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AAIR said:
Ukrainian pilots in Arizona working with U.S. military pilots... but sadly not actually flying....according to defense officials.

View: https://youtu.be/qhdIiz9aYCk
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Just a thought, but if you add these to the Ukraine pilots in the UK who are already being trained in simulators for 'Nato standard aircraft'. You might have fairly quickly, a number of pilots sufficient to make a difference.
Simulators these days are very comprehensive and the amount of actual air time can be significantly reduced
 
Glider said:
There were some examples of this in Iraq. However back to the topic I thought that Bayonets were the first choice in these situations
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When your Ka-Bar and/or bayonette is stuck in an enemy's chest/neck, you move on to the next available weapon at hand...

Addendum: I have my stepdad's empty Ka-Bar sheath, the knife was stuck in a Chinese soldier's head, so he resorted to his shovel. This was after his M1 Garand froze and would no longer work, and he had used up all the ammunition in chinese weapons he was able to get a hold of.
He was with Fox Company, 1st Marine division at the Battle of Chosin, Korea.
 
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wlewisiii said:
Oh, fuck.

A Maxim. On the front lines.

Now...
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Both sides have been using the Maxim (or the Russian version of the Maxim, usually the 1910 model) in active combat since well before the start of the invasion.

A bunch of them popped up in service with DLR/LNR forces around 2015, usually hauled around in some version of a technical. Similarly some 'modernised' M1910s were in service with Ukraine prior to the invasion. My personal favourite:

laststandonzombieisland.com

Twin-linked Maxim guns, with red dot sight, Ukrainian Conflict.

Twin-linked Maxim guns, with red dot sight, Ukrainian Conflict.
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When Russia did invade, Ukraine stripped the cupboard bare. A gun that can put a lot of lead down range relatively fast and controllably, and runs more reliably that a stone rolling downhill, is always going to be useful in SOME situation.

Article from 2020 on Maxims in and around Donestk: Ukrainian Troops Are Still Using This Pre-World War I-Era Maxim Machine Gun In Combat
 
Is anyone really surprised by this piece of news also reported in the UK

nypost.com

Chechen warlord, Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov seriously ill — feared poisoned

“Kadyrov is ill and has already become a drug addict,” he continued, citing Akhmed Zakayev, the now-exiled former prime minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria . “He claims t…
nypost.com nypost.com
 
Jabberwocky said:
Both sides have been using the Maxim (or the Russian version of the Maxim, usually the 1910 model) in active combat since well before the start of the invasion.
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Time to crowd fund for a comparable Vickers.

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Those in the Dzhokhar Dudayev and similar battalions aside, I am surprised the Chechen people have not risen up to toss their government and avenge the multiple Russian invasions and attacks of Chechnya in the 1990s. There's never been a better opportunity since the fall of the USSR.

And for that matter, what's holding back the Georgians from taking back Abkhazia and South Ossetian? I wonder if NATO has asked them to stand down.
 
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And for that matter, what's holding back the Georgians from taking back Abkhazia and South Ossetian? I wonder if NATO has asked them to stand down.
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The Georgians themselves have backed out of opening a second front.

They had considered a vote late last summer, to see if the public would support going to war with Russia but it was put down by the Georgian government, which doesn't want to "rock the boat" with Moscow.

To be honest, now is the perfect time for Georgia, Moldova and a few other countries to boot Russian occupation to the curb.
Japan *could* even retake land occupied by the Soviets at the end of WWII, but since their constitution doesn't all offensive military action, that's off the table - although it could be claimed that it's a defensive action...78 years later! :lol:
 
defence-blog.com

Ukrainian troops blow up Russia’s gigantic mortar in huge explosion

Ukrainian artillery reportedly blew up a Russian giant 2S4 Tyulpan self-propelled mortar in the Donbas region. Ukrainian 72nd Mechanized Brigade said they had destroyed the Russian self-propelled heavy mortar, which the occupier used to attack local homes and civilians. The 2S4 Tyulpan (Tulip)...
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