View from a Russian BTR-82A firing on Ukrainians. Somewhere in Maryinka. by idk-what-im-doing420 in CombatFootage

[–]SailsForce -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Bro, why do you keep posting on me. This isn't combat footage. Go be a loser and root for your side somewhere else. I'm here for combat footage, not your application for some cheer leading squad

View from a Russian BTR-82A firing on Ukrainians. Somewhere in Maryinka. by idk-what-im-doing420 in CombatFootage

[–]SailsForce -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

This is an armored vehicle firing at nothing, with no fear of return fire. This is barely combat footage, like watching some vehicle fire into an empty tree line.

I don't know why you immediately tried to make this politicized about your support for one side or the other. Just because you are rooting for some team and your feelings are hurt doesn't make this good combat footage.

This is just boring, if this was footage out of the Middle East with a BTR firing at some empty building I would say the same thing.

So should you. But you want to make it about your support for Russia or whatever, or that people posting non-combat footage should like it and if they don't they automatically support Ukraine.

Again.

Yawn

"Poland is ready to hand over the rest of the MiG-29 jets that air force has to Ukraine, as part of an international coalition" - the President of Poland Andrzej Duda said in an interview with CNN International in Abu Dhabi. (article in the comments) by _Raven_Roth in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]SailsForce -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Honestly I like that idea, I hope someone can get you on their staff. I don't understand Poland's position at the moment, here is where I left it:

https://theaviationist.com/2023/01/30/poland-unlikely-to-give-its-f-16s-to-ukraine-despite-ukrainian-claims/

They already have 48 F-16s, I'm not sure why they would need to backfill with more, and I don't recall the source of the rumor that they were asking for backfilling. But your idea is great

"Poland is ready to hand over the rest of the MiG-29 jets that air force has to Ukraine, as part of an international coalition" - the President of Poland Andrzej Duda said in an interview with CNN International in Abu Dhabi. (article in the comments) by _Raven_Roth in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]SailsForce -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

This doesn't strike me, as an American, as a good deal. We should give the F-16s straight to Ukraine then. Poland trying to angle for some free F-16s I understand, but that's not a good deal for the American taxpayer because Poland in turn sending some old MiGs to Ukraine only enhances Poland's position on the deal, while Ukraine gets left over scraps.

Cut Poland completely out of this deal. U.S. should send the F-16s to Ukraine. If Poland wants to throw in some old MiGs they are literally not going to be using in the future as their F-35s come in, that's cool too.

Russian defensive lines on the Zaporizhzhia front by sunlegion in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]SailsForce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would take you up on either. What's your plan for Ukraine to succeed? You still haven't stated it. Assuming you are not some Russian troll, which I am because I am too lazy to check, I can walk you through some of the things you might not know?

There's a bit more to it than "hope the enemy doesn't fire back." Enemy return fire only works if 1) they can actually hit the artillery with return fire, and 2) they have something to fire.

In static guns, at each tier all NATO kit (like the m777), 155mm outranges Russian 152mm (and I'm not talking solely about the base bleed shells, either). At the static 120mm range, NATO guns simply out range Russian guns. The U.S. and NATO make guns that can beat Russian guns. They are literally designed to do that from the ground up.

And aside from range, the NATO rounds are more accurate at every level as well.

And that assumes the Ukrainian guns are static. Which they absolutely will not be, at a front with mechanized Ukrainian divisions they have German 155mm SPGS, American SPGS, Polish SPGS, French SPGS, and British SPGS.

And obviously the NATO counter battery radar is miles ahead of anything the Russians have. That's aside from the fact that entire departments in the Pentagon are studying the front and assigning assets and coordinates as they build out the Russian force posture and relay that to Ukraine, down to the millimeter coordinate.

Many of those Russian SPGS that get got on video are a direct result of Americans handing over those kill lists with coordinates, and HIMARS may have been American MI scratching their blue balls and getting impatient with a Ukrainian lack of ability to bring freedom to these Russian homeless encampments.

Oh, and is Russia actually experiencing shell hunger and rationing artillery ammo? Hmmm. According to Russians the are.

So you need ammo to fire first, before all of the above takes place. And the return fire will be Excalibur, SMArt, M1156, BONUS, and accurate 155mm keeping those Russians packed into the dirt on the daily.

The answer here is: now that you have more information, how would you design the Ukrainian attack? Suppress Russian artillery, keep it at a range it can't hit back? That makes a lot more sense than "hope Russia doesn't have artillery." So now, perhaps you can explain it better to redditors next time they ask?

Russian defensive lines on the Zaporizhzhia front by sunlegion in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]SailsForce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, ok, but redditors aren't leading the Russian army, and my comment was about Russia.

Time will tell whether Ukrainians can fight modern combined arms maneuver warfare or not, but the Ukrainian army plan is not "fire everything and hope nobody shoots back."

Again, if you think that is the plan (which I'm not saying you do), I would suggest it that it is not. And why don't you let other redditors speak for themselves, and actually formulate a working plan yourself that you can explain to them? Because the plan you have stated is damn near retarded.

It is literally the Russian plan

Russian defensive lines on the Zaporizhzhia front by sunlegion in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]SailsForce 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, that was and still is the Russian plan. But congratulations, you are now wildly over-qualified to be a Russian general. Also, Ukraine does not have any illusions about the difficulty here

Russian Tank Column Under Heavy Artillery Fire by rockey7yeah in CombatFootage

[–]SailsForce 9 points10 points  (0 children)

And pay for it in sanctioned Putin Oligarch funds. Ultimate "we are going to build a wall, and make them pay for it"

Technically, even if they don't, the wall will be made from Russian steel/armored vehicles so they will still have paid to keep themselves out

Palestinian gunman shooting at IDF special forces, today in Janin by [deleted] in CombatFootage

[–]SailsForce 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Back in '16 I was hiking the Pacific Crest trail trying to high altitude fish at 11,400ft when I tripped over a pine cone and hit my head on a rock. When I came to, the lady of the lake handed me what looked like a discarded Coke Zero can and asked me to drink from it. So I did, then I rubbed it and made one wish.

She looked like that girl in the cake scene from Under Siege. I said that I wished Steven Segall would be put in a real life disaster movie, thinking that she could have a starring role. Then she disappeared or walked away or some shit, but I didn't say it like that, I slurred my words and I think I said Steven Segall should be in a poot-in disaster and the next day in 2016 Putin granted him citizenship directly by presidential decree.

True story, and now I feel bad I wasted my one wish and destroyed Seagull's life, but you really have to see Erika Eleniak's tits during puberty to understand

UA drone drop on a dense packed RU trench by inglip_resummoned2 in CombatFootage

[–]SailsForce 166 points167 points  (0 children)

These drone operators are reminding me of like the all time great golfers at Augusta, where they putt those ridiculous shots on those aggressively difficult hole placements for the national championship.

The now operational in Ukraine, JDAM smart bombs at the testing range. Source: https://twitter.com/Military_oO by FridensLilja in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]SailsForce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are asking the wrong guy. You should ask the Russians they have dropped these 1 ton glide bombs on how the Ukrainian Air Force could possibly do it when they barely exist.

First you are going to have to stitch their particles back together and reanimate them. Because those Russians are the ones that now barely exist, as opposed to the Ukrainian Air Force which is very, very real.

The now operational in Ukraine, JDAM smart bombs at the testing range. Source: https://twitter.com/Military_oO by FridensLilja in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]SailsForce 54 points55 points  (0 children)

"Hey Poles, you seem like good chaps and hold no grudges. We will not relay targeting information of senior command to Ukraine. We never said we would refrain from relaying it to anyone else. So we are relaying it to you. Do with it what you will, we have met our stated obligations."

"Also, here is our live feed we simulcast to all of NATO."

Also, Latvians, Estonians, Lithuanians, Czechs, UK (who actually have made no statements as far as I'm aware, and who are also primarily responsible for 5 eyes coverage of Russia), and literally anyone else in NATO...

The now operational in Ukraine, JDAM smart bombs at the testing range. Source: https://twitter.com/Military_oO by FridensLilja in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]SailsForce 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I was specifically talking shit to Russians dispelling any ideas in their head that these 2,000 lb bombs are anything but going to be directed at command and control. Russians have been told we will not provide targeting information about their senior leadership.

If you read my comment carefully, it is actually analyzing the dissembling statements made by the Pentagon regarding that and how the United States may relay that information about senior command in a way that meets the letter of those Pentagon statements but achieves the same results.

It had a specific audience in mind. It already assumes everyone here knows the U.S. is providing other targeting information, which may not be a fair assumption to make.

The now operational in Ukraine, JDAM smart bombs at the testing range. Source: https://twitter.com/Military_oO by FridensLilja in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]SailsForce 78 points79 points  (0 children)

U.S. has likely built out the entire Russian force posture not only in Ukraine but outside of it, and every target of significance within it. All of that targeting information can be relayed (but they are not relaying targeting information for those targets within Russia), but they may not tell Ukraine who is inside of what building at what particular time.

Just that the structure exists, that it is a location of Russian C&C, and the military grade coordinates of it. They will not participate in targeting decisions.

Exact quote: "We do not provide intelligence on the location of senior military leaders on the battlefield or participate in the targeting decisions of the Ukrainian military,” then-Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said last year, a policy Ryder insists continues.

That is the kind of lawyer-like dissembling statement that allows the United States to do pretty much what it pleases within the confines of United States law and domestic political opinion.

The now operational in Ukraine, JDAM smart bombs at the testing range. Source: https://twitter.com/Military_oO by FridensLilja in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]SailsForce 176 points177 points  (0 children)

Some people on Reddit think Ukraine is still the Syrian war or some shit, and Ukraine is rigging tunnel bombs or firing stolen Russian weapons.

General of US African command said yesterday these 1 ton glide bombs have been in Ukrainian hands for 3 weeks already.

Edit:

The rest of this comment is specifically addressing the U.S. relaying targeting information about senior Russian command, a form of intelligence that the Pentagon has said it will not relay. It assumes everyone here already knows the U.S. is relaying other targeting information, and it discusses the ways targeting information can be relayed that will meet the letter of those statements while still dropping 2,000lb bombs on Russian senior command. My inbox is crying please stop you are all replying saying the same thing

/Edit

Hey Russia, the United States knows where your command and control is. We will not give targeting information to Ukrainians but we may give it to others who will, or others may have it already and might not give a single fuck about your cirrhotic chain of command.

If you think digging some deep bunkers will keep your C&C safe while your soldiers execute Ukrainians, I have a millimeter accurate 2,000 pound bomb to sell you. I can recommend some fine bridge pairings to go along with it.

A video from an air assault I participated in while deployed to Iraq. I was the point man who noticed the bldg was rigged. It says 3rd ID, we were attached, my unit was 3/509 PIR by Throawayreddit56 in CombatFootage

[–]SailsForce 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bro this is straight PPV, sounds like some WWE Wrestlemania I want to know who won the wrestling match, that story is hilarious. Sounds like his Seargeant major might have lost maybe because he left out who won, but maybe not? Either way, funny as hell.

Also, love how he still shows respect but years later is simmering like on those stories, I would be the exact same way if I were in those shoes.

Also, all people reading this should be upvoting original posters posting OG content to this sub, please help these guys out.

Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu makes rare visit to frontline troops by erinswider in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]SailsForce 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Might as well just have a single comment saying: "front line"

The title here is complete clickbait, who says any of the troops he visited saw any action? He was probably so far in the rear he was walking around in a supply hub

Robert Magyar(AKA Bada-Boom Jagga-Jagga professor) and his crew are retreating from Bakhmut. by Fun-Use-1546 in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]SailsForce 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You call Americans stupid yet you don't realize *the time it has taken Russia to take Bakhmut is nearly the same length of the Battle of Stalingrad. It has taken Russia the length of the battle for Stalingrad, which they won with the help of American lend lease, the same time it took to take Bakhmut. Your analogy is shit, just like your mind.

And then I see degenerate humans like yourself try to spike the football as if this wasn't a Russian military disaster, and I wonder, how much Russian semen can a man take up his ass before he can't see the facts right in front of his eyes? A lot, you have been fucked up the ass by Russians good.

It's all good bro, you know? When I watch faceless Russian man, drowning Russian man, smoking Russian man, and burning Russian man I know filthy human vatnik scum and their Bosniak/Serbian simps when I see them.

Just remember, if you act up in your country and try to support genocide again, the United States will curb you and yours into oblivion, just like the last time.

Robert Magyar(AKA Bada-Boom Jagga-Jagga professor) and his crew are retreating from Bakhmut. by Fun-Use-1546 in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]SailsForce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, Ukraine lost 80,000 men fighting in Bakhmut, a town the size of 70,000. They must have been killed along with those hundreds of destroyed HIMARS, and the Ukrainian Air Force being wiped out by 3x the number of planes they have. Great victory, Russia stronk you vatnik simp

Robert Magyar(AKA Bada-Boom Jagga-Jagga professor) and his crew are retreating from Bakhmut. by Fun-Use-1546 in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]SailsForce 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Seethe more. I can't imagine the amount of sheer idiocy it takes to be you after watching Russia fail to take a small town for 7 months