welshbairn Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 The Russian Fiona Bruce and Andrew Neil are none to happy with Putin getting charged with stealing children. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 24 minutes ago, bennett said: The T-54/55 is roughly equivalent to a Centurian or a M48, basically a late war follow-on. The upgraded versions sport the D10 100mm main gun that started life on late WW2 Soviet tanks. While development of advanced rounds for the D10 occurred in the 80’s, the rounds each cost 1/2 the cost of the tank itself and most are based upon the Bastion (AT-10 Stabber) in a sabot…a round that is unlikely to take long-term storage well. While they will have the gun to take on Leopard 1’s, they are under-armoured for any real offensive role against Ukraine. Conversely, they are poorly suited for a defensive role due to slow fire rate, poor fire control, and an inability to fight effectively from hull-down positions on reverse slopes due to their small and flat turret design (prohibits more than -5 degrees elevation). The T-54/55 would even be at a potential disadvantage versus an AMX-10 RC like France is sending to Ukraine, so how they are going to use these tanks is a good question. The Maxim PM M1910/30, on the other hand, was produced until 1945 and is still considered one of the finest machine guns ever made. Assuming you can maintain ammunition supply, and you are not trying to lug it around, you can’t beat it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 There was a BBC report from Bakhmut a few days ago where they had a Maxim in their trench. Pretty old school but I wouldn’t fancy running towards one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 Zelensky visits the Bakhmut front lines, again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 2 hours ago, bennett said: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 Putin threatening to nuke us again: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/21/putin-says-russia-will-respond-if-uk-supplies-depleted-uranium-shells-to-ukraine 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 1 hour ago, Ludo*1 said: Putin threatening to nuke us again: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/21/putin-says-russia-will-respond-if-uk-supplies-depleted-uranium-shells-to-ukraine Best line…”while a Royal Society study from 2001 concluded the most significant cancer risk was faced by soldiers in a tank who survived it being hit by a depleted uranium munition.” Give the propensity for Russian tanks to toss their turrets 150ft+ in the air upon being hit, that would seem an unlikely risk. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 Maybe the T-54s are going to be used to invade Britain. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 7 minutes ago, ICTChris said: Maybe the T-54s are going to be used to invade Britain. Probably. They only need a small ceremonial force. Someone for us to wave the white flags and roll out the welcome mat for. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 1 hour ago, ICTChris said: Maybe the T-54s are going to be used to invade Britain. The way they're going through tanks it'll be T34s. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 2 hours ago, Bairnardo said: Probably. They only need a small ceremonial force. Someone for us to wave the white flags and roll out the welcome mat for. To be fair, there's some on here would be gaily skipping down to the beaches to welcome them with white flags. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nkomo-A-Gogo Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 6 hours ago, Ludo*1 said: Putin threatening to nuke us again: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/21/putin-says-russia-will-respond-if-uk-supplies-depleted-uranium-shells-to-ukraine What's the problem if they are already depleted? Send a few full ones his way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 Maybe the p***k shouldn't have used Polonium and Novichok in the UK then? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted March 24, 2023 Share Posted March 24, 2023 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Self-raising Lazarus Posted March 24, 2023 Share Posted March 24, 2023 We've bottled it in retaliating against Russia for years, litvinenko in 2006 should've been a watershed. Its also really hard to see what either side will view as a resolution to this conflict, neither side seems to be able to advance more than a few hundred meters, or is this due to the weather amongst other factors? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superwell87 Posted March 24, 2023 Share Posted March 24, 2023 1) I thought it wasn't a war in Russia's eyes? 2) Should I put off doing up my flat? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 Vlad moving onto water events after people twigged to the defenestration issues… https://www.newsweek.com/russia-cream-soda-drowning-vladimir-putin-palace-volga-1789145 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbykdy Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 11 hours ago, superwell87 said: 1) I thought it wasn't a war in Russia's eyes? Brilliant, eh? She is going on about how that nonce saved the orphaned kids from the shelling, who is committing the shelling if as you rightly pointed out it isn't a war in their eyes? The Ukrainians themselves? Deluded fuds. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 (edited) 13 hours ago, Self-raising Lazarus said: ...neither side seems to be able to advance more than a few hundred meters, or is this due to the weather amongst other factors? Right now it isn't possible to drive vehicles across fields due to mud by all accounts so possibly so. Edited March 25, 2023 by LongTimeLurker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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