Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "M2 Bradley Deployed to Ukraine" video.

 @finkover988 You'd pay for a replacement even if there was no war. Otherwise Australia would still be using FALs and flying like F-86 Sabres or something.
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@NoNonsense_01 North Vietnam signed the peace accords. They were beat like whipped cream, and broke the peace terms to invade the South after the US had made the decision to not support South Vietnam.
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Half of those tanks are rust buckets, and a quarter had systems and metal stripped to sell. Russia also does not have 10,000 tank crews.
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@p4nnus If we both get our drone operators to call our positions at the same time, but I have the better optics, I will see you first and shoot first. Drones are great. The weapon operator still needs the ability to see for himself what the drone guy is watching.
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It has similar toxicity to tungsten carbide. All AP rounds are heavy metal, the DU scares people because they hear "uranium" and think of Chernobyl, but tungsten carbide... there's a reason we stopped using lead paint, leaded gasoline and mercury thermometers. Heavy metal is very toxic and difficult to remove from the body. So the concept of countries using DU being unethical and those that use tungsten are ethical simply doesn't pass the smell test.
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A small number of Polish upgraded T-72s made Kharkiv and Kherson possible. The issue in Ukraine is they have a ton of resources spread very thin due to how big the frontline is. Not that much pressure is required to punch through when focusing it on a single point.
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@NoNonsense_01 Formalize American defeat after the North Vietnam suffered unsustainable casualties? Just like typical commies, peace was a way for treacherous reds to rebuild and attack again. Had the war not been unpopular at home, the US would break the NVA just like it broke the VC. Saigon was conquered because the US wasn't fighting, just getting people out by helicopter.
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@NoNonsense_01 They're not humiliating terms. Consider the following: our good nature thought we were slaughtering the enemy so bad, we were protesting for the war to end. How is it humiliation for the civilian control over the military to ask for the killing to stop, while the enemy uses military control of civilians to cause the death of their own countrymen? What for? We didn't need Afghanistan. We didn't need Vietnam. The people who needed those countries suffered greatly at the hands of their leadership. Vietnam could be as developed as South Korea right now. Imagine that.
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Ukraine concentrated force in Kharkiv. Russians complained about their line being breached with a 15 tank "fist".
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Bro the Russians are fielding T-62s and transporting bombs on those open top rail cars used for mining ore. They're not holding anything back, there's no counter escalation. They are removing train cars from service because they can't replace bearings and you want to believe they'll come out with the improved gear? Either way, all the gear in the world means nothing when they can't use it. And we still see lone tanks or IFVs falling into ambushes or driving over minefields.
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@jamesevans886 So far they didn't need anything else? They lost far more modern equipment in the early war. It's not about need. It's desperation.
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@jamesevans886 Sorry but the Russian army has like 5 or 6 echelons. They have the vaporware T-14 Armata, the modern T-90M, the modernish T-80 which is operated by a few units, the more numerous T-72s, etc. The T-62 isn't an echelon. It was available because Russia had a refurbishing program to send to Syria. The Russian army was never meant to use T-62s, because the main gun doesn't even use the same shells as the rest of the army. Tank on tank combat is rare. And who sees who first is important. The older a tank is, usually the less capable the optics are. The economic calculation is worthless. 250k? You can't arrive in Russia and ask for a new T-62 for 250k. They're not in production anymore. They're tanks that sat on depots for decades and got refurbished. To Russia, each tank hull is priceless. Each tank that gets knocked out and doesn't get recovered for repairs is something Russia won't get back. They'd probably pay 2 million per tank if you had a boneyard full of T-62s. Russian Naval Infantry was in heavy battles in Southern Ukraine. The VDV suffered heavy losses pushing out of Hostomel airport into Hostomel town and Irpin. They were also at Kherson and now were sent to Bakhmut/Soledar. Russia took equipment out of the Finnish border. They're not afraid, they need the equipment to fight Ukraine. Also from Kaliningrad. Kaliningrad is surrounded by NATO, yet Russians pulled equipment from there to help in Ukraine. Putin was never a master spy. He was an office clerk who found himself in the right position at the right time.
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@jamesevans886 I don't care which official terms they have. If they have 4 or 5 different levels of tank generation in active service that's their problem. Optics are EXTREMELY important because who sees first shoots first. You can't buy brand new T-55s because they haven't been produced in decades. All that exist are old hulls.
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The Atomic Clock is Cold War peacenik propaganda. They once set it closer to midnight not because of troop movements or tangible intelligence about nuclear forces, but over something Trump said. It's purely based on feelings rather than actual military analysis.
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Except that they breach frontlines, surrounder cities, squeeze the defenders and give them a sole road to escape, they shell it when the Russians retreat. Roads out of towns in Kharkiv looked like someone had placed a bomb in a a butcher shop after the Ukrainians let loose with arty.
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 @christianlasala7603 "if"
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@christianlasala7603 How have they failed? The Javelin and NLAW stopped the tank onslaught, M777 provided accurate fire and 155mm compatibility, HIMARS broke the back of the Russian army. The Russian army today is a wreck compared to February 2022.
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@randelmcmillin6957 They don't have 10,000 tanks. And they don't need to be stopped. Just like Kharkiv, they only need to punch a small hole in the front. Then the Ukrainian army rushes in and starts slaughtering the poorly trained and poorly equipped rear units.
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@randelmcmillin6957 If your comment is shadowbanned and it has an upvote, I can tell you're upvoting yourself. Shame. They control land, and so what? It will be returned like the good will gestures at Kharkiv and Kherson. Ukraine has no tanks or ammunition? Damn and they're still kicking ass? Ukraine doesn't even take GWOT veterans, I do not meet the requirements. There's also no mercenaries in active fighting on Ukraine's side.
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15-18 tanks punched the frontlines in Kharkiv and enabled the Ukrainians to fold the Russians like laundry.
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@brettvogel8418 Right. They weren't steamrolled by tanks, the tanked punched the defensive line and then the follow through rolled in behind the tanks to exploit it. But the tanks punched through.
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@jakemocci3953 Russian artillery has massively decreased since June. Ammo, barrel life, counter battery, etc are all creating problems for Russian artillery. Remember how Severodonetsk was characterized by relentless Russian shelling? Now Soledar and Bakhmut were characterized by small groups rushing forward to dig positions and bring ammo. Ukraine received by guns? Russia adapted by using tactics that require the use of mortars.
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They're buying GPS guided drones from Iran. Their manufacturing is a mess.
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