Posted on 05/06/2022 6:51:38 AM PDT by GonzoII
Don’t disagree, just be aware of it though.
In the words of Raiders announcer Bill King after the “Holy Roller”: “There’s nothing real in the world anymore!”
I don’t know anything about 3D printing. Are recipes for weapons like this available ? Are people making things like this here?
No it isn’t. Historical ignorance is thy name.
If you can’t start with the 2 invasions, then you’re the one being historically ignorant.
I'll presume you are just ignorant, and not just spewing Russian propaganda.
Ukraine has always had a very significant manufacturing and technology base. As one example the Moskva was built in Ukraine many years ago. And it was sunk by a missile system developed and built in Ukraine.
Ukraine used to sell armaments around the world. Its Stugna-P anti-tank missile was a popular export. Today you can see videos of Ukrainian soldiers using Stugna-P units built for export to destroy Russian tanks. Their customers in the middle east must be complaining about the slow deliveries now.
In the future many nations will want to buy the Ukrainian hardware that has proven effective.
That seems to be a common belief among those who actually do get their ideas from youtube or some talking head.
In reality there is much more information available from other sources. Like actual images and video, or geo-location based off of satellite images and street view mapping data.
You can learn much more from Telegram channels, or Twitter posts from people in the area with first hand information.
Not normally. These grenades are specially designed to defeat armor by using a shaped charge that can penetrate a tanks armor and start a fire inside. These particular grenades were normally launched at a tank and designed to impact the tank with the grenade's long axis perpendicular to the armor.
It turns out that dropping them from above is an ideal way to attack the tanks since they have thinner armor on top, and gravity aligns the grenade vertically.
The fins keep them aligned as they fall when they are dropped from a drone.
Videos of these grenades in used show how effective they are. Small quadcopter drones at about 400 to 500 feet are hard to see and hard to hear so they can get right over their targets.
So, this idea the neo-Nazi loving Ukrainians are winning the war by occasionally taking out a tank is laughable.
Ukraine is getting getting its ass kicked. And, most in Donbass are happy it is. The majority there view the Russians are liberators. Russian flags are flying over cities, the local currencies are being converted to rubles and the switch has been made from Ukrainian to Russian internet providers.
It's beyond evil that we are asking the Ukrainians to fight to the last man and lose more and more of their country so we can fight a hopeless proxy war against Russia. It's the kind of thing only the Biden regime would do. But, it's disgusting we have people here going along with it.
Donald Trump is right when he says we need to push for negotiated end to this. Anyone not going along with him on this needs to be scorched earth out of the conservative movement and Republican party.
You can watch plenty of videos of these grenades being used against infantry, vehicles, and tanks.
This thread has more information and videos of a strike against Russian soldiers walking, and then a different strike against Russian soldiers in a vehicle.
In the first cases the explosion caused injuries, in the second very serious injuries and probably fatalities. I have not posted the original video of the second attack which shows the after effects of the explosion in the vehicle.
I think the families of the men in the vehicle struck by the second grenade know they work.
Donald Trump is right when he says we need to push for negotiated end to this. Anyone not going along with him on this needs to be scorched earth out of the conservative movement and Republican party.
***Trump says we should be doing more than what Biden is doing to help the Ukrainians. Somehow now he’s a globohomo activist?
No it’s going to be a war to distract from the HELL that the dims have unleashed upon US!
Russian propaganda much today?
In case you haven't noticed the "occasional" "taking out" of Russian tanks has resulted in the Russians losing at least 613 tanks so far, and the Ukrainians adding at least 226 captured tanks to their inventory.
Is that some kind of new Russian strategy?
There is no need to ask Ukrainians to fight. They have been doing that since the middle ages.
Their culture includes concepts of honor, fighting, and revenge that are similar to those associated with Vikings, or the type of Americans who fought in Texas before it was a part of the United States.
Which is the exact kind of logic we've condemned as "Trump Derangement Syndrome."
They’re the type of people who, if they opposed FDR, would probably support the Nazis just because FDR condemned them.
The Poles clearly provoked them by entering into security guarantees with Brian and France. Why, poor Hitler was surrounded!!
“...The Poles clearly provoked them by entering into security guarantees with Brian and France. Why, poor Hitler was surrounded!!”
That is the mentality of a bunch of Freepers. Trump supports Ukraine and Biden has a history of sending nonlethal aid or slow-walking real military equipment but if you support Ukraine you’re a Biden guy. Trump is the real pro-Ukraine man.
Irony of all this is that Putin just gave a huge boost to the very same Ukrainian national identity that he was trying to squash.
Er, I guess “Brian” must have been the shadow PM or something. Damn autocorrect....
Start with the West playing footsie with a former Soviet state, genius. That’s where the problem started. It’s no different than the Soviets putting missiles into Cuba. Had Kennedy invaded would you blame the USA for starting it? Come on.
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