A tank needs to do more than stop small arms fire though. Anti-armor is basically one of the main roles of a tank in the modern battlefield (from what I understand). If you want to provide infantry support, use an IFV.
Sure, but we were talking tankettes, not tanks, which Russia might very well be dumb enough to build considering a tiny-ass tractor that can stop .50 cal fire isn't exactly hard to make. A few of them got jury-rigged up in Syria, and I saw the inside of one that had an unmanned turret with the gunner using a gamepad to control it and a portable LCD screen and some sort of video camera to see outside. Probably better quality than anything Russia could make given their lack of access to Western consumer goods.
For infantry support an obsolete tank will probably do about as well as any IFV that doesn't have significantly better sensors and FCS imo.
The current cope from our vatnik contingent is that the video is obviously fake. Because reasons.
Weren't the Russians supposed to be having great success rounding up and killing all the Banderites? We should be seeing dozens of videos like that. Whole platoons of Azov-Nazis shouting "Slava Ukraini" before being gunned down.
Maybe if they wanted to ship troops to the front line desant. Though maybe Russia will figure that's a great way to save on ERA.
I genuinely believe the Russian government's lip-service to Orthodoxy is a grift and propaganda tool, but tbh the "discussion" about what side is based and tradpilled is pointless and stupid. Both sides have their shares of doubtlessly devout Christians and degenerate atheists, neither side seems to be ruled by a particularly devout or religiously committed government (outside of some token grifting), and culture war BS is honestly the last thing the war is about (despite what vatniggers seem to think).
A bit of both, mostly. A cheap, reliable, multi-role tracked platform is pretty much the military's holy grail in terms of the capabilities it allows, which is why Uncle Sam (and the whole West, really) has struggled to come up with a replacement for the M113 because as Todd Howard might say, "It just works". The MT-LB is not that, which is why Russia had so many hulls in storage for them to mount those old turrets also in storage on, and why the entire thing is a hilarious joke, unlike the many M113's that have been successfully converted into weapons carriers of one sort or another.
It's not pointless to mock the ziggers for being hypocrites though. It's funny as fuck, actually. Moreover, there really isn't much hypocrisy on the Ukrainian side because they just want the invaders out and their land back. So it really doesn't matter how many "degenerate atheists" the Ukrainian military has.
Slap a sepia filter, call it 'Ypres', and you wouldn't know the difference.
This shit reminds me of the kids in the USSR who would end up orphans because their parents were "wreckers" or other made up shit. They would understandably turn to theft to feed themselves, then the NKVD would arrest and torture the kids. Force them to point out "co-conspirators", since there obviously was none the kids would point out random people to save their own hides. Why the fuck can Russia seemingly not have a non-psycho government outside Gorby and a few Tsars throughout history?You guys have probably heard about the new wrongthink laws in Russia, specifically "discreditation of Russian armed forces"
There's already been multiple cases where children who expressed anti-war sentiment are taken away from their parents, who's bearing responsibility for it as a result.
In this specific case, in the drawing class girl made a picture featuring Russian and Ukrainian flags, saying "No to war" and "Glory to Ukraine"
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Her teacher called the police, they summoned her father to school, they filed the complaint with other teachers as witnesses, then they were taken to police station. His house was "searched", they seized his cash among other things. Even FSB got involved over a fucking drawing. Absolutely horrifying shit.
You can read the full story here:
В Тульской области задержали отца школьницы, нарисовавшей антивоенный рисунок. Девочку отправили в приют - BBC News Русская служба
Алексей Москалев - отец школьницы из города Ефремов Тульской области, нарисовавшей антивоенный рисунок на уроке ИЗО, находится сейчас в изоляторе временного содержания, сообщили Би-би-си в "ОВД-Инфо" (признан в России "иноагентом"). По информации издания, дочь Машу, которую Алексей Москалев...www.bbc.com
You're a bad parent for not brainwashing your child. Ziggers would want you to believe that this is somehow better than what's happening in American schools.
This was brought to my attention earlier today. Just when I think that I'm too tired to be any angrier, I'm instantly proven wrong.
I don't know if I'd go so far as to say they are getting their shit pushed in by superior weaponry as much much as Russian tubes aren't supporting them (talk shit about the army, they don't provide arty), they spent their supply getting as far as they did, and now they don't have the ammo to push further, and probably are having issues holding what they got.
You got it there at the end:
Old tank vs. Technical is a doctrine question; the most effective armor is to be out of range. A technical would be able to move faster and require less supply.
You can say "it doesn't matter if its from 1920 or 2020 if it hits you" but that really covers up a point.
I don't think its in poor taste, but do appreciate spoilering it. Text descriptions are fine for me, but I appreciate posting the video if folks want to validate.
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