Excellent analysis as usual. I would fully concur with the assessment that western tanks are all meant for TV audiences back home. It's what you get when hollywood's running the show.
Maybe irrelevant, but in Iraq one of the jobs Special Operations forces had to do was measure ground pressure. They'd have a special stick instrument you push into the dirt, and they'd go around at night wherever the tanks want to advance the next day or week or month. The tanks need ground that's stiff enough or they sink, so special forces have to become surveyors.
Russia built their tanks and their bridges to match, they're the best tanks for advancing in the environment they're in (except for reverse speed). Western tanks are meant to fall back from prepared position to the next prepared position, and they have a great reverse speed.
<blockquote>The little late addition of, “they certainly don’t lack the courage” is just a crass eye poke, a verbal figleaf or guffawing elbow-in-the-ribs from the fat cigar man with the BAE Systems nameplate on his tartar-sauce-stained shirt.</blockquote>
'drag the tanks back' - that's lunacy surely. only a desk bound clerk could write that. on a battlefield? a tank? you don't get a couple of guys and a rope to drag a tank back... Like what on earth makes them think it would be feasible?
Man I love your writing style. Spot on with the tongue-in-cheek humor, quibs.
May the evil AFU be crushed before more Russian troops succumb to bio attacks. What a messy conflict.
Wait for General Mud to come back in the Spring. Then they might have some additional difficultly towing that heavy-ass shit out of harms way.
Excellent analysis as usual. I would fully concur with the assessment that western tanks are all meant for TV audiences back home. It's what you get when hollywood's running the show.
Maybe irrelevant, but in Iraq one of the jobs Special Operations forces had to do was measure ground pressure. They'd have a special stick instrument you push into the dirt, and they'd go around at night wherever the tanks want to advance the next day or week or month. The tanks need ground that's stiff enough or they sink, so special forces have to become surveyors.
Russia built their tanks and their bridges to match, they're the best tanks for advancing in the environment they're in (except for reverse speed). Western tanks are meant to fall back from prepared position to the next prepared position, and they have a great reverse speed.
I wonder how long before some enterprising ukrainian just diverts one to russia like they did the Cesars?
<blockquote>The little late addition of, “they certainly don’t lack the courage” is just a crass eye poke, a verbal figleaf or guffawing elbow-in-the-ribs from the fat cigar man with the BAE Systems nameplate on his tartar-sauce-stained shirt.</blockquote>
Savage, funny, and true.
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200 western tank operators mabey. Good Post.
'drag the tanks back' - that's lunacy surely. only a desk bound clerk could write that. on a battlefield? a tank? you don't get a couple of guys and a rope to drag a tank back... Like what on earth makes them think it would be feasible?