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26 minutes ago, FootballZombie said:

Man, putting lights on your HIMMARS...

 

 

That is just absolute confidence that your not getting tagged. Distance superiority will do that.

 

Its high-stepping on your way to the endzone levels of "you can't put a finger on me".

Kinda like Americans setting off Fireworks in the Revolutionary war.  "How are you guys doing on supplies?  Oh, us?  We've got too many, so we're exploding them for fun."

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https://www.cnews.fr/monde/2023-01-04/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-la-france-va-livrer-kiev-des-chars-de-combat-legers

 

Quoting a french article just for veracity of it, but we're gonna give light tanks to Ukrainian army. That's not Leclerc type of tank, as they are more used for recognition, but that is still an important move in the war as it somehow opens up possibilities for Ukrainian army.

 

That may also be the beginning of more equipment to come and counter the mass bodies of Russian soldiers that are being send to the front line. It seems that for once we're being proactive and not reacting.

 

That's kinda cool :)

 

So you get an idea of what is the AMX10-RC:

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29 minutes ago, Wildbunny said:

https://www.cnews.fr/monde/2023-01-04/en-direct-guerre-en-ukraine-la-france-va-livrer-kiev-des-chars-de-combat-legers

 

Quoting a french article just for veracity of it, but we're gonna give light tanks to Ukrainian army. That's not Leclerc type of tank, as they are more used for recognition, but that is still an important move in the war as it somehow opens up possibilities for Ukrainian army.

 

That may also be the beginning of more equipment to come and counter the mass bodies of Russian soldiers that are being send to the front line. It seems that for once we're being proactive and not reacting.

 

That's kinda cool :)

 

So you get an idea of what is the AMX10-RC:

1200px-AMX-10-RC.JPG

Aww, it's cute.  Makes me think of our old Shermans.

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Biden will send Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine. And tanks could be next.

 

The U.S. and Germany will send infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine, the two countries announced on Thursday, decisions that could pave the way for the West to give Ukraine what it really wants — Western tanks.

 

The White House announced that it plans to send Ukraine the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, a tracked armored combat vehicle that carries an auto cannon and a machine gun. Germany, meanwhile, will provide its Marder Infantry Fighting Vehicle. The announcements come a day after France said it will send its AMX-10 RC armored fighting vehicles, a highly mobile, wheeled system built around a powerful turret-mounted GIAT 105mm gun.

 

Berlin will also join the U.S. in donating a U.S.-made Patriot air defense battery, bringing Kyiv’s number of Patriots to two after the White House announced the move last month, according to the Thursday statement.

 

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www.economist.com/europe/2022/12/28/ukraines-women-snipers-take-the-fight-to-putin
      
Europe | Femmes fatales

Ukraine’s women snipers take the fight to Putin

“If a woman sniper is captured, she will be raped, humiliated, tortured—and then executed”

women snipers photo taken by Ollie Carrol
Dec 28th 2022 | WESTERN UKRAINE

“Sultan”, a 24-year-old with blonde locks and silicone-enhanced lips, squats to unzip an American Barrett sniper rifle from its carry bag. “The love of my life,” she says, as she places the gun in its firing position. A bearded instructor behind her barks instructions: “Three targets; 186 metres away; shoot to kill.” Sultan lies down, flicks her ponytail behind her head. Ka. Ka. Ka. The bullets land no more than an inch off target. She seems unsurprised. “You have to kill without giving a damn. And I don’t give a damn.”

 

Sultan—she chose the name because she loves Turkish soap operas—is one of three markswomen who have been selected by her country’s special forces for advanced sniper training in the forests of western Ukraine. Like her colleagues “Phoenix” (indestructible, like the bird) and “Oksana” (a delivery guy called her that, and the moniker stuck), Sultan distinguished herself as a volunteer soldier in territorial defence units. But the demands of the Ukrainian front lines, in a specialist profession dominated by men, will be much tougher. The first stage of the adjustment process is the forest.

 

The snipers’ training sessions have been designed by a taciturn commanding officer going by the nom de guerre of “Deputy”, the only biographical detail he offers. Aside from shooting practice, Deputy’s sessions include lessons on tactics, ballistics and movement. In usual circumstances, the training would run for a year and a half. In Ukraine, where the cycles of life and death run faster, the women are to be deployed in a matter of weeks. Their first posting is the northern border with Belarus, where Russian forces may be preparing, or at least threatening, a second attack on Kyiv.

 

Deputy says he was initially sceptical about the idea of training women snipers. Now he believes they are more suited to the profession than men. Women are light and nimble, he says; able to retreat without making a sound. On the whole, they are also “more patient,” and less likely to take unjustified risks. But the thing that really convinced him was seeing how women coped with a gruelling military survival test that those in the know call “Fizo”. From a pool of 90 candidates, only five were left standing by the end of the test. Two of them were men. “The other three you see before you.”

 

Unlike men of conscription age, Ukrainian women are not barred from leaving the country. An initiative to extend the draft to women working in critical professions was due to be enacted last October, but it was postponed amid popular outcry. That means, for the time being at least, women who fight choose to do so voluntarily. That hasn’t stopped Ukraine’s armed forces taking on an increasingly female face.

 

Ukraine’s deputy defence minister, Anna Malyar, says there are now “at least 30,000” women soldiers serving in the army, or one in five of the official, pre-mobilised number. (The exact numbers in the army now are a closely guarded secret.) Most often, women soldiers fulfil back-line roles as medics, press officers, cooks, secret communications officers, or in the sensitive task of evacuating and treating bodies, dead or alive. But a growing number, at least 5,000, are performing front-line roles. Many dozens are snipers.

 

The women trainees say they have faced resistance at every stage of their journey, usually from men who believed women are fundamentally unsuited to the sniping profession. “We’ve never sought an easy life,” says Phoenix, “but we’ve proven ourselves whenever the question is asked.” She says she is under no illusions about the dangers. Snipers occupy a particular spot in military psychology, and are singled out for demonstrative treatment if they are ever captured. Being female is unlikely to offer an advantage. “If a woman sniper is captured, she will be raped, humiliated, tortured, and then executed,” says Oksana. “A sniper should always be prepared to blow herself up with a grenade.”

 

Those well-understood risks place serious pressure on loved ones. Not everyone is open with their family about what they do. Oksana says her mother offered her money to take refuge in Europe when the war broke out: it appears she is unaware that her daughter is even in the army. Both Phoenix and Sultan meanwhile are leaving young children and former husbands behind.

 

Sultan says her eight-year-old daughter had already considered the fact that she might die. “She told me that if that happens she will be sad, but always have a place in her heart for me.” A flicker of emotion shoots across the cold-blooded markswoman’s eyes. She shakes her head before insisting there is no turning back. Her child is the reason she needs to fight, she says: “I am doing everything to make sure her generation doesn’t have to deal with Putin and his crazy world.”

 

this is simultaneously so very kick-ass, and so very heartbreaking.   

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10 hours ago, mcsluggo said:

 

this is simultaneously so very kick-ass, and so very heartbreaking.   

Ukrainian born chicks apparently are just badasses with a sniper rifle.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko

 

I’ve believed for a while that women are better students when it comes to things like learning how to shoot because in general they actually take the time to learn the fundamentals and don’t just assume they know how to use a gun because they happened to be born with a dick.

 

But that’s just a personal belief.

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