"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (17 Viewers)

[ThomasP]

re generators for Ukraine

""All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again.""

Update: 5000+ generators of various sizes already shipped (flown) to Ukraine theater. More are in in the pipe.

Courtesy of MN, WI, ND, SD, and other midwest based businesses, and the USAF/ANG.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

@mantra22 , Shinpachi

Japanese have once captured China...
Given any chance, is this possible with modern Japanese army?

In other word, is Japanese army able to repeat history?

Japan didn't capture China. They did invade and control a good portion of it, but China never submitted, and Japan never controlled more than 20-25% of the mainland, if even that much.

 

[GTX]

re generators for Ukraine

""All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again.""

Update: 5000+ generators of various sizes already shipped (flown) to Ukraine theater. More are in in the pipe.

Courtesy of MN, WI, ND, SD, and other midwest based businesses, and the USAF/ANG.

 

[Admiral Beez]

Japan didn't capture China. They did invade and control a good portion of it, but China never submitted, and Japan never controlled more than 20-25% of the mainland, if even that much.

Today's Japan is nothing like that of imperial Japan. We needn't worry about Japanese expansionism. Though I wouldn't mind if Japan had been allowed to keep the Korean Peninsula and perhaps Formosa postwar.

Interestingly, the Japanese were never forcibly expelled from DEI. After Japan surrendered the war-torn government back in the Netherlands asked the IJA to remain in the DEI to maintain law and order until Dutch police and forces could be sent.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Today's Japan is nothing like that of imperial Japan. We needn't worry about Japanese expansionism. Though I wouldn't mind if Japan had been allowed to keep the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan postwar.

Oh, I'm not worried about Japanese expansionism. I'm glad they're our allies.

But after their reign of terror, especially in Korea, allowing them to keep those territories was out of the question in the post-war era, and rightly so in my opinion.

 

[GTX]

The global supply trail that leads to Russia's killer drones

From a shabby office in Hong Kong to a house in suburban Florida, these are the businesses allowing Russia to build drones that are killing Ukrainians.

www.abc.net.au

 

[SaparotRob]

The global supply trail that leads to Russia's killer drones

From a shabby office in Hong Kong to a house in suburban Florida, these are the businesses allowing Russia to build drones that are killing Ukrainians.

www.abc.net.au

Disgusting.

 

[Admiral Beez]

Disgusting.

Wholly agreed. But war is business. If you can it's most profitably to sell to both sides. Like the Swedes and Spanish in WW2 - nearly everyone used their Bofers, Oerlikon and Hispano guns.

 

[at6]

And to think. If "poor litlle Vlad" hadn't have had all of those used German condoms left from the great patriotic war, he would have starved to death.

 

[Zipper730]

Micrometeorite or..........you know who https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/soyuz-leak-1.6686911

I doubt it because the costs would be too extreme: If a station like the ISS blew up it would produce so much debris that it would largely render space unusable for sometime.

This would be one of those things that would be too destructive for any one side to actually benefit: Any country that benefits from satellites would lose a lot.

 

[Shinpachi]

@mantra22 , Shinpachi

Japanese have once captured China...
Given any chance, is this possible with modern Japanese army?

In other word, is Japanese army able to repeat history?

If China should be out of control again, it should be neighbors' role to take care of them for the national security.

 

[hawkeye2an]

Russia’s Shadowy Mercenary Air Force Is Losing More And More Jets In Ukraine

Found this interesting

 

[Glider]

This may be of interest. It's nice to know that we in the UK have a modern new facility for the production of ammunition.

Inside the British factory producing the shells hammering Vladimir Putin’s forces

 

[manta22]

@mantra22 , Shinpachi

Japanese have once captured China...
Given any chance, is this possible with modern Japanese army?

In other word, is Japanese army able to repeat history?

The point of the Japanese military buildup is not whether they could invade China; the point is that they are becomming strong enough to dissuade China from attacking them. A weak, defenseless Japan would be a sheep waiting for the wolf.

 

[swampyankee]

Wholly agreed. But war is business. If you can it's most profitably to sell to both sides. Like the Swedes and Spanish in WW2 - nearly everyone used their Bofers, Oerlikon and Hispano guns.

War certainly involves business, although invasions are frequently (always?) about seizing resources, be these land (Leibensraum, Manifest Destiny), slaves (well, Leibensraum, but, earlier, Rome, Viking raids, and many others), or other resources.

It may not have been just companies from neutral countries. Ford, GM, IBM, and others had German subsidiaries.

 

[GTX]

 

[GTX]

UK confirms Brimstone 2 missiles delivery to Ukraine

The British Ministry of Defense has confirmed the country supplied its Brimstone 2 precision-guided missiles to Ukraine to support the fight against Russia. The Ministry of Defense said in a release that the UK has provided Brimstone 2 missiles to the Ukrainian Armed Forces as part of a new aid...

defence-blog.com

 

[GTX]

Ukraine develops light rocket launcher

Ukrainian engineers have developed an improvised ground-based light rocket launcher that fires S-8 aircraft rockets. The "Sivalka" VM-8 is a 16-tube launcher using 80mm S-8KO rockets typically fired by tactical aircraft and military helicopters. The new system allows you to quickly turn...

defence-blog.com

 

[GTX]

Morocco agrees to donate its Czech modernized T-72 tanks to Ukraine

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[GTX]