James B.
@devil_n_details
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Analyst of processes and student of history. Show your work when you think: details matter. Don't blame anyone else for my tweets; I'm just a guy on free time.
Joined June 2020
@kris_nowy @NavalInstitute The conversion to transports removed two of the boilers and funnels to make space.
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Russia losing 1400 tanks and delivering 1500 replacements still probably leaves them hundreds short of replacing everything deadlined in maintenance yards. For IFVs/APCs, a net loss of nearly 1000 before factoring for maintenance is probably why we're now seeing Assault Ladas.
“The IISS estimates that Russian equipment losses in 2024 amounted to around 1,400 main battle tanks (MBTs) and more than 3,700 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) and armoured personnel carriers (APCs)… The IISS estimates that last year, Russia refurbished and built more than 1,500 MBTs and around 2,800 IFVs and APCs. Equipment remaining in storage is highly likely to be in a deteriorated condition, which may make it difficult for Russia to deliver enough equipment to offset previous attrition rates.”
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@Bannedforself @BretDevereaux Recruiting is vastly more complicated than the simple tricks being performed for you.
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@Aviation_Intel The technology is something Anduril should be good at; but dealing with Army requirements will probably kill them.
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@nimitz_s If he wants to succeed in fiction, he needs to make his plot more relatable. Right now he just sounds like a kook.
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@SNAFU_Sara How much are they trying to pad? I get the guy who's 5'10" and a bit trying to pull off 6', but down in five-and-a-half territory a guy's just got to own it.
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@johnddavidson Braxton Bragg was a traitor who fought to preserve slavery, and also wasn't a very good general. Why would anyone want a base named after him?
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@dillonrpayton For $6.37 million, Fort Liberty is a dreadful name; it sounds like a Pentagon gift shop. If we agree that the base should be named after an American hero, finding one named Bragg is the best option.
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@cernsttx @StolenValor1 5th Row: Vietnam Service Medal (2 service stars) Vietnam Campaign Medal (from South Vietnamese gov) United Nations Medal [*] *The NDSM should have a service star and the UN Medal has the wrong ribbon for Korea, the many-striped ribbon from the mini medals is correct.
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@Jonpy99 I see a slight traverse as the gun elevates. Could the 2S5 do that--i.e. could they be rehosting 2S5 gun assemblies, since I have to image a lot of those chassis are irreparable--or does that mean it uses a 2A36 mounted on the truck?
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@halbritz Has the DOD ever provided numbers on how many recruits enter service with documented history of gender dysphoria, or how it compares to other medical conditions? The system I remember made it messy to come in with anything in your medical record.
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@elmustek The way they're cut down in a pretty uniform fashion makes me think it's a centrally run effort, but it's illogical to see them using the cars as near-certain one-way transports to the fight rather than as supply runners behind the lines.
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@DrChrisCombs As helmets that have never been on cruise and don't have squadron colors or callsign go...it's pretty cool looking.
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Note: the Moskvitch 2140, in addition to not being a military-grade vehicle in any sense, ended production in 1988.
Vehicle ID Thread No.27: From a Russian Supplyroad supposedly near Pokrovsk. First we start with the most interesting Vehicle, which ironically only appears at the end: A Moskvich-2140 Sturm
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