own free will. He had a Czech CZ rifle with him. According to the man, he received a minimum amount of information from Ukrainians.

Hill asked when he would be sent home and if he was safe. The Russian military assured the man that he was not in danger:

— What's wrong with my hand? Will I be sent to the hospital?

— You will get help. You have a gunshot wound.

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Seeing this reminded me of Cossack Gundi.
Here's an update from 2 days ago:
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"Ukrainian Embassy in Denmark confirms that a 25 year old Danish citizen has been killed in Ukraine, reportedly fighting Russian forces as part of the International Legion."

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There are a few rumors floating around that its this guy but I couldn't find any valuable sources.
Looks like guessing/wishful thinking to me. We'll probably find out in a few days.
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EDIT - Ignore. Storm is 35y old. not 25.
Article from 2019, before his face got stamped:
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March 19
The command of the Ukrainian army flooded the village of Demidov in the Kiev region.

The village of Demidov, located north of Kiev, is under threat of flooding.

Due to the undermining by the Ukrainian military of the dam of the Kiev reservoir, the water level on the floodplain of the Irpen River reached its maximum permissible level.

Now the water is approaching the houses of civilians, but no one intends to save them.
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April 28

As a result of the explosion in March of the dam between the Irpen River and the Kiev reservoir by Ukrainian troops to slow down the offensive of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the village of Demidov is now flooded.


Some journo even wrote about it
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nati...0220427-2x6jnej2tjatzae2rohoa2fcpa-story.html
 
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