Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) reported that Russian forces typically engage in localized tactical assaults until they have lost up to 30 percent of their manpower, after which they are rotated out and reconstituted.[26] Losses of 30 percent are extremely high. Most units become combat ineffective after taking much lower losses. The Russians are therefore likely fighting their units past the point at which they have become combat ineffective before rotating them out for reconstitution.
Ukrainian Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) Deputy Chief Major General Vadym Skibitskyi stated on January 11 that Russian forces withdraw their units to rear areas when they are at 50 percent or less of their intended end strength and return them to the front following recovery and replenishment.[27]
The Russian command’s willingness to allow a unit to be severely degraded to between 50 and 70 percent of the unit’s end strength significantly impacts the unit’s combat effectiveness. This approach to force management likely explains the observable pattern of Russian operations on the ground. Localized assaults continue until they stall out, whereupon offensive operations pause while the command rotates and replenishes degraded units. ISW has observed this pattern in the Kupyansk and Lyman directions since January 2024.[28]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-february-14-2024
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Joe Biden Could Send Millions Of Artillery Shells To Ukraine, For Free, Tomorrow. And It’s Perfectly Legal.
‘Excess defense articles’ remains a powerful authority.
By David Axe | Feb 14, 2024,10:51pm EST
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/02/14/joe-biden-could-send-
millions-of-artillery-shells-to-ukraine-for-free-tomorrow-and-its-perfectly-legal/?sh=23de8a0120c7
There’s a bureaucratically complex but perfectly legal way for the administration of U.S. president Joe Biden to send to Ukraine the thing Ukrainian brigades need the most: artillery shells. Millions of them.
As Russia’s wider war on Ukraine grinds into its third year and Russia-aligned Republicans in the U.S. Congress continue to withhold U.S. funding for Ukraine, Ukrainian artillery batteries are desperately low on ammunition.
Six months ago, Ukrainian batteries were firing as many as 6,000 shells a day and, in some sectors of the 600-mile front line, even matching Russians batteries’ own shellfire.
Today, four months after Republicans began blocking aid, the Ukrainians are firing just 2,000 shells a day. At the same time, the Russians — flush with shells from North Korea and Iran — are firing up as many as 10,000 shells a day.
That firepower disparity is the main reason why Russian forces are — admittedly at great cost — slowly advancing in and around the eastern city of Avdiivka, currently the locus of Russia’s winter offensive.
Given indicted ex-president Donald Trump’s cultish hold over the Republican Party and Trump’s longstanding affinity for authoritarian Russian leader Vladimir Putin, there’s seems to be little prospect of Biden getting much, or any, fresh funding for Ukraine now that Republicans hold a slim majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
But that doesn’t mean Biden is powerless to help Ukraine. An under-appreciated U.S. law gives the president authority to sell at a discount, or even give away, any existing weapons the U.S. military declares excess to its needs.
The law caps annual transfers of so-called “excess defense articles” at a total value of $500 million a year. But the same law doesn’t dictate how much value the president assigns to a particular weapon. He in theory could price an item at zero dollars.
Biden only rarely has used his EDA authority for Ukraine. And where he has used it, lately it’s been a part of complex “ring-trades” where the U.S. government gives excess weapons to third countries — Ecuador and Greece, to name two — then encourages those same countries directly or indirectly to give to Ukraine some of their own surplus weapons.
The United States for instance offered Ecuador ex-U.S. Army UH-60 transport helicopters, freeing up Ecuador to donate to Ukraine its surplus Mi-17 helicopters as well as rocket-launchers and air-defense systems. Greece is getting ex-U.S. Air Force C-130 airlifters and ex-U.S. Army ground vehicles on the understanding the Greeks will try to find surplus weapons to pass onward to the Ukrainians.
There’s no legal reason Biden couldn’t cut out the middleman and use his EDA authority directly to support Ukraine. And there’s no practical reason this aid couldn’t include artillery ammunition.
Generally speaking, most artillery ammunition in U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps stockpiles clearly isn’t excess. Indeed, the Army and Marines need all the modern shells they can get as they prepare for Ukraine-style wars.
But there’s an important exception. There are potentially four million 155-millimeter dual-purpose improved cluster munitions in storage in the United States. M483A1 and M864 DPICM rounds respectively scatter 88 or 72 grenade-size submunitions, each of which can kill or maim a soldier.
All of these shells are obvious candidates for the “excess” label. The U.S. Army years ago determined that these DPICMs—produced in large quantities between the 1970s and 1990s—are unreliable and unsafe, as any particular submunition has up to a 14-
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After A 12-Month Wait, The Ukrainians Are Finally Firing Their 90-Mile Glide-Bombs At The Russians
By David Axe | Feb 14, 2024,09:08pm EST
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/02/14/after-a-12-month-wait
-the-ukrainians-are-finally-firing-their-90-mile-glide-bombs-at-the-russians/?sh=98a1b926308f
Ukraine’s American-made, ground-launched glide-bombs are in action—and at a critical time. Ukrainian brigades are starving for artillery ammunition—ironically because of Russia-aligned Republican lawmakers in the United States.
The 600-pound, 90-mile-range glide-bombs might help to compensate for a dire shortage of 155-millimeter howitzer shells. But only somewhat. The glide munitions aren’t artillery. And it would be a waste to pretend they are.
The first evidence of a GLSDB raid appeared online on Wednesday. Russian troops posted a video depicting a boxful of rocket fragments that seems to include a GLSDB’s distinctive tail section.
The Russians claimed the wreckage was from a Tuesday strike near Kreminna in eastern Ukraine. It’s possible the strike in question targeted a pair of Russian rocket-launchers just east of Zhytlivka. A Ukrainian drone was overhead, observing, when the launchers exploded in a dramatic fireball.
If the Zhytlivka strike indeed involved GLSDBs, it may have been a curious choice. Zhytlivka is just a few miles from the front line near Kreminna, begging the question: why waste 90-mile deep-strike munitions on a relatively shallow raid?
It’s possible there were extenuating circumstances. Maybe a GLSDB launcher happened to be in the right place at the right time for a short-notice strike on a clutch of Russian launchers. Maybe adjacent tube-artillery batteries were so low on shells that it actually made sense to expend GLSDBs.
With Republicans blocking U.S. aid to Ukraine, Ukrainian batteries are down to firing just a few thousand shells a day, perhaps a fifth what Russian batteries fire.
Kyiv is fortunate that the administration of U.S. president Joe Biden paid U.S. defense firm Boeing and its partner, Swedish company Saab, to develop the GLSDB for Ukraine a year ago, before Republicans began leveraging their slim majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The GLSDB contract was worth $33 million. A single GLSDB—a GBU-39 winged glide-bomb attached to a surplus M26 rocket motor—costs just $40,000.
Ukraine might get many hundreds of GLSDBs. Assuming, of course, Boeing and Saab didn’t spend most of that $33 million on development.
The munitions apparently launch from special containers that could be towed by any truck, although Saab claimed a tracked M270 or wheeled High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System mobile launcher—Ukraine has dozens of each—also would be compatible with the GLSDB.
Five or six hundred GLSDBs can’t replace the 5,000 or 6,000 so 155-millimeter shells Ukrainian artillery batteries happily would lob at the Russians every day, given an adequate supply of ammo from allied countries. At present, the Ukrainians might be firing 2,000 shells a day.
Yes, most 155-millimeter artillery is unguided and ranges just 15 miles or so with a 25-pound explosive fill. The GPS-guided GLSDB by contrast ranges six times as far with eight times as much explosives.
But tube artillery might be most decisive when it targets enemy forces in the hours before an attack, as they gather out in the open miles behind the front line and begin their movement to contact. A barrage of a few dozen shells can wreck vehicles and kill infantry across thousands of square yards.
GLSDBs by contrast might be most decisive while striking point targets deep behind the front line: supply depots, ammunition trains, command bunkers, air-defense radars. Targets whose relative rarity belies their importance to the overall Russian war effort.
In short, artillery is a day-to-day killer of combat forces across a wide area close to the front. Deep-strike munitions such as the GLSDB are for pinpoint raids targeting the basic infrastructure of mechanized warfare. The supply
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Russia invaded Eastern Europe and didn't leave until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Every one of those countries joined NATO or begged NATO to accept them because of their miserable experience with Russians, which involved Russians murdering Eastern Europeans.
6ixStringJack declares himself a dumb-ass.
Oh good. You finally figured out how the quote feature here works.
This is why I have accumulated a very long list of archived pages of all the death threats and assassination fantasies you have. There's been at least a dozen of them added since my last update.
Feel free at any time to remove them all. It will make no matter. They're archived forever, even if this site disappears.
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Quote:To feel strong, the Russians constantly threaten to nuke the US but nothing happens. Similarly, 6ix constantly makes threats to drop the bomb on his enemy but nothing happens. Instead, the Russians steal from their weak neighbors, the Ukrainians. I expect 6ix, as Russians would in a similar situation, to burglarize his neighbors to support his $7,000 per year lifestyle and no gainful employment. 6ix and Russians are scumbags who have the rotten lives they deserve.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Russia invaded Eastern Europe and didn't leave until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Every one of those countries joined NATO or begged NATO to accept them because of their miserable experience with Russians, which involved Russians murdering Eastern Europeans.
6ixStringJack declares himself a dumb-ass.
Oh good. You finally figured out how the quote feature here works.
This is why I have accumulated a very long list of archived pages of all the death threats and assassination fantasies you have. There's been at least a dozen of them added since my last update.
Feel free at any time to remove them all. It will make no matter. They're archived forever, even if this site disappears.
Maybe Russians' neighbors will arrest them? Maybe 6ix's neighbors will, too!
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Originally posted by second:Quote:To feel strong, the Russians constantly threaten to nuke the US but nothing happens. Similarly, 6ix constantly makes threats to drop the bomb on his enemy but nothing happens. Instead, the Russians steal from their weak neighbors, the Ukrainians. I expect 6ix, as Russians would in a similar situation, to burglarize his neighbors to support his $7,000 per year lifestyle and no gainful employment.
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Originally posted by second:
Russia invaded Eastern Europe and didn't leave until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Every one of those countries joined NATO or begged NATO to accept them because of their miserable experience with Russians, which involved Russians murdering Eastern Europeans.
6ixStringJack declares himself a dumb-ass.
Oh good. You finally figured out how the quote feature here works.
This is why I have accumulated a very long list of archived pages of all the death threats and assassination fantasies you have. There's been at least a dozen of them added since my last update.
Feel free at any time to remove them all. It will make no matter. They're archived forever, even if this site disappears.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
I'm not threatening you. I'm simply letting you know that I've collected every time you've posted a death threat to somebody on this board, advocated for the assassination of Trump or told everyone how you'd do it and get away with it. That's just presenting you with facts.
The fact that Haken doesn't want to cover his own ass by removing your alt-profile from fff.net after removing your Reaverfan profile is the reason why I stopped bothering to take the time to update your thread. I can't force him to do anything. I'm surprised he hasn't removed you since some of your posts under this profile have been just as bad as under your Reaverfan profile, but we're still sitting here having to deal with them. I'm just letting you know that everything is still being archived behind the scenes.
Why would I burglarize my neighbors? They all love me. They all owe me favors.
I have plenty of money dude. And if I ever decide I need to spend a year or two restocking the reserves until retirement age I'll be making about $3 to $5 more per hour than I did the last time I had a job. Every year I work a stress-free, part-time, low-wage job I pay for all the expenditures I had that year and easily bank enough for another year or even two beyond that.
How about you stop posting dumb shit and I'll stop archiving what you post.
You should also probably see a psychiatrist. You're recent post history shows how unhinged you've become. We're all a little worried about what you might do if your guy doesn't win in November.
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Quote:You sound more and more like the Russians claiming they aren't threatening to nuke the USA, but the Russians bring up the subject of their incredible advances in nukes, which they then deny having any intention of using.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'm not threatening you. I'm simply letting you know that I've collected every time you've posted a death threat to somebody on this board, advocated for the assassination of Trump or told everyone how you'd do it and get away with it. That's just presenting you with facts.
Why would I burglarize my neighbors? They all love me. They all owe me favors.
I have plenty of money dude. And if I ever decide I need to spend a year or two restocking the reserves until retirement age I'll be making about $3 to $5 more per hour than I did the last time I had a job. Every year I work a stress-free, part-time, low-wage job I pay for all the expenditures I had that year and easily bank enough for another year or even two beyond that.
How about you stop posting dumb shit and I'll stop archiving what you post.
You should also probably see a psychiatrist. You're recent post history shows how unhinged you've become. We're all a little worried about what you might do if your guy doesn't win in November.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
Kremlin dismisses U.S. warning about Russian nuclear capability in space
https://www.reuters.com/world/kremlin-dismisses-us-warning-about-russi
an-nuclear-capability-space-2024-02-15/
MOSCOW, Feb 15 (Reuters) - The Kremlin dismissed on Thursday a warning by the United States about Moscow's new nuclear capabilities in space, calling it a "malicious fabrication" and a trick by the White House aimed at getting U.S. lawmakers to approve more money to counter Russia.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Nah...
This time it all started because the other day you claimed that you were quoting Sigs to save her response, as if that means anything on this ancient website that doesn't save original posts or even let readers know that the post was edited after the fact. You could theoretically go back to every post you've ever made and delete them and they would just sit there empty with the original timestamp until the site finally shuts down.
Now that you've figured out that is not how the quote feature here works, I used that as an opportunity to remind you that every death threat and assassination fantasy you've ever posted on this board is saved remotely with timestamps.
Have a nice day. Don't kill anyone, mkay?
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Quote:Did you learn your childish rhetoric from Russia? It claims to be peaceful while NATO, US, UK, and Ukraine attacked Russia, which is not what happened. Only a mind-reader would know for certain if Russia and 6ix believe what they write, but I'm confident Russia and 6ix know they are getting high on the reek of their stinking bullshit.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nah...
This time it all started because the other day you claimed that you were quoting Sigs to save her response, as if that means anything on this ancient website that doesn't save original posts or even let readers know that the post was edited after the fact. You could theoretically go back to every post you've ever made and delete them and they would just sit there empty with the original timestamp until the site finally shuts down.
Now that you've figured out that is not how the quote feature here works, I used that as an opportunity to remind you that every death threat and assassination fantasy you've ever posted on this board is saved remotely with timestamps.
Have a nice day. Don't kill anyone, mkay?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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