Comments by "Trevor Sutherland" (@trevorsutherland5263) on "Military Summary" channel.

  1. I mentioned how RU has pulled out 80 year old guns that fire 130mm NK ammo, and how smart they are to do that, and of course YT deleted it..." šŸ˜… Anything showing Russia in a positive light is verboten in the West!!"
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  2. If reports of the Kalibr strike yesterday are true, we will likely never see the Challenger 2 in action in Ukraine. Hopefully they weren't dumb enough to put all 14 of them in the same warehouse.... In any event, even if some survived, they won't get used because they'll never be replaced. Britain admitted yesterday they only have 40 operational tanks themselves, so if Russia could invade the UK, they could probably win without taking a casualty.
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  3. The longer the war goes on the more it favors NATO. Stalemate will not work...US and UK will go to any length to give Kyiv means to strike at a high level. Once the war moves off the ground and into the air and space, Russia advantage is lost. Even if only 100,000 Ukrainians are left alive, that is enough to act as the 'hand of NATO" to bring Russia to her knees.
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  4. I saw the new "Coalition-SV" artillery on another channel a week ago. It originally was some kind of crazy double-barreled artillery; but in testing the twin barrels didn't work very well so they scrapped it. That origin is where "Coalition" came from; but they kept the name and went to a conventional single barrel design. When I saw the standard round range I too was shocked; that range is far beyond the standard range of any artillery either towed or self-propelled I've ever heard of. It is also armored like a tank; the crew and ammo are inside a "citadel" of armor so something like HIMARS or other artillery that lands nearby will never penetrate it; only a direct hit will probably destroy it. Its a monster for sure.
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  5. It seems that the anti-drone "cope cages" actually work to make it more difficult for FPV drones to achieve a critical hit. IDF tanks visible all week with cope cages on top, and the IDF is nowhere near the "diva army" that Ukraine is. IDF doesn't make TikTok videos for their fanbois; if the cope cage didn't have a benefit, it wouldn't be there. I saw vids this week where FPV drones could be clearly seen trying to maneuver to hit underneath the top and sides of the cage; and it seems to be much harder to do than just dive bomb the uncovered top of the vehicle. The cage on that BMP-T had angled sides to provide some protection while not blocking the missile launchers. The Terminator is one of the very few Russian vehicles you don't hear BS in US media about----all the usual neocon/US military sites give it respect as it is armed for basically any situation. Anti-personnel, anti-tank, anti-fortification all in one machine. AFU fortunate Russian only has like 30 of them.
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  6. This is very serious but I honestly laughed out loud when you showed the page with the four Ukrainian officers with a big red "X" across each photo...." šŸ˜‚
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  7. So AFU just sitting inside forests solely to be hard for RU to root out? The only purpose to have something to bargain with? I canā€™t believe men willingly perform such a mission where ā€œsuccessā€ is judged by how long you last until you become a casualty or captured.
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  8. So basically Ukraine air defense announcements have no basis in reality
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  9. Any word on the North Korean KN-25 heavy MLRS coming to Russia? Heard rumors but so far only confirmation of rocket ammo from Iran and NK; no actual launchers or hardware systems.
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  10. This tale of the Ukrainian woman and the fate of her husband will garner no sympathy from any American. 50 years ago, one of the worst things any American could be called was a "draft-dodger"; as a young man it was your duty to go to SE Asia and die for your country. These complaints will fall on deaf ears at the Pentagon----to them the men of Ukraine are simply doing their part for the "deal" between NATO and Zelensky.
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  11. There is one thing standing out to me----LOUDLY----about Kherson. How is it that Ukraine has some kind of drone simply sitting above Russian territory at least 10 km deep?? All these vids of FPV drone or HIMARS hits are being RECORDED. By what?? Russia needs to fix THAT problem, and the other problems will solve themselves! At this point, I no longer call the red shaded areas "annexed areas"; they just celebrated Unification Day and voted (again) to be Russia. All that Red area is Russia; Ukraine is basically now in possession of 0.5% of Russia and the Russians are the ones trying to push out some squatters that overstayed their welcome.
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  12. Wow. Assuming those Iskander cluster munitions were detonating on the ground, if you compare the size of the detonations to the size of the vehicles, those are huge submunitions (maybe they are airburst). Go look at the detonations in the water and sand from the ATACMS cluster strike last week in Crimea; their detonations were about the size of a human. I've read that RU has modified Iskanders to have less range but more payload since their westward progress has shortened the range to all their likely targets. The pattern entirely covers that whole column, meaning every single vehicle was likely hit by some fragments..."
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  13. So the three-pronged Russia attack Weeb discussed three weeks ago has turned out to be correct? Wow. I only watch this, Weeb, and DPA. There really is no need to bother with all the others.
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  14. NATO will never admit is publicly, but when it comes to tactics, Russian army has had Ukraine's number all year long.
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  15. It took Russia what, 5 or 6 days to shoot down ATACMS?? That "game-changer" didn't even get off the bench and into the game....
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  16. "Desert Storm" negates everything you said
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  17. I'm not sure I believe that. Dima said its speculation; so nobody really knows. But then again, they are standing by watching thousands of civilians eat shrapnel in Gaza.
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  18. In every war the poor guys do the brunt of the dying while the sons of the rich and powerful survive.
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  19. So what? The town is supposed to be given up once Ukraine has committed enough and taken enough losses.
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  20. Not to their goals of course, but to their tactics and to how fast they move? Absolutely
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  21. ...and in yesterday NY Times, Ukraine is planning to send newly-trained female soldiers to face Storm-Z, Akhmat, and Spetznaz, all with two years now of combat experience in the most brutal warfare, and most of the comments were POSITIVE!! American Left would never in a thousand years send their daughters to do the same, but there they are, cheering Ukrainian women on. Madness. Western leaders are so wedded to the idea of beating Russia, so fervent in their desire to teach Putin a harsh lesson, they don't even notice they've long ago left the "high road" they walk on (and lecture others about) during peacetime.
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  22. 6 weeks only. Not really that long for a city of 30K size. It is operationally encircled and those inside have no hope of defeating those surrounding them. A large AFU army could be sent that could break the encirclement but it would have to come from somewhere else and then that front will collapse. What do you think will happen?
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  23. It seems like Russia had just decided "We are not going to let an FPV drone stop us. You want to stop us, you better have a tank or some big artillery, a flying 82mm mortar tis but a scratch to the Mighty Roaring Bear"
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  24. The fact the $60B from America is never coming is the final nail in the coffin
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  25. Imagine your unit notified it is being sent to Avdiivka and your orders are to "use your lives to slow down the Russians so our younger, higher quality troops can escape". šŸ¤
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  26. Ā @JasinNataelĀ  True, but you have them to spread, the enemy doesn't
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  27. I don't see a lot of TOS1-A flamethrowers at work much recently and I know Putin prioritized their construction. Saw a lot of the big BM-27 rocket launchers on the move near Kupiansk but that's it. Maybe flamethrower range too short for current combat conditions? That one accumulation of forces seemed like perfect flamethrower target.
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  28. Not a relevant example until 30 countries give Hamas more weapons than IDF entire budget. Then it will be a fair comparison...
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  29. Ukraine is only limited in attacking Russia with NATO weapons. If it's something they built themselves or their domestic stuff who can tell them what not to hit. I can't believe Latvia wants to fight Russia. They must have built some long range drones.
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  30. Women as combat troops is not "shameful" in the United States. There is a very large majority here that dont see this as a problem. They believe women and men are interchangeable so what is the issue?
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  31. I don't know how Zelensky does it. How does he convince so many men to give up their lives for nothing?? How do you even sell such an operation like this incursion to officers? Let's invade Russia with 2500 men and 35 tanks; how do people not just get up and walk out of the room? Even if everything went right for Ukraine, what would your sacrifice have brought? Whether a week or a month, eventually all of you would be destroyed or captured or have to retreat. Just to try to embarrass Putin on his election day? Your life forfeit for such a complete PR goal?? What kind of men hear such a thing and think "yeah, good idea. I'm in!"
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  32. So Ukraine's "D-Day" invasion is over after 5 days?
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  33. Where is the video deep inside Russian territory coming from? What is watching the 11-truck convoy for Ukraine? I'm no longer surprised if its a US asset doing targeting for AFU as we all know they've done that the entire war, but I'd love to know what asset that is.
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  34. Does Ukraine have any combat power other than FPV drones and mortars? I never see "Cloud" or "Missile" icons in Blue, only FPV drone hits....and where are Ukraine's tanks and AFVs?? Its clear neither side uses vehicles much in offense, preferring the small infantry unit tactics, but on the defense you don't bring in some heavier firepower on attacking infantry??
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  35. There must be some agreement between the US and Russia for Russia to not fire on American drones and not interdict cargo ships. How could Russia possibly just allow a ship full of weapons to be used against them to simply sail unmolested to Poland?
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  36. Trump has to give Ukraine enough to survive the negotiations; RU will not stop during negotiations so they have to be able to just NOT collapse. Trump was going to do that anyway; these mineral rights is just payment for it.
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  37. Ukraine couldn't possibly have more than 50 operational aircraft at this point. When was the last time they fired a Storm Shadow? Three weeks ago?
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  38. The "unofficial" West media here says Biden plan now is just "preserve" whats left of Ukraine and build it up over time economically and militarily. To me that means they gonna have to talk to Putin eventually
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  39. This morning I just thought "Russia getting payback for the landing ship attack". I don't believe that anymore; the reports all day of the scale of this means there is NO way it could have been arranged in two days. The target selection and missile programming alone would have taken weeks to put almost 200 missiles and drones in the sky, from ships, subs, land launchers, and bombers. This is something else. Probably the beginning of the "Shock and Awe" air campaign to end the war. Imagine this happening every week for the next two months. By February Ukraine's entire logistic, tactical and strategic structure to support their war effort will have been annihilated.
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  40. A turning point has been reached: Today the Telegraph (among the most determined Russia-haters and Ukraine apologists in the media), ran a story: "Russiaā€™s army is learning - hereā€™s why it should worry the West". These warmongering a-holes are finally realizing they can't beat Russia on the cheap. Too bad a million had to be lost for them to finally understand.
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  41. Was that ICBM warhead Avangard or something else??
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  42. Ukraine army starting to fight on horseback while Russian army starting to look like "Ghost in the Shell".
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  43. An Amazon Delivery drone, big enough to carry heavy packages, but instead of a PS5 and a 4K TV, it carries an anti-tank missile. You are correct; in 2 years ALL the fighting will be done by drone.
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  44. I counted 12 brigades of AFU on each side of the Kursk salient. There are more brigades on ONE side of Kursk front than inside or near Velya Novosilka. Russia has to move deeper into Ukraine to flank that bulge, to advance where they are now against dug in AFU means they'd lose 3 troops for every Ukrainian loss. Zelensky pours more in no matter how many are lost because to him it is priority #1 before the ceasefire that he has a strong position on something Russia wants
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  45. Does Ukraine have any officers that actually went Military Academy or have those men all long ago been KIA or seriously wounded? All year long they walk into trap, after trap, after trap; whenever they see two enemy pincers form, they send their entire army into it. Bakhmut, Zaporizhzhia, now Donetsk.... Zelensky is 45; he is old enough to have at least watched "History Channel" while growing up. I hear he's just about had it with Zaluzhny.
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  46. $61B is technically true, but actual weapons and ammo is like $12B. No one in West is saying this will do anything other than prevent AFU collapse
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  47. I think the balance between armored vehicle and FPV drone has returned to even or possibly back in favor of the armored vehicle. I've noticed over the past several months many vehicles from both sides, not just tanks but IFVs and MRAPs too, tanking multiple hits from FPV drones and going right on. Even if they are damaged and stop, all six guys get out unharmed. Very recently I noticed many FPV drone vids they are almost exclusively trying to attack from the front and sides; to the rear, the slats, the ERA, the chains, the rebar, the cage with rubber panels, etc. is really making it difficult for the FPV drone's rather small shaped-charge to deal a critical blow. Of course the front and sides are the strongest part of any tank or armored vehicle directly from the factory. I've seen Bradley's and BMPs just driving right through 3 or 4 hits and dropping of their load....
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  48. AFU does not seem to bother using anti-drone cages over their Leopard 2s, and every vid I've seen the past few weeks the Russians target the rear turret when attacking Leopard 2. Is that a weak spot?
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  49. I respect the amount of speculation you use in your summaries, most of which, whether they turn out to be true or not, have valid reasoning behind them. However this idea that Russia has limited means of deploying FAB-3000 bombs is highly suspect. RU have almost 500 Tu-22 bombers, which can carry 50,000+ lbs. of weapons. So far, they only use them to launch cruise missiles but the standoff range of the FABs should allow them to do so as well. Tu-22 is no slouch; it can release and turn-n-burn just as well as a Su-34 so I'm not yet convinced there is any limit to where a FAB-3000 can show up.
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  50. Russia already won this war, now the focus is on winning the peace
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