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Incredibly thankful for
@Beags_Beagle
and his kind words regarding the recent
@ArmyLdrExchange
March Masters Competition!
@MeganJantos
and all of
@usacac
encouraged such incredible camaraderie and leader development…
Until next year!
The Battle of the Bostonians. The Conflict of the Captains. Whatever you call it, it has ended. Congratulations to
@CasualArtyFan
this year's
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#BracketBoss
and MVP shortly.
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A soldier in the Ukrainian Army sees his grandmother for the first time in 8 months after liberating his village.
(I’m not crying, you are)
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Your rebel group has a 19 year old influencer LARPing as a pirate
We have a 19 year old driving 3+ football fields of fighter jets and freedom
We are not the same
A professional warrior sailor, just 19 years old, takes the helm of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Like so many young warriors on this warship, she keeps us on course every day.
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POV: You’re a Houthi drone operator about to find out that the the U.S. Navy has Retail Service Specialists whose full time job is keeping everyone caffeinated
Surprise pop-in to the ship’s coffee shop after lunch. Seems like the “Virginia Beach” is the latest jam. What happened to just old school coffee?
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Your country shoots down its own AWACS (best case)
Our country has a fighter pilot as Miss America
We are not the same
US Air Force officer crowned as 2024 Miss America, Congratulations Lt. Marsh for being the first active duty Miss America! Brains and Beauty. Lt. / Ms. America not only graduated from the US Air Force Academy she earned a pilot slot! Big Salute, Happy Monday to all.
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What does U.S. aid to Ukraine look like?
It’s an artillery ambush 🔥
In a new angle from the recent Russian attack in Klishchiivka, at 1:21~ you can see DPICM cluster munitions hit the stopped column that was disabled by mines and artillery.
Combined arms in action.
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You know your air dominance campaign is going poorly when 200+ days in, your opponent can still conduct air assault missions via rotary wing.
“Lviv Paratroopers” presumably the 80th Air Assault Brigade (Ukraine) assaulting behind Russian lines across Kharkiv Oblast recently.
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Incredible. The U.S. Army has unveiled the namesake of its newest tank, the M10 Booker.
SSG Stevon Booker was a tank commander during the “Thunder Run” to Baghdad, where he engaged numerous enemy vehicles until his MG broke down at which point…
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State of Emergency declared in Crimea as people are stuck in traffic trying to get out. Russians had 8 years to leave after their illegal occupation. Russia has scrambled jets to Kherson but if it was ATACMS, the HIMARS/MLRS are long gone 🔥
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What does Danish Aid to Ukraine look like? It’s big🔥
The 🇩🇰 CAESAR 8x8 variant is much heavier (30 tons) than the French initial variant, but the effects are the same. Quick to emplace/displace, & a very long range.
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🚨 Huge WWII History News 🚨
Major Dick Bong’s P-38 “Marge” (named after his wife) was just found in the Pacific!
Dick Bong is one of America’s highest scoring fighter aces with 40+ aerial victories.
Explorers find what they believe is World War II ace pilot Richard Bong's downed plane in jungle ravine
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Tanks for Ukraine.
20 mins ago the Polish President agreed to send a company of Leopard 2s to Ukraine.
#FreeTheLeopards
has finally worked 🔥
#BREAKING
: Poland will transfer a company of Leopard tanks to Ukraine in the framework of an ‘international coalition' - President of Poland
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Never ask:
-A woman her age
-A man his salary
-A Russian tanker why he’s shooting at other vehicles in his column whiles he’s under Ukrainian artillery fire
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Kherson: In the past 72 hours, Ukraine has liberated 2,000+ sq kms in Kherson alone. Ukraine is now in artillery range of the entire Russian army stranded across the river.
The end is near.
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SANTA, GET THE SLEIGH OUT OF HOUTHI AIRSPACE, THEY HAVE A SINGLE F-5E, SANTA, THEIR A2/AD IS COMPARABLE TO CHINA ACCORDING TO TRENT, YOURE NOT EW-HARDENED SANTAAAA
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What does 🇺🇸 aid to Ukraine look like?
It’s the culmination of 9 decades of engineering and rocketry coming together in perfect harmony.
An 🇷🇺 observation post / comms node gets 1xGMLRS straight through the roof. An incredibly impressive shot.
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Despite many drone cages, it’s artillery that gets them in the end.
Watch as 🇺🇦 utilizes a linear target to hit a moving 🇷🇺 column.
One gun/section is 100-150m off but the rest are right on.
The timing of this is extremely difficult to get right.
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Lieutenant Liubov Plaksiuk, a Battery Commander in the 44th Separate Artillery Brigade, stands amongst the wreckage of Russian vehicles her artillery has recently destroyed.
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For the people recently concerned about Ukraine using cluster munitions inside their own country, I got some bad news for you.
Russia fired 10,000,000+ artillery, rockets, cluster munitions, & more inside Ukraine over the past 500 days.
You don’t want to know the dud rate.
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What’s bringing Russian artillery closer to the front?
This spectacular explosion of a 🇷🇺 MSTA-S 152mm SPH is just 1 of many 🇷🇺 artillery pieces that’s being destroyed w/in 5km of the front.
Outranging w/ standard HE all 🇺🇸 arty pieces, why do this? 1/3
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New interview from the Commander of the 🇺🇦 45th Artillery Brigade with some incredible highlights:
- Equipment is now 50/50, 🇺🇸/Soviet
- Switch to 155mm ammunition driven by production potential within NATO
- Bakhmut artillery currently is 1:1, 🇺🇦 to 🇷🇺 fire missions/guns
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If you’ve seen this picture before, you’re not alone. Taken in March, 1945, it shows 2 artillerymen who narrowly escaped a SS massacre.
The story of the 1st African-American combat unit to earn the Distinguished Unit Citation is one of incredible bravery and tragedy 🧵
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What does US aid to Ukraine look like?
It was made for Eastern Europe💥
Outside of Avdiivka, the 47th Mechanized Brigade uses M1A1 Abrams Tanks to slow the Russian advance.
While only 31 were given so far, the 47th says they’ve been used for over a month with great effect 🔥
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Lyman has been liberated.
Russian milbloggers are up in arms as Ukraine liberates its first “Russian” city after the sham “referendums.”
Instead of surrendering or conducting a fighting withdrawal, Russians lost almost a thousand soldiers as they ran through HIMARS/arty fire.
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He got on top of his tank and began engaging enemy armored vehicles with an AT-4 until he suffered mortal wounds.
He was initially awarded the Silver Star, which has since been upgraded to the Distinguished Service Cross.
Rock of the Marne!
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Can towed artillery still be an asset on the modern battlefield?
Let’s take a look at M777s, the most numerous 155mm system and NATO arty system in Ukraine today.
Ukraine has innovated in many ways to still make them relevant in the face of UAVs.
Here’s a recent video👇
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January, 2024.
Timhouthi Chalmet is master (partly) of Yemen. Only one guy handing out cookies stands before him. Oceans are now battlefields.
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What does 🇺🇸 aid to Ukraine look like?
It stops reinforcements in their tracks.
South of Verbove, 🇷🇺 tries to bring up fresh men & equipment to slow down the 🇺🇦 advance. First they’re hit by regular (HE) rnds, & then the 🇺🇦 44th Artillery BDE adjusts w/ that data to use DPICM.
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What does Czech aid to
Ukraine look like?
It wipes out whole grid squares 🔥
Across the Dnipro, 🇺🇦 RM-70 122mm Multiple Rocket Launchers (MRLs) decimate Russian positions ahead of a massive crossing.
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9SEP22/KHARKIV:
As of 30 minutes ago, Pro-Russian sources admitted that 🇺🇦 controls almost the entire western bank of the Oskil River.
Izyum is in artillery range from 3 sides.
Supply routes running from Belgorod to Lyman are also in artillery range.
The front is collapsing.
IZYUM: According to Pro-Russian Telegram Channel Rybar, Izyum has been cut off from the north as the Ukrainian Army has advanced to the Oskil River from at least one direction.
Kupyansk is severely threatened as Ukraine has a large number of force only several km away.
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The fact that there’s a 40-year-old Soviet artillery piece covered in Shiba Inu stickers and memes rolling around Ukraine, shooting Russians, is just insane to me.
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Hey,
Don’t.
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You may not like it, but Taliban SOF sporting a 4th ID patch (incorrectly) is truly an American cultural victory
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Where did 9,334 pieces of Russian tube artillery go?
According to imagery of Russian bases, almost half of Russian pre-war artillery has been pulled from storage. What’s left (9,747) is often missing barrels and other key parts.
Russia is running out of time to win.
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2/ First of all here are the numbers. Two tables are showing the decline in absolute numbers of SPGs and TA at the most important bases from 2021 to now and I have also attached a table showing the decline by system.
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🇷🇺 Trenches vs. 🇺🇦 Combined Arms
Using a captured 🇷🇺 T-72B3 MBT & a donated 🇬🇧 FV103 Spartan APC, the 5th Specialized Brigade flanks defensive lines somewhere near Bakhmut.
Without AT weapons, Russians shoot blindly with rifles at these armored vehicles from their trench…
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“From America With Love”
Written on the first M777s in April, the amount of 🇺🇸 aid to 🇺🇦 has skyrocketed and is making a huge difference on the ground.
Sit back, relax, and enjoy the most patriotic rendition of the 🇺🇸 National Anthem you’ll hear all year…
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The Ukrainian Case for Cluster Munitions Continues:
Dan Rice, US artillery officer and advisor to 🇺🇦 General Zaluzhnyi, was instrumental in the shipment of 🇺🇸 DPICM to Ukraine.
Now, he has taken to
@WarOnTheRocks
to argue for M26 MLRS rockets to be sent as well.
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Pro-Russian TG (Rybar) admits that not only did Ukrainian break through at Lozove, but Lyman is now threatened & “the whole line could collapse.”
3 Ukrainian efforts are on the move to clear the rest of Kharkiv & push further into Donetsk b4 Russia can bring new conscripts in.
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Ukrainians headed back to the war from Fort Sill, Oklahoma after training on Patriot Missiles in record time.
They modeled complex scenarios based on current Russian tactics, but they only had one complaint…
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While FIRMS isn’t the best way to track artillery missions, it appears something substantial has been ongoing all day across the Dnipro.
From Russians reporting multiple boat landings to a growing panic, this appears to be bigger than normal cross-river raids.
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This may come as a shock to some of you…
But soldiers are people. They watch Netflix, dance to Lady Gaga, and more.
Spend less time criticizing their downtime and more time understanding how they’re fighting and winning in Large Scale Combat against a key US adversary.
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⚡️ Russian IL-76 taxiing during the Saki Airfield strike in Crimea ⚡️
Moments of impacts/arrivals at the end 🔥
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Gone are the days of Russian artillery dominance.
Putting a platoon of towed guns in an open field would only be possible if conditions have drastically changed.
A battery of Ukrainian M777 155mm towed howitzers deployed in the field firing at Russian positions under cover of a 9K33 Osa short-range air defense system.
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⚡️ Antovosky Bridge, Kherson ⚡️
After a second GMLRS strike 2 hours ago, the bridge is being shut for repair. This will mean Russians have to travel 100+km round trip to Nova Khahovka to resupply the defense of the city 🔥
@bayraktar_1love
@JimmySecUK
@TrentTelenko
@noclador
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How effective are cluster munitions against targets in wooded areas?
Before Ukraine started using them, I would’ve said no. However, in this video you can see DPICM being used & then Russians leaving their trenches, only to get hit by drones.
Drone’s POV in the next tweet 👇
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Reject: a whiny, rich Saudi kid who killed thousands of Americans
Embrace: The Lion of Panjshir
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This is more common than you think.
🇺🇦 M2A2 Bradley walks off a direct hit from a 🇷🇺 T-72 MBT. All across Ukraine, stories are emerging of Brads and Leos surviving multiple tank, ATGM, and artillery rounds.
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It’s all fun and games until the
𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝟗𝟎𝟎𝟎 adjusts artillery fire on your trench.
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⚡️ New explosion just seen in Mizhvodne, Crimea, making this the 4th explosion or significant strike in this past week. It is approximately 135km from the front, meaning outside of GMLRS range from HIMARS/MLRS.
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Here’s something you don’t see every day.
A Ukrainian drone capturing and then towing 2 Russian drones underneath. Looks like tractors have taken to the sky in the effort to capture as much Russian equipment as possible.
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Fortress Bakhmut 🇺🇦
“It is not a sin to be afraid, it is a sin to betray my own!”
Watch this new video from 🇺🇦 Rock Band
@antytila_offic
as they embed with a 🇺🇦 M777 crew from the 45th Artillery Brigade near Bakhmut.
English subtitles on link in the next tweet 👇
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"For Bucha, for Irpin and for Gostomel, Glory to Ukraine!"
One of the largest artillery pieces in the war (2S7) sends a massive 203mm shell towards the Russian invaders 🔥
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What does US aid to Ukraine look like?
It’s patient 🔥
Northeast of Kupyansk, a Russian BM-21 MRL conducts a fire mission and then returns to base, only to have GMLRS find it and destroy it and its buddy.
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Can someone please explain:
Why there’s been 20+ videos this month of people not digging in the spades for M777s?
I know it looks cool, but it damages the recoil system and makes the gun much less accurate over time 🥲
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7 years ago, I was a new artillery officer being told that the future of the branch was uncertain.
Cyber/EW would void all artillery.
Long range air-to-ground munitions would leave us jobless.
Drones would replace us.
East of Berdychi in Donetsk, Ukraine that uncertainty…
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“We’re shooting 200-250 rounds per day”
Watch this report from
@United24media
that interviews a veteran 🇺🇦 M777 artillery crew.
Highlights:
-Received 5 days of 🇺🇸 training
-Drone nets minimize damage from drones greatly
-Guns are lasting 10k+ rounds
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Huge development in Ukraine:
For the first time, 🇺🇦 artillery ammo is being used against the Russian invaders. Despite losing key factories and supply points early on, 🇺🇦 worked hard to create their own network to build and distribute artillery ammo.
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#Ukraine
: ❗ A very notable development - new Ukrainian-made artillery ammunition started to reach the frontlines.
Here we can see OF-25T 152mm HE projectiles, made in 2022 - they can be fired from D-20/Msta-B towed howitzers and 2S3/Msta-S SPHs.
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Russian 2S7 203mm SPG abandoned near the front…either Ukraine has pushed deeper into Kherson than first believed or Russia is running short on ammo. Either way, good news.
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@bayraktar_1love
So you’re saying the Kherson offensive was a feint for the Kharkiv offensive which was actually a feint for the real Kherson offensive FROM Crimea 😎
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If you ever doubted the precision of American-built artillery/rocket/missiles look no further.
Ukrainian artillery strikes with absolute precision at occupied-Ilovaisk, where in 2014 the russian army massacred a Ukrainian BN after negotiating a withdrawal/humanitarian corridor.
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I’ve heard of “spray and pray” but this is a whole other level.
Ukrainians clearing a forest in Bakhmut of Russians remind me why direct fire control measures are so important.
There’s always one soldier who can shoulder-fire the MG well (and it might this guy)
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What does Swedish aid to Ukraine look like?
Archers have arrived at last!
After over a year of waiting, these incredible 155mm self-propelled howitzers have finally arrived on the battlefield.
It’s one of the longest range pieces in NATO inventory.
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Combined Arms in Action:
In this video you can see the 2nd BN, 3rd Assault Brigade conducting a beach using infantry, armor, and artillery near Bakhmut.
However, at 0:43 you can see 🇺🇦 soldiers using grappling hooks to clear a minefield of AT mines essentially by hand. 1/2
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Tanks for playing:
A Ukrainian T-72 tows a captured
Russian T-90M, one of the newest Russian tanks in their inventory.
Although very few have been destroyed in the war so far, a captured T-90M will be an intelligence gold mine, as NATO can reverse engineer it and more.
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🇷🇺 convoy destroyed by GMLRS.
Observed by drone, here’s a rare video of a Russian artillery unit destroyed by M31A1 or M30A1/2 on its way to emplace/displace.
Now that so many ammo depots have been destroyed, 🇺🇦 can use HIMARS in their NATO/doctrinal role of counter fire.
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Considering Norway’s defense budget is between 7-8 billion USD, this is a big deal, even if the aid is a combination military/economic.
Prime minister Støre announced 1 billion USD in additional support in 2023 from Norway to Ukraine!
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What air defense doing?
Somewhere in Ukraine, a Russian Pantsir S-1 Air Defense system suffers a malfunction and launches an interceptor towards the cameraman.
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Brand new Russian tank,
meet 40 year old American Bradley
Jesus christ. A Russian T-90M couldnt even hold its own in 1 on 1 combat witha. bradley when it had the first shot and knew the bradley was there. This tank got fucking ganked. Russian tech and training such a shit show they can’t even win a tank versus ifv 1 v 1 w/first shot adv
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The fact that the US Army suite of MLRS weapons could:
- Destroy a 🇷🇺 advantage in arty
- Enable successful ground attacks
- Potentially incur the single greatest day of losses in 🇷🇺 Air Force history
Are all signs the US chose right in prioritizing long range precision fires.
That’s Berdiansk airfield, occupied by Russian planes and helicopters.
Satellite image from 10th Sep shows that it’s heavily used for storing aircraft.
Tonight, it was hit with Ukrainian precision strike, russian telegram channels are outrageous now.
Good morning!
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It’s all fun and games until the 103-year-old babushka is making ghillie suits
Lyubov Yarosh, a 103-year-old resident of Zhytomyr region, together with her daughters and neighbors, weaves "Kikimora" camouflage suits for our soldiers.
Four of her grandsons are now defending Ukraine.
📷
@HolodomorMuseum
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HIMARS Christmas Continues:
A 🇺🇦 M142 HIMARS is decorated for the season.
That is, the season of long-range precision fires and destroying 100-200 Russian conscripts daily in occupied-Ukraine.
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I’m gonna break character for a minute
Typically I enjoy posting interesting or groundbreaking uses of artillery, especially in 🇺🇦
Instead, here’s a video of 🇷🇺 Propagandist Jackson Hinkle firing a wax (fake) 122mm round out of a D-30. Probably the lamest video I could think of
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Russians admit they’ve been pushed out of Novodontesk, after initially claiming the Ukrainian attack was “stopped.”
Notable here is that the 🇺🇦 37th Marine Brigade operates NATO gear, including AMX-10 RC.
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Mass the fires.
Over the past 9 years, Ukraine has been at a huge artillery disadvantage to Russia, forced to fire in 1-2 gun sections to avoid detection & destruction.
Something is slowly changing, as 4xM109L(🇮🇹) fire battery fire missions in close proximity.
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DPICM = Russian tears.
Specifically, the VDV.
Imagine the shock of still being in a full scale war, 560 days in, and being unable to stop your troops from being hit daily by artillery and aviation.
A war you started with a 15:1 artillery and a 10:1 aviation advantage.
Russian VDV are crying about Ukrainian aviation that is attacking their positions in the Robotyne-Verbove axis every day. Yes, that aviation that the Russians claimed to have destroyed in the first 24 hours of the invasion.
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Most incredibly, before the war she was a History Teacher.
Now, she’s a part of of it.
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3NOV22: Kerch Strait Bridge
Almost one month after it was struck, repair work is still underway. Russia has admitted that during that time only 16 “light” trains have crossed on the rail portion, and the road portion has been lightly used.
Full repairs will be complete by July.
CRIMEA: The Kerch Strait Bridge has suffered damage due to an explosion/fire. This is the main supply route for a majority of Russian military aid into southern Ukraine, and it is just under 300km from the front line currently.
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Mountain of artillery 💥
Ukrainian artillerymen lay waste to Russian positions near Kreminna with their M101A1 105mm howitzers from Lithuania.
This gun was initially designed BEFORE WW2, and has been updated since.
Light, quick and the King of Battle!
H/T:
@AndrewPerpetua
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If you thought it sucked pulled guard at a Russian ammo depot, here’s a new another one for you.
Somewhere near Svatove, a dozen Russian fuelers burn. Remember, Russia relies heavily on SPGs, most of which can’t shoot artillery unless they’re turned on (and burning fuel).
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What does 🇺🇸 Aid to Ukraine look like?
It’s the U.S. Army making a difference
Ukrainian-born PFC Andrii Sydoruk joined the 🇺🇸 Army in 2022 after losing contact w/ his fiancée trapped in Mariupol. Andrii has translated for 🇺🇦 soldiers training on air defense systems in 🇩🇪
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Bradleys for Ukraine:
The Biden Admin is actively analyzing how to train, support, and send the Bradley Fighting Vehicle to Ukraine. The U.S. has 1000s in inventory and it would make a huge difference on the battlefield.
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Want to know what failure looks like?
Watch this breakdown of the Russian 155th Marine Brigade as they lose 30+ vehicles in a 24 hour period near Vuhledar.
Destroyed by mines, artillery, and direct fire, Russia has lost 6k~ troops this past week alone.
Source:
@Deepstate_UA
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@prestonstew_
Part of it is understandable based on gear left behind, but it doesn’t explain everything…
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1+ year after the withdrawal from Afghanistan and these 20+ US MaxxPros are getting a second wind in Ukraine. Every day, more 🇺🇸 aid arrives and every day, Ukraine takes back more of its country.
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Nuclear Field Artillery & the Origin of Shoot & Scoot:
This phrase, once doctrinally used to avoid nuclear fallout, transformed over the decades & now poses a risk to everyone who uses it as a catch-all in the artillery.
𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒐𝒕, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅
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Awarded an Army Achievement Medal w/ Combat device, SPC Green was awarded for his anti-drone work by the CENTCOM CDR himself, GEN Kurilla.
If it flies it dies!
A U.S. soldier earned the nickname “Ace of Syria” after shooting down six drones in defense of a base in the country's northeastern corner.
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Troops in the open, DPICM in effect, out
There’s too many videos like this to count. 🇺🇸 cluster munitions in the hands of skilled Ukrainian artillerymen are shredding the Russians attacking Avdiivka to pieces.
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… getting more soup on the menu. Otherwise, more translators were provided over the course of the first few weeks, making training as easy as possible. 🇺🇦 Men and women combat veterans of all ages were trained on this complex but essential task.
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This has gone too far.
I’m in a life or death struggle over the term “shoot and scoot” and now it shows up in Ukraine with my handle on it.
This means war.
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Read the full interview for a lot more, including new insights on the Kharkiv Counteroffensive and early days of the war, courtesy of
@VolodyaTretyak
and the team at
@wartranslated
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I was holding my 2 year old daughter on a walk moments ago & for the first time out of nowhere she said
“FIRE MISSION, BATTERY 3 ROUNDS, WP, AT MY COMMAND”
I started to quietly tear up. She couldn’t see my face and I didn’t make a sound, but she said,
“CANCEL AT MY COMMAND”
I was holding my two year old daughter on a walk moments ago and for the first time out of nowhere she said,
“God is good. God is real.”
I started to quietly tear up. She couldn’t see my face and I didn’t make a sound, but she said,
“Don’t cry. It’s okay.”
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Ozerne confirmed liberated, Yampil might be contested as well. As
@AndrewPerpetua
and others have pointed out, Ukraine has liberated more of Donestk the past two weeks than Russia has captured all month.
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She joined the Ukrainian Army in 2016 to defend her homeland from Russian aggression. She is the first woman to command an artillery battery in Ukraine’s history as far as I can tell.
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