China so far has been providing dual-use items (think golf carts, microchips). If China is now providing munitions, I would expect quite the number of behind-the-scenes discussions occurring between the west and China; with Chinese sanctions on the horizon.
Did they get Dr. Seuss to design a tank?
Wilshire gave the correct answer, but wanted to expand on that. Cargo 200 was a Soviet code word for transporting filled coffins. It would be what you write on a cargo manifest. It morphed into simply ‘200’ and ‘300’ referring to dead and wounded respectively.
One would think ‘don’t approach unexploded ordinance if you don’t have to’ would be common sense…
Crazy taxi seems like it would be best to remain a mid-budget single player game sold for a mid-budget price. Who wants this as an MMO? How can it possibly retain people for long enough to justify such an expense?
I have commented this several times before, but it has been real good seeing the consistent and notable artillery numbers. It’s one of the things Russia still has an advantage over Ukraine, at least in quantity. But it seems Ukraine has an advantage in counter-battery, at least based on just how many Russian artillery units are getting hit. Over time, with such consistent hits, it is something Ukraine is slowly removing from their disadvantage list.
That grad hit was particularly spicy.
And always nice to see a train hit. See those less often, but they are Russia’s logistics backbone and are some of the most important targets.
Yeah, this could prove very effective. Lancets have been doing quite a bit of damage due to their longer range. If Ukraine can shoot these down reliably with such cheap munitions, it will greatly diminish Russia’s ability to hit targets behind the front.
Sunless Skies was pretty well made. Certainly a niche game, but a quite well made one.
Toss-bombing always looks cool, but has had very little application before this war. With dumb bombs it’s inaccurate, and with precision bombs countries like America gain air supremacy and fly high and drop from level flight. The Hammer is well suited for contested environments in this war as it gives much more range when lobbed from low altitude as it’s rocket assisted.
Target selection for them will be interesting. They have a higher payload than something like a GMLRS round, so the Hammers are likely to be primarily used against buildings with troops or supplies, as we see in this video.
Let’s wait and see what happened specifically. But I will say, the US does love their…proportional responses.
Thank you for the extra info. I’ll edit the title since it isn’t confirmed.
I have never seen this shit within the last few decades in a Western military. Everyone there believes a CASEVAC will get them to a hospital where they will be saved. Even if it can’t always happen, it is the norm to do one’s best to save people, not just give up in the first seconds.
I think they got this one! Hard to tell behind the massive explosion though!
Man, no hesitation on the wounded invader. Went straight from being fine, to wanting his buddy to kill him.
I was going to say people can play Shattered Horizon instead. But apparently that one died at some point.
Damn, how many are they getting now? There have been something like a half dozen of such announcements in the last two weeks.
It appears to be nothing more than a reckless gesture to piss off the Russians.
What is Russia going to do, invade Ukraine?
Y’all remember gif sound? Had this audio playing while I watching the above video. Gave it a very ‘shit went bad 20 years ago’ feel.
Also, that thing has been burning all damn day? I saw they were putting it out with what appeared to be just water in one of the earlier videos. Guess they decided to let it burn through the entire fuel supply.
Took me a moment too, look east of Ukraine. Poland did a big sneak.