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Russian troops are using wooden logs to armor their convoy trucks
Interesting Engineering ^ | Mar 06, 2022 | Loukia Papadopoulos

Posted on 03/06/2022 7:27:02 PM PST by TigerLikesRoosterNew

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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew

That is how the Russians beat Napoleon. If the Ukrainians go after the Russians supply line of gas and food that will bog them down. T-90 tanks can’t run without fuel.


61 posted on 03/07/2022 12:51:23 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

Soviet Communists morphed into Fascists after the Soviet Union failed.


62 posted on 03/07/2022 2:30:03 AM PST by Does so (Americans had no desire for war between 1939 and 1941. Rheinland? Sometimes War Finds YOU!)
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To: Rebelbase

“Looks like they are trying to protect the radiator and engine from head-on fire”.

Birch logs are easy to cut, and would split very easily from gunfire. Dropped in a row in front of the slipping drive wheels,..Better than nothing...


63 posted on 03/07/2022 2:40:44 AM PST by Does so (Americans had no desire for war between 1939 and 1941. Rheinland? Sometimes War Finds YOU!)
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To: Ceebass

“De-Nazification” was supposed to herald the return of the “Great Patriotic War”.

It’s not working out that way without Soviet Commisars bringing up the rear.


64 posted on 03/07/2022 2:48:12 AM PST by Does so (Americans had no desire for war between 1939 and 1941. Rheinland? Sometimes War Finds YOU!)
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew
Won't help against the Javelin.

But it is reminiscent of when we were in Iraq, after the Iraqi Army fell and we had “won” and the roadside bombs started along with the insurgency that sent ten's of thousands of US service members home wounded and thousands dead and the units on the ground were trying everything they could to reinforce our crap Humvees that were rolling coffins.

65 posted on 03/07/2022 2:53:24 AM PST by corlorde
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To: xkaydet65

Logs, sandbags, welded steel plate, extra track, even concrete. Some to give a little extra resistance to AP rounds, but mostly Panzerfausts & Japanese magnetic mines.

66 posted on 03/07/2022 3:18:09 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: Dick Vomer

https://www.cnn.com/2011/10/06/us/afghanistan-horse-soldiers-memorial/index.html


67 posted on 03/07/2022 3:30:40 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew

Patton suggested Bradley let the bulge extend to Paris so he could cut off the whole German army.


68 posted on 03/07/2022 3:40:03 AM PST by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: JoSixChip

I’ve never witnessed such incredible levels of propaganda in my country before, I mean it’s not just everywhere, it’s everything!

The scales fell off? No. Satan is just that confidently bold now because he owns EVERYTHING.

He was that confident when Jesus was 33 and in Gethsamane. It seemed so a little while longer...


69 posted on 03/07/2022 4:19:56 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: Does so
Soviet Communists morphed into Fascists after the Soviet Union failed.

Did they all move to Ukraine? Or are the Russian fascists attacking the Ukrainian fascists?

70 posted on 03/07/2022 5:55:38 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Long Jon No Silver

Everybody learned a lot from the NAZIs.


71 posted on 03/07/2022 7:03:52 AM PST by GingisK
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To: euram

I thought the same thing.


72 posted on 03/07/2022 7:04:35 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

Small arms fire will certainly punch holes in a radiator. That will eventually take the vehicle out of service.


73 posted on 03/07/2022 7:07:50 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Pikachu_Dad

In winter time, it is. Have you ever noticed the covers over the front of transport tractors in the winter? Air that is too cold makes the engine too cool, which inhibits clean combustion and makes the oil thicker than desired.


74 posted on 03/07/2022 7:10:33 AM PST by GingisK
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew

Less so than bullets.


75 posted on 03/07/2022 7:11:13 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Hot Tabasco

I was giving an example of how something can be turned into propaganda.. for good or for bad depending on how it’s said.


76 posted on 03/07/2022 7:35:12 AM PST by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitantes)
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To: TigerLikesRoosterNew
Ford used to make those.

These guys came to surf.
77 posted on 03/07/2022 11:20:50 AM PST by Blogatron (Biden was elected by a Xerox machine.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

Ukraine is hardly as Fascist as Russia. Citizens would be comfortable in the USA.


78 posted on 03/07/2022 12:02:34 PM PST by Does so (Americans had no desire for war between 1939 and 1941. Rheinland? Sometimes War Finds YOU!)
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