Russian Special Military Operation in the Ukraine - Mark IV: The Partitioning of Discussion

[Procopius]

Someone wanted a scorched earth policy? This is apparently a new Russian drone for clearing out those treelines between the fields.

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

Someone wanted a scorched earth policy? This is apparently a new Russian drone for clearing out those treelines between the fields.
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I like to imagine they duct taped a small goblin with an angle grinder to the bottom of a regular quadcopter.

 

[JustStopDude]

Sooner than we think. Russian economy is super hot right now. West? Not so much. If Trump wins the election, the war is over immediately.

Everything I have read is that the Russian economy is super inflated by their central bank and that isn't sustainable.

It doesn't help that their current trade agreements aren't in rubles with China and India.

 

[White_N]

Someone wanted a scorched earth policy? This is apparently a new Russian drone for clearing out those treelines between the fields.
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Sasha, they are on the trees!

 

[Butterschmalz]

Based Eurasians will come together and be united by their hate for the pajeet. If only Ukraine would have let the pajeets in before 2014. Could have prevented the war.





Kasakhs rocking.



jimmy jimmy

 

[Overly Serious]

Someone wanted a scorched earth policy? This is apparently a new Russian drone for clearing out those treelines between the fields.
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Ride of the Valkyries begins to play.

I hope there was nobody in that treeline. Though I didn't see anybody running out or trying to shoot down the drone, so probably not.

 

[Sigmund]

So never?

The war don't stop. The war mustn't stop,there never have been peace really, always forms of war, cold war is over but the world is still at war, it is a war of depopulation, elites want it to escalate to full thermonuclear war, I don't want to! We can know peace if this garbage ends, in the EU and in the US forcing a clash for over a decade and more in Ukraine, then doing the same maneuvers in China/Taiwan, Iran etc.

 

[Eternal Gopnik]

Ride of the Valkyries begins to play.

I hope there was nobody in that treeline. Though I didn't see anybody running out or trying to shoot down the drone, so probably not.

Probably not - plus even if there were, unless they got hit directly by whatever the flammable agent is, they'd have plenty of time to get out, the fire isn't spreading very fast, you can see how it gets darker in subsequent shots. I think they're just using it to clear the line of sight, not as a weapon.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

I think they're just using it to clear the line of sight, not as a weapon.

Both, actually. Digging trenchlines into these strips of forest is popular. Lighting the patch ablaze is likely to cause all but the most well drilled defenders in the best dug trenches to withdraw. Effectively destroys the trench line in the process, if its not manned then its just an annoying ditch that might have some minor intelligence value if stuff was left behind.

The Ukrainians can go back after the blaze is out and reoccupy the trench, but that position is almost certainly under observation for just such an act, and its now an easy and obvious target for further drone attack with explosive payloads. Unless that lines blocking access to something more important than a field leading to the next trench, its probably not really worth occupying anymore.

 

[PrimeRadiant]

Based Eurasians will come together and be united by their hate for the pajeet. If only Ukraine would have let the pajeets in before 2014. Could have prevented the war.

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Kasakhs rocking.

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jimmy jimmy

I have never seen a group of people go from being regarded with indifference to being utterly despised so quickly. It kinda destroys the theory that prejudice is based on ignorance. It is increased contact with Indians that generates dislike.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Whatever happened to the ramping up of artillery shell production by NATO countries? It was seemingly in every news story for months, but I haven't seen anything, one way or the other, in quite a while. Somehow the tone of the articles back then made me skeptical it was in fact going to happen, but I freely admit I could be wrong here. Anyone know what's going on? I think there was a factory in Lithuania or Estonia being built by a German firm confirmed, but I'm not even sure anything else was defined in concrete terms. And now, silence.

Also, this:
Sorry Vatniks, you're on your way out. Twitter / too lazy to bother archiving this crap.

I don't even know what he's talking about here. Surely even he's not dumb enough to consider the shenanigans in Kursk in those terms?

 

[prolapsed_cranium]

The Suez canal is still open and ships are still traveling through the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

To a handful of traffic.

Most insurance companies won't let ships traverse the strait

 

[Yak-130 Mitten]

Ramping up production met reality, and reality requested wages.

Also dont worry what king has to stay. Unlike him, life occasionally writes good endings.

 

[PrimeRadiant]

Ramping up production met reality, and reality requested wages.

Also dont worry what king has to stay. Unlike him, life occasionally writes good endings.

That and the reality of broken supply chains from a deindustrialised west that no longer manufactures the needed components

 

[Fapcop]

Whatever happened to the ramping up of artillery shell production by NATO countries?

Factories are expensive.

Sure, producing shells may be an old, true and tested process, but it’s still a substantial investment in machinery. (And wages of course.)

Who’s going to pay for that? Investors? Here’s the problem. The war may continue for a year or two. Let’s say three more years just for argument.

But who’s going to buy all those shells in a decade? Or two?

Investors don’t like putting their money into things that may only require 10% of the current capacity in half a decade.

That's another reason the Russians are winning. All of their industrial capacity was state owned. Unlike the west where whatever conglomerates that were still nationalized, were almost all sold off or privatized.

Russia managed to hold on to some of their industrial capacity. They modernized it in the 2010’s, and are able to quickly ramp it up as needed. Once you have a factory, it’s relatively easy to go from one shift to two or three.

 

[Chen Stirner]

I wonder if our friend Vince had a plan for this when he fled Ukraine to dodge the draft so he could continue shitposting on KiwiFarms.

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https://x.com/dana916/status/1830251866787049675

Be warned. This is the blueprint Globohomo will use when they institute a draft.

 

[MrJokerRager]

 

[Fatniggo1488]

Hohols are complaining about the latest Russian trick:

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Apparently Russia have begun to use turbojet drones with no payload.

5000$ drone vs. 50.000$ SAM missile.

The drones travel in swarms, so good luck trying to figure out which one is a decoy and which one isn’t.

It would be more effective to use them in waves followed by drones actually carrying a payload. Most of the AA systems can't just rearm and fire again rapidly and after they fire they're easy to spot.

 

[Screamer_2]

Someone wanted a scorched earth policy? This is apparently a new Russian drone for clearing out those treelines between the fields.
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The Ukraine thread says it's a Ukraine drone. Me, no idea.

 

[Betonhaus]

The Ukraine thread says it's a Ukraine drone. Me, no idea.

If it was a Ukraine drone, there would be countless articles describing it a s a Wunder waffle that would win the war for Ukraine, and it would have been blown up by now.