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Civilians in Mariupol confirm war crimes committed by the Azov Nazi fighters

Peacedog wrote:FYI, the published range of an NLAW is 800M with reports of shots approaching 1000M. If the Russians were effectively using an infantry screen, it would be a lot less effective. That said, all reporting indicates the Russians are not employing an infantry screen with their armor. Finally, the automation features in the NLAW make it remarkably easy to use. The on-board computer does most of the work. Training time is minimal.

Second, what you are seeing with the Russians is probably indicative of what their capabilities have always been. While their doctrine might say one thing....their actions certainly say another.

While I was always a small war guy, rumors of vastly over-estimated Soviet, and later Russian, capability vis a vis official assessments of their capabilities were legion. And I think this is playing out now. Plus the saying in Foreign Military Sales (FMS) circles was "buy Russian when second best is good enough." Their quality of armaments was always complete crap.

And here's the real kicker...the Russians are without question the best in the world at this kind of top-down military command structure. Which means PLA field performance is likely many times worse than what is predicted in official military assessments. I'm not sure if this makes an invasion of Taiwan less likely or it makes sterilization of the island via missile strikes more likely due to expected under performance of PLA conventional forces. Either way, I'm sure the PLA is taking close notes of what is going on. As they did in Syria as well.

Peacedog wrote:FYI, the published range of an NLAW is 800M with reports of shots approaching 1000M. If the Russians were effectively using an infantry screen, it would be a lot less effective. That said, all reporting indicates the Russians are not employing an infantry screen with their armor. Finally, the automation features in the NLAW make it remarkably easy to use. The on-board computer does most of the work. Training time is minimal.

Second, what you are seeing with the Russians is probably indicative of what their capabilities have always been. While their doctrine might say one thing....their actions certainly say another.

While I was always a small war guy, rumors of vastly over-estimated Soviet, and later Russian, capability vis a vis official assessments of their capabilities were legion. And I think this is playing out now. Plus the saying in Foreign Military Sales (FMS) circles was "buy Russian when second best is good enough." Their quality of armaments was always complete crap.

And here's the real kicker...the Russians are without question the best in the world at this kind of top-down military command structure. Which means PLA field performance is likely many times worse than what is predicted in official military assessments. I'm not sure if this makes an invasion of Taiwan less likely or it makes sterilization of the island via missile strikes more likely due to expected under performance of PLA conventional forces. Either way, I'm sure the PLA is taking close notes of what is going on. As they did in Syria as well.

vadaga wrote:

Peacedog wrote:FYI, the published range of an NLAW is 800M with reports of shots approaching 1000M. If the Russians were effectively using an infantry screen, it would be a lot less effective. That said, all reporting indicates the Russians are not employing an infantry screen with their armor. Finally, the automation features in the NLAW make it remarkably easy to use. The on-board computer does most of the work. Training time is minimal.

Second, what you are seeing with the Russians is probably indicative of what their capabilities have always been. While their doctrine might say one thing....their actions certainly say another.

While I was always a small war guy, rumors of vastly over-estimated Soviet, and later Russian, capability vis a vis official assessments of their capabilities were legion. And I think this is playing out now. Plus the saying in Foreign Military Sales (FMS) circles was "buy Russian when second best is good enough." Their quality of armaments was always complete crap.

And here's the real kicker...the Russians are without question the best in the world at this kind of top-down military command structure. Which means PLA field performance is likely many times worse than what is predicted in official military assessments. I'm not sure if this makes an invasion of Taiwan less likely or it makes sterilization of the island via missile strikes more likely due to expected under performance of PLA conventional forces. Either way, I'm sure the PLA is taking close notes of what is going on. As they did in Syria as well.

unless the PLA has some sort of major cyber capabilities... I dont see an invasion of Taiwan as feasible... they should probably just repossess all of the Taiwanese assets on the mainland and make a clean break of it.

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Civilians in Mariupol confirm war crimes committed by the Azov Nazi fighters

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According to Western media, now copy-paste reporting the same claims, Russian forces apparently secretly buried *up to 9,000 Mariupol civilians* in "mass graves" in a town just west of the city.

Except, it never happened, there is no mass grave.

It's actually just a normal, small, cemetery…no pits, no mass graves, just an orderly cemetery whose grave diggers refuted Western claims.

On April 23, with journalist Roman Kosarev, I went to Mangush (Manhush in Ukrainian), found a normal cemetery setting, and spoke with the men responsible for burials, who refused the allegations and said they buried each person in a coffin, including, they noted, Ukrainian soldiers.

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