Maybe you can go door to door looking for support for the war.
Posted on 08/28/2022 2:54:24 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
I wonder if these are farmed out to China.
You’re using a leftist term....
Addressing others as “Comrade” was not a specifically Russian thing. It is an international term and has been around even before the communist movement.
It comes from French, “camarade”, and it was first used with political overtones in the 18th and 19th century, when the socialist movement was growing and they were finally trying to find a more egalitarian-sounding alternative to forms of address like “Mr.” or “Ms”.
“Comrade” as a form of address gained even more popularity while during the early 20th century, especially during the Russian Revolution, Russian Marxists and other leftists started using this word as a form of address between those who shared the same goals. They used the Russian equivalent, товарищ (tovarishch), which originally meant something like “travelling companion”, or “business mate”. After the Revolution, the term was translated and adopted by other leftists around the world.
Aye, Comrade Caww.
Maybe you can go door to door looking for support for the war.
From the article: “At a press conference on Wednesday, Defense Under Secretary Colin Kahl said the U.S. will not provide Ukraine with long-range missiles.
Kahl said the U.S.-supplied Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS) remain the best form of attack, rather than Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS)”
I did not see any specifics in the article about production contracts (they would likey just require exercising options on existing contracts, rather than new awards, which should be a quick process).
But it is a good sign that the industrial base is mobilizing to replenish stocks. Seen some signs of that in Europe as well.
Putin did that.
The tanks have fake armor, but they are sprinkled with holy water to protect the occupants from vampires.
Now that thar is funny!
I don’t remember Ukraine invading Russia.
“...Well, at least if we can get some sensible people like Trump or DeSantis in charge again, and for an extended period. THAT is the main problem.”
Could not agree more. In fact our current civilian as well as military leadership is the main reason why war, with any near peer enemy, would be disastrous right now… imho. One only needs to look to our withdrawl from Afghanistan for a sneak peek at what war would look like with these baffoons running the show.
Sure, just so long as we don't strip our own active military of munitions (which is being reported) and replaced with a stack of IOUs.
The HIMARS works with several different kinds of warheads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIMARS#Rockets_and_missiles
They just need one more step to convert the munitions to cash: Sell them on the black market.
Well.... HIMARS can fire the MGM-140 ATACMS missile / WAU-23/B (unitary) warhead, but even that really is not what you want to knock out a large bridge.
We “say” we’ve not given the Ukies any ATACMS, but, disinformation is perhaps the biggest name in this game.
It has been speculated that hitting an ammo truck with a bomblet could create a secondary explosion damaging a bridge, but, that seems a stretch. Non-focused explosion and all that...
Yes.
Get those factories humming. Lots of jobs in the Defense Industry.
Not only are our weapons stopping and severely damaging the brutal Russian invasion, they are producing American jobs,and we get our weapons battle tested without shedding American blood.
Definitely a Win/Win for the USA!
OK, I guess the M31, M31A1 and M31A2 could do it if you hit the bridge just right or hit it enough times.
Yes. The Ukrainian soldiers really like the M270s, too. Anything that packs enough high explosive and detonates exactly upon impact will do it, if it impacts the right spots.
There was a Nike Hercules battery near our motor pool. I played a tangential role during six Nuclear Surety Inspections. We supplied a 40 man augmentation force should they be attacked by terrorists or other bad guys, I was the commander.
The outbriefings commanded the attendance of everyone in the chain of command: Battery, Battalion, and Group Commanders. The Deputy Commanding General of 32nd AADCOM joined the party, too. LOL, he'd always dropped in on our motor pool to say hi...OMG the pucker factor when he showed up.
The main reason for the DCG's attendance at the NSI outbriefings was simple: should the battery fail its NSI, a rare occurrence, he was there to relieve the entire chain of command, up to the Group Commander.
There was no reckoning with the failure in Afghanistan...hell, they won't even release the name of the Colonel who effed up everything.
You know much more about artillery than I do, but I was trained to do a thing or two with bridges. For complete demolition, support structurals above and/or below the decking would need to be sufficiently damaged. And in some situations, abutments. But in some scenarios, enough holes repeatedly punched in one or more spans of the decking and steel support within it could buy enough supply disruption time for an assault. Some capability of watching traffic around the bridge site throughout the process would be needed, too (easily done in various ways now).
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