Comments by "Kameraden" (@Alte.Kameraden) on "WarLeaks - Military Blog" channel.

Some of those older light AT Tank weapons people say are useless, but they're not useless when they disable a tank, and have it block a road or bridge. winks Even if the tank is still combat worthy. The ones they're using don't stand much of a chance at killing a tank but you don't have to kill a tank to cause serious issues for the enemy.
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Ellen Hayden Welcome to every war fought since the 1950s. Even in Iraq and Afghanistan these platforms existed. What matters is how they're used. Reason so many Russian vehicles are lost is because they advance in hostile territory without support. So ambushes do not get spotted quick enough if at all. It's no different now than it was in the 1940s, tanks sent without air, infantry and artillery support equal nonthing but targets. Basically Russia is failing at combined arms warfare. Sending a column of vehicles out without direct support is asking for trouble.
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Such a terrifying weapon system. Like a Giant Claymore that can be launched from insane ranges. I've seen clips of Russian maintenance crews trying to deal with the damage this system causes, most vehicles are pretty much completely unsalvageable because so many different parts of the vehicle are damaged. Fuel tanks, hydraulic lines, engines, doors, glass, tires, etc etc etc so much damage, and often it's hard to even find. Basically it would be faster and cheaper to building a whole new truck for example than trying to fix one that was damaged by this platform. I think that is likely the intent of it. An explosion could blow parts of a vehicle off and leave much of it still in one piece so even if it's written off what survived can be used as spare parts, but with the GRADs almost every part of the vehicle is damaged and at times beyond repair.
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The fact that Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn Episode 04 "At the Bottom of the Gravity Well" is a near carbon copy of current events in Israel and Gaza. Just expresses why I think the world would be just so much better off if everyone was a Mobile Suit Gundam viewer. Episode builds emotion/sympathy for the "Zeons" (Palestine in this representation) then shows them later in the episode basically committing war crimes out of rage/hate/revenge, how they achieved nothing but causing the deaths of more innocent, more hatred, and more revenge, creating an endless cycle. Rather than accepting the fact they lost so long ago they'd rather drag innocent people into their own personal hell/prison that they themselves forced themselves into because they can not let the past go.
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@Kneejair Actually it's supposedly going very well. The Ukrainian Government and Military are Silent but based on Communications on the Russian side, among soldiers/officers they're in an absolute panic. I'm not talking about Russian Social media, or the State News Networks. But stuff posted by Russian soldiers, and Russian press on the ground in the area. Supposedly at least one Ukrainian Unit has made it past the 3rd line of defense. But being the Ukrainians themselves are well silent on the matter it could just be soldiers/officers being paranoid and in a panic thinking the Ukrainians have breached the lines. As a number of people have pointed out. Literally all the footage of Ukrainian vehicles being destroyed seems to come from the exact same area. Meanwhile Ukrainian is attacking from several different areas. It's been confirmed, that Ukraine has penetrated at least 16-20kms of the Russian defenses. We have footage of Russian forces in retreat, tanks on fire while sprinting to safety, and trenches being abandoned. One footage shows 1 Russian tank, 1 BMPT and 1 BMP all getting destroyed within 1-2 minutes of each other trying to reinforce the Russian lines, and they were the only vehicles sent and not one of them came back. So.. again cherry picking one location on the front line doesn't mean Ukraine is doing poorly. If the rumors are true, it's far more than just 16-20km but those rumors haven't been confirmed.
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@lutscher7979 Oh, the economy may not be, but the Party and State that runs the nation is. The Private and Public Sector are two separate things. Only thing is the CCP released, and took the handcuffs off the private sector and opened up the economy for the "State's" Benefit. Lenin did something similar with his New Economic Policy when he re-privatized Agriculture after the disaster that was the 1921/22 Famine. Nikita Khrushchev also set up policies to repair the damage of the Stalin era which he re-collectivized agriculture which lead to two large famines even worse than the 1921/22 famine. By the time Khrushchev took power the USSR still had not achieved Pre-WWI Russian Imperial Grain statistics by Tonnage meanwhile the population had risen since then in spite of the world wars. Being Grain was the primary food making up about 80% of the Russian diet even by the 1980s, it's a clear sign how much of a failure the Lenin and Stalin eras were on the Soviet Union. Khrushchev pushed a policy that encouraged farmers even on collective farms to put side land for their own personal use/production, ie private farming. By the end of the Soviet Union roughly 80% of Food Production in the USSR was done in the private sector vs the collective farm system. Which shows how much of a failure collective farms just ended up being in the USSR. When both Lenin and Post Stalin leaders realized private farming was more bountiful. So when China decides to take the handcuffs off the private sector it's magically no longer Communist? So I guess the leaders of the USSR including Lenin were not Communist either.
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No, Russia just has to relearn how to use them every time they fight a war. Often a painful growing pain for Russian crews.
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I remember seeing this a few days ago. Though I think this is just a training exercise. That being said, the Japanese did have bicycle units, instead of cavalry. You still see the tradition actually in Japan with the JSDF having Motorcycle troops.
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@manserizawa2327 I think I'm going to have to resort to colors here. Okays footage we've seen of these destroyed vehicles is a single battalion lets say it's Green. However, we have multiple other battalions say red, blue and pink for laughs. Each one of these battalions is different, but they're all COLORS. Nods sarcastically Just because Green took high loses in vehicles doesn't mean, Red, Blue, and Pink did as well. Just because ONE COLOR had serious problems, doesn't mean all the other Colors (Ukraine Army) were just as badly bruise up. Next time, I will resort to using shapes, like triangles and squares. If that isn't good enough.
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@Shadow66090 Again, THIS VERY LOCATION. This isn't the only location Ukraine is attacking..... I mean seriously. God can you imagine if everyone judged the battle of France from just one tank column.
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@Shadow66090 1. The footage you're still talking about is 2 days old now. It's from day 1 of the option, it's now day what 3/4? 2. You're still talking about 1 location. 3. If you have more footage of similar devastated attacks, present them. 4. When it comes to breaching the Russian lines I didn't say the Ukrainians did, it's speculation/rumors. Maybe you should re-read my original comment. So who's the NPC?
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@Manu10900 Sighs and that implies the Ukrainians are not attacking all across the front. Which they are attacking all across the southern front from several other locations. Just because, one POSITION holds, doesn't mean they all are. I mean seriously, how dense are you people?
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@spurs_7798 USSR and Russia have been involved in more proxy wars than the USA. Even post USSR Russia has been involved in more, surprising when I looked up conflicts Russia has been directly and indirectly involved in since the 90s she tops even the USA. She's even physically invaded more countries.
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Harlod Shekelbond People keep saying that, but when you have Russian Guard's Divisions being involved, the VDV being involved from day one, it's hard to say saving their best. the VDV suffered high enough loses that it's no longer really a relevant force in Ukraine right now. They were among the first wave sent in.
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@ThisPartIsAndrew I think Gundam just does a better job Imitating LIFE. There is a reason that Gundam TV shows were puilled from Toonami's day time line ups a month after 911. It was decided Merica going to war kids are not allowed to see a TV show that shows them representation of war that isn't heavily filters by the "State." Same reason Hollywood at the time from Transformers to Battle LA went full MERICA mode as well. Everything was being made at the time to Pump Americans up for war. It's just the nature of these things.
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It's kind of cool. It plays off the Mounted Infantry doctrine. Provide individual soldiers with a means of increased mobility, to bring themselves into battle. The American Civil War most Cavalry for example were Mounted Infantry, not exactly "Cavalry." Which means they were trained to dismount their horses and fight like irregular light infantry, and the horses were just the means of getting to the battlefield faster. You see this in the 20th Century with Bicycle and Motorcycle troops as well, serving a similar function. Though the use was pretty limited because most countries opted to using trucks/half tracks and other methods of providing infantry with greater mobility.
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Well to be honest, similar to motorcycle troops, and mounted infantry before that ie cavalry that doesn't fight on horse back but rides into battle dismounts and fights like infantry. It does provide increase mobility for light forces, and honestly being electric engines they would be pretty quiet. Though to be honestly, I doubt they have the torque be TOO useful lets say in rougher terrain.
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Harlod Shekelbond Nor do you. Also you're assuming Russia has better equipment outside equipment they save for the parade ground. Su35 = F-15 Killer ( Still around but replaced with slightly modernized versions like the Su30S/M etc. Which are not really all that different just a new name so people think it's new.) Su37 = F-22 Killer (Canceled, despite being paraded around for years as the greatest fighter jet in the world and even I jizzed over it in my youth... yet they only made what 3-4 examples?) Su47 = F-22 Killer (Canceled) Su57 = F-22 Killer (Currently only a few examples used for Airshows) T-72 = Joke (Imagine a T-64 but Modernized and still blows up just as easily.) T-14 = Parade Toy (Only a few examples exist, and some even question whether they're even real tanks..... outside prototypes and demonstration pieces, being they're only seen in demonstrations and parades basically tank version of the Su-37/47/57 exist only for the sake of flexing with no plan to ever use them for actual battle. Read recently they even canceled them so they will be making no more T-14s EVER so the hand full they have are just that, parade pieces) List goes on and on, you name it, it existed only as a demonstration device to make Russia look up to date/modern, and are used specifically for demonstrations, and parades. You think they have better equipment but no... they don't.. when I saw footage of the VDV landing in Ukraine, which Russian State Media has posted on the internet... a vast majority of them were using equipment equal to that of armed civilians seen in Kyiv outside of their uniforms of course... they were very poorly equipped, no night vision equipment, no scopes, iron sights on nearly every single rifle.... They're not the modern military they portray themselves as. Then you wonder why one of their landing forces were completely routed by militia.
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@mcnally211 You fail to realize not all forces have infrared. It's actually been one thing that Ukraine has had an advantage in. Having more access to superior accessories for firearms, and night warfare equipment at the infantry level. Even at the beginning of the war Russia's best units didn't even have infrared at a infantry level, it was restricted to vehicles. You will not see footage from the early stages of the war of Russian airborne troops with infrared equipment, not even optics on their rifles. Now that might have changed a year later though. I just watched footage a bit ago of Ukrainian troops walking up on a Russian trench while they were still sleeping. No one was on watch.
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Arm chair soldiers. What are they supposed to do? Neither side has air superiority. Neither side seems to have enough electric warfare equipment either. Ukraine has to push though defended minefields. Seeing Vuhledar like images is sadly expected.
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@manserizawa2327 There are mine clearing vehicles among the leopards yes. There is a photo of a mine clearing plow abandoned on it's own, so it was detached from the vehicle. So supposedly they had 2 or more mine clearing vehicles. When combined with MBTs, I wouldn't call this a recon or probe, but an actual attack.
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@manserizawa2327 Not really, it's no less sad then say Vuhledar, months of attacks by Russian forces with high vehicle loses, with almost zero gain. In fact some of the clips the past few days of Ukrainian forces are nearly identical to Vuhledar scenario for Russia. Trying to advance into a heavily mined and fortified area of the front line. That being said, Ukraine's Military claimed it has around 600 or was it 800? Whatever... MBT's ready for this operation. This doesn't included armored cars, like bush masters, or AFV like the BMP or Bradley. Being Ukraine really hasn't committed it's MBTs into hardly any battles throughout the whole war, that number is believable. I think the loses we've seen is around 6 or so MBTs lost and around 40 or more other vehicles. Based on videos/photos, majority of which seem to be wheeled vehicles. So I say the offensive is long from actually being over. Definitely being we have reports of Russian troops being deployed to counter attack breaches. This means Russian reserves are being committed, which is technically one of the goals of an offensive like this.
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@Zzulu2 Honestly it's "THEE" anime not "AN" anime. It's also heavily based off reality. Zeon Zun Deikun the founder of the "Zeons" is literally a representation of Karl Marx for example. Right down to the Marxist theory of the Soviet New Man (by Trotsky) renamed "Newtype" in the Gundam ie a New Type of Human Being. Yet they're also given a Fascist Veneer throughout the franchise, which is welcome because almost all Marxist and most Socialist are still in denial that Fascism is a cousin/sibling of Marxism. Gundam merges them together as one entity, and makes Zeon just represent Revolutionary Action in general and borrows from their ideologically when needed for the plot. Like the Oppressed Spacenoids vs the Oppressor Earthnoid replacing Black vs White, women vs men, or Working Class vs Capitalist, etc etc. While also making sure to spit on the face of those very ideas, showing that plenty on Earth are also poor, while many who live in space live a life of luxury. Making the whole oppressed/oppressor narrative Zeon Revolutionaries believe in relatively false. Even their view on "Newtypes" is shat on because most of the famous characters who fit that category came from Earth, not Space, the chosen birthplace of Newtypes according to Zeon idealist. Basically there is a lot of stuff to study in this "anime." That reflects "REALITY" and does so without alienating existing groups in modern society because Gundam CREATES It's own groups and plays with those groups like toy dolls in front of the viewers to explain to them serious social issues/topics. It's actually the brilliance of what you can do with fiction.
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@manserizawa2327 It's still 3 days later from this event. Also I wouldn't call it a recon patrol, being it's using MBTs and mine clearing vehicles. I know at this particular location one mine clearing vehicle's plow broke, and another mine clearing vehicle was disabled, which is why this group faltered. You can not advance if your means of clearing the mines have been disabled.
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@wadiknovgorodski1252 To be honest 100km isn't actually that far, if you're able to actually breach enemy defenses. The 7th Panzer Division in France supposedly advanced 200 miles in a single day back in 1941, as they well ran into little resistance once they got through the front, and 1 mile is 1.6 kms. So that's roughly 360kms in a single day. That being said, I'd say such a speedy advance is unrealistic in this scenario. But similar to the Kharkiv offensive it's plausible, counts if resistance holds up, and defenses decide to route or not.
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@kishanchali8752 Again, I called it a 'Rumor' I got the information from a 2nd hand source, which is why I'm not calling it 'true' but a 'rumor' learn to read.
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@juch3 I don't see how that's possible. Gaza and Hamas are not the Status Quo, nor is Israel the Revolutionaries in this scenario. You could maybe make that argument almost a century ago, but not at all when presented with current reality. Even then it doesn't fit at all this particular episode.
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 @jespermattsson2297 he's a tanky and commiboo they automatically assume criticism = Merica.
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What was nuts is how they abandoned men in the street.
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The rule of LGOP. Little Groups of Paratroopers seems to ring true even in the 21st century.
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@wadiknovgorodski1252 I didn't forget. Read the whole thing.
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@дмитрийворонков-ч3р I said it's a Rumor. Jesus why are people that thick?
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@aaron5632018 Two Massive Withdraws, and One Massive Route later, I find that very hard to believe. The fact a dam was blown literally the day before Ukraine's counter offensive started heavily implies a lack a faith of their own defenses, or a fear of the unknown. That being said with the water levels lower, it's actually starting to look like Ukraine may be able to open whole new fronts in areas that have almost no fortifications whatsoever within the next few weeks. All because of the dam being destroyed, likely something someone didn't think through when it was decided. New satellite photos of the massive reservoir you can see the bottom of it through the water already. Soon it will be land, and shortly after as it's summer it can likely be crossed with vehicles.
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sebastianbaez6424 Tell that to the Russian columns that have been attacked trying to reinforce those forward positions. If they're meant to slow down, why are the Russians bothered to reinforce them? Risking heavy armor at that. I watched a Column of 7 MBTs get shelled advancing to Robotyne this morning for example. That being said if Ukraine has drones watching south of Robotyne they must be close to the city. My favorite clip was a small column of 4 Russian vehicles which the moment they hit their own trench line the tank instantly started doing turret cart wheels and the 3 BMPs following it were destroyed within seconds afterwards. It happened too fast and accurately to be artillery, and it didn't look like ATGMs, they could of ran into their own mine field on accident but I don't think that would make a turret pop... so I'm personally under the impression they bumped into Ukrainian Armor. I was honestly a bit weird with the images of the 1st two days, but now that footage of Russian loses are coming out. I think the tally in 4 days were 48 tanks lost on the Russian side. Though that doesn't include today. Though I think today it was only like 4-5 Russian tanks confirmed knocked out including from the column I watched advanced to Robotyne. Supposedly there is a Russian counter attack active but information seems to be a few days behind so maybe it's why there was such a high tally by day 3 on Russian Armor. Again though, I don't get whey the Russians would counter attack trying to defend forward positions. Another dam was confirmed destroyed however.
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@PD-we8vf That's the Tragedy.
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@19DESERTFOX91 If we're going by what is only in the animated series/films, then no your comment makes no sense whatsoever. Secondly I'm referring to a specific episode and the events in it, and the message the episode stands for. Which has nothing to do with the OVER ARCHING story of Gundam in it's entirety. Episode 4 of Unicorn is the Zeon Remnant episode how Zeon remnants are portrayed in Gundam is actually very comparable to the Palestine Israeli conflicts as of this very moment anyways. Thirdly, despite being a Zeon Sympathizer myself, saying "Zeon Did Nothing Wrong" oh boy... it might work as a meme for some existing regimes, but for Zeon we get to see what they did in real time, so there is no wishy washy way of sugar coating their crimes. So unlike Marxist and Nazi Apologist, you cannot just twist facts and make a convincing argument about Zeon. So the meme quote doesn't work very well for Zeon. If anything the quote is making fun of denialist in the modern context. Among Gundam fans, there isn't really any denialist. Unless they have a VERY warped sense of lore. Finally, if I do recall there was an interview with one of the producers of Mobile Suit Gundam, and yes the Palestinian Israeli conflict was one of their inspirations for the show. It isn't visible in the original TV series, but in Zeta Gundam, and later productions it's definitely there, after Tomino was given a far more free hand in production.
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That is a heck of a shaky helicopter.
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To express my disappointment with this aircraft. It was in Ace Combat 5 in 2005. 2019, and they're still technically developing this aircraft. I found it amusing that Ace Combat 7 included the gun pod instead of a buried internal cannon. Likely because it was modeled for the game in 2017 or 18.
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@kralicidoupe385 Commiboo doesn't equal Communist.
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@BananaRama1312 Nah, even in a New Hope they had terrible accuracy outside the original opening scene.
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Bodies in the ditch just to the bottom right of the burning truck? 8:24
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Okay... so lets place some mines on a bridge, where they're clearly visible... yet provide no means whatsoever to prevent someone from removing the mines, like a machine gun or a sniper. For how many mines they placed there, how well spread out they were as well almost evenly... you know they spent considerable time placing those mines down. Yet a few guys can easily just push them out of the way with their feet. In short, if they were trying to slow the Ukrainian's down they failed horrifically at it. They would of been better off parking a few trucks, and blowing out their tires, they just wasted perfectly good landmines for nothing.
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Harlod Shekelbond They are using their best divisions already though. Best channel that sums it up quite well on youtube currently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VJNcE6hQu4 He is able to identify every division that has been deployed and currently in action, and these are NOT conscripts.. but Russia's crack Guards Divisions... these are the Divisions who've also been taking the brunt of the fighting/damage as well. You're living in a fantasy land.
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I'm amazed if that thing can hit anything with how much that gun barrel wobbles/shakes when firing. It's such an unstable gun platform.
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Mean tone of his voice is like jubilee. They must be licking them.
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@namename-qb5xe actually literally today arms storage as destroyed on the Russian side. Also another Dam was blown up, as well as a railroad bridge. Maybe you should pay attention whats going on everywhere.
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@namename-qb5xe Well I just saw another massive explosion this time in Bakhmut. Too large to be any vechile. So likely again munitions. I forgot exactly where the one from earlier was. Also the dam was destroyed just today. Somewhere south of the current offensive, so I doubt the Ukrainians caused it, otherwise they'd be doing harm to their own operations. Also just saw footage of a Russian tank column under fire just south of Robotyne. Which means Ukraine forces have eyes south south of the city. Which means fighting north of or in the city is likely taking place as we speak. Btw Robotyne is south of Orihkiv on the Russian side of the front. So Deep State map is not up to date if fighting is that far south.
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