Nah, that the rare gold enchant which makes it ‘Tactical Teddy, Defender of Bakhmut’.
That’s +2 damage, but also gives a +6 to intimidatation which increases the chance to proc the demoralised debuff to all enemies in a 20m vicinity of any kills.
Most of Israel’s allies are also Ukrainian allies. Russia are using the current events to deflect from their own situation, really steaming up the propaganda wagon on this one.
Iran are a key ally of HAMAS and Russia.
A) this isn’t the ‘Ukraine War’ community. It’s a Ukraine community.
B) it’s connected. You would know this if your intelligence went beyond ‘cool, that tank got blown up’.
At least they’re hitting the things they’re aiming for, regardless of what the target may or may not be cough Russia Cough
Also, it’s worth knowing that Israel have told people within Gaza City to move away and out of the outskirts into the centre, which apparently many Palestinians have heeded. Unfortunately many also have not.
The Falklands are a great case study of ‘you don’t have to be the best, just better than the other guy’.
Because there was a couple of really major opportunities that could have legitimately won the war for Argentina if they zigged instead of zagged.
The one that comes to my mind is during the San Carlos landings the Argentine aircraft chose to attack the major surface vessels and left the landing craft completely unmolested. If they had made runs on the mostly undefended soldiers rather than the big ships, or at least split between them then they would have dealt another significant blow to a force that was already pretty on the brink after the loss of the Atlantic Conveyor and the desperately valuable supplies and resources on it.
The British commanders had also made some pretty significant strategic blunders as well, such as placing the Type 42 Destroyers as the fleet med-high AD and early radar picket despite well knowing and being fearful of the Exocet missiles in the Argentine inventory. The Exocet was a surface skimming system which the defensive and detection systems on the Type 42s were unable to do anything about. After the sinking of the Sheffield the picket was made up of a Type 42 and 82 as they complimented each other to provide a wider AD capability.
Rather than bother trying to arguenwith someone who is blatantly trying to twist bad faith and pedantry I’ll.just say this:
Ratio.
It doesn’t take a genius to realise this. The tempo of attacks during last winter was what it was and now almost suddenly they barely launch a handful a week in comparison.
Knowing roughly what their monthly production volumes are of ~50 per month across their various systems as of last winter, they haven’t been expending anywhere near that amount. The missiles have to be going somewhere, and it’s obviously into stockpile. https://jamestown.org/program/russias-estimated-storage-of-cruise-missiles-may-2023/
It is absolutely imperative that we get as many of the needed AD systems into Ukrainian hands ASAP in preparation for this coming onslaught. Another consideration that isn’t being discussed is that we should have been stockpiling spare parts and supporting infrastructure for their utility infrastructure (transformers, generators, tents and such) so that they’re able to quickly make required repairs and provide shelter to those that need it in the event of inevitable successful strikes.
That’s not what was said. The OP was quite blatantly talking about the invasion operations, not the occupational operations.
Your pedantry is unnecessary and unsolicited.
An exception to that would be the Falklands.
While the UK were superior on paper, the specifics of the situation meant that it was a lot closer than it should have been. If Argentina had been a little more brash in their tactics against the task force then it could have went badly for the UK.
Don’t really see what the relevance of this comment is except to try and shoehorn in some whataboutism.
How’s that going for them?
It’s not the retreating back into the rear that they’re worried about the *Ukrainian teenagers to do, that’s why they’re trying to brainwash them. No doubt some will be convinced, unfortunately, but hopefully most have a decent head on their shoulders and just surrender at the soonest chance.
I wish I had the time to subscribe to it. It was a tough choice to unsub from it when I went through my last purge, because it’s normally really, really interesting topics and high quality information.
But since it was more American focused I had to let it go.
It’s a limit to warship size/quantity, not a blanket ban on warships unless Türkiye close the Strait; which they haven’t yet.
For example, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Black_Sea_incident Which involved a Dutch and British navy destroyer.
China may not have many blue water vessels, but they do have them, including carriers. While the carriers can’t transit the strait (unless they call them cruisers, which the could since one is an ex Kirov class and the other is direct copy), they have enough vessels that support them in frigates, destroyers and such. All they need is one.
An angle that I didn’t consider at the time of my post was China.
They could use this as an opportunity to look good on the world stage by sending some ships over to escort the shipments.
Russia wouldn’t dare attack them, China looks good and protects their self interests and their navy get some invaluable and greatly needed experience on long distance missions.
You may be surprised given that they don’t seem to be doing much, but yep. And it’s fairly sizable: https://www.kchf.ru/eng/ship/today.htm
Could be a while yet, in honesty.
None of the current major parties (and that’s inclusive of Lib Dems) are totally commited to saying that they’ll definitely and decisively go through the motions of rejoining. At least not that I’m aware of.
None have to confidence that it’ll get them more votes than lost. Which is fucking frustrating. Especially since Labour seem to very quickly becoming much of a Tory mirror of late.
There is really little between them.
The movement of what appears to be BTR4 across the Dnipro is interesting.
BTR4 is generally considered to be one of Ukraine’s most capable platforms, but very thin in number. They were thin in number at the start of the 2022 invasion and suffered what seemed to be heavy losses despite their effectiveness. Who remembers those videos showing the thermal screens inside a vehicle absolutely massacring Russian infantry and pounding their armoured support? Those were from a BTR4 in Mariupol.
Their deployment in this fashion is really good to see as it means that Ukrainian commanders either feel that they’re going to be successful in strengthening and widening their bridgehead or that they’ve been able to ramp up production and are able to afford the losses of the type by risking it in these types of high risk missions. Or both.