Admiral Beez
Major
Indeed, but isn't hitting the ship after it delivered its lethal cargo a little too late? Reminds of the Battle of Malaya where IIRC the RAF attacked a Japanese troopship, but only after it had unloaded.
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Indeed, but isn't hitting the ship after it delivered its lethal cargo a little too late? Reminds of the Battle of Malaya where IIRC the RAF attacked a Japanese troopship, but only after it had unloaded.That damage NOT going to buff out. Scratch one landing ship!
That's producing almost as much smoke as their carrier when it's underway.
Indeed, but isn't hitting the ship after it delivered its lethal cargo akin a little too late? Reminds of the Battle of Malaya where IIRC RAF Blenheims destroyed a Japanese troopship, but only after it had unloaded.
Indeed, but isn't hitting the ship after it delivered its lethal cargo a little too late? Reminds of the Battle of Malaya where IIRC the RAF attacked a Japanese troopship, but only after it had unloaded.
I thought the first video showed the unloading of its cargo including IFVs. But maybe that was historical footage.I've not seen any reporting that the Orsk was empty. Do you have a source that says it had delivered its cargo?
How does the combat command leadership of NATO look? Are these guys up to the job? I recall after Pearl Harbour most of the top US brass were replaced with more combat capable leaders.NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg has had his tenure extended for a year. I think this is sensible because you don't want a leadership change at this critical time.
As someone who was trained to serve on diesel submarines, I agree with you.It's too bad the Ukrainian navy didn't manage to keep their single SSK, the submarine Zaporizhzhia. If the Russian navy is as bad as their army this single Ukrainian submarine would have had a hoot of a time, especially if the Ukrainian submariners had received training and updates from NATO. Even better had NATO sold/donated a recently decommissioned submarine of their own.
Imagine a Perisher graduate and his sharply trained crew hunting the Russian transports, with the Russians limited by the treaty on what ASW vessels and submarines they can send into the Black Sea to counter her.
A pair of second-hand Type 214 U-boats would have been awesome.It's a shame that the Ukrainian Navy was not funded enough to acquire a couple of subs later.
Well, I could write 100 pages about that, referring to my personal experience (born and grew up in Sevastopol)...A pair of second-hand Type 214 U-boats would have been awesome.
Side question, why didn't Ukraine fight this hard and with this level of success in 2014 to hold Crimea? Instead the place flipped for the Russians faster than Kabul fell to the Taliban.
This is well worth the watch. The question re "Where are the Ukrainian heavy units" is quite interesting.
They don't have chemical weapons afaik. At least they haven't trained for using them since the'90ies and their stock was officially destroyed in 2017. Of course they could still have a small reserve of the stuff but they definitely cannot produce them in a large scale. I think it's quite unlikely that Russia will use chemical weapons.Reading some of the most recent analysis by some of the experts quoted in the media, I'm going to go out on a limb and I hope I'm wrong:
I believe Russia will use either chemical or small nuclear weapons sometime over the next week. Either Mariupol or Kyiv. It's not going well for Russia and Putin is going to react.
The question is, how will NATO react?
I'm worried.
Jim
How does the combat command leadership of NATO look? Are these guys up to the job? I recall after Pearl Harbour most of the top US brass were replaced with more combat capable leaders.
Meanwhile, 1st April is the next Russian conscript intake. That should be interesting…