One of the Kubel "tanks" employed by the Afrika Korps. A wooden body/turret set atop an automobile.
Posted on 03/29/2024 10:58:57 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
Demand for fake weaponry has shot up as Ukrainian troops on the front line contend with increasing Russian strikes and dwindling supplies.
Mykhailo Roman, 32, an architect who produces dummy weapons out of plywood, metal and plastic drainpipe, said he has been working overtime in recent months.
The married father-of-one runs a small architecture firm in Vynohradiv, a village just 10 miles from the Hungarian border in south-west Ukraine that is largely untouched by the ravages of war.
By day, he mostly designs houses. But in his evenings, he has turned his skills to building a Potemkin army.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
In one video, a soldier can be heard saying: “Look how the Russians strike, the morons,” while demonstrating the damage caused to the decoys by a barrage of Russian shells. “Twenty rounds per strike; $20,000 [£15,850] for each Stugna made by you guys,” he added.
Morons...It’s successful. So name the man, the village he works in, what it’s made of and everything.
Ukes are bright.
One of the Kubel "tanks" employed by the Afrika Korps. A wooden body/turret set atop an automobile.
The Doolittle Raiders used broom sticks to mimic gun barrels in the gun turrets removed to lesson the weight.
Gearing up with weapons for next Uke counteroffensive I see. Sewer pipes forward and on to Moscow! Huzzah!
Came upon hundreds of fake tanks in Desert Storm. Crude, 55 gal drums with pipe gun tubes but very well placed. Dug in with sandbags out front to reduce dust when firing and sheet metal devices on poles designed to give radar signature.
Good enough that we were briefed the area was occupied and even had a unit designation.
In his day job he designs houses? In a war zone?
How dire is the situation?
I occasionally follow a guy on Facebook who is a Ukranian musician. He lives in Kiev and is still playing music and doing concerts. Sounds like much of life is pretty normal
Slow Joe will be demanding seventeen billion dollars for drainpipes for Ukraine.
ZEEPER FOLLIES PINGLIST!!
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Join and laugh at the humor Zeepers provide!!
More aid! More aid! More aid! The Ukes could win if only they had MORE WESTERN AID!
Meanwhile OUR border remains wide open and unprotected, allowing terrorists and barbarians to flood into OUR country to prey on American Citizens.
And what do we hear from zeepers about that?
But that's to be expected because many zeepers hate America. Right, Chad?
An excerpt for Chad's essay, "Stranger in a Strange Land; When you feel like a foreigner in your own country" (h/t Rocco Di Pippo)
“I don’t have any friends here. Nor, really, do I want any. There’s nothing I see in ninety-nine percent of Americans I encounter that would motivate me to become friends with them, even if there were the remotest chance of that happening. We would have nothing in common. Most of the few close friends I’ve had have been people originally from outside the United States, or at least have lived outside the United States for an extended period of time. Maybe that makes me an “elitist” despite growing up near the bottom of the social totem pole. I don’t care.”
Typical zeeper.
Similar to the USA “GHOST ARMY” in WW II???
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